Podcast appearances and mentions of Karen M Ricks

Send us a Text Message.In this episode,  Sophia Mills talks to Karen M. Ricks, a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, nomadic chef, and a certified yoga instructor. Teaching for over 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade and a half. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to #PLAYwithYourFood and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family's edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom. com.GUEST INFORMATION/LINKS:Website: https://OurKitchenClassroom.comFacebook: https://facebook.com/ourkitchenclassroomInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks/ (#OurKitchenClassroom) YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ourkitchenclassroomYouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@YogaWKaren #PLAYwithYourFood Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePLAYwithOurFood/Subscribe to Our Kitchen Playground: https://ourkitchenclassroom.com/subscribe-to-our-kitchen-playground/

As a worldschooler, a chef, and a yoga instructor, Karen Ricks weaves learning into everything she does. Having lived in over a dozen countries on four continents as she educates, cooks, and soaks up her own learning, Karen's work intertwines the cultures she comes into contact with and honors their roots and their variety. Play takes a prominent role in all she does, bringing the joy that's inherent in learning to the very forefront of all she does. Learn more about Karen: https://ourkitchenclassroom.com https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks Paige Baldwin Ando https://www.wholeselfcreative.com https://www.instagram.com/wholeselfcreative Jordana Matsuda https://www.instagram.com/jordana_illustration --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thecreativitycafe/message

Karen M. Ricks is a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family's edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at ourkitchenclassroom.com.Mentioned in the episode:Subscribe to Our Kitchen Classroom on YoutubeMy Nomadic Worldschooling Life - Blaxit Global YouTube channelConnect with Karen:Facebook: https://facebook.com/ourkitchenclassroomInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks/ (#OurKitchenClassroom);#PLAYwithYourFood Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePLAYwithOurFood/Subscribe to Our Kitchen Playground: http://ourkitchenclassroom.com/subscribe-to-our-kitchen-playground/Reality Life with Kate CaseyThree times a week I interview directors, producers, and stars from unscripted television.Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify The Enthusiasm ProjectDeep dives exploring the world of what it means to be an independent creator.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyJoin aspiring Black expats, expats, and re-pats where you can build community, get resources and gain support along your journey abroad….You're invited to join Blaxit Global Passport. Join Blaxit Global Passport - https://blaxit-global-passport.mn.co/ Looking for VPNs, banking, travel, and health insurance for your move abroad? Well have no fear, we've got you. Get your Move Abroad Starter Kit today at www.blaxitglobal.com/resources.Support the show

ALL THE WAY FROM ALBANIA!!! Black Women Living Abroad Series #blackwomenlivingabroad Karen M. Ricks is a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade.    After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. They've spent the last 5 years living in a dozen different countries on 4 continents, and in more than half a dozen different community languages.   Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family's edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom dot com.   For more fun and deliciousness from Our Kitchen Classroom, find us all over the web! Website: ourkitchenclassroom.com       Peeling Back the Layers of Your Life® Podcast Creator, Host, and Producer:  Loronda C. Giddens     www.lorondacgiddens.com 

This week, we’ve got important need-to-knows to share with you, plus a feel trip recap from our conversation with Karen M. Ricks from the last two episodes, and Tiersa McQueen, who always brings the real-real! We shared experiences and stories around food and learning, and you’ll hear about our connections between food and memories, food and relationship building, food-centric education, food habits, food joy, and the many ways that food is related to our consent-based practices with children. In case you haven’t listened to the first part of this three-part flow, here’s Episode 212: Food, Play, & Mindfulness, and here’s Episode 213: Food, Play, & Mindfulness (Pt. 2) where our listeners shared their feedback.  Make sure you don’t miss any of our feel trips invitations by joining our podcast village. Resources and InvitationsPresence Counselor, founder, director and facilitator of an Agile Learning Center in Atlanta, Georgia Anthony Galloway, Jr. gives us a hint of his new project, Fare of the Free Man Child, in collaboration with Raising Free People Network. Anthony reflects about his own self-directed journey, and his views on adulting and adulthood as he approaches his 30’s. He’ll be speaking about finances, politics, mental health, race, schooling, unschooling, manhood, and masculinity. His first episode airs on April 21, so make sure you’re following our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts, so you can hear it. SDE Weekend (Self-Directed Education Weekend) is coming! From 21st till 23rd of May 2021 “The SDE weekend is an “all you can (L)earn,” 3-day, international, online event in which you choose the sessions that match your intentions and participate as much as you want.” The Fix Yo Face Deschooling Parenting Challenge starts soon! Get details here and save your spotLIBERATION WALKPress that “Leave a Voice Message” button on the right side of the site and tell us what do you think about Fare of the Free Man ChildCheck out Our Kitchen Classroom on Youtube While you’re there, subscribe to Akilah’s Youtube Channel!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

INVITATIONS: The Fix Yo Face Deschooling Parenting Challenge starts soon! Get details here.Want to join our Feel Trip with Karen next week? Register here.---Today we’re featuring listener community feedback from Episode 212: Food, Play, & Mindfulness with Karen M. Ricks. Join us to hear listeners share their love and experiences with food and how it all intertwines with the processes of natural learning and connecting with family and community. We’re also joined by Val from Plant It Up Podcast who tells us all about her relationship with nature and how the process of planting food can be a synergy between self-preservation and joy! We also have a special invitation for all of you to attend our next Feel Trip. Through this communal space we get to question and share some insight with you guys, our listeners! The live group meet up will be held on April 13th, register and save your spot. In case you can’t make it that day, we still got you, we’ll replay parts of it on April 17th here in the podcast. If you want to make sure you never miss our Feel Trips invitations you can join our podcast village.In addition to Fare of the Free Child, remember that we nurture Audio by Raising Free People Network with shows by Black women in podcasting, including: She Said We Shed with Aja Marie; How She Got Free with Katrina Monique; Grief, Growth and Goals with Lou Hollis; Plant It Up Podcast with Va Sinclair; and P.O.U.R. (Purposely Opening Up to Relationships) podcast with Leslie W. Bray.LIBERATION WALKPress that “Leave a Voice Message” button on the right side of the site and speak up!Be sure to check out Ebony Janice’s content!Shout-out to Thea Monyeé from Shaping The Shift PodcastCheck out Our Kitchen Classroom on Youtube While you’re there, subscribe to Akilah’s Youtube Channel!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Season 6 of Fare of the Free Child Podcast begins today, and we are so excited!! This season we’ve slowed down our listening process so that every topic can get three full episodes of conversation and connection. The first part is an invitation to deepen our perspective on a relevant topic, the second part we’ll be listening to community feedback about that topic, and the third episode will be a recap or replay from a live, group meetup (we call those feel trips), to bring our knowledge and questions together real-time. Want to make sure you don’t miss feel trip invites? Join our podcast village. On today’s episode, Karen M. Ricks of Our Kitchen Classroom, world traveler, life learner, mother, wife, chef, entrepreneur will be joining us to talk about joy, food, travelling, languages, Montessori ways, and her special take on worldschooling. Food JoyWe talk about boundaries, consent, relationship-building, and the importance of partnership between parents and children. Karen explains the way food can work as a medium through which we have a chance to connect through multi-sensory experiences, for example, the process of including the children in preparing meals. We talk about sense memory and how it is tied to a deeper personal involvement, and how this makes food a wonderful way to notice everyday learning.Montessori Ways  (The world is our classroom)Karen speaks about her experience running a Montessori school in Japan, about how this process exposed some of the drastic pedagogical differences between cultures, and the level of resistance that can live within us when it comes to trying a less schoolish approach to learning anything, including a new language. We chat about the cultivation of language as a tool that enhances communication, a tool to connect with the otherness, to share ideas and concepts, and to expand the possibilities for the richness of learning from every experience, person, and place.Building upon the CuriosityKaren shares the joy that food has given her by seeing culinary education as a cultural exchange, and a way of connecting with families and communities. With her project, Our Kitchen Classroom, Karen shares a different way of learning through the experience of food.LIBERATION WALKPress that “Leave a Voice Message” button on the right side of the site and speak upLearn something new at every meal! join Karen at Our Kitchen ClassroomJoin Karen at Our Kitchen Classroom on Youtube While you’re there, subscribe to Akilah’s Youtube Channel!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

We are starting our feel trip replays this week, which is why this episode is first airing on a Saturday instead of our usual mid-week thing. We used our mid-week time to meet up with Tiersa McQueen, unschooling advocate, @tiersaj on Twitter, to chat about the difference between a process and a practice, especially in parenting, and specifically in Self-Directed Education. We talked about things like:Using unschooling as a means of controlWe answered a brilliant question from Nicole who asked what does it look like to do nothing We talked about our experiences with the adult gaze I introduced some language from my current work around destination peddling in parenting, and about passage, and giving wayTiersa offered recent examples from her lessons with Phoenix, her 15 year old son. Just soooooo goood!!So, you'll hear a few segments from our March 24 2021 feel trip today, and we are having another one, this time with Karen M. Ricks of Our Kitchen Classroom, world traveler, life learner, mother, wife, chef, entrepreneur, etc!! She is co-hosting our next Feel Trip in a few weeks, and we'll talk about that next week for the premier of Season 6 where you'll hear my conversation with Karen, and get the invitation for our next live FOFC Feel Trip.LIBERATION WALKPress that "Leave a Voice Message" button on the right side of the site and speak upFull replay is available here. Watch, Like, and Share.Join Tiersa’s community on Twitter and also on InstagramSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Karen M. Ricks is a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for 24 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family’s edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom dot com. In this episode we discuss Karen's family's serendipitous journey overseas, embracing local foods, finding similarities, using the environment to teach children content knowledge, teaching many subjects through food and so much more! Remember to Subscribe to catch new episodes and to hear more wonderful educational ideas for the new world of education, please consider becoming a sponsor! Leave notes and messages below or email evolvingeducationglobally@gmail.com comments, questions and reviews. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/evolveeducation/support

This week's episode is the seventh in an ongoing series highlighting different ways to finance a life abroad. This week, Adalia chats with Karen M. Ricks, about how she and her family travel full time while worldschooling her son. Check out the show notes here- http://pickygirltravelstheworld.com/podcast-2/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/adalia-aborisade/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/adalia-aborisade/support

Want to travel and raise your children? Ready to leave the USA for a while? Well, after 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen M. Ricks founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Find out how she does it! Don't forget to follow us on Twitter (BlackParenting1) and Instagram (BlackParentingMagazine). Our website is SuccessfulBlackParenting.com. SHARE! SHARE! SHARE! #homeschooling #travel #aboad #expat #worldschooling #travel with kids #children #ethnic #family #blackfamily #successfulblack #parenting #backtalk #janicerobinsonceleste #karenmricks --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/janice-celeste/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/janice-celeste/support

Working remotely as a chef, world schooler and head chef Karen M. Ricks travels full-time with her family and is currently living and cooking in Albania. Karen is the founder and head chef of Our Kitchen Classroom. Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wewillwanderpodcast For more fun and deliciousness from Our Kitchen Classroom, find them all over the web! Website: http://ourkitchenclassroom.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/ourkitchenclassroom Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karenm.ricks/ (#OurKitchenClassroom) YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/ourkitchenclassroom #PLAYwithYourFood Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/WePLAYwithOurFood/ Subscribe to Our Kitchen Playground: http://ourkitchenclassroom.com/subscribe-to-our-kitchen-playground/ E-mail: OurKitchenClassroom@gmail.com. You can also find Karen on the virtual worldschooling summit at: https://worldschoolingsummit.com/ --------- You can find episode notes at: https://wewillwander.com/chef-working-remotely-life-in-albania/ Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wewillwanderpodcast If you liked this show, please be sure to subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Anchor.fm, and leave us a review! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thewanderingdaughter/message

(Note: This episode was recorded before the outbreak of the Corona Virus.) On episode 32 of the podcast, my guest is chef and educator, Karen M. Ricks. Karen is the founder and owner of the online cooking school, Our Kitchen Classroom. Karen is a Black American woman, married to a white man, and together they have a nine-year-old son. Karen and her family currently live in Tirana, Albania, but Karen considers herself a global citizen. Before moving to Albania, Karen and her family lived in Italy, and before that, Japan. On the show, Karen shares how a plan to spend one year teaching in Japan, turned into 10 years of living in Japan (where she also founded a Montessori school), followed by training as a chef in Italy, and finally to a nomadic lifestyle that involves a lot of good food and exciting adventures.  During our conversation Karen shares: -What it was like to be an interracial couple in Japan  -What her husband learned about being a minority for the first time in his life -How she is raising her multiracial son to embrace his unique identity outside of the United States -How surviving the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan inspired her to open a school in Japan -Why cooking is the perfect tool to teach children of all ages -What world schooling is really about -How following your passions can be done anywhere in the world -Why she wants more multiracial families to travel, see the world and share their experiences Plus a whole lot more. Karen's life is so full of exciting surprises, I guarantee this interview will leave you inspired to do more, wherever you are in the world.  For full show notes for this episode, please visit the My American Meltingpot blog. Follow Karen Ricks on Instagram,