Amateur Activist with Isabela Herrera

Amateur Activist with Isabela Herrera

By Isabela HerreraEducationSelf-Improvement
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Amateur Activist with Isabela Herrera episodes

  • Living a Trauma Informed Life with Dr. Joel Hollier

    This week the Amateur Activist is joined by Dr Joel Hollier, researcher, writer, social worker, and pastor. Joel has degrees in both social work and theology, with a PhD in Behavioural Science. His research covers the intersections of trauma, faith, gender, and sexuality. He is the author of A Place at His Table: a biblical exploration of faith, sexuality, and the kingdom of God and teaches at the University of Sydney. Isabela and Joel have a conversation about living a trauma-informed life. They define what trauma is, the biology of trauma, moving forward from trauma, and answer a couple of questions from Instagram. 

    Website: https://www.joelhollier.com/

    Social Media: @joelhollier

    Link to ebook: https://www.joelhollier.com/resources 

    1 hr 1 min
  • Friendship in your 20s with Isabela Herrera

    The Amateur Activist brings you another solo episode! On this week's episode, join in on a conversation around navigating friendships in your 20s. She covers all of the bases - from friendship breakups, investing in existing friendships, and how to make new friends. Enjoy amateur activists. 

    31 min
  • The Messy Middle with Kate Boyd

    This week, the Amateur Activist is joined by Kate Boyd. Kate is a writer, Bible teacher, and host of the Happy & Holy podcast. She helps believers who find themselves in the messy middle between loving the church and leaving it to more confidently walk the lines between doubt and certainty and faith and action with love and grace for all. She has travelled the world to interview and tell the stories of believers on mission, and inspired by those encounters, she creates spaces to facilitate wholehearted discipleship in the church at home. She is studying theology with an emphasis in church history and biblical languages at Perkins School of Theology. 


    Website: kateboyd.co

    Instagram: @kateboyd.co

    Twitter: @thekateboyd

    Untidy Faith Newsletter: kateboyd.co/newsletter

    Podcast: kateboyd.co/podcast

    Big Picture Bible Toolkit: kateboyd.co/bible

    43 min
  • A Little Reunion with Cody Nesper

    The Amateur Activist is joined by Cody Nesper for a little reunion. Isabela and Cody met in 2018 when Cody was Isabela's trainer at bible college and over the years he has become both a mentor and a friend. In this episode, Isabela asks Cody about his relationship with Jesus and the Church and how that relationship has evolved and changed over the years. Their conversation covers a range of topics from Jesus and church to "sin" to proof texts and back again to Jesus. 


    *TRIGGER WARNING: brief mention of childhood sexual abuse

    1 hr 15 min
  • Amateur Activism with Isabela Herrera
    The Amateur Activist is joined by ... herself. In this week's episode, Isabela provides some advice. She discusses the frequent questions and worries that people DM and ask like "how do you deal with burnout?" or "how do you navigate the online activism space?" Such important questions, especially after the last two years. Isabela doesn't attempt to erase worries from your mind or solve issues but she hopes that in this short, solo episode, you feel a little more equipped to take on this year as an "amateur activist."
    28 min
  • Looking Back with Sarah Young
    The Amateur Activist is joined by Sarah Young as the pair look back at the last two years, reflecting on their deconstruction and discussing how they plan to continue to process and deconstruct in 2022. Sarah is 25 years old, a recent Master in Theology graduate, digital theologian, researcher and creative. As the two reflect, Sarah and Isabela discuss the biggest difference between the Sarah of 2020 and the Sarah of 2022 and reflect on how much has happened. They also define deconstruction and look at the impact it's had on Sarah's life. Sarah shares wisdom on how to begin (or continue) processing and deconstructing this year and stresses the importance of community.
    1 hr 3 min
  • Foster Care, Prioritising Reunification and Building Community with Ellie Coburn
    The Amateur Activist is joined by Ellie Coburn to chat through her experience fostering and adopting. Ellie is a 25 year old photographer, writer and storyteller from San Diego, California who began fostering at 21 years old. Four years later, 14 foster placements, and now two beautiful children she’s adopted, Ellie and Isabela talk about her philosophy around adoption, her unlearning of the nuclear family, and the “unconventional” practices Ellie has implemented throughout her journey as a foster parent in order to prioritise reunification. She also shares wisdom on how to use vulnerability and transparency to build strong community and support.
    This is the first episode in what will become a mini-series about the foster care system. In upcoming episodes, Isabela will sit down with former foster youth, social workers, caseworkers / case managers and other foster parents to look at this topic in a holistic way.
    You can find Ellie on Instagram @elliecoburn
    We would love to hear from you - send us a message @amateuractivistpod or @belagiirrll or leave a review on Apple Podcast.
    1 hr 31 min
  • Out of Church and Into Politics with Leané Van Essen
    Leané joins the Amateur Activist to talk about her move away from "traditional ministry" and into the space she feels God calling her to: politics. Leané and Isabela follow the timeline from 2018 until now, attempting to track Leané's journey from Brisbane to Sydney, through her time on staff at a Christian college, to now where she's currently employed as a Social Media & Policy Advisor to a NSW State Minister (& will be starting a new role soon as Parliamentary Liason Advisor to NSW Minister, Victor Dominello). Leané's story as told in this episode is filled with so much wisdom and gold. It serves as a testament that sometimes what God has called you to is outside the four walls of a church building.
    57 min
  • Chronic Pain Advocacy with Danii Zak Jernigan
    The Amateur Activist is joined by a dear friend living in Canada, Danii Zak Jernigan.
    Danii is passionate about chronic pain advocacy and wellness because back in 2017, she was hit by a car as a pedestrian while living and studying in Sydney, Australia. Danii shares her story about the accident, the timeline of healing and her “discovery” that she had chronic pain and damaged nerves.
    Isabela and Danii dive into Danii’s experience with the journey of healing from a serious accident, they get slightly sidetracked by the presence of ableism in churches and bring it back to the different ways Danii has implemented natural and holistic ways of healing.
    And of course, Isabela asks how we as able-bodied people can help and support those with chronic pain.
    If you want to connect with Danii and learn more about The Wellness Journey and her advocacy, you can find her on Instagram @daniizak!
    1 hr 18 min
  • White Supremacy in White Evangelical Spaces with John Davis
    John Davis is an artist, singer-songwriter, and fellow amateur activist passionate about diversity, equity & inclusion. John joins the Amateur Activist to discuss his experience within a prominent local mega-church, the inherent white supremacy and racism within white evangelical spaces, and how we can begin to take steps forward to identify & decolonise these white spaces in order to make safe, inclusive, diverse spaces for black folks.  
    Recommended books to begin the journey: 
    - Black Theology The Cross and The Lynching Tree - James Cone 
    Said I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody (Autobiography) - James Cone 
    Black Theology & Black Power - James Cone 
    God of the Oppressed - James Cone 
    Knowing Christ Crucified: The Witness of African American Religious Experience - Shawn H. Copeland 
    Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope - Esau McCaulley 
    - Church & Activism: 
    Trouble I’ve Seen: Changing the Way the Church Views Racism - Drew G.I. Hart 
    Who Will Be A Witness: Igniting Activism - Drew G.I. Hart 
    - Social: 
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Alex Haley 
    My People Are Rising: Memoir Of A Black Panther Captain - Aaron Dixon 
    Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittney Cooper 
    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age Of Colorblindness 
    Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde 
    Women, Race, & Class - Angela Davis 
    Dark Days - James Baldwin
    When White Supremacy Knocks, Fight Back! - Dr. Wes Bellamy
    1 hr 21 min

About Amateur Activist with Isabela Herrera

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Hi, I’m Isabela, host of the Amateur Activist Podcast where we talk about big social, political and sometimes theological issues. Join me and my guests as we try to understand topics that sometimes…