Shaping the Shift Podcast

This episode is a heart opener for those of us who have never experienced true safety in our bodies, and our environments. The kind of love and safety that disarms us and cradles us into sweet transformation, from rock to water, from fire to wind.

Apologies for two mispronunciations. Sharm el Sheik (should be pronounced Sharm el *Shake) and the name Mahmoud should be pronounced Mah-*mood).

Please listen with an open heart and it is our deepest prayer that you are feeling safe and precious in every way imaginable

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We use this closing episode of 2021 to honor bell hooks and be vulnerable about love and all our messy attempts to define it.

A continuation from last week’s talk on our human dynamics. This week we dive into our spiritual relationships!

This episode sits with listeners in the awkward space of changing and growing while maintaining relationships. We don't all evolve at the same pace. How can we center our joy in the shifting and renegotiating of our relationships as we grow and change?
We hope you are enjoying this season so far! Make sure to share, review, subscribe and share your feedback with us! We are an independent Black woman sustained force of nature and we'd love and value your support in all forms!

This episode, Thea outlines the intention of this season and shares some of the re-Sources and natural/spiritual laws that will guide this seasons work on Shaping The Shift.As always bring your pens and pads and don’t forget to review, like, share, and of course… BREATHE

Much about this moment in time is a question of character. It is as though the natural world is demanding every nation, society, city, family, and individual to answer a single question: WHO ARE YOU?

~Thea Monyeé

#shiftshapers, we have reached the end of our Season Three journey!

Join us for our powerful season finale, 45: Hold Us Sacred: Heart Opening with Maryleyayo!

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Marley Ayo is the brainchild of STS host Thea Monyeé. This creative wellness consultation INC 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. ⁣

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Marley Ayo 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.⁣

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Marley Ayo 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.⁣

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The conversations and spaces that MarleyAyo creates are rich, explorative, joy-centered, and full of engagement. ⁣

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We leave them feeling more empowered, more creative, and more liberated!⁣

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Today's episode will be no different!⁣

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Hey, #shiftshapers!

This week, we're asking you to join us on a journey of reflection and celebration!

Since we've been doing it big all month long in honor of STS's one-year anniversary, we thought it would be fun to take you all the way back to when it first started.

A year ago, STS creator and host @theamonyee took a gigantic, visible step forward by launching the podcast that you know and love!

What started as a podcast about change and uncertainty for dreamers and creatives is really more than just that.

Shaping the Shift is a mouthpiece for MARLEYAYO, the creative wellness consulting company Thea founded with the goal 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.

"Our vision is to create and nurture a multi-dimensional organism that prioritizes the reintegration of spirit and liberation through education, entertainment, consulting, and land stewardship."

-Thea Monyeé

Yes, we started with very big plans. And in just one year, with your support, we see them coming to fruition!

A year ago, we didn't just launch a pod -- we launched a new path.

Thank you for your bravery, willingness to expand and for joining us on this ride. Now, enjoy the After.

Tune in on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com to create a deeper connection to yourself.

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⁣✨Help us celebrate by tuning in to our very first episode! Let us know in the comments how you have shifted and expanded over the course of the year!

Hey, #shiftshapers! We've got another reflective and energizing solo episode of STS!

This week, in Episode 44: The Power of Lineage, Thea Monyeé guides us through an exploration of lineage to extract existential meaning, honor our ancestors, and tap into our purpose.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! We have the most amazing treat for you this week! 

Welcome into The Bajareque with Thea & Dad!

Get ready for a family episode with Thea and her father, Rogelio, as they discuss his life growing up in Panama, their collective passion for exploring family lineage, and shared hopes for the future.

In Episode 43: Con Mi Padre, we invite you to step into a beautifully intimate multi-generational conversation. 

Much like the book Blood & Bajareque, this episode allows for an intimate glance at our favorite Ride & Thrive as she encourages us to continue to take a deeper dive into ourselves and all that connects us.

⁣Tune in to your spirit on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com, and let's start the healing!

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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to Episode 42: Power is Fun!

In this solo episode, Thea Monyeé is helping us to reframe our understanding of power to accommodate a definition that allows us to enjoy our strength, ability, and capacity.
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Hey, #shiftshapers! In Episode 41: The Power of Community-Building with Kat Magill, we're shifting our understanding of what it means to relate to one another and grow together!

@prettysimplekat is a 2x National Poetry Slam finalist and founder of Say Word, a published author, and creator of the Poetic Film: The Myth.

Kat's dedication to uplifting her community led her to create Instagram's hottest online poetry slam, Screen Time, raising $12,000 to put directly into the pockets of poets in need.

Kat has been featured on HBO, Current TV, Politicon, and for the United Nations. She believes love is a restorative force of bravery that initiates self-exploration.

⁣Tune in to Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com and get inspired!⁣
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Hey, #shiftshapers, it's that time once again! A fresh, new episode of STS awaits!

Tune in to Episode 40: Full Power featuring our guest, the amazing Dr. Sayida Peprah.

@drsayida is both a licensed clinical psychologist and birth doula. She specializes in multicultural psychology, trauma, suicide prevention, and maternal mental health.

An advocate for human rights in childbirth, Dr. Sayida is a member of the Black Women Birthing Justice Collective and a Collaborator with the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, promoting research, education, and community-based services to positively transform the birthing experiences of black families.

Dr. Sayida is the Founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization Diversity Uplifts, Inc.

⁣Make time today to tap into your power on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com!⁣⁣

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Hey, #shiftshapers! Prepare to be shifted by a new, powerful episode of STS! This week, in Episode 39: Empowering Abolitionist Education with Dr. Farima Pour-Khorshid, we're decolonizing education, talking about liberation, and activating an abolitionist framework for empowerment!

@dr.farima_ is a proud Bay Area educator-organizer-scholar. She taught at the elementary grade levels in her community for over a decade and supported educators locally, nationally, and internationally through her roles as a university professor, teacher supervisor, educational consultant, and community organizer.

She has two Master's degrees and a Ph.D. in education and is now an assistant professor and teacher supervisor at the University of San Francisco in California.

She is deeply committed to bridging abolition and healing-centered engagement within the field of education. Much of her work is rooted in her grassroots organizing within the Teachers 4 Social Justice organization, the Abolitionist Teaching Network, and the national Education for Liberation Network (www.edliberation.org), which organizes the Free Minds Free People conference.

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⁣Tune in to your spirit on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com, and let's start the healing!

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Hey, #shiftshapers! It's time to tune in to Episode 38: The Power of Trust.

What comes to your mind when you think of the word 'trust'?⁣
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Are you trustworthy? Do you place your trust in people or things? If so, how has it benefitted you or harmed you? If not, why not?⁣
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What causes you to be distrustful or to lose trust?⁣
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What do you stand to gain by learning to trust? What might you lose?⁣

In this solo episode, Thea Monyeé takes us on a exploration of what it means to trust and how cultivating assured reliance doesn't weaken us, but can allow us to grow in our power. ⁣
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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!⁣

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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. ⁣

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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. ⁣

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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.⁣

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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. ⁣

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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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⁣Tune in to your spirit on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com, and let's start the healing!

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Hey, #shiftshapers! Join us this week for Episode 36: The Power to Heal Spiritual Wounds with Mayda Del Valle!⁣

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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.

⁣Tune in to your spirit on Soundcloud, Google Play, Apple Podcast, I Heart Radio, Spotify, and Shapingtheshift.com, and let's start the healing!

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Hey, #shiftshapers! This week, in Episode 35: The Power of Healing Father Wounds with Mark Winkler!⁣

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Together, let's take time to explore the source of our wounds so that we can create and employ tools for healing.⁣

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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. ⁣

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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. ⁣

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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.⁣

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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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