This Is Hope Amethyst A Rodriguez

In this episode, I speak with Victoria Bomberry, former professor at the University of California and a minister of transformational programming. Victoria, who is herself indigenous speaks to the invisibility of native people and how colonization is still affecting you and me today. Victoria and her late husband founded the Seventh Generations Fund, which was the first Native American-led and operated foundation. The idea behind it– is to make decisions now as if you were making it for someone else who is seven generations in front of you. Victoria also speaks to the displacement of families and how people of faith should inform how we behave in the world.

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We are entering a New Year. And with that, there are plenty of folks making resolutions to change something in their lives– resolutions that often don’t happen.
Why does this happen?
In this episode, I talk about the cycles of perfectionist fantasies that disable people from accomplishing what they want in life. A perfectionist fantasy is when you think you believe but you don't really believe. When you say you believe, what you mean is you intellectually agree that it's conceivably possible for a person like you to do such a thing.
It's important to understand the cycles in our lives that do not help us. This enables us to identify them and change them. Perfectionist fantasies and tomorrow thinking is an incredibly disempowered way to live because we make plans that never happen…
In order to break the cycles around us, we must also break the cycles within us. I hope that you can use this as a tool to navigate the plans that you have for the New Year.

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In this episode, I speak with Reverand Cece Jones-Davis, a graduate from Yale Divinity School, ordained minister, death penalty abolishinist, womens advocate (as well as many other roles). Cece championed the Justice for Julius cause as an abolitionist against the death penalty– Justice for Julius gained momentum over the past year and led to the clemency by the Oklahoma governor. She also released an album called Alive, which is available on Apple, Spotify, Google and Amazon Music.
Cece shares with us her wisdom on healing, perspective on retributive justice and capital punishment and shines light on what it means to be a firestarter. This episode was recorded one year ago, when the case for the exoneration for Julius Jones looked BLEAK. Yet, she chose to continue championing him and his family until the thing snowballed.
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Cece Jones-Davis’s website: https://cecejonesdavis.com/
Alive album: https://cecejonesdavis.hearnow.com/
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Watch the documentary and get involved in Justice for Julius:
https://www.justiceforjuliusjones.com/
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If you want to learn more about the theology behind abolishing the death penalty and against retributive justice:
https://www.amazon.com/Executing-Grace-Penalty-Killed-Killing/dp/0062347373
https://sojo.net/tags/death-penalty
https://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/all-christians-should-oppose-death-penalty/
https://www.relevantmagazine.com/current/death-penalty-pro-life-issue-too/
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This is Hope Podcast
Discovering hope through stories of struggle and transformation // This podcast interviews social entrepreneurs and people who are actively engaged in transforming their communities to better understand the process of hope and social transformation.
https://www.thisishope.global/

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Show Notes:

No one lives a lifetime without facing a tragedy (or two, or three or four of them!)

In this solo episode, I share three ways that we can find hope in tragedies. I know that every tragedy is different and presents its own unique challenges... I know tragedies are painful. But what if tragedy is life's way of forcing us to stop-- think-- reorientate-- and in some cases... reset. 

1. Tragedies force us to stop. 

2. Tragedies teach us what is really important.

3. Tragedies present opportunities to start over, reset or make major changes. 

I use the analogy of a train, because that's exactly what life is like. We are all like trains running on railroad tracks, carrying loads that only increase as we grow older-- but occasionally our train gets derailed. 

So what can we learn from it? 

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Links

Order the book:

https://justharvestbook.com/

Get in contact with Greg:

www.realtoughlawyers.com

View the book trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LeiD_QyThQ

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I want to talk about the largest civil rights case against the U.S. government that you’ve never heard about. Even crazier, this case is quite recent, happening within our lifetimes….

This month, I sat down with Greg Francis, the lawyer who won the $1.25 billion settlement for black farmers against the U.S. Government. He rallied black farmers and civil rights advocates and provided enough evidence to prove the inherent racism of the USDA throughout its history, which caused black farmers to lose much of the generational wealth that could have impacted today’s generation for the better. Better said, this land was stolen.

If you are listening to this-- and you have a hard time reconciling or hearing this truth. You are probably living on stolen land… than good. I hope that you lean into that discomforting thought until you find yourself there. I digress…

I enjoy talking to Greg Francis because so much of his story reflects what it means to actual hope. I think that hope starts out with a smile or a conversation-- but if you let it catch fire… it’ll start disrupting systems and sometimes burning down the frameworks that make us safe-- so that we are forced to reconcile with truth--- Greg’s story about how winning this case took getting out of the law firm and into the kitchens and living rooms of real people changed his life-- and while 1.25 billion is a lot of money… it’s not even a drop in the bucket next to human dignity that comes with stating your plight-- and being heard by the people and powers that be. That’s what these farmers wanted.

That’s what people all around you want. And if you are intentional and critically aware… you probably have the ability to do more healing than you’ll ever know.

People start to heal the moment they feel heard-- Greg fought to have that happen. And he’s still fighting for that.

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There's too much to talk of transformation and not enough action. This is often, because situations in life seem so big and people don't know where to start. So, they throw their arms up and say... "I wish there was something I can do."
And then do nothing.
This is a form of learned helplessness. We feel we can't do anything or that whatever we do will impact nothing. So we do nothing. 
Not in this community!
In this episode, I explain a practical tool to help anyone start a project of their own-- from beginning to end. So, that anyone in the This Is Hope community can start taking proactive steps to personal and communal transformation.
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