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Another blow to regional collaboration as it appears the EMRB is dead after the provincial government pulled its funding. Plus, we talk budget, carbon emissions, police response times, and parking.Here are the relevant links for this episode:EMRBRegional Roundup: Nov. 27, 2024'Unexpected': Edmonton's regional board loses provincial funding, future uncertainBudgetCity says participatory budgeting experiment was challenging but taught lessonsWill Edmonton neighbourhood renewal be scaled back?Calgary council approves budget, 3.6% property tax increaseCarbon emissionsReport suggests Edmonton's emissions are decreasing too slowlyPolice response timesMaking Edmonton police response times public again: It's complicatedHotSpot ParkingZipstall parking app sent cease-and-desist letter by City of Edmonton's vendor HotSpotDIPPuneeta McBryan's postFrom the Taproot newsroomConservatory of Music to leave MacEwan and become part of Winspear in 2025Building powerhouses look for new life at old RAMHow Edmonton compares to cities finding success in tackling homelessnessRapid fireAlberta's passenger rail master plan scheduled for summer 2025 releaseNews Release: 30th Annual Stuff a Bus returns to support those in needAlberta mulls boosting U.S. border patrol in effort to prevent Trump's 25% tariffSpeaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, the most reliable source of intelligence about what's happening in the Edmonton region. Through curiosity-driven original stories, tailored and useful newsletters, a comprehensive and innovative events calendar, and thought-provoking podcasts, we inform, connect, and inspire a more vibrant, engaged, and resilient Edmonton region.Sign up to get The Pulse, our weekday news briefing. It's free! ★ Support this podcast ★

What’s Trending: A man was asked to leave a Tacoma restaurant for wearing a pro-Trump shirt. Exclusive: Former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz was placed on administrative leave. A King County judge is protecting accused Fall City mass murderer from media coverage. // LongForm: GUEST: Drew MacEwen is running for Congress in WA-06. Is it ready to flip red? // The Quick Hit: Washington Post didn’t endorse either candidate, and Democrats go nuts.  

The Calgary Minor Soccer Association released some numbers regarding the need for more indoor facilities. The number of players and teams has exploded and the need is undeniable. But where does the money come from? We discuss the barriers and muse about possible solutions. Cavalry FC enters the final weekend of the CPL regular season with a good chance to secure second place. We talk about last week's victory vs HFX and their upcoming match vs Valour.Our interview this week is with Akwasi (Junior) Agyekum. Akwasi has most recently played semipro soccer in the Australian second division. He's previously starred with Thompson Rivers University and helped them win a National Championship.  We catch up with him and ask how a Calgarian ends up playing soccer in Tasmania. We also discuss the non-profit organization he's recently started with a friend called Cleats4Kids.  Both U Sports and ACAC wrap up their regular seasons this weekend. Most notably, we talk about the Dinos vs MacEwan matchup this Sunday which could determine the Prairie Division's champion (women's division).Subscribe to our Substack or follow us on Twitter/X or on InstagramOur website is yycsoccer.com

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 What’s Trending: Washington primary results have been released. Jason breaks down the names and numbers. GUEST: Drew MacEwan on his strategy taking on fringe Democrat Emily Randall. // Jason goes in on people who said that the primary wasn’t over due to “lost votes”. He goes on to encourage Republicans to vote citing low return ballot numbers. JD Vance spoke in both Wisconsin and Michigan today, making sure to take questions from the local media in both cities. // Serena Williams is receiving backlash after she called out a restaurant on social media for their lackluster service.

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There's a new task force on housing and homelessness. Plus, everything is a district, recreation centres will soon be sponsored, and we discuss police accountability.Here are the relevant links for this episode:Housing task forceEdmonton mayor names 16-member task force to tackle housing and homelessnessState of the CityClean energy retrofitEdmonton finalizes clean energy retrofit loans programLauren Boothby's threadPolice accountabilityEdmonton mayor disturbed by images of police response to pro-Palestinian protestersMessage to the U of A community: Update on encampmentProtesters attend Edmonton city hall meeting after police teardown of U of A pro-Palestine campDisruptive meeting could trigger security changes at Edmonton city hallTweet about commission meetingDistrictsRice Howard Way to become Edmonton's new entertainment districtDowntown Edmonton 'education district' could spur revitalization, school leaders sayExperience Edmonton's Arts District2015: Coffee Bureau and Lock Stock Coffee have revived Edmonton's coffee districtNaming rightsEdmonton's Terwillegar rec centre to get a new, sponsored name2022: Jumpstart Inclusive Playground now open in EdmontonRapid firePSA: Have fun in the sun in Edmonton's spray parks, opening this weekendNews Release: New EPark App launches todayCanada's 100 Best restaurants list snubs Edmonton; three bars crack top 50See us in person!May 21: Don't let the pink slime get you: AI's role in a healthy media ecosystem at Work Nicer Beaver House.May 25: Edmonton International Cat Festival at the Robbins Health Learning Centre at MacEwan.May 30: Speaking Municipally Live: Untangling the housing knot at the Foundry Room.Speaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, a source of curiosity-driven original stories, curated newsletters on various topics, and locally focused podcasts, all in the service of informing Edmontonians about what is going on in their community. Sign up to get The Pulse, our weekday news briefing. It's free! ★ Support this podcast ★

Summer is here, and it comes with the sale of a riverboat, scooters, and summer streets. Plus, council writes a very sternly worded letter to the province. It'll work this time, they promise!Here are the relevant links for this episode:Tim QuerengesserTim's workLinkedIn profile@TimQuerengesserEdmonton RiverboatMeet the new owners of the Edmonton RiverboatSummer streets and scootersPSA: Summer Streets gives Edmontonians safer spaces for outdoor funWhere are Edmonton's e-scooters?Bill 18/20Bill 20 offers power to accelerate housing through property tax breaksEdmonton city council asks Alberta to scrap Bill 18 and Bill 20 for consultationChanges to city charters, Municipal Government Act meant to bolster housing, cut costs: McIverEdmonton mayor, Alberta government meet to talk about Sohi's 6-page funding letterSohi sends 6-page letter to Smith detailing ways Alberta can help EdmontonFederal government and Boyle Street Community Services invest in vital community building in downtown EdmontonCalgary's single-use items bylaw repealed, businesses no longer required to charge bag feeEdge FundEdmonton grants $4.7M to 17 organizations through Edge FundEdmonton's biggest rec centres face name change in new sponsorship dealRapid fireThe City of Edmonton finally has a 'Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion' & it's here to stay (for now)Premier Danielle Smith's tweetEdmonton fire chief Joe Zatylny resigns effective May 10See us in person!May 21: Don't let the pink slime get you: AI's role in a healthy media ecosystem at Work Nicer Beaver House. Taproot CEO Mack Male and Ethically Aligned AI founder Katrina Ingram will discuss the uses and abuses of AI in media. Generative AI is flooding the world with "pink slime journalism," but it's also helping responsible companies like Taproot carry out our work more deeply and efficiently. We'll explore those realities at this community event associated with Upper Bound, Edmonton's annual AI conference. Tickets to our event are free.May 25: Edmonton International Cat Festival at the Robbins Health Learning Centre at MacEwan. We're thrilled to be a media sponsor for this 10th annual celebration of all things feline. We've asked our friends at Zoe's Animal Rescue to share our booth, so come by to meet some members of the Taproot team, and give a kitty a skritch while you're there. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, and kids get in free.May 30: Speaking Municipally Live: Untangling the housing knot at the Foundry Room. Our civic affairs podcast is recording live during the Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative's summer institute, and you're invited. Hosts Troy Pavlek and Mack Male will discuss how the City of Edmonton can help alleviate the housing crisis; their guests are Joshua Evans of the Affordable Housing Solutions Lab and writer/researcher Eric Rice, who is working on a project with Taproot to help us better understand the housing system. Tickets are free.This episode was brought to you by Inventures, the breakthrough innovation event from Alberta Innovates that is happening in Calgary from May 29 to 31. Inventures will bring more than 4,000 entrepreneurs, startups, scale-ups, academics, investors, and industry leaders together to cultivate relationships, showcase emerging technologies, and capitalize on Alberta's innovation advantage.Speaking Municipally is produced by Taproot Edmonton, a source of curiosity-driven original stories, curated newsletters on various topics, and locally focused podcasts, all in the service of informing Edmontonians about what is going on in their community. Sign up to get The Pulse, our weekday news briefing. It's free! ★ Support this podcast ★

This week, interdisciplinary earthworks artist Jemila MacEwan joins Asia to talk about their grounded, meditative practice. Jemila and Asia begin their conversation by reflecting on the changing of the seasons, and the powerful emotional, psychological, and social shifts that occur when spring begins (1:57). Jemila contemplates the fear and dread that many people in the Western world experience in relation to spring, with the knowledge that what comes into being in spring will soon die in autumn (3:39). They discuss how many of these anxieties and transformations are the foundation of their upcoming durational performance, “Seed Meditation,” which takes place over the course of 10 days and involves the artist holding a germinating seed in their hands-- a public invitation to contemplate birth, growth, life and death (6:21). Jemila and Asia discuss the choice of Washington Square Park as the site for the performance (10:10) and consider the long history of protest and community building that has occurred in the park (11:36). They reflect on the risks of the performance-- including whether or not the seed successfully germinates-- and from there, they discuss the general challenges that durational artists experience when committing to long-form work (16:05). Jemila acknowledges the crucial role that community support plays in their practice (21:27). They plan to establish a reciprocal relationship between them and their audience and participants by offering passersby a book containing information on how to grow and care for a seed, and how to embark upon their own personal seed meditation (28:02). “Seed Meditation” is one in a long line of performance art earthworks, and Jemila emphasizes the myriad lessons that we can learn from studying and sitting with nature (30:52). They contemplate the cycle of life and death and how human bodies return to the earth and nourish new life (34:07). The episode concludes with Jemila and Asia recalling the scientific principle that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only altered-- and both artists discuss the existential comfort and peace that realization can bring to our increasingly turbulent and anxiety-ridden culture (36:17). Follow Jemila on Instagram @jemila_macewan and online at www.jemilamacewan.com This podcast is produced and edited by Asia Stewart. Find Asia online @asiastewart and @performvu

Hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on medical research and development each year by large corporations, small start-ups, and university labs around the world. If you're working in a lab, and you discover a game-changing innovation, it can seem daunting to build a business around it. But it doesn't have to be—and Dr. Matthew MacEwan, chief science officer and co-founder of Acera Surgical Inc., can tell you how he did it. Dr. MacEwan joins Justin to explain how he and his collaborators transformed years of research in material science into Restrata, an electrospun fiber matrix that aims to revolutionize soft tissue repair. Dr. MacEwan walks us through the journey of building a company out of a university laboratory, the lessons he learned from the patent process, and why navigating through complex clinical standards is a bit like steering the Titanic. Justin and Dr. MacEwan take an up-close look at Restrata to see what makes it such a useful alternative to traditional grafts and wound healing methods. In addition to the fascinating details behind the technology, they dig into the challenges of entrepreneurship from a researcher's perspective and the importance of cross-discipline collaboration throughout the commercialization process. To learn more about Definitive Healthcare, please visit us at definitivehc.com.

In this episode, Jane talks to Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan. Dame MacEwan started her career as an ophthalmologist and became the president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. She served as Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges until 2020 and has become the second woman Chair of the General Medical Council. Jane and Carrie explore how Carrie realised her career ambitions, balancing family and work life, overcoming challenges - including being bullied - and moving into leadership roles. For more information and to access the transcript: www.ucl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/medical-women-talking-podcastDate of episode recording: 2023-04-06Duration: 00:24:30Language of episode: EnglishPresenter: Professor Dame Jane DacreGuests: Professor Dame Carrie MacEwanProducer: Matt Aucott

Christine talks with her spiritual teacher Michelle MacEwan, an international speaker, spiritual activist, guide, and protector of the wild. Michelle's website Wild Wisdom provides an online sanctuary for practice, exploration and spiritual growth by giving guidance in the regular practice of inner journeywork, crafting expeditions and daily pilgrimages into the natural world, translating ancient teachings to help resolve conflicts, answering questions, deconstructing points of confusion, integrating ritual and spiritual exercises to enrich work and daily life, harmonising peoples' inner and outer worlds and allowing them to develop their own unique wisdom and creativity.Christine and Michelle discuss communication from a perspective of developing technology, ancient wisdom, nature, primary language and the whole-earth system.CHRISTINE AND MICHELLE REVEAL:What we lose from fast, convenient communication methods.Ancient communications and their connection to the natural world.New perspectives on self-expression and labels.The connection between handwritten and heart written.How Kookaburras are like the 'roosters' of Australia. BEST MOMENTS:“My first husband was a singer-songwriter and I just love writing poetical, lyrical pieces so I was really involved just from that perspective.”-Michelle“We had slower communication back then and I think it was probably more heartfelt.”-Michelle“We are nature, not separate. So to say ‘I've got to get connected to nature' we've already disconnected. But we are nature."-Michelle“We each have our own perception of the world and our own perceptions of ourselves. Nobody gets to tell us whether our perception of ourselves is right or wrong." -Christine“Texting changed communication because you only got a certain amount of words you could put in a text to become this brief message. We can see now the brevity in our messaging.”-Michelle“The difference is anticipation versus interruption. Communication in the past; we desired it, we anticipated it, we created it from inside us and shared it from our hands, through our voices from the heart." -Christine GUEST RESOURCEShttps://www.michellemacewan.com.au/https://www.instagram.com/michelle_macewanhttps://www.tiktok.com/@michellemacewan CONTACT METHODEmail: christine@languagecouragecoaching.comInstagram: connected_communicationWebsite : www.languagecouragecoaching.com Training: www.phenomenalpresenters.comDISCOUNT CODE: WELCOME50ABOUT THE PODCASTCultivate confident English-speaking skills with Connected Communication, the podcast series for anyone communicating in English as a global lingua franca. Join host Christine and expert guests as they explore effective cross-cultural communication, vocal mastery, and the intriguing interplay between communication and the brain. Transform your career with unique tricks and techniques. New episodes, challenges and quests every Tuesday. Listen on any device, and rate and review if you enjoy it. Communicate to connect today!ABOUT THE HOSTChristine Mullaney is a TEDx speaker, certified brain-based conversations and English neurolanguage® coach, cross-cultural trainer, and the founder of Language Courage Coaching, offering services in English Pronunciation and Communication, Public Speaking & Presentation, Intercultural Communication, and Personal Development Coaching.Her content blends over 25 years of training and practice in speech & drama, Englishteaching, public speaking, and customer service with her new-found love, neuroscience. It is designed to pump your dopamine, unblock fear and shatter shame, while nurturing natural confidence, courageous beliefs and new behaviours. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks for dropping by the podcast, now a healthy 119 episodes old. Once a week, the task is to stop to notice having noticed three things from my life that left behind tracks of happiness and gratitude. In case I ever, like, tomorrow, need markers for the way back. This week:  1. The Stoics – I spent some time talking to our son Alex about our game, hockey. 2. The winter – What are you doing next February? Consider riding your bicycle here! 3. The dead – Mid-afternoon musings of mortality at MacEwan. The original music in the podcast is the work of Edmonton pianist and composer, Brendan McGrath. The end bells are courtesy of Edmonton metal artist and humanitarian Slavo Cech.  I am at glenn.kubish@gmail.com Other sounds in the podcast came from:  Ref's whistle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hboA_JXKslc The Band, When I Paint My Masterpiece – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq2e7DPhyHg&t=3s Hockey Night in Canada

Two Harrys to start us off. Parry- Trust and Parry and James with Memphis Blues. Henry Allen and his Orchestra- Dinah Lou. Allen was one of the major trumpeters of the Swing era and played with King Oliver, Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins and Louis Armstrong. Count Basie and his Kansas City seven- Lester Leaps in. Lester Young being the Lester. The group released six versions of the song between 1939- 1948. Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers- Stormy Jones, Mugsy Spanier and his Ragtime Band- That Da, Da Strain. Robert Earl- If you love me. A popular tenor in the 1950s. His son, also Robert Earl ,is the founder of Planet Holywood restaurants. Orcestration is by Wally Stott. Musical director of Philips Records at the time.  Stott was an arranger, composer and conductor. Worked with Shirley Bassey, Noel Coward, Dusty Springfield and Scott Walker, amongst others. As well as composing Film and T.V scores- from Watership Down to the music for the TV series Dallas. In 1970 Stott undertook gender reassignment surgery and lived the rest of her life as Angela Morely. She went on to have highly succesful career in the US. Amazing story and life. Perfect for Forgotten Songs. The luck of the Irish next, Jack Daly- When the poppies bloom again. He ran out of luck I'm afraid. Could only take about a minute of his warbling! Much beter is- Sydney MacEwan and She moved through the fair. MacEwan was an ordained priest born in Glasgow in 1908. He started his recording career in 1934 and work extensively on the BBC. He did many world tours. Very popular in his day.  A favourite from George Formby- In a little Wigan Garden. We finish with the very dark Miss Otis regrets from Jay Wilbur and Elizabethan Serenade, from the Ron Goodwin Orchestra. Goodwin was a profilific film composer- Where Eagles Dare, 633 Squadron and the theme to the Margaret Rutherford Miss Marple film. Later used in 'Kill Bill'.

We continue to explore into the new biography of one of the most memorable MLAs in our province's history with part 4.

We continue to explore into the new biography of one of the most memorable MLAs in our province's history with part 3.

We continue to explore into the new biography of one of the most memorable MLAs in our province's history with part 2.

We begin delving into the new biography of one of the most memorable MLAs in our province's history.

Does General Medical Council equate to Fitness to Practice in your head and cause palpitations? Don't worry, you're not alone. At medical school, we get taught little else about the work of the GMC. But what do the GMC actually do, and what does being the Chair of the GMC involve? In this episode, our guest is Professor Dame Carrie MacEwan, Chair of the GMC. We discuss the wider work of the GMC and how it supports patients and doctors. We also discuss how the GMC and individuals can work to drive change in inequalities associated with GMC referrals. Carrie also shares her insights from her own leadership journey. On the 5th of November, we're doing a parkrun to raise money for the Medical Women's Federation – we'd be so grateful for your very kind donations to help us support as many medical women as we can! https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/mwfparkrun We also have a very special announcement to make - we have made membership to the MWF only £5 for all medical students! Sign up at this link: https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/members/join-us We have our first in person conference since the pandemic began on Friday 18th November in Nottingham – sign up here: https://www.medicalwomensfederation.org.uk/news-events/conference Follow the Medical Women's Federation on social media: Website: Click here to join the Medical Women's Federation or sign up to our free newsletter Twitter: @medicalwomenuk Instagram: @medicalwomenuk Facebook: MedWomen For any enquires about the Medical Women's Federation, email admin@medicalwomensfederation.org.uk To get in touch about the podcast, email medicalwomenpodcast@gmail.com This podcast is produced on behalf of the Medical Women's Federation by Dr Nuthana Bhayankaram & Ms Jenna MacKenzie. Our music is composed and played by Dr Kethaki Bhayankaram. Our cover art and social media posters are designed by Ms Danielle Nwadinobi.

The Vaillant Podcast is a heating industry podcast designed to support installers with every aspect of their working lives: from mental health to marketing, fitness to finances; installers can tune in to learn how to enhance their earnings, learning and wellbeing. As homeowners look to the ways they can decarbonise their home heating and reduce their impact on the planet, in this this episode of The Vaillant Podcast, we'll be looking at some of the considerations homeowners may have when making the switch to heat pumps.We'll cover some of the practicalities relating to the every-day running for a homeowner, whilst also discussing servicing tips and how installers can effectively sell the technology to customers.Joining host Simon Whysall on The Vaillant Podcast are Chris Rose and Alastair Macewan. Having previously been a member of GreenPeace, Chris Rose is the Director of Campaign Strategy Ltd, a communications consultancy working for public sector, NGO, and private sector clients. Over the past two decades, Chris, together with his wife, have worked to renovate his home in Norfolk, which included installing a Vaillant heat pump in 2020.Alastair Macewan is the owner of Ecoplumb, a coastal heating and plumbing company, specialising in renewables, gas and oil for domestic, leisure and marine. Starting the company in 2004, it was born after Alastair saw the need for a move towards a more sustainable future.Episode links and resourcesFor more information on how Vaillant is proudly supporting installers with diversifying into renewable solutions, please visit www.vaillant.co.uk/businesssupport and follow us on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook.For more information on BUS (Boiler Upgrade Scheme): https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/environmental-and-social-schemes/boiler-upgrade-scheme-busLearn more about our award-winning aroTHERM plus here: https://www.vaillant.co.uk/for-installers/products/arotherm-plus-71424.htmlFor installers keen to learn more about the MCS certification scheme, visit https://mcscertified.com/Renewable technology training courses available from Vaillant can be found at: https://www.vaillant.co.uk/for-installers/training/online-training/ To listen to other episodes of both The Vaillant Podcast and the Technical Series visit:

INTRODUCTION: Cheyenne Mihko Kihêw (they/them) is a Two-Spirit Indigi-queer, born and raised in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Inspired by their own lived experiences with meth addiction and street involvement in their teen years, Cheyenne has dedicated their life to community-based work. They were the first in their family to attend university, holding a BA in Sociology from MacEwan. Currently, they are the Community Liaison for Edmonton 2 Spirit Society, a role that affords them the privilege of incorporating many of their passions into their work and is supporting their own journey of cultural reclamation. Cheyenne is the current Two Spirit Warrior regional titleholder 2021/2022, alongside Rob Gurney. They are also the current Chair of the Board of Directors for Boyle Street Education Centre, their former high school to which they accredit much of their achievements. Cheyenne is unapologetic in their identity as a nêhiyaw, fat, and queer femme and lives loud and proud. ***PHOTO CREDIT*** All My Relations Photography:  https://www.facebook.com/allmyrelationsphoto  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):  ·      Cheyenne's Story·      Being Born Into Trauma·      Using Crystal Meth As A Teenager·      Are Your Drugs For Pleasure Or Pain?·      Surviving Abusive Adoptive Parents·      The Benefits Of Forgiveness ·      The Benefits Of Chosen Family·      The Toils Of Being A Homeless Youth·      The Triflingness Of The Department Of Veteran's Affairs·      Freedom In Becoming An Emancipated Teen   CONNECT WITH CHEYENNE: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tugs.cuchina/  CONNECT WITH DE'VANNON: Website: https://www.SexDrugsAndJesus.comWebsite: https://www.DownUnderApparel.comYouTube: https://bit.ly/3daTqCMFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndJesus/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sexdrugsandjesuspodcast/Twitter: https://twitter.com/TabooTopixLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devannonPinterest: https://www.pinterest.es/SexDrugsAndJesus/_saved/Email: DeVannon@SexDrugsAndJesus.com  DE'VANNON'S RECOMMENDATIONS: ·      Pray Away Documentary (NETFLIX)o  https://www.netflix.com/title/81040370o  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk_CqGVfxEs ·      OverviewBible (Jeffrey Kranz)o  https://overviewbible.como  https://www.youtube.com/c/OverviewBible ·      Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed (Documentary)o  https://press.discoveryplus.com/lifestyle/discovery-announces-key-participants-featured-in-upcoming-expose-of-the-hillsong-church-controversy-hillsong-a-megachurch-exposed/ ·      Leaving Hillsong Podcast With Tanya Levino  https://leavinghillsong.podbean.com  ·      Upwork: https://www.upwork.com·      FreeUp: https://freeup.net VETERAN'S SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS ·      Disabled American Veterans (DAV): https://www.dav.org·      American Legion: https://www.legion.org ·      What The World Needs Now (Dionne Warwick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfHAs9cdTqg  INTERESTED IN PODCASTING OR BEING A GUEST?: ·      PodMatch is awesome! This application streamlines the process of finding guests for your show and also helps you find shows to be a guest on. The PodMatch Community is a part of this and that is where you can ask questions and get help from an entire network of people so that you save both money and time on your podcasting journey.https://podmatch.com/signup/devannon  TRANSCRIPT: [00:00:00]You're listening to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast, where we discuss whatever the fuck we want to! And yes, we can put sex and drugs and Jesus all in the same bed and still be all right at the end of the day. My name is De'Vannon and I'll be interviewing guests from every corner of this world as we dig into topics that are too risqué for the morning show, as we strive to help you understand what's really going on in your life.There is nothing off the table and we've got a lot to talk about. So let's dive right into this episode.De'Vannon: Hello? Hello. Hello. Are you beautiful souls out there? I love you so much. Thanks for joining me another week. For another episode, I'm super excited to have back with me again, the wonderful Cheyenne Miho. And today we're gonna be talking about their personal life story. Their history entails a lot of early life trauma and extreme abuse. They've been through everything from early life, meth addiction to abuse of adoptive parents who would do things like with whole food and lock them in their bedroom. [00:01:00] Cheyenne's situation was so terrible that the legal system allowed them. To emancipate themselves at the age of 16. Look, y'all healing can be a super long journey and Shahan is definitely on their way.Please listen to their share. Hello? Hello. Hello. All my lovely little fuckers out there and welcome back to the sex drugs in Jesus podcast. To see how I did that. I said, fuck in Jesus in the same sentence. And I know he is most pleased with me standing up on his throne at the right hand of God, applauding me as I give a fuck about Jesus on today.Cheyenne, do darling, how are you doing today? Cheyenne: hello? I'm great. How video1970169709: are De'Vannon: you? I'm fan fucking, you know, I love the cuss. Cussing is very cathartic and healing. Even people out there have not seen the history of swear words on Netflix [00:02:00] narrated by Nicholas cage. I need you to check it out that way you can understand why the fuck I cus so fucking much.So I have back with me today. Cheyenne, be Hoku. And he's coming to us from up there in Canada, Edmonton two spirit society. We did a show with her before and she really gave us a good breakdown on the indigenous history, you know, of Canada. And she gave us some good definitions and everything like that told us what two spirit meant and all these different things.She ed us. And so today we have her back on to talk more about her, her personal struggles and everything like that. And I'm so proud of her for being so transparent to go over the topics that we are going to talk about today. Cheyenne, is there anything you'd like to say right now? Cheyenne: It's just great to be back.Just a gentle reminder that my pronouns are they them that I don't usually her pronouns. De'Vannon: Okay. Sorry if I [00:03:00] messed that up or Cheyenne: something, but no, that's okay. Yeah. It's just it's yeah, it's kind of important. Also. You might hear my cat, he's still adjusting to our move. We just moved into a new place last week.And so he is a little anxious. He's an anxious baby. So he might hear him meowing or he might jump up at some point. De'Vannon: I love cats. I wish I could own every cat in the world. I have two, they go out into their special Playhouse whenever I do meetings because my cats are hell needy. And there's no way they let me get through a one hour conversation without causing a scene.so Cheyenne: I just have a door that I could close but I don't have that anymore in my new office space. So we're just rolling with it. . De'Vannon: Give us a little brief, very quick rundown on the, the society that you work for and kind of what y'all do. Cheyenne: Yeah. So I work for the Edmonton two-spirit society. I'm the community liaison, and we're a really small nonprofit organization in Edmonton, Alberta.We're traditionally known as a [00:04:00] Misu west Gein. And we primarily serve any indigenous person who identifies as two-spirit or queer trans gender diverse, sexually diverse as well as their kinship circles. So supporting family members, their networks and understanding their loved one, a little better.So we provide access to like things like ceremonies, culture and other social events. And as well as a wide range of like mental health and social support. So we're still a bit of a baby organization, but we have a lot of big plans for the next few years. De'Vannon: See there, they do all the things. And so.And again, the first episode I shot with her, we have a lot more info on all of that and a lot of information in the showy notes. So today we're, we're gonna talk about your history, very chaotic history. And but you know, we plant seeds and dirt and mud and all this crazy shit, you know, and out of that dirt and feel comes up [00:05:00] the most beautiful things that we all use to sustain ourselves off of.And so there's nothing wrong with having issues because, you know, they make us who we are. So when we wrapped up our last conversation several weeks ago, we. You know, got onto the, the happy trail about you and stuff like that. And I learned some things about you that I didn't know. So you have a history of meth addiction as do I, I don't know what they call her in your neck of the woods, but down here they call her Tina, you know, miss tea T Cheyenne: I mean, it's been a while since I was in that circle back in my day, we used to call it jib or pin are kind of like two of the, the common terms here, but I've also heard like ice or, you know, the usual ones, but yeah.Jib or pin are like the ones that I De'Vannon: always used. Mm-hmm are these, they call her that [00:06:00] fucking bitch, you know? Cause she, she ruins things. And so so what would age range was, was the meth addiction? What age range was this? Yeah. Cheyenne: So like you said, my, my background is messy and complicated, but I started using math at age 14.And it took me about three years. So I was into my 17th year when I finally was able to stop using. De'Vannon: Okay. Do you remember who got you into it for the first time or how that oh yeah, Cheyenne: I remember the exact moment. Oh yeah. 100%. I, so I grew up in a really violent household, just a trigger warning for anyone listening that my story does come with, like child abuse and trauma and all those hard things.As well as like indigenous trauma and [00:07:00] residential schools, all of that's a part of my story. So I left home at 14. I was adopted by my aunt and uncle and we can talk a little bit more about that. But I was adopted by my biological aunt and her husband and brought into their family. And after like a sustained well of like physical abuse in the home, I decided to leave at age 14.And so I was kind of living on the streets for a little while there prior to getting placed into a group home. And it was during that initial time that I had on the streets. And so I had met some person like on, I think like Nextopia, which was like a popular social media. It was like Facebook, but way before Facebook.And it was like made here in Edmonton. So it was like our own little social media that we had. And so I had met this guy and we like started dating or whatever. I was 14, he was like 16. But we were both unhoused at the time. And so we were like hanging out on the streets and he had this gay man that he was friends with.And in Edmonton, I don't know where you live, but in Edmonton, it's common. And particularly in the inner [00:08:00] city for there to be what we call rooming hoses. So it's just like a building full of like isolated suites that have enough room for like a bed. It's a small little kitchenette and usually the bathroom is down the hall.And so they're quite small. You can't really fit a lot of people in there, but my boyfriend at the time, and I moved in with this gay guy and he had about like four other queer men living there with him. And my boyfriend would like go and try and find work during the day. And so I was often like hanging out with these queer guys and one of them one day was like, Hey, you wanna come for a hoot?And I was like, I smoked cannabis at the time and was like, and I thought I knew about drugs. Like I had heard a lot about the acids and the, the ketamines, but I hadn't really tried anything to that point, other than weed, I smoked a lot of weed and he is like, Hey, you wanna come for a hoot? And then like, he's like taking me to the bathroom.And I was like, yeah, I figured it was just gonna be cannabis. And he pulled out a light bulb and like had like his whole little setup and started pouring the crystals in. And I was like the. Fuck is that and I was just fascinated by the [00:09:00] whole process and it was just like extra sketchy, cuz we were in this bathhouse like bathroom in this rooming house.Not a bathhouse. We were not in a bathhouse. I, I was underage at this time. So that was my first time using it. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. And it was like harmless enough, but I can trace the following three years back to that moment and not really understanding what it was.And like I said, just being so fascinated by the whole process and being like instantly brought into it.De'Vannon: I dunno how it was for you, but it wasn't until after, you know, I went through traumatic experiences that I became open, you know, to drugs and stuff like that. Cuz people had been offering them to me all my life and I always said no. Do you feel like had you. You know, you're basically homeless at the time.Do you think that if you were at home in a more [00:10:00] supportive situation that you would've accepted that, or, you know, from him. Yeah, Cheyenne: I think about that a lot, because I was born into trauma. Right. I was born into grief and that's not even just an indigenous thing. It's just like, my family is so broken. And like, we're doing a lot better now.I just wanna preface that I have a fairly decent relationship with my aunt and uncle now. We haven't quite worked through a lot of this stuff yet. I'm hoping that will come. And if they listen to this, I love you. But you know, growing up in a home where the people that were supposed to care for me, because they had adopted me, they instead of like providing a safe space for me, they further traumatized me.Right. And so I also have ADHD. And I think it's really important to note that I was already on Ritalin at a really young age. I, I think they had me on Ritalin at. Grade one. So I was already on subs like stimulants. I had already been using stimulants for a number of years prior to actually having that first encounter with [00:11:00] meth.So like, I think my likelihood of getting into it probably would've been a lot more dis decreased, but just by understanding my family's history with addiction, my own history with substances that were prescribed to me, I likely probably still would've engaged in that, but maybe not as early or not as aggressively than I had, but I mean, it's all speculation, right?De'Vannon: I'm here from some, I'm here for some speculation this morning. I'm here from some specul. I am, I really am this ING. Cuz what I'm thinking is like, you know, drugs, you know, release so much dopamine in different chemicals. Yes. Chemicals in us that make us feel all yummy. You know, when we're walking around feeling bad and miserable, it creates like an emotional deficit and drugs feel that void it's, you know, it's a complete opposite direction.And, you know, and there seems to me to be like a [00:12:00] pattern and a trend to people who are generally unhappy or who wrestle a lot in life and struggle who like tend to find drugs and cl to them. Now, when I was going through it, I didn't realize that that's what I was getting out of the drugs. I thought that I was just partying and having to get time.I didn't realize that I was actually trying to make myself feel better and numb pain. And so I wanna point that out. Cause I'd like people to be aware, you know, sometimes you're just partying for the sake of part and there's nothing more than a fucking party, but sometimes you're actually trying to to patch over trauma, but you're not really addressing the issue.And then as soon as you sober up, you're gonna want more because then the pain comes back. Cheyenne: Yeah. Yeah. It's like such a temporary fix to that heavier stuff that we carry around, you know, and I think for a long time, that's actually what it was for me, you know? And when I was unhoused and using meth, a lot of times it was also to stay awake, cuz I was walking around all night and didn't have anywhere to sleep.And so [00:13:00] you're trying to wait it out until like the, the local drop in opens, you know, so you need to be up and alert all night. And so it was helpful for that. But you know, when I did quit smoking meth, I didn't stop using drugs. Like I wanna be super clear about that. Like I stopped using meth at 17, but I still used other substances for a number of years.And even to this day, I'm not totally sober and very open that I, I use cocaine a couple times a year. I use mushrooms a couple times a year, but it's not at all where I'd start on a Friday and finish on a Monday, you know in my twenties, like when I was raving a lot and really partying hard. And I think at that time I was masking the trauma and I was masking that pain and not really conscious of it and aware of it.So as much as I'm like, oh yeah, I'm just partying. No, I'm actually just needing to start dealing with my stuff and I'm not quite there yet, you know? I'm there now, but it's, it's taken me a little while to get there. De'Vannon: so then it require, I'm thankful that you're there. It requires like, you know, a gut check moment or several of them, [00:14:00] because, you know, as a drug dealer, when I was a drug dealer, I I'd say probably 95% of my clientele, you know, was probably going way too hard on the meth and all the other drugs that I was selling them.And I only had very few who were like, they only did meth or G or whatever I was selling on their birthdays or when they travel, you know, most people didn't have that sort of discipline, but that discipline does exist. But the thing is, if you're already doing drugs and you're actually doing it in a balanced, fun way, if a traumatic experience happens, you could slip into this.Into this, what we're talking about, where you're now, what was once just fun. You're actually now using it to deal with the trauma and you may not be consciously aware of it. And so if something really bad happens, I would say probably stop the drugs for a moment until you get your shit sorted out so [00:15:00] that you don't overlap that pleasure of the drugs and get it mixed in with whatever bad thing has befallen you.Yeah. Cheyenne: If I find that I'm having a tough time in life, or if I'm struggling, stressed out, mental health is bad. I know that that's not a time to reach for substances or alcohol. Right. It's really in a moment of recreation, I'm at a music festival. It's like a celebrate. I don't even really wanna say celebratory, but it's, you know, a more intentional kind of move as opposed to, I'm just trying to like deal with my stress in a, in a, in a trauma response kind of way that I'm used to.So I'm pretty good now at, at understanding the difference there. And like I say, I don't I try to avoid substances if I'm not doing well in my head. cause I know it's a slippery slope. De'Vannon: And so I wanna walk down the path that you're talking about. You know, it sounds like you basically harm reduced yourself to a point where you can manage the different narcotics and substances.I don't think drugs are bad. [00:16:00] I think they can become bad for certain people. And it's for us to understand when the shit's gone too far, when you need, you need to dial it back or stop. Now, what you've done goes against a lot of conventional. I won't call it wisdom because I don't find it to be very wise, a lot of conventional advice, like the anonymous movements and shit like that.Try to give out and where, and they say once an addict, always an addict you know, and I just don't believe in that. And so. So I, I love that you're being transparent and telling the world that yeah, I used to be strung out on meth and you know what, now I'm able to just do me a couple of bumps of cocaine a year and be good with that or whatever may come along.But what do you think about how, you know, oh, here's the kitty let's Cheyenne: Steve don't show De'Vannon: them your bubble please. Hey Steve. Yeah, it's happy Friday. He's like, look at his ass[00:17:00]Cheyenne: ass, a small, he in a house. So he is really curious about everything right now. De'Vannon: Yeah. So what are your thoughts about he has stripes like my, like my eldest cat, Felix. What are your thoughts about how the anonymous movement like crystal meth anonymous? Alcoholics anonymous tries to keep people under that thumb of always being an addict forever and saying, if you ever use anything ever again, and RA a rock will happen in your life.Cheyenne: Yeah. I mean, I have, I have friends and family that are in the program. And it, it, if it works for them, it works for them. But in my personal experience, in trying to use those programs, it was very shameful. I was like taught to feel shameful of my decisions, taught to feel shameful of my trauma responses.And I just, I, I also don't resonate with religion as we spoke about before. And so a lot of those programs are centered around go. And even though it's like good orderly direction, it still has like a religious undertone to me. Which [00:18:00] makes me feel uncomfortable just in general. But the whole idea of like, you know, a relapse is like the end of the world, or, you know, you have to like repent, anytime you'd make a mistake.There's just like a lack of humanity there, or like an imposition of shame that we don't need to hold. Right. Like I Tru I do believe in harm reduction because I've seen the benefits in my own life and how it's. Like been a benefit to the community that I serve. And I don't feel that those programs honor that space of harm reduction or that space of like meeting people where they're at and, and, and understanding their traumas.You're standing up in these rooms and you're talking about your pain, but. It's not therapy. Do you know what I mean? Like it's not a substitute for actually sitting down and working through your traumas because the people in that room are not equipped to support you through that process because they also need someone else supporting them.So peer based education, peer based support is definitely beneficial, but at some point we also need to realize that like those rooms, you know, there's not a lot of success rate that [00:19:00] come out of them. You need to actually be like attending them. And there's like a lot of research around the productivity of these, of these spaces.And they're not super. Great. Like they, they tend to lead to relapse a lot more actually. And I think that's really worth noting. Like you're going into these rooms thinking that you're gonna get better. And at some point you might just be retraumatizing yourself by listening to these stories and putting yourself back on that path, which then is then shamed if you use again.So I don't really resonate with those rooms, but again, I, I honor and respect that it does work for some people. Some people really need that rigidity in the routine to be able to say on their path. I'm not one of those people. So it didn't really work for me. I found that what got me to where I'm at today was.My, my mom, like my biological mom, she was an addict for many years. Had a pretty severe addiction to alcohol and you know, injection drug use contracted Hep C at one point during the poor, the process of her drug use. And that's why she didn't raise me. Right. But so [00:20:00] she tried the rooms when she was getting sober, but it was really having support from her family that got her there.And that's what got me to where I'm at. So if I'm having a rough time or if I need support, I call my biological mom and we talk about it. And it's just a really open Frank conversation. And I really appreciate that she can hold that space for me because, you know, she had to take accountability to the harms that she also caused me that got me to the point where I need to talk about this stuff.Right. So she's able to like actually come to terms with what she's done, her choices, how it's impacted me, and then now my choices, if all of that makes sense. Welcome to my long winded responses. Again. De'Vannon: Hey, use all the fucking winds you want. Cheyenne: Blow through mm-hmm De'Vannon: so let me, let me, let me think, let me think.Let me think. So I'm gonna throw a little bit of shade at the anonymous movements. You know, I found them to be very negative and I'm saying this because there's probably somebody out there listening. [00:21:00] Who's new with this whole fighting addiction and everything. And the anonymous movements might be one of the first things that someone throws at them or something like that.And it just reminded me so much of being in church, you know, where they think that their way is better than any other way. And they're not willing to be open minded and take a second look at things. And it's just so Just so bad, you know, and like you said, when I would, I would go to the meetings feeling happy by the time the shit was over, I would feel heavy and depressed.Like I wanted to go get high, you know, from listening to the, a bunch of grown ass men, bitch and moan, you know, and everything like that. And it just, it never worked for me. I did not like re you know, calling yourself an addict every time. The whole point is to get over being an addict where they don't believe you can ever be healed, but at the same time, what sentences are gonna say, what sense is gonna do for me to sit here and say, I'm an addict every damn day.You know? Cause sometimes they want you go to meetings three times a [00:22:00] day. It's like you're reaffirming the negatives thing that you're trying to get away from. But if it, if, if it's a program trying to keep you under their foot and under their thumb, then it works great for their agenda, which is the same thing.The church does a lot of times as they have the, the members in a certain way, that you can never really be free of them. It's like, you always are gonna need them for some reason. And I also found them to be hypocritical because all the, all the shit they talk about drugs, the pots of coffee that they would go through, you know, at every meeting and how they chain smoke cigarettes and shit outside.I said, okay, let me get this straight. I'm not supposed to do cocaine or meth or anything, never again for the rest of my life, but you can smoke five packs of cigarettes and drink 10 gallons of coffee a day. Okay.Cheyenne: yeah, it is. It is quite hypocritical. Yeah. And, and like, [00:23:00] even to the, the amount of like donuts or sugar that they provide, you know, and I'm not saying don't feed people, like, obviously we should feed people in these faces, but like, it is ironic that they then, you know, encourage other basically you're just substituting your one addiction for something else.Right. And I think that's too, is the rooms also become an addiction of it's. So I think that's kind of my other issue with them is that because we're not really teaching people how to build their toolkits up, to respond to traumatic moments or stressful moments, we're actually just creating further dependency onto the rooms.And so then you're not actually helping them be able to maintain it when there's no access to a room or when that's not a, an option, because then, then what's the next option to them. It's the room, drugs, the room or alcohol. Right. And it doesn't have to be like that. There's a whole other spectrum of supports that exist between the room and the drugs.De'Vannon: Mm. And so help me understand, how was it like [00:24:00] growing up, like in an adopted home? Did you know that your mother was out there somewhere? Did she reappear randomly out of nowhere? One day? Cheyenne: Yeah, she was in and outta my life. So I can like start from the beginning. So yeah, like my grandparents were both on my mother's side, I don't know my biological father, so I've never met him.I don't know anything about his family. When him and my mother were together they, she, he was quite abusive to her. And so he was actually it got to the point where she was too scared to tell him that she was pregnant with me because she thought that he would basically just. Forced her to abort or beat her up to miss Carrie.And so he actually went to jail and so she fled Vancouver and came back to Edmonton and had me here without the knowledge of my father. So whether or not my father knows I'm alive, I have, I have no idea. But so my mother on my mother's side is all indigenous say for like one or two family [00:25:00] members through the line that were, were settler.And so we come from drift Powell, CRE nation in Northern Alberta. I was not born and raised there because my grandmother's only experiences with the residential schools and abuse. From her partner, my grandfather she left the reserve at a young age when my mom was really young and raised all her children in Edmonton.And it was very like an intentional thing where she didn't want us to grow up on the reserve. She wanted us to have better access, to supports and grow up in a healthier way without the violence, which didn't necessarily work cuz some of that trauma. So deep-rooted right. We just carry it between family members, between generations.And so my mother struggled with substances, as I mentioned and tried really hard to take care of me for the first couple of years, brought me back to British Columbia and there's like this weird timeline in my story where I actually. Don't know what happened to me. So there was some sort of incident in Parksville where my mother was living at the time and social services got involved and, and I don't know the true story, but I've heard that [00:26:00] I was found like in a pile of pills in a hotel room, I've heard that my mother was like passed out on a couch in an apartment and social workers found me.So I don't really know the actual story. No, one's really kind of given me clarity, but my grandmother came to BC and brought me back to Edmonton. And then I was raised by my aunt and uncle. And so I knew that I was adopted. Like they didn't try to hide that from me. And my mom was really struggling with alcohol at the time, particularly.And so my household that I was growing up in was alcohol free. So that was one good thing about my home. There was a lot of cannabis in my house, but I had three siblings that were my biological aunts children. And they had it slightly better than I did, I would say. But my mom would like come in and out.So she took me back again in grade three. I can't remember how old I was in grade three. Like, I don't know, eight maybe. And she took me back and brought me back into her care. And then one day she just never picked me up from [00:27:00] school. And I was waiting and waiting and waiting and she had relapsed and was back out on the streets partying.And so I ended up back in social services and I was actually at a foster home for a few months before my aunt and uncle took me back in. So my mom was, was in and out of the picture. She would come to like the odd family events and stuff, but it was mainly my aunt and uncle that were, were raising me and, and doing so in violence at that De'Vannon: time.Okay. I'm on that violence from the aunt in just a second. So having never met your father. How, how do you feel about that? Do you have peace about that? I ask because so many times I come across people who really, really, really have a big problem with not knowing one or both of their parents. Where are you on that?Cheyenne: Yeah, it does bother me. Not so much because I wanna know him, like if he was treating my mom poorly and was like, my mom was [00:28:00] terrified of him. I don't necessarily wanna know that person. But he has a family. I have grandparents on that side. I know I have two half brothers I don't know their names, so my dad's name was Walter Adams and he was born in Scarborough, Ontario, and that's like the only information that I have about him.And then he had two sons. I haven't been able to find any other information out. And I refuse to do like one of those DNA things, cuz I don't want them having my DNA on the that's like a colonizer tactic, not giving them my DNA. But it's been a thing of like what medical. Things are in my, in my family's history that I should know about what culture am I from?Right. There could be a whole beautiful thing that I could be immersing myself in. Maybe my family's Scottish or Irish, or I have no idea. So it would be lovely to be able to connect with what other parts of my heritage exist. And also too, like who do I look like? Like I know, I look like my mom, I can see my mom and myself, but I'd love to know what my dad looked like, because it would just give clarity about who am I as a [00:29:00] person.And like, how did I get this beautiful brain of mine? And where does my personality come from? Cuz it doesn't always match my mom and right. So like there's stuff like that where I'm like, I would love to know who is Cheyenne, but there's a half of me that I'll never know. So there's a half of me that I'll never understand where it came from and it doesn't work quite like that genetics and stuff.It's not half and half, but you know, I'm, I'm just always curious about how I got to be the person I am and I can see a lot of my mom and myself, but I also see a lot of what's probably my dad. De'Vannon: I heard you say you felt like the the DNA test was, is a colonizer tactic. Tell me about that. Well, it's just, they keep Cheyenne: your day in DNA on file.And they're using it. I mean, it is pretty cool that they're using DNA now to like solve cold cases and like that kind of thing, but like, they keep your DNA on file and they can use that for however they wish. Like that just makes me feel UN uneasy. I just, yeah, I don't know. like, like, it feels like a colonizer, like just like gaining in control by containing [00:30:00] DNA.Like it's like my ultimate that's as intimate a part of me as you can get. De'Vannon: I can understand that. And you, you know what, there's no reason why you're not right. Cuz what you're saying is once it's out there, it's out there and you really don't know who the fuck has it. Cheyenne: yeah. That's my issue with it is where does it go?And like I say, like I don't have issues with law enforcement using it to, to solve murders and get justice for people. But at the same time I feel like if my consent should be given for that and I guess when they take your DNA, they probably have some sort of consent form and that's on the release form.I'm guessing. I'm not sure I've never tried. Cause I'm just, it, it makes me nervous. De'Vannon: so when you say like, so your aunt and uncle were the people who adopted you, who were abusive to you, you know, I'm getting like you know, do you mind telling us like how was, were they like withholding food from you, locking you in a closet or hit, you know, hitting you.[00:31:00]Yeah, Cheyenne: it was never like, I wanted to be super clear. Like I love my aunt and uncle, and I wanna acknowledge that my aunt came from the same like violent background that my mother did. Right. So she carried a lot of that stuff forward. My uncle has some stuff that was never really revealed to me, but he was going through some stuff out of him.I'm not trying to excuse their behavior. It's just a way of me trying to understand and process what happened to me. And I still hold a lot of love for them. And again, if they're listening, I love you. But I, I, I talk openly about what happened to me because that's who Cheyenne is. And if you didn't want me to talk about it, then you shouldn't have done it.Okay. And that's my that's my bottom line is like, if you didn't want me to talk about my hurt, then why did you hurt me? Because I was a child. And so yeah, it, it, it, I, because I have ADHD, I have a lot of behavioral problems and no one really sat down with us and explained what ADHD meant. Right. And they never really [00:32:00] explained rejection, sensitivity, dysphoria, or explained executive dysfunction or all like the complexities of ADHD.Usually people think like, oh, they can't sit still. And like, you see me, I'm fidgeting with something all the time. I'm never really sitting still, but ADHD is actually really. Impactful on so many parts of my life. And now as an adult, I understand that. But as a kid, my behavioral issues that came from ADHD, but also from a place of trauma and me trying to like fit into this world that I didn't, as I mentioned last time, I feel like I'm the in between person, right.I'm always in between kind of everything. And that was even in my childhood. And so whenever I would do something or if I, I, and I'm trying to, like, when I look back at my childhood, I'm, I'm trying to pinpoint exact moments of things that I did. And I can never remember what I did. I just remember the abuse after.And that's like really telling, because it was probably something super mild that I did. So some of the punishments that I would receive were yep. Having fooled food with help from me. So a big tactic was taking away my [00:33:00] mattress and just leaving me on a two, like a plank, like a plywood, my bed frame and locking me in my room and I wasn't allowed to play with anything or talk to anybody or, or anything.So it was isolation by myself in my room, like like you're in the hole or something in jail, you know? And they wouldn't feed me. They wouldn't nothing. And one time I remember I was playing with a pencil crayon and my uncle came in to check on me and saw me with a pencil crayon and beat me with a pencil crayon.And so I had like bruises and, and everything. And I had to go to camp that, that week. And so I went to camp with all these bruises and had to lie and say that I like fell off my bike and it was like a whole thing. But, so that was a big one was lots of like physical violence. Lots of like manipulation of like, you know, calling me a slot or like using really like, like aggressive language or towards me, weird like psychological stuff where they would one time they pretend to abandon me.We were going on a camping trip and they drove away without me and left me [00:34:00] standing in the yard. And I was abandoned as a child by my mother. Right. So not growing up with my mom, I have abandoned in trauma. And so when they left me, it's like something that I'm processing in therapy right now.Going back to that, that moment of like, they was a joke to them. But to me it was traumatizing because I still carry that now, like 30 years later, you know, of like, they just drove away, but they came back like 10 minutes later, you know? Yeah, lots of like, or if I didn't wanna eat something, we weren't allowed to leave the table until we ate it.So I fucking hate zucchini. I will not eat zucchini. I hate fish because it's a trauma around that. Right. Like being forced to sit there and. You're not allowed to eat anything else. And if you didn't finish eating it, then you'd go to bed without any other food. You'd come back in the morning and you'd go back to the table and have to finish eating that.And so step zucchini is my fucking nemesis. I hate it. Just because of that. So yeah, lots of like physical violence, lots of like mental, emotional stuff. Like psychological stuff. [00:35:00] Yeah. And from a young age, like it started as, as early as I can remember. I don't even remember when it started, but yeah, young and it carried right through until I would say I was in grade six.And that's because my, my sister, my cousin, she got social services involved. She had run away to my grandmother's house and social services were contact and they did an investigation. And so the physical violence stopped at that point, but the, the emotional violence was still continuing. And so I was 14.I was in grade seven or grade nine. Sorry. When I, when I made the decision to leave the house. So the physical violence had stopped at like 12. But yeah, the mental, emotional stuff carried through throughout junior high. De'Vannon: I, so, you know, I, I, I have so much respect for you. You're able to have such a positive attitude and everything like that about, you know, towards these people, kudos to you.So what was it like having a mother who was on and off of [00:36:00] drugs like that? Do you remember how that affected you or I just Cheyenne: remember being like, why doesn't she want me. Like, why doesn't she love me? Right? Like that's, that's I think the biggest thing that I took away of like, nobody wants me, my mom doesn't want me, my dad doesn't want me.And then now these people who are supposed to care for me, who made the choice, they chose to bring me into their house instead of loving me and protecting me, they further traumatized me. And so I think that was the thing that I struggled with the most as a kid of like, not understanding why everything was happening to me and not understanding why choices were being made for me.And where was my mom? Like, and then when she did come in, she would be drunk or she'd have a new boyfriend and like, it would just be uncomfortable, you know? So like, yeah. I just remember just always wondering, like, what's next like, why, why is this happening? Like, and I just block out a lot of my childhood.There's a lot of like memories that I just don't have. And a part of that is an ADHD thing. Just cuz I have a terrible time forming [00:37:00] memories. But I think I've just shut down a lot of my childhood. And I remember some of the heavier traumatic moments, but some of the good times are gone too.You know, like I try. I'm figuring it out. But yeah, it's just, you know, it was a lot of confusion for my childhood of like, why doesn't she wanna get better? Why doesn't she want me, why doesn't anybody want me, you know?And that's like a hard thing to carry as an adult. Like even still being chronically single for three years. You're like even still, nobody wants me, you know, but I know that's not at the end of the day, that's not true. It's just, you know, things you carry forward from your De'Vannon: past. I have every belief that you are going gain the strength you need to totally overcome at all.And so I'm curious. So we have all of this fuckery that, that didn't happen. Would you have the experience once you broke away [00:38:00] from your aunt, uncle and you were now homeless, you know, a homeless youth, did you find like a community in a sense of family out there in the streets that you felt like you had found for the first time?Yeah. Cheyenne: I would say in particular, like we had our straight family, you know, we would like, like ride around on our BMXs and hang out in the square and play ack and smoke meth and stairwells, you know, I had that crew, but it was when I started raving that I really found myself and I really felt like I found a community.So I started going to the after hours when I was like 14, but I would like always get kicked out. Cause I was, they had passed a bylaw that it was 16 plus. So I had a couple years to wait, so I would go in, they'd kick me out. And so everybody knew me in the parking lot to hang out in the parking lot a lot.But that was where I really started to find a community for the first time where I felt like I was like loved and welcomed. And for all of my. Weirdness all my flaws, all my eccentric nest that I bring to the table that was like [00:39:00] welcomed in the rave community, because a lot of the people that we shared space with were also coming from background similar to mine, or coming from spaces where they were the, the black sheep, the ostracized one, the, you know, and so I think that was the space where I was like, oh, I, I actually belong in this world.And, and then that's okay that I exist.De'Vannon: Honey, the, the tears you're shedding right now are not in vain. You know, I feel like, I feel like they're healing you, you know, I see those tears and I appreciate appreciate them because I believe they're healing you. And also, I believe you're shedding tears for other people too. Who've gone through the similar things.And so, and I love how you're just letting 'em flow. You're like, you know what? This is me. They call me cry Cheyenne: in for a reason. always crying. De'Vannon: let it go, honey, let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Cheyenne: Well, and I think it's important [00:40:00] that people hear my story because, and that's why I don't shy away from talking about the harder stuff.Even though I know it's like other people's story too. It's, it's very much my story. And I think that if someone can hear my story and know that like you're gonna be okay, like it's gonna be okay, you don't have to be what other people tell you that you are or who you've been made out to think that you are like, you're just so beautiful and perfect the way you are.And like, no matter how much other people beat you, like that's never, they're never gonna beat that out of you. Like that's yours to own. And I think I've had to really accept that. None of those things were my fault, everything that happened to me, some of the decisions I made when I started using meth and like living on the streets and being more violent, those were my choices that I have to own, but I didn't ask my aunt and uncle to beat me.I didn't ask to be adopted. I didn't ask to be born. Right. And so a lot of that staff I had to really just separate mm-hmm my. My choices from their choices. And so that's why I say, if you don't want me to talk about my story, then don't hurt me. [00:41:00] Like, if, if you don't want that to be part of my story, then don't make it part of my story.And I think that goes like with any person that comes into my life now, it's not just about my aunt and uncle it's about anybody, you know, like, and I've had really good conversations with my biological mom. Like I said about everything that she's done about the abandonment and about how it's impacted me now as adult.But I haven't quite had that conversation with my aunt and uncle yet. And so I know it's coming. And I don't know if it's gonna go in a positive direction or Renee. I don't know if it's like gonna be a make or break for our relationship, but I'm ready to have the conversation. I still have a few more therapy sessions before I, I get to that point, but I'm, I'm almost there to have the conversation of like, this is what you did and this is how it's affected me.And I just need to hear you be accountable for it. Right. And like, I love you. I forgive you, but I, I need you to hold space for my pain.De'Vannon: I commend you on your bravery. You you gotta. You you gotta walk ahead of you, but [00:42:00] but you know, but you're doing everything that you can do because you can't really control it, what anyone else does, but at least, you know, you have a strong sense of peace knowing you exhausted every possible means to sort it all out.And then you haven't acccess to anger. You haven't become bitter, you know, or anything like that. And that's something that I'm noticing, and that can happen to people by it'll just get angry and stuff like that, and not really do anything except for stay angry. But what, one thing, one good thing I did learn from my sponsor and crystal meth anonymous is that bitterness and resentment it's like me drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.so, so, so however it is that you do it. Y'all let that bitterness go. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. Let it go. I like stay on this, the, the, the, the, the homeless, like, youth experience, because I'm, I'm thinking about like, say [00:43:00] chosen family and things like that. So like, so like when the biological family doesn't quite work out in.Sometimes I see people who just cannot get over their biological family. Be it sisters, brothers, cousins, moms, dads, whatever. I dare say. I think some people have an addiction to family. Okay. I, I, I do believe that. What do you think about chosen family? Because there's a lot of people. There's a lot of us, black sheepy ones.Okay. It's never gonna work out with us in our biological family. And I just think it's time we come to terms with that. Cheyenne: yeah. It's, it's the dependency thing. We're like we're indoctrinated to believe that our family is like, we need to be right or die with our family. No matter how much they hurt us. And I just can't get on board with that.Like it's like being in a toxic relationship, being with an abusive partner, we wouldn't say, oh no, you need to stay with them because you love them. Right. We would say, no, that person is hurting. You, you need to separate yourself [00:44:00] from them. That person does not bring you joy, separate yourself from them.And I think that's the same with the family. You know, like I say, it it'll be a make or break conversation with my family because like, it's, it, it, it, it just has gotta happen. But I think that's why I love my chosen family so much, you know like particularly the rave community helped me for so many years, and now I have a drag family and like The drag community has been so much just so loving and caring and comforting for me.And I've only been doing drag since August. And so I found a chosen family, even within that small group of people and it was instant. It was like, they were just like, yeah, I see you. And I love you for who, who you are. And so I'm, I'm a firm believer in chosen family as well. I think we need to make spaces for ourselves that bring us joy, Marie condo, that shit.If, if, if your family does not spark joy, fucking, just move on and, and find someone who does carry you. Someone who is willing to love you in your messy times, someone who is willing to say, Hey, you're fucking up. How do we fix that? [00:45:00] Someone who can call you in and, and, and cry with you and love with you and celebrate with you.And if your family's not willing to do that and accept you for who you are, then it's okay to step away. Like, and I, and I firmly believe that. De'Vannon: And we're not saying it won't take some counseling and some talking through because it, oh, no Cheyenne: therapy, like, please get, get a therapist, please. De'Vannon: Cause it's like, when you leave biological family, it's almost like they've died in a way.And, and I, and I found, I had to like mourn the loss, you know, of a certain sibling of mine when, when there was just no path forward for us because of bitterness that they hold towards me and they refused to talk through it. You know, it felt like it was like, it was like attending a funeral for them.And it was, and I had to, you know, you know, I talked to my counselor and everything about that and, you know, we were able to find peace and resolution. I was curious like your aunt and uncle are they like, [00:46:00] do they say they're like religious people. Not at all. Cheyenne: No, no, no, no, no, not at all. No, we, we did not grow up with religion.My grandmother was the religious one. And so I spent much of my youth, like I said, in going to church and choir and like doing all the things. But my family was never really there at church. They would go like once a year, but in the last couple of years, a lot of my family has been really embracing our indigenous side, which has been beautiful to see.So not quite going to ceremonies and stuff yet, but you know, rejecting Canada day, rejecting religion you know, even starting to reject the religious holidays, which has been really great for me because I'm like, I feel bad that I'm not coming to Christmas dinner, but like I'm not celebrating Christmas anymore.It's just not my thing. It's not for me. I don't believe in it. But yes, it's been really great to see them embrace the indigenous kind of side of things. And, and thankfully religion. Wasn't a big part of my story outside of like the earlier part of my years.[00:47:00]De'Vannon: So, so then you get into a group home, so you're no longer homeless. So when you were homeless, like you said that you were like smoking meth to walk, you know, to stay up all night. It reminded me when I was, when I was homeless in Houston, I would constantly have meth in my system. And so I would just walk and walk and walk and walk and walk, you know, that's when I walked myself down to 127 pounds, you know, everything like that.And it was whew. I was barely here. This, this, this girl was barely here. And sohow often did you eat? Because for me it was about like maybe every five, seven days or so. I might come across food. Do you remember. Cheyenne: Well, see, I had a unique experience because I was in high school at the time. So I was still attending classes and I, I love my high school there. It was the boil street education center.And they have a meal program, [00:48:00] so they feed their students breakfast and lunch, and that was a big way of getting me into school. So I was like living in like the river valley. I would hike up the stairs in the morning, come out of the, come out of the ravine and go to class and, and be able to get a hot breakfast and a hot lunch.And so school, as much as I wasn't so engaged in the material. It could keep me there because they would feed me. And they're smart. It was a very intentional thing for them. And even to this day, the school still feeds their students. Two meals a day. They have hamper programs, they have supports for their students.And so when I was, when I was homeless, it was like a really big thing for me, was to be able to go and eat Monday to Friday. And then Saturdays, it would depend if I would make it to the soup kitchen or not. There would be days when I wouldn't make it to school or wouldn't make it to soup kitchen and I'd go without food.Or when school was off during the summer, so they have more of a year round program. So they're really only off for part of July and August. And so there would be that short brief of time where I wouldn't have two [00:49:00] meals a day. And. From 14 to 16. So when I was 16, even though I was still using meth, my biological mom was sober by that point.And so she got a new home. She got like an apartment and I moved in with her for a while. So I lived with her for a year while I was still using meth. And I was still very street involved. I had a space to go home and sleep in, but I was still like very much out and about on the street all hours of the night and day.But I was getting food at that point. So, De'Vannon: and you said in the was it a hamburger program you said? I couldn't quite hear. Yeah. They call it a ham, a hamper program. Cheyenne: Yeah. We have hamper programs yeah. At the school as well. I'm actually the board of directors for the high school. I'm still involved with the school.I just really believe in the work that they're doing because they saved my life. Like it was boil street being like, yeah, you're tweaked out. You're, you're a sketchy wild child, but we're gonna just love you and accept you as you are. And again, that's where my earliest [00:50:00] introductions to harm reduction came from, was through the school of like, yeah, you're clearly sketching, but you're still allowed to be here.It wasn't like, oh, you're high on meth. You need to leave. It was like, oh, you're high on meth. Let's sit you down here and support you and give you extra attention so that, you know, you are going to be okay. Like, we make sure that you're okay. And I just really appreciated that approach. So they, I would say they saved my life and they fed me, which I really appreciated.De'Vannon: yeah, my God. I had too many doors closed in my face when I. High on meth and everything like that. I'm so glad you had a different experience and I didn't have enough sense to go and find, like, I didn't know that there was one stops and places you can go and shower and stuff like that. I tried to eat at the shower was Cheyenne: harder De'Vannon: for me.Yeah. I tried to eat at the veteran's affair. It's like a soup kitchen that my cousin had told me about. I eat there like once and the next time I went back, they told me I was dressed too good. And so they turned me away. So they, so they [00:51:00] wouldn't let me eat because I looked too good at the, at the veteran's affairs.And so. They were I Cheyenne: didn't forbid I, how people look De'Vannon: nice. yeah. Like, and I think what it was is from where the drug rate had happened. I think, you know, when you're homeless, you show from house to house, sometimes you might pick up a shirt here, pair of jeans there, that sort of thing. And I think some of my clothes may have been recycled back to me from when the drug rate happened.My shit got scattered all over Houston. And so I was able to piecemeal a decent outfit together. I just, you know, and I just felt really good about myself for that one day at that one time. And you know, so I'm thinking I'm looking good. I'm gonna get me something to eat. You know, I haven't shot up meth yet.Otherwise I wouldn't have an appetite and they're like, Leave. And so I had to sit there and watch everybody eat, not once, but twice. And then I was denied food. And so I was like, you know what? Back to the streets I go then . And so Cheyenne: And I'm guessing that was run by some sort of, you said ministry. Oh, no veterans.[00:52:00] So not religion based? No. Okay. A lot of RSU kitchens here are religion based. Two in part, part, two of the main ones are run by like churches. De'Vannon: You have them, they might be like under like a Catholic archdiocese or something like that. But the ones that are like that here are not very religious. Like they might say a prayer when all the homeless people get in there, otherwise disadvantaged people get there to eat, but nobody's like coming around, handing you out little Bibles or anything like that.No, this was a government facility. I'm a veteran of the United States air force at a veteran's affairs. Kitchen. And I was denied food there even as a veteran. Yeah. That's all that was, there was veterans. It was a place just for veterans. And so, but they told me that's so frustrating. I wasn't looking trashy enough for their, for their liking and Cheyenne: so gross.[00:53:00]De'Vannon: Okay. So then. So then you got emancipated at the age of 17. Talk to me about that process. I think it's abundantly clear why you probably wanted to be emancipated, but there's something you'd like to say about the why I'd also like to know the, how. Cheyenne: Yeah. So when I left home at 14 and by the time I then began living with my mom at 16.So in those years I was like in and out of group homes. I had some charges that I received as well for some stuff. So I was like in and out of the young offender center as well, never more than like a couple days or a week. I had 2, 2, 2 instances where I was in jail. But it was like going through group homes and going through like just constantly in and outta group homes.And like, I always just felt like I'd just rather be on the streets. I would much rather be like, and I, I think part of that was like I had what's that disorder. Oh, I can't remember what it's called anywheres, like pressed. What is I [00:54:00] can't remember the name anyways. I just didn't take to authority very well.And I think it's because when you grow up in violence and you grow up, like constantly being told how to think or act, or, you know, being punished for trying to be yourself you know, authority just is there's conflicting there. Right. And so I just didn't really like being in group homes. And so I was talking to my social worker at the time.And I had a lot of bad social workers over the time as well. Like they just didn't really want to actually like sit with me or support me. They would just throw a food voucher my way, or throw a clothing voucher my way and then, or throw me in a group home. And that would be it, there was not really a lot of like dignity coming from conversations with social workers.And so when I talked to my social worker about it and I said, I think I'm ready to like, not be a part of the system anymore because I had been my whole life. Right. My mom. Adopted me out to my aunt and uncle. So I already had child welfare involvement from like a young age. And so for me, it just [00:55:00] made more sense to separate myself from the state, so to speak.So I did have to go through a court process. I remember it being fairly easy. Because at that point I was living with my biological mom. And I was, I think I was actually 16 when I emancipated cuz I was still using at that time. But I just remember the court process being really easy. And I remember just being really like, that's it like, there's like, okay.You're and, but I mean, it, it cost me some support, so I didn't get like any sort of food or clothing vouchers anymore. I didn't have any financial assistance from, from child welfare or anything like that. So there was like a whole side of supports that I, I could have probably accessed. I think now it's up until 23 is when you can access those supports.At that time it was probably like 18 or 19. So I still had a few more years of support, but for me it just made more sense to be independent. And I was so fiercely independent because my whole [00:56:00]life, everybody that was supposed to care for me, let me down. And so at that point I also felt like the system had also let me down.And so I just rather do the things on my own. And I've been doing things on my own ever since I've been, I left home at 14 and I'm still living alone and I'm, I'm very independent. I don't ask for a lot of help. It's hard for me to ask for help. So that's a, a thing I'm, I'm learning to work through now of like being comfortable asking for help.But for many years it was like, I just wanted do my own thing and getting out of the system was the best way to do that. So I'm glad I emancipated, but it's not the great move for everybody. Right? Like some people might need additional supports moving forward. And I don't know what it's like in the states.And I, and again, this was a number of years goes, I don't even know what the emancipation process would be like now, if it would still be as easy for somebody, but I think they just saw a traumatized child who was willing to do it on their own. And it was easier to wipe themselves clean of it, not having to deal with it anymore.Right. De'Vannon: Well, [00:57:00] you know what, here's the freedom. I am so glad that you feel free. And so it's so quintessential to our mental health and our emotional wellbeing. And I think I'm like you in terms of bucking against authority, you know, because I grew up in an abusive home too, that I went to the military, not to mention all the influence of the church and this every day I'm, I'm particular about whose authority I come under.Like, and I, it is a miracle. I even made it out of the military. It was an honorable discharge because it's not that I don't like being told what to do, but I'm very particular because a lot of people wanna control others and they're not really qualified or all that competent. And so that I agree like for, but you know, for a long time, I.Well shit. That's why I'm in business for myself because I really, I really don't like being told what to do, just fuck it. I don't. What, so you, you, you did say that you lived in group homes. What, what would you say to anybody currently? Who's like a youth living in a group home because I know that came with this own set of [00:58:00] struggles and everything like that.Just what advice would you give. Cheyenne: I think looking back there were some group homes that I probably could've actually thrived in if I would've just given it a little bit of more of a chance. And so I think it like really comes down to your own intuition. If a space doesn't feel safe, like talk to your workers, talk to your support systems about that.And I, I, I just like the streets seem like a better option, but it might not be right. Like a lot of stuff happened to me on the streets as well. That was violent and abusive. And I did a lot of violent and abusive things when I lived on the street as well. Like you're in survival mode all the time.Right. So I don't know if I have like, necessarily like advice. I would just say like, Just do what feels what's going to keep you safe. And just like, remember that you're loved, like somebody out there loves you who like, and it may not seem that way when you're in a group home, everything feels really isolating and scary.And like I have social anxiety. And so it was already [00:59:00] awkward enough to be in these spaces with new people every few weeks. And like other youth who are just as angry as you are, you know? Yeah. I just like, it's just about finding ways to keep yourself safe and recognizing that it's okay to sometimes ask for that help.And that not all authority or not all group homes are out to get. Yeah. Even though it fucking seems that way when you're a kid I really wish I would've had more of an understanding of the disabilities I have and how I respond to authority. You know, and even my attachments, my attachment disorders and stuff like, yeah.I, I, I think it's really important that we start to understand who we are. And I think if you're in a group home that can feel really overwhelming. And so I don'

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INTRODUCTION: Cheyenne Mihko Kihêw (they/them) is a Two-Spirit Indigi-queer, born and raised in amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton). Inspired by their own lived experiences with meth addiction and street involvement in their teen years, Cheyenne has dedicated their life to community-based work. They were the first in their family to attend university, holding a BA in Sociology from MacEwan. Currently, they are the Community Liaison for Edmonton 2 Spirit Society, a role that affords them the privilege of incorporating many of their passions into their work and is supporting their own journey of cultural reclamation. Cheyenne is the current Two Spirit Warrior regional titleholder 2021/2022, alongside Rob Gurney. They are also the current Chair of the Board of Directors for Boyle Street Education Centre, their former high school to which they accredit much of their achievements. Cheyenne is unapologetic in their identity as a nêhiyaw, fat, and queer femme and lives loud and proud.E2S:EDMONTON 2 SPIRIT SOCIETY (E2S)amiskwacîwâskahikan ᐊᒥᐢᑲᐧᒋᐋᐧᐢᑲᐦᐃᑲᐣWe are an intergenerational society dedicated to the acknowledgment and support of Two Spirit and LGBTQQIA+ Indigenous people and their kinship circles. Our organization offers: Cultural Ceremonies Cultural Competency Training Education Workshops Land Acknowledgments Resource Tabling Sharing Circles Outreach & Referrals Socials & Events  INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to): ·      Indigenous Life·      Deculturization/Colonization·      Residential School Scandal·      The Catholic Church's Role In The Torture & Death Of Indigenous Children·      The Indian Act·      Replacement Theory·      The Short Sightedness Of The Rich & Powerful·      Indigenous Ceremonies ·      Two Spirit Defined·      In Between Defined·      Indigi-queer Defined·      Indigenous Vs. 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Oh, you beautiful people. I love you. I bless you. I kiss you in the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Today I am talking with Cheyenne Mikko Kyo, and this beautiful soul is the community liaison at the Edmonton two-spirit society, which is up there in Canada. . So I entered the two-spirit and Digi queer, who was born and raised in [00:01:00] Edmonton. And this episode, we're going to be diving deep into indigenous struggles.We're going to talk about the ongoing search for buried indigenous children up there in Canada. Uh, we're going to get into the Indian act and then the church has a role in all of the evil that has been done to indigenous people.Quite a ways back,please take a close list. Hello? Hello. Hello. Every fucking beautiful body out there. And welcome, welcome. Welcome to the sex drugs and Jesus podcast. Hallelujah, tabernacle and motherfucking praise I have with me today. Shagun B O B go keel. Who is the community liaison for the Edmonton two society up in Canada. How the fuck you doing today, girlfriend?Cheyenne: I'm doing wonderful. Thanks so [00:02:00] much for having me so excited to De'Vannon: be here. Hell yeah, this has been a long time. Come in. It has out here. So tell us who you are. I'm super excited. Y'all we're going to be focusing on native American, indigenous peoples a day and getting some head and all of that. What all the different terms are the struggles, the persecution of our native American indigenous people.I'm part native American myself. And so as you can see, you are full blood. And so tell us who you are and what you I'm not Cheyenne: full-blood no, I'm not full-blood. So I'll just introduce myself in my indigenous language. So Cheyenne Mingo county and say godson I Ms. . So I said, hello, all my relatives.My name is Cheyenne NIGO, Q M, or amigo que equate, which is my ceremonial name. It means blood Eagle being and I am from [00:03:00] Edmonton up in treaty six territory in Canada. And I'm not full-blood indigenous, so I'm actually mixed. But I don't know my biological father. And so I have a whole half of my identity that I have no way to relate to.So I'm very focused on my indigeneity for that reason, because there's a cultural background that I'm missing in my life. And so it's really important for me to stay connected to the parts that I am aware of. And so on my mother's side, my maternal side I am from a tribe called the Woodlands Cree in Northern Alberta and treaty eight territory from a reserve called drift pal creation.I was born and raised here in Edmonton, just due to family stuff. And my, my grandmother raising her children away from the reserve very intentionally. And yeah, so I'm, I'm not full blood, but I'm half, not that, but all of that is blood quantum. Like if you have a drop in your, your, your indigenous.De'Vannon: Yeah. So you said she's a Woodland Cree, not to be confused with marble Cree, but[00:04:00]the multi-verse is huge. So you prefer they them, Cheyenne: I do. Yeah. And there's like a cultural reason for that. De'Vannon: What is it? What's the culture? Cheyenne: Well, I met, oh, it's broadly known as two-spirit. But within my, within my culture, cause two-spirit, we can talk a bit more about the intricacies of it. But two-spirit from my own understanding and learning my teaching from my nation.I am one of eight genders. And so that equation, which is part of my name, amigo Cahill, a quail that means like neither man or woman, but all of the genders in one. And so I use they them pronouns to honor that my culture and my gender are inherently tied to each other. And it helps me as a way of stepping outside that binary of man and woman and being a little closer to my cultural.De'Vannon: Okay. So then if someone says like how I did a few seconds ago, like, Hey girl, is that like the wrong? Well, Cheyenne: [00:05:00] I really liked like girl, like when it's like super sassy for me personally, and I can't speak for all, like two-spirit people. Cause obviously I'm just one person from one nation. But like for me, I don't mind like a sassy girl, but I low as being called lady or woman or ma'am or like inherently feminine ones because I have like the female body people like impose that on me.And so I will very quiet, like plays, they not a girl or not a ma'am, but thank you. But when it's like girlfriend, like that's like sassy enough that I I'm cool with De'Vannon: that. Yeah. The games we can get away with anything. So she likes her a good gay girl. Hey girl.Cheyenne: And if I'm in ceremony, like that's like the one spot too, where I'm like, if, if a, if an elder who's running the ceremony, he uses, he, him pronouns for me. That's how that person is seeing me in that ceremony. And so then that's, that's okay. I'm okay with that in a ceremonial context, within reason. De'Vannon: So when you say ceremony, okay.So is this like the Indian powwows that I used to go to where they've got [00:06:00] everything like that? It sounds like you're talking about some high spiritual person who's viewing you in a, through like a, an Oracle lens. So what, when you say ceremony would. Cheyenne: Yeah. So when I'm talking about ceremony so here in Canada, we don't tend to call ourselves Indians.That's like a very, more like American kind of way of speaking of indigeneity. But up here in Canada, our ceremonies, like particularly within my nation, again, I can't speak for all indigenous people because we're not a monolithic group. Right. We all have different teachings and ceremonial practices.But in my teachings a ceremony would be like, I think like a sweat lodge how else are ceremonial? But they've also kind of shifted into more of like a social gathering now. Other types of ceremony could be like a Sundance ceremony or a pipe ceremony a fasting ceremony, chicken dance ghost.There's lots of different kinds of ceremonies. De'Vannon: I know that's right. And we're going to get into lots of different kinds of things. So y'all heard her mentioned two-spirit [00:07:00] indigenous, you was saying the native American is kind of like, you know, an Americanization. The, the culture here. So so Cheyenne is going to break down to us like what two-spirit means in depth.What I wanna, I wanna, we're gonna find out that I want to know what in-between means in Digi queer, and is what the fuck, the differences between native versus indigenous and everything like that. Cause I don't want people looking at me fucking crazy when I address them. But before we get into that, I saw an article that came on on LGBTQ nation which is a great website to keep up with LGBTQ trends and they have a term called the culturalization and the article is talking about basically how.Education systems are low key whitewashing, native American indigenous children. They get them in there. They're cutting their hair as a different way. The things that they show them and everything like that, they're basically turning the native American, indigenous kids white and doing it undercover and have been getting [00:08:00] away with it.What do you think about. Cheyenne: Yeah, that's a big topic here in Canada right now. Because we have our own system of education that was imposed on indigenous children since the 18 hundreds. And that was the Indian residential school system here in Canada. And it was largely based off of the boarding schools that, that article that you're talking about.Highlights. I really recommend folks to go take a look at the article if you're not familiar with the process of deculturalization for students. So here in Canada, the, the idea was that if you took the children out of their home and put them into a school, you could disrupt control continuity. So what that means is you interrupt their learning of their traditional language, their belief systems you interrupt basically all of that cultural development that they would receive by living with their elders, living with their community.And that process in Canada was really, really, really violent. My own grandparents actually were in the residential school system. They both survived, but not without the long-term impacts [00:09:00] of that. So while it also does things like, you know, it helps you forget your language or helps you be ashamed of your indigeneity.Students were coming out of the schools with like sexual abuse, trauma, physical trauma. Some students didn't make it out of the school's life. And so that's where we're at now in Canada is the schools. They're starting to use ground penetrating radar to look into the school yards and finding unmarked graves like mass, unmarked graves, basically.And so of the, I think it's 136 schools here in Canada. They've only gone through a small portion of them, but many, many, many children are being found. And so actually I'm wearing a pin to. This orange pin here, this symbolizes the children who didn't make it home, that symbolizes all of the children who survived.And it's based off of a residential school survivor here in Canada named Phyllis Webb's dad. And she had gotten brought into the school with her little orange shirt. She was so proud and they took the school. The school took her shirt from her [00:10:00] and took away her pride and her dignity and replaced it with trauma.And so I do believe that that process of deculturalization is happening in the schools. And we say a lot now, like in Canada, the last school closed in 1996. But the process is still ongoing because you're seeing indigenous students face higher rates of bullying and suicide within schools than their non-indigenous counterparts.And if you add the like complexity of being queer on top of it, you're queer and indigenous you're like. You're just having like harder outcomes basically. So I think education is used as a way of really separating our students from their belief systems. And it's, it's, it's problematic to say the least, because as two-spirit people, we're, we're still trying to come back from the eraser that happened within Canada, the residential school system we've been here.So it's a hard topic to talk about, but yeah, apologies that I'm going to cough. I am still recovering from COVID. So, De'Vannon: honey, I'm glad you're alive. [00:11:00] Yeah. So I want to date, I appreciate your bonus and your willingness to talk about this difficult subject. I want to dig deeper into the deaths of these children.So let me be clear. The, the, so the kids are showing up in school. Are they getting murdered at the school or were they murdered, murdered somewhere else? Then they dumped the bodies at the school. Cheyenne: So historically the children were actually forced to leave their homes. There wasn't an option. So the RCMP, the Royal Canadian mounted police would come to the homes, take the children and bring them to the school.If the parents weren't going to give the children up, then the parents were imprisoned and the children were brought to school. So many children. Died trying to escape the schools. I'm trying to cross through Canadian terrain, which is obviously in winter, quite cold and harsh. And so was children died that way.But many children died in the schools at the hands of the priests and the nuns that were often running the school. So Catholic church, other denominations were running these schools across Canada. And stock was basically who [00:12:00] was incurring the abuse onto the children, but there was also a another level where the Canadian government authorized.Experimentation medical experimentation on the students, in the schools as well. So some students were being starved. Other students were having their nutrients kind of like being toyed with so that they could figure out how different nutrients impact the body. And they did that on the students, in the schools.So some students died just simply malnutrition not being fed enough or the conditions in the schools were, were quite terrible as well. Like, like quite deplorable you know, very drafty, no weather protection and the nurse, the, the, the nuns and the priests, they good, they were taken care of, but the children yeah, and, and a lot of sexual abuse too.And there's a lot of stories of priests impregnating young women in the schools and then the babies being taken and, and burned in furnaces. So those are bodies that will never recover. But some of the bodies are marked like some of the graves are. And you can find them in records, but a lot of the bodies [00:13:00] are not written or documented anywhere.And there are residential school survivors who never saw their families come out of the schools or saw their families die in the schools and, and know that their bodies will never be found. So it's, you know, a lot of it was at the hands of the people who were running the schools. De'Vannon: I really hate the Catholic church.Cheyenne: It's yeah, it's, it's a hard thing. De'Vannon: I, I, I don't really hate very many things in this life, but th the, then the destruction that churches, denominations of religions, cause this is just load some is the testable is one of the things that I cry out to God. I cry out against churches and denominations.I pray about this, you know, all the time, you know, because who else can really do anything about an organization say as the largest Catholic church or mega churches. So I pray to God specifically for him to do [00:14:00] something about these churches and these preachers that have gone book damn wild, drunk with power, and they have no accountability.They fear nothing. And and I suppose, I think, cause they have a lot of money or whatever the case may be. Don't know, but that, that that's that bullshit right there. It really, really pisses me off, you know, these priests nuns. And I'll tell you the megachurches again, you know, we're supposed to be, would go to these people for a sense of security and help, and everything is supposed to be all right.If it's wrong, everywhere else in the world is supposed to be right when we're in the house of the Lord or in front of somebody who's supposedly his representative or ambassador not getting raped, beat starved. You know, down here kicked out a church for not being straight or fired from volunteering or not being straight the way churches just handle people.I don't attack churches for like having money and stuff like that. Everyone else is already doing [00:15:00] that. I don't want to turn into the guy who's trying to control them, which is the problem I have with them as the way they want to control what the people. So if you want to make money, if people are silly enough to sit there and give it to you and keep buying your books, your regurgitated sermons, and all of that, okay, that's your, you ground, you selling something to another grown person that's on y'all with the abuse of the people that they're trying to conversion therapy, people trying to con you know, make people change to be accepted.And all of that is what I go after the church fourth, the way they treat people in that, that bullshit right there. What you're talking about is absolutely terrible. How, how many years back are these bodies being found? How long ago was. Cheyenne: Well, the first school was in the 18 hundreds, the ground penetrating radar.That was just over a year ago that they started doing this. So the first school was, I don't know the exact date. I apologize. But yeah, it was just last year that they did the first school. And then now where there's just funding happening for all of these different, smaller nations [00:16:00] to also start the process.But the last school closed in 1996. I was already like 10 years old at that point. Right. Like I was alive. If I would've grown up on the reserve, I could have gone to a residential school. I have friends who went to residential schools or went to day schools. Right. A lot of the elders that we work with went through this process as well.So it's fresh. It's, it's like, you think it's from the 18 hundreds, but it's, it's really not like it's, it's fresh in our minds and our hearts. De'Vannon: So these schools were on the reservation. They were not. Cheyenne: They weren't public. Some of them were day schools on the reserve where students just went in for the day and came back out.But the majority of the schools were on the reserve or near the reserve. Sometimes they would be multiple reserves attending one school. And like the earlier schools that we were developed, it's not like how Canada is now, where, you know, we we're, we're quite colonized at this point. And so there's a lot of settlements all over the country.Right. But at that point, Canada was largely empty land. Right. So the schools would be between reserves or settlements. [00:17:00] Yeah. And like they were weren't, they weren't necessarily public, like for non I don't, I'm not aware of non-indigenous students attending the schools unless they were inherently related to the church or the people running the schools.De'Vannon: So then I'm curious. So there was Catholic influence there. What history, how is the Catholic church in native American indigenous people intertwined in the first. Cheyenne: Yeah, well, because the government was working directly with the church, right? So the government developed a document in 1876 called the Indian act and the Indian act is still in progress today was still, still guided by this policy.And it basically the Canadian government gave themselves authority over indigenous peoples. So it determines that indigenous peoples are clearly incompetent of taking care of themselves there and colonized or uncivilized. We need to you know, eradicate them. Basically. They wanted to kill the savages.There's like documentation from the earlier government [00:18:00] of how they wanted to do this. And part of that process was in collaboration with the church. So having the church run, these schools was a way of, Hey, we're moving the government, right? They're not, they're having to provide more staff. But also that indoctrination process, right, because the Canadian government at that time, I was coming from Europe.And so a lot of what they did was based around their religion, very, very Eurocentric religious kind of ideologies that were running these political movements. And so that's kind of how it got intertwined. And there was like a really contentious history now with indigenous people and the church, because the church ran these schools for so long.And so people like my grandmother while she was alive, you know, I couldn't get her to go to a pipe ceremony with me. We didn't go to sweat lodges. She went to church, like she went to church religiously. She was in church every Sunday. I sang in the choir for like a few years before I realized, what am I doing here?Like this isn't for me. And I miss my grandmother. I love my grandmother, but I basically had to recently stop celebrating anything, tied to religion [00:19:00] holidays. Like I don't do Christmas. I don't do Easter. If it's tied to a religion I'm not interested. And that's a way of me honoring my grandmother.Because she was so religious, but that was like that cultural indoctrination, right? The religious indoctrination that she experienced from being in the schools for 12 years. Right. And she didn't talk about the abuse or the violence, but we experienced it in our family that was passed on to us. So I think that's why the religion aspect is tied to us.A lot of our indigenous peoples still honor religion in, in a way that makes sense for them. And that's up to them. We can't say you shouldn't do that because the, the church did this, right. It's a, you know, autonomous decision. But for me personally, as an indigenous person, I don't see how I could honestly honor a religion that caused so much harm in my family.That I'm still feeling the effects of that might generations beyond me will still continue to feel. De'Vannon: So I'm a little confused. So she, you started, you're telling me she was an avid church goer, but she was abused by the, by the church. Yeah. Cheyenne: Yeah. That's, that's how deep some of that trauma is. That's how deep [00:20:00] some of that pain is like.And like I say, hers, her, her experiences in the schools, she wouldn't talk about. She, she, she adamantly the only thing she talked about was the babies being thrown in the furnace basically. De'Vannon: But if, but if her pain came from the religious people, why would she still go to the religious place? Cheyenne: I wish he was alive.So I could ask her because that's something I've been struggling with my whole life. I don't understand how people who have this experience and their families can turn to the church for comfort or for kindness. And, and a lot of indigenous people who will celebrate in religion will like very adamantly speak up about it.Like, you know, they are very much, we had had experienced with an individual recently who works for a very well-known organization for a group called the Maytee, which is a group of indigenous peoples here in Canada. And at one point this individual said, you know, I'm not to spirit. I believe in God, I don't go to ceremony.And he was like in a space full of two-spirit people. And we were like, [00:21:00] what is happening right now? Like, it's so it, I wish I had the answer to that. I don't know. And I think that just goes to how deep some of, some of that internalization and that shame of being indigenous really goes, that comes from having those experiences that you do in the school.De'Vannon: No, At the end of the damn day, all we need is God. I believe in the Trinity. I'm not naive. I know not, everybody's going to believe in God, Jesus Christ in the holy ghost. And I don't really care. I just, but I can only say about me. And so and I don't think anyone's less than me or they're going to burn up and go to hell or anything like that.If they don't believe, like, I believe we just believe differently into story done. I say it all the time. I love hanging out with the Buddhist temple because I like being around other ball bitches. Like me it's fucking the brain. So they had great vegetarian food. So I flux and everything like that, but I'm clear on what I stand for.They don't try to make me worship that that day as Buddha statue they have in the temple, you know, that I don't have to bow to it or anything like that. It's a [00:22:00] very comfortable space and they don't judge me. I don't judge them. We just share thoughts. And so at the end of the day, Oh, I feel like only thing I need is God, you know, my personal relationship with him when I die and everything like that, it's just going to be him.There's not going to be a church. The stand before the judgment throne with me, there's not going to be a dogma or a doctrine or a choir at least not an earthly choir, you know, or anything like that. Do you know the, one of the main pillars of my ministry, Cheyenne, is to get people off of this church and religion and pass their preacher worship leader conference, going book, buying addiction that people have to these organizations and things like that.A lot of it is rooted in fear. They felt like they don't go to church. They're going to burn up and go to hell. And so then I tell these people, where did you get this belief from? Who told you that the person who wants you to keep coming to church? So, you know, I encourage people to do their own research across religions.[00:23:00]And especially the Hebrew Bible to learn how to read the original languages. I'm getting ready to do a show. I'm going to get really deep into exactly who in the fuck interprets the Bible, you know, and things likein it. And I'm like the masses are not represented. And so I don't blame you for saying, fuck Christmas, fuck Easter. You know, Christmas is just a greedy ass holiday buck, an Easter bunnies and chicken eggs. What the hell does that have to do with anything? And so I don't feel like we should have to have a holiday to remind us the worship price or to remind us of his sacrifice is better than nothing at Vanguard for the people who only go to church on Christmas and Easter for fuck's sake, it's better than nothing.You know, I, it was only, it's only been one. Tom. And my life that I have been to someone's house with this was when I was in the military and I wasn't able to come home for leave. [00:24:00] I think it was Thanksgiving where some were where the family who was running, this actually went around the table that acknowledged the reason for the holiday and gave us a chance to express gratitude everywhere else.I've been no matter whose house has been labor day, Memorial day, 4th of July, Christmas, Easter, new year's or whatever. It's just food, alcohol, whatever nobody ever stops to pray for the veterans who died to give you the holiday to say a prayer to Jesus or nothing is just consuming and consumption and more greed.And I don't sound bitter because this is the truth. Isn't, as I'm saying this, how many holidays festivals, people who are listening when you go for labor day, weekend, 4th of July, things that are centered around veterans dying, you know, so that you can have. The holiday. When do you ever give thanks to the veterans, the people who have died, when do you pray for the people who are in the military or anything like that?Do you donate to the veteran service organizations, the disabled American veterans, the DAV, or the American Legion? [00:25:00] What do you do on veteran holidays besides get fucked?Cheyenne: One Thanksgiving to the indigenous people who lost their lives so that you could have the land that you're on now. Right? Like the Thanksgiving is another one. Again, our Thanksgiving here in Canada is a little different because ours isn't centered around pilgrims and all of that, ours is centered around the harvest.And so we're getting thanks to the lens, the abundance that we're getting from the land. Whereas I think your Thanksgiving is based on cultural genocide, right? So it's a bit of a different I think I know there's a big push now for Thanksgiving to be shifted into. Right. I'm thinking more Columbus day as well as the other one.Both of those holidays, I think, are quite contentious in, in your part. Not so much here in Canada, but the two often get quite confused, right. There was no border prior to colonization. Right. That's and I guess that's where the American thing comes from. Yeah. De'Vannon: So yeah, so they're starting to call Thanksgiving [00:26:00] friends giving down here instead of Thanksgiving.I want to say maybe Joe Biden started that or something. You know, our current president. I'm not don't quote me on that, but I think something like that may have come out of the white house, but it's friends giving now. So we're not even calling it Thanksgiving anymore. It's over. It's done with and you have fuck Columbus.Y'all, don't have a fuck Columbus attitude up there. Cheyenne: Don't De'Vannon: do any shit at all. Okay. Cheyenne: We have other we have other like leaders, more of the political side of things, as opposed to like the explorers. So one of the big, like, fuck you people right now is John ate. McDonald's like, fuck that guy. He was candidate.Prime minister. And he was the one who signed a lot of those documents that took the children from their home that forced indigenous people to live this whole new way of being and knowing. Right. So, yeah, fuck that guy like, and Ryerson that's another one. Fuck that guy too. They recently had an event in, in Toronto and they [00:27:00] went to the Ryerson university and they took his fucking head off the statue.And that, that statue head now lives in an indigenous land camp where they're fighting for, for their land. Yeah, it's interesting times here in Canada, but yeah, we we've got different, different leaders that were like, no, fuck that guy. That guy sucks. Like, why are we honoring Johnny McDonald like that?Because the douche bag, he's the OG douchebag like,De'Vannon: oh, gee deuce bag. That's not a title we want. Cheyenne: I know, I think I'll pass on that title. De'Vannon: So, so colonization is something you've mentioned that. So that's basically like our deep, culturalization the way they're trying to turn the indigenous and native American kids. White, low key is colonization. It's the same thing, right?I Cheyenne: would say like, deculturalization deculturalization is like a process of decolonization, right? It's like it's a, it's a piece of the whole deep colonization process, if that makes sense. [00:28:00]De'Vannon: So have you heard of replacement theory yet? Cheyenne: I don't think so. De'Vannon: There's something that's happening down here right now.I'm going to send you a, since we're talking about the evil shit, white people. Right now this, if it's into the conversation, I wasn't going to bring this up, but we just had a shooting down here likely in the last couple of days, I want to say maybe Buffalo, New York or something like that. This fucking white kid went, took his ass online and research places where black people are known to be.If he took his time they were saying on the morning, Joe show on MSNBC this morning that he he went the day before to like the school or mall or church or whatever it was to case the place. And he went there a few hours before the shooting. And then he took out like 10 people. I think he killed like 10 people or something like that.And that's, that's an ongoing story, but you know, this is a white person in these, and he read the manifestos of previous serial of mass shooting people and stuff like that [00:29:00] before. So it was going on down here in the United States. We have all of these white people who feel like they're fearing that they're going to be replaced by everything.Not. And so this whole replacement theory that of nonwhite people should be eliminated in the white people should take over. But what do you think about that theory is as a thing and it's happening now? Cheyenne: Yeah, that my heart goes out to all the people that were impacted by that, but it's just so sad replay like that.It's just so ridiculous. There are a lot of white people in the world. White people have the monopoly on like so much, you know? I, I, yeah, I, it honestly blows my mind that people, I wonder how somebody gets to that point and I have empathy for that person in that he is so wrapped up in this delusion that's like basically just guided by racism, right?Like just, just call it what it is. It's a hate crime. He was a white guy, intentionally targeting a black [00:30:00] community. Right. Like if you're that diluted about skin color, like melanin, like you just have more melanin in your skin then than him. Like, I don't understand. Yeah, I honestly, I'm a little, I'm a little out of words for that one, because it's just, so it's just so out there, like replace in theory, it's.It feels like it's a direct attack on critical race theory, right? Like it's like almost like the, the extremist alternative to critical race theory. But it's like obviously going in the wrong direction. De'Vannon: Well, you know, the Republicans are behind that sort of thing, even though they don't want to say it because that same guy who wouldn't shout of all these people, like I think a year ago he had, he was in a mental health institution for a reason.And there is a law that they could have used for ban him from buying a done and they didn't do it. So he had illegally purchased gun that he modified using some tools from his dad's shed. But the point is somebody who was, who are they? Mental health patient [00:31:00] was allowed to legally purchase a gun who has now killed people and see the white Republicans here don't want strict gun laws.Cheyenne: Right. That's a whole other conversation. We could do a whole podcast on just that. De'Vannon: So y'all, don't hear her for like Democrats and Republicans in Canada. What do you Cheyenne: have? Yeah, like liberals and conservatives, which is like basically the same thing. Like a lot of our leaders. Have, you know, models off of American Republicans.The province that I live in Alberta, we have a premier. His name is Jason Kenney, and this is me taking off my work hat and putting on just my own personal hat because it's nonpartisan. Jason Kenney is also a douchebag and he doesn't really care about much of anybody. So his handling of the pandemic has been terrible the way he honors he's just very fake kind of person, but.Very much like a mini Stephen Harper who was a prime minister and here in Canada for many years, very conservative. And [00:32:00] that individual is very in with a lot of the Republicans in the states. So you know, a lot of our laws here we're, we're really curious about what's going to happen with the overturning of the row because that could also trickle up here in Canada.A lot of what happens in the states impacts is impacted in Canada. And you wouldn't think, but again, borders are imaginary, right? And Canadians aren't that far removed from American politics, unfortunately. De'Vannon: Oh for fuck's sake. I know, I think about this Cheyenne so much, you know, the way white people greet people of every race, but it seems to be heavily white, you know, because the rest of us, you know, we don't, we're not coming from generations of wealth and shit like that, you know?So we're not so comfortable that we have time to go fucking with other people. You know, we're still, we're trying to keep, get, keep our own shit together. This is a comfort and luxury. That's typical for like white people. They've been financially comfortable, so long, medically taken care of [00:33:00]accepted everywhere they go.So they have time to try to attack other people and take them down. When you're trying to build up yourself, your family, your energy is going towards, self-improvement not towards trying to tell a woman what to do with her body or try, you know, not trying to tell people they can or can't get married. We don't have the time.We're too busy trying to survive and come up ourselves. Cheyenne: We're just trying to survive literally. De'Vannon: But in the grand scheme of eternity, You know, the Lord said, what, what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and the lose his soul. These people act like that judgment day is never going to come for them or is not going to come at all.Maybe they can build a colony on Mars and skip out on the return of Jesus, you know, can kind of watch it from afar or whatever the fuck they think they're going to be able to do with all these space missions and shit. But but you know, the way they add it has no eternity in the, in the scope. In the perspective, there isn't no eternity, you can't treat people the way these white [00:34:00] people treat people and think you're going to die and have a peaceful afterlife.So it's shortsighted. If I was the devil, I would totally try to trick people into being racist. And I'm a thoughtfulness and hateful in any way, shape or form. And to get them to focus on the things of this. You have rich people who are stepping on people to get even richer. Well, bitch, you can already buy whatever you want.Why the fuck do you want more money? Even if you have to hurt people to get it, you know, it's shortsighted. So you might get all of that here, you know, and you die. And you'd be like the Richard Guy in the Bible, you know, who turned away the people. And then he died and went to hell, you know, what is the point?You know, you can't take it with you. Why so much struggling in this life on things that are going to be temporary anyway. Cheyenne: Yeah. And so much disregard for the humanity and in your peers around you, right? Like at some point money, this overrides so much common sense. [00:35:00] Ridiculous. Yeah. Capitalism. De'Vannon: It's just foolish it testifies against them that they already have it.You know? And then I'm gonna say this about the mega churches and then we'll get into the definitions of things. You know, the book of Jeremiah it It speaks about how, let me see specifically, I can't think of the damn chapter. It's like Jeremiah 21 or 22. And it talks about how God is angry with pastors who, who dismiss people or who just keep on plodding along with their success.And if they lose a member or a sheep or, you know, they hurt people and they don't go to try to make it right. You know, you know, just treat them as collateral damage, you know, just, you know, just a part of doing business. You can't save everyone, but the Lord is not that way. He wants you to stop the whole.To go and get that one loss sheet, not [00:36:00] just keep on trucking along, you know, writing more books and more sermons than selling more music, more worship albums and all the stuff that they do and more tapes and expanding your media empire and getting richer. But you know, you have people, you have churches have caused damage to people.They don't apologize for it. They don't do anything to make it. Right. And that is not okay. Cheyenne: Well, we just got an apology from the Pope. I don't know if you follow that. So there was a group of delegates first nations Maytee and Intuit. So those are our free, like overarching indigenous groups here in Canada, first nation, maintain and unit.And then there's different subgroups within those it's gets complicated. There's lots of indigenous people. Anyways, we had done. Go to the Vatican recently, it was all over the news where they basically we're going to bring their stories to the Pope. It was like kindness. The way Canada has a big history of apologizing for things that they do.You know, they've apologized for many things over the years. The residential schools and all there were all sorts of stuff. [00:37:00] But these delegates were hoping to have, you know, some recognition, not only from the Pope, like not only an apology, but the Pope and the Vatican are holding onto documents. And those are what we were hoping to get was these documents, as well as all of the ceremonial items that were taken from indigenous people when our ceremonies were illegal here in Canada, which was for many years.And so none of those items that were stolen were returned, the documents weren't released, but the Pope did make an apology. But if you read the apology. The language that he used was very specific. He doesn't apologize for the church's involvement. He apologizes for certain individuals activities.And that is a cop-out because it's a way of absolving the entire church, including himself as the Pope, from what happened here in Canada. So apologies are one thing, but like, we need action, right? Like why isn't the Pope here in Canada and he's supposed to be making a trip actually in the coming, I think year it's supposed to be stopping here.It had been Ted, but why isn't he going to these graveyards? Right? Why isn't he going to these quote unquote [00:38:00] schools? We're calling them schools, but they're like concentration camps. Why isn't he going to these, these, these grounds and seeing the bodies in the graves? Why isn't he helping dig? Do you know what I mean?Like, he's never going to do that cause he's a million years old, but that's besides the point is that we got this like apology, but even the apology itself is so convoluted. If from a linguistic perspective, if you break apart the apology, it doesn't mean anything. It's, it's nothing, it's nothing. So yeah, and, and there was a specific.Around two-spirit people like where's the apology for us in particular, right? Because there is a bit of a different impact for two-spirit people specifically here in Canada, De'Vannon: the poke and go fuck himself. Like I literally don't give a damn about the Pope, the Catholic church, and none of that idol worshiping convoluted, religiously diluted and watered down.And Krokus shit that the Catholic church is, you know, just, just, I mean their [00:39:00] amount of like angel worship and stuff like that. Is just, okay. You know, the Hebrew brothers tells us not to pray to angels and when angels would come only to, there's only two names of angels in the typical recorded Bible and that's Michael and Gabriel, the other angels did not give their names.And so I don't know where these people get all of these angels names from and everything like that. And they're praying all of these saints. I mean, offering prayers up to everyone, but God, and I'm all like, Okay. Okay.Jesus said pray to him and him alone. Not the Virgin. Mary, not St. Jude, not Felicia, our trough on Ark Kendrick or whoever else you, you who fucking dead, you know? Cheyenne: Yeah. When I pray, I always say I pray to my ancestors. I prayed to the creator as well, but I don't really know who created me or what that is, [00:40:00] but I have ancestors and I know that they were real and I know that they lived because I'm here and I'm alive.And so that's who I pray to. Cause they're still, they're guiding me and supporting me and loving me. Yeah, I think prayer can be a very like personal thing. Right. And you're right. Like a lot of times it is watered down. Do your prayers before bed, like what does that even mean? Or where's the intention, right?De'Vannon: I agree with what you're saying. I get from a native American perspective, it reminds me of a lot of how it is in Asia, Nina, where they pray to their ancestors, do what you gotta do. But I'm saying if you're going to claim a division of Christianity and tie directly to the Trinity and the Trinity has told you to create to no one, but the father, then you're doing wrong.You, you know, what you're doing is not Christian strictly in the religious I'm talking about in the E and E in the east and Asia are not, you know, Christians specifically like say at the Buddhist symbol, when I go there, they have like a whole altar and everything to the ancestors and stuff. Okay. Pray to your ancestors, but you're not [00:41:00] claiming to follow Jesus Christ in the first place.I would think if you're going to follow him, they act like who you're following, but the Catholic church as a whole. Hodgepodge the whole, then the, all the fucking rules they have. 'em all like we wouldn't have fuck came up with this. And so everyone went to the next shit changes with the wave of his hand.I'm all like at each on of them is supposed to be infallible or whatever the fuck, I don't know, go to HBO. Max, do law, sexy ass. There's a series on that. He called the young Pope and the new Pope. It is interesting as fuck. And everybody, all the down to the poker, smoking cigarettes and shit, and people are fucking everything.And they're really telling you what life is like behind the Vatican and the police in the Vatican and the political scandals and the bullshit and the secrets and the priests fucking, the alter boys and everything like that. Yeah, it's all in there. That shit is good. [00:42:00] Okay. So tell us two spirit. You've talked about it.You're going to go through the definition it's defined to spirit go. Cheyenne: I can't. So the word two-spirit the idea of being two-spirit is that it is generally an indigenous person who is part of like who is gender or sexually diverse. And so the term two-spirit actually is really just a placeholder term.It was developed in it actually came to an elder. Her name is Myra Laramie and she had a pipe vision. So she was in a ceremony, lifting a pipe and you know, saying her prayers, whoever she praised to, I don't know. But in her prayers, she, you know, was asking for some guidance because she was starting to do this work with indigenous queer and trans people and being like, how can we unite us?Because the impacts from residential schools meant that our community was really divided. Folks were like, you know, internalized homophobia, internalized [00:43:00] transphobia. So it was a very underground movement. And there was just, you know, they needed more. And so she received this word. It's an initial, initial nob bay more Winward and it's a niche money dialogue, and that's literal translation is two-spirit.So she brought this that was in 1996. And she brought that term to or 1990, sorry, I'm getting my dates wrong. Anyways. She brought it to the native American gay and lesbian conference. It was their third annual one in Winnipeg, and there was a number of queer and trans indigenous leaders who I look up to now as a two-spirit person.But folks like Barbara brew is Beverly Little thunder and Albert McCloud. And these individuals gathered at the conference and were like, we need a term that helps us to unify our. It is a term that folks can use while they're reconnecting to their own indigenous languages. And it's like, basically something that is there for the [00:44:00] youth, right?Like what is, what is, what can we do? And she said, well, you know, I had this pipe ceremony, like I had this vision and niche money dog is the word that came to me. And so they kind of decided as a group that this would be a term that they would start using. Recognizing that really what we want folks to do is reconnect to their own indigenous language because that's where you start to get into the complexities of what it means to be two-spirit within your own cultural identity.So when I say that, I can't define it. It's because my teachings as a Cree person are going to be different as somebody who's done a Stony SU Navajo, right? Like, so what being two-spirit means to me comes with an own, my own cultural definition. And so that's going to look differently to different people in different nations.And it really depends on how far into your journey you are, how connected. And you are to your community, your culture, your teachings, but also recognizing that a lot of these teachings have been impacted by the residential school system, by the church. Right. And so you have teachings that even seep into our ceremonies now, right.And that's a whole other, we can, we can get into that topic, but so that's kind of how the term [00:45:00] two-spirit was. Developed. And it's, you know, that native American gay and lesbian conference is still happening. They're going to have the 35th annual conference this year and it's now called the international two-spirit gathering.And we hosted it. They had been to two spirits society hosted it last year. So it was really nice to be part of that little piece of history. There's also a lot of roots within HIV advocacy. That that group was originally doing back in the nineties. And so, yeah, it's been a bit of a journey, but really there was a term that was being used because when the settlers arrived, there was a really negative term and it's called Burdoch.And that was a term that was imposed on any gender and sexually diverse person. And it was used as like a, as a slur. So they were like, how do we get away from this damn slur? How do we get a word that's going to empower us and, and support the growth of our community? So that's kind of where a two-spirit spirit comes from.De'Vannon: Oh, shit. I Cheyenne: know even just that one question alone. Good luck. De'Vannon: Well, the, the spectrum, all of that, but maybe you let me have it. And that's [00:46:00]what dos, so when you say this, this lady who received the term two spirit and a vision was raising Piper, are you telling me she was smoking and getting high or something?Was she smoking out of the pipe? Was that, is that what Cheyenne: it is? Yeah, we don't like throw like PCP or whatever in our pipes. Like, again, I don't know what she does in her culture. She might use drugs in her, in her ceremonies. I don't know, but generally a pipe ceremony a pipe is a sacred piece and a tobacco is a medicine in our culture.And so when we put the tobacco tobacco into the pipe or communicating with creator, we're communicating with our ancestors, we're setting an intention in the circle and anybody that's in that circle, you're, you're unified together. And it's really just a way of bringing your prayer. Up and out, and as you smoke, you're inhaling that medicine and you don't have to inhale.You can just hold the pipe to your heart or to your heads. But it's just the process of being in a circle with each other in a ceremony with each other is really important. De'Vannon: That's sounds interesting. [00:47:00] Sounds very sincere, has a very sincere spirit about it. So you hear people like how Cheyenne is talking about.The LGBTQ a to S conferences and things like that. I don't, you know, there may come a time. I guess some conservative people might listen to my show. This is not a conservative show by any stretch of the fucking imagination, not even the least, but it is open to people who might be interested in ulterior or alternative perspectives other than their own.So you see not everything about the gay culture is whatever it is. That's bad about us, that they think we're not just having origins and shooting up crystal meth and taking it up the ass all the time. You know, there's conferences, there's intelligent things that we do. We contribute to society. You know, I say that specifically because when I got kicked out of Lakewood church in Houston, Texas, we're not being straight.Once they found [00:48:00] out, you know, my MySpace page that I was hanging out with Montrose in the gay district and Houston, the lady from who was over the kids, quiet. I'll never forget her fucking words, that fucking cunt. And and I only use con if it's really warranted and she's a fucking cunt and she was kicking me out, she was all like referring to the gay district of Houston.She was like, you can't be doing that. Hanging out there with those people.Wait, wait, what the fuck do you think we're doing? Oh, wait, you have never been okay.Cheyenne: And it's common here too. Like with specific, like, particularly with the two-spirit community a lot of that, like stigma and shame that people experienced and learned from the residential school system is like now in our own communities. So the work that we're doing at Edmonton two-spirit society, Is really trying to reconnect to our own indigenous communities because the two S [00:49:00] LGBTQ community, they, they honor us.They respect us. They brought us in, right. Like we don't have to justify ourselves as much people don't understand. So there's still a lot of learning that has to happen. But in indigenous basis, they're like, well, like there's, these are new teachings. This two-spirit doesn't even mean anything. It's a new term.You know, and like, like those you're just gay. You're just trans like, you know, there's like almost like an alienation of us within our own indigenous spaces. And that's like that whole residential school piece, that's still coming from religion really. De'Vannon: Okay. So explain to me the difference in between native American and Indian.Cheyenne: Yeah. So I use the term native American partially because the term American is a colonial word. The idea that America is these three separate areas. Cause I also include south America as part of the America's right. We use the term turtle island. And so turtle island is basically Canada [00:50:00] United States and all the way down from the top to the tip that's turtle island.And so we use that there's there's stories and beliefs around that, that I'm not going to get into very cultural stuff. But you know, turtle island the fact that we're from this land. Predates the people who came and brought the term America to us. Right. And so here in Canada, a lot of people will say native or, or indigenous first nations, Maytee it?They don't really use native American up here. And I think that's, again, that's that, that separation of Canada versus America, right? Like we don't see ourselves as, as American we're Canadian. And so a lot of people, I can't speak for all indigenous people. Obviously I'm one guy, like I'm just one person.But for me personally, that's how I perceive it. Is that like, I'm not from America, I'm from the land I'm from, I'm from this space. This is my home. And so I'm, I'm indigenous to this land. I'm from this land, this land is mine. And so I don't see myself as an American or Canadian even I'm I'm, I'm Cree first and foremost.I'm [00:51:00] Nikki out. That's that's the Cree word. How we say in the metalanguage De'Vannon: NICU, here's the people who know exactly who the fuck they are. No question was in your voice. You said. I know who the fuck I am.Cheyenne: I'm I'm so grateful that I grew up in Canada of all the places in the world. I didn't grow up knowing war. I didn't grow up knowing, like I grew up in a home that was very violent. I grew up with abuse and, and not having a lot of money, but, you know, I was never starving. I didn't have to struggle for water.You know, like I don't have to there's things that like, that I'm privileged. I carry a lot of privilege being born in a country like Canada. And I honor that, and I recognize that, but I also honor and recognize the flip side of that, that being indigenous in Canada. Is meaning growing up in violence, that means you were born with grief because of the whole history.Right. And we don't have a say in [00:52:00] that. It wasn't my choice. It wasn't my decision to grow up with that pain and the violence in my family. Right. And that's something that I'm actively working against to, to break that cycle and to, to live in what we say a good way. And yeah, so I, I, it's taken a long time to know who I am and I'm still on that path.I'm still on that journey, but I can say it with confidence, like, yeah, I'm, I'm indigenous and I'm, and I'm out of De'Vannon: that. I own that. So indigenous is the purest. Form because when native American has the American in it, and what I'm hearing you say is, well, we not American because we were here first. So indigenous is really the purest of the two.Yeah. I Cheyenne: don't know purist. I don't know if that's the word that I would use, but for me personally, that's how I, and again, you might talk to a different indigenous person, like, especially in, in America where they often refer themselves to Indian, like Indian is, is a, is a word that's owned and used. And I don't personally understand why they use that, particularly elders.I think he was not in the states. Here that's like a slur. Like it's like, you know, the Indian act like it's literally a part of our history that [00:53:00] is still controlling us, still defining us. Right. So like, I'm literally. In engulfed in Canadian politics just by being born, because I'm part of that document.My life is guided by that document. Right. So Indian here has like a negative connotation. We don't have typically use it. Native is like as a, a very common one, but I think indigenous is, is more and more being used. De'Vannon: Okay. Tell me what is in between me. Cheyenne: Yeah. So in between. Speaking for my own personal context.Cause I can't speak for all two-spirit people. And also recognizing that I'm not an elder or an old carrier the in between is just kind of how I've always seen myself. So we actually have eight genders in my culture. And you know, one of those genders is the in-between people. The test you went and walk and the tests you went and walk are a group of people who can like walk between men and women's worlds.You know, but they're there in the center of it. And so my whole life, I was like, I don't feel like quite like a man. [00:54:00] So quite like a woman, I didn't have terms for gender growing up. I always kind of knew. I was like, like queer. Like I was, I was bisexual at 14. Like, you know, I was doing nothing. Now I identify as like, if I use a colonial term it's more pansexual, right?Like I've, but I never had language for gender growing up. And because I didn't grow up in my culture, our family was so impacted by the residential school system that we didn't grow up, going to ceremony. We went to like powwows and round dances, but I didn't grow up on the land. I don't know how to hunt.I don't know how to like, you know, like I, I'm not a pipe carrier. I don't do any of these things. I'm just learning. And I'm just learning my traditional language now. But like, historically I've always felt like I'm just like in this, in this in-between space, I don't know how else to describe it. Like, and I was also adopted at a young age, so it was adopted by my biological mom's biological sister.So I was raised by my aunt and uncle, and that's where I love them. We've come past this now, but that's where a lot of the violence that I was raised with came from them. And so my whole life I've been between my biological mom's family and my [00:55:00] biological aunt's family. And I've always felt like that in between person.So when I started to go. Path of cultural reclamation and learning about my indigeneity from a Cree context. And I learned that there was a gen, like there's a whole group of people that are honored for being in between of, of everything. And if you think of in Cree culture, we, we honor the circle, right?Does the circle of life, the sun, the moon, we all know the circle. And so the in-between person is kind of in the center of the circle and it's not like a power thing. It's not like a privilege thing. It's just a holding the balance. Right. And you need to have somebody there holding it all together.So that's kind of, for me, where it comes from being an being part of the in-between. But I think it really kind of is other people might have different perspectives of that. De'Vannon: Okay. Thank you for that breakdown. The last definition I need from you is individually. Cheyenne: Yeah. Okay. So when did you clear as another one of those ones?So not all indigenous two-spirit or, sorry, let me start again. Not all indigenous people who identify as queer or trans are two-spirit and not all two-spirit people [00:56:00] identify as spiritual sense, right. It really is a very personal process and it really does depend on what your cultural teachings are and how you carry yourself.And so indigent queer is another way of folks who maybe don't feel tied to that two-spirit term indigent queer as a way of honoring their queerness and their indigeneity. So it's just the two terms put together. I often include trans folks and other gender diverse folks within that label of queer, but you know, it doesn't always fit so into, to queer and trans is kind of another thing.It's just, you know, colloquial language that we use when talking about. And I think it's just kind of fun to saying, did you queer like, oh yeah, De'Vannon: I'm thankful for all of the variety, you know, so no one's left out and, you know, new terms of being. All the time. And so this, the beauty in this variety is something conservative assholes will never understand because they don't have happiness residing inside of their hearts.Cheyenne: Yeah. And that diversity, I think is really beautiful. Like I say, when I learned that there were eight genders in my, in my culture that like there's so much [00:57:00] diversity and that, that alone in those teachings it, it it's really empowering and uplifting to know that diversity is honored in my culture.And as I was learning about like our indigenous language, I'm still very new in learning my language. But as I was learning Nikki hallway, when the, the Cree language I was asking about kinship terms because kinship and family is really important in our community. And so there's words for like mother and father that are similar to aunt and uncle, but there's also kinship terms for honoring diversity in relationships.There was like kinship terms for multiple partners. And as a polyamorous person, I'm like even the diversity of how I love is honored in my language. And that's beautiful to me. So I love diversity. I, and I'm so glad. De'Vannon: You know, culture, this is not, you know, they embrace, you know, various sexual expressions Cheyenne: inherited.I mean, so I think like yeah, I, again, I can't speak for every nation [00:58:00] because we're not a monolithic group. And so I can only speak from a CRI perspective and from my own personal learnings. Diversity of so far. And, but there is an individual, his name is Harlan Pruden, highly recommend you look into his work.He's done a lot of research around language, indigenous languages around the world, not just in turtle island, but around the world that honors gender diversity. And there's over 130 unique terms for gender in different nations around the world. And that for me is like, again, beauty is that that diversity has always been there.And I think even though that's talking more specifically about gender, I think we can look at it from a sexuality perspective as well, because if you're in a gender split a particular gender role or filling a gender role in your, your community, but you're also representing as a different gender, right?Like if you're a born male and y

What does it actually take to get your kid to the NHL? We're all hockey parents on this show, and this week we've welcomed an NHL hockey mom. Juliana MacEwen joins us to share her family's journey in raising her sons Kurtis and Zack, and she spills all the success secrets that led Zack to a career in the NHL. Listen carefully...you're going to want to hear this.

Get to know Edmonton's coolest funk band, Honey Ham Jam! Lucy and Grase sit down with the members of the band, Nian Krismer, Anthony Prakash, Wenhao Guo, and Cameron Herron to get a deep perspective on how it all started, where they get their inspirations from, and where you can see them live next! With their unique skills, dynamic teamwork, and creative authenticity, this dynamic funk band full of talented MacEwan students will steal your honey ham heart. Tune in and support local!

Welcome to the world of Wild Wisdom with Michelle MacEwan. In this episode, we discuss the world of shamanic journeys, and how our connection to both our external and internal nature helps us to build a deep level of intimacy with ourselves, to find our own answers. Michelle is a spiritual teacher and guide with natural healing abilities. She is an international speaker, environmental activist, and storyteller with over thirty years of experience leading retreats, guiding groups and individuals (entrepreneurs, business leaders, activists, creatives, and those who are discovering their pathway) towards deeper wisdom. Michelle works on location in her ancestral land in west Ireland and in the land of her wild dreaming in southwest Victoria, Australia. Michelle helps her clients discover and develop their own unique pathway with wonder, grace, and deepening resolve to come back to their unique place in the natural world.Michelle's work is a potent blend of her inherited Gaelic tradition, the Northern European Shamanic traditions, and a variety of world traditions that she has been privileged to spend time with.Along with her husband, Michelle also runs a wildlife rescue center to care for and rehabilitate injured and orphaned animals. Michelle's work with wildlife is part of her greater mission to raise awareness about the wild and our place in nature.Resources:Michelle's website - https://www.michellemacewan.com.au/Wild Wisdom Monthly Shamanic Journey's with Michelle - https://www.michellemacewan.com.au/wild-membershipGuided Prayers by Michelle - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRfDN7mY32Yt6n8Ztj36xmQMystic-rising.com for more.Mystics Rising will be a platform to share rising healers and leaders, and showcase foundational classes for inner work (check out the website for discounts). I anticipate more events and ideas will continue to unfold as this project builds momentum.Help me normalize healing! If you feel touched by this work, please help me share the podcast with friends or support us on Patreon. Follow, listen along, and reach out if you feel called to collaborate.

The Rad Dads Show: Hometown Hero - Cory Roffey & John Shellenberg (Grant MacEwan Climbing Club) In the first instalment of our Hometown Hero series, we sit down with rad dads Cory and John of the Grant MacEwan Climbing Club to chat parenting and the great outdoors

The world is continuously changing and the way we reach audiences and the way consumers buy is evolving rapidly. Data can be crucial to successfully meet the needs of our consumers. Digital marketing & content expert with a passion for storytelling and entertainment joins us today. MacEwen Patterson is the Digital Marketing Strategist at Digital Niche Agency that has worked with over 400 brands on data-driven and growth-marketing campaigns to effectively acquire users, customers, and investors. MacEwan dives into the inner workings of their agency and how they effectively acquire their own clients to drive growth.

What health insurance plans will be available next year on the private market? We talk with Pam MacEwan, CEO of the WA Health Benefit Exchange. Plus, WA Employment Security Commissioner Cami Feek on unemployment and long-term care insurance.

How do you cure stage fright, pure fear of public speaking, performance, anxiety, and impostor syndrome? Marti MacEwan joins Travis today to share her method of overcoming stage fright.     Conversation Highlights:   {01:05} Introduction of guest   {05:21} The fear of doing anything for someone else's consideration or enjoyment.   {06:38} A slick method to aid you in your fear of public speaking.   {10:51} Do you require yourself to have confidence in yourself.   {12:10} Introduction of the elements of the stage fright cure.   {18:35} Observe what conditions trigger this fear response in you individually and then arrange things.   {25:45} Dismantle with some precise techniques      Remarkable quotes:   A musician has confidence in the music they're presenting and all kinds of situations where you can.   That's one of the ways you can create some safety for yourself.   Even a lot of times, people have stage fright, and they think, oh, what's wrong with me? It isn't anything wrong with you; it's a triggered response that's happening in your system.   Observe what conditions trigger this fear response in you individually and then arrange things.   What you're doing is you're helping to reassure that part of your brain that all is well.   More people say they have a fear of public speaking than they do of death.      Resources:   www.linktr.ee.com/Marti_MacEwan  marti@stagefright.com  stagefright.com       Bio: Marti MacEwan  Marti MacEwan, long-time professional counselor, and coach is delighted to say: “I used to have stage fright, but I don't anymore.”   And she wants you to be able to say the same thing.  Marti has helped hundreds in business, academics, the professions, and performing arts become comfortable with speaking, presenting, leadership, interviews, test-taking, auditions, performances, audio, video, writing, and more.  She can help you, too.    Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links      Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org    Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect     Ultimate Podcast Guide https://www.fatfreecartpro.com/ecom/gb.php?&i=1698463&cl=377219&c=cart&ejc=2&custom=card  Subscribe and leave a review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nonprofit-architect-podcast/id1481292481  Patreon https://www.patreon.com/NonprofitArchitect  Watch on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQm8fnR2sHyrmLpV2jKYajA  Listen to these other great podcasts from Veterans. https://nonprofitarchitect.org/veteran-podcast-network/  Want help getting your podcast started? https://nonprofitarchitect.org/podcast-production-services/   

How do you cure stage fright, pure fear of public speaking, performance, anxiety, and impostor syndrome? Marti MacEwan joins Travis today to share her method of overcoming stage fright.     Conversation Highlights:   {01:05} Introduction of guest   {05:21} The fear of doing anything for someone else's consideration or enjoyment.   {06:38} A slick method to aid you in your fear of public speaking.   {10:51} Do you require yourself to have confidence in yourself.   {12:10} Introduction of the elements of the stage fright cure.   {18:35} Observe what conditions trigger this fear response in you individually and then arrange things.   {25:45} Dismantle with some precise techniques      Remarkable quotes:   A musician has confidence in the music they're presenting and all kinds of situations where you can.   That's one of the ways you can create some safety for yourself.   Even a lot of times, people have stage fright, and they think, oh, what's wrong with me? It isn't anything wrong with you; it's a triggered response that's happening in your system.   Observe what conditions trigger this fear response in you individually and then arrange things.   What you're doing is you're helping to reassure that part of your brain that all is well.   More people say they have a fear of public speaking than they do of death.      Resources:   www.linktr.ee.com/Marti_MacEwan  marti@stagefright.com  stagefright.com       Bio: Marti MacEwan  Marti MacEwan, long-time professional counselor, and coach is delighted to say: “I used to have stage fright, but I don't anymore.”   And she wants you to be able to say the same thing.  Marti has helped hundreds in business, academics, the professions, and performing arts become comfortable with speaking, presenting, leadership, interviews, test-taking, auditions, performances, audio, video, writing, and more.  She can help you, too.    Nonprofit Architect Podcast Links      Website: http://nonprofitarchitect.org    Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NonprofitArchitect     Ultimate Podcast Guide https://www.fatfreecartpro.com/ecom/gb.php?&i=1698463&cl=377219&c=cart&ejc=2&custom=card  Subscribe and leave a review https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nonprofit-architect-podcast/id1481292481  Patreon https://www.patreon.com/NonprofitArchitect  Watch on YOUTUBE https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQm8fnR2sHyrmLpV2jKYajA  Listen to these other great podcasts from Veterans. https://nonprofitarchitect.org/veteran-podcast-network/  Want help getting your podcast started? https://nonprofitarchitect.org/podcast-production-services/   

How do you cure stage fright, pure fear of public speaking, performance, anxiety, and impostor syndrome? Marti MacEwan joins Travis today to share her method of overcoming stage fright.   The full interview goes LIVE Tuesday, September 28th Interested in starting your own podcast? Let us do all the heavy lifting. Learn more at https://nonprofitarchitect.org/podcast-production-services/

Hello and welcome to The Some of All Fears podcast, celebrating 1 year of podcasting this weekend. This week my guest is Author and Therapist Marti MacEwan, who is a therapist specializing in stage fright something she has endured while pursuing her passion as a Jazz Singer. Marti has an amazing program assisting people in overcoming their stage fright while treating her own. In this episode we talk about our mutual fear of stage fright and ways we over came it, Jazz music and her Bi weekly rapid relief process, which has been updated with later times.   Check out Marti here https://stagefright.com https://stagefright.com/rapidrelief/ ( Bi Weekly Saturdays at 11:30 AM PDT (9:30 AM CST) ) https://www.facebook.com/marti.macewan https://www.facebook.com/TheStageFrightCure https://www.instagram.com/marti.macewan/   Follow the Show here https://www.twitter.com/somefearfans/ https://www.instagram.com/somefearfans Join the Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/someofallfears   Follow me here https://www.twitter.com/ryanperrio/ https://www.instagram.com/ryanperrio/ https://www.facebook.com/ryanperrio Credits  Art & Graphics - Barry Whitewater - https://www.instagram.com/bwhiteh2o Music - Gunnar Olsen - https://www.instagram.com/gunbuns/  Check out the website here https://www.gunnarolsen.net/

In this episode we are joined by Marti MacEwan and we discuss mindset and her rapid relief method.Marti MacEwan is a professional counselor and coach who has developed a specific technique for immediate emotional well-being and ongoing personal development called the Rapid Relief Process. She teaches the method in her free online class, Rapid Relief from Stress and Distress and uses the Rapid Relief Process as a key part of her Stage Fright Cure. You can find out more about all of this at rapidrelief.com or stagefright.com.Connect with Marti: stagefright.com, rapidrelief.com, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter. Or www.linktr.ee/Marti_MacEwan.comAbout Evelyn - The Fab Chieftess: I am a certified and accredited Transformation Mindset Life Coach. Mindset & Goal Setting Self-Development Women Empowerment EQ – Emotional Intelligence NLP – Neuro Linguistic Programming CBT - Cognitive Behavior Therapy REBT - Rational Behavior Therapy I help aspiring women with impostor syndrome, gain clarity and consistency, and overcome fear with my 4-step process in order to achieve their goals. Connect on social: Website: www.thefabchieftess.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/thefabchieftess Facebook: www.facebook.com/fab.chieftess Twitter: www.twitter.com/thefabchieftess Clubhouse: @thefabchieftess Shop Empowered Fashion: www.sheisfab.net Get freebies, join challenges, and subscribe for the newsletter: https://linktr.ee/thefabchieftess​ Featured on: CBS, NBC, and FOXSupport the show (https://www.paypal.me/thefabchieftess) Support the show (https://www.paypal.me/thefabchieftess) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Becky and special guest hosts Allysin Chaynes and Champagna turn the spotlight on two Queer Cinema classics that came out of the Outback in 1994: The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Muriel's Wedding.ABOUT ALLYSIN CHAYNES Allysin Chaynes is a Toronto drag performer and pop cultural sponge, specializing in all things subcultural, queer, camp, strange and unusual. A member of the SpeakeasyTv creative collective on Speakeasy-TV.com, Allysin is an online host, organizer and producer of Toronto's first digital queer venue. She can be seen across the city in drag bars, theatres, holes in the wall, dive bars and anywhere in-between. She's a time travelling, anachronistic rockstar, A DJ, A Live musician, and a performer of Magic. Allysin has been creating Drag wonder with queens from the West End for nearly a decade, especially alongside her Sisters in Toronto's House of Filth! You can currently catch her weekly on speakeasy-tv.com or streaming in the show Queens on CBC gem as Naomi.ABOUT CHAMPAGNA A graduate of MacEwan's Theatre Arts program and Centennial's Advanced Script to Screen, Champagna has an extensive background in acting, most recently in CBC Gem Original QUEENSas Elaina Love. Select credits include: POPPORN (OUTtv) SHADOWLANDS (OUTtv), POWER TEAM (ATCO Energy Theatre), MEAT PUPPET (Northern Light Theatre), JANE EYRE (Plain Jane Players) and her own works LOCK UP, and DO BETTER – a critique on TPS inaction. Champagna has conquered Toronto as Bent Beauty Supreme 2019, walking the runway for Hayley Elsaesser and opening for the likes of: Detox, Bob the Drag Queen, Kimchi, Thorgy Thor and Alyssa Edwards. Currently, she is in development for her series WOMB ENVY slated to film this summer. Got a question for the hosts, or want to know more about the show? You can always email us at podcast@hollywoodsuite.ca or reach out via one of the platforms below.WebsiteTwitterFacebookInstagram TikTok See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

It's a hard reality that mental illness and substance use often coincide. Combine these factors with poverty and social marginalization, and you have the snowballing problem known as "concurrent disorders." Dr. Bill MacEwan has spent the last 20+ years working with patients in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, a neighbourhood that is home to around 20,000 people with almost 25% of the people suffering from mental illness. He's also the medical lead for the city's Downtown Community Court psychiatric teams. Host Faydra Aldridge speaks with Dr. MacEwan about the intersection of mental illness, drugs, and the criminal justice system.Additional Resources: Dr. Bill MacEwan Bio Mental illness and significant cognitive impairment among marginalized adults in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside Profound suffering at the heart of our beautiful city seems to defy all attempts to relieve it The Hotel Study: Multimorbidity in a Community Sample Living in Marginal Housing Building Community Society - for more details about next steps Visions Journal: Concurrent Disorders (2004, Vol 2 (1)) Homelessness, Mental Health and Substance Use: Understanding the Connections (Canadian Institute of Substance Use Research) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Diane was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at the age of five. By the time she was ten, she was considered legally blind, and lost all sight in her 30's. Undaunted by this, Diane continues to achieve whatever goal she sets her sights on – from higher education: she has her Master of Arts in Leadership – to physical fitness: she recently completed an Ironman. What many would call a disadvantage, Diane has turned into an incredible strength. Through all of Diane's work, sport and volunteer activities, she demonstrates a commitment to improving the quality of life of all people. Diane is currently a Vice President for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, https://cnib.ca/ (CNIB) in a national and international advocacy role, and has held an array of other high-level positions in organizations that advocate for people with disabilities. She has held many positions responsible for organizational governance and public relations. Whether it's participating as secretary of her child's Parent Council, or President of the National Educational Association of Disabled Students, Diane brings together her experience and passion to the role. Diane is also a life-long learner. She is an alumnus of both the Management Studies and the Rehabilitation Practitioner programs at MacEwan University. She is also a graduate of MacEwan's Bachelor of Applied Human Services Administration program. Please enjoy this wide-ranging conversation with the incredible Diane Bergeron on Breaking Brave!  Thanks so much for listening to Breaking Brave! If you like the show, please subscribe, review, and/or send us your suggestions or questions via the platforms below! For more from Marilyn Barefoot or to get in touch with her directly, please connect via: Marilyn's website: https://marilynbarefoot.com/ (https://marilynbarefoot.com/ ) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilynbarefootbigideas/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilynbarefootbigideas/ ) Twitter: @MarilynBarefoot Instagram: @marilynbarefoot ABOUT Marilyn Barefoot, the Host of Breaking Brave: https://breaking-brave-with-mar.captivate.fm/listen (Breaking Brave) is Hosted byhttps://marilynbarefoot.com/ ( Marilyn Barefoot), one of the foremost business coaches & creative ideators in North America - Marilyn gets hired by several of the world's biggest brands, companies, and organizations (the NHL, McDonald's, Deloitte, Coca-Cola, MTV, Viacom, The CFL, Forbes Magazine; to name just a few) to help them get unstuck and generate big, creative ideas. It helps us so much to have your feedback which goes a really long way in helping us shape the future of Breaking Brave and host the guests you're most interested in hearing from! So if you have the time, please subscribe, review, and connect with Marilyn on social media or through her website! And as always, thanks so much for tuning in!

We all have a little bit of Stage Fright. Whether we are interviewing, introducing ourselves in a meeting, giving a big presentation, writing a blog post, or singing in front of hundreds or thousands, we all have a little bit of stage fright. Stage Fright expert, Marti MacEwan, defines stage fright, performance anxiety, and imposter syndrome; uncovers the source of those concepts, talks about what is actually happening biologically when we get stage fright, and offers a real solution for curing it. Marti MacEwan is a licensed, professional counselor and coach who specializes in stage fright, performance anxiety, and fear of public speaking for people in business, the arts, the professions, politics, and academics. She is the author and creator of, “The Stage Fright Cure” In This Interview 01:10 Marti discovers the source of her own struggle with Stage Fright03:57 A key insight started it all (brain vs. body)05:58 Definitions of Stage Fright, Performance Anxiety, and Imposter Syndrome09:29 The source of Stage Fright, Performance Anxiety, and Imposter Syndrome13:49 Getting out of stage fright is not just a cognitive decision process14:36 The connections between perceptions of past experiences and stage fright16:37 How the meaning of events change after you do “the work”17:41 Why people have stage fright18:17 What we carry with us over the years19:08 Holographic plates and our perceptions21:00 An example of someone who suffered from stage fright, and why22:37 The good news is…22:48 What is happening biologically when we have stage fright29:32 “Cafeteria plates”30:40 Why it's important to overcome stage fright33:30 Unimpeding energy36:23 The benefit of getting over stage fright37:41 The secret of this “cure”38:40 The Rapid Relief Process Framework41:22 How the Stage Fright Cure differs vastly from other stage fright solutions42:24 4 aspects of getting over Stage Fright45:30 An eye-opening take on “confidence”49:30 A case study of a dramatic turnaround51:51 How long does it take to get over Stage Fright?54:15 Marti's 1-2-3 success formula56:58 Marti's greatest lesson learned57:40 Marti's goal58:18 How to connect with Marti CONCEPTS AND RESOURCES TO GOOGLE * The Stage Fright Cure* Thought Field Therapy* Dr. Roger Callahan* The Rapid Relief Process* Stage Fright* Performance Anxiety* Imposter Syndrome* Amigdala* Hippocampus* Thalmus* Pituitary Glands* Adrenal Glands* Cortisol* Pre-Frontal Cortex* Vagus Nerve* Polyvagal System* Sympathetic Nervous System* Parasympathetic Nervous System* Autonomic Nervous System* Acupuncture System* Meridians* Chakras* Auric Field

Thanks for checking us out! You can find us on all our social media here. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IHGatMacewan/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/HistatMac Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/historyatmac/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcsB7Q-NyysE7TiR7vN442A?app=desktop Website: https://interdisciplinaryh.wixsite.com/mysite Transcription- Funky Music plays… Vik: Hello, my name is Viktoria Sloan: And I'm Sloan. We are two friends based in Edmonton, Alberta and are undergraduate students at Macewan University. Vik: I am studying for my History major and double minoring in classics and English. Sloan: I am double majoring in Sociology and History. VIK: And we are also your hosts for the Interdisciplinary History Podcast. This will be a show where we examine history through its relationships with other disciplines. Sloan: We decided to start producing this show because we believe that there is power in the way we understand the past. Vik: and that the greater perspective which comes from the interplay of intersectional approaches can have transformative potential Sloan: We believe that those who study history have a lot to offer and to learn from those who engage in other academic disciplines, and also just for humans who engage with other humans Vik: and that the perspectives, methodologies and theories of other disciplines lead to a deep, critical, and more meaningful understanding of the past Sloan: Through interviews, discussions, reviews, guest speakers and more, Vik and I will delve deeply into the interconnections between history and the lives we lead. Vik: With a lot of chuckles and bad puns of course. Sloan: And all the charming banter two socially awkward nerds can muster. Vik: You can find our podcast on your favourite podcast directory under Interdisciplinary History Pod or keep up to date with us on our social media. Sloan: On Facebook, you can find us by searching Interdisciplinary History Group at Macewan, or you can find us on Twitter and Instagram at the links in the description Vik: On any of these platforms, you will find a link to our website to find citations, bonus content, blog posts, information about events and more. From there, you can subscribe to our email list so you are notified every time we share something. Sloan: you can also get in touch with us through our website or social media if you have an idea/suggestion for a topic you'd like us to explore. Vik: and before we sign off we would like to acknowledge that this podcast is produced in Edmonton on Treaty 6 land, the traditional gathering place for many indigenous people. We honour and respect the history, languages, ceremonies and culture of the First Nations, Métis and Inuit who call this territory home. Sloan: Our first episode will be up sometime in the last week of October. Stay tuned and stay safe! Vik: (whispers) Wear a mask. And not just for Halloween. Funky music fades out. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/interdis-history-group/message

Charles Keim discuss's his career as a professor at the University of Macewan along with many other topics regarding Education. Professor Charles has 2 PhD's - one of them being how we use language to create conflict in business! . Charles Keim is currently teaching management at @macewanu along with MBA courses on leadership @cbuniversity. Believe it or not, he has have been in school for more than 30 years. . Along the way, he raced motorcross, worked underground with explosives, was a tree climber, lived in Montreal, lived with his Amish relatives in Ohio. . Later on Charles met the girl of his dreams and got engaged within a month (believe it or not). He now has 4 kids and the funnest family ever! . Keim's dream is to write a book on Shakespeare and Leadership that is fun to read and helpful. His philosophy of teaching is simple: the material is irrelevant--its the students who matter. . One of his tell tale favorite sayings is "What do I see in your eyes? It is more than all the books that I have read" Walt Whitman. Yes, Keim's 1st PhD was in literature; and in his own words "if you want to see the force of human genius... read Shakespeare; if you want to see the insignificance of human learning, read his critics."   Find us on all streaming platforms : Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Stitcher Instagram @2ndfloorpodcast Facebook @2ndfloorpodcast Your Hosts on Instagram Kenny Bhullar @Kenny_Bhullar Omid Qaderi @Qashus