Dameun Strange is a sound artist, multi-instrumentalist, and award-winning composer conceptual electronic and improvised electro-acoustic works focusing on the African diaspora's stories and themes, often exploring surrealist and afro-futurist ideas with unique impressionism. Dameun is compelled to express through sound and poetry, the beauty and resilience of the Black experience, digging into a pantheon of ancestors to tell stories of triumph while connecting the past, present, and future.

Dameun has worked with such artists as J. Otis Powell and Sha Cage and has been a featured performer on concerts celebrating the work of Thurston Moore and Henry Threadgill. He is a 2018 recipient of the ACF | Create Award and 2019 Jerome Hill Fellowship.

Dameun is currently the Director of Community and Belonging at ACF and lives in Saint Paul, MN with his wife, Corina and their 4 year old Ezra. Like any good nerd, he enjoys a good sci-fi story and has a soft spot for anything related to astrophysics.

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Roberta Blevins is a former “Hun”, who left the MLM world in 2017 and began publicly educating and speaking out against it. In her time in MLM, she was involved as a consultant for 3; It Works!, LuLaRoe and Modere, and a customer of many. Since leaving MLM, she has educated herself on the systemic structure of the business model, the psychological manipulation, the seedy underbelly and governmental ties, the cult indoctrination, and the history of Multi Level Marketing. She educates daily on TikTok, and podcasts in her "free time", talking to the survivors and victims of these commercial cults, disguised as the quickest route to the American Dream.

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Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer, Sacred Grief Ritual Facilitator, Founder of The Emotional Institute and Femme!, a mind-body wellness program. With certifications in Somatic Healing Modalities and Sensual Movement, Reiki, and Integrated Energy Therapy—and studies in African, Tribal, and Free Dance—Bernadette promotes emotional freedom through movement and empowerment.

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Song credit:Marvin Gaye - "What's Going On?"

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Gerette Buglion is author of An Everyday Cult, a memoir which shows how

her innocent quest for meaning left her open to manipulation by a

controlling teacher. Gerette’s current work is in Cult Recovery and

Education. Her signature writing course called, ‘Writing to Reckon’ offers a

safe space for cult survivors to tell their stories. She is co-founder of

#iGotOut.org whose mission is to encourage people who have experienced

cultic abuse to tell their stories.

Gerette Buglion #igotout she, her, hers

Author, Cult Recovery Educator and Consultant

Writing to Reckon: Experience integration. Write for coherence.

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Books Referenced:

Esther Friedman - Soon to be released book is The Gentle Souls Revolution

Daniel Kahneman - Thinking Fast and Slow

Song: Starry-Eyed Believer by Esther Friedman - a cult survivor and expressive arts therapist

The starry-eyed believers

Seek any kind face

You, the deceiver,

Sensed a trace

Delicious longing of those so insecure

Makes for perfect fish to lure

The starry-eyed believers

Seek any kind word

You, the deceiver

Saw and heard

The hollow voice and the pleading look

Grabbed your fishing pole and slipped the bait on the hook

So the siren song begins

Sweet and full of lies

Such a seductive melody

Such a pretty disguise

Lost souls float aimlessly

Waiting on you to set them free

Mouths agape and biting for the bait

Custom-made for you to captivate

Let the feeding frenzy begin

Don that devout disguise

You’re ready for the bait and switch

You got a lotta’ fish to fry

Bottom Feeders, parasites

Sharks on the hunt, vultures in flight

Even Bernie Madoff’s got nothing on you

Get your cauldron out you’ve got some guppies to (stew)

Starry-eyed believers (rpt to end)

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Technologist turned Health and Wellness Coach, Ironman Derrick Q. Milligan holds certifications in Power Plate, GoSwim, Total Immersion, Professional Tennis Registry, Complete Health Improvement Project (CHIP), inerTRAIN and Heart Zones Systems. He is a passionate board member of two nationally recognized nonprofits: Curt’s Cafe and Tri-Masters Sports Initiative Programs. He combines Dr. Csikszentmihalyi's (Chitsimeyayeeh) Flow concept with Goeorge Leonard's Mastery process to guide his clients to peak fitness, personal and professional performances.

Through his articles, presentations, workshops, training and teaching sessions, Mr. Milligan has positively influenced thousands to find balance and power in life through fitness training and wellness education. His is a lifelong pursuit of optimal experiences in peak performance and engagement. Derrick lives to explore, train and discover.

Song:1. My Favorite Things by John Coltrane

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Rafer Weigel is the founder of WMG Communications—a content marketing firm. Weigel is a 3 time Emmy Award Winning journalist whose career began in print journalism at the Chicago Sun-Times, the Los Angeles Times. He then became a sports anchor at CNN Headline News and later ABC 7 Chicago before transitioning to news. Weigel was a news anchor at Fox 32 and was the reporter credited with breaking the story that Chicago police were going to charge Jussie Smollett with staging a fake hate crime. He’s covered Presidential Elections, major sporting events like the Olympics and Super Bowls and everything in between. He’s with us today to share about the confusion of unacknowledged sexual abuse as a teenager, and the impact it has had on his adult life in both intimate relationships and his professional career.

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Dr. David Freeman spent 16 years as a Systems Engineer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he developed and fielded advanced technologies in support of national defense. He holds Master’s and Ph.D degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Civil and Mechanical Engineering, and attended the North Carolina A&T State University for his undergraduate studies. He has spent the last 8 years in study of somatic practices, such as Tantra and Orgasmic Meditation, crediting the organizations of The International School of Temple Arts, OneTaste, Source Tantra and The Human Awareness Institute. He has facilitated workshops and retreats in the Art and Practice of Sexual Communication in Costa Rica and across the US, and has an interest in helping sex positive communities understand the cultural value of connecting more effectively with BIPOC.

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Allen Vandever is a contemporary Artist and Activist based out of Chicago. He is a father, husband, and a son. Family and friends are very important to him. He live his life with the goal of making every year worthy of a good movie or a great book. He takes risks, embraces adventure and lives life to the fullest. And as a result, he has many wonderful stories.

Founder of Childhood Fractured, a non profit dedicated to supporting adult survivors of sexual abuse with art writing and performance.

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Song Credit: Time (you and I) by Khruangbin

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Ulysses "Butch" Slaughter is an artist, an alchemist and an “Alpha Black” who uses the power of forgiving to persistently pursue “radical, relentless, reconciliation” through all of his epic life journeys. For more than four decades, Ulysses has courageously answered “the call” to illuminate dark and difficult human relationships with unwavering determination to synthesize polarities and amplify potent possibilities. Ulysses’ signature forgiveness missions explore the inner, the interpersonal, the international and the intergalactic.Ulysses was the chief architect of The Philadelphia MOVE reconciliation campaign that led to an official apology for the urban bombing and killing of 11 people on May 13, 1985 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ulysses is host and producer of Re-member MOVE recorded at WURD 900AM Radio in Philadelphia, PA. Ulysses is former Director of The OneTaste Orgasmic Meditation Reconciliation Council, an international review team established to oversee the integrity of sexual play for OneTaste. His podcast, One Black Taste, chronicles his tumultuous time with the sex-positive organization.At the fragile age of 12, Ulysses listened as his mother Clarice was shot to death by his father Ulysses Grant Slaughter Sr. Emerging from his bedroom on June 25, 1978, he watched as his mother bled from two gunshot wounds to her head and take some of the last breaths of her life. Ritualistically, stepping over his mother’s fallen body that day was the first, most important "crossing-over" act in his dramatic odyssey toward reconciliation with his father and himself. Odyssey To Save Ulysses is the film series by Ulysses that chronicles the father-son journey.A native of Chicago, Illinois, Ulysses resides in Media, Pennsylvania. Author of three books, director of various short films and curator of countless critical community forums, Ulysses has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Network and The Dr. Phil Show. He is a 2013 recipient of The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Leadership Award.His fourth book, Come Black Home, White Woman, is the tale of a white woman who gets lost in her wicked whiteness and betrays her Black husband and his children. Ultimately, poetically, her betrayal leads to her own demise. 

To stay in touch with his work, connect with him at ulyssesbutchslaughter.com or email [email protected]

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Vandee Crane, also known as Chante Washte Washagya Wi (Canté Waŝté Waŝagya Win); Lakota for “Good Strong Hearted Woman”, was raised by her Maternal Osage Nation Grandmother, Eleanor Grace Crane, a WWII Army Veteran, Nurse, and Artist in Ancestral Seminole Territory of Central Florida. As a child survivor of familial trafficking, she became a Child Sexual Exploitation & Trafficking Survivor Leader (CSET Survivor Leader) helping others in similar situations).

In 2008, when Vandee had reached the pinnacle of her trauma and alcohol addiction, she incurred three traumatic brain injuries within one year and could no longer function professionally or academically. With nowhere to go and nothing that ‘could be done’, she remembered the Indigenous Wisdoms that her Grandmother had raised her with and began fulfilling her childhood commitments and experiencing a depth of healing and wisdom that she found immeasurable.

Vandee walked away from her career as a mental health clinician in pursuit of her dreams of supporting women in coming together to heal through culture, connection and conversation, and following her own personal path of the worldwide phenomenon known as ReMatriation.

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