Peace4Kids Podcast

Welcome to Season Two of the Peace4Kids X ROCMove Podcast 🚀 Meet Miriam and Noah who introduce themselves, share how Peace4Kids and Revolution of Care Movement (ROCMove) are connected, and what to anticipate in Season Two. 

This is an interactive, community-centric podcast: We genuinely want to hear from you! This platform is all about community and learning. We don’t know it all, and that’s the beauty of setting a big table: pull up! If there is something you’d like to share or discuss with us that intersects with foster care, please reach out to us!

Join the conversation at our blog: https://www.rocmove.org/holiday_podcast_poll

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

Every crisis provides a distinct privilege to those who chose to embrace it. This does not mean there is no suffering, but rather a space to integrate it into our awareness. The pandemic has provided a unique chance for us to experience life the way youth in foster care do. A sudden and shocking removal from everything familiar... our relationships, our consistent spaces, and a disorienting uncertainty. 

In this episode, we hear pandemic reflections from two members of our community. Their stories are familiar and remind us that our hope and resilience will always endure if we grow and learn from our shared journeys.

"We are triggered from our places of marginalization but we react from our places of privilege" - unknown 

In this episode, the Peace4Kids community along with Dr. Niki Elliott, Clinical Professor and Director of the Center of Neurodiversity, Learning and Wellness at the University of La Verne, explore the health benefits of mindfulness practices and the launch of our Heart Centered Connections partnership and certification.

Learn More: 

https://www.peace4kids.org/justice_in_the_classroom

Dr. Niki Elliott:

https://www.mindful-leaders.org/about-drniki/

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdZDLGDKkjzWvoGE7L3B6JIcR0mcMzrrw

As someone who has spent my adult life being in service, it is easy to feel stressed and overwhelmed by the circumstances. I know that many of you are feeling the same way. In these times it is easy to isolate and bury ourselves in our emotions. There is a certain solace to knowing that you can retreat to an inner sanctum and tune out the noise of the world. Indeed, it is a path that I often take.

However, this moment feels different. I still feel unfathomable pain, but I no longer think that nesting with my emotions is productive. So... I turned to my mother and we shared our deepest thoughts about this time in the human condition.

"Our differences are what color the world" - Angelica Nwandu

In this episode, author Angelica Nwandu and illustrator Miriam Alejandra Cortez Cáceres discuss how they authentically represented the foster care journey in their new children's book The Pointless Forest. From shame and feeling small, to building community, owning their differences and ultimately impacting the world around them. 

THE POINTLESS FOREST

LEARN MORE: https://www.rocmove.org/the_pointless_forest_book

BUY NOW: https://www.rocmove.org/pointless_forest_donation

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou

How do you share your authentic self with the world? This is a question many youth in foster care wrestle with as they build the confidence to live out loud regardless of their circumstances. 

On this episode Zaid & Jacob introduce Charmaine Griffin as she shares her personal story of leaning into a confident life. She is the founder of the vegan hair care brand, Kollective Koils (@kollectivekoils) and the originator of Confidence Club, a nine week program designed for the female-presenting members of the Peace4Kids community to define and access their inherent power.

https://kollectivekoils.com/

https://www.peace4kids.org/

Music by: Ndidi O https://open.spotify.com/artist/3r94TD6vkofdmiRbu6KXC0

"The only thing that is constant is change." Heraclitus

In this episode, we dive into the idea of change with Laura Cortez as she reflects on loss and disruption caused by the pandemic and how adapting to life away from her friends, sisters, and school reminded her of her experience in foster care.

A recent graduate from Barnard College of Columbia University, Laura shares the lessons she's learned and the resilience that helped her persevere and make it through.

Watch Teen Vogue's "My Culture is Not a Costume" featuring Laura Cortez... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Y5cARFJw8

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Learn more about the Peace4Kids fam... www.Peace4Kids.org