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Adults Unschool Too
In episode 36, Atlanta-based military veteran and entrepreneur, Veronica Ashley, talks about being an unschooling adult. Veronica spent a few days with Marley and Sage (my daughters), and saw quite a few parallels between her own journey to a greater leadership role in her own life. In learning more about herself, freeing her mind from much of the training and trauma that cost her so much, Veronica is deschooling herself and embracing a life design of her own accord. Listen in as she talks about learning from Marley and Sage, nurturing healthy partnerships, and fostering autonomous growth
May 9, 2017
My Reflection Matters
Here’s the story about how a Nuyorican woman who worked at New York University as a social justice coach for educators is now living a life that evolved from a great career nestled inside academia into now unschooling her two Afro-Latinx sons, Judah and Keanu, along with her Trinidadian husband, Shane. Unschooling, as you’ve heard me say since the very first episode of Fare of the Free Child, is a tool for liberation. And of course, liberation don’t fit in no box, so for Chemay, liberation isn’t just for her family, it’s a path she wants paved clear for all Black and Brown folks to have the resources to liberate themselves too. So, to do that work, Chemay is in the heat and heart of building an community-centered organization, a space called My Reflection Matters, that provides tools to support and nurture healthy racial and cultural identities of Black and Brown children and older youth.
May 3, 2017
Personal Liberation
In this episode, we connect with an African-American living in Africa. Kaylan’s story is very much about about directing her own path, going against the norm to design a liberatory practice that for her meant exploring life outside of corporate America and the standard American dream. She runs a blog titled African-American in Africa, which is where I first learned about Kaylan. She is now married and she and her husband have a young son. Kaylan is learning how to make space for her son to develop his own interests outside of the things Kaylan associates with a happy childhood. Plenty of life lessons in parenting, equity, history and politics, and so much more for this adventurous, conscious Mama. This is a great episode; enjoy!
April 26, 2017
Motherhood & Mental Shifts
Atlanta and DC-based travel industry professional and Self-Directed Education loving Mama, Kenya Scott joins us once again. Her son has been benefiting from SDE as a learner over at Heartwood ALC, and in this episode, we chop it up about socio-economic misconceptions, respectability politics, some pretty important shifts in perspective, and so much more.
April 19, 2017
Kicking Cancer’s Ass & Unschooling
…Then I found out that Tia has a form of blood cancer and that she doesn’t let that and all the work that comes with that, stop her from raising free people. Her way of managing her household and her self, including her cancer, are part of how Tia lives out the liberation she believes in. She is my tribe for sure, and I couldn’t be more pleased to bring you this episode.
April 12, 2017
Stop Whitewashed SDE
Anthony is joined by one of the Heartwood ALC co-founders, Julia Cordero. Julia has been in education for more than 20 years, in private schools, at a public access TV station directing a youth program for teens, And in this episode, she is helping to nurture safe space by offering up some real candor around her own baggage and biases, and talking about her willingness to face them, and to do something about the lack of Black and Brown faces at Heartwood ALC, including on their board and on their staff.
April 8, 2017
Self-Mothering Mojo
25-year-old wife and mama, Moya Kelly, and I have this beautiful intergenerational conversation around mothering and deschooling ourselves, and giving our children room to guide us. Part I is about self-mothering, mostly, and part 2 goes into the focus on education and what real learning can look like for a younger child (her son, Jordan is 2), including the ways that daycare or preschool can hinder learning.
April 3, 2017
Multiple Learning Paths
In this episode, Atlanta-based wellness entrepreneur, Chante’ Smith, talks about how she and her partner facilitate multiple learning paths within their household. Their children, Chloe (11), S’vaan (9), and Sekou (4) are teaching the adults in their home exactly what they need to thrive. We also talk about early diagnosis of Asperger’s, learning to trust ourselves and children, and practicing self-mothering. #POCinSDE
March 27, 2017
Raising Free People
In this episode, I’m pushing you a bit. Maybe more than a bit. The invitation here is one of accountability and self-inquiry, something I think is vital for us to move from talking to changing. For sure, dialogue is a powerful and perhaps a necessary catalyst for change and movement. But we can’t stop there. So as you listen and you feel moved and motivated by what you hear from the folks who make time to share with us on this podcast: ask yourself this question:
How am I participating in my own oppression and in the oppression of children, and what can I do toward a different experience.
March 23, 2017
The Edupreneur
In this episode, Dr. Scott Speed and I speak on systems thinking, why there is no such thing as a “good public school,” shifting our focus from institutions to individuals and communities, social constructs, global indoctrination, capitalism as a barrier to seeking change, reclaiming intuition, eradicating white supremacy, and actively moving toward change.
March 22, 2017
D. Lane Speaks
In this episode, return guest, Lane Santa Cruz and I deep dive into the idea of bodily autonomy and the skewed ideas we pass on to children. In other words, the ways we participate in the oppression of our own people; our children, our partners, all of it. This episode offers you some opportunities to feel through oppression with maybe a deeper sense of clarity now, or at least curiosity.
March 15, 2017
Wise African Women
Moji Yai, a birthworker/doula and new unschooling parent, talks about decolonizing the mind, mothering ourselves, and reaching back, Sankofa-style, to access the old wisdom and honor the old traditions that have served women for centuries. Her initiative, Wise African Women, will begin in her come country of Benin, and will be shared via social media, in efforts to reconnect women of color to wellness rituals and knowledge that counter the damaging practices that separate women from culturally-relevant and highly-effective wellness practices. Her work as a doula and liberation-seeker have led her to the decision to keep her daughter free from the confines of public education. Listen in as we talk about getting free, remembering our magic, and mothering in various forms.
March 7, 2017
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