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Raising Luminaries


    • Jul 20, 2022 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 34m AVG DURATION
    • 29 EPISODES


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    Latest episodes from Raising Luminaries

    Good ideas to avoid: summer hubris edition

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 20, 2022 5:34


    We failed! Yay! Let's discuss what we learned and share what support looks like for you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Stop Lying To Yourself: How to DIY your own parent activist accountability policy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 9, 2022 25:03


    In chapter 1 of our Summer Parent Activist Accelerator, we get radically honest about WHY we seek the initiatives we do - and how to direct our courage and curiosity into collaborative revolution. Visit the full post for transcripts, show notes & bonus downloadable resources. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Embracing Pettiness: How to Parent with Integrity by Determining Your Anti-Values

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2022 39:34


    How to stay responsive to tragedies and current events without losing your shit. Visit the full post for show notes, resources, transcript & a sneak-peek discovery reflection guidebook from the first exploration in our Summer Parent Activist Accelerator. https://raisingluminaries.com/determining-your-anti-values/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How to keep your wits amid relentless waves of legislative horror

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2022 53:57


    How we maintain focus despite the urge to scatter in a panic. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & the transcript. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Kicking Your Own Butt Into Gear: How To Transform Overwhelm Into Action

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2022 40:52


    Revealing the One Unbelievable Secret Mind Control Trick we use to move from helplessness into change-making. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How to DIY Your Own Summer Parent Activist Accelerator

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 12, 2022 31:50


    Join us this summer for our Summer Collective! Or not! And if you want to, but can't - here's a rough framework for what we focus on through the 6 week collective so you can cobble together your own practice. Click here for the show notes & transcription. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Unconditional Love & Other Bullshit: Collaboration For Curmudgeonly Hagfishes

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2022 67:06


    How we let competition & hyper-individualism sneak into our parenting, Why we can still play well with others even if we're petty, & The one enthusiastic collaborator to watch out for & avoid. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Boundaries With Friends: What Do We Owe Each Other?

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2022 56:55


    Want to make space for mistakes and social disabilities, but your friend is wearing you thin? Enjoy this enthusiastically crappy Friendship Masterclass for Inter-Abled Buddies: How to navigate relationships with folks with social disabilities without getting trampled. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Calling Out Bullshit: Raising Kids Who Speak Truth to Power

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2022 64:03


    Building brave spaces at home to raise kids who can be honest with us. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    A Mexican, A Oriental and a Black Walk Into a Podcast: Decolonizing Our Language

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2022 66:56


    How to maintain a sense of humor while transforming problematic language with our kids. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    BACK OFF! 3 Creepy Parenting Habits That Keep Us From Raising Resilient Leaders

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2022 64:50


    How to mind our own damn business and let our kids grow into the leaders our world needs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    RUN FOR OUR LIVES! How to get off social media & be a better accomplice

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 9, 2022 54:14


    Why you don't need to be on social media to be a good ally - and how following a billion activists is probably doing more harm than help. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How to make minority friends - a collector's guide with Revolutionary Humans

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2022 61:33


    Want to make a Black or brown friend? Disappointed in the lack of disabled talking points at your party? Wish you could say ‘I'm not homophonic, I have a bisexual neighbor'? Join Ashia & Bellamy and learn how to collect a menagerie of minorities to show off to the people you actually care about. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Anti-ableism & expanding our cultural perspective: Raising Luminaries with Saunatina Sanchez

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2022 49:22


    Saunatina Sanchez of Crafting Sound Meaning uses her Autistic hyperfocus to connect families across cultural divides. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    My kid did a racism - how to take responsibility without making things worse

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 19, 2022 52:29


    This week my kid made a racist joke that hurt a classmate. Here is what it looks like to respond when our kids are the bigots. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Anger & The Spectacle: Collaborative Growth with Bellamy of Revolutionary Humans

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 12, 2022 38:06


    Balancing giving & making our needs known - how we're changing the ways we show up heading into the year of the Tiger. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Coming this spring: Season 2 of the Raising Luminaries Podcast

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2022 1:28


    More info dumping n' shenanigans! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    The slow defrosting of a frozen brain

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2022 3:02


    Signing off with our last episode of the autumn winter season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    The problem with ‘having it all' - how aspiring to work/life balance scaffolds systems of oppression

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 17, 2022 48:29


    Underlying assumptions, examples of the ‘happily ever after' mindset, how we're complicit, and what we can do to resist. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How our hustle keeps us complicit in the kyriarchy

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2022 17:14


    An outtake of our Parent Activist Incubator Winter session, where we learn how to interrupt and reorient for a sustainable parent activist practice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Winter work: Retreat, Repair & Restructure

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2022 20:02


    Why we focus on the deep, slow, quiet work of composting: perspective & foundation-building in the winter. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Social media & advocacy burnout

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2021 37:55


    How we set a season aside to retreat from supremacy culture an social media to build a stronger foundation for the upcoming year. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Sustainability in Year-Round Family Activism

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2021 37:07


    Why we resist hustle culture year-round, but most importantly during winter --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How the Earthquakes Cancelled Christmas

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 1, 2021 12:31


    Do the holidays we grew up with align with our family values today? Talking with our kids about the consumerism and competition of the modern Christmas season led to some interesting family decisions. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Modeling boundaries for the next generation of self-advocates and accomplices

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2021 19:49


    Why I made the commitment to stop providing free education and emotional labor to white allistics, and the uncomfortable price of that commitment. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Showing up, awkwardly. But showing up nonetheless.

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2021 7:35


    That painful, awkward stretch of uncertainty when we've gotta show up to get better, but are hesitant to show up because we're so bad at things. If that makes sense? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    How we can become just a little less shitty

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2021 22:17


    When we're out of spoons and at the precipice of unraveling - what can we take with us on the way to do less harm and survive the fall. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    The intoxicating supremacy of raising kids ‘right'

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2021 5:43


    How treating our relationship building with kids as right or wrong, superior or inferior, reinforces a culture of supremacy. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

    Embracing the first pancake - how a shitty start is part of raising courageous kids.

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2021 7:49


    Babbling incoherently over the soothing soundscape of afternoon suburbia. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/raising-luminaries/message

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