Fare of the Free Child

Today we’ll be joined by two unschooling dads, Jamal Hester and Kris Richards. They will be pointing out some insights on Black fatherhood, re-parenting and unschooling!  Jamal is the co-owner of Life Strength & Health holistic center . They also have a podcast where we can find great resources on healing work. Kris Richards is a graphic designer, artist, and creative brander. He’s also Akilah...

Want to learn some unschooling vocabulary? If so, listen good because this episode brings a big opportunity to decide upon, and to question your own definitions and understandings, and pivot wherever the need arises. Add your own vocab to this. What words need to be on the next-next episode? See the full definitions at raisingfreepeople.com/194 Unschooling Self-Directed Education Re-parenting Shad...

On this week’s episode you will be privy to an intergenerational conversation between mother and daughter, as our special guest is Marley @mrlamai , unschooler and SDE advocate. Marley and Akilah talk about some of the ways that the skills that come with self-directedness are translatable in our current context of being at home, as we figure out how to pivot away from scholishness. Marley talks ab...

Today's liberation talk will be with the amazing Makeba Celeste (@makeba_celeste) as she speaks to how schoolishness, and her life in medicine, limited her capacity for authentic self-exploration and healthy intergenerational relationships. Makeba is a former medical doctor who turned into an unschooling mother, writer, tap dancer and artist. The former South Londoner and her partner, Solihee...

Episode 191 is all about the deeper work after we accept self-directedness, and get into the layers of transitions, consent, emergent structure, children and trust. We'll be chatting with Tiersa McQueen , and SDE advocate, wife and working mom of 4 children (including twins), who is serious on how to develop new tools for liberation-centered relationships. We’ll be making mad question’ askin...

This week on Fare Of The Free Child Podcast we’ll have a mix of resources and liberation talk! Ieishah Clelland-Lange , writer, nomad and mother of Freeda (7 years old) and Toni (4 years old), will be talking with us about how to redefine power in our parent-child relationships. Thea @theamonyee of Shaping the Shift Podcast talks to us about The Blacker the Brain, the Free Joy Experience, and more...

Another Mad Question Askin’ episode! Episode 189 addresses this question from our Make-it-Happen family: “Hi Akilah and community! Episode 182 with Genesis Ripley (Partnering with Our Pain ) was so amazing! I need to listen again so I can absorb all the thought provoking things you both brought up. Akilah, you and Genesis mentioned Colonized Unschooling. I had this idea that if you do Unschooling...

Today’s episode features consent educator, sexual literacy advocate, speaker, founder of Consent Parenting , host of the About Consent Podcast and change agent, Rosalia Rivera . Rosalia works with parents who are survivors of sexual abuse to help them learn and teach proper abuse prevention and consent to their children. “I'm a mom of 3 little lovely consent-empowered humans between the ages...

Here is Part 2 of an insightful, intergenerational conversation between Kris @iandidea and Romain (Rom) @pharo___ on the topic of capitalism and community. Both are college graduates with Marketing degrees, so their perspectives on capitalism in particular are nuanced as they work both as people affected by and carrying out some of the notions of capitalism. And they are not alone, as it is virtua...

Welcome to another episode of Fare Of The Free Child Podcast.  This week, our intention is to expand our understandings of deschooling and self-directedness beyond children and education. So, let’s listen to Part 1 of a conversation between a 20-something freelance marketing and social media consultant and a 40-something year old creative branding entrepreneur about discerning between capitalism a...

Today’s episode is a deschooling conversation with the amazing Domari Dickinson . Domari chats with Akilah about how she became more aware of what it took for her to begin, moving away from a controlling approach and towards more positive and purposeful parenting. WHAT WE DISCUSS Domari speaks from her own experience as a Black woman on how the resources and theory about homeschooling lacked diver...

Today's episode features Shawna Murray-Browne , a community healer and the founder of Kindred Community Healing , licensed clinical social worker. Akilah and Shawna go deep and talk about the skill sets that allow a professional to see the whole person and how the quality of care is not taking into account the whole spectrum, the collective experience, because true healing happens in communit...

Today's episode is full of liberation and healing talk with life learner Dominique of DommiesBlessed . She shares some insights on natural learning, which we’re hoping will usher in changes around learning and relationship-building. Check out Dommie’s blog on natural learning. WHAT WE DISCUSS Before we talk to Dommie, Akilah gives a shout out to entrepreneurs, Kim and Jamal Hester, creators a...

Episode 182 is a mix of communal spaces, tools, resources and of course liberation talk. Genesis Ripley will be joining us to chat about shadow work and the importance of being more aware of our unconscious as we are moving into a more self-directed way of being. Genesis is an LA-based mother, natural learning advocate, decolonizer by design and unschooler momma.  We’ll also be sharing some great...

Welcome back, homies (and new homies, too)! Y’all ready for season 5? In today’s episode Akilah shares ideas and invitations for what’s to come in the new season of Fare Of The Free Child. WHAT WE DISCUSS Akilah talks about deschooling and unschooling, not as something we learn from a curriculum nor a thing we perform, but as a way of being. It’s through the experiences and different points of vie...

We are so ready for some indoor plant tips from Plant It Up Podcast . As a close-out for the fourth season we decided to do one more episode with @valandourplants - you’re welcome :) And remember, Akilah will be back on August 12th with Season 5! In the meantime, listen as Val (Akilah’s resident plant lady who also happens to be her Mama!) talks about the importance of having plants at home and sh...

Welcome to the fourth season finale of Fare of the Free Child! Today’s episode features Kris Richards , he and Akilah will be talking about some upcoming surprises and topics for the fifth season. We also shout out the members of our Make It Happen Family; thank you all for your comments and support! Akilah just saw more than a hundred comments on her  Youtube Channel , particularly from the How G...

We are so hyped about today's episode because the day of publishing, July 10th, marks our zeroversary, the 4-year anniversary of Episode 0! It's been quite a journey since Akilah started Fare of the Free Child podcast back in the summer of 2016. Even though it started from a painful place, we feel so very thankful to the community that has come from this podcast—our listeners and members...

Episode 177 features podcaster Howard Cosmonaut Palmer . His podcast explores inner universes through mindful guided meditation. Today Cosmo gives us some tools to center both harmony and joy, important aspects of our liberation work. Find his podcast: Only Black Cosmonaut WHAT WE DISCUSS Our lives are under a constant saturation of feelings and thoughts as a result of a subconscious conditioning...

Last episode Akilah talked about the importance of our capacity of resistance and the relevance of trusting our dynamic selves in order to find balance to center our joy. Today’s episode is about Black Joy, and how happiness can be understood as a way of liberation and activism.  Can joy be a radical way of resistance? WHAT WE DISCUSS Marley, Akilah’s daughter, shares some thoughts on Black Joy an...

Ways we’re sharing our feelings and experiences Last week we took a pause in our Deschooling Release Party to address everything that was happening with the protests and related feelings. That same week another life, that of Rayshard Brooks, was taken by violent police officers. It feels necessary to take some space and talk about it, and we’re gonna take however long we feel is needed. As we talk...

In today's episode we are making a pause from our Deschooling Release Party Vol. 2. Akilah addresses anti-blackness and its consequences. These disruptive times are making us more aware and reflective, and we have so many reminders and invitations to be more present. WHAT WE DISCUSS In the summer of 2016 Akilah was starting Fare Of The Free Child, a podcast with the purpose of amplifying the...

Message from Akilah “I felt compelled to bring the sounds of my current city into this episode. I literally missed my deadline to submit the raw audio, because Spirit said Don’t record that intro in the corner of your closet, Sis. Instead, open your window, let the city sound off while you try to speak to some of what you’re feeling. I obeyed. And later that evening, the voices and emotions of the...

Welcome to the fourth Deschooling Release Party (DRP) session, a celebration of our commitment to unlearning oppression in our relationships with children and Self. Volume I was about self-care and this one (Volume II) is about pivoting from fear and panic over into what we're being guided to do.  Melinda Alexander will be joining us to talk about the role in ritual in her mothering. More rec...

If you enjoy this podcast, this is your kind of reading! Pre-order Akilah’s book, Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work! We are back with our Deschooling Release Party sessions, Volume II. In today’s episode Akilah talks with Natalie Pipkin, founder of Black World Schoolers and Pulse Project Indy , a drumming community that promotes social, cultural and emotional developm...