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Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends: Intentional Relating, Decolonized Love, and the Courage to Choose YourselfThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comSome conversations don’t follow an outline… they follow truth.This week’s Friday with Friends episode with Chaneé Jackson Kendall is one of those. No rigid questions. No forced structure. Just two people who trust each other enough — and know the work deeply enough — to let the conversation go exactly where it needed to go.What unfolded was a living, breathing exploration of intentional relating, community as foundation, and what it actually looks like to decolonize love, spiri...
2025-12-1306 min
Let’s Have The ConversationGiving without self abandonmentThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comEvery season asks something different of us.And winter, Season of Self — this sacred descent inward — asks us to tell the truth about what we’ve been carrying, what we’ve been giving, and what it has been costing us.Today’s podcast episode walked us straight into that truth: a reckoning with the ways giving has been weaponized under empire, and an invitation to reclaim generosity as something rooted in dignity, not depletion.Beneath the stories, the laught...
2025-12-1007 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Cycles we don’t seeEvery December like clockwork, the same patterns crawl back to the surface. Not because they’re new — but because dominant culture keeps repeating them, choosing comfort over accountability, performance over transformation, and the “lesser evil” over liberation.Today’s piece is the companion article to my live session, and it’s also the bridge between last year’s series and what we’re navigating right now. Because the truth is simple: these cycles haven’t changed. They’ve only gotten louder.👇🏾 Keep reading.The Feeling You Know Before You Name ItEvery December has a feeli...
2025-12-081h 03
Let’s Have The ConversationFRAMily, faith, and the inner arc of knowingThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWe Are the Furlings: Alignment, Inner Knowing, and Liberation with LeahTThere are some friendships that don’t just witness your evolution — they midwife it.Today’s Friday with Friends on Let’s Have the Conversation was one of those sacred full-circle moments. I brought my framly, Leah, back on the podcast — my neighborhood witch, my birth-chart-on-speed-dial, my “you’re not allowed to shrink anymore” person.If you’ve ever read my work and thought, “How is this so on ti...
2025-12-0506 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Stories We Are ToldThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comBefore we step into Bethlehem, I want you to sit with this:Most of what you’ve been told about this story wasn’t a lie.It was the truth, flattened.Just like the McDonald’s “hot coffee lady” (a story we all thought we knew, until we learned the truth behind the propaganda.)Bethlehem is the same.Jesus is the same.Christianity is the same.A familiar story, stripped of its edges, softened f...
2025-12-0407 min
Let’s Have The ConversationNot Consuming Our Way Through the HolidaysIf time doesn’t feel real right now, you’re not malfunctioning.Between school breaks, end-of-year work parties, sales drowning your socials, and systems demanding cheer while your body is demanding truth, we’re all suspended in that weird week/month where the calendar looks like a suggestion, not structure.So before we talk about consumption and giving, I need you to do one thing for yourself first:Somatic PauseUnclench your jaw.Drop your tongue from where it’s bracing.Let your inhale reach your belly without apologizing for how tired it...
2025-12-0156 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhite Women Waking Up to Intersectional TruthThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWhiteness handed you a script on how to belong, lead, and stay comfortable — but somewhere between the lessons and the living, that script started to feel small, thin, and suffocating. It didn’t give you culture. It didn’t give you community. And it definitely didn’t give you permission to be a full human without a hierarchy attached.The wild thing is this:You’ve always felt the fractures before you had the language for them.This conve...
2025-11-2900 min
Let’s Have The ConversationGrief Is Love + Holidays Are MirrorsThe holidays pull the curtain back, every single time. The kind your body speaks before your mouth ever does.And today, you’re one day away from a national holiday that many of us now recognize as steeped in mythology built to obscure violence against Indigenous nations on this land. That matters. It deserves acknowledgment. It deserves collective reckoning.But here’s the paradox we have to name without flinching:This is the same empire that runs on extraction, burnout, and urgency. It demands productivity under duress, glorifies endless labor, manufactures scarcity, and then...
2025-11-2654 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDebugging & Decoding Patriarchal ProgrammingThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThere are some conversations that don’t announce themselves as teachings — they unfold. They reveal. They stretch us past the surface and pull us into the marrow of what we know but rarely name.This session with Ukumbwa Sauti was exactly that.We didn’t come in with talking points. We didn’t follow a script. We let the truth lead.And what emerged was a beautifully layered reckoning with patriarchy, community, loss, and the long-haul work of liberation.The...
2025-11-2207 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhat You Learned to Call Belonging Was Actually ComplianceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comBefore I get into today’s lesson, I want to say thank you.Losing my main Facebook account — losing my stories, my community, losing the people who have been building this work with me in real-time — was a grief I did not expect. One minute I had a digital home filled with memories, conversations, healing, inside jokes, and threads going back 17 years… and the next, it was gone. No notification. No warning. Just gone.And so many of you h...
2025-11-2006 min
Intermittent Fasting StoriesEpisode 493: Desiree SlusherIn this episode of Intermittent Fasting Stories, Gin talks to Desiree Slusher from Round Rock, Texas.Are you ready to take your intermittent fasting lifestyle to the next level? There’s nothing better than community to help with that. In the Delay, Don’t Deny community we all embrace the clean fast, and there’s just the right support for you as you live your intermittent fasting lifestyle. You can connect directly with Gin in the Ask Gin group, and she will answer all of your questions personally. If you’re new to intermittent fasting or recommit...
2025-11-2053 min
Let’s Have The ConversationGuilt is not accountabilityThere’s a myth that supremacy culture handed all of us; directly, indirectly, through family systems, school systems, religious systems, even workplace policies:“If you feel guilty, you’re being accountable.”But guilt is not accountability.Guilt is collapse.Guilt is emotional performance.Guilt is avoidance dressed up like virtue.And in today’s episode, we broke down exactly why guilt keeps us stuck and why responsibility is the doorway back into alignment, connection, and liberation.Before you go further, take a breath with me.Let your shoulders lower.Let your jaw unclen...
2025-11-1754 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends Equity over ExtractionThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comToday’s Friday With Friends was a whole sermon on what it means to build a business that doesn’t betray your values.I sat down with Kay Coughlin , CEO of Facilitator On Fire, who has been behind the scenes helping me stay on task, sort the swirl in my brain into an actual roadmap, and keep Make Shi(f)t Happen growing in ways that are aligned with liberation, not grind culture.Kay works with justice-minded lead...
2025-11-1407 min
Let’s Have The ConversationAccountability Without ShameThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThere’s a moment when awareness hits the body before it reaches the brain.That drop in your stomach, that heat in your chest, that quick rush to defend—that’s not guilt. That’s your nervous system trying to protect you from shame.But awareness is not punishment.It’s an invitation—to stay human when it would be easier to collapse.3 Talking Points1. The Moment of Realization: When Awareness Feels Like ThreatWhen you f...
2025-11-1207 min
Let’s Have The ConversationYour Nervous System is the first community you buildThere is something happening in the collective nervous system right now — you can feel it.Institutions are collapsing.Benefits are threatened.People are stretched, grieving, terrified, exhausted, and trying to hold a thousand things at once.And in moments like these, our bodies revert to what they already know:* Run.* Fix.* Perform.* Prove.* Disappear.* Brace.Not because you’re weak — but because you survived.But here’s the truth I named on the live today:Your nervous system i...
2025-11-101h 02
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends The Somatics of LiberationThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThere is a place in this work where theory can’t take us.A place beyond language, beyond analysis, beyond the perfect explanation of “what happened to us.”There is a knowing that lives in the tissues.In the breath.In the organs.In the wobble. (As Susan Powell explained) This week’s Friday With Friends was a homecoming into that truth with my dear friend Susan Powell, LMT — a bodyworker, somatic practitioner, and nervous system anchor whose pres...
2025-11-0706 min
Let’s Have The ConversationSlowing downThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWe are living in a moment where everything feels like it is on fire — globally, locally, relationally, and inside of our own homes. And for many of us, the instinct is to move faster in response. To do more. To stay “on.” To prove that we are paying attention. To show that we care.But urgency is not proof of care.Urgency is a nervous system pattern.And today’s live was about remembering that when we...
2025-11-0505 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhen Food Becomes ControlLet me say this plainly before we go anywhere else:There is nothing accidental about hunger in America.Hunger is a policy decision.A design choice.A tool of control.And the people most impacted are the same people this country has tried to control since its inception:Black folks, Indigenous folks, poor folks, disabled folks, caregivers, elders, and every worker whose labor is treated as disposable.When we talk about SNAP being “delayed,” “frozen,” or “under review,” we are not talking about a glitch in the system.We are talking about the system worki...
2025-10-271h 24
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends — Featuring LadySpeech SankofaThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThere are conversations you hear, and then there are conversations you remember in your bones.Today’s Friday with Friends was one of the latter — not a performance of healing, but a return to the underworld of truth, the place where we stop pretending we’ve outgrown our wounds and instead ask:What shaped me?Who shaped me?And who am I becoming now that I am telling the truth?Because the Season of Descent isn’t poetic l...
2025-10-2403 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Quiet After the Roar: Integration as RevolutionThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThe chants will get quiet.The hashtags will slow.The adrenaline that surged through the streets will soften… hopefully, into something else, quieter, heavier, truer.This is the part they don’t teach you about revolution: the aftermath.The roar cracks open possibility. The quiet teaches us how to live inside it.After the No Kings March, I could feel the collective body vibrating, not just from outrage, but from awakening. The roar of the march didn’t just...
2025-10-2302 min
Let’s Have The ConversationNo Kings, Just Kinship: From March to Momentum🌬️ Opening Reflection: A Declaration, Not a DestinationThe No Kings March was never meant to be the arrival point, it was a beginning.It was a collective exhale that said: no more crowns, no more thrones, no more hierarchy in the name of liberation.But as I shared in our live gathering, we have to remember that visibility is not victory. Marching gets the attention, but maintenance builds the movement.So when critiques come from the Black and Indigenous community, hear them with love. They are not admonishments. They are ancestral reminders:“We...
2025-10-2048 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends: Fascism with Amy BrightThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThe Fatigue of Freedom and the Fascism We Keep IgnoringBlack folks have been marching for centuries, from plantations to protests to policies that never quite deliver. So when people ask why we’re not outside for every march, every movement, every “No Kings” moment, the answer is simple: we’re tired. Not of liberation, but of pretending that America’s sickness is new.Fascism isn’t rising, it’s revealing itself. And as sociologist and community organizer Amy...
2025-10-1802 min
Let’s Have The ConversationReturning to the BonesToday, as we honor Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I want to invite you to return to the bones, to the memory, the grief, and the relationships that tether us back to humanity.We live in a world that rewards forgetfulness. It rewards production over presence, and busyness over belonging. But October — this Season of Descent — calls us inward. It’s a time when the earth itself invites us to slow down, shed, and listen.Across the world, this month holds space for remembrance: Hoodoo Heritage Month, Día de los Muertos, Samhain, ancestral veneration across continents. Every cul...
2025-10-1342 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with friends: Men’s WorkThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWhen Ukumbwa Sauti and I sat down for this conversation, it wasn’t simply to talk about men.It was to talk about memory. About what patriarchy made us forget: tenderness, belonging, accountability, and the sacredness of being in right relation with ourselves and one another.Our dialogue was less an interview and more a ceremony of remembrance.What emerged wasn’t just theory; it was curriculum.“We are carriers of patriarchy,” Ukumbwa said softly.“It is the water...
2025-10-1103 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Feigned Victimhood of White Wives: From the Klan to Erika KirkThis live began as part of my September thread on the Gilded Age, but it needed to be turned into something deeper. I wanted to trace the line from suffragettes to the Women of the KKK, all the way to Erica Kirk, and show how white womanhood has always played both sides of patriarchal power. Innocence, I argued, is not neutrality; it is complicity. And if we can’t hold that complexity, we can’t dismantle what’s killing us.3 Key Takeaways* White womanhood is not just victimhood — it has historically replicated patriarchy, from suffragette movement...
2025-09-2931 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with FriendsThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comI went live this Friday expecting a guest, but they got called into work, so it turned into me, coffee, and community. What started as a “down day” conversation shifted into something sacred: elder care, intergenerational living, and what it means to hold space for life, loss, and legacy.3 Key Takeaways* Decolonization is not a sprint — whiteness demands urgency, but true liberation requires pacing, presence, and somatic grounding.* Elder care is community care — capitalist systems isolate...
2025-09-2802 min
Growth on the RocksInside The Mind of a High Performer: From Self-Doubt to Self-Mastery with Max StephensOn this episode of Growth on the Rocks, I sit down with personal development coach Max Stephens, who has dedicated his career to helping high-performing professionals and athletes unlock their full potential. Together, we dive into the often-overlooked struggles of high achievers—imposter syndrome, relentless self-criticism, and the constant push for “more.” Max shares his unique perspective on what truly defines a high performer, why success on paper doesn’t always equal fulfillment, and how shifting your worldview can be the catalyst for long-lasting growth.Whether you’re chasing career milestones, competing at the highest level, or simply tryi...
2025-09-2850 min
Let’s Have The ConversationTending Grief"We are living in the throes of a dying empire, and like any death, it fights to hold on. Grief is not just about loss; it's about transformation, reckoning, and the space in between. Today, we hold space for the grief of healing, the truth of violence (internal and external), and the call to return to ourselves."— Desireé B. Stephens“We Are in the Death Rattle of Empire”We are not simply living through chaotic times — we are witnessing the slow unraveling of empire. The death rattle is loud, violent, and panicked. It’s a collective...
2025-09-2357 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends Kate CoffmanThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThis conversation with Kate Coffman of Rooted Beginnings is all about what it really looks like to divest from oppressive systems and co-create something new. We talk about the fear, the cost, and the liberation that comes with walking away from systems that were never built for us. From IEP advocacy to multi-generational living, this episode explores what it means to choose community over conformity.3 Key Takeaways* Divesting is costly but necessary. Leaving oppressive systems often means...
2025-09-2201 min
Let’s Have The ConversationLive with Desireé B StephensThis live began with me naming my struggle: how to stay true to my September editorial plan (The Gilded Age: Then & Now) while also honoring the urgency of what’s happening in real time with Charlie Kirk’s murder and the internal violence of whiteness. I reminded us that flexibility is part of liberation work—because nothing is static.The conversation unfolded around performative allyship, binaries, and the dangers of whiteness as both an external system and an internal war. We traced how cycles of supremacy repeat, how white women remain complicit alongside white men, and how allysh...
2025-09-2240 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhy White Comfort Is Not LiberationWhat happens when comfort is treated as the highest value?From Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Movement to today’s “civility politics,” white comfort has consistently been placed above justice. History shows us the pattern: when progress threatens to disrupt the status quo, calls for “unity” and “peace” rise up, not as tools for liberation, but as demands for silence.This is why today’s conversation had to be centered here: comfort is not safety, comfort is not peace, and comfort is certainly not liberation.Family, I need you to know up front… this episode is he...
2025-09-151h 02
Let’s Have The ConversationFriday with Friends: Celtic GingeThis week on Friday with Friends, I was joined by Celtic Ginge, a creator who proudly calls themself “a thorn in the side of those that seek to oppress.” Across Substack, Instagram, Bluesky, YouTube, and more, Ginge blends humor, history, and sharp political analysis to dismantle lies and systems that would rather keep us silent. You can find them hereWhat unfolded in our conversation was not just banter, but a weaving of story, culture, and rebellion, a transatlantic echo between Irish resistance and Black liberation.Key Themes From Our Conversation1. Rebellion as Cult...
2025-09-151h 06
Let’s Have The ConversationAre you Brave or are you Comfortable?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWhat does it take to disrupt systems that have been designed to recycle themselves for centuries? In every era; from the Gilded Age of robber barons and racial terror, to our age of billionaires and corporate rollbacks, people are asked a choice:Will you be brave, or will you be comfortable?This conversation challenges the illusion of progress, showing how conversations keep looping, power keeps consolidating, and the “compromises” of yesterday still echo in our politics, workplaces, and...
2025-09-1243 min
Let’s Have The ConversationLet’s BBQThis is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit desireebstephens.substack.com/subscribe
2025-09-121h 25
The Peaceful Parenting PodcastTalking with Kids about Global Crisis with Desireé B. Stephens: Episode 205You can listen wherever you get your podcasts, OR— BRAND NEW: we’ve included a fully edited transcript of our interview at the bottom of this post.In this episode of The Peaceful Parenting Podcast, I have a conversation with Desireé B. Stephens about her 10 conscious steps to talking to kids about global crisis. **If you’d like an ad-free version of the podcast, consider becoming a supporter on Substack! If you already ARE a supporter, the ad-free version is waiting for you in the Substack app or you can enter the private feed URL in the...
2025-09-1048 min
Let’s Have The ConversationPSL, Palestine, and the Settler Colony We Stand On: Why Either/Or Isn’t LiberationEvery fall, (PSL) pumpkin spice latte season rolls in with its own ritual. This year, (like last), it collided with calls to boycott Starbucks in solidarity with Palestine (as well as unions). And when I showed up, PSL in hand, the comments lit up.Some accused me of hypocrisy. Others lectured me about unions or Palestine’s struggle. A few got downright hostile. But here’s the truth:This isn’t about coffee. It’s about empire.Why Either/Or Isn’t LiberationSupremacy culture thrives on binaries. It tells us:* Eit...
2025-08-2737 min
Let’s Have The ConversationComing back online Liberation Lessons: Actionable Advice for Radical ChangeRest. Reset. Resist. Liberation Lessons (6th in the Arc)Over the last five weeks, you’ve received Rest. Reset. Resist. Liberation Lessons (here is the 6th), a sacred arc that’s guided us from pause to clarity to refusal.I’ve just come back from a month away, and let me tell you: it wasn’t just a vacation, it was also survival. It was birthdays and rites of passage, grief and eulogies, delays and divine timing, oceans and roller coasters, laughter and tears. It was transition, which is its own kind of holy work.Tha...
2025-08-1842 min
Let’s Have The ConversationBring a Friend: We’re Not Meant to Do This AloneLet’s start with the truth: Liberation work is too sacred to be done in isolation.And too often, we try to carry it alone. Out of fear, out of shame, out of “I don’t want to burden anyone.”But community is the antidote to both supremacy and burnout.And today’s reflection? It’s a call to bring someone with you.The Resistance Was Never Meant to Be SoloWhether you’re organizing, healing, learning, parenting, or unlearning, this path is heavy enough without walking it alone.And if the systems that oppress u...
2025-07-1136 min
Let’s Have The ConversationRest. Reset. Resist.This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comBecause true freedom isn’t fireworks and flag-waving; it’s honoring our bodies, our boundaries, and our brave refusals.July has arrived, and with it, a divine invitation.To unhook from the myth that urgency is holiness.To step back without apology.To let stillness do the speaking.Because rest is not retreat.Reset is not failure.And resistance is not reaction; it’s intention.For those of us committed to libera...
2025-07-0403 min
Let’s Have The ConversationLiberated Relationships Start With Liberated LanguageWe’ve spent this entire month pulling at the roots of language, not the polished SAT words or the grammar rules we were taught in school, but the inherited phrases, scripts, and soundbites that either build bridges or reinforce bars around our becoming.This final episode in the Word Is Born arc is an invocation, a return to the truth that every relationship we are in, from our lovers to our lineage, is shaped by the language we’ve inherited and the language we dare to reimagine.Liberation isn’t just in what we believe, it’s i...
2025-07-0430 min
Let’s Have The ConversationChanging SeasonsSome conversations feel like medicine. Not the kind you swallow, but the kind that softens you open from the inside. Today’s episode was different, not just because it was our first co-hosted conversation, but because we dared to name what’s been left out of nearly every public health conversation:Perimenopause is not a malfunction; it’s a rite of passage.Today, I had the honor of speaking with Season Opitz of Dancing Spring Garden, a deeply rooted herbalist in Arkansas who is walking beside me as I navigate the wild terrain of perimenopause.Togeth...
2025-06-2853 min
Let’s Have The ConversationTeaching a New Tongue: Liberation Through LangugaeWe gathered today under the theme Teaching a New Tongue, a call to become conscious stewards of the language we speak, inherit, and pass down. As we expand the June series Word Is Born, we unpack the violence and possibility embedded in our everyday speech. Because language is never neutral, it’s a portal. A portal into cosmologies of liberation or control. We’re not just replacing oppressive words with progressive ones. We’re teaching our tongues how to remember freedom.This episode calls in those of us who are tired of speaking in circles made of shackl...
2025-06-2339 min
Let’s Have The ConversationRewild Your Voice: What Happens When you speak?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comToday’s episode sits at the sacred intersection of truth-telling and trauma, where our ancestral urge to speak collides with the systemic conditioning to stay small. We went deep into what it costs to use your voice in rooms that never had the range to receive it.This episode is a reclamation. A sacred pause. A reminder that your voice is not just a sound, it's a spell, a sensor, and a site of liberation....
2025-06-2003 min
Let’s Have The ConversationFamily Scripts, Faith Shame, and the Cost of CourageThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.com“You don’t owe anyone your silence—not even the ones who say they love you.”Dear Liberators,Today’s episode pulled no punches. We unpacked the painful intersections of family expectations, religious conditioning, and the unspoken contracts that demand our silence as the price of belonging. What happens when our truth interrupts someone else's denial? When our voices risks the fragile balance of a family held together by generational performance?This conversation was not just about...
2025-06-1803 min
Let’s Have The ConversationTruth-telling in spaces that can’t hold youIn today’s episode, we wade into the treacherous waters of truth-telling,not the sanitized kind that fits into TED Talks or team-building retreats, but the inconvenient, marrow-deep truths that threaten fragile egos and polished optics. We ask:🗣 What does it cost to tell the truth in a room that’s built to collapse under the weight of it?🗣 How do we discern the difference between spaces that are uncomfortable and those that are unsafe?🗣 What scripts have we been given to avoid conflict that actually protect the very systems we’re trying to dismantle?Truth-telling...
2025-06-1640 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Sacred Yes And The Revolutionary NoThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comSometimes, the most revolutionary “no” is the one we whisper to our own hustle. On the day of this live, I said no to showing up at 9:30 am, not because I didn’t care, but because I did. Because my body asked for rest. And in honoring that no, I didn’t miss the moment… I made space for the moment to meet me where I truly was.That “no” opened the door to a deeper “yes” (a sacred yes) to show up at...
2025-06-1304 min
Let’s Have The ConversationNo is a Complete SentenceThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comSaying No Without a Thesis Statement: Wildfires, Witness, and the Wisdom of RefusalWe opened with this song. I chose this song because it echoes what so many of us know in our bones: Resistance doesn’t always come loud. Sometimes it simmers, it sobs, it survives. In the embers of oppression, we don’t just burn out, we burn brighter.“But we will never show fear / Even in my eyes / I will always rise… in wildfires.”— Sault, “Wild...
2025-06-1101 min
Let’s Have The ConversationRest as Rebellion: Permission to PauseThe sun is high. The blooms have blossomed. And yet, nature isn’t sprinting—it’s sustaining.In the sacred rhythm of the seasons, summer isn’t about burnout. It’s about deepening.So why are we still running on fumes?Why does rest feel like failure?Why does pausing feel like giving up?Because supremacy culture taught us to fear stillness. Because grind culture made exhaustion a badge of honor. But the truth is: rest is a reclamation. Rest is a refusal. Rest is a revolutionary act of faith....
2025-06-0930 min
Let’s Have The ConversationGod Doesn’t Give You More Than You Can Handle” — Or Does He?This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThey meant it to comfort you.But it felt like dismissal.A neat little phrase to tuck your grief away.An attempt to spiritualize survival.But here's the truth: Resilience isn't proof that the burden was fair.And capacity doesn’t equal consent.When Comfort Becomes ComplicityWe live in a world that constantly asks too much, of Black bodies, disabled bodies, immigrant bodies, queer bodies, single mothers, caregivers, survivors.So when the weight is he...
2025-06-0604 min
Let’s Have The ConversationLanguage as a MirrorThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThey say words are just words.But those of us doing the sacred work of liberation know:Language reveals allegiance.The words we choose, especially when we’re scared, uncertain, or seeking power, tell the truth about who we’re really serving. Not just in theory, but in practice.Mirror or Funhouse?Let’s get something straight:Mirrors don’t refract. They reflect.— Refraction bends light, alters it, and distorts it. It makes things loo...
2025-06-0403 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhy “it is what it is” isn’t LiberationThey said,“It is what it is.”“Everything happens for a reason.”“Boys will be boys.”“Time heals all wounds.”But none of these offered justice.None of these made us safer.None of these honored what was really happening in our bodies, homes, or communities.These phrases aren’t neutral. They’re silencing tools, polite dismissals in the language of colonized care.So today, we unmask them.3 Core Takeaways1. “It Is What It Is” Is a Door Slam, Not a DialogueIt feels like acceptance, but it’s actually avoidance...
2025-06-0253 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Legacy of our BlossomingThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comPlanting Seeds for Those Who Come AfterThe end of May isn’t the end of blooming, it’s the moment where we step back, look at the petals, and ask:“What does this mean for who comes next?”This conversation is for those of us who have bloomed in concrete, grieved in gardens, and decided that our thriving would be a testimony—not a trophy.We closed out the Season of Blooming with a mes...
2025-05-3002 min
Let’s Have The ConversationJoy as Somatic MedicineThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comA Sacred Contextual AnchorLet’s begin with this quote from Nicole Rubin of Soul Science Healing, which speaks directly to the heart of today’s teaching:“Our bodies are hardwired for joy and connection. Going as far back as we can find, humans have been gathering together to celebrate life and death and find safety and meaning together. The ventral vagal nervous system state we achieve in safe moments literally promotes a longer, healthier lifespan.”— Nicole Rubin, Sou...
2025-05-2800 min
Let’s Have The ConversationJoy as RebellionLet me be clear: your joy is not a luxury. It is not a reward you earn after suffering. It is not a permission granted by systems that oppress you. Your joy is a radical act of resistance.In a world built on your exhaustion, your burnout, your shame—choosing joy is rebellion.And not just any joy. I’m talking about sacred joy. Rested joy. Unapologetic, belly-laugh, barefoot-in-the-grass, dancing-in-the-middle-of-the-struggle kind of joy.Let’s reclaim it. Together.Three Takeaways1. Tiredness Is a Tactic of ControlThe systems we live under...
2025-05-2735 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWhat we must release and let dieThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comNature tells us every day: some things must rot so others can rise.Composting is sacred.Letting go is a nutrient.But releasing isn't easy, especially when what you're carrying once kept you alive.This week, we walk into the sacred fire of ownership.Not with shame, but with clarity.Not with guilt, but with reverence.Because if we want to grow (truly grow) we must get honest about what cannot come with us.Three Takeaways:
2025-05-2403 min
Let’s Have The ConversationThe Lie of Urgency: It’s Not Too Late, It’s Too RushedThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.com (I noticed the sound quality is not amazing, so this is a heads up)We’re told that healing has a deadline. That growth needs to be visible. That if you’re not blooming by now, you must be behind. But what if the problem isn’t that we’re late?What if the problem is that we’re rushing?In today’s episode, I invited us all to sit our asses down and ask a better que...
2025-05-2103 min
Let’s Have The ConversationGrieving in Bloom SeasonMaking Space for Shadow, Sadness & Slowness in a World that Demands BloomAfter 100 Days of Community and a two-week break that was anything but restful (hello testing accommodations, homeschooling, and parenting in real time), I’m back. And I’m blooming—in my own damn time.This conversation is for anyone who’s watching the world burst into color and asking,“But what if I’m still gray?”“What if I’m not ready?”“What if blooming hurts?”Let’s talk about it.RecapThis episode came from the deep place in my spirit th...
2025-05-2040 min
Life Chats With FriendsSip & Chat Sound Bath Replay: Grounding with Desiree VazquezThis special replay brings you into the calming atmosphere of Sip & Chat, by Life Chats With Friends, with a restorative sound bath and grounding experience led by Desiree Vazquez, our Certified Holistic Health Practitioner.In this session, you’ll be guided through breathwork, visualization, and intentional presence—designed to help you reconnect with your body, your breath, and your roots. Whether you need a reset or simply a moment to pause, this offering is here to support your well-being.Need this moment? Press play and ground with us.If you enjoyed this and are...
2025-05-0833 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 100 of 100 days of CommunityHey Sacred Ones,We made it.100 days. 100 truths. 100 sacred returns to ourselves and each other.Today wasn’t just a wrap-up. It was a re-membering—a weaving together of every thread we’ve carried in our bodies, our spirits, and our stories over these last 100 days. This space wasn’t just a live session. It was ceremony. And like all sacred rites of passage, it spilled over the time we set because love doesn’t clock in—and liberation can’t be boxed.Let me take you there.Three Core Truths from Day 100
2025-05-0457 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 99 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comWhew. We made it.Not just to the day. To the moment. The milestone. The proof.That community built on truth, rhythm, and ritual doesn’t just survive—it transforms.Today, we laughed, we danced to Shania, we cried with coffee in hand, and we anchored in the sacred knowing that we’re still here. And you’re still the one.Before we dive deeper—let’s pause to witness. To hold space for what we’ve become through...
2025-05-0301 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 98 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comA Fairy Tree, a Burger, and the Beauty of the In-BetweenWe opened today rooted in joy—literally. With a tour of my magical fairy tree, wrapped in joy and stories, and a burger on my lap, we held space for celebration without pretense. Because yes, we are wrapping up this 100-day journey. But we’re also expanding into something bigger: a life where liberation is lived—not just learned.This wasn’t a scripted teach-in. It was a li...
2025-05-0203 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 97 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comFirst, a Soft LandingLet’s begin today not with urgency—but with softness.The universe was on our side today.As I opened the live, the song that started playing was “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life.” And listen—that’s not just a vibe, that’s a confirmation.Because this journey has been sacred.Transformational.Messy and meaningful and full of holy timing.We have shown up for 97 days—thro...
2025-05-0101 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 96 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comFirst, Let’s Take a MomentDay 96. Whew. We are deep in the sacred.We are nearing the end of this 100-day journey—not as a goodbye, but as a closing of a container. And what a container it’s been: filled with joy, rupture, softness, grief, laughter, deep truths, and a chorus of “me too” moments that remind us we are never alone in this work.Today wasn’t about launching something new.It was about ho...
2025-04-3001 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 95 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comFirst, a Breath of GratitudeWe are here. Day 95.Take that in for a moment—not just intellectually, but somatically.Ninety-five days of choosing presence, choosing reflection, choosing to be co-creators in this sacred work.Today's lesson was tender and electric—a reminder that dreaming is not a luxury. It's a necessity.And today, we step fully into the power of visioning futures beyond the confines of supremacy culture.Today, we practice dreaming as an act...
2025-04-2902 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 94 of 100 days of communityFirst, Let's Take a BreathBefore we dive into the sacred work of today, I want to hold a moment of gratitude—for you.For every time you waited patiently. For every message you sent. For every way you choose to believe that this space, this commitment, would still meet you even when life interrupted.This is community. Not performance. Not perfection. Presence.And today, we’re honoring the beauty—and the ache—of what it means to hold grief and gratitude at the same time.Because liberation isn’t linear. It’s layer...
2025-04-2827 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 93 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comThis article has been delayed because today was my day date with my son, you can check it out here: Also, here is a song for the journeyNow Let Us Begin: Celebration is SacredWe talk a lot about accountability in liberation work. We talk a lot about grief.But today, we’re talking about something just as vital: celebration.Celebration is not a luxury. It’s not a distraction.Celebration is stra...
2025-04-2704 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 92 of 100 days of communityA note from me:Normally, only Monday posts are unlocked for all readers — a weekly offering of free reflection and resource.But today’s conversation on Day 92 moved me so deeply, I knew it needed to be shared without barriers.This is the kind of soul work, sacred truth-telling, and liberation practice we do together every day in this space.If this resonates with you, I invite you to become a subscriber and support this work so we can continue building toward collective healing — one story, one practice, one community at a time.🌬️ Before You...
2025-04-2555 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 69 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comBarriers Are Built. Liberation Is Grown.We are not born into liberated systems—we are born into barriers.Some we can see. Most we cannot.And for far too long, we’ve mistaken equality for equity and silence for peace.But a liberated system doesn’t ask us all to run the same race.It removes the track, tears down the fences, and asks:What do you need to thrive?It doesn’t measure success by samen...
2025-03-3112 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 68 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comActivism without rest is martyrdom disguised as virtue. It tells us that if we truly care, we must suffer, sacrifice, and grind ourselves down. That joy is a distraction. That rest is a betrayal. That self-care is selfish.But burnout isn’t proof of our commitment—it’s proof that the system is still winning.Supremacy culture relies on our exhaustion. It profits from our overwork. It demands that we ignore our bodies, silence our needs, and forget...
2025-03-2902 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDay 67 of 100 days of communityThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit desireebstephens.substack.comShame Is the Wound. Pleasure Is the Medicine.Pleasure is often treated like a luxury—something we only get after we’ve suffered enough, sacrificed enough, survived enough. But even then, when we’ve “earned it,” we’re taught to feel guilty for receiving it.That guilt? That shame? That’s not personal—it’s systemic.Because supremacy culture doesn’t just disconnect us from pleasure, it teaches us to reject it, to feel dirty or selfish for wanti...
2025-03-2800 min
Life Chats With FriendsThe Space That Holds Us: Sound, Stillness, and Community with Desiree VázquezIn this special Sip & Chat spotlight, we sit down with Desiree Vázquez, a holistic health and sound healing practitioner who brings deep wisdom, grounding energy, and a heart for healing into every space she holds. As one of our featured facilitators for Sip & Chat, Desiree joins us to explore the role of community in emotional recovery and what it really means to unplug and be present with ourselves and with one another.You’ll hear Desiree reflect on:Why real, in-person community is essential in a world of digital connectionOne simple way...
2025-03-2526 min
Intentional ConversationsIntentional Conversations with Desireé B. StephensWelcome to Intentional Conversations, where we intersect diversity, equity, and inclusion with leadership and business. This week we welcomed Desireé B. Stephens to Intentional Conversations! So, grab your headphones 🎧, press play, and let the conversation begin!Be sure to SUBSCRIBE to our channel because we're all about keeping the great conversations flowing. KEY TAKEAWAYS:You can't hustle healing!In a colonial project, you are treated like you are perceived. Your oppression may not be the same as someone else, but it is a problem we are all facing. Hire the peop...
2024-05-1450 min
Let’s Have The ConversationDecolonizing Thought: Challenging Power Dynamics and Systemic ErasureJoin Desireé B Stephens and Dr. Kimberly Douglass as they delve into a critical discussion on the decolonization of neuro and the multilayered impact of systemic inequities. Witness a thought-provoking discourse that examines the historical and contemporary implications of societal and governmental structures.- The episode uncovers the erasure of family lines through tragic historical events and its repercussions on property ownership and land claims.- Dr. Douglass elaborates on the dynamics of power, the necessity of property protection through legal means, and the troubles arising from eminent domain.- A...
2024-01-311h 03
Let’s Have The ConversationBreaking Down Colonized Relationship Norms with Experts Desireé and ChaneéJoin Desireé B Stephens and Chaneé Jackson Kendall in their raw and enlightening first episode of "Me and Chanee." Dive into a candid discussion about non-monogamy, decolonizing relationships, and the nuanced spectrum of love and sexuality.- Chaneé Jackson Kendall shares her journey into non-monogamy and her mission to advocate for its normalcy in black communities.- Unpacking the distinctions between polyamory and polygamy, the episode highlights the importance of multiple connections and autonomy within relationships.- Desireé B Stephens and Chaneé emphasize the need for intentional polyamory and its role in challenging societal norms and decol...
2024-01-2438 min
Rednecks Rising(Ep 28) It's All Shadow Work: Interview with Desiree B. Stephens (GA)Happy Black History Month, friends! In today's episode, we kick of this month by sitting down with one of my personal heroes: the brilliant Desiree B. Stephens. Desiree is an antiracist educator, counselor, and coach who creates community & fosters the healing work that is required for somatic decolonization -- she makes shi(f)t happen! In our conversation, Desiree digs into the idea behind her work, "who were you before you were white?" We explore the importance of taking back our power as the collective & ridding ourselves of the shame that comes from being at the bottom of a systemic...
2023-02-091h 09
Let's Have The ConversationHow colonial constructs impact love and relationshipsEVERY MONDAY DEEDEE WEDNESDAY LPC-S AND I GO LIVE TO DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF COLONIZATION ON OUR RELATIONSHIP STYLES. HAVE YOU EVER QUESTIONED IF YOU WANTED TO BE MONOGAMOUS? OR WHY THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IS THE SUPERIOR FAMILY STRUCTURE?
WHERE DID YOUR IDEALS AND VALUES COME FROM?
JOIN US AS WE DECONSTRUCT ALL AVENUES OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS.
I AM DESIREE B STEPHENS AND I PATHOLOGIZE WHITENESS AS A SYSTEM. FOLLOW ALONG ON THE JOURNEY TO LIBERATION AS WE DISMANTLE THE SYSTEMS THAT KEEP US ALL OPPRESSED AND LET'S MAKE SHI(F)T...
2022-12-131h 20
Let’s Have The ConversationHow colonial constructs impact love and relationshipsEVERY MONDAY DEEDEE WEDNESDAY LPC-S AND I GO LIVE TO DISCUSS THE IMPACT OF COLONIZATION ON OUR RELATIONSHIP STYLES. HAVE YOU EVER QUESTIONED IF YOU WANTED TO BE MONOGAMOUS? OR WHY THE NUCLEAR FAMILY IS THE SUPERIOR FAMILY STRUCTURE?WHERE DID YOUR IDEALS AND VALUES COME FROM?JOIN US AS WE DECONSTRUCT ALL AVENUES OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS.I AM DESIREE B STEPHENS AND I PATHOLOGIZE WHITENESS AS A SYSTEM. FOLLOW ALONG ON THE JOURNEY TO LIBERATION AS WE DISMANTLE THE SYSTEMS THAT KEEP US ALL OPPRESSED AND LET'S MAKE...
2022-12-131h 20
Let's Have The ConversationThe various aspects and ways of DEI workI was blessed to have a candid discussion with Tony Nabors of Racial Equity Insights last night live on Tiktok. He wanted to know more about me, my style of speaking, and how I began this work of anti-oppression and liberation. Have a listen and tell me what you think.
#desireebstephens #makeshifthappen #letshavetheconversation #diversityequityandinclusion
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2022-08-101h 25
Let's Have The ConversationWhite Translators Need Not ApplyWhew, this month of June in 2022 has been a BINGO card of systemic whiteness and its sheer nonsense. I always enjoy speaking with Rebbeca and Portia. The title speaks for itself. We are not seeking your voice to drown out ours. We need you to sit, pause and do the work of healing. THATS IT!
#DEI #desireebstephens #whitewomanwhiperer #portianoir
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2022-06-161h 37Let's Have The ConversationJune 6th, 2022_ TikTok Live with crescent.._..moon, portia.noir, and white_woman_whisperer and Desiree B StephensThis episode is choppy and raw but that seems to fit the bill considering the topic and the happenings surrounding this recording. Please listen as myself Portia and Rebecca the White Woman Whisperer have an in person masterclass on poor allyship, true intersections and antiracism education.
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2022-06-1452 min
Let’s Have The ConversationJune 6th, 2022_ TikTok Live with crescent.._..moon, portia.noir, and white_woman_whisperer and Desiree B StephensThis episode is choppy and raw but that seems to fit the bill considering the topic and the happenings surrounding this recording. Please listen as myself Portia and Rebecca the White Woman Whisperer have an in person masterclass on poor allyship, true intersections and antiracism education. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit desireebstephens.substack.com/subscribe
2022-06-1452 min
Let's Have The ConversationDEI, but make it funnyJoin me, Portia @Portia.Noir and Rebecca @white_woman_whisperer as we have a candid conversation about our DEI work we do on tiktok. What we believe is needed in truly unpacking, healing and decolonization. You've never had anti-racism work done like this!
#desireebstephens #makeshifthappen #letshavetheconversation #dei #antiracism #decolonization #portianoir #whitewomanwhisperer #meetingmelanatedminds
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2022-05-162h 21
The HERstory CollaborativeThe One With Desiree B. StephensI can’t begin to tell you how excited I am for you to meet my next guest, the wonderfully authentic Desiree B. Stephens! This is a longer episode and you’re going to hang on every word. We are talking about racial inequity, decolonization, systems of oppression, and the willingness to have necessary and important conversations around diversity, equity and inclusion. Desiree is also a celebrity (she’ll kill me for this) on TikTok and has created a huge following where she is disrupting and agitating people and their beliefs to bring people to a highe...
2022-02-281h 05
Let's Have The ConversationDiscussing Whoopi and the intersectionsIsabella and I discuss live on TikTok all of the nuances of Jewishness as a race and a people and the intersections between oppression.
Isabella Segalovich is an artist, designer, writer, and TikTokker who researches the intersections of politics and design. She graduated from Haverford College with a degree in Fine Arts and Visual Studies and learned about the intersections of race and design while working at Colloqate Design in New Orleans, a social and racial justice-based architecture and design firm. In the past year, she has built a TikTok platform of over 150 thousand followers, discussing how...
2022-02-182h 34
Let's Have The ConversationTo be or not to be a liberal, feminist ally...Myself and Rose Kaz of Lady Boss intl. discuss the personal reasons why I do not vibe with feminist, liberal views or allyship. Tune in and let me know what you think
#desireebstephens #makeshifthappen #letshavetheconversation #unpacking #decolonizing #unlearn
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2022-02-1444 min
Let's Have The ConversationOsin and Patric: Breaking down the St Patric mythWhen did you become "white"?
Its an odd question when it is actually framed but it is a deep truth that needs to be confronted. In the system of whiteness there is a requirement to release your true culture and check your humanity at the door in order to gain riches. It feels very much like what good is it to gain the world but lose your soul.
I wonder how often white people think about their own indigeneity? Do you ever question where you are from, what practices did you have before being American? Ev...
2021-09-221h 26
Let's Have The ConversationBlack and Mixed RaceDiscussing the nuances of racial identity here in America and across the pond in Britain.
For many of us, holding multiple racial identities is the most accurate way to self identify, and helps us to navigate the social construct of race without constantly feeling like imposters or lacking in confidence or validation." -Daley
#antiracism #authenticself #biracial #desireebstephens #blackmothers #makeshifthappen #letshavetheconversation #shadowwork #embracetheshadow #mixedrace #identity #blackirish #liverpool #brittain #racialidentity #systemicracism #interracial #interraciallove #juneteenth #tiktokers #mixedbabies #mixedchick #mixedgirl #mixedkids #mixedrace #multicultural #socialjustice #swirllife #unitedstatesofamerica #blackwomen
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2021-08-111h 41
Let's Have The ConversationThe Black man and JesusHaving a conversation about the many intersections of Blackness, christianity and the safety of day to day life
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2021-07-041h 14
Let's Have The ConversationHealing your DNA and ancestral lines through epigeneticsI had such an AMAZING time discussing epigenetics (Epigenetics is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work CDC) with Sabr Lyon. They go into the depths of how you can do this healing through ancestry work specifically when you're white and we discuss many intersections, and cross some many lines and just have a really connective time getting to know each other and the work each of us do. We will be working in tandem come June on an ancestral healing program that will be inclusive and deal...
2021-05-132h 23
Let's Have The ConversationCreating PartnershipOn this episode I, Desireé B Stephens sit down with Pam Iverson a trusted relationship coach and discuss the makings of healthy partnership. We speak on releasing constructs and developing a deep connection and relationship with yourself first.
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2021-05-0556 min
Let’s Have The ConversationCreating PartnershipOn this episode I, Desireé B Stephens sit down with Pam Iverson a trusted relationship coach and discuss the makings of healthy partnership. We speak on releasing constructs and developing a deep connection and relationship with yourself first. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit desireebstephens.substack.com/subscribe
2021-05-0556 min
Let's Have The ConversationPast life, Current trauma and the healing withinToday we discuss the various modalities that Jen Drinkard brings with her healing practice. We discuss shared practices, loss of culture through assimilation and the many lives we bring with us to this moment. Take a deep dive into quantum healing and shadow work healing.
#healing #pastlife #letshavetheconversation
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2021-04-2158 min
Let's Have The ConversationExploring different family structuresOn this episode we speak with Leah and discuss a little kitchen table polyam, being queer and parenting. We delve into the great depths it takes to love multiple people with depth and honesty and really how to live your most authentic life by simply, allowing!
#polyam #letshavetheconversation #desireebstephens #mskeshifthappen
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2021-04-1440 min
Let's Have The ConversationSexuality, Gender and HIVWe are having a discussion with King in regard to what life now looks like living with HIV whilst also bending traditional norms of masculinity, and navigating all of that while being a Black man and father.
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2021-04-0748 min
Let's Have The ConversationWhen lawful gun owners go to jail.Here is what we know.
22 year old Rico Marley was arrested yesterday and charged with reckless conduct for entering a Publix with 2 long guns and 4 handguns. Later on they charged him with intent to commit a felony (how does one determine intent) and is now facing 5 felony counts and gun charges.
This should concern us all. Black lives set the bar and precedents on how ALL lives are treated in America.
In other words "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a s...
2021-03-2520 minLet's Have The ConversationWelcome to the space where we will Make Shi(f)t HappenThis is a small welcome to give you a general idea of what we will be discussing in this space. Thank you for being here on the journey with me.
-Desireé B Stephens
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2021-03-2401 min
Let’s Have The ConversationWelcome to the space where we will Make Shi(f)t HappenThis is a small welcome to give you a general idea of what we will be discussing in this space. Thank you for being here on the journey with me.-Desireé B Stephens This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit desireebstephens.substack.com/subscribe
2021-03-2401 min
Unapologetically Strong & FemaleDesireé B Stephens - USF Episode 3Name: Desireé B Stephens Age: 41 Occupation: Whole Life Coach/Spiritual Guidance Counselor Tell us about who you are: I’m a world changer, a starseed and aged oracle here to bring us to the next dimension of universal shift through radical self-love and acceptance What does it mean to you to be strong? That’s so loaded but for me it’s set in pride from my dual ancestral lineage. I come from a long line of resilient, courageous warriors on both sides and that for me equals strength. Facing the seemingly impossible and transmuting that into your own creatio...
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2021-03-2300 min
Moonday Mystic by Modern Mystic ShopMake Shift Happen with Vinisha Rumph, Desireé B Stephens, and Kelley KnightOn this special episode of Sunday School, you’ll hear new voices as Vinisha Rumph and Desireé B Stephens host this very important and special episode of Sunday School. Vinisha and Desireé are practitioners and co-creators in the Make Shi(f)t Happen initiative. Centered around the principles of ethics and accountability, their vision is geared toward cultivating true connectivity within the Spiritual and Wellness communities. Our goal is to establish new sustainable standards and practices through truly constructive and collaborative consultation. In short, we promote genuine solidarity within the greater collective. On October 8th, we held a cand...
2020-10-181h 32