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Kenya and Michelle are the founders of the Outdoor Journal Tour, a hybrid health organization that combines the healing benefits of the Great Outdoors with introspective journaling and mindful meditation. They are headquartered in Atlanta, GA and the creators of international outdoor wellness phenomenon #wehiketoheal. Most recently, they’ve spearheaded their Mindful Minutes program, a nationwide challenge designed to encourage more mindfulness in our everyday lives.
In this episode, we discuss Kenya and Michelle’s root stories, the lessons they’ve learned as entrepreneurs and outdoor advocates, their definitions of “real healing,” the rewards and challenges of centering mindfulness and JEDI in the outdoors, the Nature Meditations Deck and so much more!
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Music: James & Black, "Everyday (Walking in Sunshine)"
To follow the Outdoor Journal Tour:
Website: www.outdoorjournaltour.com
IG: @outdoorjournaltour
Facebook Group: The Outdoor Journal Tour
Twitter: @tweetODJT
Chronicle Books: Nature Meditations Deck
https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/nature-meditations-deck
You can also purchase via ODJT website:
https://www.outdoorjournaltour.com/nature-meditations-deck/
ShoutOut Atlanta: Meet Kenya Jackson-Saulters
April 27, 2021
https://shoutoutatlanta.com/meet-kenya-jackson-saulters-writer-spiritual-coach-outdoor-enthusiast/
Meggan Waterson: Divine Feminine Oracle Deck
https://www.megganwatterson.com/the-divine-feminine-oracle
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John Tateishi is the former National Executive Director of the Japanese American Citizens League and author of Redress: The Inside Story of the Successful Campaign for Japanese American Reparations.
At two and a half years old, John was among the 120,000 Japanese Americans who, at the outbreak of WWII, were forced from their homes in the western states and imprisoned in America’s concentration camps. With his family, he was sent to the so-called Manzanar Relocation Center in the Eastern Sierras, one of ten American concentration camps in which Japanese Americans spent the war as civilian prisoners of their own government without ever having been charged with any crimes.
In this episode, we discuss John’s root story, spending his formative childhood years as a prisoner at Manzanar, how traditional Japanese cultural values impacted the healing of the Japanese American community, his role in leading the fight for Japanese American reparations and so much more.
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Show Notes
You can learn more about John Tateishi here:
https://www.johntateishi.com/
You can purchase Redress here through Heyday Books:
https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/redress-the-inside-story-of-the-successful-campaign-for-japanese-american-reparations/
Manzanar National Historic Site:
https://www.nps.gov/manz/index.htm
About the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians
(National Archives)
https://www.archives.gov/research/japanese-americans/hearings
President Reagan’s Apology: Signing of HR 442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcaQRhcBXKY
Letter of Apology from President George W. Bush
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/japanese_internment/bush.cfm
Milagros Phillips, Cracking the Healer’s Code
https://www.milagrosphillips.com/healerscode
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Necota and Sonya Staples are the founders of Staples InTents and Black People Offroading, an Atlanta-based camping, adventure travel, and lifestyle bloggers. Their mission is to increase diversity in the outdoor adventure travel community by redefining the typical imagery associated with the outdoor adventurer.
As college sweethearts, Sonya and Necota have always had a passion for travel and adventure, but after several years, found themselves in a challenging place in their marriage and discovered camping as a way to say yes to each other and yes to the world. The discovery of camping led them to overlanding, where their passion for outdoor adventure rejuvenated their love for each other and gave them a common purpose while allowing them to play to their individual strengths and grow closer together.
In this episode, they share their collective root story, how Mother Nature helped them save their marriage, their transition from corporate life to entrepreneurs and outdoor advocates, why representation matters, and so much more!
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Music By: James & Black, "Everyday (Walking in Sunshine)"
To contact Sonya and Necota:
IG: @staplesintents
IG: @blackpeopleoffroading
Twitter: @staplesintents
Website: https://staplesintents.com/
YouTube: Staples InTents
The New York Times Articles
“2020 is the Summer of the Road Trip, Unless You’re Black”
By Tariro Mzezewa, June 10, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/10/travel/road-trip-black.html
"Road Tripping While Black: Readers Respond"
By Tariro Mzezewa and Tacey Rychter, June 25, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/travel/road-tripping-while-black-readers-respond.html
Staples InTents YouTube Video
“Ultimate Self-Care: Solo Camping”
By Necota Staples, February 28, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH2p8ByBJo4
Workshop: Camping & Overlanding While Black
November 21, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Fs4ZYQc0Q
Overlanding: A Quick Rundown of What It Is, and Why it’s Cool.
November 20, 2020
https://www.motortrend.com/news/what-is-overlanding/
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Kam Redlawsk is a disabled industrial designer, artist, advocate, traveler, writer and speaker. She’s also a Korean American adoptee. She has been an advocate for the rare disease and disability community for 14 years. In this effort, she uses art, writing, travels and tools that connect us as humans. She has lived with GNE Myopathy, a rare muscle-wasting disease, for over 20 years. Kam loves taking road trips, observing Nature, scavenging for art destinations and concocting exploration plans.
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Kam Redlawsk's Contact Information
IG: @kamredlawsk
IG: @chairdevils
Twitter: @kamredlawsk
Website: https://www.kamredlawsk.com/
Kam Redlawsk: Limitless Sides to Outside
https://www.rei.com/blog/travel/kam-redlawsk-limitless-sides-to-outside
Parks Project Documentary Short: Kam Redlawsk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SiHMRd51HY
Creating Art Through Adversity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLybWNd9i8w
Rare Diseases
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/gne-myopathy/
Despite Calls to Improve, Air Travel is Still a Nightmare for Many with Disabilities
NPR, Nov. 9, 2021
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1049814332
Air Carrier Access Act
https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/passengers-disabilities
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
https://dredf.org/news/publications/disability-rights-law-and-policy/where-prejudice-disability-and-disabilism-meet/
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Richard D. Garcia is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Alma Backyard Farms. Richard studied at St. John’s Seminary College and has extensive experience in pastoral ministry inside juvenile halls and prisons. As a pastoral minister, youth advocate, and urban farmer, Richard knows how growing food is a transformative way of bringing people together. Since completing an M.A.in Pastoral Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Richard incorporates principles of restorative justice into urban farming.
In this episode, Richard shares his root story, his family connection to the outdoors, fulfilling his calling via urban agriculture, how ALMA Backyard Farms is addressing trauma and bringing community healing, and so much more!
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Music by Black & James, "Everyday (Walking in Sunshine)."
Website: https://jamesandblack.org/ IG: james.and.black
To learn about Alma Backyard Farms . . .
IG: @almabackyardfarms
Website: https://www.almabackyardfarms.com/
Books
Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
Dawn B. Mabalon, Journey for Justice: The Life of Larry Itliong
Other sources . . .
Homeboy Industries
Website: www.homeboyindustries.org
http://homeboyindustries.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/media_kit-Bio-Father-Greg-FINAL-7-2-12.pdf
Rethink Outside: Blue Sky Funders Forum
https://rethinkoutside.org/
California EnviroScreen
https://oehha.ca.gov/calenviroscreen/report/calenviroscreen-30
City and Community Health Profile: Compton
Published by the LA Public Health Department, June 2018
http://publichealth.lacounty.gov/ohae/docs/cchp/pdf/2018/Compton.pdf
How A Predatory Real Estate Practice Changed The Face of Compton
By Ailsa Chang, Jonaki Mehata, Christopher Intagliati, NPR, May 5, 2021
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/05/993993572/how-a-predatory-real-estate-practice-changed-the-face-of-compton
Articles/Blogs
Potli Blog: Alma Backyard Farms on Reclaiming Lives, Repurposing Land, and Reimagining Community, May 18, 2021
https://www.potlishop.com/blogs/the-drip/alma-spotlight
Los Angeles County’s Forgotten Farming History (PBS)
February 7, 2019
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Shelma Jun is a filmmaker, rock climber, outdoor advocate, and founder of Flash Foxy and the Flash Foxy Climbing Festival. In 2017, Shelma was named one of 40 women who’ve made the biggest impact in the outdoor world by Outside Magazine. In this episode, Shelma shares her root stories, navigating her Korean American identity in the outdoors, the barriers that exist for women and the gender queer community in rock climbing, Flash Foxy’s ever-evolving mission and vision, and so much more!
IG: @_yourhealingnature
Email: [email protected]
Music by: James & Black, "Everyday (Walking in Sunshine)"
Photograph of Shelma Jun taken by Francois Lebeau.
To connect with Shelma . . .
IG: Shelmatic
IG: heyflashfoxy
Facebook: Flash Foxy
Website: https://www.flashfoxy.com/
Documentaries
Within Reach (2017)
https://youtu.be/-NsBqB21RPo
The Moment: Shelma Jun (2018)
https://youtu.be/pYHPRUqtTTs
Garmin: Women of Adventure (2018)
https://youtu.be/EpudpgnerZ4
Do Better Together (2019)
https://youtu.be/0TDhBWywpf0
Duality (2019)
Duality: Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ngyRDE6Z0
Finding Space: Shelma Jun (2021)
https://youtu.be/XKdWxCXwxRw
Articles & Blogs by Shelma Jun
"How Gender Affects Your Experience at the Climbing Gym," Sept. 13, 2016
https://www.outsideonline.com/culture/opinion/how-gender-affects-your-experience-climbing-gym/
"Accept & Adapt: Women in Climbing," September 13, 2016
https://www.climbing.com/people/women-in-climbing-accept-and-adapt/
Duality: Blogs
https://blog.arcteryx.com/%EC%9D%B4%EC%9B%90%EC%84%B1-duality/
"Are you a climber?" Blog
https://blog.arcteryx.com/are-you-a-climber/
Other Recommendations
Books on Intersectional Feminism
Here’s a starting point for your research:
https://iwda.org.au/10-new-old-books-for-intersectional-feminist-readers/
Camping in Korea
Asia Society: The Geography of the Koreas
https://asiasociety.org/education/geography-koreas
A Guide to Camping while Biking in Korea
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Parker McMullen Bushman is Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of Inclusive Journeys, Founder of Ecoinclusive Strategies, and Creator of KWEEN Werk. Parker is a dynamic speaker and facilitator that engages organizations in new thinking around what it means to be a diversity change-agent and create dynamic organizational change. Parker’s background in the non-profit leadership, conservation, environmental education and outdoor recreation fields spans over two decades. In this episode, Parker shares her root story, the process of reclaiming the outdoors via the legacy of her ancestors, her passion for changing outdoor narratives, the innovative work she’s doing via Inclusive Journeys and so much more!
To support and learn more about Parker:
IG: @kweenwerk
Twitter: @kweenwerk
TikTok: @kweenwerk
Facebook: Kween werK
Website: https://www.kweenwerk.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kweenwerk
Venmo: @kweenwerk
Cashapp: @kweenwerk
Paypal: paypal.me/kweenwerk
Merch: https://kween-werk.creator-spring.com/?
Ecoinclusive
To contact Parker for diversity training at your non-profit, cultural or environmental institutions, please go here:
Website: www.ecoinclusive.org
Twitter: @ecoinclusive
Facebook: Ecoinclusive
Inclusive Journeys
To engage in Beta testing: https://www.inclusivejourneys.com/
IG: @inclusiveguide
Twitter: @inclusiveguide
Facebook: Inclusive Journeys
Parker’s Website: http://www.cparkermcmullenbushman.com/
Gullah Geechee Corridor
https://gullahgeecheecorridor.org/thegullahgeechee/
https://guides.loc.gov/gullah-geechee-history
The Green Book
Library of Congress–View the entire book digitally (page-by-page):
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016298176/
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Amanda is an outdoor educator, travel writer, outdoor advocate, and thru-hiker. She has thru-hiked the Colorado Trail, Pacific Crest Trail and half of the Grand Enchantment Trail. Amanda has also traveled the United States as a speaker and presenter at various outdoor festivals as a Subaru Leave No Trace Master Trainer. In this episode, we discuss Amanda’s definition of thru-hiking, her root story, healing via thru-hiking, her contentious relationship to change, the creation of Brown Girl on the National Scenic Trail and so much more!
Show notes
Follow Amanda at:
IG: @browngirlonthenst
Blog: Brown Girl on the NST
Amanda’s Writings for Backpack Magazine
Backpacker author page and a piece about Amanda
Modern Hiker Interview
https://modernhiker.com/trailblazers-amanda-jameson/
Other Recommendations from Amanda . . .
Decolonizing Travel
Bani Amor (They/Them) on decolonizing travel culture. Follow them on
IG: baniamor
Books
Charlene Caruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
James Baldwin, The First Next Time
Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro
Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler, Kindred
Saudade: The Portuguese word for the sweet melacholy of a moment that will never be again.
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José González is the founder and director emeritus of Latino Outdoors, a non-profit that connects Latinx communities and engages cultura y familia as part of the outdoor narrative. He navigates through a self-created identity of a "Green Chicano" as he weaves the roles of educator, artist, conservationist, environmentalist, and Chicano.
José’s commentary on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion in the outdoors has been featured by High Country News, Outside Magazine, Earth Island Journal, and Latino USA, among other media outlets. During the Obama Administration, he engaged in collaborations with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, U.S. Department of Interior, and the National Parks Service.
In this episode, we discuss his root story, the power of storytelling, his outdoor advocacy work, healing through the language of ecology, finding ancestral guidance and so much more. We invite you to join us around the digital campfire!
To follow José González:
IG: @josebilingue
Twitter: @josebilingue
Website: http://www.josegagonzalez.com/
Latino Outdoors
IG: @latinooutdoors
Facebook: Latino Outdoors
Twitter: @LatinoOutdoors
YouTube: Latino Outdoors
LinkedIn: Latino Outdoors
Website: www.latinooutdoors.org
Articles
Laura Hilgers, “Nature’s Trailblazer” in the Nobhill Gazette
https://nobhillgazette.com/natures-trailblazer/
José González, “Hiking in Huaraches, and Finding Home in Nature” in Bay Nature
https://baynature.org/2018/10/04/hiking-in-huaraches-and-finding-home-in-nature/
Bracero Program Archive--UCLA
Learn more about the Bracero Program (1942-1962) that gave José's grandfather the opportunity to work in the United States.
https://www.labor.ucla.edu/what-we-do/research-tools/the-bracero-program/
Book
Ruiz, Don Miguel. 2001. The Four Agreements. San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Publishing.
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Monserrat is an outdoor educator, community organizer, climber, poet and danzante. In 2016, she was a part of the national founding team of Brown Girls Climb, LLC, a women of color-led business focused on centering the leadership of women of color climbers in the outdoors. Monserrat is a sponsored athlete with Outdoor Research and was recently awarded the 2021 Emerging Leader Award by Outdoor Retailer. Monserrat’s work is focused on connecting to land, ancestry, and BIPOC stories of resilience in the outdoors and beyond. In this episode, she shares her root story, healing via rock climbing, her epic summit of Iztaccíhuatl, and all things familia y comunidad. Join us around this digital campfire!
Find us on IG @_YourHealingNature
Email: [email protected]
Photo of Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala courtesy of Janelle Paciencia @janelletakesphotos
To connect to Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala:
IG @outdoorchingona
IG @browngirlsclimb
FB Brown Girls Climb
To learn more about Armadillos:
IG @armadillos_niunmigrantemenos
Website: https://www.niunmigrantemenos.org/
Venmo: armadillos-oficial
Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/we-need-help-funding-our-search-amp-rescues
The North Face: Walls are for Climbing
Monserrat Alvarez Matehuala & the Call of the Wall
https://youtu.be/qAH8tZ7sWek
Outdoor Research: Escaladora (Short Film)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBGyplC6Ujs
The Legend of Popocatepetl & Iztaccíhuatl: A Love Story
https://www.inside-mexico.com/the-legend-of-popocatepetl-iztaccihuatl/
Books
Pam Muñoz Ryan, Esperanza Rising
Kimberlee Crenshaw et al., Critical Race Theory: The Critical Writings that Formed the Movement
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This episode provides you with a brief overview of the social, cultural and political underpinnings that inspired the focus of this podcast. My intention in this episode is to provide you with a map to the auditory journey you’re about to embark on in Season One. This episode will address questions such as, Why this podcast? What are root stories? How is trauma defined in this podcast? What is Your Healing Nature? I go solo in this episode. However, starting next week, you’ll hear from some of the most amazing BIPOC outdoor advocates, outdoor educators, conservationists, founders of for- and non-profits, urban farmers, creatives and so much more! We invite you to join us around this digital campfire every Sunday!
IG: @_YourHealingNature
Email: [email protected]
Books
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. 2015. Braiding Sweetgrass. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
Estés, Clarissa Pinkola. 1992. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. New York: Ballantine Books.
Indigenous Women Hike
IG: @indigenouswomenhike
IG: @jolievarela
IG: @Tazbah
Tazbah Chavez, “Hiking the Nüümü Poyo: An Act of Love by Indigenous Women” in http://www.project562.com/blog/hiking-the-nueuemue-poyo-an-act-of-love-by-indigenous-women/
American Indian Religious Freedom Act: https://coast.noaa.gov/data/Documents/OceanLawSearch/Summary%20of%20Law%20-%20American%20Indian%20Religious%20Freedom%20Act.pdf
GirlTrek
IG: @girltrek
Website: https://www.girltrek.org/
https://harriettubmanbyway.org/girltrek-walk-100-miles-along-tubman-byway/
https://ideas.ted.com/what-we-learned-from-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-harriet-tubman/
https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/facts.htm
Institute for Women’s Policy Research, “The Status of Women in the United States,”
https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/The-Status-of-Black-Women-6.26.17.pdf
Armadillos
IG: @armadillos_niunmigrantemenos
Website: https://www.niunmigrantemenos.org/
https://www.borderangels.org/blog/border-angels-endorses-and-contributes-armadillos-busqueda-y-rescate
https://www.niunmigrantemenos.org/sobre-nosotros-about-us
Alma Backyard Farms
IG: @almabackyardfarms
Website:
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You can follow us on IG: @_YourHealingNature
Podcast Artwork By: Karen Ceballos @ka_wren_ceballos
Music: “Everyday (Walking in Sunshine)” is used with permission by James & Black. Please visit www.jamesandblack.org and on IG @james.and.black to check out their amazing body of work!
