By Amethyst A Rodriguez
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In this episode, I speak with Victoria Bomberry, former professor at the University of California and a minister of transformational programming. Victoria, who is herself indigenous speaks to the invisibility of native people and how colonization is still affecting you and me today. Victoria and her late husband founded the Seventh Generations Fund, which was the first Native American-led and operated foundation. The idea behind it– is to make decisions now as if you were making it for someone else who is seven generations in front of you. Victoria also speaks to the displacement of families and how people of faith should inform how we behave in the world.
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Show Notes:
No one lives a lifetime without facing a tragedy (or two, or three or four of them!)
In this solo episode, I share three ways that we can find hope in tragedies. I know that every tragedy is different and presents its own unique challenges... I know tragedies are painful. But what if tragedy is life's way of forcing us to stop-- think-- reorientate-- and in some cases... reset.
1. Tragedies force us to stop.
2. Tragedies teach us what is really important.
3. Tragedies present opportunities to start over, reset or make major changes.
I use the analogy of a train, because that's exactly what life is like. We are all like trains running on railroad tracks, carrying loads that only increase as we grow older-- but occasionally our train gets derailed.
So what can we learn from it?
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Links
Order the book:
https://justharvestbook.com/
Get in contact with Greg:
www.realtoughlawyers.com
View the book trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LeiD_QyThQ
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I want to talk about the largest civil rights case against the U.S. government that you’ve never heard about. Even crazier, this case is quite recent, happening within our lifetimes….
This month, I sat down with Greg Francis, the lawyer who won the $1.25 billion settlement for black farmers against the U.S. Government. He rallied black farmers and civil rights advocates and provided enough evidence to prove the inherent racism of the USDA throughout its history, which caused black farmers to lose much of the generational wealth that could have impacted today’s generation for the better. Better said, this land was stolen.
If you are listening to this-- and you have a hard time reconciling or hearing this truth. You are probably living on stolen land… than good. I hope that you lean into that discomforting thought until you find yourself there. I digress…
I enjoy talking to Greg Francis because so much of his story reflects what it means to actual hope. I think that hope starts out with a smile or a conversation-- but if you let it catch fire… it’ll start disrupting systems and sometimes burning down the frameworks that make us safe-- so that we are forced to reconcile with truth--- Greg’s story about how winning this case took getting out of the law firm and into the kitchens and living rooms of real people changed his life-- and while 1.25 billion is a lot of money… it’s not even a drop in the bucket next to human dignity that comes with stating your plight-- and being heard by the people and powers that be. That’s what these farmers wanted.
That’s what people all around you want. And if you are intentional and critically aware… you probably have the ability to do more healing than you’ll ever know.
People start to heal the moment they feel heard-- Greg fought to have that happen. And he’s still fighting for that.
Enjoy the conversation.
In this episode, I talk to Dr. Carina Lopez a naturopathic doctor who dedicates her life to offering integrated services to the community she was raised in as well as other communities facing systematic oppression.
Transformation cannot be compartmentalized. A person is a whole body, spirit and mind and so is a community. Learning how to integrate these elements is important when addressing personal and social transformation.
This episode is important for anyone who is working with social changes or transformation in any sector. We talk about:
Dr. Lopez has written for the Daily News, Huffington Post, Riverdale Press, NDNR, Latinista and has studied under world-renowned healers, so she's really got some wisdom to drop.
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Show Notes:
1:00 What was your origin story?
2:00 Birthing trauma
7:00 What have you overcome to get to where you are right now?
The title MD is only going to give me a license to medicate my own community.
Trangenerational trauma
14:00 What are unique challenges that people who are coming from oppressed communities face within their bodies?
20:20 What kind of advice do you have for someone who has a lot to unpack, but is rarely in a social environment that allows it?
25:00 Sistine Madonna and the relinquishment of power and beauty. View here: www.thisishope.us/blog
28:00 How did you get from New York City to Greece?
33:15 Pitfalls to the compartmentalization of transformation
36:00 What happened to homeopathy?
40:00 Learn from your community
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Contact the Guest
Doctor Carina Lopez
vitalisthealingtraditions.com
[email protected]
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Contact the Host
Amethyst Rodriguez
www.thisishope.us
[email protected]
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Health Disclaimer: By listening to this podcast or reading this blog, you agree not to use this podcast or blog as medical advice to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others, including but not limited to patients that you are treating. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having. This entire disclaimer also applies to any guests or contributors to the podcast or blog.
The blog I referenced during the episode (about the year I spent "licking my wounds") is: https://www.thisishope.global/blog/2019/1/11/a-2018-marked-by-gratefulness
This episode explains my personal account as a twelve-year missionary who spent a decade in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. This account explains the beauty and woes of working as a woman and minority in a faith-based organizational context. It is both a reflection, a critique and a tribute to all those who build and break.
It also puts the nails into the coffin of one life-- so that I can truly live with the one that I have now.
𝙇𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙀𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 8: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘞𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘭𝘭
𝗦𝗽𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆: tinyurl.com/thisishope8-Spotify
𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲: tinyurl.com/thisishope8-Apple
Anchor: anchor.fm/thisishope
Show Notes:
Intro
The story behind Gatorade and the wide world of sports drinks.
6:30 Water Deprivation in Sports
8:30 Growing up in a family of inventors
9:45 How a sports drink became famous
12:00 The Gatorade lawsuit
13:15 How the conflict was the blessing
15:00 Leveraging Funding to bring in more funding
17:00 Selling your idea
17:30 What is the difference between an inventor and an entrepreneur?
20:30 Addressing Sustainability
23:00 Defining Inventivity
24:00 What is the Invent possible curriculum?
25:30 What does the Cade Museum do?
26:00 Bringing invention into a computer
28:00 Addressing the fear inside of yourself
30:30 Addressing your wounds and your scars
32:00 Embracing the parts of your story that you want to hide
33:00 How do you know that a wound is now a scar?
34:30 How do you find your community partners?
36:45 What happens when things don’t go your way?
37:15 What is the Cade Museum?
38:30 How did you build the Cade Museum
39:45 What it means to be a bridge
41:00 Solving a community problem
43:00 How to organize communities
45:00 How to be in contact theo Phoebe and the Cade Museum
Quotes:
Links:
https://www.cademuseum.org/
The podcast currently has 16 episodes available.