Culture Conversations
Culture Conversations is a podcast centered around real conversations, reflection, and insight on the pressures shaping our lives and culture. Through honest dialogue, personal experiences, and thoughtful analysis, the podcast explores topics connected to mental health, ambition, masculinity, sports, hip hop, relationships, growth, and the emotional realities people often keep beneath the surface.
Rooted more in insight than advice, Culture Conversations creates space for perspective, self-awareness, and meaningful discussion rather than quick answers. Episodes may include personal reflections, cultural commentary, athlete conversations, and discussions connecting psychology, creativity, education, and everyday life.
Hosted by Dr. Ibn Sharif Shakoor, LPC, a licensed professional counselor, educator, and creative focused on the intersection of culture, mental health, sports, and personal growth.
Culture Conversations
Latest Episodes
Helping The Parent, Helping The Child
Parenting a child with ADHD, ODD, or emotional regulation challenges can be exhausting, isolating, and deeply misunderstood. In this episode, Dr. Ibn Sharif Shakoor explores why supporting the parent is one of the most important ways to support...
Brotherhood: Test of Time
Some friendships survive time, distance, success, and struggle. This is a conversation about brotherhood, loyalty, growth, and the bonds that continue to endure.
IDGAF: Stop Carrying What Was Never Yours
We spend too much energy carrying opinions, expectations, and judgments that were never ours to carry. In this episode, Dr. Ibn Sharif Shakoor explores the difference between healthy detachment and emotional shutdown and why peace often begins ...
The Child Who Became the Adult
In this episode, I talk about parentification and what happens when children are forced to grow up too fast emotionally. I reflect on being taught to “be strong” for others at a young age, learning to neglect my own feelings, and carrying respo...
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How I learned Not to Cry
In this episode of Culture Conversations, I speak personally about emotional suppression, survival, masculinity, and the experiences that slowly taught me how to disconnect from my emotions. “How I Learned Not to Cry” is a real conversation abo...
