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Stories about rediscovering yourself and living in community without coercion.
We’ve all experienced pressure to follow values that aren't aligned with our own: at work, in toxic family systems, at school, with friends, or in religious groups. This podcast is about untangling those pressures through deconstructing, deschooling, deprogramming: asking "why" and watching the "have-tos" and "shoulds" fall apart.
Guests share how joy, curiosity, and a sense of purpose lead to rethinking how we live our lives, who we think we are, and how we practice relationships. It's not just seeing what's wrong that leads to sustainable shifts--but seeing what's right.
Topics including: non-coercive leadership, unschooling, peaceful parenting, feminism, leaving high control religion, neurodivergence, disability, donor conceived people, free Palestine, arts and music, local organizing, mutual aid, trans rights, children's rights, CPTSD, and toxic family systems.
We’ve all experienced pressure to follow values that aren't aligned with our own: at work, in toxic family systems, at school, with friends, or in religious groups. This podcast is about untangling those pressures through deconstructing, deschooling, deprogramming: asking "why" and watching the "have-tos" and "shoulds" fall apart.
Guests share how joy, curiosity, and a sense of purpose lead to rethinking how we live our lives, who we think we are, and how we practice relationships. It's not just seeing what's wrong that leads to sustainable shifts--but seeing what's right.
Topics including: non-coercive leadership, unschooling, peaceful parenting, feminism, leaving high control religion, neurodivergence, disability, donor conceived people, free Palestine, arts and music, local organizing, mutual aid, trans rights, children's rights, CPTSD, and toxic family systems.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
monthly
Average audio length:
54 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
11 episodes
since Sept. 21, 2025
episodic
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With safety at stake, dogs pose a challenge to principles of connection and non-coercion. Dogs can be scary! So what happens when, instead of seeing “bad” behavior, we see anxiety and plea for help? Anita from Brave Dog Training Online shares her journey toward trusting relationships and trauma-inf…
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When voices resonate together, it’s not just to make music. That resonance can shake loose our bodies, our emotions, our relationships, and our power. Lee Hoffman is a professor of vocal music, choir director, and singer whose compassion, humility, and insight create spaces safe enough for everyone…
Supriya Narang is a play practitioner, witch, neurodivergent unschooling mom, soap artist, and community organizer. Supriya shares how the expectations and humiliations of motherhood changed her personally and professionally. She offers practical tips about community building, a feminist manifesto …
Rayne shares a story about inner conflict, growing up autistic and surrounded by both disability rights advocacy and evangelical Christianity. They decided early on to “just take the demerit”: discovering that although it may sting, liberation is possible when—in an oppressive system of high contro…
CW: References to child sexual abuse, religious abuse, and death due to systemic vulnerability.
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Show Notes Ep 4: More K-Pop with Rob Cunningham
How does an experimental music aficionado become a K-pop fan? Always on the search for mind-blowing sound (see part one of his story in Epiosde 3), Rob reoriented to fun and living in the present during the pandemic. This led him to K-pop and its spe…
Show Notes for Ep 3: Pure Sound with Rob Cunningham
Rob has been searching for innovative, mind-blowing sounds ever since he was a little kid watching MTV in 1980s suburban Los Angeles. He tells his story of searching through rap, goth, metal, punk, industrial, electronic, experimental, 80s, and c…
Who is a "typical suburban mom"? And what if they were never taught to people please? I talk to Sue Patterson about showing up authentically, partnering with your kids, and using your voice—even when it’s shaky. In many different spaces, from facebook groups to the school cafeteria, Sue m…
How does deprogramming from a Christian Campus Cult in the 1980s connect with supporting parents as they navigate neurodivergence today? Delia Tetelman shares her story. Deprogramming didn’t stop with leaving the cult, it’s helped her with parenting, unschooling, mental health, and disability justi…
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