Bekah Bowman (Episode 6)

Bekah Bowman is a coach's wife, a special needs mom, speaker, and author of Can't Steal My Joy. She is passionate about bridging the gap between churches and families with disabilities.  On this episode, she shares her story raising two sons with terminal illnesses, how joy and grief can coexist, and her vision for how …

Jamie Corbin (Episode 5)

Jamie Corbin is an educator and storyteller who has been navigating whiteness and non-whiteness her entire life thanks to her own interracial adoption at birth and her interracial marriage to her best friend, Kelvin, in 2011.  She is raising her three Afro-Latina daughters to change the world with love, by first loving themselves deeply and …

April Kolman (Episode 4)

April Kolman is the host of the No Ordinary People podcast and while she prefers the conversations she has with other people on the show, in this episode, she gets to share about her own story. She shares how she went from staunch Republican with highly conservative values to writing in the name of social …

Charity Lewis (Episode 3)

Charity Lewis is the host of the podcast Charity Speaks, a candid conversation at the intersection of Christianity, Blackness and Womanhood. Charity has the heart of a shepherd, is a student of Torah, and has a passion to "act justly, love mercy, and live humbly." She is a community advocate with degrees in law and public …

Shawanda Bonner Morgan (Episode 1)

Shawanda Bonner Morgan is a dear friend and a high school teacher in Lakeland, Florida. In this episode, she shares with us about her pandemic wedding, the importance of story, how she connects with her students, and the impact we have on one another. She opens up in a vulnerable way about her own story …

My 1st Anti-racist 4th

I’ve been dreading this holiday for weeks. Normally, I’m here for it all- friends, family, food, fireworks. I’m big on tradition; have been my whole life. And there’s just something so simple and fun about the 4th. I love the expectation and fanfare of it all. The thing about tradition is its comforting rhythm. It …