"In The KNOW" with Phil Hayes

Well sadly, we are at the end of Black History Month 2020; I hope this month has been as informative and celebratory for you as it has for me; between books and articles I’ve read, news documentaries I’ve seen, I’ve learned a LOT about different historical African-American figures both known AND unknown to me before the month began! But fear not, we’re gonna blow out the last weekend like no other! Granted, I missed last…

In honor of Black History Month, I am giving out a plethora of FREE PDFs that you can download, read and enjoy, relative to the African- and African American experience, from historical figures like Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey and others, to Pan-Africanism and the modern day issues that affect our community. Hope you will read and enjoy (forgive the short titles – some PDFs weren’t titled properly from their original sources)!

Ok, so welcome to the New Year…………yes, I’m late by about 6 weeks. Full time jobs and show planning has taken a ton of my time, but we’re going to get back on track with this FREE DOWNLOAD thing in 2020! In honor of Black History Month, I intend to give out a plethora of FREE PDFs that you can download, read and enjoy, relative to the African- and African American experience, from historical figures…

Short and to the point, here’s your FREE KNOWledge Is Power PDF of the Week! Happy Holidays!

I always say, if you’re not progressing, you’re regressing. In life, there’s only one way to move, and that’s forward. Who wants to tread ground they’ve already walked on? Life is to be lived and learned. Just like tires. There are new tires, old tires that used to be new…………and then there are retreads. Retreads are typically worn out, and won’t have much shelf life to them as opposed to the others. In short, life…

I know I haven’t posted a #KnowledgeIsPower PDF in a couple of weeks; we’ll get back to that next week! THIS week, we’ll keep it very short and very simple! Enjoy this week’s FREE PDF, enjoy the rest of the week off, and Thank You for being a supporter of “In The KNOW” with Phil Hayes! Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the start of what I hope will be a very Happy Holiday Season!

I will write a much more detailed blog about this within the next few weeks, but before I do, I’m posting the FREE PDF read for the week below, for you to read so that we can all strike up a discussion on it. Is it tough being a cop? Absolutely. The only thing tougher than being a cop…….is being a Black cop. Unfortunately, as we’ve found out in the cases of Mohammed Noor and…

There’s no worse feeling than going online or physically going into your bank………..only to notice it’s not there anymore. What about my money? What about my accounts? How do I get access to them? Well, each account is insured with the FDIC for up to $100,000, for starters, so your money is ok. However, as far back as 2008 with the housing crash and too many banks being underwater, there were a plethora of bank…

This week will be short and sweet, I’m doing more reading up on meditation, making quiet time to reconnect within, enjoying the stillness or as Depeche Mode once sang about, “enjoy the silence”. With everything going on around us and God only knows the chaos and entropy, sometimes enveloping ourselves into the silence may be, frankly, the only thing that keeps us from going crazy. From the seven chakras (which I’m also researching along with…

I’ll be to the point. Depression isn’t much that I can speak with any level of intellectual honesty to. This week’s post is dedicated to that. I know this much. For whomever is clinically depressed, it’s beyond a difficult road in that most people that have it either don’t know or are afraid to tell someone, talk about it, or get help. There’s no shame in asking for help with something that is a ‘life’…

Ok, I’m guilty of this more than anything. I worry. A LOT. Perhaps more than I should, and moreso about things I have no control over. Ok, that’s my confession for the week. But seriously, how many of us get into ruts, whether consistently or not, where worry takes its toll on us physically, emotionally, physiologically, and then we either get too burdened by it or – once again – the big fix is a…

ENJOY ANOTHER FREE PDF Download from “In The KNOW”! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V64g4vnrW5PH4auqXohk2Ruk7JElvsNR/view

Lately I’ve begun looking into meditation, mindfulness, and abundance; I can’t help but say I’ve been both motivated and feeling like a new type of fire has been lit after being dormant for a bit. As life weighs us down, it happens sometime. But recently I’ve been writing more, working on new shows, getting my filming/editing chops better than ever and putting some new creativity into this video thing, so when I debut the next…

Keeping it short and to the point this week. Setting goals is obviously an important part of who we are. It’s also a barometer of how far we’ve come, as opposed to how far we should go to attain a pre-defined goal. Setting goals is easy. Keeping them is the hard part. This week’s FREE PDF is a VERY SHORT read that you can implement immediately, AND it won’t take away from the rest of…

Ok, ok, ok! I know, I know, long time no hear! Yes, it HAS been a minute or two since I had my weekly giveaways going, but things have been somewhat hectic on this end what with work and………….SURPRISE…………..planning NEW EPISODES of “In The KNOW” to film! So, between writing computer code and gearing up for new shows, it’s been rough, but I feel rejuvenated enough to give this another round of keeping you all…

Ok. Real talk for a minute. Everyone wants more out of life than we have, right? I’ve found in life that being content means being complacent, being stagnant. You can’t go forward in life if you’re content with the status quo. Life and all of its experiences are to be LIVED, not TOLERATED. Like the line goes in “The Shawshank Redemption”: ‘get busy living………or get busy dying’. In this life, my experience is this: you’re…

I’m keeping it short and sweet this week, because I want to give you all time to download and enjoy this FREE PDF I’m giving you, I just read it and as always, I’m inspired to share it with others! This week’s FREE PDF serves to help motivate you to determine what you want in life and how to get it! It is a VERY SHORT read, and I know you’ll love it! Enjoy this…

Let’s face it. Everyone wants to have more money and more success. We dream it, we obsess over it, we play the lottery endlessly, full of hope, then look at worthless tickets the next day, much to our chagrin. We watch countless Law of Attraction videos, mindfulness techniques, manifestation mantras, affirmations – all kinds of ways to bring money and happiness into our lives. Here’s a loop…………..what would happen if you actually GOT it? You…