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About Zai: Zai, a 18 year old activist from Orlando, Florida has been protesting since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. They are the president of their high school’s (Dr. Phillips High School) Gender Sexuality Alliance.
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About Nichole: Hi I’m Nichole and I'm an activist in ocps. I spend my days with my friends and my community who have become my family just spreading peace and love and turning this world into a place of acceptance. 
My Instagram is http://instagram.com/xx_gr1m_ho3_xx and you can always reach to me for support or a friend.
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Tia is a writer, healer, and truth dealer who has worked for the top publishers in the spiritual publishing industry. Her calling is to work with those who are in major life transitions, need change, feel stuck, keep repeating patterns, or need help accessing their authenticity. Either through her energy work in Transference Healing or through writing, Tia helps others find their way through to their next chapter. She is currently a digital nomad and offers remote sessions as she travels with her husband and pug.
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Alysha is Zahra's long long time best friend. She is currently a Postdoc research fellow at the University of Nottingham. Last year she got her PhD in Business and Human Rights from the University of Manchester. Her research and life interests include workers' rights, corporate accountability, decolonial studies, surfing, ice cream, the sun and dogs.
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SexySoupDumplings (they/them) is a chef, content creator, and sex worker based in what is colonially known as Philadelphia. After graduating from Emerson, SexySoupDumplings dabbled in marketing and public relations. In 2020 amidst the beginning of the pandemic, they found their passion for sex education, healing work, and storytelling. SexySoupDumplings is a proud third generation Chinese-American non-binary femme relearning their roots in food history, culture, and exploring pleasure through food.
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In this bittersweet episode, we talk about breaking up with the podcast. Hien shares about the original goal of the podcast to showcase people who were doing things differently. We go on to talk about how much bullshit the wellness industry is under capitalism and how it feels like we’re a drop in the ocean. Zahra talks about the attention economy and how a lot of well-intentional wellness influencers end up playing within the system. Furthermore, we discuss how wellness is presented as another thing you can consume. Lastly, we passionately share about what we are wanting to do moving forward which includes getting involved with mutual aid and asking ourselves the guiding questions: How can you get away from capitalism? And how can you get a little bit closer to community? Most importantly, we encourage our listeners to know that they are smart enough to do the right thing during the crises we are living through.
Even though the podcast is ending, the Thoughtful Wellness Revolution umbrella is still available for us to use. See what we’re up to at www.ThoughtfulwellnessRevolution.substack.com
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This week we have some very important guests, Izaiyah (Zai) Ares Riveiro and Nichole Nina Lopez, a couple of student activists located in Orlando Florida! Zahra met these two awesome humans at a school board meeting in their city, following the school board’s decision to cancel an afterschool Drag event, hosted through the Gender Sexuality Alliance, GSA, (in the episode you’ll hear Zahra refer to it as the “Gay-Straight Alliance”, an outdated name used when she was in high school).
Zai and Nichole talk to us a bit about their experiences throughout their high school experience. Plus, they share with us more of what is currently going on in the schoolboard, and in the state of Florida at large. Zai and Nichole talk to us a bit about Moms for Liberty, and their influence on this issue. We finish up by hearing a bit about their hopes and dreams for the next chapter in their lives.
In this episode, we also discuss the influence Christian values have on our current education system, Zahra and Hien discuss this and Moms for Liberty more in the post interview. This is such an important episode because you can learn about how students are impacted by the current climate in Florida, through their own words, as well as get some insight on their actual needs and worries.
About Zai: Zai, a 18 year old activist from Orlando, Florida has been protesting since the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. They are the president of their high school’s (Dr. Phillips High School) Gender Sexuality Alliance.
http://instagram.com/Bye._.Zai
About Nichole: Hi I’m Nichole and I'm an activist in ocps. I spend my days with my friends and my community who have become my family just spreading peace and love and turning this world into a place of acceptance. 
My Instagram is http://instagram.com/xx_gr1m_ho3_xx and you can always reach to me for support or a friend.

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