Currents: the Big Ocean Women Podcast

Why are kids pulling away from their parents? Why are they so easily influenced by their peers? Learn the science behind attachment and peer orientation as we discuss the book Hold Onto Your Kids, by Dr. Gordon Neufeld. Probably one of the most important books for parents to read this century. Referenced episodes: 1.4 and 1.10 Join the discussion of parents working to collect and reclaim their chi...

Hosts Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss the tenet, “ We work in partnership with our global sisters to create generative solutions .”   Big Ocean Women will be attending the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in New York City. We will be presenting a Parallel Event. Check out our social media for access to that.   “That’s the beauty and the joy of Big Ocean … we truly are a glob...

A conversation about the tenet, “We are each unique and innately worthy of respect,” with Kim Landeen, Lisa Bjornberg, and Margo Watson. “Mothers, when they understand their power, when they understand their divine nature, when they recognize the gifts that they are given, by God, … they’ll do anything to make sure that their children and their family and those they love are protected and cared fo...

In this episode, Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss our tenet, “We are each unique and worthy of respect” with Valerie Hudson, a global expert on women’s issues.   Women Stats Project   The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide   “National security is integrally linked to what’s going on with women.” - Valerie Hudson    What is a woman? - A woman is a...

Carolina Allen and Dana Robb visit with leaders from the Houston WAVE, Nikki Brown and America Ririe, discussing February’s tenet, “ We are each unique and innately worthy of respect ” and their many impactful projects.   “If I had one goal in life, it would be to debunk this idea that you have to prove your worth, that you have to have more and be more or do more than someone else to be able to s...

Hosts Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss this month’s tenet: “ We are each unique and innately worthy of respect. ” “I feel as though the world would be completely different if everyone truly understood what this tenet really means.” – Carolina Allen “As we really focus on the uniqueness, our individual uniqueness, and the uniqueness of those around us, and we see the worth, the divine and inh...

Members of Big Ocean Women discuss Faith and how it impacts their lives, their actions, and their wider beliefs.    As moms of faith It is one of our deepest desires that we can translate our value system to our children… the way to do that with children is to know and understand first what you believe in. Children can feel a sense of discrepancies between your ideas what you believe and what you...

In this third episode, Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss the biodiversity of faith with Melissa Inouye. “If people have described religion as trying to keep lighting in a bottle, charisma is the lightning and organization is the bottle. Kind of a balance between the two: if you have too much bottle, you can’t see the lightning, and if you have too much lightning you break the bottle.” – Melis...

In this episode, Carolina discusses religious liberty and persecution with Fatima Njoku, a WAVE leader from Jos, Nigeria. Fatima emphasizes that it is important for everyone to know their rights, be respectful, and hold everyone to the same rule of law which should protect everyone’s rights of religion and expression.   In Fatima’s advocacy she found that “most of the minority rights issues were l...

In this first episode of our new series focusing on our monthly tenets, Carolina Allen and Kim Landeen discuss the first tenet of Big Ocean Women “We believe in God and are women of faith.” “We are connected to divinity, we are divine and that power both outside and within us compels us to help mold our actions and it helps empower everything we do both internally and externally in changing our li...

Erica Komisar talks to us about why being there for your children, especially in the first few years of life, is so important. Ms. Komisar is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. She strives to help parents live more satisfying lives and raise healthier children.    A graduate of Georgetown and Colu...

Dana interviews Aditi Aromi, talking about honoring our feminine biology through the gift and power of breastfeeding as well as the model of powerful impact as we reach out to meet needs in our community.  Aditi is a born-again Christian, full-time mother of two beautiful children and a wife to the same husband of 22 years. Residing in Southern Utah as an entrepreneur of three family oriented busi...

Michelle Meline is the mother of six children and grandmother to 2.  She has been involved in PTA, Boosters for the Performing Arts, bake sales, little league, girls softball, school plays, and endless hours of homework with her children.  She even built a five story pagoda entirely out of food storage, once! She wants women everywhere to know that they are all gifted and uniquely talented and the...

63 million girls are missing from the Indian population. In India there are estimated to be: 70 million sex selective abortions yearly 37 million more men than women 1 girl for 8 boys in some villages There is even a village called Devra that has no women in it. These are just a few of the realities based one on of the most tragic circumstances in the world-the belief that girls are liabilities. W...

Currents hosts a guest podcast episode from the Diamonds for our Children Podcast featuring a conversation between Katie Jo LaRiviere and Carolina Allen. 

An interview with Katie Jo LaRiviere of Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary where we discuss motherhood, literature, and the deep emotional connections of finding a shared humanity.  Katie Jo LaRiviere is an associate professor of literature who writes and produces the Diamonds for Our Children podcast, a public humanities project and motherhood ministry launched in 2021. LaRiviere’s weekly poetry live...

A discussion with Nicholeen Peck on parenting, peace, and finding balance during stressful times by teaching children self government. 

 A conversation with Leslie Grossman, Faculty Director of the Executive Women's Leadership Program at George Washington University, on how to harness our strengths as women, the power of supporting other women, and the ways we can lead out and lead up. Leslie is the author of Link Out: How to Turn Your Network into a Chain of Lasting Connections.

We discuss menstrual health and the wide array of options available to us, trying to break down some of the stigmas associated with being a woman. 

In this episode Dana Robb hosts a roundtable discussion on the book Eleni by Nicholas Gage. What can we take from good literature? How do we relate it to our lives? Let's discuss. You won't want to miss this episode! 

In this episode we discuss getting involved in local politics with author Rebekah Pierce. Big Ocean Women encourages all women to get involved in what they are passionate about. We can embrace our differences and work for good. Even among ourselves, we do not agree on everything, but we work to find common ground, and create the world we seek wherever we can.

In a conversation with Kalisa Jensen we discuss cottages, and how they help women get involved in their communities. 

In our premiere episode Carolina Allen discusses the inspiration for Big Ocean Women, and how we can come together as a community to create change.