Welcome to my 90th YouCanCallMeJoshua BLOG POST! It’s time to CELEBRATE! Well technically yesterday’s post was the 90th one, but today can be the celebration! 10 Young Achiever posts, 19 Travel posts, 8 Joke posts, 10 LEGO posts, 6 Film posts, 4 Writing posts, 4 News posts, 10 inspirational posts and 19 others. What a list! 91 days ago, on January 1st of this year, I started a 90 day content challenge, brought up by a friend of mine. For 90 days, you had to create at least one piece of content. A youtube video, social media post, or in this case, blogging. So that’s what I picked. Everyday, for…

My name is Joshua Dawson. I’m a traveling, filmmaking, writing, acting, blogging, music-making 15-year-old. You don’t hear that everyday. On top of all of that, I’m a black belt, and I want to tell you a story about honoring the past. The Journey to Black Belt When I was about 8 years old my family and I lived in Atlanta, Georgia. One day, while driving past a Karate Studio I had seen multiple times, I told my parents I wanted to take on Karate. Soon after, we signed up for ATA (American Tae Kwon Do Association). There, I had a great teacher, Mr. Lower. I trained in that studio learning…

Earlier this year, I got to see Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie. I actually enjoyed it. It had lots of action, and a great message about friendship, even amongst differences, how there’s no need to run from difficult things, and a how you should always put your bucket list first. Plus, the movie included LEGOs, and mentioned Olive Garden, which are just a few of my favorite things! The movie reminded me of something that happened in 2019, during Mindvalley University, in Pula, Croatia. Here’s the story. It was a few weeks in, I was sitting outside with a friend at an outdoor cafe, when we saw a baby hedgehog,…

Born in Malaysia, Vishen Lakhiani is co-founder, and CEO of Mindvalley. Mindvalley has an array of events and programs like Mindvalley University, Mindvalley Live, A-Fest (Awesomeness festival) and the Mindvalley Quest programs, including way more. He’s worked with huge people like Micheal Beckwith, X-Men Coach, Jim Kwik, Lisa Nichols, Eric Edmeades, Miki Agrawal, and so many others. In the summer of 2019, my mom and I attended Mindvalley University in Pula, Croatia. We had no idea what to expect, but when the first day came around, it blew us away. The first person we saw gave us a hug, and we made like 30 friends just that one night. As…

She’s the first African-American woman to get a $1 million book deal. She’s coached many of people including Steve Harvey, host of Little Big Shots and Family Feud. She’s been featured in the Documentary The Secret and has spoken at hundreds of seminars. She’s the one and only Lisa Nichols. Lisa Nichols was one of the main speakers at Mindvalley Live 2020 in Los Angeles. From a single mom to success she’s aired on CNN, Fox News and Oprah. She won the LEGO Foundation‘s Heart of Learning Award, The Ambassador Award including many others, and now, she once again came to speak at Mindvalley Live. I’d rather see you get…

Jim Kwik is well known as a transformational speaker, entrepreneur, brain coach and CEO of the Kwik Learning program based in L.A. He’s coached, and taught thousands of people the power of speed reading, and how to improve memory. On top of that, he’s worked with big names like Harrison Ford, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Tony Robbins and many more. Jim is also a frequent speaker at Mindvalley University, Mindvalley Live, and A-Fest which is how I met him. But before I get to our first meeting, let me tell you how it all started. In 2018, my family and I stumbled upon a documentary series called Transcendence, and one…

I enjoy creating films, promos, mini movies, and all sorts of other films. And at Mindvalley University I had a plan to make one. (If you’ve read my blog, you’ll know I mention Mindvalley a lot) It had been two weeks in. I had filmed a few of the talks and parties so that I could put it together into my video. My original plan was to make a video about the Mindvalley experience as a whole until my Mom suggested to do a video just about the Teens. So that’s what I did. I interviewed the teens and teachers filming them in action. And believe me when I say…

June 24, 2019. It was the first day of Mindvalley University where the whole world shifted for me. By the third day of the event, so many magic moments had already happened, and I knew I wanted to keep track of it all. During one of the introductory talks, the speaker Vishen Lakhiani who is CEO of Mindvalley, told us that every morning, we should write an intention and at the end of the day write anything that stood out to you. So, that night I got out my notebook and wrote all the serendipitous, incredible, out of the blue experiences that happened. 200 days later, I have a full…