Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

Eps 246: Bellamy Shoffner On Being a Single Mom and A Revolutionary Human

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Bellamy Shoffner is a single parent, writer, and equity advocate specializing in fostering thoughtful connection and conversation among communities. Shoffner’s Revolutionary Humans produces a magazine, retreats, and free community events. All for parents and educators committed to social justice.

This past summer the Joyful Courage community raised $800 in support of Bellamy and her work – I am so honored for the chance to connect with her here on the podcast.


Takeaways from the show

  • Social justice
  • Passive reading vs. retaining the information
  • Hold the Line magazine
  • Teaching our kids to be accepting of each other's differences
  • Creating a world where kids can are out of harm’s way based on any part of their identity
  • Acceptance vs tolerance
  • Challenges of being a single parent 
  • How outside help isn’t always appreciated
  • Teasing apart tokenization
  • Putting in the work to understand social justice
  • Key things parents can do to fold racial awareness into parenting their kids
  • Taking people as they are and see what happens
  • Having relationship with vulnerability
  • Dealing with people who have opposing views 


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