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Sincerely, Your Small Business[Encore] Yolonda Coles JonesWhat did you think of this episode? Click to text me feedback!This episode originally aired on Feb. 5, 2024. The show notes have been updated to reflect Yolonda's current offerings. Enjoy!Yolonda Coles Jones is a visionary coach, healing-centered facilitator, homeschooling mama, and community-rooted leader based in Charlottesville, VA. She leads two distinct yet deeply aligned entities—each with its own purpose, structure, and offerings.Through her LLC, Empowered People® Coaching & Consulting(→ www.YolondaJonesCreative.com), Yolonda supports high-impact individuals, families, and teams in reclaiming calm, clarity, and confidence. Her offerings include:• C...2025-07-0159 minSincerely, Your Small BusinessYolonda Coles Jones, The Calm and Thrive CoachWhat did you think of this episode? Click to text me feedback!Yolonda Coles Jones, also known as The Calm and Thrive Coach, is an internationalconscious relationship expert and empowered living coach. She helps reactive, drained,distracted and anxious people learn to be more at home, at peace and in unconditional Love with themselves and others so they can be more present in more of the moments that make up this one precious and beautiful life.Learn more about and connect with Yolonda Coles Jones below:Website: www.YolondaJonesCreative.com...2024-02-0559 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 268: Freedom Is For Your Grown Ass Too!Join 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 have provided essential tools for this journey. Karen M Ricks, Tony Galloway, and Amelia Allen Sherwood. Karen explored the correlation...2023-07-2931 min
Connecting Communities: Kalamazoo Earth DayEarth Day Festival MusiciansThere are so many fantastic musicians in Kalamazoo, but only some who will be performing at the 2023 Earth Day Festival! These musicians are thoughtful in their community engagement and activism. No one-trick-ponies here. For this episode, we hope you will discover some new exciting music, and fall in love with your favorite local artists a little more.
Yolonda Lavender (00:00 - 48:00)
Santino Jones, Headband Henny, Buddhahand (48:00 - 1:24:00)
LoudFeli (1:24:00 - 1:40:00)
You can always catch the video of the studio recording at publicmedianet.org
Connect with Yolonda online:
https://www...2023-03-291h 39
Underdawg TalkTeacher Lounge Talk - W/ Art Mitchell - Ep. #59Arthur Mitchell is a Husband and Father of 3 beautiful children (Zaj) Zamya, Arianna, and Jayden. Becoming a father has been his greatest accomplishment in life. He is married to Yolonda Mitchell where they have been married for 8 years.
Arthur Mitchell's Journey started at the age of 6 when he was diagnosed with an eye disease called Keratoconus. The eye disease caused him to be visually impaired throughout his whole life. Art dealt with rejection, bullying, lack of support, and loneliness. this led him to a number of challenges in life. As Art got older he was able to take all his...2023-01-1954 min
Honey! I'm Homeschooling The KidsReflections For The Homeschooling YearReflections For The Homeschooling Year As we get closer to the end of season 6, I invite you to take a moment of pause and reflection. Season 6 began as a time and place to step further into Deschooling and growing without school or the easily recognized beliefs and structure of school. We explored Deschooling and Growing Without School Conscious Parenting Teens and Unschooling~What that can look like Minimalism Defining Success Resilience Supporting Passions Natural Learning Resources Critical Thinking Preparing For Adulthood And MORE In This Episode And Season No matter where you live in...2022-12-0819 min
Women Thriving, UnapologeticallyRe-membering YOU – In Your Real Life, Real TimeAre you in constant contact with your core being? Do you feel empowered in your own journey? Today’s guest is Yolonda Coles Jones, The Calm and Thrive Coach. She’ll talk with Lynsie about how you can make a commitment to honor and advocate for what is deeply true for you–right now, season by season, day by day, moment by moment, no matter what. Listen in as she shares about her journey toward being integrated, well-loved, well-tended to from her core. As always, you can find our host, Lynsie McKeown on her website: https://www.lynsiemckeown.com. Yolonda’s online...2022-08-0400 min
POUR PodcastPOUR Pod Episode 13In this Episode Leslie is in conversation with Yolonda Cole Jones, the Calm & Thrive Coach. She offers her wisdom on tending to friendships and offers ways we can assist them in thriving. Yolonda also offers language to assist us in processing through the loss and grief of friendships. Listen to how she fills her cup and cares for herself. You’ll understand why she’s able to be so intentional and centered. Yolonda Coles Jones is an international conscious relationship expert and empowered living coach. She helps reactive, drained, distracted and anxious people learn to be more at h...2022-06-2829 min
Empowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastEpisode 7: Stay Supple, My FriendIn this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, is back from a time of pausing the release of episodes, using the unexpected time away to illustrate what it might look like at times to be unapologetic about seeing to our whole-being well-being.She shares her experiences as her life transitioned into motherhood, including there the story of when she knew she needed to take a different kind of care of herself.You'll hear her describe what it looked like for her to begin to have...2022-05-2538 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastPrimal Screaming? ...Yes! And... | Release as you need to, then define your best next steps.Yolonda talks about primal screaming as a trend in America in this episode. It's about re-wilding in order to release the pent-up frustration and energy that has been piling up among parents who have been navigating and going through all of the changes, decision-making, pressure, grief, loss, pain, and all of the parenting in brand new ways - ways that they've never had before since becoming parents.Yolonda affirms and encourages primal screams as a powerful approach to let the body release in a safe and healthy manner, as this focuses on what we feel as humans.2022-03-2723 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastRestore and Maintain Healthy [Relationship] Connection | Beginning the Day with ApologiesIn this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, shares her experience with finding herself in a space where sustained adverse reactions to stress had gotten the best of her, how neglected care measures led to her having what she calls "energetic/spiritual B.O.," how that impacted her family and the steps she took to make amends. Yolonda's discussing what it looked and sounded like to begin the day with apologies, exactly what she said in those apologies and how that impacted her spouse and children.She gets into taking responsibility f...2022-01-1537 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastSense into Your Body’s Wisdom for Guidance & Support | The UNexpected result after 5 consecutive days of massage therapyIn this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, shares what she learned from her body after 5 consecutive days of professional massage therapy, why she took this action in the first place and how you can access your body's wisdom today--even if you can't get to a professional massage therapist right now.Yolonda's discussing her "pandemic pounds" (literal + energetic), an Ayurvedic perspective to support self-love even as you're making some changes and the custom plan (experiment) she co-created with massage therapist Andrea Tchalou (@dreatchal) to address the congestion between Yolonda's shoulder blades....2021-11-2940 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastRespectfully, Do Not Call Me Superwoman... Or Sweetie.In this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, shares her take on the experience of being called "superwoman," why she has distanced herself from that idea and why she would love to live in a world where others do the same.Yolonda's discussing the role of "nurturer," what the title encompasses and how it extends beyond raising children and being in a womxn+'s body.She also gets into why the descriptor "superwoman" is often harmful more than it is helpful, even when one is well-meaning.She offers alternative...2021-11-1428 min
Empowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastBreak Free From Perfectionism - "Smash the Amethyst Butterfly"In this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, talks about her pivotal steps into breaking free from the snare of perfectionism as a creative professional and business owner by "smashing the amethyst butterfly" as described by writer Elizabeth Gilbert. Yolonda's discussing the imagery exercise that enabled her to be both soaked in divine inspiration and also move forward into doing her human part to bring her vision forward into fruition. If you’re a perfectionist of any kind, waiting for all your ducks to be arranged pristinely in a row before you...2021-10-2317 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastGet Unstuck Using the EMBODIED R.A.I.N. TechniqueIn this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, shares her first-hand experience with breaking through heaviness she was sensing by taking the widely celebrated R.A.I.N. technique that is taught by meditation teacher and psychologist Tara Brach a few steps further. Yolonda's discussing the 20 minutes that helped her shift from a sense of vague "off-ness" that didn't shake free with her usual afternoon nap to an incredible sense of opening and lightness of heart.If you’re feeling a little off or stuck in this moment and looking for a w...2021-10-2313 minEmpowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastEmpowered People™ Each Day - IntroductionIn this episode, Yolonda Coles Jones, aka The Calm and Thrive Coach, tells you more about who she is, what she does and why it's so important to her. She mentions her religious upbringing, her current "spiritual but not religious" status, her interests, her home life and her work in the world at this time.If you’re curious about the woman behind the voice and how Empowered People™ -- The Podcast came to be, this episode is for you.Empowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastEmail: hello@yolondajonescreative.com | Instagr...2021-10-2305 min
Empowered People™ Each Day - The PodcastEmpowered People™ Each Day - The Podcast (Trailer)--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/empoweredpeopleeachday/messageSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/empoweredpeopleeachday/support2021-10-2200 min
How To Make Love™76: Listener Love Pick -- "Do you love this person enough to be yourself and also change yourself?" (ft. Yolonda & Will Jones)It's the first ever listening love pick!--a listener selected replay episode while we take a short October hiatus. Join former guest Yolonda Coles Jones and her partner Will Jones for a frank discussion about making partnership, freedom, intimacy, conscious parenting, and raising free children. Will and Yolonda are both entrepreneurs, home-based educators, and the curators of The Real Life Joneses. Welcome to a conversation about making love and justice through practicing intimacy and freedom. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversation at: https://www.laurabrewer.love/episode47 2021-10-1956 minHoney! I'm Homeschooling The KidsEmpowering Families Part 2 with Yolonda Coles JonesThis special episode is part 2 of my interview with Yolonda Coles Jones. Yolonda and I wanted to provide additional support and comfort to those families that are feeling caught up in the waves of the moment. This episode is all about using the tools of connection and presence to bring about calm and well-being. We want families to once again start feeling empowered in their own lives. That means being empowered as a parent, person and learning support. Yolonda Coles Jones, also known as “The Bringer of Calm” and the “Teacher of Thrive”, is a Healing...2021-03-151h 04Honey! I'm Homeschooling The KidsEmpowering Families with Yolonda Coles Jones Yolonda Coles Jones, also known as "The Bringer of Calm" and the "Teacher of Thrive", is a Healing, Wellness & Empowerment-Centered Coach and Education Consultant who specializes in coming alongside households--families and individuals--as well as teachers and school systems to support them in deepening into conscious connection with themselves and with those around them. From that place she guides and supports in building confidence, developing clarity, realizing calm and implementing strategies for success. Her trademarked Empowered People formula utilizes a powerfully effective combination of mindful breathing & meditation, conscious communication, somatic (body) awareness, boundary awareness, forgiveness, gratitude...2021-03-081h 09
All My Favorite PeopleA Legacy of Entrepreneurship & The Power of Play with Yolonda DeonEp. 9- Playologist and "Bomb Mom" Yolonda Deon joins me to round out Black History Month as we discuss her family's amazing legacy of entrepreneurship dating back to the 1940's, how she's raising her own daughter to be an entrepreneur, and how things like yoga, play, and curiosity can help all of us live a little more peacefully in our daily lives. To learn more about Yolonda and all the things she has going on at www.yolondadeon.com.2021-02-2655 min
Fare of the Free ChildEp 205 - Woke AF Parenting 101We are still in-between seasons on #fofcpod, so Akilah picked another amazing replay full of liberation talk and mad question askin’ -- episode 40 from season 2!Special guest Yolonda Coles Jones, founder of Empowered Journey Company, creator of the Empowered People trademarked formula as applied within her Empowered Me/Us, Empowered Families and Empowered Teachers Programs & within her Empowered People Deliberate Love School. She is talking about her experience with her partner on raising four free people, two daughters and twin sons.Akilah will al...2021-01-271h 19
Homeschool UnrefinedWhen It's All Too Much: The Mental Health Episode with Yolonda Coles JonesYolonda Coles Jones (@yolonda_j) joins us for an important conversation about prioritizing mental health and wellbeing for ourselves and our families as we homeschool. How can we best support the mental health of our children in this difficult and uncertain time of pandemic? How do we take care of ourselves while we take care of our kids? Yolonda also shares her advice for non-white families on how to take good care amidst increased visibility of and exposure to racial terror and trauma. Breathe deep with us as we receive the gift of Yolonda's wisdom and insight. ...2020-09-2854 min
How To Make Love™47: "Do you love this person enough to be yourself & also change yourself?" (ft. Yolonda Coles Jones & Will Jones)Join former guest Yolonda Coles Jones and her partner Will Jones for a frank discussion about making partnership, freedom, intimacy, conscious parenting, and raising free children. Will and Yolonda are both entrepreneurs, home-based educators, and the curators of The Real Life Joneses. Welcome to a conversation about making love and justice through practicing intimacy and freedom. Find links to all of the resources from today's conversation at: https://www.laurabrewer.love/episode47 Love How To Make Love? You can give a little love back by writing a review on iTunes or joi...2020-06-2258 min
Spirit Sessions: Sex, Spirit & Self-CareEp. 81 Divine Contractions with Yolonda Coles JonesIn this episode you’ll hear: ~Yolonda’s journey through spirituality ~Feminine aspects of God ~The Wild Woman Archetype ~Relationship at spiritual evolution ~Raising children ~Home Schooling ~Race in the health and spirituality space ~Identity today ~Music and creativity ~Yolonda’s amazing coaching ~Find Yolonda online at yolondajonescreative.com ~Yolonda singing Gray Get the full show notes: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/ Learn more: Shakti Ayurveda School2020-05-271h 32
How To Make Love™08: "All of the connections break when you are utterly broken." (ft. Yolonda Coles Jones)Join guest Yolonda Coles Jones for a raw and honest conversation about making love when you are broken wide open. Artist, musician, mother, and entrepreneur, Yolonda's transparency, wisdom, and expression will shake your heart into greater openness. The episode summary and its resources can be found here. Want to give a little love back to How To Make Love? Become a patreon of the podcast.2018-10-3039 min
Neo2soul PlaylistPart 6 of 10 review of the most played on Mixbag of Music Show 20176 in 10 it's my review of the most played Soul Gospel Jazz NeoSoul R&B songs from the Mixbag of Music Show 2017 [FEB - NOV], 500 songs by 250+ #indie artists, 30 hrs of pure bliss, 10 mixes in 10 shows.Tonyaa - Wonder Bout My LoveJamie E Parker - Keep Movin' On (Hurt Me Soul Remix)Mesonjixx - In The MiddleMylah - VulnerableOya Noire - Gang$TaElli Ingram - Getaway Niia - Hurt You First (J.Robb & The Kount Remix)Yolonda Lavender - Favorite KeyLyric Ishani - AyeJazzyD ft Deli Rowe - Eve...2018-01-062h 57
Fare of the Free ChildEp. 59: Deschooling through RhythmYolonda Coles Jones on deschooling and self-care through the practice of noticing.Support the showDig this show? Join our make-it-happen family at patreon.com/akilah to make sure we can keep this thang going strong. Thank you!The Raising Free People Practice Card Deckhttps://schoolishness.com/market/rfp-a-practice-deck/Peek at the details of Personal Manifesto Path (will be available exclusively through our make-it-happen family on Patreon)https://www.rfpunschool.com/p/manifestoOur Youtube channelhttps://www.youtube.com/@fareofthefreechild2018-01-0425 min
Local Spins LiveHollywood Makeout, Jake Kershaw, The Founding, Yolonda Lavender, Desmond Jones, ConvoTronics, Major Murphy to perform at Jammie Awards for first timeFebruary’s biggest night for local music will also boast sets by popular acts such as May Erlewine, Organissimo, Hannah Rose & The GravesTones, Afro Zuma and many more. See the full roster of performers and listen to the most recent Local Spins on WYCE podcast featuring a bevy of Jammie nominees.2018-01-0202 min
Newark TodayWith NPS Local Control in Sight, Parents Voice ConcernsWe’ll be discussing local control of Newark Public Schools during our live broadcast of Newark Today Thursday October 19 at 8PM. We invite the community to be a part of the audience at Express Newark in the downtown district’s historic Hahne’s building. Your host, NJTV’s Michael Hill will be joined by city Mayor Ras Baraka and a panel of guests. Doors open tonight at 7:15. Newark Today live October 19 at 8PM on WBGO and wbgo.org Now that Newark Public Schools are in position to regain control of governance from the state, parents are asking if the city is ready...2017-10-1803 min
Neo2soul PlaylistPart 1 of 10 review of FEB/MAR Top 50 Most Played Floradio Mixbag of Music ShowPart 1 of 10 it's my review of the most played Soul Gospel Jazz NeoSoul R&B songs from the Mixbag of Music Show 2017 [FEB - MARCH], TOP 50 songs by #indie artists, 30 hrs of pure bliss, 10 mixes in 6 shows.Kheyra - Not Guaranteed Brenda Mada - House PartyNiki Symone - Cant Let You GoShoa - Soul FoodSavage Sevyn - Moon CycleRiian Raquel ft Courtesy - KorinthianLorine Chia & Romero Mosley ft. Big Rube - Find Your Love Tangina Stone ft Kenneth Whalum - Black BoyRuby Francis - Fall AsleepPur...2017-09-023h 05
Fare of the Free ChildEp 40: Woke AF Parenting 101Yolonda Jones: creative spirit. writer. professional photog.professional natural hair stylist. professional singer. professional black girl as Dr. Yaba Blay would say. Yolonda’s crown rises high like her ambitions and her intentions. She and her partner, her husband, Will, are raising 4 free people, two daughters and twin sons, while simultaneously raising themselves as creatives, as business owners, as people with flaws and fire. Yolonda and Will have a blog called The Real Life Joneses where they risk expression about life in and beyond the brokenness. They talk about PTSD, depression, liberatory approaches to education and living with children, infidelity, creative...2017-06-0756 min
Neo2soul Playlist20th April 2017 Mixbag of Music with DJ Niceness in the mix on FloradioBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio Matt Martians - Southern Isolation Solomons Garden - The One We Called BrotherMinni Manchester - Good VibesRonnie Mason Jr ft Caretta Bell - Love...2017-04-222h 54
Neo2soul Playlist8th April New Neo2soul INNAGROOVES MIXTAPE SHOW HOSTED BY DJ NICENESSBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio.Website www.neo2soul.com Tangina Stone ft Kenneth Whalum - Black BoyAlex Vaughn ft. Odd Mojo - Good MorningRiian Raquel ft. Courtesy...2017-04-083h 00
Neo2soul Playlist6th April 2017 Mixbag of Music with DJ Niceness in the mix on FloradioBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio Jill Peacock - I'll Come RunningMinni Manchester - Rock Your WorldThe Isle Of CC - LosingElla Frank - SugarZilo - Know...2017-04-073h 02
Neo2soul Playlist1st April New Neo2soul INNAGROOVES MIXTAPE SHOW HOSTED BY DJ NICENESSBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio.Website www.neo2soul.comYolonda Lavender - Let GoJazzy D ft Kenya - WonderKim Tibbs - ForKenza Dawn Smile...2017-04-012h 58
Neo2soul Playlist30th March 2017 Mixbag of Music with DJ Niceness in the mix on FloradioBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio Alex Vaughn ft Odd Mojo - Good MorningTangina Stone ft Kenneth Whalum - Black BoyFeyde - Never Forget URiian Raquel ft. Courtesy...2017-03-313h 04
Neo2soul Playlist23rd March 2017 Mixbag of Music with DJ Niceness in the mix on FloradioBridging the gap between mainstream and indie artists, INNAGROOVES brings light to the underground and gives you the quality music you want to hear, not have to hear. Non-stop, less chat, more in the mix (NeoSoul, Hip Hop, R&B, Soul, Gospel, Jazz) musical grooves.Our goal is to help emerging, unsigned independent artists and bands to connect with opportunities to increase their exposure through Internet radio Courtnie - Heart's DesireThe Isle Of CC - You HideMyx Quest ft Irene Logan & Jai Amore - Sweet Love AffairSarsha Simone - Daydream2017-03-243h 02