Soulful Liberation Ángela Quijada-Banks

Discouragement is a blessing in disguise with Ángela Quijada-Banks

What if we could see beyond the discouraging experiences and see the blessing within it?

Listen in as Ángela shares her journey and how discouraging experiences helped her get more clear about her evolution of self and purpose.

Learn more about JIT for Foster Youth: https://jitfosteryouth.org/

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Order your copy of The Black Foster Youth Handbook here.

About our hostess-

Angela Quijada-Banks, (she/her) is an American Award-winning author, a transformational speaker, and a holistic health coach. Her book, the Black Foster Youth Handbook earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination (in the outstanding literary work category), and went on to receive several awards including first place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Her Ebook, The 7 Day Raw Cleanse gained quick traction and has over 600 downloads. She is currently writing a new book set to release in March 2023. Ángela has touched thousands through her speaking engagements and message encouraging others to alchemize their pain into purpose and power. Through her coaching, she supports women impact leaders who are also wives by supporting their holistic wellness journey to become re-energized for life and reconnect to their passions, purpose, and partner.

As a nationally recognized community leader and philanthropist, Ángela started the Soulful Liberation movement, impacting over 30,000 people. This movement helped to revolutionize historically oppressive systems by healing trauma utilizing holistic health, coaching, workshops, training, and programming.

Ángela is an adventurer at heart and wife to her amazing husband, Michael who is a United States Marine. The couple currently live in San Diego, California with their 2 cats, Luna and Felix. Ángela enjoys traveling the world, engaging in creative and artful projects including, music, dance, photography and poetry. She also enjoys exploring nature and nestling her head in a good book.

On days she is not leading her company, coaching, or community organizing, you can find Ángela binge-watching tv shows, at a concert, learning something new, or getting an adrenaline rush at an amusement park with beloved family and friends.

The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems.

Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.

www.soulfulliberation.com

In this episode,

Ángela Quijada-Banks shares with listeners how she began to envision a life beyond her reality and encourages listeners to expand their vision of who they want to become. She shares a bit about the Black Foster Youth Handbook and in what ways we may need to take a look at ideas that may be holding us back from freedom.



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Order your copy of The Black Foster Youth Handbook here.

About our hostess-

Angela Quijada-Banks, (she/her) is an American Award-winning author, a transformational speaker, and a holistic health coach. Her book, the Black Foster Youth Handbook earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination (in the outstanding literary work category), and went on to receive several awards including first place in the Chanticleer International Book Awards. Her Ebook, The 7 Day Raw Cleanse gained quick traction and has over 600 downloads. She is currently writing a new book set to release in March 2023. Ángela has touched thousands through her speaking engagements and message encouraging others to alchemize their pain into purpose and power. Through her coaching, she supports women impact leaders who are also wives by supporting their holistic wellness journey to prioritize their well-being, recommit to their partners, and reconnect to their passions and purpose.

As a nationally recognized community leader and philanthropist, Ángela started the Soulful Liberation movement, impacting over 30,000 people. This movement helped to revolutionize historically oppressive systems by healing trauma utilizing holistic health, coaching, workshops, training, and programming.

Ángela is an adventurer at heart and wife to her amazing husband, Michael who is a United States Marine. The couple currently live in San Diego, California with their 2 cats, Luna and Felix. Ángela enjoys traveling the world, engaging in creative and artful projects including, music, dance, photography and poetry. She also enjoys exploring nature and nestling her head in a good book.

On days she is not leading her company, coaching, or community organizing, you can find Ángela binge-watching tv shows, at a concert, learning something new, or getting an adrenaline rush at an amusement park with beloved family and friends.

The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems.

Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.

www.soulfulliberation.com

Our guest on the Soulful Liberation podcast today is the incredible Victor Sims who is featured in the I Am Success Workbook- Youth companion guide to the Black Foster Youth Handbook.
Our guest, Victor Sims
Victor Sims is a community leader, seasoned speaker and the founder of Guiding Hope Inc, Child Welfare Agency that was founded in July of 2020 because of the growing and expansive needs of the Child Welfare System. As a tedx speaker he focuses on the imperative aspects of social capital for youth in foster care. Although experiencing Florida’s foster care system, Victor has traveled the country advising legislators on various issues regarding teens' experiences in foster care. Having been a part of many initiatives and successful pilot programs, Victor’s main aim is to inspire hope within others who are experiencing a sense of hopelessness so that they can shift their perspective for good no matter how rough their start was.
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Order your copy of The Black Foster Youth Handbook here.
About our hostess-
Ángela Quijada-Banks is a Holistic health coach for purpose-led professional and entrepreneurial-spirited women who struggle with chronic burnout. She is an NAACP Image Award Nominated, American author of the best-selling book, The Black Foster Youth Handbook: 50+ Lessons I learned to successfully age-out of foster care and holistically heal. She is the Founder of Soulful Liberation which started as a podcast to support young people with trauma navigate their healing journey during the pandemic and has expanded into a movement to liberate one's self and community! As a transformational speaker and artist, she has impacted thousands with her message to alchemize your pain to purpose and power. Ángela is a scholar at Legacy Holistic Health Institute studying Holistic Health and wellness. Through her everyday work with helping young people uncover their divine purpose, performing spoken word events, facilitating workshops, and political advisory to legislators across the nation, she aims to aid in a revolutionary change in the areas of holistic health, economic injustices, child welfare disparities, cultural awareness and identity within low-wealth communities of color both on a micro and macro level.
Born in Anaheim, CA her reach has spanned across the nation and in several countries. And for her, this is only the beginning of her movement to promote generational soulful liberation of self and community. Between her day-to-day adventures, Ángela enjoys traveling the world, exploring various passions such as dancing, singing, self-defense, and adrenaline rushes at amusement parks with her husband, Michael. She is lovingly called a “graceful powerhouse” by all who know her, as she authentically shares her journey with the world.
The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems.
Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.
www.soulfulliberation.com

Our guest on the Soulful Liberation podcast today is the incredible Veronica Krupnick who is featured in the I Am Success Workbook- Youth companion guide to the Black Foster Youth Handbook.

Our guest, Veronica Krupnick:

Veronica Krupnick is a member of the Hopi Tribe of Arizona with Jemez Pueblo and Navajo heritage. She is the (MAPS) Program Coordinator with CASA First.She is also a member of the Child Welfare and Race Equity Collaborative, the New Mexico Partners, Tewa Women United and the National Foster Youth and Alumni Policy Council. Her focus is supporting the holistic well-being and healing journey of indigenous people and communities.

Learn more about Veronica Krupnick at www.soulfulliberation.com/resources

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Order your copy of The Black Foster Youth Handbook here.

About our hostess-

Ángela Quijada-Banks, (she/her) is an NAACP Image Awards Nominee and American Award-winning author of the Black Foster Youth Handbook. As a transformational speaker, she has touched thousands with her message to alchemize your pain to purpose and power. Through her holistic health coaching she supports spiritual wives in business to heal their acne, recover from iron deficiency anemia and prioritize their well-being without the sacrifice of their relationships,purpose or passions. As a nationally recognized community leader and philanthropist, she started the Soulful Liberation movement, impacting over 30,000 people to revolutionize historically oppressive systems through holistic health and healing trauma with coaching, workshops, training, and programming. She is currently writing a new book set to release September 2022.

Ángela is an adventurer and wife to her amazing husband, Michael- a United States Marine whom both live in San Diego, California with their 2 cats, Luna and Felix. Ángela enjoys traveling the world, being in creative and artful projects not limited to music, dance, photography and poetry, exploring nature and nestling her head in a good book. On days she is not leading her company, coaching or community organizing- you can find her binge-watching tv shows , at a concert , learning something new or adrenaline rushes at amusement parks with family and friends.

The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems.

Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.

www.soulfulliberation.com

Our guest on the Soulful Liberation podcast today is the change agent Eric Warner who is featured in the I Am Success Workbook- Youth companion guide to the Black Foster Youth Handbook.

Eric Warner (He/They pronouns) first entered care when he was 8 years old. Through a series of traumatic events and rehabilitation he was able to be reunified with his mother. This, unfortunately, would be an unsuccessful reunion and he would re-engage with the child welfare system at 11. While fighting with feeling validated throughout his youth an unwanted, forceful change prompted Eric with the opportunity to make a change in his life. His personal connection to once being a recipient of services from child welfare allows him a unique perspective when engaging in reformation and change implementation for states and nations. Utilizing, further, his skills in navigating the “aging-out” process and accessing services related to higher-education afford him a wide-set view for the changing and adverse needs related to varying populations that make up the foster care and related fields population.

After transitioning out of foster care, Eric found himself searching for a heightened purpose and familial connection that would come to him in a unique way. The family connection that has helped him become the person who he is today has been made and entered into with a refreshed gaze and enlightened emotional awareness. This is to describe that he has created the family around him, even to the point of reintroducing biological relatives to his meaning of family and what that would mean to re-engage with him. Through this time in his life he refound his passion for and engaged in higher education and seeking his college degree. He has studied at an array of institutions but now attends courses studying Criminal Justice in his pursuit for his B.A.

Eric has had the opportunity to be a public servant for child welfare in varying roles within organizations on a local, state and federal level with each providing more opportunity to enhance his skills and passion for advancing child welfare work and reforming the current structure and ideology of systemic change and implementation. Currently, consultation and collaborative implementation work will allow him the chance to commit his full areas of skill to bring about change needed to promote resilience, self-determination and establish/maintain sufficiency of services and standards for children and young adults in care.

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The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems.

Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.

www.soulfulliberation.com

In leu of Black History Month,

Ángela Quijada-Banks shares her poem When we became Black people.

Listen to hear her powerful words on the complexities of Blackness.

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Order your copy of The Black Foster Youth Handbook here.

About our hostess- Ángela Quijada-Banks is a Holistic health coach for purpose-led professional and entrepreneurial-spirited women who struggle with chronic burnout. She is an NAACP Image Award Nominated, American author of the best-selling book, The Black Foster Youth Handbook: 50+ Lessons I learned to successfully age-out of foster care and holistically heal. She is the Founder of Soulful Liberation which started as a podcast to support young people with trauma navigate their healing journey during the pandemic and has expanded into a movement to liberate one's self and community!

As a transformational speaker and artist, she has impacted thousands with her message to alchemize your pain to purpose and power. Ángela is a scholar at Legacy Holistic Health Institute studying Holistic Health and wellness. Through her everyday work with helping young people uncover their divine purpose, performing spoken word events, facilitating workshops, and political advisory to legislators across the nation, she aims to aid in a revolutionary change in the areas of holistic health, economic injustices, child welfare disparities, cultural awareness and identity within low-wealth communities of color both on a micro and macro level.

Born in Anaheim, CA her reach has spanned across the nation and in several countries. And for her, this is only the beginning of her movement to promote generational soulful liberation of self and community. Between her day-to-day adventures, Ángela enjoys traveling the world, exploring various passions such as dancing, singing, self-defense, and adrenaline rushes at amusement parks with her husband, Michael. She is lovingly called a “graceful powerhouse” by all who know her, as she authentically shares her journey with the world.

The Soulful Liberation movement- is all about alchemizing your pain to purpose and power. To explore what freedom, joy, love and the human experience is without the shackles of our past trauma, and generational cultural norms that create harm. It's about being on a journey of holistically healing so that you can go back and support someone else's journey in healing and revolutionizing oppressive systems. Holistically heal. Be Free. Be You.

www.soulfulliberation.com