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Yolande Norris-Clark, freebirth educator and coach talks about family birth outside the system. Yolande shares her 20 years of wisdom and experience in natural home births.

We discuss the importance of freebirth, the common misconceptions and how we can best provide a safe, natural environment for our newborns.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• [2:43] Yolande’s Journey to freebirthing
• [3:19] How to prepare for having a natural home birth
• [5:52] What does a healthy natural birth look like?
• [14:53] How to handle cultural stress as a free birther
• [20:57] Natural home births and how to best prepare
• [33:43] How we can let go and enjoy the full experience of natural child birth
• [43:26] Pre-birth steps within industrial hospital systems and the misconceptions of home birthing
• [48:47] Parenting and birthing in fear and the double standard between home birth vs. the industrial system
• [55:37] Working through psychological and social pressures against natural home births
• [1:02:30] Cutting the cord of the placenta
• [1:06:20] Anticipating home births and dealing with being in the moment
• [1:08:56] Handling placenta post-birth and using placenta as supplement capsules
• [1:21:52] Misconceptions of new born baby mucus

Resources:

• Yolande’s Website
• Yolande on Instagram
• Yolande’s Linktree

Sponsor:

• Foregen

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Adam Fletcher talks about adultism, and the pervasive bias the society has towards adults over the needs of children.

Adam Fletcher is the executive director of Youth and Educators Succeeding and the Free Child Institute. He is also the author of Facing Adultism. In this episode, we talk about how adulthood is socially constructed and give practical advice on what you can do to create greater engagement with your children.

This is a big topic from which you will learn a completely different way of thinking about the social issue of how we treat children.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• [00:58] Introducing guest and reviewing Facing Adultism book
• [02:52] Why adults should be the center of everything in the society
• [07:46] Things that children do are determined by their age
• [11:15] Danger of having responsibility without power in parenting
• [14:34] Adults sharing power and empowering kids
• [21:01] Linking your childhood experiences to address adultism
• [25:46] Contemporary vs. traditional adultism roles and responsibilities
• [30:33] Justifying adultism patterns based on the age of the child
• [34:43] Negative adultism that is embraced in the new generation
• [40:27] When does adultism occur?
• [45:02] How does adultism factor into infants and babies?
• [48:56] Impact of adultism on brain development
• [53:38] How to deconstruct social expectations and biases
• [58:00] Become the change you want to see in the society
• [1:00:02] Final words and contact information

Resources

• Youth and Educators Succeeding
• Free Child Institute
• Facing Adultism by Adam Fletcher
• Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Nick Duffell talks about the wounded leaders produced by the elite boarding school system and how their psychology has shaped the world.

Nick also shares how leaders can change their psychology, integrate these experiences and better connect with the people they serve.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• [1:13] Nick’s work in psychohistory and his interest in elite boarding schools
• [9:18] How elite boarding schools were intentionally designed
• [16:05] Historical transitions in British society and how it impacted elite systems
• [20:53] Questioning the foundation of privilege in elite systems
• [26:00] Nick’s clinical work and the types of personalities in boarding school survivors
• [29:38] Strategic survival personality
• [33:36] Arbitrary roles within boarding school and societies
• [36:13] How shame in wounded leaders manifests into psychological projections on to others
• [40:47] Nature of the psyche in relationships
• [43:41] Behavior of leadership steaming from early childhood traumas and psychological projections and examples
• [52:56] How to heal as a boarding school survivor
• [1:03:45] Global effect of elite systems

Resources:

• Nick’s Website 
• Nick’s Books
• Lloyd DeMause
• John Taylor Gatto

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Anthony Migliorino, a coach on fatherhood and the founder of Peaceful Fathers, shares his insight on peaceful parenting.

Peaceful Fathers focus on bringing up children peacefully, through positive parenting, which embraces hard work, improvement, dedication, and constant learning, rather than corporal punishment and abuse. He champions good fatherhood parenting aspects such as masculine self-development, peaceful parenting, and better bonding with your children.

During this episode, we talk about the impact of good parenting on general society’s growth.

In This Episode:

• [00:45] Origin of Peaceful Parenting concept.
• [03:44] Peaceful Parenting building journey.
• [06:18] Peaceful Parenting transformation steps, methods, and techniques employed.
• [07:53] Family development plan, a success factor to good fatherhood.
• [12:14] Steps that seem to help men more in becoming better fathers.
• [14:25] Common challenges that deter men from becoming good fathers.
• [19:48] The process of instituting masculinity elements in men.
• [24:03] Factors that contribute to a successful fatherhood transformation.
• [27:18] The disconnect between parenting, relationships, business, and money.
• [32:02] Authoritative parenting weaknesses.
• [34:30] Peaceful Parenting variations in different stages of child development.
• [37:48] Orientation of new members to Peaceful Parenting.
• [40:39] Common resistance to men who enroll to Peaceful Fathers
• [44:25] Peaceful Parenting as a hard work
• [52:43] Social ConditioningCondition that makes men poor fathers.
• [57:10] Recommendations and suggestions to men who want to become better fathers.
• [58:45] The one commitment that gives 80% results to good fatherhood.
• [01:01:09] Finding the right motivation groups for better fatherhood.

Resources

• Peaceful Fathers
• The Fraternity of Excellence
• Anthony on Facebook / Instagram / Twitter
• Hold On To Your Kids
• Anthony’s Sister (Lactation Consultant)

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Author and historian Lynn Hunt shares her work on the history of human rights.

We talk about how the new technology of the novel led to the inspiration for humans rights, the failures of early human rights movements, and what lessons history can teach modern activists today.

Topics Discussed In This Episode

• [1:14] Lynn’s Book “Inventing Human Rights: A History” and the story behind her interest in Human Rights
• [2:47] Is Human Rights an invention or a discovery?
• [4:49] Rights vs. Human rights and how the idea and discovery came about
• [8:00] The rights of “man” and the fight for equality
• [11:34] “The Novel” and the initial seed for human rights
• [18:28] The power of storytelling and lessons from novels creating empathy
• [23:16] Torture punishment and the present
• [29:00] Parallels from history and political reform
• [34:08] Diversity in opinions on rights
• [38:15] The on going expansion of human rights and what modern activists can learn from history
• [41:28] Solving the problem of differences from a story-telling level and the push back on human rights
• [49:26] Authoritarianism and participatory governments
• [50:11] Past Revolutions based in equality and the progression to today
• [55:56] The perceived failures in comparison to the aspirations of the human rights movement

Resources: 

• Inventing Human Rights: A History by Lynn Hunt

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I just published a supporters-only show titled “Reflections on Season 1 of The Brendon Marotta Show.”

To view this episode become a supporter of the show here.

This show shares the reflections and lessons I’ve gathered from the first ten episodes of the show.

Topics Discussed In This Episode

• [0:00] The show format and next seasons
• [1:31] Start before you’re ready
• [4:21] Be willing to iterate
• [6:16] Have the conversation
• [8:16] Everyone has a reason for what they do
• [8:24] Listen to the person you disagree with
• [9:04] Tenth episode explained
• [9:28] Could leaders be doing better?
• [10:28] Action we could take to do better
• [12:22] How much do you want what you say you want?
• [14:14] Proposal for an online magazine and revealed preferences
• [17:00] Persistence is key
• [18:10] Why I’m never worried about competition
• [20:10] The picture of the circumcision business that emerged in Season 1
• [24:22] Natural parenting in Season 2
• [24:46] Persistence pays off
• [25:36] Thank you to all supporters
• [26:09] Why I chose podcasting
• [26:51] Where your financial support is going
• [27:23] Your support allows us to continue

Resources:

• The Brendon Marotta Show

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Darcia Narvaez shares her research on neurobiology and the development of human morality, along with practical tips to create what she calls an Evolved Nest or way of raising human beings that is natural and loving.

Topics Discussed In This Episode

• [0:57] Daricia Narvaez’s Book on human development “Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality”
• [02:07] Early childhood experiences and inter-generational effects
• [03:45] How early life experiences set us up for our “blueprint” life path and how adult healing can potentially change it
• [07:01] The “Evolved Nest” and how to create it.
• [09:00] Brain development and the link to breast-feeding
• [13:50] How to create the individual elements of the evolved nest
• [16:03] Socializing children
• [17:24] The stages of childhood and their needs at each stage of the nest
• [21:30] Finding and building extended family and other communities to socialize your children
• [24:14] Human evolution and where we are now
• [28:38] Indigenous societies and what we can learn from them
• [31:40] Healing practices, rituals and stories in indigenous communities
• [37:18]  Right and left brain development and how intellectual pressures early on can be harmful
• [39:41] Trying to be more connected in an academic world
• [41:30] Reconditioning your past
• [42:15] Conditional behaviors and how to change them

Resources:

• Darcia Narvaez Website
• Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality, Evolution, Culture and Wisdom by Darcia Narvaez 
• The Evolved Nest Website

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This special audio presentation features top voices against circumcision: Peter Adler, Brother K, Ronald Goldman, Georganne Chapin, John Adkison, and Anthony Losquadro.

These guests explore the same five questions around the importance of the issue of circumcision, challenges facing their movement, and actions you can take to make a difference.

Episode Chapters:

• [0:28] Guest intros
• [2:08] Feature presentation begins
  —–
• Five Questions:

1. [2:29] Why is the issue of circumcision important?
2. [6:33] What is the biggest challenge facing people on this issue?
3. [11:49] How do we need to grow or change to meet that challenge?
4. [17:01] What is the biggest opportunity we have to gain by facing this issue?
   [23:10] Do we have anything to gain personally by facing this issue? (Follow-up)
5. [27:20] What action should people take?
   [31:10] Shameless plugs
   —-

• [33:05] Outro

Featuring:

• Peter Adler
• Brother K
• John Adkison
• Ronald Goldman
• Georganne Chapin
• Anthony Losquadro

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