Welcome back to an all-new season of #BlackMenSpeakSundays on the #UprootedNetwork. So excited to be back with my community, and to share all the dope conversations I’ve been having with amazing people! This season is all about reprioritizing our lives, and that starts with our own personal development. I was joined by a good friend Danny Tedla from United Tegaru Canada’s very own Tarik Time Podcast. Danny is a wealth of knowledge on so many topics, particularly the history of Tigray, and Ethiopia. Even more impressive is his heart, and passion for living his life in Tigray. Come along and hear about his #Uprooted journey.
Support Danny by following across socials:
- Instagram: [https://www.instagram.com/unitedtegaruca/](https://www.instagram.com/unitedtegaruca/)
- Twitter: [https://twitter.com/unitedtegaruca](https://twitter.com/unitedtegaruca)
- Website: [https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/get-medical-aid-to-tigray/](https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/get-medical-aid-to-tigray/)
- Apple Podcast [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tarik-time/id1562898003](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tarik-time/id1562898003)
- Spotify: [https://open.spotify.com/show/12AVqs1vx14u0Vox3pKCZi?si=1952da2306814b6e]
Show Notes:
- 5:00 how Danny got into history
- 7:00 questioning the history of Africa being taught in school
- 13:30 unpacking the impact to self-identity
- 15:00 unpacking bad narratives. “It’s what they omit from the history that matters.”
- 22:00 the importance of the narrative building to identity
- 25:00 disconnecting feeling of being diaspora/immigrants/first-gen
- 26:25 tracing family lineage, and the stories that come with them
- 30:00 the need to preserve our culture and family histories
- 33:30 ask questions and inform yourself
- 36:00 walking differently in your truth
- 38:15 generational curses, and strengths
- 39:00 becoming disillusioned from the western world
- 42:00 the power of generational love
- 43:00 first step is to make the decision
- 45:00 finding comfort in our own skin
- 48:50 love is felt
- 49:20 getting into the right mental state
- 50:15 impact of COVID
- 53:00 secret to entrepreneurship, ‘just start’
- 55:58 ‘If I’m gonna fail, I want to fail in Tigray, and if I’m going to succeed, I want to succeed in Tigray’
- 56:15 dealing with the fear of failure and immigrant pressures to succeed
- 58:15 surviving to thriving
- 58:50 Thriving in Tigray
- 1:00:00 Danny’s legacy
- 1:02:00 Planting seeds to secure the material safety of Tigray
- 1:03:00 affirming Danny’s path
