Living in 3D Power Podcast

Dr. Amber M. Sessoms
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Discover how to live authentically and lead courageously with Dr. Amber M. Sessoms on the Living in 3D Power podcast. Explore transformative questions, liberatory storytelling, and heartwarming insights her 10-year-old daughter, Emma, to uncover your power through Discovery, Discernment, and Determination. New episodes every week! 

  1. 3d ago

    Black Hair, Identity & Generational Healing | What Our Kids Don’t Have to Unlearn (Episode 63)

    Send us Fan Mail What did you already believe about your hair at 11? In honor of Emma’s five-year locaversary, we use the 3D Curiosity Cards to explore Black hair across two generations. Amber reflects on growing up with relaxers and messages about “good hair,” while Emma shares what it’s like growing up with locs in a generation where natural Black hair is increasingly part of her everyday world. Along the way, we get into tender-headed childhoods, hair as identity, swimming and freedom, touching Black hair, beauty standards, choice, discrimination, Amber’s doctoral research on Black women and natural hair, and the question underneath it all: What happens when something one generation had to reclaim becomes ordinary for the next? Plus Reciprocal Witnessing and Emma’s Chicken Nugget Wisdom: “Love your hair even if you don’t have hair—because you’re awesome.” Chapters 02:51 Why We Chose Locs 04:52 Doctorate Storytime 10:15 bell hooks and Hair Politics 19:28 Emma’s Locs Core Memory 23:40 Length Standards and Cutting Talk 27:10 Unlearning Hair Shame 29:06 Loc Curiosity and Boundaries 34:19 Natural Hair and Liberation 35:38 Ancestral Strength and Choice 40:03 The CROWN Act and Hair Discrimination 42:49 Speak Up and Shut It Down 44:08 Reciprocal Witnessing 50:31 Hair, Health and Beauty Standards 52:34 Chicken Nugget Wisdom Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Black Hair, Identity & Generational Healing | What Our Kids Don’t Have to Unlearn (Episode 63)

  2. Aug 26

    Back to School: How Do We Belong Without Losing Ourselves? (Episode 62)

    Send us Fan Mail Emma is starting middle school. Maya is starting her senior year. And we’re getting curious about what it means to belong without losing yourself. In this back-to-school episode, Emma and I use our 3D Curiosity Cards to explore the stories we learn about belonging, why being heard matters, how we find and create environments where we can be ourselves, and what parts of ourselves are worth protecting as we grow. Then we slide over to Maya for a special sister-to-sister Chicken Nugget Wisdom exchange about friendship, finding your people, middle school, and senior year. The moment I can’t stop thinking about? When I ask Emma what she doesn’t want to lose as she gets older: “Me.” May all of our young people have spaces where becoming more of themselves doesn’t require leaving themselves behind. Chapters 02:06 Early Start Adjustments 03:53 Round One Discovery 04:05 Mom’s Belonging Story 09:13 Emma’s Belonging Moment 11:38 Round Two Discernment 13:22 Voice and Safety at School 18:06 Final Round Devotion 20:24 Witnessing and Reflections 22:37 Slide to Maya Segment Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Back to School: How Do We Belong Without Losing Ourselves? (Episode 62)

  3. Aug 19

    The Sound of the Genuine (Episode 61)

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when someone sees something in you and helps you find a place where it can grow? After spending a week at WITF learning sound engineering, podcasting, visual storytelling, music production, interviewing, and website design, Emma reflects on what made the experience feel so aligned with who she already is. Amber and Emma explore how community can help us recognize our gifts, why making music makes Emma feel most like herself, and what it means to give our curiosity somewhere to grow. Through the 3D Curiosity Cards—Discovery, Discernment, and Devotion—they also reflect on the people who have seen something in them before they could fully name it themselves. The conversation ends with reciprocal witnessing and Emma’s Chicken Nugget Wisdom: “Do something that is calling to you…just do it.” If you’ve lost touch with what calls you, Emma has a suggestion: go back to what you loved as a child. In this episode: curiosity, creativity, youth voice, community, belonging, authenticity, Howard Thurman, podcasting, music, reciprocal witnessing, and helping young people cultivate what is already inside them. Chapters 00:25 Camp Overview 03:16 Building a Canva Website 05:27 Beats and Making Music 14:24 Caffeine Episode Research 18:45 Round One: Discovery 24:58 Podcast Fan Moment 29:47 Round Two: Discernment 32:52 Bass Impromptu Demo  40:20 Round Three: Devotion 45:05 Reciprocal Witnessing 49:24 Chicken Nugget Challenge  Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    The Sound of the Genuine (Episode 61)

  4. Aug 12

    The Practice of Presence: What Mister Rogers Taught Us About Listening to Kids

    Send us Fan Mail What might children teach us if we listened long enough to be changed by them? After watching A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood during a family trip to Pittsburgh, Amber and Emma reflect on Fred Rogers’ extraordinary practice of presence: slowing down, honoring silence, remembering people, and treating children as people worth listening to. Using the 3D Curiosity Cards, they move through Discovery, Discernment, and Devotion to explore childhood grief, adult joy, play, deep listening, curiosity, and what helps another person feel truly seen. Emma offers a simple lesson when Amber asks how she knows an adult is really listening: “They don’t interrupt.” That opens a conversation about listening to understand instead of listening to respond, Amber’s tendency to stack questions, when curiosity can feel like interrogation, and why being present sometimes means resisting the urge to fix someone’s pain. They also practice reciprocal witnessing, explore what it means to be “too much” and still belong, and consider how speaking life into another person can help them see something in themselves differently. And Emma’s Chicken Nugget Wisdom? Go outside. Sometimes presence begins by returning to the world right in front of us. In this episode:  Mister Rogers, intentional living, and the meaning of 143  The ten-second gratitude practice  What adults forget about childhood  Play as joy  Childhood grief and the need to be witnessed  Listening without interrupting  Listening to understand instead of rebut  Curiosity versus interrogation  Allowing silence instead of stacking questions  Helping others feel seen, heard, and loved  Reciprocal witnessing and speaking life  Too muchness and finding your people  Emma’s “Go Outside” Chicken Nugget Challenge Episode Chapters  00:17 Pittsburgh Trip Talk  02:20 Movie and Article  04:19 Childlike Wonder  07:30 Ten Seconds Gratitude  09:55 Being Seen and Love  11:48 Childhood Wishes  15:27 Play and Joy  21:07 Listening as an Adult  27:07 Devotion Practice Ideas  31:19 Witnessing and Speaking Life  35:43 Too Muchness and Belonging  36:37 Go Outside Challenge Reflection question: What helps you know that someone is truly present with you—and what might change if we listened to children long enough to be changed by what they say?  Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    The Practice of Presence: What Mister Rogers Taught Us About Listening to Kids

  5. Aug 5

    Episode 59: What Does Love Feel Like?: Imagining Love Beyond Perfection, Mistakes, and What We’ve Learned to Earn

    Send us Fan Mail What if love wasn't something you defined... What if it was something you felt? Inspired by a challenge from Amber's therapist, this episode explores what it means to experience love—not as an idea, but as something embodied. Using the next round of their co-created 3D Curiosity Cards, Amber and Emma reflect on how our earliest experiences shape the way we give, receive, and sometimes question love. Along the way, they explore mistakes, emotional safety, family practices, reciprocal witnessing, and Emma leaves us with another memorable piece of Chicken Nugget Wisdom: "Everyone deserves to be loved and feel loved." This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and imagine what love feels like in your own body. Reflection Challenge Spend five minutes this week imagining what it feels like to be loved. Then ask yourself: If love wasn't something you had to define—but something you could only describe with your body—what would it feel like? Chapters 00:16 Imagining Being Loved 02:06 Conversation Card Rules 04:25 Round One: Discovery 09:20 Reflecting on Stories 11:27 Round Two: Discernment 19:10 Love Languages & Family Practice 23:09 Reciprocal Witnessing 26:43 Chicken Nugget Wisdom 28:05 Closing Challenge Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Episode 59: What Does Love Feel Like?: Imagining Love Beyond Perfection, Mistakes, and What We’ve Learned to Earn

  6. Jul 29

    Episode 58: I Regulated. Emma Testified.

    Send us Fan Mail What happens when fear shows up in two bodies, but gets two completely different responses? In this episode, Amber and Emma reflect on roller coasters, fear, faith, control, and what helps us feel safe. They also test the first set of Curiosity Cards they are co-creating to support honest, reciprocal conversations between adults and young people. Questions explored: Discovery Adult: What have you learned about fear and what you must do to keep yourself safe? Youth: What have you learned you are supposed to do when you feel scared? Discern Adult: What helps you release control and trust something bigger than you to guide your path? Youth: What helps you trust that something bigger than you is helping you find your way? Devote Adult: How can we build relationships where people can name their fear without being shamed, silenced, or ignored? Youth: What can we do to help one another feel safer when we are scared? The episode closes with reciprocal witnessing: Something I heard you say that I want to remember is… Something your answer helped me understand differently is… Plus, Emma shares her latest Chicken Nugget Wisdom. 00:00 Rollercoaster Prayer Laughs 00:59 Welcome and Why Fear 08:38 Emma’s Rollercoaster Response 11:49 Iron Menace Mindfulness 15:47 Curiosity Cards Idea 21:22 Discovery 28:29 Discernment 36:44 Devotion 43:24 Reciprocal Witnessing 51:19 Chicken Nugget Wisdom Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Episode 58: I Regulated. Emma Testified.

  7. Jul 22

    Episode 57: Quiet Courage: A Conversation with Maya about France, Wonder & Growing Up

    Send us Fan Mail After a two-month break, Emma and I return with a special family episode. We are joined by my middle child, Maya, to reflect on our unforgettable journey across France. From the bustling streets of Paris to the medieval charm of Sarlat, the caves of Lascaux, and painting en plein air in Provence, this conversation explores travel, connection, identity, grief, joy, and what it means to truly notice the world around us. Emma steps into the role of host, guiding a conversation filled with rapid-fire questions, laughter, thoughtful reflections, and a few travel mishaps along the way. Together, we reflect on how stepping outside of familiar surroundings can deepen our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the shared humanity that connects us all. If you're watching this episode, we've woven in photos and video from our travels throughout the conversation. Our hope is that you won't just hear about France—you'll feel transported there with us, experiencing the beauty, wonder, and moments that shaped this journey. Share In this episode: Why this France trip was so meaningful for Maya and mePacking wins, travel fails, and surviving a European heat waveThe foods we loved...and the ones they definitely didn’tThe beauty of Sarlat, Provence, and slowing down enough to noticeWhat the Louvre and Lascaux IV taught us about art, history, and being humanHow we built connections without speaking FrenchWhy travel changed us—and why everyone deserves opportunities to experience other culturesDiscovering en plein air painting as a healing and reflective practiceReflections on experiencing France as a Black girl and womanEmma’s surprise “museum” waiting for us at homeFinding joy, laughter, and connection in the midst of griefChapters 00:00 Meet Maya  04:03 Paris Trip Setup 04:23 Rapid Fire Highlights 07:25 Culture Shocks And Favorites 09:14 Trip Challenges And Souvenirs 11:20 Favorite Moments In France 15:29 Museums And Meaning 17:50 Language Barriers And Detours 20:02 Did Travel Change You? 24:51 Lessons On Energy And Art 29:13 Being Black In France 32:07 Emma Home Museum Reveal 35:18 Closing Reflections Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Episode 57: Quiet Courage: A Conversation with Maya about France, Wonder & Growing Up

  8. May 20

    Episode 56: "Ancestors in Training": Medicine, Memory, and the Stories That Keep Us Connected

    Send us Fan Mail What if medicine wasn’t just something prescribed… but something that reconnects us to ourselves? In this tender and deeply reflective episode of Living in 3D Power, Amber and Emma explore the idea of “mental medicine” after Amber’s 3D Power Pause conversation with death doula and therapist The Ancestral Healing Collective founder TaLisa Ramos. Together, they unpack grief, ancestry, storytelling, food, family, community, and the sacred question: What kind of ancestor are you becoming right now? Emma shares that medicine for her is “family, friends, and food,” while Amber reflects on the healing power of remembering our elders as people who once carried dreams too. The episode moves through conversations about:  Death doulas and grief work  Emotional heaviness in today’s world  Why storytelling is medicine  Black ancestry, belonging, and identity  Remembering the dreams of our parents and grandparents  The Disney movie Coco and what it means to be remembered  Becoming “good ancestors in training” This episode is both a conversation and an invitation:  to slow down,  to remember,  and to ask what kind of legacy we are creating through the way we love and live. In This Episode  00:32 Death Doula Explained  02:17 Youth Wellness Summit  04:03 Heavy Times and Grief  06:51 Bring Medicine Home  08:14 What Medicine Means  10:10 Family Friends Food  12:54 Ancestry Stories We Miss  20:38 Adults Had Dreams Too  26:04 Ancestors In Training  31:23 Coco and Remembering  32:12 Final Nuggets and Outro Chicken Nugget Wisdom 🍗 “You gotta be a good ancestor in training.” — Emma Reflection Questions  What feels like medicine to you?  What stories from your family were never fully told?  What dreams did your elders carry that you are now able to pursue?  What do you hope people remember about the way you loved?Connect with Me: Instagram: @natural_inclination Youtube: @naturalinclination TikTok: Amber Sessoms LinkedIn: Dr. Amber M. Sessoms, NCSP Bluesky: @ambersessoms.bsky.social Facebook: Natural Inclination Website: www.aninclination.com Like, Comment, Share, Engage If this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who would love these conversations. Engage with the Curiosity Cards and ask the youth in your life about their experiences because you might be surprised by what you learn. Share your thoughts and reflections in the comments or on social media using #LivingIn3DPower. And, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for next week’s conversation!

    Episode 56: "Ancestors in Training": Medicine, Memory, and the Stories That Keep Us Connected
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Discover how to live authentically and lead courageously with Dr. Amber M. Sessoms on the Living in 3D Power podcast. Explore transformative questions, liberatory storytelling, and heartwarming insights her 10-year-old daughter, Emma, to uncover your power through Discovery, Discernment, and Determination. New episodes every week! 

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  • Creator
    Dr. Amber M. Sessoms
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    63
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    © 2026 Living in 3D Power Podcast
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