Podcast appearances and mentions of kris richards

Kris Richards is my brother in law and close friend.  I ask him a few questions about his journey into "Manhood" and what he think is the outcome. -- Masculinity is a spectrum and expression that we're all going through it. Manhood is how you personally define it. It is your experience not your title. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onlyblackcosmonaut/support

We're closing out Tony Galloway's series on manhood and masculinity this week, and the convo, as usual, is fyah! Kris Richards joins Tony to wrap up this season's Fare of the Free (Man) Child series with reflections from past episodes and current events. The two talk about identity, adulthood, diversity, childhood, gender, manhood, power dynamics, masculinity, and some of the different labels around those topics. Because definitions are always going to be biased to our experiences, they discuss some of the ways their environment has molded them as they grew up, and reflect upon what they were taught compared to what they currently understand and feel about those definitions.People's commitment to labels - Category is… ManhoodTony and Kris also chat about the interactions that take place when we speak about power dynamics in manhood. They share their experiences and the way people label others in partnership, how people put so much trust in the traditional definitions of manhood and womanhood, and the issues therein.Then they talk about masculinity and its categories. They mention that this definition keeps changing based on varying ideas about manhood, including who men "should" want attention from, and the need to perform certain “male” characteristics to feel accepted or validated by the otherness.Marketing and shadow figuresPatriarchy and sexism leave serious damages in society, Tony talks about shadow figures that profit from polarizing and normalizing hegemonic discourses that benefit only a few.Tony's last four episodes:Episode 215: Fare of the Free Man Child (A Tony Galloway Ting).Episode 224: Deschooling Adulthood with Tony GallowayEpisode 232: Learning (and Unlearning) MasculinityEpisode 233: Deschooling Manhood and MasculinityLIBERATION WALKThe full conversation that includes 10 more minutes will be on patreon.com/akilah join us to have some moreGet to know more of Tony and check his artworkShare some thoughts by pressing that “Leave a Voice Message” button on the right side to let Tony know what do you think of this episodeJoin our Podcast Village and don't miss any of our Feel Trip invitations!Subscribe to Akilah's Youtube ChannelSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Akilah Richards shares several great resources that we’ve listed below...here are links for content and references mentioned in the show:Michelle talks with Akilah Richards of Raising Free People and the Fare of the Free Child podcast, based in Lawrenceville, Georgia...part of the self-directed education movement!Akilah is the author of ten books including her most recent,Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work ...and she hosts the Fare of the Free Child If you become a fan and want to support her work, check out this fresh link and her Patreon.References then Definitions: Unschooling: “... a child-trusting, anti-oppression, liberatory, love-centered approach to parenting and care giving. It also is about creating and expanding communities of confident, capable people who understand how they learn best and how to work collaboratively to learn and solve things. Because it really is, before you talk about learning, it's about trust, it's about looking at what liberation means intergenerationally, which includes learning, but not only that. And it's about love. What does it mean if love is not just about my intention, but about something that's actually surrounded by this ecology of accountability where I'm actually listening to the people who I'm loving on and what they're saying and what they need, and then my love in action is shaped by that. All of those things are really what I understand unschooling to be.” Deschooling: ”.....shedding the programming and habits that resulted from other people's agency over your time, body, thoughts or actions. It's also ... Yes. It's also about designing and practicing beliefs that align with your desire to thrive, be happy and succeed. And those are the opposite of what has happened and continues to happen, because it's happening still, colonization.” Student hood vs Personhood: “Much of what we do is to think about what would it mean if I wasn't thinking about my child just from the perspective of student?.....So, when you start to do that work on your own self, in part by not focusing so much on your child's studenthood, then you start to make the connection between the actual human, the child human, and some of the things that they're advocating for or the things they're pushing back against. You just start to really humanize your relationship intergenerationally in a way that makes it so that you can partner with a young person around their learning journey, which may or may not include school. It still might include it, but it brings in other things that are usually not a part of school, like consent and agency, confident autonomy, the nuances of what it means to collaborate in an environment that tells you that if you help somebody, you're going to get in trouble and they're going to get in trouble. Which is the most anti-humane thing ever.”“And what we're talking about now is moving away from young people needing to perform studenthood and their right to be violated as humans, and instead looking at a way that integrates the same stuff we talk about as adults when we're in our 30s and 40s and 50s trying to get to who am I? What are my boundaries? How do I show up in the world in a way that is both affirming for me and welcoming for the sort of energies that I want to be part of? What happens when I'm super uncomfortable with someone or I don't understand or don't like, yet we have a common goal that we need to work through? These are real life situations that we do not get practice with in school.” Schoolishness: “The ways that we together are so colonized. We want a leader, we want somebody needs to be right, one person's talking, the other people are listening. We do a lot of inhumane things that have become so normalized. And they didn't just appear in adulthood, they didn't just happen when you got that job with that one person. These are things that happen throughout our schooled lives. I call these things schoolishness. Not because they are rooted in school, but oftentimes school is where they are perpetuated.” Ecology of accountability:  “...we find that in the self-directed spaces that's often one of the things that's missing. It's like your intentions are there and then you have some resources and you see a need the way that you define it, so you go do something. Okay, but you need to be involved. So, we talked about this a little bit at the top of our conversation. Whoever it is that you feel like you want to impact, how can you get into community with them? Right now. How can you get in community with them?”  Here is Akilah Richards’ Ted TalkLane Santa Cruz https://www.tucward1.com/aboutDeveloping the Disrupters Ears https://www.rfpunschool.com/p/learningtolistenCrystal Bird farmer https://crystalbyrdfarmer.com/   Free joy experience https://www.thefreejoyexperience.com/Mighty Networks https://my-reflection-matters.mn.co/  Chemay Morales James https://www.linkedin.com/in/chemay-morales-james-5707764a/Thea Monyee https://www.theamonyee.com/Shawna Murray-Brown https://www.shawnamurraybrowne.com/Gratitude to Trick Candles for our theme song, called “I’m Gold"The thing about this podcast is that it is self-funded! So if you love it, consider joining us on Patreon, and passing along to your friends and colleagues. Of course, it is super helpful to us too, when you subscribe on your fav pod player, and rate us! 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Moe Moton, Sr. NFL columnist at SilverandBlackToday.com, and an NFL breaking news reporter for Bleacher Report joins us to talk about the Las Vegas Raiders defensive coordinator search and possible salary cap casualties for 2021. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We kick off Elvis Presley's 86th birthday recapping the week's news particularly around the emergence of Gus Bradley as the leading candidate for the Raiders open defensive coordinator job. Q and Scott have the latest. Then, Moe Moton joins Scott to talk about the DC search and how some will never be happy unless one man gets the job. Moton also talks about possible Raiders' salary cap casualties for 2021. We close the hour talking to Raiders writer Noah Strang who gives us the 4-1-1 on Gus Bradley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we’ll be joined by two unschooling dads, Jamal Hester and Kris Richards. They will be pointing out some insights on Black fatherhood, re-parenting and unschooling! Jamal is the co-owner of Life Strength & Health holistic center. They also have a podcast where we can find great resources on healing work. Kris Richards is a graphic designer, artist, and creative brander. He’s also Akilah’s partner and Marley and Sage’s dad.What We Discussed:Colonial NarrativeJamal and Kris talk about how their labels of “who they are” as parents, sons, partners, are under certain expectations and are mostly validated by someone else's perspectives. They also chat about the importance of re-configuring parenting styles to have a different approach to the way we are raising our children, and the kind of relationships that we want to nurture. Intergenerational relationshipsThey also discuss seeing some patterns from their behavior reflected in the ways that their own parents and other elders beliefs and parenting styles were directly influenced by the colonial narrative. They give examples of that, and speak to their struggle to change that, so their children can see things from a different perspective, and can understand that it's okay to make mistakes, to speak up, and to question things, in order to grow and to thrive.“Domesticated” parents raising “wild” childrenKris shares how his relationships with his daughters shifted when he realized that he was imposing ideas about what he believed was best for them. He had to step back from his thoughts on things like screen time, but at the same time consider the importance of giving them context so they could navigate through and question what they were watching on that screen. The skill he began to learn was how to start showing up from a space of listening, and of trust in order to get in sync.Jamal speaks about his relationship with his daughter, SaHura, and how he and his wife, Kim, use essential oils as part of a supportive environment for their daughter to manage and understand her emotions.Quote from Jamal about his daughter: When SaHura understands, there is no resistance. When she’s just told, and she gets no context, it never goes well.Deschooling is like an onionJamal uses the metaphor of the onion, peeling back the layers of an onion is like letting go of the things that we believed, and in doing so, there are certain conditions we have to change and others we decide to keep. It’s a process of learning what works and what doesn’t, and it is affected by everything, including the food we eat, our fitness and the overall ways we take care of ourselves.LIBERATION WALKDon’t miss TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change Unschooling and Parental Education, an earthwide virtual gathering towards radical social change. December 2 - 6 - 2020. Register hereRaising Free People Network’s Presence Counselors Leslie Bray and Anthony Galloway, Jr. are here to support unschooling and deschooling processes for families and organizationsIf you are hosting or are part of a Raising Free People Book Club please be sure to message Fatima@raisingfreepeople.com with the details about that book clubSubscribe to Akilah’s Youtube Channel!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Another Mad Question Askin’ episode! Episode 189 addresses this question from our Make-it-Happen family:“Hi Akilah and community! Episode 182 with Genesis Ripley (Partnering with Our Pain) was so amazing! I need to listen again so I can absorb all the thought provoking things you both brought up. Akilah, you and Genesis mentioned Colonized Unschooling. I had this idea that if you do Unschooling with your family, especially Radical Unschooling you are automatically on the path to Decolonization. I definitely don’t want to do Colonized Unschooling! What does that mean? I think you and Genesis said something about how Colonized Unschooling is letting your kids do whatever they want and then supporting them. And this is related to the Colonial idea that white people think they own the world and can rape and pillage and dominate without caring how they are harming and impacting the community. So is Colonized Unschooling basically narcissism? What does Decolonized Unschooling look like? We give our kids a lot of freedom and support them in doing pretty much anything they want as long as they aren’t harming themselves, other people or the environment.”Moji Yai and Kris Richards share their responses as unschooling parents and social justice oriented people. Moji, who we've heard on Episode 168: Resistance + Returning, Episode 62: Deschooling Through Deciding is an unschooling mother and entrepreneur from Benin, West Africa. She recently moved back to Benin after spending much of her youth and adulthood in the U.S. South, and offers women and families space to study, an environment to explore, and a community to gather with, learn, play, and expand knowledge. See Moji’s invitations online at Wise African Woman (WAW). Kris has chatted with us on episodes 186 and 187 on the topic of community and capitalism, if you haven't heard don’t miss them! We’ve also heard Kris talk this season about Deschooling Corporate and Community Relationships and about the Ways Capitalism Invites Indoctrination.WHAT WE DISCUSS:Moji and Kris chat about their perspectives on decolonization and privilege as they relate to unschooling. Moji talks about privilege as ignorance, pointing out the importance of paying attention to pervasive whiteness and how disruptive it is to acknowledge, unlearn and shift away from it, by recognizing it and questioning how the things that gave you that sense of privilege are the things you need to let go of, so that your “privilege” becomes a useful tool for change.Kris sees privilege as something that the system sets and that we need to be aware of, but also take action upon, starting with introspection. Decolonization is not automatic, it’s intentional mindful work, therefore unschooling could not be “automatic anything-liberation-centered; it must be actionized and acknowledged, and practiced.They also talk about the connection between scholishness and narcissism. Moji sees schooling as a haven for turning parenting into narcissists, and gives us examples about how this shows up. Decolonized unschooling is not only about the children, it is about the parents too.Check the full show notes page here.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Welcome to the fourth season finale of Fare of the Free Child! Today’s episode features Kris Richards, he and Akilah will be talking about some upcoming surprises and topics for the fifth season.We also shout out the members of our Make It Happen Family; thank you all for your comments and support! Akilah just saw more than a hundred comments on her Youtube Channel, particularly from the How Good Morning America Got Unschooling Wrong video, some of them from you, dear family! Thanks for that, and be sure to subscribe for more information and conversations about love and liberation work.WHAT WE DISCUSS:Akilah will be taking a little break but the podcast will be back on August 12th with more amazing content.We wanted to thank all the listeners for the messages and support we got for our zeroversary. We are excited to have new people coming in for season 5 as well as some of our previous guests like Moji Yai, Maleka Diggs, and Kelly Henderson.Kris and Akilah give us a sneak peak of some of the topics that will be part of next season. They go deep and chat about how unschooling can’t be seen just as an alternative for education but as part of a healing and liberation process that is not only up for children but also for parents in order to connect with different perspectives and create opportunities for communal growth and self discovery. They want to offer tools and resources for both people that may be in a phase of discovery and people that have lived this as an everyday struggle throughout their lives.Akilah talks about the importance of intergenerational connection, looking back at our ancestors and the self. We can learn how to be in community, young and elder, with an exchange of knowledge and not as a controlling approach. Discerning between the moments when support becomes more sort of a leveraging way brands use to promote themselves, capitalism and community... these and many more topics will be discussed in the new season.The Homeschool Association of California is having their 30th annual Conference, this will be celebrated from August 6 to 9 through a virtual platform. For the past three years Akilah and her family have been involved and invited. This time Akilah will be doing two workshops, one called ”Shifting from schooling to Self-Directed”, and another one called ”Deschooling our Communications, practical practices for being a better listener to children and teens”. Check it out here.Check out our Liberation Walk in the full show notes page.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

This episode, Akilah's special guest is Kris Richards, her husband. Listen in as they talk about their experience at Re-Imagined Learning Center run by two young, Self-Directed Education advocates, CheVanni and Sebastian David. They'll also answer a patron's question about how the manage to live the digital nomad lifestyle. Great conversation with lots of takeaways to feel through. Enjoy!Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/akilah)

Joy in Obedience (2 Corinthians 2:1-4 - 9/30/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Image of God - Part II (She Is Woman) (Genesis 2:4-25 - 3/22/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

The Way of Cain (Genesis 4:1-8 - 5/24/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Cain and the Sovereignty of God (Genesis 4:1-24 - 5/31/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

God Remembered Noah (Genesis 8:1-19 - 7/26/09 - Kris RIchards) by WCC

Restoring Hope (Genesis 8:20-9:17 - 8/2/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Even Broken People (Genesis 9:18-28 - 8/9/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

A Wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:1-21 - 3/21/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

The Death of a Princess (Genesis 23 - 3/14/10 - KRis Richards) by WCC

The Hand of Providence (Genesis 24:22-67 - 3/28/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Jacob's Ladder (Genesis 28:10-22 - 5/16/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Nation of Israel: The Beginnings (Genesis 29:1-30:6 - 5/23/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

God's Fulfilling Promises (Genesis 30 - 5/30/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Abraham in Gerar (Genesis 20 - 1/3/10 - Kris Richards) by WCC

When God Fills (Genesis 1:11-25 - 3/8/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Mission, Values and Vision - Part II (The Next Five Years) (2/1/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Legacy of Lot (Genesis 19:30-38 - 12/27/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

In Remembrance of Me (1 Corinthians 11:17-26 - 3/11/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Hope in the Resurrection - Part 1B: The Gospel (1 Corinthians 15:1-11 - 6/10/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Hope in the Resurrection - Part 2: The Purpose (1 Corinthians 15:12-19 - 6/17/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Hope in the Resurrection - Part 3: The Vision (1 Corinthians 15:20-34 - 6/24/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Final Instructions for a Healthy Church(1 Corinthians 16:10-24 - 8/5/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Joy in Obedience (2 Corinthians 2:1-4 - 10/30/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Purpose of Forgiveness (2 Corinthians 2:5-11 - 10/7/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Thanksgiving...More Than a Holiday (I Chronicles 16:8-12 - 11/25/07 - Kris Richards & Dan Harty) by WCC

Christmas Eve Service 2007 (Matthew 1 & 2, Luke 2 - 12/24/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

God Made Them Male and Female (1 Corinthians 11:2-16 - 3/4/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Rightly Judging Ourselves (1 Corinthians 11:27-34 - 3/18/07 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Mercy and Wrath: A Picture of Salvation (Genesis Chapter 19:1-29 - 12/20/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Bind Us Together Lord! (2 Corinthians 9:11-15 - 4/13/08 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Generous Disposition Part II (2 Corinthians 9:7-11 - 4/6/08 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Generous Disposition Part I (2 Corinthians 9:1-9 - 3/30/08 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Easter 2008: Living Hope (1 Peter 1:3-9 - 3/23/08 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Faith Chooses God (Genesis 14:17-24 - 10/4/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Lessons from Melchizedek (Genesis 14:17-20 - 10/11/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

How Can Man Be Righteous Before a Holy God? (Genesis 15:1-6 - 10/18/09 - Kris RIchards) by WCC

Covenant with Abram (Genesis 15:7-21 - 10/25/09 - Kris Richards) by WCC

Doing What Only God Can Do (Genesis 17:15-27 - 11/22/09 - Kris RIchards) by WCC

Born in Montana, Kris Richards spent most of his life in North Carolina where he grew up playing baseball. After high school he remained in North Carolina as he signed on with the NCAA D1 University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he played ball from 2008 to 2012. In his senior year he hit .342 in what is regarded as one of the best college conferences in the country, the Southern Conference. Richards was drafted by the Orioles where he spent two years as a shortstop in A ball before being converted to a pitcher at the age of 23. This quickly led to a elbow injury and a year on the sidelines recovering from Tommy John surgery. Upon recovery, Richards decided to not continue to chasing a career as a player, and turned his focus to coaching. While coaching at an academy in North Carolina run by Mike Griffin, a former Czech National team coach, Richards was introduced to the possibility of jumpstarting a coaching career in the Czech Republic. "I had no idea where the Czech Republic was to be honest with you. I still thought it was called Czechoslovakia." Next thing he knew he was on his way to the Czech Republic in the winter of 2014-2015 with Griffin and his academy coaches and had the opportunity to experience the country before committing.

This is episode number 91 of the Reggae Lover Podcast with the top lyricists of Reggae music today. The selection features 20 lyrically potent songs. The concept was a suggestion by Kris Richards, a listener out of the Atlanta. Kris is a visual and graphic artist who enjoys listening to this podcast while he creates his art. He created the original artwork for this episode.  Visit @iandidea on IG to see Kris Richards' magnificent works. A big shout out and thank you to Kris, representing Jamaica and the ATL. So far his feedback is that this mix is too short, and he has requested a part 2. I'm cool with it. I'll go ahead and mix up a series of lyricist-based podcast episodes. This mix keeps your head bobbing all the way through. If you came to the end and thought "wait... what... it's over already?" then I know you will come back for more. Meanwhile, you have to go back and listen to this wordplay and these metaphors. Lyrics are layered with symbolism in the songs, especially those by Kabaka Pyramid. You have to go back and listen again to extract the true meaning. Rebellious Nature by Agent Sasco kicked it off. Wicked Man by Busy Signal, Wadada by Jesse Royal and Kabaka Pyramid's Global Warning complete the intro. Listen to Can't Breathe, Well Done, and also Liberal Opposer by Kabaka. He also features on The Flame with Protege. Koffee, the 17-year-old sensation, makes her mark on Burning. Protege's creativity is on display with the one called Criminal and also Truth and Rights. Over Damian Marley's On the Corner Riddim, you hear Chronixx with Ghetto People. Busy Signal's Survival from the Return Riddim by Jukebox Productions adds to the vibe. Love Is All I Bring, the new Spragga Benz tune from Sting International fits in well. I was able to squeeze in 1999's Wha Yuh Say Star which got left off of the Spragga Benz podcast. Damian Marley flows on The Master Has Come Back and Road to Zion featuring Nas off the Welcome to Jamrock album. In the next edition of the lyrical opposer mix, you're going to hear some more from Vybz Kartel. I'll also bring it very current with 2018 material from these and other new artists. Thank you to the listeners who have added ratings and reviews on iTunes. Shouts out to my very lovely wife who has been binge listening via the podcast app on her new iPhone. I'm honored to have you listen to my podcast. It's all about us reggae lovers. We have to continue to spread the culture. I focus on the reality I want to see which is positivity. Positive energy and momentum arise from reggae music. Shout out to my family at WRFG 89.3FM. I'll be dropping by the Global Drumbeat and Riot Radio shows this week to spread the word about Reggae Lover. I'm gonna drop 2 crazy guest DJ sets live on the air. I'll be talking about the podcast because I want more people to tune in as we build this movement. I'm inspiring and healing people with reggae. Look out for the episodes coming up where I'll be chopping it up with guests learn when, where, why and how they fell in love with reggae. Diving into some of the stories will be lots of fun and I'm so very excited about that. Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts and get a shout out on the next episode. Have any questions, comments, or feedback? I love to get requests and suggestions. I want to hear what you are interested in hearing. Hit me up. I will those mixes lined up for you. Get your own custom mix right here on the Reggae Lover podcast and be a part of the show. Thank you for listening. Keep your head up - keep it positive. Until next time, One love. Apple Podcast (iTunes) link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reggae-lover/id1126663530?mt=2h iHeartRadio link: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-Reggae-Lover-29076656/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/reggae-lover/donationsWant to advertise on this podcast? Go to https://redcircle.com/brands and sign up.