66 episodes

Hey, my name is Shalonda, your host. This podcast is about foster care and our experiences growing up in custody. We want to highlight success stories to give the next generation tips on how they can survive foster care and thrive after. I share my experience and advice for what I did and didn't do while giving the lessons that I learned. I look forward to interviewing foster youth, foster parents, caseworkers, and biological families to understand the full story so we all can understand how to work together to create a better system. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yemojaspeaks/support

Yemoja Speaks Shalonda Swanson

    • Society & Culture

Hey, my name is Shalonda, your host. This podcast is about foster care and our experiences growing up in custody. We want to highlight success stories to give the next generation tips on how they can survive foster care and thrive after. I share my experience and advice for what I did and didn't do while giving the lessons that I learned. I look forward to interviewing foster youth, foster parents, caseworkers, and biological families to understand the full story so we all can understand how to work together to create a better system. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/yemojaspeaks/support

    Prospectives of youth in foster care

    Prospectives of youth in foster care

    You have rights and amazing perspectives to give. Listen to other foster youth and alum give their perspective and experience in foster care.

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    • 15 min
    Protect foster youth

    Protect foster youth

    Unfortunately Darnell T. life was taken by his temporary foster mother February 2024. We are discussing his case.

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    • 35 min
    CONCUR FEAR

    CONCUR FEAR

    We want to be successful but sometimes the fear holds us back. We fear success, opinions, or failure but that doesn’t mean we cannot accomplish our goals. We can do it through the fear. Let’s talk about it. Follow me on Instagram @yemojaspeaks

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    • 21 min
    THE TRUTH IS HARSH

    THE TRUTH IS HARSH

    Many times we say we want the truth but honest can be hurtful and we want to resist it. I find myself resisting the truth when someone calls me out and holds me accountable. I want to become better but listening to my flaws is difficult. Let’s discuss it. Follow on Yemojaspeaks on IG.

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    • 39 min
    Announcement

    Announcement

    I deleted emotional regulation and uploaded affirming emotions in its place last week. If you haven’t listened to that episode please go listen. Bonus there is another episode being released today at noon. Thank you for listening and supporting this podcast.

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    • 4 min
    Affirming Our Emotions

    Affirming Our Emotions

    As we recognize how we feel we are able to affirm that we have those emotions to work through them. I deleted my previous episode about emotional regulation but within this episode we discuss social situations that we can find ourselves in where we need to regulate our emotions by naming them, or biting our tongue in intense emotions.

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    • 38 min

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