Shows
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonWisdom Work with Napoleon MaddoxYou are in for a treat! Napoleon Maddox and his art is such a treasure in this world. Writer & Vocalist at Sorg & Napoleon Maddox, the Executive Director at Underworld Jazz Festival and the Artistic Director at Millie-Christine: Twice the First Time,
But most of all for me he is a gentle man. An artist. A brother to the world. Enjoy!
https://www.instagram.com/napoleonsoloshots/?hl=en
https://open.spotify.com/artist/49IgkpsPyURcTStGvziZTC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/napoleon-maddox-04264517/
2025-10-2746 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEpisode 11: Wisdom Work with Ursula RuckerUrsula Rucker a Singer, Songwriter, and maybe must of all a Poet.
I first met Ursula Rucker in 2023 during the Underworld Black Arts Festival. We were put together in a Healing, Poetry, and Art Workshop with Anthony Carlos Molden titled Healing Colonial Trauma. I felt an immediate connection with this deeply poetic, soulful, earth woman. I can't tell you how much it means to me that she said yes to this conversation.
You can find more about her at:
https://www.facebook.com/ursularucker
Instagram: @urucker
https://open.spotify.c...
2025-08-0245 min
workshops work315 - Beyond the Quick Fix: Holding Space for What Wants to Emerge with Quanita RobersonSometimes, just sometimes, you meet someone who is a balm to the soul, who speak words of wisdom, magic, and nurturing depth. Quanita Roberson has this gift - and she returns to the show to share it with us once again!Mingling spiritual intelligence with raw human experience, Quanita guides us generously through the messy yet beautiful terrain of healing, as we trace emotions back to their source and learn how to step away from adolescent adulthood.She brings us into the heart of questions like: how do we grieve? What does courage really mean...
2025-04-021h 21
Sidewalk TalkPower, Rank, and Privilege in RelationshipsCome hang out with us for an honest and heartfelt conversation about power, rank, and privilege in human relationships. Eight incredible panelists—psychotherapists, community and culture healers, and facilitators from around the world—share personal stories, deep reflections, and real-life insights about how power shapes our lives in complex and surprising ways, even in how we see each other.
This isn’t about quick fixes, but you’ll walk away with some practical ideas to try and maybe a fresh perspective on your own relationship with power. Watching this group come together and hold space for such a rich e...
2025-01-031h 25
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonThe Mother Wound MeditationSpecial meditation on the Mother Wound for Mother's Day.
Transcript:
To begin your meditation, find a quiet and comfortable space where you can be alone with your thoughts. Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths, allowing yourself to relax and let go of any tension or stress.
Imagine yourself surrounded by a warm, loving light. This light represents the unconditional love that you received in your mother’s womb. In the womb we all got what we needed or we wouldn’t be here. Deep down in us lives the m...
2024-05-1004 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 9: Experience Reality through Multiple Lenses with Sarah DrewAs the visionary author of the eco-feminist novel, GAIA CODEX, Sarah Drew catalyzes powerful blueprints for the future deeply rooted in the gnosis of the past. Sarah has been a featured speaker at the graduate level and at organizations such as Google, ABC Deepak Homebase, The Assemblage and Bioneers, and she is currently a popular teacher and mentor for women worldwide on topics such as Feminine Wisdom, Evolutionary Culture. and Regenerative Technologies.
Sarah Drew is deeply interested in relationship and creation and how being in relationship lets us experience reality through multiple lenses.
Fo...
2023-12-0655 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 8: One Step at a Time, and then the Next Step with Nilima Bhat
Nilima Bhat, Distinguished Professor in Gender and Conscious Leadership, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Faculty of Excellence with School of Business and School of Humanities & Education.
Nilima Bhat is a facilitator of personal transformation, coaching individuals and organizations in their quest for conscious evolution. She is an international speaker and trainer on organizational culture, conscious business, women in leadership, and self-awareness for work-life balance, as well as Indian wisdom and wellness traditions.
Nilima’s extensive and pioneering body of work is encompassed in her two books, Shakti Leadership – Embracing Feminine and Masculine Power in Business and My Cancer...
2023-11-0639 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 7: Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You with Daniel CooperriderDaniel Cooperrider's book, Speak with the Earth and It Will Teach You is a field guide to accompany the Bible. Discussing the connection between nature, spirituality and religion. Daniel asks us how our relationship to the natural world is integrated in our religion and spirituality.
Daniel Cooperrider is a writer, teacher, and pastor in the United Church of Christ (UCC). Daniel was Pastor of the Weybridge Congregational Church (VT) and has served as Pastoral Resident at the Wellesley Village Church (MA). Daniel writes at the intersections of theology, environmental ethics, poetry, aesthetics, and climate justice. Daniel is...
2023-10-0953 min
The Brave Woman PodcastEP 58: Quanita Roberson on Birthed Out of Belonging: A Path to Heal the Mother WoundIn this heart-warming episode, Quanita examines what it looks like to "mother" in the modern age and questions some of our belief systems about independence. She believes that our greatest healing happens in community. You'll learn: ** The 3 stages of being an initiated adult and how to be spirit led in our decision making ** How to connect with your ancestors as an American who doesn’t feel their “roots” with the land ** The myth of the indepedence and what it means to become interdependent Quanita’s parents had her when they wer...
2023-08-2246 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 6: Work to Play: Moving from Childish to Childlike with Rhea D’SouzaI had the pleasure of being in conversation this month with Rhea D'Souza, Rhea D'Souza is an Artist, Designer, a Biomimic, Coach, Strategist and Founder of Kabila Consulting: a firm that works with Leadership team to build a Tribe culture. Rhea D'Souza is one with purpose, connectedness and deep trust. Rhea D'Souza is a co-founder of One Design Space, a studio in the green oasis of Mumbai, that curates experiences that bring different forms of art, dance, music, songs to more people. One Design Space builds a community that gathers to share it's intention: to be the bridge between t...
2023-07-051h 04
Common Good PodcastQuanita Roberson & Amy Howton: The InnerGround RailroadThe Common Good podcast is a conversation about the significance of place, eliminating economic isolation and the structure of belonging. For this week's episode we partner with April Doner and the Abundant Community to speak with Quanita Roberson and Amy Howton about their book, The Inner Ground Railroad. The recited poems were On Children by Kahlil Gibran and Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.Abundant Community is a place to visit. To read and hear stories of action. More valuable than your daily newspaper. A way to learn about citizen-led action that illuminates a new di...
2023-06-2235 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 5: Mastering Life’s Daily Performance with Alton Fitzgerald WhiteAlton Fitzgerald White is a magnificent musician and author among other traits. In this conversation, Alton and Quanita talk about how to master life's daily performance with an emphasis on commitment and recommitment to areas in which one desires growth. Balancing the yin and yang, the commitment is stabilized with self compassion and rest. Other topics of discourse include how the right communities can influence your mindset and fertilize your growth; shifting narratives of traits that one may have been teased for into gifts and talents. The spirituality all around us exploring the places and things an individual might...
2023-05-1047 min
The Time of the Feminine - A Global Sisterhood PodcastLauren and Shaina: Worth of a WomanDo you feel worthy of what you desire? Do you feel worthy of standing in your truth, create clear boundaries in your relationships, going after your dreams and deeply empowering yourself? If not, may I ask why? Join us for a conversation today about The Worth of a Woman and what this time is calling for when it comes to how we value ourselves. Shaina Conners and Lauren Walsh have a conversation about what inspired Shaina to birth this upcoming program, Worth of a Woman (beginning May 2nd 2023) and why it is SO important for women to f...
2023-04-1338 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 4: Are We a Community of Our Ancestor’s Memories? with Clare DuboisRebirthing and reimagining ourselves at different life stages. The dangers and illness of separateness. Illness as a teacher. Learning new ways of being in relationship with the world.
2023-04-041h 05
Find The Outside5.13: Outside Tues + TimJoin Tuesday and Tim as they reflect on their conversations with Natalie Williams, Alex Schneider, Tenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson. These two sets of conversations brought forward some interesting insights into the different pathways toward racial justice, an exploration on the accepted dogma around emotional labour and what is ours to do. This is a juicy one, friends. Listen in and let us know what you think.For detailed show notes, links and resources, please visit: https://www.findtheoutside.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-03-1434 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 3: Birthing Your Unique Voice with Barbara McAfeeBarbara McAfee is among many things a singer, songwriter and a midwife nurturing people's unique voices into the world. She is the author of the book Full Voice, The Art and Practice of Vocal Presence. Listen and view a couple of her music videos on YouTube at There are Songs and Brain Rats. For more information on Barbara McAfee please check out her website at https://www.barbaramcafee.com/
2023-03-0653 minThe Time of the Feminine - A Global Sisterhood PodcastQuanita Roberson: Inner-Ground RailroadWhat is the meaning of the “InnerGround Railroad”? One of the assumptions that Quanita makes in her book is that we are spiritual beings having human experiences and not the other way around. This means that everything that happens is in service to the spiritual beings, to us growing as spirits. That means that nothing is accidental and that the universe is exact and sends us exactly what our souls need to move to the next layer. If you are holding that as an assumption, you will begin to ask yourself “Why is this happening FOR me?” instead of “Why is thi...
2023-03-021h 13
Find The Outside5.12: Outside Conversations with Tenneson Woolf + Quanita RobersonTuesday and Tim are joined by long-time friends and colleagues, Tenneson Woolf & Quanita Roberson, where they talk about their friendship, their backgrounds and work together, what surprises them about working as a cross-racial, cross-gender team and ancestral healing. This is a beautiful one, folks. Tune in.For detailed show notes, links and resources, please visit: https://www.findtheoutside.com/podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2023-02-2859 min
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 2: The Great Surrender - Wisdom Work with Krister LinderSometimes we are living in the questions and at other times we are living in the answers. Living in the answer may sound like the easeful, desirable path initially. However, in life there are times in which we know the answers and the path but are resisting and rebelling. Sometimes the skill to cultivate is surrender.
More information on Krister Linder can be found at https://kristerlinder.com/
2023-02-0946 min
Doing Diversity in WritingDDW - S3 Ep06 - Exploring Mental Health with Eric MillsIn this sixth episode of Season 3 of Doing Diversity in Writing, Bethany—Mariëlle is still on vacation—has guest clinical mental health counsellor Eric Mills on the show to discuss mental health. Together, Bethany and Eric explore mental health services, both as it might show up in our stories, and how we can help ourselves as we write.
(The first half of this episode was previously published as a Part 1. This is the full and complete interview.)
Here’s what we talk about:
What professionals exists in mental health services and their different roles
Some...
2022-10-012h 35
Wisdom Work with Quanita RobersonEp. 1: A Conversation with Bruce PerryExploring the connection to self, nature and others. Particularly the play between self and others. Bruce Perry and Quanita Robinson discuss how as he became more successful in his career, the more separated and isolated he became. He recognized as he was study many different cultures in his career, the most harmonious people, that were the most content in self and body, seems to be those with the least amount of walls and separation between each other. Interdependent as opposed to independent or codependent.
2022-05-1656 min
workshops work159 - The role of facilitation when the world seems to fall apart with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson WoolfIn times of strife - whether it’s a global health crisis or our neighbours at war - what role does facilitation play? Can we hope to change the world one workshop at a time? These are challenging questions with wide-ranging consequences, but I can think of few facilitators better equipped to answer them than Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf.Both have been guests on this show previously, but never together. Quanita and Tenneson’s Fire and Water Leadership Journey is a programme that shapes wise leaders, prioritising emotional healing and practices including Being the Circl...
2022-04-061h 01
Beyond ListeningE26: Inter-generational Vision: Where do we go from here?The chaos and confusion of systems collapsing and the dramatic change all around the world, is a call for a broader array of ideas to envision a new way forward.
This episode of the Beyond Listening podcast is part of our Getting to Know You Series where we gather a diverse group of people from around the globe to share their stories around a question they are passionate about. In this session, Intergenerational Vision, we ask voices less heard in our community- our elders and our youth- about where they are, where they want to be, and...
2022-03-1543 min
Radical (Re)imaginingTenneson Woolf - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E2Tenneson Woolf - Radical (Re)imagining S3 E2 Radical (Re)Imagining hosts Deven Wisner, Tiffany Tovey, & Libby Smith welcome Tenneson Woolf, a facilitator, teacher, coach, circle host, and poet. This year our conversations will focus on who we are in the work and how we make moves towards showing up as our full human selves in the work. Tenneson is also a host (with Quanita Roberson) of the 18-month Fire & Water Leadership Journey & Rite of Passage and the Fire & Water podcast. Join the conversation. Leave us a comment on the blog or...
2022-02-1232 min
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonTenneson asks Quanita about her book The InnerGround RailroadQuanita Roberson and Amy Howton have written a healing book, The InnerGround Railroad: A 40 Day Journey to Remembering Soul & Spirit. Tenneson asks Quanita several questions about how it feels for her see the first printed copy, how she feels herself grown and changed by writing the book, and how she hopes people encounter the book and its stories.
2022-01-0519 minThe Time of the Feminine - A Global Sisterhood PodcastQuanita Roberson: What Initiation Is and How Grief Gives Life MeaningWHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO GROW UP? As adolescents, we want all of the freedom and none of the responsibilities…So how do we transition into the adults and leaders our world needs? In this soulful episode of The Time of the Feminine, Quanita Roberson shares what initiation is and how it reveals our purpose. As she talks about spirit-led leadership, she also offers beautiful insights on communal rage, courage, and grief – plus how to find forgiveness and reconciliation amidst all these. Arguing that grief isn’t an event but a relationship to embrace, Quanit...
2021-11-0444 min
Sacred Feminine PowerEPISODE 63; Journey to Spirit with Quanita RobersonSend us a textQuanita shares, with grace and deep wisdom, about her motherhood journey and how the moment when she told her husband that she wanted a divorce became a moment of the greatest love, honesty and integrity. She also talks about her 'Miyagi moments', the metaphor of the banana slugs, the importance of working with the chakras and how we are all invited to descend deeper and deeper into our souls (journeying to spirit). Quanita also describes Fire & Water: Leadership & Rites of Passage, an inspiring 16-month leadership program that she co-facilitates. In Quanita's words: "Are...
2021-08-0245 min
workshops work123 - The Inner Work of Facilitation - with Quanita RobersonIt took me nearly one year to arrange this interview, due to just how popular, committed, and focused Quanita Roberson is.But I would have happily waited a decade for the value, kindness, and wonder she imparts in conversation. Quanita is the founder of Nzuzu Consulting and focuses on the deep, fun, and easy flow of energy to address embedded trauma.Her insights into the human condition, our experiences, and the role we play as facilitators are genuinely groundbreaking.We talk about grief, faith, community, privilege, slowing down, divine order, and lots of...
2021-07-2858 min
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonDeparture as a Part of InitiationTenneson Woolf and Quanita Roberson have a conversation about departures as a part of the initiatory process. They serve how departure has shown up for them and what they have learned.
2021-06-0525 min
Irenicast - A Progressive Christian PodcastA Cadence of Despair with Tenneson WolfIn this interview Casey draws out wisdom carried by his friend Tenneson Woolf. Tenneson is a consultant, facilitator, workshop leader, coach, teacher, and writer. Keeping an eye on our collective global pandemic experience, Casey and Tenneson talk religion, human spirituality, and questions of who we are and who we want to be. They acknowledge profound challenges stirred up by the novel coronavirus and wonder about the gifts those challenges, courtesy of the virus, might have to offer us. The conversation includes an indepth look into the formation of Tenneson’s most recent book, A Cadence of Despair: Poe...
2020-09-011h 08
Irenicast - A Progressive Christian PodcastWhite Supremacy in Evangelicalism - Hidden in Plain SightCo-hosts begin this raw and real conversation about white supremacy in Evangelicalism by reflecting on their experiences of white supremacy in their formative churches. Memories arise from Awana, mission trips, seminary and other church settings. Co-hosts recall witnessing the pervasive project to marginalize people of color across all aspects of their formative church life. The white co-hosts marvel that with all the talk of sin, never did that talk include racism. The conversation dips into topics like colonialism, school/church integration and the invisibility of whiteness. Rajeev shares his immigrant experience of being taught to master the...
2020-07-071h 11
Irenicast - A Progressive Christian PodcastContinuing the Conversation on Quanita Roberson - 169bIn our continuing the conversation on Quanita Roberson’s episode the full cast reflects on the firehose of wisdom in episode #169. The Irenicast team specifically centers their conversation on collective grief and the value in calling on our ancestors. If you’d like to see the video replay of this conversation you can do that on Facebook and YouTube. MORE ON QUANITA ROBERSON Quanita Roberson is a facilitator dedicated to addressing embedded trauma. She is a spiritual teacher, speaker, author, life coach, and a storyteller. Her work over the past 20 years has been focuse...
2020-06-241h 04
Irenicast - A Progressive Christian PodcastQuanita Roberson - Grief, Healing and HopeCasey and Bonnie sat down with spiritual teacher, speaker, author, life coach, storyteller and shaman Quanita Roberson to talk about the strange and fertile time of this present moment. If you have felt moments of despair in these tumultuous times, listen to hear Quanita’s wisdom. As herself, she offers embodied hope. MORE ON QUANITA ROBERSON Quanita Roberson is a facilitator dedicated to addressing embedded trauma. She is a spiritual teacher, speaker, author, life coach, and a storyteller. Her work over the past 20 years has been focused in the areas of healing, initiation, gri...
2020-06-1558 min
Collective Power PodcastHealing Fractals: Courage, Trust, and Asking for what you Need with Quanita Roberson, Katie Boone, and Fatama HafizOur guests explore barriers to healing and the ways in which the healing steps of courage, trust, and asking for what we need impact personal, familial, organizational, community, and systems healing. What’s possible now? Three of this month's guests: Quanita Roberson, Fatima Hafiz, and Katie Boone, come back and share their ideas about levels of healing. Support the showTo recomend a guest contact us at: media@FierroConsultingllc.com To support Collective Power join our Patreon
2020-04-2441 min
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonA Cadence of Despair by Tenneson WoolfQuanita Roberson interviews Tenneson Woolf about his new book, A Cadence of Despair: Poems and reflections on Heartbreak, Loss, and Renewal.
2020-04-1720 min
Collective Power PodcastHealing Fractals: Racial Healing with Quanita RobersonIn this episode we connect journeys of personal, family, and racial healing, with systems or oppression that constrain us, and the world that is yearning to be born. Our guest, Quanita Roberson, is an organizational development professional, a shaman, and a force for racial reconciliation. With a wealth of experience with the non-profit work and community grief-work she shares her experiences. We navigate the differences between common conversations about race and journeys of racial healing. We explore definitions of healing and racial, and how healing journeys impact changes of direction in our personal lives, our partnerships, our families and...
2020-04-1040 min
Gibrán's PodcastGibrán's Podcast: Episode 9 - Initiation with Quanita RobersonMeet Quanita Robertson, master facilitator, circle holder, author and all around wise woman.
She brings a refreshing perspective on race, reconciliation and stages of human development. Quanita looks at the world with an eye to initiation. She concerns herself with the archetypal realms.
Quanita and Tenneson Woolf are about to launch the Fire & Water Leadership Rites of Passage Cohort.
Additional Links:
Coaching and Organizational Development (www.nzuzu.com)
Fire & Water Leadership/Rites of Passage Cohort(www.fireandwaterleadership.weebly.com)
Fire & Water Podcast(www.fireandwater.podbean.com)
Quanita’s Books:Soul Growing: Wisdom for 13 year old boys from men around the worl...
2019-07-301h 05
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonFire and Water Teaser #3Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
2018-12-0205 min
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonFire and Water Teaser #2Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
2018-11-2006 min
Fire and Water with Quanita RobersonFire and Water Teaser #1Welcome to Fire and Water, Coming of Age in This Age, with Quanita Roberson and Tenneson Woolf -- cultivating wise leaders one show at a time.
We are busy getting ready for our new podcast, learning how to work all the bells and whistles. Check out some of our thoughts on our hopes for this journey together.
2018-11-2001 min