STFU Podcast

STFU Podcast

By Nishea BalajadiaSociety & Culture
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STFU Podcast episodes

  • Episode 3: Andre Henry and Make It To Tomorrow EP
    Andre and I recorded this episode a couple of weeks before his album Make It To Tomorrow released.  Our conversation talked about Andre's creative process this album and the stories behind his writing.  We had a beautiful discussion about accountability in families and shed a few tears together.  I was able to listen to the EP afterwards and have been repeating Circle.  This was such a great episode.  Thank you Andre.
    https://www.andrehenry.co/
    https://andrehenrymusic.bandcamp.com/album/make-it-to-tomorrow-ep
    https://hope-hard-pills.simplecast.com/
    1 hr 12 min
  • Episode 2: Decentering Adoptive Parents with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard
    This conversation with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is so important when it comes to adoption, the difference between private adoption, foster-to-adopt, and fostering, and how this system is designed to harm all three parties [birth parent(s), child, and adoptive parent(s)].  I love this conversation with Kelsey and really grateful that we were able to have this time.
    1 hr 6 min
  • April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month
    Sexual abuse is now a part of my genetic makeup (trauma changes a survivor on the molecular level {citing every psychology and biology report on trauma}). And while I deal with it every day, I know there are others who also have the pain of dealing with the consequences of someone else's actions on their life. This is my experience with my abuse, reporting this as an adult, trial, and the fall out.
    As calls to the sexual assault hotline have skyrocketed in the past 7 weeks, please consider giving to @RAINN. If you are in need of support please see resources below.
    National Hotline 24/7 Support 1-800-656-4673
    Online Chat hotline.rainn.org/online
    26 min
  • Episode 2 | Foster Care Q + A with Nishea
    As a single foster mom Nishea has had a really rollercoaster of a journey. In this episode, she shares why she started fostering, her experience in the last three years, and answers questions asked by community members.
    34 min
  • Episode 1 | Q+A With Nishea
    Starting this off with getting to know the host of MyT Podcast, Nishea Balajadia. She opened questions to be submitted by her social media community and these are her answers.
    18 min

About STFU Podcast

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Welcome to STFU Podcast with Nishea Balajadia. I am a single mother, survivor of childhood abuse and domestic violence, a retired foster parent, a community advocate in Fresno, California.  I grew up in corporate tech world (I worked at Fortune 500 Companies like AT&T, Google, and Flextronics) and left in 2017 to pursue community organizing and advocacy where I was roped into evangelical megachurch cult life and escaped their grasps in 2019 while fostering three toddlers under three.  I began to educate my community members on colonization, white supremacy, and religious trauma when the pandemic hit.  In 2020 I founded Mighty Community Advocacy, which does crisis intervention and hospital advocacy for youth in Fresno.