Shaping the Shift Podcast

Our Day Ones will remember that Akilah S. Richards is STS's very first guest!

She is back and fully charged for a thick and rich conversation, WE ARE SOVEREIGN.

We are born sovereign beings, and systematically taught to surrender our agency and power the moment we are born. Akilah dedicates herself to the liberation of all bodies through the reclaiming and remembering of that sovereign power, and brings her brilliance to STS for this moment, and this conversation.

Akilah S. Richards founded Raising Free People Network as a media and collaboration hub for her inquiries, efforts, findings, and community organizing at the intersection of privilege, parenting, and power. Follow her on social media @fareofthefreechild on IG!

You can support Akilah's work at the links provided, and after you listen, be sure to check out our links to support this podcast (email list, join our Patreon, join our text community!) and our latest offering, HOLD US SACRED RETREATS, and sign up to join us in person in transformative Sharm El Sheikh. To watch these episodes visit our YouTube home, like, follow, subscribe, and turn on your notifications so you don't miss an episode!

For this series Thea included her own poetry, excerpts from her upcoming work, TO BE BLACK, WILD & LOVED, for her STS family to enjoy and transition between conversations. We hope you enjoy every moment!

Cuddle up with our host Thea Monyeé and grab your favorite winter drink as she sets the tone for your STS journey, BORN WILD, BORN FREE.

For this series Thea included her own poetry, excerpts from her upcoming work, TO BE BLACK, WILD & LOVED, for her STS family to enjoy and transition between conversations. We hope you enjoy every moment!

After you listen, be sure to check out our links to support this podcast (email list, join our Patreon, join our text community!) and our latest offering, HOLD US SACRED RETREATS, and sign up to join us in person in transformative Sharm El Sheikh. To watch these episodes visit our YouTube home, like, follow, subscribe, and turn on your notifications so you don't miss an episode!

Are you ready to enjoy a delightfully full and flowy conversation between our Thea Monyeé and her seven part Aries/All part Goddess daughter Talani?

Talani is a multifaceted artist who could turn thrifting into an Olympic sport and loves exploring food and cooking, amongst so many other wonderful aspects of her being.

This conversation couldn't be titled until it was experienced and is evidence that wisdom is not bound by age. PRO TIP: You will need a pen and paper, and you will also listen again and again and again.

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

We are shaking things up a bit.

We are moving in series, not seasons, feeling a deeper commitment to sitting with these conversations in a more intimate and embodied way…Thank you bell hooks for inspiring us.

We want you to deeply enjoy this short and sweet intro to our Love Series with our host, Thea Monyeé. Our Ride and Thrives know we love to SHIFTSHAPE our relationships with concepts, ideas, words, and energies. This season we get intimate with LOVE.

Consider this episode, SHAPING LOVE, a formal invitation to listen, share, like, discuss, and embody.

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

Welcome to episode three of our LOVE SERIES, where we are sitting in delicious communion with each other and LOVE.

Our guest. Maimouna Sene can best be described as a traveling human being, painted with komplex colors, shaped by multiple lenses.

We are so grateful she chose to bring these komplex colors and shapes and lenses to our STS audience.

Being multilingual, Maimouna and Thea engage in a layered conversation about the impact of language on love, love expression, love expectations, and more!

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

Talk about close to home!

This episode Thea and her husband of over seven years, Mark Winkler (we ADORE us some MARK!) allow us into their world and share the tenderness of evolving love within long term relationships…

Whew…

This one got us a bit misty! We can't lie! Even the birds wanted in on this conversation!

Love must evolve, change, and grow. What does that look like when you are in relational agreements to grow together…no matter what comes?

Mark Winkler is an author, family advocate, and motivational speaker. Through his non-profit organization, Manhood Camp/Fatherhood Circle, Mark provides guidance, leadership, and life-skills coaching to men and boys. Recently, Mark has centered his work around helping men and fathers take a new look at and approach to manhood through his work he calls De-Radicalizing Masculinity.

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

As we continue our LOVE SERIES, we welcome our very own Tamikka Claybrook to share her thoughts and beliefs around SOVEREIGNTY, FREEDOM, and LIMITLESS LOVE.

Tamikka is a Thought Partner and Dream Strategist relentlessly focused on creating space for each individual to experience the joy, wellness, and freedom that comes with fully embracing their authentic self and life's purpose. It is this expansive nature of her approach that creates a joyful and grounded space for clients to thrive.

What we love most about this conversation is that she invites our non-human family into this shaping love process, using personal examples from her own human and non-human relationships to share how she has arrived at her definition of LIMITLESS LOVE.

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

For our closing episode of our Love Series, we had to invite our beloved Ebony Janice Moore back to discuss that amazing and also terrible thing called LOVE (IYKYK!)

How do we know if we are loving in the right timeline?

Who's time/pace/path are we following in our love journey?

How have we sanitized love and not embraced the shadow wisdom love can provide?

Join us as we explore these questions and more in our heart expanding 58th episode!!!

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.

Gentle Reminder: Take your time, take pleasure in the slow sipping<3

And please share with anyone who needs this dose of destiny and co-created love.

This tender episode was recorded back in May 2022, but wasn't ripe enough to release...until now. Now is the perfect time to dive into another unearthing episode of SHAPING THE SHIFT as we discuss a MAJOR transition in Thea's life and how we can stay soul seeded/seated during the unknown of transition. Listen with care and kindness for yourself and all you love <3 Remember to like, share, and review! Join our Sacred Sunday text community by texting SACRED to 213 377-1827 to receive inspired messages for uncertain times <3