It's the end of a journey for Chica & the Man. We've been working together for two years and talking about our separate creative projects on each other's podcasts. First, Sonia Iris Lozada from Poetic Resurrection and Overheard at Chica's Café was an invited guest on Alex Greenwood's Mysterious Goings On show to discuss her book Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time. Then, Alex came on The Poetic Resurrection Podcast to talk about his writing journey and John Pilate Mystery Series.

Now, it's time to say farewell. Sonia is devoting more attention to her acting and writing along with her pods, while Alex is creating another podcast focused on true crime in Kansas City as well as continuing to write. We'll remember our meaningful conversations over the past two years fondly as we take the next steps in our respective careers. Goodbye, friends! Best wishes.

Alex Greenwood     

Alex's episode on The Poetic Resurrection Podcast                                        

Pilate's Faith

Alex Greenwood's books on Amazon

Going to Killing City Podcast: Kansas City, MI

Sonia Iris Lozada

Sonia's episode on Mysterious Goings On May 20, 2021  Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time.

Sonia's episode on Mysterious Goings On Poetry month, April 28, 2022

Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time

Sonia Iris Lozada's Books on Amazon

This month's break-the-hiatus episode we congratulate Alex and his success of being named the Best Local Author for Kansas City, MO. He earned a round of applause for that! Along with celebrating Alex, we weigh in on the Writer's and SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations. This strike is to update the contracts for TV and film work. Sonia shares her experiences with auditioning and self-taping. Commercials, print work, soap operas, and certain voiceover operations are still going strong. Join us for this entertaining and informative episode.

ALEX GREENWOOD

SONIA IRIS LOZADA

2023 Best Local Author Kansas City, MO

J. Alexander Greenwood   jalexandergreenwood.com

Sonia’s Acting website:

https://sonialozada.com/

The Mysterious Goings On Podcast

https://mgopod.com/

Overheard at Chica’s Café

https://overheardatchicascafe.com/

PR Afterhours Podcast

https://prafterhours.com/

The Poetic Resurrection Podcast

https://www.poeticresurrection.com/

#WGAstrike #SAGAFTRAStrike #Author #strikes #acting #podcasting

Here's this month's update for Chica & the Man while we're on hiatus. I'd like to direct you towards our February 2023 episode about Writing and encourage you to give it a listen. In that episode, we discuss various aspects of writing. We address AI, which is one of the Writer's Guild Strike negotiations topics.

I'm an actor with SAG-AFTRA and we are currently on strike, along with the Writers Guild. So, in this month's update, I'd like to express my admiration for the Writer's Guild and their strength.

SAG-AFTRA is now on strike, and many of the Hollywood unions have reached unparalleled levels of unity. In this video, Negotiating Committee Co-Chair Chris Keyser discusses what this means and how we should proceed.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/videos/writing-is-our-home

The Writers Guild of America negotiation includes several important components: episodic television, streaming channels, artificial intelligence, pension benefits and health. See the link to learn more about the WGA negotiations.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/wga-negotiations-status-as-of-5-1-2023

#WGAStrong

We're on hiatus for the summer. Us writers have to get some work done. Sonia is reviewing three of the most popular episodes on Chica and the Man.

Episode 16: Writing - Alex and I discuss the challenges and joys of writing.

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/53nYLaBA3Ab

Episode 09: Chica and the Wo-Man. Alex was away on a work project for several months and during these months we had guest co-host. If you're from Chicago you'll enjoy this episode. We talk about growing up in the wonderful city and all the crazy experiences.

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/cCDzceBA3Ab

Episode 15: Goals and Many Other Things: This episode Alex and I discuss goals because we refuse to talk about New Year's resolutions. We know most people don't stick to them including ourselves. We thought we would title them goals, just to see how long we would stick to it. We didn't.

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/KuRuhbBA3Ab

In this episode, we give our two-cents worth on AI - how we use it as writers. We touch on the concerns of AI regarding the Writers Guild strike. How we, as writers use it. Yes, it is a suitable tool for grammar checks and getting a story idea when stuck, but we both find it lacking for story, plot and creating emotion.

We are going on hiatus for the summer. But we're not forgetting about you and plan on doing the best of during the summer and for fun we talked about doing some live episodes. We are going on hiatus because we both need time to write and Sonia will work on some of her skits.

Vacations- YES. Sonia went to Mexico and Alex will be off to an island by Savannah for his vacation.

Stay tuned, have an amazing summer and enjoy the best of Chica and the Man podcast.

Many Blessings!

What can I say? This episode, we start out our conversation about spring cleaning and then as usual, we go off on so many different topics that again there's a list.

1. Spring cleaning - this is a continuation of last months.
2. Travel. Sonia goes to Mexico and Alex has plans to go to Savanna with his family.
3. We discuss getting older and dieting, working out, cooking and food. Chicago and the Italian beefs
4. Driving up Pacific Coast Highway in California
5. Podcast and why it's important to keep them as conversations.
6. American Film Institute - George Stevens Jr. on Mysterious Goings On Podcast. We discuss how I worked there and worked in Robert Blumofe's office.

Thank you for being part of our listening audience. Alex and Sonia

Well, we had expected getting into spring cleaning but as usual when you get two level-headed creatives talking; the conversations goes everywhere.

Here’s the list of topics we spoke about and as these are being listed you can tell-we’re all over the place. Anyway, come laugh with us on the various topics.

1.    Alex’s PR firm is doing well, and he’s busy with it.

2.    Talked about high-altitude sickness going to Mexico City and Puebla.

3.    Park City, Utah during Sundance.

4.    Los Angeles storms and a tornado in Montebello, CA.

5.    Mentioned celebrities Jeremy Renner and George Clooney.

6.    Tesla and Edison.

7.    And the topic, or was the topic of this episode SPRING CLEANING. I believe we mentioned this in a few sentences, so next month we’ll see if we actually did any spring cleaning.

8.    Sonia discovered an AI for writing called Sudowrite and became an affiliate. When you buy Sudowrite through this link, you’ll receive 10,000 words added to your account at no additional cost. Try Sudowrite now!

Check out their books on Amazon.

Sonia Iris Lozada on Amazon:

            Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2

            Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time

J. Alexander Greenwood on Amazon. Check out his author link for all his books.

Website: https://chicaandman.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chica.and.the.Man.Podcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chica.and.the.man/

016 Chica and the Man Writing

This month on the Chica and the Man podcast we are discussing our writing careers. They talk about the entertainment industry and their writing potentials with it. Alex entered a writing contest at Coverfly with his short story Obsidian and is on the red list, which is the top 27%. He’ll know if he’s advanced to the next level within the following month. Read more about it here.

Sonia is currently writing two sci-fi short stories and will look for representation and a publisher once those are completed.

Please leave us a voice message. We're developing a Q&A section to our podcast and would love to hear from you.

As usual, there’s laughter, joy and amusement with these two. Check out their books on Amazon.

Sonia Iris Lozada on Amazon:

Inspire Me Series: Book 1 & 2

Follow: Akashic Dreaming Through Time

J. Alexander Greenwood on Amazon. Check out his author link for all his books.

Website: https://chicaandman.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Chica.and.the.Man.Podcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chica.and.the.man/