Unschooled and Unbothered

Happy Monday!!!

Conversations with Friends Episode 26, is a conversation with my friend Jah Sun Kine, though I call him Jason :) 

Jason and I met in college in San Diego in the early 2000's. I am super grateful to still have my friends energy and influence in my life and to be able to share the frequency of our most recent conversation with you all.

Today's show is the 1st of 2 episodes that Jah Sun and I are sharing. We had some catching up to do, so this 1st episode Jason shares his background and the things that have molded him. We also reminisce about our early days as friends on campus and the real why's of our lasting bond. Jason and I studied in the Africana Studies department of SDSU and shared many defining moments together during these years. We were becoming the humans we are today and I am honored to reflect this truth in part 1. 

Jason is one of the friends of my life that has made a deep impact on my ability to see the rebel in me. My gratitude for standing side by side with my friend lasts lifetimes and I still recall on the lessons of our unique connection. Jason, friend, you are a part of my structure and I will forever hold our close times near to my heart. I felt like I could really change the world with you in my life. And I STILL feel this sharing of energy over time and distance. 

Tune in to hear part 1 and a breakdown of who Jah Sun is and stay tuned for part 2 to learn more about the work he does in and for his community at home and abroad. This brethren has always been active for the healing of our people and I will forever cheer your work on family!!!

Thanks friend for being you and for willingness to answer your call.

Happy Monday!!!

Conversations with Friends episode episode 25, is a conversation with a new friend and super powered soul Akilah S. Richards. I have followed Akilah for the last few years as an ally of the unschooling movement and was so grateful and excited when she agreed to sit and have a chat with me to share with you all!

Akilah is a Certified Family LIfe Educator, self-defined digital nomad, podcaster, author, blogger and does it all with her unschooling family by her side. She is also a super deep and conscious soul, here to help support the freeing of bodies and minds from the constructs of colonization. 

I first came across Akilah's work through her podcast, Fare of the Free Child https://akilahsrichards.com/podcast/ and have since been introduced to the many great works Akilah has committed to contributing to the unschooling community and the society at large. This mother of 2 unschooling youth, is walking her talk and I am truly honored to be able to share her energy with the show!!!

Please tune into Akilah through her website https://akilahsrichards.com/ and follow this mama's podcast on IG @fareofthefreechild and on FB @radicalselfie. Akilah is a founding board member of The Alliance of Self-Directed Education https://www.self-directed.org/ and talks a bit about this organization in today's show. If you are interested in self-directed learning, make sure you tune into this organizations work and support the movement!

Thank you Akilah for sharing your time, love and energy with the show today! I am cheering your work on mama and am thankful to have you in my sphere of influence! You beam a light of possibility and making whatever IT is you want happen! Gratitude for your commitment and power mama.

Peace family XO 

Happy Monday!!!

Conversations with Friends Episode 24 is a conversation with 2 of my friends and sistren, Ally and Nkisi Piro. Ally, Nkisi and I met through mutual friends right after my family left the desert about 5 years ago. Due to the amazing abilities of connection that social media gifts us all, these ladies and I have kept in touch over the years and developed a natural bond regardless of time or space. When we returned to the desert last year, I was super excited to meet these souls in the flesh and continue to grow our bond.

Today's episode is a conversation with both of my friends, so we get to hear a little bit about both Ally and Nkisi separately and as a couple. Individually, they are both studied and practiced energy and food healers and are committed to creating balanced and well lifestyles for their home and their community. As a team, they co-create some of the most beautiful meditative spaces I have been in (well I only got to visit once this last year, though I can now see clearly what they really got going on :) Using the ancient practice of sound healing through Yoga Nidra, these sistren have helped align many bodies throughout the valley. I asked Nikisi if she would be willing to share some of her healing energy with us on the show, so make sure you stay tuned after the 1st segment for a short and powerful sound meditation with Nkisi!

These 2 women consciously inject the environment they are in with understanding, patience and love. I appreciate how their fire works together, pushing one another to never give up on achieving higher versions of self.  I appreciate having their energy and support in my life and here with my family as we settle back into desert life. Many wonder who would move to a waterless, dry and hot place like the desert. Let me tell you, some really interesting and direct humans that wish to learn what sustainability and community is really all about. In the desert you need one another to make it through the extreme times. I am thankful my friends, that you 2 are a part of my team. Truly, the way in which you share your own path of self realization is needed in our community! Charging your work on sistren!!!

Tune in to hear a dope convo between 3 women focused on healing. AND stay tuned for the meditation at the end of the episode! I almost fell asleep while recording!

Peace family 

 Happy Monday family!!

Conversations with Friends, episode 22, is a conversation with a new friend, Ben Anderson. Ben and I were connected through another recent friend of the show, Quilen Blackwell. Here is a little bit about Ben.

"Ben Anderson is the Chief Development Officer at Chicago Eco House where he works with neighbors to convert blighted lots into beautiful off-grid flower farms running on rainwater & the sun. This role combines his experience in corporate sales with his passion for the environment and his neighborhood in on the southside: West Woodlawn. 

He is most of proud of working alongside his neighbors when they built Vernon Park Gardens, an Eco House flower farm plus a community garden & neighborhood stage in the summer of 2018. You can find Ben in his backyard feeding his ten chickens or at one of the many local neighborhood meetings he attends."

Eco House is leading the way in creating sustainable opportunities for our youth today and for the generations that are to come. Tune into the work of Ben and Vernon Park Gardens on Instagram and make sure you are following Chicago Eco House to stay up to date on all of their new developments https://www.chicagoecohouse.org/ . 

If you are interested in starting your own community organization, there is only 1 thing that matters most. Just do it!!! Follow your heart and take the BIG steps needed to get it done! Your entire community and all the resources needed to create your project will show up and right on time!

Thank you Ben for sharing your high vibes and love with the show! Thank you for not giving up and for pushing yourself through the process of being true to yourself. I am cheering for you brethren!!! Go Vernon Park Gardens GOOOO!!!

To a beautiful week fam XO Peace

Happy Monday family!!!  

Conversations with Friends Episode 19, is a conversation with a friend Darryn LaMonte. Darryn is an astrologer and provided me my first sidereal zodiac reading a couple of years back. I was opened to new energies available in the sky after this reading. I was super excited to invite Darryn on the show and share some of his starseer energy with you all.

Darryn has been around astrology for most of his life. We sat down and recorded this episode on the new Anchor podcast host site and for whatever reasons the first episode did not save. We lost our first hour of convo where we discussed Darryn's background and how he found himself reading the stars. I have asked him back on the show to share more, though today's episode is tuning into what sidereal astrology is and what the stars have in store for us in the coming years.

We talk past and future astrological placements, what types of changes we can expect based on the stars and how using our natal charts can help us align with the energies of above and below.

Thank you Darryn for your patience and openness to share your perspective and experience with our sphere. I appreciate having your guidance and expertise as a part of my team friend, and look forward to sharing more of your high vibes!

Tune in family and tune up! 

If you have never had your natal chart read and broken down for you, you really do want to have this done ASAP. There is no going against what our environment has created for us. We are individuals crafted to respond to our world with intention. 

Get in contact with Darryn at Calendly.com/Astrovisions or Astrologicschool.com and start the process of self-discovery from the zodiac. I also recommend investing in a tropical natal chart reading as well. The two systems work in perfect unison and are equally significant in understanding how the energies of our experience interact. 

To a beautiful week family! Peace XO