Sacred

Season 3 E5

Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:00:00 GMT

The shape of season 3 has been different from the earlier seasons in that we had two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. With our main season 3 provocations being love, discernment and surrender we thought no one could be more perfect to wrap it up with us than a very dear teacher of ours, Drisana McDaniel!

Drisana McDaniel (she/her) is a Narrative Doula, educator, and doctoral candidate whose work lives at the intersections of Black feminist and womanist wisdom, psychospiritual inquiry, and ecological care. She supports individuals and communities in bringing forward life-shaping stories—about healing, leadership, justice, and belonging—with truth, tenderness, and integrity.

Through her framework, Alchemy of Now, Drisana offers narrative coaching, learning design, and facilitation rooted in healing-centered education. Her work honors lived experience as a source of legitimate knowledge—without reducing people to data or rushing them past their own knowing.

She is currently completing her doctoral research in psychospiritual ecology, exploring the connections between inner life, collective healing, and ecological consciousness. Her practice is shaped by reverence for nonlinear time, mutual witnessing, and the slow, embodied processes that help us remember how to live in relationship—with ourselves, each other, and the Earth.

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by The Healing Helix.

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Season 3 E4

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:00:00 GMT

The shape of season 3 is different from the earlier seasons in that we have two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. Our season 3 provocations are love, discernment and surrender. Join us, Angela Carolina and Lauren, as we use our stories to play with these concepts for Episodes 2-5.

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Sacred: Reclaiming Intuitive Teaching and Caregiving Relationships at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by The Healing Helix.

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Season 3 E3

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:00:00 GMT

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Season 3 E2

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:03:28 GMT

This week it's just Lauren and Angela!

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Season 3 E1

Thu, 01 May 2025 16:53:34 GMT

The shape of season 3 will be different from the earlier seasons in that we have two incredible guests for the first and last episodes to create a container for our own meanderings and excavations in between. With our main season 3 provocations being love, discernment and surrender we thought no one could be more perfect to kick it off with us than a very dear teacher of ours, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz!

Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Ph.D. is a Professor of English Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the 2024 New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development's Dorothy Height Distinguished Alumni Award winner. Her research has appeared in several top-tier academic journals. She is co-editor of five books and is co-author of the multiple award-winning book Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces (2021) where she examines her concept of Archeology of Self ™ in education. For three years in a row, she was named one of EdWeek's EduScholar Influencers -- a list of the Top 1% of educational scholars in the United States -- a highly selective group of 200 scholars (chosen from a pool of 20,000).

At Teachers College, she is the founder of the Racial Literacy Project @TC, and the Racial Literacy Roundtables Series, where for 15 years, national scholars, teachers, and students facilitate conversations around race and other issues involving diversity. Yolanda appeared in Spike Lee’s “2 Fists Up: We Gon’ Be Alright” (2016), a documentary about the Black Lives Matter movement and the campus protests at Mizzou, and "Defining Us, Children at the Crossroads of Change, a documentary about supporting and educating the nation's Black and Latinae male youth. Yolanda's first full-length collection of poetry, Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, was published in March 2020. Her sophomore book of poetry, The Peace Chronicles, was published in July, 2021. Yolanda opened the 2022 TEDx UPENN conference at the University of Pennsylvania with her TEDx Talk: Truth, Love & Racial Literacy. Connect with Yolanda on Twitter at @RuizSealey and on Instagram at @yolie_sealeyruiz

Visit our website to read more about your hosts, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

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S3 Trailer

Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:37:42 GMT

We're back for Season 3! Hosts Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble give a quick preview of the season. As always, thanks for joining us.

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Have a listen to at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 6

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 09:00:32 GMT

In this episode we talk with one of our teachers in the healing centered education world, Dr. Kia Darling-Hammond. Dr. Kia is a psychologist, researcher, educator, and coach, as well as creator of the Bridge to Thriving Framework©, co-author of The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning: Five Essentials for Equity, and co-editor of T* Is for Thriving: Blueprints for Affirming Trans* and Gender Creative Lives and Learning in Schools.

As CEO of Wise Chipmunk LLC, a research and education firm, she leverages over 25 years of experience in organizational leadership, education, and youth development to offer research, advising, coaching, and public speaking, as well as designs for professional learning, curriculum development, and organizational

Growth.

Dr. Kia’s work emphasizes the importance of combining the science of learning and development with healing- and transformative justice to promote an evolution toward true thriving for all. This approach is grounded in the knowledge that innovation driven by the wisdom of those furthest from power is key to improving

everyone’s lives.

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Have a listen to Episode 5 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 5

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 11:00:00 GMT

In this episode we talk with Dr. Sanayi Beckles-Canton, Executive Director Chloe Day School & Wellness Center, former Pastor at Emanuel AME Tuckahoe Church, and fellow healing-centered educator. The Chloe Day School and Wellness Center is a Reggio Emilia-inspired progressive, inclusive, trauma-informed preschool and community wellness space that embraces families and individuals from all backgrounds. Their preschool and wellness space takes a progressive, trauma-informed – approach to learning, child development, healing, and family empowerment. They believe that children are intrinsically curious and can make meaningful discoveries when given opportunities to explore, play, and experience their environment.

Their Wellness Center, the Healing Space, is a wellness collective aimed at helping the Harlem community find healing from trauma and intergenerational trauma. By supporting people in being intentional about their healing and wellness, they take a person-centered approach to their work.

Visit our website to read more about us or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Have a listen to Episode 6 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 4

Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:00:54 GMT

In this episode we talk with sister Solana Booth. Solana is aspiring to open her own "Recover me in Wellness Center '', with a focus on "Mother's Breath" otherwise known as plant medicines, First Foods, Breastfeeding, Canoe and Storytelling.

She recently incorporated a Washington State Non-Profit and is also working towards incorporating a 501-C3, called Advocates of Sacred (AOS). “Advocates of Sacred's mission is to champion, integrate and cultivate Indigenous Healing Modalities' '. As a Historical Trauma Expert and principal consultant, she’ll induce our Ancestral strengths and knowings. She employs pre-perinatal psychology, somatic archeology, generational brain spotting, traditional ceremonies, first foods, Mother's Breath ceremony (entheogenic plant), modern media, and traditional story- telling or First Narratives, and is a lactation educator, birth worker trainer, Traditional Canoe society family skipper and owner. She currently facilitates diversity, equity and inclusion convenings for leadership and trains adult leadership health care professionals in Historical Trauma and Family recovery intensives.….

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Have a listen to Episode 4 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 3

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 20:54:17 GMT

In this episode we talk with Dr. Michele Coleman, PhD, LMFT. Dr. Coleman is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and founder of The Attachment Healing Center, a division of Inner Guidance, LC, a community mental health agency in New Mexico.

Through outpatient treatment and trainings her agency focuses on helping parents and professionals meet the attachment needs of children who have been abused or neglected. Her agency serves children and birth, foster, adoptive and kinship care families. Dr. Coleman is also the parent of a birth child, three adoptive children and one stepchild. She is certified in Interpersonal Neurobiology and has developed a model of treating attachment trauma Healing in Resonance, based on the science of changing the brain. Dr. Coleman is also a certified HeartMath trainer.

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Have a listen to Episode 3 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 2

Mon, 03 Jun 2024 09:00:26 GMT

In this episode we talk with Lauren’s teacher! Patty Townsend is the founder of Embodyoga®, an inclusive and fully embodied approach to yoga developed out of over 50 years of dedicated practice, study, and teaching. Patty's breath and awareness centered approach incorporates a deep understanding of how Awake-Alive-Intelligence expresses through the body-mind shaping our perceptions and experiences.

You can find out more about Patty’s work and practice here: https://pattytownsend.substack.com/ and here: https://www.embodyoga.com/

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Have a listen to Episode 2 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Episode 1

Wed, 01 May 2024 09:00:11 GMT

In this episode we talk with Dr. Junlei Li, the Co-Chair of the Human Development and Education Program and the Saul Zaentz Senior Lecturer in Early Childhood Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. As a developmental psychologist, Dr. Li’s research and practice focus on understanding and supporting the work of helpers – those who serve children and families on the frontlines of education and social services. He says, “I think they are the ultimate people who link developmental science to practice in order to make a real difference...I studied and learned from children’s “helpers” across a wide range of developmental settings with low resources but high-quality practices, including orphanages, childcare, classrooms, and community youth programs.”

From that work, Dr. Li and his colleagues developed the “Simple Interactions” approach (www.simpleinteractions.org) to help identify what ordinary people do extraordinarily well with children in everyday moments and made that the basis for promoting positive system change.

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Have a listen to Episode 1 at any of these locations: Youtube (includes captions), Apple, Spotify, Website

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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S2 Trailer

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:26:40 GMT

Ready for season 2? As your hosts (Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble), we’ll go deeper to clarify what we mean by “intuitive teaching and caregiving relationships." Our guests will include leaders in relational health as well as people working directly with children in different capacities. Most of our guests are also parents and grandparents. With each guest we’ll excavate processes of discernment, especially when it comes to feeling into the difference between impulse and intuition in caregiving relationships. Visit our website to read more about us or to get connected: https://feelthinkconnect.com/

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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Apple

Spotify

Website

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Episode 7

Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:51:32 GMT

In this episode we have the honor of hosting our first teachers - the two women whose waters we swam in, who’ve had the highest expectations for each of us, and have relentlessly modeled both strength and vulnerability in different ways throughout our lives: our moms. You’ll get to learn about our origins emotionally, spiritually and philosophically. *Potential trigger alert - corporal punishment did come up. We think it was a pretty low key discussion but wanted to at least let you know it’s in there!*

Lauren’s mom, Bets Parsons grew up in a large family with seven siblings, lots of cousins, huge family gatherings, and this childhood informed her future. She graduated high school in the small town of Granby, MA, and over the years, she married & divorced, graduated college four times (AS management, AS computers, BS business, MS communication), raised one wonderfully beautiful intelligent daughter, provided “auntie-ness” to over 40 niblings, volunteered in many ways most memorably in Girl Scouting for over 20 years, and had a very fulfilling and challenging career in the world of information technology for various large insurance corporations.

Angela’s mom, Ballola Garcia grew up in the borderland of El Paso, TX. and Juarez, MX. She spent her childhood and young adult life playing in both places. She started her professional life as a business woman and has since received a MA in early childhood education. She is a first grade teacher, a mother, a wife, a sister, a believer, an aunt, and a friend to many. She spends her days reading and studying, taking care of her babies, and her perritos (puppies).

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Episode 6

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 09:00:55 GMT

Our guest this episode is Latifah Hasan, bringing the experience of over 40 years as an educator, counselor, and administrator. She has worked across a broad spectrum of human service agencies, including child welfare, public health, mental health, early care and education and higher education. As an educator, she encourages shared learning by utilizing one’s personal life experiences, culture, and beliefs. She has extensive experience in the field of early care and education. While serving as the Vice President of Child & Family Development at the Dimock Center, she oversaw all their early care programs, including Head Start, Early Head Start and preschool programs serving over 500 children. Currently she is an Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant and a registered licensed Circle of Security Parent and Caregiver Facilitator.

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Episode 5

Thu, 28 Sep 2023 09:00:42 GMT

In this episode we shared space with Areli Porras (aka. Coach Si) and Christian Martinez (aka Poeta Galactico). They took our thinking to new levels. Get ready for a thought provoking journey. Areli is a dynamic and inclusive advocate for families and communities. Christian is an educator and community innovator with a passion for education, media, and fashion. These two along with another colleague founded the Camino Program in East Oakland. This holistic approach to supporting migrant youth is modeling a way to care for the community beyond creating access. It supports migrant youth in finding their path. Their story telling gifts, community building skills, and love for their work has inspired us to reimagine our work.

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Episode 4

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 09:00:06 GMT

Our guest for Episode 4 is Wheeler DeAngelis, Infant & Toddler Teacher/Coach and multi-generational union organizer. The three of us met while teaching at the same center and our paths continue to cross in meaningful ways. We had the chance to catch up on how our reflective practices have evolved over the years, find an overlap on the current issues in the field, and excavate how teacher development transcends the workplace.

Wheeler is the Infant-Toddler Mentor Teacher at Boston University Children’s Center. He is passionate about meeting children where they are, advocating for ECE teachers to get paid what their work is worth, and educating our way to a better future. If you would like to contact him please do so at wheelerd@bu.edu.

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Episode 3

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:54:44 GMT

Our guest for Episode 3 is Latoya Gayle. When we asked her for her bio she decided to answer the question, What brings me to this work? Her answer was, “I’m a Black woman. I’m a mother. I’m a sister. I’m an auntie. I’m a friend. And I think all of that shapes who I am and how I work.” Latoya is also co-founder of March Like a Mother. March Like a Mother was started by Black moms in Boston who seek to leverage the collective, transformative power of motherhood to eradicate systemic racism through grassroots advocacy. Listeners can connect with Latoya on Linkedin.

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect. This podcast is also available on Youtube (includes captions), Apple, & Spotify. Visit our website to join our mailing list and find out how to join us live for the Campfire Chat and/or to receive journal prompts for this episode.

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Episode 2

Tue, 27 Jun 2023 09:00:13 GMT

In this episode we talk with early childhood educator, student, advocate, and mom of three, Nahiomy Miller. Nahiomy believes that the children in our care deserve the best start they can possibly get because how we love and teach our children will help shape the type of individuals they will grow up to be. Her goal is to guide and provide children with the tools necessary for them to tap into the potential they carry within them to one day change the world! Listeners can connect with Nahiomy on Linkedin.

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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Episode 1

Tue, 30 May 2023 11:10:39 GMT

In this podcast we’ll be talking with folx who are working at different levels to make change in the world of children and education. But first, in episode 1 you’ll get to know your hosts, Angela Carolina and Lauren - the love that brought us to teaching in the first place, our perspectives on the issues, and our spiritual roots along with how our current practices sustain us. Visit our website to read more about us or to get connected. Sacred is hosted by executive producers Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee.

It's brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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Intention (Trailer)

Thu, 27 Apr 2023 22:39:58 GMT

Each Sacred conversation aims to shed light on issues affecting teachers and caregivers in early childhood settings and validate their experiences, while also reframing them in a context of (re)claiming intuitive teaching and caregiving relationships. In each conversation we intend to provide practical tools, guides, and/or frameworks for self-reflective engagement that leads to systemic change and ultimately to thriving.

Sacred is hosted by executive producers, Angela Carolina Garcia and Lauren Stauble, and produced by RJ Bee. Brought to you by Engage: feel.think.connect.

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