Isaac Williams - Emotions Are Hard (Part I)

Survival Mode - A podcast by Zeda Grace

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Part One of Two for the first feature of Sir Isaac Williams, notable Aussie, owner of multiple passports, all around interesting human being TIMESTAMPS STARTS – Isaac’s Background/Cliff Notes version of his life, role models in our lives 17:15 – “I’m just happy to fuck things up, right out the gate”, Learning from experience and planning to encounter the unknown, Isaac recounts speaking to his biological brother for the first time in several years 24:10 – the subjectivity towards marijuana classification, Isaac’s struggles with moderation and his full-blown crystal meth addiction (involving daily use for ~3 years) that he has since been 7 years clean and sober from 38:40 – Isaac’s transition from smoking weed to other drugs, specifically beginning to dabble in mdma & pills of variety  44:40 – the way that talking/writing about addiction and how communication has changed the way people interact with me, how many people pulled social support from me 50:23 – The semantics of “Rock Bottom”, awakening your humanity 1:02:35 – A higher level of understanding, ft. Isaac and his biological brother’s first phone call in years, the way Isaac’s mother communicates with directly brutal honesty and how it is received, the story of Isaac’s childhood that his brother shared with him 1:09:40 – the fear over the position’s I take on a global platform that my family shares, the way emotional expression in men can come off as “monstrous”, choosing to exist in positions of darkness 1:18:00 – the use of art to progress as a human being and the strings you perceive are attached to that  1:23:45 – it sucks being alone, a judge’s advice to reading humans