Shaping the Shift Podcast
SHAPING THE SHIFT podcast, a pod about change & uncertainty, for dreamers, creatives, and folks who want to get free.
Hey shiftshapers, it's time to get personal! This week we're talking about your inner circle in Episode 37: What About Yo Friends with EbonyJanice!
EbonyJanice Moore is a womanist scholar, author, and activist doing community-organizing work, most specifically around black women's body ownership as a justice issue, black women's access to ease, joy, and play, and Hip Hop as a tool for sociopolitical and spiritual/religious movement making.
Her research interests include issues pertaining to blackness, woman-ness, and spirituality – most specifically black women's use of spirit, conjure, and/or the supernatural as a tool to impact social justice, and the pluralism of Black Christianity, and the interconnectedness of the Southern Black Christian experience with Indigenous African religions and African Spirituality. She is a Hip Hop Scholar and hosts a podcast focused on hip hop and womanism called Rap Theology.
She recently performed an original creative piece about The Rebellion at Igbo Landing at The Public Theater in New York City and is currently working on an expansion of that play focused on the women that often get lost in the story.
EbonyJanice has a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Master of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice.
She is the founder of Black Girl Mixtape, a multi-platform safe think-space, centering the intellectual authority of black women in the form of a lecture series, a podcast, and an online learning institute lead by black women scholars.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! Join us this week for Episode 36: The Power to Heal Spiritual Wounds with Mayda Del Valle!
Poet and performer @maydadelvalle has been described by the Chicago Sun Times as having "a way with words. Sometimes they seem to flutter and roll off her lips. Other times they burst forth like a comet streaking across a nighttime sky."
A proud native of Chicago's South Side, Mayda got her start at New York City's legendary Nuyorican Poet's Cafe, where she was the 2001 Grand Slam Champion and went on to win the 2001 National Poetry Slam Individual title, becoming the youngest and first Latina poet to do so. She went on to appear on 6 episodes of Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on HBO and was a contributing writer and original cast member of the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam on Broadway.
She has been featured in Latina Magazine, The Source, The New York Times and was named by Smithsonian Magazine as one of America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences. Oprah's "O" Magazine selected her as one of 20 women for their first-ever "O Power List," a group of visionary women making a mark in business, politics, and the arts. In May of 2009, she was invited to perform at the White House for President Obama and the First Lady.
Since 2011 Mayda has been a teaching artist with the poetry-based non-profit youth organization Street Poets, facilitating workshops around the LA area in highschools and probation camps. She is also a dancer and vocalist with the Los Angeles-based Afro-Puerto Rican bomba group Atabey. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at California Institute of The Arts.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! This week, in Episode 35: The Power of Healing Father Wounds with Mark Winkler!
Together, let's take time to explore the source of our wounds so that we can create and employ tools for healing.
Mark Winkler is an author, family advocate, and motivational speaker. Through his non-profit organization, Manhood Camp, Mark provides guidance, leadership, and life-skills coaching to men and boys.
In addition to Manhood Camp, Winkler worked as a Family and Team Facilitator. As a Facilitator, Winkler coordinated and organized wraparound (intensive mental health) team activity for 10 separate teams (each team consisting of four professional members and at least 2 family members). As a Facilitator, Winkler also interfaced with Probation, Child Protective Services, other outside agencies, the Wraparound youth, and their families to assure that all parties remain functionally collaborative.
Before his work as a facilitator and Manhood Camp, Winkler worked as a music agent with United Talent Agency(UTA). During his tenure at UTA, Winkler signed and booked many artists, including Nelly, Patti LaBelle, Teena Marie, Anthony Hamilton, Nas, and Mase. While at UTA, Winkler worked very closely with talent management teams to package and route various regional/nation-wide tours & negotiated and prepared booking contracts. In addition to his agent duties, Winkler facilitated UTA's High School Youth Mentor Program.
This may be your breakthrough episode.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to Episode 34: The Power of Healing. In this solo episode, our host, licensed family therapist Thea Monyeé helps us address the wounds we have resisted healing.
This is the episode that we need! Make time today to tap into the power of healing.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to Episode 33: Run that Back! with Rhonda Richards-Smith!
Rhonda Richards-Smith is an award-winning psychotherapist and wellness expert. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is a graduate of the University of Southern California with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology.
She is also a graduate of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, where she obtained her Master of Social Welfare degree with a Health concentration.
Her advice has been featured in Oprah Magazine, Martha Stewart Weddings, US Weekly Magazine, BravoTV, Forbes, Teen Vogue, and Glamour Magazine, among others.
For over 15 years, she's worked one-on-one with individuals and companies developing corporate wellness programs to deepen their understanding of wellness and healthier relationships.
Her relationship, wellness, and self-care sessions have helped clients all over the world approach their goals with sincerity, grace, and intention.
Make time today to tap into the power that is your past so that you can move forward with clarity and intention!
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to exhale and breathe in a fresh new episode of #STS!
This week, in Episode 32: The Power of the Breath, we are focusing on our essential life-giving force with Dr. Crystal Jones!
Dr. Crystal is here to witness and be felt deeply through sound, breath, and presence. Her work in the world revolves around ensuring that Black queer folx center ourselves in our collective liberation.
This episode is incredibly clarifying and restorative, and we are grateful for this conversation and moment to ground ourselves in the power of our existence.
Make time today to breathe with intention! Tune in on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com!
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to a brand new episode of #STS!
This week, in Episode 31: The Power of Virtual Intimacy, we are shifting our perspective with Joi Madison!
Raised in South Central Los Angeles and a "citizen of the globe," Joi K. Madison, international coach, speaker and facilitator, has hosted workshops and worked with clients spanning four continents. Workshop topics include trauma-informed emotional intelligence, body appreciation and celebration and financial fulfillment through emotional healing.
As a former personal trainer and fitness studio owner and now therapist/coach, Joi's approach to wellness is wholistic in nature - a practice that includes the mind, body and spirit as well as finances and relationships. She understands that how we show up in these areas reveals valuable information regarding the beliefs and stories we hold and where there's an opportunity to shift, expand and heal.
Every encounter with Joi is an invitation to connect more deeply with yourself, more authentically with others and more readily with the resources that invite you to be your most fulfilled + joyous self from moment-to-moment.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to a brand new episode of #STS!
This week, in Episode 30: Power is Mine, we are tapping into the wisdom of the incomparable Sonya Renee Taylor!
@SonyaReneeTaylor is the Founder and Radical Executive Officer of The Body is Not An Apology, a digital media and education company committed to radical self-love and body empowerment as the foundational tool for social justice.
Sonya has shared her work as an award-winning Performance Poet, Activist, and educator in numerous countries and on major media outlets around the world, reaching hundreds of thousands of people with her commitment to radical self-love and transformation.
Sonya continues to perform, speak and facilitate workshops globally. Visit her at www.sonyareneetaylor.com or www.thebodyisnotanapology.com.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's a New Year and a new season of Shaping the Shift!
We're so excited to be in this space of possibility with you. Looking back, we've made it through an incredible number of challenges and feel empowered to go forward in this new era with the wisdom of lessons we've learned in the past.
It's time to tap into our POWER!
In this Season 3 premiere episode, Episode 29: IN POWER, host Thea Monyeé, shares her vision of power and how we can leverage the power that we have for transformation.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to get deeper into our intention to expand! Join us for the final episode of season two! In Episode 28: Audacity, Thea Monyeé shares a powerful message to inspire you to step into the new season of shaping your future.
audacity
noun au·dac·i·ty
1: the quality or state of being audacious -- intrepid boldness
2: bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints
To expand, we will have to embody intrepid boldness and possess an arrogant disregard for standard restraints. This is about liberation. This is about being great.
In this season of transition, as we cross over into a new year in which we have the power to create new possibilities, we can't continue playing it safe. It's time to activate our audacity.
We promise this is an episode that you will want to share with a friend! Tag a loved one in the comments so that you can listen and discuss together!
We're looking forward to joining you in 2021 and sharing the Shift for a 3rd season! Stay tuned for updates.
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Hey #shiftshapers, join us for an uplifting and inspiring episode of Shaping the Shift! Today, in Episode 27: Meet MarleyAyo, we are getting to know the MarleyAyo team!
MarleyAyo is the brainchild of STS host Thea Monyeé. This creative wellness consultation LLC aims to actively support and create tools to reverse the adverse effects of colonization and enslavement by liberating marginalized people around the globe through joy, pleasure, creativity, and intentional decolonization.
MarleyAyo has the vision to create and nurture a multi-dimensional organism that prioritizes the reintegration of spirit and liberation through unlearning, media, consulting, and land stewardship.
MarleyAyo offers an ongoing lecture series on decolonizing and expanding mental health and a cohort full of passionate, interdisciplinary, co-creative folks excited to decolonize mental health.
The conversations and spaces that MarleyAyo creates are rich, explorative, joy-centered, and full of engagement.
We leave them feeling more empowered, more creative, and more liberated!
Today's episode will be no different!
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Hey, #shiftshapers! Make time today to expand your perspective and join us for a belief shifting episode of Shaping the Shift! In Episode 26: Repurposing 2020 with Dr. Candice "Cece" Weaver, Thea Monyeé, and special guest, @ceasydoesit delve into a deep conversation that will inspire you, shift your mindset, and reframe your personal narrative. Prior to attending medical school at Touro University, Dr. Candice Weaver earned a Masters Degree in Public Health from Dartmouth Medical School, an undergraduate degree in Health Policy at UC Berkeley, and completed premedical studies and cancer research at The Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Weaver became Board Certified in Family Medicine after training at UCSF's program at Natividad Medical Center. She was a founding member of the Global Physicians Corps, a nonprofit organization that sends physicians on medical missions to Africa. She has worked with GPS to help deliver babies and conduct research on maternal mortality rates in rural Tanzania. Dr. Weaver was selected as a National Health Service Corps Scholar and worked in East Palo Alto providing full-scope medical care to the underserved, before accepting a position at Kaiser Permanente, where she currently practices. She is the author of Nia's Puzzle, a children's book about resilience and the "big picture" perspective. Nia's Puzzle was Amazon's number one new release and number one best-selling Children's Values book in August 2019. Dr. Weaver enjoys writing, playing the piano, baking, and traveling with her family in her spare time. Visit Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, IHeart Radio, Spotify, or ShapingtheShift.com to listen.
Hey, #shiftshapers! Join us on a journey through the newest episode of Shaping the Shift!
Today, our special guests are the incredible duo known as @gypsetlovers, Dr. Malliha Ahmad, and DJ SheRock!
In Episode 25: Black Beyond Borders, we are setting off on an international adventure toward expansion and learning what it really means to be home. Come explore with us!
Essence, LA made, and NY raised was certainly summoned here to shake shyt up and create change. She is an international DJ (@djshErOck), a global Yoga Instructor/Healing Retreat Master (@shErOcksYoga), Chief Operating Officer of @blkTemple, a donation-based healing community for BIPOC, and last but not least one 1/2 of @GypsetLovers = global citizens, truth seekers, conservation and culture.
Malliha Ahmad is a multi-hyphenate creative. She is the CEO of @blkTemple, an ideation specialist, CEO of @GuudSocial, & Chief Spiritual Officer of @GuudSoup (a 501c3 that focuses on helping marginalized communities cope with mental & emotional health issues holistically). And last but certainly not least, she’s ½ of @gypsetlovers = global citizen. conservation. truth seekers. culture.
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It's time to expand in the face of challenge! Shaping the Shift is back!
Taking time out enabled us to reflect on the direction and purpose behind STS. We are grateful for our growing STS team and community!
On the 19th year anniversary of an event that shifted the world, we are here to hold space in the expectation that overcoming the unimaginable will empower us to create beauty and achieve what we thought was impossible.
In this episode, our host, Thea Monyeé shares the expansion of her decolonizing framework which will go beyond the eco-system of the podcast. We are excited about the many upcoming opportunities for our community to get involved and engage in deep, transformative work.
Check out this raw, reflective, and refreshing season premiere on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com!
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This episode recaps our first season of Shaping The Shift as host, Thea Monyeé discusses aspects of her own journey and shared a mantra for maintains our sovereign sacredness during these times
How much joy can you handle? This week we are shifting into Intention Setting and Birthday Joy with our special guest, Jasai Madden of Alaiyo Waistbeads!
This episode is especially exciting because Jasai and Thea Moneé share the same birthday! So, you know, the birthday behavior is gonna be on one-hundred-thousand-trillion!
To learn more about Jasai’s work please visit www.alaiyo.net and follow her on Instagram at @alaiyowaistbeads or find her at @thenewfastgirl, living a fabulous, mindful life.
This week we are Dancing Through Change with diasporic dance icon, Marina Magalhaes! Join us for this episode as we sway and move through the uncertainty with ease and passion. We can’t wait for you to listen!
MARINA MAGALHÃES is border-crosser, bridge-builder, and dance-and-change-maker from Brazil, based in Los Angeles. Her unapologetically feminist and latinx work has been shared throughout Los Angeles (REDCAT Theater, Ford Amphitheatre, Zipper Concert Hall, Highways Performance Space, UCLA Fowler Museum, Blaktina Festival), San Francisco (CounterPulse, Yerba Buena Night, Dance Mission Theater), New York (Bowery Ballroom), Brazil (Universidade do Rio De Janeiro, Centro de Teatro do Oprimido, and Parque das Ruínas in Rio), Cuba (Teatro Favorito in La Havana), South Africa (The Wits Theatre in Johannesburg and My Body My Space Festival in Mpumalanga), Botswana (Maitisong Festival in Gabarone) and France (University of the Arts MFA program in Montpellier). She was awarded the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Choreography in 2013 for her original work in the pop musical phenomenon “Patty! The Revival”.
In 2014 she received the Pennington Dance Group Space Grant @ ARC and the UCLA Hothouse Residency to create her critically acclaimed work, (UN)BRIDALED. Hailed as "the type of show that keeps concert dance relevant in our lives" by LA Dance Review and "an unrivaled dance theater experience" by Theatre Ghost, (UN)BRIDALED was adapted with a cast of South African women and performed at The Wits Theatre's Human Rights & Social Justice Season 2016 in Johannesburg, South Africa. There, it was hailed as "riveting... a physical and emotional feat" by Creative Feel magazine. In 2017 she began a multi-year choreography residency with the LA-based Viver Brasil Dance Company, who commissioned Cor Da Pele, a dance concert work selected by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the top 40 best choreographic works of 2018. Other choreography credits include collaborations with visual artist Carolina Caycedo on the experimental film Apariciones / Apparitions (commissioned by The Huntington Library and officially selected for the Motion Capture series at Highways Space), music videos for the YouTube sensation Watsky (including “Moral of the Story” with over 9 million views), and live tours nation-wide with the rising East LA-based band Las Cafeteras.
Magalhães holds a B.A. in World Arts and Cultures with a Dance Concentration from UCLA, where she was the recipient of the international Moss Scholarship ($76,000) and had the opportunity to study with renowned artists such as David Rousseve, Victoria Marks, Barak Marshall, Susan Foster, Rennie Harris, Ronit Ziv, Maria Gillespie, and Cheng-Chieh Yu. Additionally, she has trained extensively in contemporary dance with Maria Bauman, House and Hip Hop with Jackie "Miss Funk" Lopez of Versa-Style, Afro-Brazilian dance with Rosangela Silvestre & Vera Passos of Bahia, Brazil, and conducted separate two-month long apprenticeships with Urban Bush Women in NYC and Gregory Maqoma of Vuyani Dance Theatre in South Africa in 2016. She is also an alum of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) Emerging Leaders Institute (2014) & Director's Lab West (2014).
For seven years, Magalhães worked with CONTRA-TIEMPO Urban Latin Dance Theater as a Performer, Teaching Artist, Resident Choreographer, Director of Arts Education, Assistant Artistic Director and ultimately Artistic Director Interim, playing a crucial role in the company’s development of a unique and powerful dance activist methodology. Magalhães has also performed in works by Victoria Marks (Smallest Gesture, Grandest Frame, voted runner-up in REDCAT Theater’s A.W.A.R.D. show in 2011), Viver Brasil Dance Company (alongside Grammy Award-winning artist Sergio Mendes at the world-famous 18,000 seat theater Hollywood Bowl), as a guest soloist with Maria Bauman's MBDance Company, and as a guest artist with Bessie Award-winning choreographer Joya Powell and her company Movement Of The People.
Magalhães is a dedicated and experienced educator whose unique and inclusive approach to movement has been shared throughout the world. Her on-going movement research is called Dancing Diaspora, based on the fundamental belief that decolonization is inherently a transformative and futuristic process of reinventing and reclaiming tradition, and like the word diaspora communicates, it seeks to embody past and future, tradition and creativity, ancestry and individuality. In 2017 & 2018, Magalhães received the California Arts Council Artists In Communities award to provide the Dancing Diaspora class at Pieter Space free of charge, which she is currently offering a weekly basis. Additionally, Magalhães has taught in over twenty-five K-12 schools and designed dozens of original curricula that introduce young people to yoga and meditation, creative movement, and dance as resistance. Magalhães has taught Latin American Social Dances as Adjunct Faculty at various universities, including California State Polytechnic University of Pomona, Occidental College, Scripps College, and where she currently lectures, UC Riverside. She is a co-founder and faculty of UCLA Department of World Arts & Cultures's Travel Study program, which brings college students to study at the renowned Center for Theater of the Oppressed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is also a certified yoga instructor and a founding teacher of the East LA-based People's Yoga studio since 2014.
While Magalhães is based in Los Angeles, she has special ties to Latin America and especially Brazil, her native country, as she routinely travels to conduct her artistic research and share her work.
To learn more about Marina’s work please visit her https://www.marinamagalhaes.com/. Follow her on Instagram @marinamagalicious, YouTube @marinaomagalhaes
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This episode of Shaping the Shift is an intimate moment with host Thea Monyeé, and a tribute to our collective grief and hope as we continue to navigate this new world together.
This week we are joined by my Dem Black Mamas Podcast Co-Host, Crystal Tennille Irby. This episode we are keeping it extra REAL! Join us for this episode In Real Life with Crystal Irby. We can’t wait for you to listen!
To learn more about Crystal’s work please visit her www.crystaltennilleirby.com. Follow her on Instagram @crystaltennilleirby, YouTube @crystaltennille
This week we are joined by my personal reiki teacher and healer, Tiffany De Leon, also known as Tutubi Asul, to discuss healing for healers and her own healing journey This episode is soothing in so many ways. We can’t wait for you to listen!
To learn more about Tiffany’s work please visit her website to learn more about her healing practices. Follow her on IG @_holding.space_.
This week we are joined by a true Oya Priestess, Iyanifa Fatumininu Adeola, to discuss Embracing Oya and decolonizing spirituality. This episode is filled with candid conversation about confronting the impact of white supremacy on Black spirituality and how our spirituality connects to our liberation!
To learn more about Iya Fatu please visit her website to learn more about her Ifa Journey all of the ways to support her work with Hili&Mac Apothecary, Follow her on IG @iyafatu!
We are halfway through our first season and who knew how prophetic naming this podcast Shaping The Shift would be? Our guest this week is evidence of the intention of this platform and Devi Brown has been using her voice and her platform to help people of color to access and awaken their inner power through meditation. Join us as we have THE BEST conversation EVER about meditation as an ancestral practice and necessary part of our liberation, especially NOW.
This episode recaps our first month of Shaping The Shift as host, Thea Monyeé discusses aspects of her own journey and shared a mantra for maintains our sovereign sacredness during these times
There’s no way I could recap this month’s juiciness all by myself. I had to bring in the incomparable EbonyJanice Moore to have a heart to heart with me about the gems and joys we have experienced on Shaping The Shift in five episodes!
EbonyJanice Moore is a womanist scholar, author, and activist doing community-organizing work, most specifically around black women’s body ownership as a justice issue, black women's access to ease, dreaming, and play, and Hip Hop as a tool for sociopolitical and spiritual/religious movement making.
If you aren’t following her work you are missing out on pure LIFE! Follow her on IG & Twitter @ebonyjanice. Support her work via Cashapp ($EbonyJanice), Venmo (@ebonyjanice) or Paypal.me/ebonyjanice
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Welcome Back ShiftShapers!
This week we are joined by the game-changing Ev’yan Whitney to discuss how to SHIFT with loss, change, and allow ourselves to evolve through the uncertainty of it all! Make sure you have a copy of your SHIFT SHEET ready! Don’t have one? Join our patreon for your free copy! It’s no fun to shift alone so share, review, like, and repost to invite your friends and loved ones along for the ride!
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This week Shaping The Shift welcomes gamechanger Akilah S. Richards for a deliciously candid conversation about what it means to BE BRAVE, particularly as Black women. This episode is filled with gems so make sure you have a copy of your SHIFT SHEET, if not, we highly recommend you pause and visit our website cause you are not gonna want to miss these bars!
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Akilah S. Richard | Unschooling Organizer | Founder, Raising Free People Network.
Raising Free People Network helps families, organizations, and corporations to examine and learn from big issues in education, leadership, and personal development. By tapping into techniques and philosophies of the Self-Directed Education movement, Akilah uses independent broadcast media, namely podcasts, along with live trainings and events to support and sustain cultures of belonging, equity, and confident autonomy. She is an international speaker, and a founding board member of The Alliance for Self-Directed Education. Her latest book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing work, will be out this Fall. Akilah and her partner, Kris, are currently raising two self-directed teens, Marley and Sage-Niambi.
Where else can you find Akilah?
- @fareofthefreechild on IG
- @radicalselfie on FB and YouTube
How can you support her brave and incredible work?
- https://www.patreon.com/akilah
- Venmo: @Akilah-Richards
- Cashapp: $raisingfreepeople
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Thank you for listening and we invite you to share, review, and enjoy Shaping The Shift across all major platforms as we bring you weekly episodes designed to SHIFT you towards the life you desire!
This episode of Shaping the Shift goes deeper into our understanding of The After and how our emotions can be used to shape the world we step into post-quarantine!
After you are done listening to this week’s episode, please visit our website and sign up for the STS email list to receive your Ride & Thrive Study Guide. If you choose to support our work by becoming a patron through our Patreon you can enjoy 29% off sitewide on the drippiest crystal jewelry in Cali through our Shift Sister, Gilded Grotto!
Thank you for listening! We invite you to share, review, and enjoy Shaping The Shift across all major platforms as we bring you weekly episodes designed to SHIFT you towards the life you desire!
This delicious teaser episode previews the exciting conversations listeners can expect from Shaping the Shift with Thea Monyeé.
It is with gratitude and great relief that we are finally on the other side of this election.
For what felt like an eternity, Election Day loomed in the distance, and it felt as if we were collectively holding our breath.
Now we can breathe.
Join our host Thea Monyeé in the exhalation as we reflect, collect, begin to look forward, and imagine how we will shape the seasons to come.
Tune into Episode 23: We Can Shape this on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, IHeart Radio, Spotify, or www.ShapingtheShift.com
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Thea Monyeé has teamed up with Crystal Tenille Irby and NeKisha Killings for the STS + DBM mashup that is guaranteed to help you get your life!
Dem Black Mamas podcast answers all the questions yo mama won't! From sex & dream catching to adulting & raising free Black children in an unfree world, three #BlackMamaCreatives give you all the #BlackMamaMagic your heart can hold while catching your own creative dreams.
As we head to the polls and anticipate the outcome of this year's presidential election, Dem Black Mamas has a plan to prepare you for the political and social aftermath of what has been a tumultuous year. In this week's episode of Shaping the Shift, they lay it all out for you.
This week's serious subject is infused with signature Dem Black Mamas humor and insights informed by a Black, womanist, and inherently intersectional feminist perspective.
Come get this truth and exhale the "amen" and "ashé" you didn't know was brewing in your spirit all this time.
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Shiftshapers, we are overcome with joy as we release the newest episode of Shaping the Shift!
Please join us for Episode 21: Making Small & Tender Changes with the one and only adrienne maree brown.
After this conversation, our hearts are overflowing!
Of course, you know @adriennemareebrown as the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. Adrienne is rooted in Detroit.
And with all of that in mind, it felt incredibly natural and gratifying to welcome adrienne as our guest on our pod about change and uncertainty.
We embrace the synchronicity of this particular conversation and the future that is unfolding before us.
Tune into your intuitive understanding of how to adapt to sudden, great shifts with grace.
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Hey, #ShiftShapers! It's time to dive into another insightful conversation between friends, host Thea Monyeé, and special guest in episode 20 of Shaping the Shift: Writing Our Future with Nikki Skies.
Nikki Skies (@nskies) is an accomplished poet, award-winning playwright, actor, and author - best known for her fiery performances- currently living in Atlanta, GA.
A firm believer in the power of education, Nikki is an alumna of Grambling State University (B. A. in Theatre/Acting), Howard University (M.A. in Film program for Screenplay Writing), and Clark Atlanta University (M.A. in Africana Women's Studies)
@nskies has opened in venues across the country for the likes of Sonia Sanchez, Gloria Steinem, and the late Amiri Baraka. Nikki was cast as a co-star for the late John Singleton's television drama, "Rebel" on BET. She was also the creative writer for BET's digital series, "Rebel Yell."
In theatre, Skies' one-woman show in which she portrayed the late Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac Shakur, was commissioned as a fundraising event for Morehouse College. In addition to lengthy experience as an actor, director, and playwright, her latest play, Hope's Return, debuted at the esteemed National Black Theatre Festival as a part of the New Works Reader's Theatre among a national selection of over 400 plays.
Nikki is currently a Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Georgia. Her research revolves around the restorative tenets of dramatic monologues in the contemporary works of southern black women playwrights. @nskies is currently adjunct faculty at Spelman College in Arts and Visual Culture and the Playwright-In-Residence at Orange Box Theater.
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It's time to expand our understanding of liberation! Join us for this week's powerful, new episode of Shaping the Shift with Thea Monyeé, Episode 19: Liberation Within Limitations!
This is going to be an episode that you will want to share with a friend! Tag a loved one in the comments so that you can listen and discuss, together!
Tune in on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com!
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Hey Shift Shapers! Simple Shiny Heauxs: A Check In with our special guest Chaz Lamar Cruz is a fun, insightful conversation about self-realization and acceptance. It's definitely what we need as we live through these various political and social shifts and transition into the end of the year, when we most often reflect on our journey.
There's nothing wrong with being simple! Everything doesn't have to always be deep and complicated. Go with it! Embrace simplicity when and where you can.
Raised in the deserts and cities of southern California by his maternal grandparents - their upbringing informs his compassion towards addiction, elders, and survivors of trauma.
Chaz (@chzcruz) earned his B.A. in Liberal Studies from California State LA, and M.A. in Organization Leadership: Higher Education & Student Affairs from the University of San Francisco - bringing critical womanist/feminist, queer theory and critical race theory to education and student affairs work with love, engagement, and intentionality.
He believes education can be a unifying and liberating tool.
Chaz is the co-author of In Case You Forgot and has facilitated workshops, performed, and lectured, at universities, colleges, and national organizations from Los Angeles to San Francisco to New Orleans. You can learn more about Chaz Lamar Cruz at www.chazlamar.com
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It's time for the newest episode of STS! Join us today for a great conversation between our host Thea Monyeé, and very special guest, Melanie Fiona (@melaniefiona), a Mindful Artist.
In Episode 17: Liberating Our Artists with Melanie Fiona, Melanie speaks on boundaries and prioritizing her soul and well-being by saying, "No". In this dialogue, she shares with us the highs and the lows she experienced publicly and privately. Melanie embraces her superpower as a Caribbean empathetic migrant child in Canada. Hear more about the shift that occurred after seeing a western medicine doctor who directed Melanie to energy healing.
As a new mother, budding philanthropist, and creative entrepreneur, @melaniefiona's portfolio continues to expand as a championing voice of inspiration at the intersection of Music, Motherhood, and Wellness.
The world was introduced to Melanie's soulful charm and wit in 2009 with the release of her acclaimed debut album 'The Bridge'! Over the last decade, her distinct and powerful voice has captivated the hearts and souls of people across the globe with her signature sound. In 2012, her sophomore project, "The MF Life" led to collaborations with artists NaS, John Legend, J. Cole, and B.o.B - which reached #1 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart.
Referred to as "The Singing Nurse" on stage - uniting the elements of live music and therapy at her shows and speaking engagements.
Earlier this year, the esteemed Yoga Journal featured Melanie as one of their "Top Spiritual Musicians to Follow."
Check out this poignant episode of Shaping the Shift on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, and Spotify!
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Hey #shiftshapers, come and expand! Join us for episode 16 of Shaping the Shift: Expanding Our Trauma with our special guest, Jimanekia Eborn!
Jimanekia (@jimanekia) has worked in mental health for over a decade and saw the need for more assistance in sexual trauma support for survivors of assault and comprehension sex education - partnering with multiple support groups. Jimanekia is passionate about creating safe spaces to reclaim our joy and playfulness. Among her other roles, she's now an Intimacy Coordinator collaborating with Lena Waithe on future projects.
Connect with Jimanekia through her Instagram and website www.traumaqueen.love
We want to be mindful not to cause harm within our community and encourage you to tune into this episode when you are ready, as it does explore layers of sexual trauma. Please take care while listening.
