Fare of the Free Child Akilah S. Richards

Ahhh….what an accomplishment! Our penultimate season reaches it’s finale… and ya’ll what a season it has been!!
Manifestation, magic, bridges, money as a tool, and the community that is MRM Village! We talk about how networking is actually all about creating community and linking up with folks who are willing to support each other’s missions.
Chemay talks about her intuition-led path to MRM’s updated business model that centers relationships, not dollars!We learn how Chemay and Vanessa concepted their current STAR model in the Village.We ear-witness Chemay’s passion for bringing SDE into every part of life and reimagining the work we do in the world.We name the real FLOW chart of entrepreneurship: The pivot! Nothing is certain, everything will FLOW as it must and morph into iterations of the idea until it forms into what works best for the people involvedThis conversation brings so much to the fore and it’s so important to bring these topics to the table and unpack things like: Intuitive work, embodiment, trusting the unknown, making space for what is to come, anti-hustling, and seeing that work is life and life is work.
As we close, we honor the energy of entrepreneurship, and we commit to the continual deschooling of it as one way of supporting the next generation in shifting the hustle-hard-at-all-cost lens they learned from us. Now, we choose to build a bridge for them to walk out of those old models into ways and modes of being that are more aligned with abundance culture, devoid of shame or guilt around money, and filled with mindful intentional and trust for the process.
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What is abundance culture? And what does pausing have to do with sustained abundance? These are some of the questions Vanessa Molano (our resident party animal + book nerd) asks us to explore in this conversation.

"I designed a spreadsheet to help you manage your bone$ and circulate that shit."
- Vanessa

Madd Question Askin' from this convo:
What are some of the alternative ways we can do what we’re trying to do, without the harm?How do you manage money in a way where you measure success by the way your relationships feel?How do we practice reparations?How do we practice valuing healing as the center of financial management?How do we do financial management in a collective way? with foundations for inter-class solidarity.How do we practice “small is all”?Highlights from this convo:

7:20 - 7:24 “what’s the point of being alive if you don’t have yourself?” VM

25:59 - 26:02 “For unschooling entrepreneurs, financial creativity is really at the heart of self-direction” ASR
30: 48 - 30:51 “authenticity is the most important thing we have” VM
31:08 - 31:17 “if you turn on the abundance lens, you’ll see that there’s a lot more support for the world that we want” - VM


Links from this convo:
Vanessa OnlineAkilah’s Content TrunkEmergent Strategy by adrienne marie brownSupport 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!

In this episode, and through the season, we are inviting you to listen, to notice, and to feel through what these conversations evoke for you; within you.

Madd Question Askin'
What new language is forming for you? 
What are you resisting? 
What are you allowing? 
What are you reframing and reimagining?
Are you already using spiritual tech in your life? What does that look like? 
Are you finding ways to introduce play/playfulness into your days? 
What infuses more joy into just being? 
What tools are you employing to navigate this life? 
Are you taking on new skills to pull you through or pivot away from things?
Are you aware of or recognizing ways that help you be more mindful? 
Are you getting stuck because you think you ‘know’ a way out or are you stuck because you’re actually thinking that but not doing it?
Are you trying to balance all the things in your life or are you going deeper and finding sustainability in harmony?
 Are you in flow in your life?
What are you doing to face your freedom calling?
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What is your connection to your origin story? Do you feel tied to your origin in ways that feel good and grounding? Or do you feel tethered to something that doesn’t quite feel like you?
What do you think about when you read or hear the words Origin Story, anyway?
Do you think about the start of your actual life?Or a particular relationship?A specific place?A type of food?An event?On this episode, you’ll hear some of me (Akilah) and Naaz’s (aka Fatima’s) origin story—how we met, and where we were in our respective lives when we joined forces. It’s more of an origins-to-now story, with plenty examples about following the threads that led us to peace and release! Plus, Dr. Crystal Menzies of EmancipatED and I have a real-ass convo about releasing aspects of our origin stories as creators, as givers, as liberation workers, so that we can live in ways that align with our current needs, energies, and intentions.
Related links:
Dr. Menzies on Parenting Decolonized Podcast
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This is the first episode of Season 9 and we’re delighted to dive into the work of shifting our spiritual and intuitive work to include our raising free people practice. This feels important because while some of us might already see the connection between our commitment to raising free people and the cultivation of our spiritual and intuitive practices, not all of us do. For some of us, the weight, pressure, and pace of our daily responsibilities make that particularly difficult to name, let alone practice. For some of us, the fatigue and frustrations that come with lack of community, for example, can have spiritual work feeling like a luxury we just don’t have time to get into. Our intention is that this season will offer you pockets of education and examples for how to begin exploring what spirituality and its first cousin, intuition, in your specific life and relationship work. And then, through that exploration, it is our hope that you can begin to clear away the not-it shit that’s taking up way too much space in your thoughts and actions, so that you can plant or nurture new seeds, seeds that align with your right and your connection to liberation work. This work is not just for, or because of our children. It is for us first, and then for all the relationship circles we are in, that require our nurturing.
Voices we’ll center this season:
Chemay Morales James of My Reflection MattersNaazneen Mookadam (aka Fatima) of Raising Free People Network (RFPN)Vanessa Molano of Empathematics and RFPNDr. Crystal Menzies of EmancipatEDAkilah S. Richards of RFPNWith special guest conversations about Spiritual Technology by Jasai and Stori, the mother|daughter team behind Alaiyo Waistbeads
MADD QUESTION ASKIN’ MOMENTS (MQA’S)
Are we afraid to talk about manifestation in relation to raising free people?Is there something solid to this practice of believing something into existence?Is Self-Directed Education basically intuitive lead education since it is, in part about listening to our inner voice, and respecting that voice in children?Did Chemay Morales James create My Reflection Matters as a result of following her own intuition?When y’all feel connected to us, know that it’s because there is also a thing in you that is looking to connectWhen is it best to wait for answers before making a move, versus moving so that the answers can show up?EP 257 JOURNAL PROMPT
As you listen to this episode, let's think about the prompt that would help you think through your current imperfect conditions.
What would you describe as your version of “$2 status?”
What are some of the realities that you feel are stalling your ideal life design?
As you work through these prompts throughout the season,
start with questions that can bring deeper meaning.
Start thinking in questions.
This helps in the unearthing.
This helps loosen the roots and aerate them for growth on this journey.
This helps bring change.
It helps us reimagine the answers, and how we come to those answers, and what comes forth from the way we ask these new expansive questions.
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As we continue our preparation for Season 9, you are invited to listen as Naaz (also known as Fatima) Mookadam tell us what showed up for her as she listened to Akilah S. Richards’s conversation with Dr. Crystal Menzies. You’ll hear much of that conversation in Season 9, so for now, hear Fatima’s insights and Akilah’s invitation to you. If you missed our first teaser, listen to it here. We are so excited to be centering the voices of five women who are deep in their own deschooling journey!
Chemay Morales JamesDr. Crystal MenziesNaazneem (Fatima) MookadamAkilah S. RichardsVanessa MolanoAnd here are the some of the topics we’ll be exploring all season long:
Shift /pivot/changeSpiritual workFreedom, truth, trustSpirituality intersects with SDETruth shiftsGraceBullets for safetyArrows of justiceSavor, not saviorSeek, don't solveStay tuned. More soon!
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