Introduction

In this episode you gon’ hear all about overcoming fear and anxiety. How Lou pushed through all of that darkness to reach a point of power and self-discovery.
The Struggle of committing to 9 to 5 was real for Lou. All she knew was she needed to hustle hard to make her dream come true!
Inadvertently, travel became an education in and of itself. It was the taste of learning through life not school. Was this the setting of the stage for her life as an unschooling Mama?!
Breaking into the modelling scene was hard work, but being relentless and building resilience was part of the training to make it in this business.
Lou talks about Magic , Money and Marriage!
You definitely want to tune in for this...it’s deep ya’ll!!

Ep 02 Family Profile

In this episode you gon’ hear all about overcoming fear and anxiety. How Lou pushed through all of that darkness to reach a point of power and self-discovery. The Struggle of committing to 9 to 5 was real for Lou. All she knew was she needed to hustle hard to make her dream come true! Inadvertently, travel became an education in and of itself. It was the taste of learning through life not school. Was this the setting of the stage for her life as an unschooling Mama?! Breaking into the modelling scene was hard work, but being relentless and building resilience was part of the training to make it in this business. Lou talks about Magic , Money and Marriage! You definitely want to tune in for this...it’s deep ya’ll!!   Links &amp; Music credit Raising Free People Network Hosts page  No Mistake @AkeemMuzikBeatz

Ep 2: Family Profile

This episode is real and raw!&nbsp; Lou gets real about her discovery and journey to spirituality.&nbsp; We gon’ hear how the practice of Yoga &amp; Stretching helps to ground her and open her up to experiencing life more fully.&nbsp; {By the by... the correct name of the group for the wonderful music Lou references, was “Beautiful Chorus” NOT Black Chorus.} Then the deep and raw exploration of letting go of guilt and shame; of ideas that no longer serve nor resonate with her being, rounds out to how Lou deschooled her own understanding of and relationship with religion &amp; cultivating relationship with the Creator - God power. In the search of truth and building courage to speak her truth as a black woman raising black boys, Lou started trusting the process by using her intuition to help her navigate this new terrain. Lou drew strength and felt empowered by the strong parental love she received in&nbsp; her childhood that gave her a sense of self-awareness and purpose. Naturally, with the current climate around the world, Lou is continuing to use tools of awareness, conscious eating, yoga/stretching and other practices to heal herself and understand the connection to how she lives and how she wants to feel. Question everything - that’s the real learning, the real connection, the real journey.    Links : Dem Black Mama’s Podcast @demblackmamaspodcast  &nbsp; Beautiful Chorus playlist by Nicholas Mangeya  &nbsp; Music credit for “Fux Witchu” @akeemmuzikbeatz IG &nbsp; Episode Art photo used @tonithai IG

Ep 03: Deschooling My God and My Truth

Tiffany is an unschooling mama of three who believes in failing out loud! Spouse : Jorge.&nbsp; Kids: Jade 23/ Dylan 17 &amp; Logan Tiffany became Co-President of the Homeschool Association of California when she approached the very white board to ask for a seat for BIPOC representatives, but they left the table! Her podcast is an organic space where she gets to be her unfiltered self. &nbsp; We chat about how her children have always been unschooled and never went to school. We go into what that looks like. Tiffany talks about how she swallowed all the colonised versions of childcare advice because she didn’t trust herself. Until she had a wake up call with her son! &nbsp; We chat about her upbringing and the abuse she suffered and how she found herself reading unspoken cues to protect her siblings. We talk about questioning ideas and beliefs we hold dear and true and where they stem from and if you need to still hold onto them. We talk about the fear of failure and how it sucks but now Tiffany has embraced it. Tiffany talks about how covid19 has brought her childhood traumas to light and the grief and hardship of losing everything is now allowing her to explore her unhealed trauma wounds.

Unlearning to Heal and Discover Self

This is a continuation of Episode 4, and if you listened to it, then you know you’re in for a thrill! &nbsp; Tiffany tells us about how being a risk taker has kept her off the ‘safe’ path and let’s her live life on her own terms, even if it means falling on her face! Now that her daughter is 23 and living independently, Tiffany affirms that unschooling really works, and her daughter is how she is witnessing that. &nbsp; We also talk about parenting from the perspective of how she was raised and learning to parent in a way that allows children to just be and to experience life knowing they are loved unconditionally. Tiffany goes deep about the relationship she has with her eldest and how that has informed her pivot with her other two children. There were references to how Tiffany lays out things in her ‘creative’ mind with laser focus and her children support her despite not agreeing. The shift of power in the relationships between them is empowering.&nbsp; Tiffany elaborates on how learning and understanding how societal norms that dictate are not the be all and that it can be “this” and “that” at the same time. It doesn’t have to be one or the other in life. You’re going to hear about how she drank all the ‘kool-aid’!&nbsp; What does self care mean? And what practices are the go to? Getting back to indigenous culture and allowing friendships to reign us in when we have let go of ourselves. This episode is real, raw and relatable!

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