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Happy Monday beautiful people!!! Conversations with Friends Episode 36 is a conversation with a new friend, Elizabeth Joseph from Phoenix AZ. Elizabeth and I met a few weeks ago at a local networking event where I read a live poem with a local dancer. It was an instant realization, we gotta be friends! Elizabeth has been doing major plant and healing work in the valley for the last decade and is hosting the 2nd annual Melanin Mom's Expo this November 2nd in Phoenix Arizona! Today we sit and chat a little background information about Elizabeth and how she found herself on this community healing path.  Tune in to hear this inspired mama and I discuss how she found her path to veganism and wholistic healing, what the Melanin Mom Expo is all about and why it is needed especially in the Phoenix Valley. To learn more about the event check out https://www.melaninmomsaz.net/ for all the details (and you might even find a picture of me there :) We also talk about her personal wellness brand Be More Raw! Tune into the plant-based message on IG and FB under Be More Raw or check out https://www.bemoreraw.com/.  Lot's of goodies in this episode friends and if you are in Phoenix make sure you learn more about the Taco Tuesday events taking place in October! Elizabeth is offering a FREE health consult at her Taco Tuesday fund raising events ! These consults are valued at $150! Take advantage of the community coming together to heal together and support the Melanin Mom's Expo! Vending and sponsorship opportunites are still available! Thank you mama for sharing your time, love and energy with the show, with me and with our community at large! It matters that we each find what we are passionate about and share some of that juju with as many as we can. I am cheering you on sistren and am really looking forward to growing alongside you Super Woman!!! Tune in family! And tune ... all the way UP!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Wednesday family!!! Conversations with Friends episode 35 is a conversation with a super long time friend, Gina Marsh. Gina and I met in elementary school in San Diego and have been reconnected online for the last few years. Today we go back in time a bit and discuss where and when we met. Gina and I were in the same 2nd grade class together at Wegeforth elementary in Serra Mesa! (Shouting out our hometown family!!!) It's amazing how far apart friends can grow and yet remain on such a similar path.  Gina is also a stay at home mom dedicated to providing the most natural upbringing for her son. Her family is vegan and we discuss vegan pregnancy and how she stayed healthy and strong while pregnant. Her son had some diet related issues early on and once she decided to take out gluten, everything changed. If you have a highly sensitive child, you definitely want to listen to this episode! We talk about food allergies and how they affect behavior AND how quickly these things can be reversed when we stay committed to making the necessary lifestyle and dietary changes. Gina is also training to be a Cosmic Kids yoga instructor! In segment 2 we tune into her yogi practice and learn more about what Cosmic Kids yoga is all about. To learn more about the practice check out Cosmic Kid Yoga on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga . My children love it too! Thank you friend for sharing your love and energy with the show! This was meant to be shared on Monday though thank you for your patience and commitment to healing, one step at a time. I love having you in my sphere and am cheering you and your family on love!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Conversations with Friends episode 34 is a conversation with my friend and sistren Teurai Chanakira. Teurai is sharing her voice with us today all the way from Melbourne Australia! This is our 1st international podcast and we are so excited to be moving across the oceans!!! Teurai and I met some years ago through her sister, Eden, a previous guest on the show and a local, personal friend. This was our first time speaking together and it was really awesome to get some one on one time with a verified distant family member. Make sure you check out the Zoom video chat too  Teurai is a world traveller and has just returned home after a near year long trip around the Earth! A few years ago, Teurai decided to follow her heart and leave her law profession to pursue her passion; helping others live a healthier life. She works with her clients in person, on cruise ships (travelling to 72 countries doing it too!) and online. She is dedicated to supporting her sphere as they find the ways to stay active, eat well and create the lifestyle they most desire. Teurai has recently released her 5th book titled HOW TO LIVE FROM ONE SUITCASE FOR ONE YEAR: ENDLESS FASHION OPTIONS FOR ANY CLIMATE WHILST YOU TRAVEL! (click here to purchase in the US and here to purchase in AU) and has also curated a blog where she shares all about her travels and how she keeps it all together no matter where in the world she finds herself.  Teurai can be contacted through her international website FitnesstoaTee.com.au. You can find her previously published books, services she provides and there is even a FREE GIFT for those of us wanting to trim our tummy!  Sistren!!! Thank you for being you, for showing up and answering your call and for taking Conversations with Friends WORLDWIDE!!! I really enjoyed hanging with you for this show and have enjoyed watching you blossom and grow and make it happen from way over here even more! I am cheering for you sister and cannot wait until we get to see you in the desert! Follow Teurai on FB @ Teurai Chanakira Model and IG @teurai1. And stay tuned!!! She is whipping me back into shape too yall! I am now working with Teurai as an online fitness coach! I am excited to share more with you all soon! Time to get back in the gym. Mama needs some TLC. Peace family! Enjoy the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Conversations with Friends Episode 33 is a conversation with my friends, Heather and Megan! I met Heather and Megan last year at the Odysea farmers market in Scottsdale and at first sight I knew they were kin. Heather and Megan own and operate Free to Be Healed, a local healing facility created to provide space and practice for community healing. The work my friends are here to do is trailblazing new pathways for the healer in us all. I am honored to be here with them now and to have a platform to share what they do... Because it really matters to us all! Ladies, thank you for sharing your love with me and my family and with our beautiful, electric community in the desert! Thank you for answering your many calls and for showing up in the ways you do. I love you both! Tune in to learn more about these 2 souls and what free to be healed means to them ❤ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday beautiful people!!! Conversations with Friends Episode 32 is a conversation with a new friend, Charlmayne Settles, the author of Hey Little Black Girl: For the Unhealed LIttle Black Girl in You. Charlmayne is working hard to bring healing to herself, her family and her community! Charlmayne recently published her new book, Hey Little Black Girl: For the Unhealed Little Black Girl in You and is now sharing her story with the world. This mama of 4 is no stranger to the hard knocks of life and is using her own past to move forward and inspire a generation of women to know that we can all grow from just about any foundation and still enjoy life. Healing is real and when we decide to use our life experiences to create the life we truly desire and heal the little girl or little boy inside, we will create peace and happiness no matter how life began.  Charlmayne speaks to the wounded child in us all and helps us remember to go back and heal this vulnerable being within. She uses her own story to walk us through how we can overcome great challenges and share our story to influence others to do the same! Tune into her work and grab a copy of her new book at https://heylittleblackgirl.com/ and follow her on Facebook and Instagram under Hey Little Black Girl... because this mama is on a mission: To speak to the unhealed little black girl inside of every black woman and girl so that they may heal and reach their fullest potential. Thank you sistren for answering your call and rising in your responsibility! I have enjoyed building with you and look forward to continuing to grow together! I am cheering for you mama and am so excited to read the next installment of the growth path of Charlmayne Settles. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Conversations with Friends Episode 31 is a conversation with my friend Gail Angeles. Gail recently released her 1st book titled Rainbow Food Rocks now available at https://www.blurb.com/b/9608965-rainbow-food-rocks A few years ago, Gail decided she would heal her family through diet and is now telling the world why and what she did! This is a vital episode if you or someone you know is struggling with food sensitivities, allergies, autoimmune disease, ADHD or even if they are on the Autistic spectrum, this is the show for you! Tune in and learn more about the healing powers of food and grab your copy of Rainbow Food Rocks at http://rainbowfoodrocks.com/. Gail thank you for being a warrior of health and for committing yourself to sharing your message with us all! It matters mama! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Conversations with Friends episode 30 is a conversation with 2 local businesswomen and the creators of Quench Naturel, Gina Mynatt-Galdi and Allana Taylor. These 2 women are on the mission to save the world 1 body at a time! Quench Naturel is a Phoenix based company committed to bringing non-toxic body products to the masses and today we sit down and learn more of their why's and their how's. Tune into the work of Quench Naturel at www.QuenchNaturel.com and on IG @QuenchNaturel. You can also stop by our shop in Tempe and get a hands on experience with their plant-based goodness! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Tuesday!!! Ever wonder how artists stay inspired for decades, just making their own creations? I do! Tune in to be inspired to do the same! We are all the creative genius. We all can spend our life creating from our visions and we can find countless artists to help keep us motivated. Tune in for a short chat on our power to create what our hearts desire! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Are you into live poetry readings? Check out today's episode to hear a few of the poems from my latest book A Third Of Me, a poetry anthology reflecting the poetic work of the 1st 3rd of my life. I am reading 4 poems from the book that is available on Amazon.com https://www.amazon.com/one-third-me-book-poems/dp/1793219389 . --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday family!!! Today's episode is a conversation between my friend April and I. Today we talk astrology and how our big 3, our sun, moon and rising sign, influence our relationship and our lives. Tune in to learn more about the zodiac and why being aware of your energies is a game changer in personal growth! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday family!!! Its July 22nd and I feel some vibrations around me! Learning to use my sensory system to read the environmental energy I live within, makes today a special day. I wanted to share some of this with you all. Friends will be joining the show again soon though until then tune on for a convo with me. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Tune into today's episode to learn how creating an online brand helps you build a community of like minded humans around you! Your vibe attracts your tribe! Online marketing to build commumity on Conversations with Friends! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday family!!! I have some super exciting news to share and I'm bringing it to you all 1st! Gratitude to my sphere. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday!!! Conversations with Friends episode 28 is a conversation with my friend and sistren, Cristi Farrar. Cristi and I met online a couple of years ago and I am really happy we stayed open to building and got this convo in! Cristi is a free spirited, unschooling mama and entrepreneur that is here to shine a light for us all. My friend and I connected through our shared passion for raising free children. We started communicating around unschooling and planned on having a podcast convo on homeschooling and being a business mama at the same time. We go into these topics on today's show, though in between our plan and the actual recording of this episode, Cristi was diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. AND to make it even more aligned, our 1st episode was lost in podcast recording magic world and we had to record this show twice! Best part was the 1st recording she was still receiving chemo, today's recording her treatment is wrapped up and a new normal is beginning to develop for this super powerful mama!!! I am honored and grateful to be able to share her voice, story and pure inspiration with you all today! Cristi, mama, thank you for sharing your time, heart, passion and practice with me and the audience of the show. You are motivation in the flesh love! I am so excited to see where the next phase of your life journey takes you and your family. I will be watching and cheering and congratulating you along the path friend! I loved being able to tune into your drive towards healing. We gather our energy and send it to Texas mama! To a healing remainder of 2019!!! Tune in for a super inspiring convo family and follow Cristi's journey with cancer and chemo on her YouTube channel  https://www.youtube.com/user/smileycris11 . There are some dope body product crafting on the channel too! Send some love her way family! Side by side, we are stronger together! Peace XO --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday family!!! Conversations with Friends Episode 27 is a conversation with a friend, Menuhati Kemma'atah. Menuhati is a Priest, Teacher, Herbalist, Community Organizer, Public Speaker, Tour Guide and Agriculturalist from Southeast San Diego and now travels the world sharing his healing knowledge and energy. Menuhati and I are new friends though had a lot to talk about. Our conversation takes us from early Daygo living to how Menuhati is now working with plants and the ancestors that guide him, to help align his community with the birthright of nourishment and healing. Get your notebooks out and be prepared to do some research on herbal friends from West Africa and how they help promote full body, mind and soul health. Thank you brethren for sharing your time and knowledge with the show and for listening to the guidance of your ancestors. Your work is deeply needed and appreciated. I look forward to finding more ways to share your energy friend! Tune in family and tune up! peace --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Tuesday family!!! Part 2 of my conversation with Jah Sun Kine! Y'all definitely want to tune back in and hear about the work Jah Sun is a part of and learn more about the passion behind the project. I love you friend! Thank you for your time. Tune in and tune up family!!! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

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. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

Happy Monday family!!! Today it's just M.E. and YOU. Sharing some updates and inspiration. Sending love from my heart to yours. To a beautiful week! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

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  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support

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  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/conversationswithfriends/support