Fare of the Free Child
289 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 months ago - ★★★★★ - 252 ratingsFare of the Free Child podcast focuses on Black people, Native Indigenous people, and People of Color (BIPOC) families who practice unschooling and other forms of Self-directed, decolonized living and learning. Each weekly episode examines a particular way that we’ve accepted coercive, emotionally and physically damaging habits as a normal part of adult-child relationships. With a focus on deschooling one’s self, decolonizing education, and exploring radical self-expression, this podcast challenges and informs us to walk toward a model for living with children that believes in trusting and respecting children and ourselves. #fofcpod #raisingfreepeople
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Ep 270: Following Our Rhythm, Knowing When to Let Go
August 17, 2023 23:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBWhadddup, Listener homie! I hope you're listening to this final episode thinkin' Daang, Akilah really helped me get more aligned with the type of person I wanna be. Who are you now that you have experienced some of these conversations here on the podcast? My answer to that question is that I am more zoned in on the embodiment of the unschooling skills, which currently look like: Shifting my seminary studies from interfaith/interspiritual ministerial ordination to Integrative Thanatology...
Ep 269: Let's Notice How Whiteness Shows Up in Us Too, Boo!
August 07, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBHave you ever wondered how grief and loss might pave a pathway toward spiritual growth? In this penultimate episode of Fare of the Free Child podcast, I share with you the fourth path in my care package to this community. Sharing Season 9 reflections, Chemay Morales-James, Vanessa Molano, Jasai Madden, Stori, and I bring to life our experiences in this liberation walk. Engaging in a candid exploration of spirituality, manifestation, magic, and money, we unravel the ways it has shaped our liv...
Ep 268: Freedom Is For Your Grown Ass Too!
July 29, 2023 03:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBJoin Akilah as she journeys through the third path to Raising Free People: For Me not Them. Learn the languaging that helps you, the adult, the independent person, move through discovering confident autonomy and other themes that come through as you traverse the pathway of personal leadership. This week we continue our exploration into liberation and self-direction from Seasons 6, 7, and 8. Among those who got their flowers are Yolonda Coles Jones, Leslie W. Bray, and Vanessa Molano, who ha...
Ep 267: It Ain't About Just Doing School Tings at Home!
July 21, 2023 10:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBMoving away from school-centric culture and the performances we got going on is a very real thing that one listener voiced and we're sharing it here in this episode. We're diving deep into this topic, addressing the importance of honoring our children's confident autonomy and moving away from the ingrained schoolishness we perform at home. We're exploring this through one listener's transformative story, lessons from my personal parenting journey, and the integrated perspectives that Savori...
Ep 266: Starting a Journey of Trust and Discovery with Unschooling
July 15, 2023 07:00 - 8 minutes - 5.73 MBA 6-minute offering for the beginner’s path. Start a journey of discovery, trusting that learning comes from various sources - many of which can't be measured on a conventional scale. May this bonus 6-minute offering on Fare of the Free Child serve you well! Be sure to listen to Episode 265 for more on the starter/beginner path too! We're throwing some critical questions in the mix with some MQA, inviting you to question the rules and agreements we've held ourselves and our children to. A...
Ep 265: New to This; Not Quite True To This
July 10, 2023 22:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBIf you've been searching and asking about some of the most innovative minds in the realm of unschooling, youth rights, and liberation, names like Zakkiyya Chase, Moji Yai, Lane Santa Cruz, and Dr. Sundiata should ring a bell. Some of our most listened-to early dialogues included ones with Ieishah Clelland-Lang and Lou Wilkerson. We detangled topics like Black maternal mortality rates, intuition, trust, and deschooling. Their insights set the stage for seasons two and three of Fare of the F...
Ep 264: From Schoolish to Sovereign to Savorist
June 29, 2023 13:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBIn this episode, we'll explore the concept of savorism, a term Akilah coined to savor the spaciousness, slowness, and richness that comes from integrated unschooling. Sit with us for storytime about how Akilah's family made the shift from conventional school to homeschooling to unschooling. It was an experience that caused her and her partner to pause, reflect, and listen more to their children's needs. Hear how they fought against the 'stuckness' of conventional schooling and forged their...
Ep 263: Unschooling as Resistance: A Look Back at Season One
June 22, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBEver wondered how unschooling and liberation work intersect? Join us for a nostalgic trip down memory lane as we delve into the first season of Fare of the Free Child podcast. We discuss my personal journey to unschooling and how moving away from a school-centric life connected to liberation work. In this episode, we give a special shout out to Juan Perez, our beloved audio editor! We also celebrate the various topics, conversations, and stories from season one that have left a lasting imp...
Ep 262: Gratitude, Growth, and Endings: A Tribute to the Unschooling Movement
June 14, 2023 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.2 MBWhat happens when we eulogize an elder who has guided us on our journey of unschooling, decolonizing education, and raising free people? Join me in this heartfelt final season as we celebrate the transformative energy of unschooling and the legacy of Self-Directed Education. Together, we'll explore the three containers of explainers, affirmations, and insights that will guide us through this final season, reflecting on the wisdom and experiences we've gained from Fare of the Free Child. A...
Ep 261: Communal Care Ain’t Separate from Business Here!
December 25, 2022 08:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MBAhhh….what an accomplishment! Our penultimate season reaches it’s finale… and ya’ll what a season it has been!! Manifestation, magic, bridges, money as a tool, and the community that is MRM Village! We talk about how networking is actually all about creating community and linking up with folks who are willing to support each other’s missions. Chemay talks about her intuition-led path to MRM’s updated business model that centers relationships, not dollars! We learn how Chemay and Vanessa c...
Ep 260: Vanessa Molano on Abundance as a We Thing, Not a Me Thing
December 10, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34.5 MBWhat is abundance culture? And what does pausing have to do with sustained abundance? These are some of the questions Vanessa Molano (our resident party animal + book nerd) asks us to explore in this conversation. "I designed a spreadsheet to help you manage your bone$ and circulate that shit." - Vanessa Madd Question Askin' from this convo: What are some of the alternative ways we can do what we’re trying to do, without the harm? How do you manage money in a way where you measure suc...
Ep 259: Tuning Into "Spiritual Tech" with Stori + Jasai of Alaiyo Waistbeads
November 25, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBIn this episode, and through the season, we are inviting you to listen, to notice, and to feel through what these conversations evoke for you; within you. Madd Question Askin' What new language is forming for you? What are you resisting? What are you allowing? What are you reframing and reimagining? Are you already using spiritual tech in your life? What does that look like? Are you finding ways to introduce play/playfulness into your days? What infuses more joy into just being? Wha...
Ep 258: Origin Stories | Remembering Some, Releasing Others
November 17, 2022 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBWhat is your connection to your origin story? Do you feel tied to your origin in ways that feel good and grounding? Or do you feel tethered to something that doesn’t quite feel like you? What do you think about when you read or hear the words Origin Story, anyway? Do you think about the start of your actual life? Or a particular relationship? A specific place? A type of food? An event? On this episode, you’ll hear some of me (Akilah) and Naaz’s (aka Fatima’s) origin story—how we met, ...
Ep 257: Spirituality and Intuition in This Self-directed Life
November 08, 2022 23:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBThis is the first episode of Season 9 and we’re delighted to dive into the work of shifting our spiritual and intuitive work to include our raising free people practice. This feels important because while some of us might already see the connection between our commitment to raising free people and the cultivation of our spiritual and intuitive practices, not all of us do. For some of us, the weight, pressure, and pace of our daily responsibilities make that particularly difficult to name, le...
Ep 256: Season 9 Preview - Tuning In To The Themes
October 20, 2022 14:00 - 6 minutes - 4.76 MBAs we continue our preparation for Season 9, you are invited to listen as Naaz (also known as Fatima) Mookadam tell us what showed up for her as she listened to Akilah S. Richards’s conversation with Dr. Crystal Menzies. You’ll hear much of that conversation in Season 9, so for now, hear Fatima’s insights and Akilah’s invitation to you. If you missed our first teaser, listen to it here. We are so excited to be centering the voices of five women who are deep in their own deschooling journey! ...
Ep 255: Season 9 Preview - Notes from the other side of the Pause
September 28, 2022 16:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MBWhat's on the other side of a pause? Last season, we leaned into a focused pause, over and over, episode by episode. We also took that pause with us when the episode ended, and now we are ready to slow-walk our way into what arose for us, and for you. Listen as Naazneen (also known as Fatima) Mookadam and Akilah S. Richards speak to some of the themes we'll be sharing this season. You'll hear the voices of all five women who are centered in season 9. Here they are in the order you heard th...
Ep 254: Listening Party for ‘E. for Exploration
June 04, 2022 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MBGrief. Avoidance. Funky energies. We’re wrapping up Season 8 with all kinds of feelings in the mix. How do we embrace or transform these feelings as they arise? That’s the pausewerk, and this week we arrive at E, for Exploration. “Noticing your behavior in that moment is about noticing that moment, which is really powerful. It grounds you in the now.” Akilah encourages us to trust the wisdom that emerges from a pause, and Domari shares a story speaking to this experience. Domari reminds us...
Ep 253: E. for Exploration What are some resources you can tap into, based on where you are right now?
May 28, 2022 12:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBThe second to last episode in season 8 is live, #fofcpod fam! This week’s inquiry is about the E (for Exploration) in our P.A.U.S.E. acronym. We’re also sharing some post-season offerings and spaces, so be sure to take notes on the things that perk your ears up! These spaces help us find community and connection and are tools to decolonize and revisit our relationships and practices while we navigate through this deschooling journey with our #pausewerk tools in hand and in heart. Madd Quest...
Ep 252: Listening Party for ‘S. for Sorting and Shedding
May 18, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBPeace #fofcpod fam! This week, Domari is in the buildin’ for our Listening Party Live Chat,and she and Akilah share some experiences and examples of zoning in on the letter S. in P.A.U.S.E. We also continue speaking about the differences between practice and process. As we question what Sorting and Shedding look like, our hosts share some examples where pause work might be effective. What can we notice or re-imagine in our relationships, language, and self-care? DISCUSSION POINTS Domari ta...
Ep 251: S. for Sorting and Shedding - What’s good for YOUR family?
May 11, 2022 16:00 - 14 minutes - 9.92 MBThis week in Episode 251, we droppin’ gems around the S. in P.A.U.S.E. S. is for Sorting and Shedding. Domari (put her links here as usual) starts us off with a nursery rhyme remix to remind us about the side effects of neglecting to slow it on down sometimes! This week, Akilah offers us seven distinctions between process and practice. She reminds us about a convo with Tiersa McQueen Think about what feels present, the models of living and learning that you practice, and what you might need...
Ep 250 - Listening party for ‘U. for Understanding’
May 05, 2022 01:00 - 45 minutes - 31.7 MBPeace, #fofcpod fam! This week we’re still focused on the letter U for understanding as part of our P.A.U.S.E.werk. Domari (of Positive and Purposeful Parenting) and Akilah hosted the listening party, and Jonie, Reese, Ana Maria, and Erica joined live to share and hear feedback and touchpoints. Together, they reflected and inquired about our relationship with understanding, how autonomy and trust are intertwined, the many layers around discomfort, compassion, trust, and then some. Let’s agr...
Ep. 249: U for Understanding
April 28, 2022 17:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBThis week we’re focused on the letter U for understanding in our P.A.U.S.E.werk. Listen as we talk about the language of conscious parenting, the difference between dialogue and discussion, and then some. Domari and Akilah take us through some of their noticings about how understanding and control impact their relationships, and not just as mothers. Also, be ready for an insightful convo about an Instagram post where Ieishah Clelland (our Season 7 Co-Producer) questioned gentle parenting as...
Ep 248: Listening Party Replay for ‘A. is for Absences’
April 21, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes - 27 MBWelcome #fofcpod fam! This episode is the continuation of our Listening Party Replay around the letter A (for Absences) in PAUSE. We’ll be inquiring more about what’s missing, understanding, compassion, and boundaries as we navigate through the ups and downs that may arise from this PAUSEwerk. Domari of Positive and Purposeful Parenting is in da house along with Ana Maria, Lou, Antoinette, and Joni who joined us in the Live Chat. Let's get into it! Domari named some of the things she has be...
Ep. 247 A for Absent: What feels missing in your current relationships?
April 14, 2022 14:00 - 15 minutes - 10.7 MBHere we go #fofcpod friends! Let’s continue with this 70-day PAUSE journey, along with the amazing Domari Dickinson of Positive and Purposeful Parenting. P is for Pain Points A is for absences U is for understanding S for sorting or shedding E for exploration Episode 247 is part one of the Listening Party around the letter A (for Absences) in PAUSE, so we’re offering you affirmations and snippets from conversations all in service of our current PAUSEwerk. What’s missing? What feels los...
Ep 246: Listening Party for “P. is for Pain Points”
April 07, 2022 11:00 - 23 minutes - 16.4 MBThis week on #fofcpod we're serving insightful thoughts, feedback, and resources based on our current PAUSEwerk flow. The letter of the week is P, for Pain Points: What’s the matter? What took you here? What things feel like pain, discomfort, uncertainty? What is coming up for you and for the people that you’re closest to right now? This episode is our first Listening Party, the space where we focus on your feedback about an aspect of pausing, as well as our own insights and struggles. Ak...
Ep 245: P for Pain Points: What’s hurting you? What’s hurting them?
March 31, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.7 MBIt’s storytime #fofcpod fam and we‘re so excited to continue with this 70-day PAUSE journey along with the amazing Domari Dickinson of Positive and Purposeful Parenting. Ep 245 is live! We’re listening and taking a look at the skills that are happening in between the defined things. In this episode in particular, we are observing the ways we react to our pain points, so breathe in, breathe out, pull out your pause pad, take some notes, and let’s play together! Remember that we’re in the pro...
Ep 244: There is Real Power in the Pause tho!
March 24, 2022 13:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBSeason 8 is here and we are kickin’ it with the homie, Domari Dickinson of Positive and Purposeful Parenting. She is our co-producer for the season, and we’re in alignment about the need to spend all season on the importance of slowing down, and pausing. We’ve got invitations, resources, and some songs too! We are so grateful to you all #fofcpod fam and Make it Happen family for your love and connection throughout this journey. Our team got some rest, and we’re back with this focus, so we h...
Ep 243: Seasonal Slow-downs and Shoutouts
December 31, 2021 14:00 - 42 minutes - 29.7 MBEnding season 7 with gratitude, reminders, and major writing mojo Closing out season seven with major gratitude for you, #fofcpod fam! Your feedback and encouragement have been part of an active listening practice that opens up our mindset to different possibilities as we grow this village of/for people raising and being free people. This episode brings us some resources, reminders, and clues of what’s to come in season eight. See you in a few months! Here are the Season 7 series in case y...
Ep 242: Expansion and Feedback About Language
December 24, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBWe're continuing our language vibe this week on #fofcpod episode! First, you'll hear from Juan Pablo Pérez, audio manager of Fare of the Free Child, as he shares his thoughts on Episode 241: Freeing Your Approach to Language Studies (with Marley Richards). He talks about his experience as a Spanish native speaker who, like Marley, taps into language as a way of developing an identity that includes more than the culture he was born into. Juan's interests in music, for example, sit outside his...
Ep 241: Freeing Your Approach to Language Studies (with Marley Richards)
December 16, 2021 14:00 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome #fofcpod fam! Today's vibe is insightful conversation about language acquisition, culture, and how to learn stuff, with seventeen year-old unschooler, Marley Richards. Japanese and Korean languages are integrated parts of Marley's daily practices, so she shares with us some of the ways these languages have influenced and impacted her identity as a Black girl. Marley also speaks about some of the tools she uses for language study. What are some ways you can support your/a child in ex...
Ep 240: Series closing: Māori Mother Wisdom
December 09, 2021 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBThis week on #fofcpod we are closing the Māori Mother Wisdom series about liberation-centered parenting and living. We've had the pleasure of connecting with Māori stories from Mea Rapata, Angella Smith, Moana Reihana, and Tina Talaić. These are select excerpts from our feel trip (live group meetups about our episodes), where Akilah and our series co-producer, Ieishah Clelland-Lang, vibed with Mea, Angella, and some of our Village family. We reflect on the importance of the trustworthiness o...
Ep 239: Vibin' off Māori Mother Wisdom (The 'Feedback' Episode)
December 02, 2021 14:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MB#Maddquestionaskin What does it mean to own your sense of sovereignty? Welcome to another #fofcpod episode. As you know we’re in the thick of the wonderful Māori Mother Wisdom series, and are vibrating with gratitude for your engagement with us, in all of this goodness. We kick off this episode with feedback from author, speaker, activist and educator Sonya Renee Taylor who has been listening to this series and loving it! We also share some feedback we’ve gotten from Jonie, Yolande, Got2BO...
Ep 238: On Māori Mother Wisdom (The 'Old Knowings' Episode)
November 26, 2021 14:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBWelcome #fofcpod fam! We’re getting into our second exploration on the Māori series co-produced with the incredible Ieishah Clelland-Lang. This 4-part series centers Māori unschooling mothers’ knowledge and narratives, to invite us to deepen our understandings of the layers within motherhood, childhood, community, and culture. Join us and listen to Ieishah’s conversations with Angella Smith and Tina Talaić, plus a a bit more from Akilah. If you're feeling these episodes, don’t miss our Feel...
Ep 237: On Māori Mother Wisdom (The Language Episode)
November 18, 2021 14:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBBasically this: We talk about reclaiming language, sovereignty, relationship with motherhood, community, culture, intergenerational relationships, childhood, ancestors, and unschooling among other key topics. In this episode you will hear about intentional living and parenting why's and what's in Te Reo Māori (Māori language) and also in English. The whole story... #fofcpod has teamed up with brilliant writer, nomad, and unschooling mama, Ieishah Clelland-Lang to co-produce this 4-part se...
Ep 236: Can we deschool our approach to holiday/family stress?
November 11, 2021 14:00 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBThis week on #fofcpod, we’re inquiring about the idea of an unbothered child. Is “unbothered” a status reserved for worthy adults? Or can children claim it too? We’re moving through some thoughts around liberation work and education perceptions that center the decolonization of intergenerational practices, so this also means Madd Question Askin’ time! Listen in as Akilah acknowledges how our family members and friends might feel about unschooling during the holidays, and some of them may no...
Ep 235: Building the Very Things We Need
November 05, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBWelcome to another #fofcpod episode! We hope that you enjoyed Fare of the Free (Man) Child series as much as we did. Thanks to Tony for co-producing these insightful conversations around masculinity, identity, adulthood, diversity, childhood, gender, and other topics that resonated with us. We had the chance to question, name things, deschool and discuss—it was so good, and so necessary! In case you haven’t heard, here are some previous episodes with Anthony: Ep 12: How He's Using His Gift...
Ep. 234: Kris joins Tony for the recap of #fofmanchild (Feel Trip)
October 27, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBWe're closing out Tony Galloway's series on manhood and masculinity this week, and the convo, as usual, is fyah! Kris Richards joins Tony to wrap up this season's Fare of the Free (Man) Child series with reflections from past episodes and current events. The two talk about identity, adulthood, diversity, childhood, gender, manhood, power dynamics, masculinity, and some of the different labels around those topics. Because definitions are always going to be biased to our experiences, they disc...
Ep. 234: Kris joins Tony for the recap of #fofmanchild (Feel Trip)
October 27, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 43.8 MBWe're closing out Tony Galloway's series on manhood and masculinity this week, and the convo, as usual, is fyah! Kris Richards joins Tony to wrap up this season's Fare of the Free (Man) Child series with reflections from past episodes and current events. The two talk about identity, adulthood, diversity, childhood, gender, manhood, power dynamics, masculinity, and some of the different labels around those topics. Because definitions are always going to be biased to our experiences, they disc...
Ep 233: Deschooling Manhood and Masculinity
October 20, 2021 13:00 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBWelcome to another #fofcpod episode! As you know, October is Fare of the Free Man Child month, so get comfy and join our special host Tony Galloway Jr. in conversation with ten of his college fellas: Elijah Martin, Terry Lyles, Travis Amsterdam, Markyle Rondon, Kyle Moore, Sheps King, Fred Spite, Henri Battiste, Deshon Jones, and Curtis Webb. Each shares their thoughts on gender roles, accountability, and the complexity in naming masculinity due to the many layers around its meaning. Tony a...
Ep 232: Learning (and Unlearning) Masculinity
October 13, 2021 13:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBWelcome #fofcpod fam! We are so excited to share a new episode with our special host Anthony “Tony” Galloway Jr. This is Tony's third venture on the Fare of the Free Man Child series. If you missed the first two episodes go check them out: Episode 215: Fare of the Free Man Child (A Tony Galloway Ting). Episode 224: Deschooling Adulthood with Tony Galloway In this episode Tony and two of his college roommates, Anthony D. Janifer and Stanley D. Cochran Jr., explore their perspectives around...
Ep 231: New Moon, New Wounds, Same Resistance
October 06, 2021 13:00 - 27 minutes - 19 MBThis episode is so that we can bring some new moon energies as we understand them, to some of Akilah’s motherwork, to the ways that she is continuing to understand resistance from the perspective of her daughters resisting things, sometimes resisting her, but other times resisting things that she feels like they should not resist, things that they should accept, things that feel important or healthy for them to accept. If you've been rocking with us here, you know we've talked about version...
Ep 230: Marley on Studies, Reflections, and Self-Inquiry
September 29, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes - 13.4 MBSubject Sprint: a learning method for designing a mindful approach towards learning and structure in a sustainable way. - Marley What does productivity look like and feel like when we get to choose topics that interest us? #maddquestionaskin This week on #fofcpod, Marley Richards, 17-year-old unschooler and SDE advocate, brings a follow-up from Episode 193: Developing a Self-directed Mindset. She speaks about her learning struggles in 2020, and the ways she used Subject Sprints to re-cent...
Ep 229: Flowing into Season 7 like…
September 24, 2021 13:00 - 16 minutes - 11.5 MBWe’re back from our much-needed break and ready to rock with you for Season 7 to continue this journey together of healing, exploration, liberation and change. Thank you for being part of our #fofcpod fam! This season we’ll keep our three-part flow, with a few deviations from that structure wherever it feels right. Here's what to expect during Season 7: This season our contribution to the many ways we invest in our liberation from tools of oppression will include continued collaborating wi...
Ep 228: Mobile Black reads, more feel trips, and two Open House invites
August 02, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 11.3 MBJust dropping by with an in-between seasons episode filled with invitations and big announcements! #fofcpod Sign up to the email list for Raising Free People Workshop 2021, this year we'll be focusing on Discomfort and Discovery, so join us for a virtual workshop divided in two segments, one on Family: Adult-child dynamics, parenting, the other (the Grown folks segment) will discuss Adult relationship dynamics, particularly in marriage/romantic involvement. Be sure to visit Black Worldsch...
Ep 227: Feel Trip Replay | Deschooling Our Marriage
July 10, 2021 13:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBWe’re so excited to share our Feel Trip recap and final episode of Season Six. We will be playing some snippets from a live conversation that Akilah and Kris had with some of our listeners and Make It Happen Family members. They reflect on trust, language, destination peddling (nope, that ain’t a typo), and how all of those things affect our most important relationships. They also chat about the opportunities for facing and resolving our struggles with attachments. Watch the video of the ent...
Ep 226: (Feedback) Deschooling Our Marriage
July 07, 2021 13:00 - 20 minutes - 14.3 MBIt’s the second-to-last episode of Season Six, and today we’re going back in time to our Season One intro while we reminisce for a bit. Later this week, on July 10th we’ll play a clip from Episode 0 to celebrate our 5th anniversary! Today though, you’ll hear what some of our listeners had to say about last week’s episode Episode 225: Deschooling Our Marriage (Pt 1) and about Episode 224: Deschooling Adulthood with Tony Galloway. And one listener, Dani McClain has a great book you should che...
Ep. 225: Deschooling Our Marriage (Pt 1)
June 30, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBThis week on #fofcpod: We are now all up in Part 1 of this 3-part season finale flow! Listen to this insightful conversation between Akilah, her partner Kris, and their oldest daughter, Marley. They process their feelings out loud about how trust, language, and "destinations" help us move from performance and fake-assness over to practicing authenticity and partnership in our relationships. Stay tuned for our Feel Trip with Kris and Akilah on July 6, 8:30 pm EST. Make sure you don’t miss any...
Ep 224: Deschooling Adulthood with Tony Galloway
June 23, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.7 MBFirst, a special Thank You to all of the people that have contributed to translate Raising Free People book to Spanish, we’re almost there! / Gracias a quienes han colaborado para traducir el libro Raising Free People al idioma Español, ¡ya casi llegamos a la meta! -- Welcome to Anthony “Tony” Galloway, Jr’s second Fare of the Free Man Child episode. Missed the first episode? We gotchu... Episode 215: Fare of the Free Man Child (A Tony Galloway Ting). Tony is co-founder, director, and faci...
Ep 223: Karema Akilah #ATL #Unschooling
June 16, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBThis week’s #fofcpod episode is a solo jawn, mainly because Akilah wanted to share the local community spotlight segment that will be part of Season 7. So, expect for the 3-part episode flow to be accented by single episodes like this one and Fare of the Free Man Child with another ATL local, Anthony “Tony” Galloway, Jr. who you’ll hear next week. Today’s guest is brilliant entre/edupreneur, Karema Akilah Greene from The Genius School. So much goodness in here! Karema shares how she got int...
Ep 222: Feel Trip | Untigering with Iris Chen (Pt. 3)
June 12, 2021 16:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBWelcome again Fare of the Free Child community! In episode 222 you’ll hear excerpts from our feel trip with Iris Chen, author of Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent along with our fellow unschooler, Tiersa McQueen. Iris and Akilah talk about multigenerational learning and unlearning, the differences between respect and relationship with the elders, collective change, cultural distance, relationship skills and how we can feel honored and honor other people too, ...