S7E3: How Two Unexpected Beekeepers Are Revitalizing Detroit And Inspiring The Next Generation With Nicole Lindsey of Detroit Hives.
Release Date: 10/01/2021
S7E9: The Power Of Owning Your Story with Sarah Eagle Heart
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Sarah Eagle Heart is an Emmy-winning social justice storyteller, activist, media strategist, and producer focused on advocacy on behalf of Indigenous Peoples. She is an internationally accomplished executive with a diverse background in tribal, corporate, and non-profit organizations. Her creative projects are rooted in her worldview as an Oglala Lakota raised on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation supporting narrative change for healing and impact. In This Episode: The power of following your intuition and tapping into your spiritual beliefs to achieve your goals Why narrative change is a key step...
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S7E10: BIPOC Podcast Creators with Tangia Renee and Maribel Quezada Smith
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Tangia Renee is doing something a little different and coming out from behind the mic to be a guest on her own show, sort of. After working hard on a new project Tangia Renee and Maribel Quezada Smith are here to talk about the launch of BIPOC Podcast Creators. An online community and consulting firm that aims to help BIPOC creators in podcasting reach beyond the 101 and grow in the industry. In This Episode: What is BIPOC Podcast Creators and why it needs to exists The personal experiences that led Tangia & Maribel to creating the community Our main goals for changing...
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S7E8: Seeing The World Through Afro-Latinx Eyes with Dash Harris Machado
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Dash Harris Machado is a Peabody-award-winning multimedia journalist and entrepreneur currently based in Panama. She is the producer of NEGRO: A docu-series about Latino Identity, a decade-long, ongoing web-based docu-series that explores AfroDiasporic identity, colonization, the historical and present-day class, and color complex, and hierarchy among Latinxs throughout the Americas. She is also the co-founder of AfroLatino Travel.
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S7E7: Trusting The Wisdom of Your Own Voice with Kim Guerra of Brown Badass Bonita
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I am thrilled to introduce you to Kim Guerra, the founder of Brown Badass Bonita and one of my favorite online small businesses. Brown Badass Bonita is a brand and movement that she considers to be a work of self-love and an expression of her love for her community. Guerra is the author of “Mariposa” and “Mija”: both collections of bilingual poems, affirmations, and revolutionary love letters.
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S7E6: Speaking From The Comfort of Your Privilege with Bree Davis of CityCast Podcast
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Bree Davies is a multimedia journalist and arts community advocate born and raised in Denver. Rooted in the world of Do-It-Yourself arts and music, Davies co-founded and produced several music and arts festivals and has toured the country with various bands. Parallel to a decade-long practice in arts and organizing, Davies has also cultivated a career as a reporter, writer, producer and host- she's currently the first ever host of daily news podcast City Cast Denver, which launched in March 2021.
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S7E5: Building Community and Calling Out Bullsh!t with Erika Righter
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Erika Righter is a social worker-turned small business owner. Since coming to Colorado, she has worked with youth experiencing homelessness and in the foster care system, rural families, and with low-income older adults. In 2012, Erika founded Hope Tank, a gift store that gives back in the heart of the Baker neighborhood. She uses retail to connect the over 40,000 customers who come into Hope Tank every year, to organizations doing important work in our community.
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S7E4: It’s Not Just a Women’s Issue with Dusti Gurule
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Today we have Dusti Gurule to talk about how reproductive rights are not just a women’s issue and how she is building collective community power through her work at Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR). Dusti is an organizing and community-building expert and is here to share about how movements are created at a local level and grow from that point.
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S7E3: How Two Unexpected Beekeepers Are Revitalizing Detroit And Inspiring The Next Generation With Nicole Lindsey of Detroit Hives.
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Detroit Native, Nicole Lindsey is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director for Detroit Hives; a 501c3 nonprofit working to create sustainable communities for people and pollinators by transforming vacant lots into pollinator-friendly spaces.
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The Rise of JusticeTech and How It’s Impacting Criminal Justice In America with Marcia Chong Rosado
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S7E1: How To Inspire A Movement Through Storytelling With Farzana Doctor
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Farzana Doctor is a Toronto-based award-winning writer, activist, and psychotherapist working to ban female genital cutting in her Dawoodi Bohra community. In her latest book, Seven, Farzana blends beautiful storytelling with social justice, using the pages of Seven to tell the story of female genital mutilation and its impact on the communities where it is practiced.
info_outlineDetroit Native, Nicole Lindsey is the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director for Detroit Hives, a 501c3 nonprofit working to create sustainable communities for people and pollinators by transforming vacant lots into pollinator-friendly spaces.
In just under four years, Nicole educated thousands of Detroit-area youth on the importance of bee conservation through their, Bee The Change, program. They work with local Girl Scout troops to provide conservation projects for scouts to earn bee badges and founded National Urban Beekeeping Day. With the help of the Detroit City council, Detroit is recognized as a Bee City and started by transforming six blighted vacant lots into green outdoor learning spaces for people and pollinators.
Nicole is active within her community as she is a proud member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., sits on the board with Keep Michigan Beautiful, a member of the Southeastern Michigan Beekeepers Association, the Michigan Beekeepers Association, and the American Beekeeping Federation. She’s on a mission not only to inspire but educate the next generation of leaders in sustainability.
In This Episode:
- How a little bit of creativity and a cold led to a community revitalization project
- How to rebuild a city one beehive at a time
- What beehives have to do with transforming a city
- The of determination and vision in recreating your reality
- Creative and unexpected ways to positivity impact a community
Episode Details:
06:00 - How did Nicole Lindsey start with beekeeping?
17:00 - Why is there 90,000 acres of vacant land in Detroit?
20:00 - Why did Nicole stay in Detroit and why is she determined to do something to change it? Where is Detroit now?
24:00 - Bees and economic mobility
27:00 - What did beekeeping teach Nicole about changing communities?
31:00 - What’s the end game for Nicole and what should you know about bees?
35:00 - How do you get started with beekeeping?
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