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Monday Jun 19, 2023
Monday Jun 19, 2023
Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss the tenet, “We value the irreplaceable role of fathers and build interdependent relationships with men.”
“It gives us all the more authority to speak because it can be an interesting thing to be getting advice for the world from a group of people that have completely disavowed, or just said, ‘Hey we are not engaging with men anymore; we’re completely writing them off from any sort of significant interaction.’ That doesn’t give you credibility in the world because the men still exist, and they’re still a part of this world with us. To have a feminist voice that’s saying, ‘I am in these messy trenches of a hard relationship, and I am making it work. We’re working on it, that gives us way more authority to speak on behalf of feminism in general.” – Carolina Allen
Partnership – “How much better off am I when I have a partner in the work equally yoked, so that I’m not feeling less than or being treated like an employee, or that my husband is my supervisor or my manager… my husband is equally yoked to do the work with me, where his contributions outside of the home and inside of the home are valued, and likewise with my contributions outside of the home and inside of the home, and where we can fill in for each other with our unique gifts and strengths and lighten the load wherever we are and see each other as teammates.” – Carolina Allen
“People don’t get through life unscathed, and as we are willing to invest in the healing of our spouses, in the healing of our partners, great things do come from that.” – Kim Landeen
“We need fathers. They are truly key players in establishing our homes; they are key players in establishing communities that really respect women and respect girls. Without them, we lack so much.” – Kim Landeen
“We need the men in our lives to show up… We don’t need men just to be present, we need men to be actively engaged in the home.” – Kim Landeen
“The idea of ‘fathers’ and the idea of ‘fatherhood’ implies a selflessness that’s embedded in there: that you’re living not just for yourself, but for someone else, and there’s a maturity level there. We’re inviting me to rise to that level of ‘father.’” – Carolina Allen
“(Men), become better with us, rise to the occasion. Be partners in marriage, be partners in life, be partners in rearing children, and in society and all of the good things that come with that.” – Kim Landeen
“Building takes effort and building takes time. Building takes forethought and planning, but it’s worth it.” – Kim Landeen
“Our call to women is to see this value in men. See the struggle, recognize the struggle, see that there is value in the struggle, there is value of partnering with these men in our lives, of surrounding these men with love, even when they’re not necessarily exhibiting the best behaviors, because we see the value in these men, we see the potential in these men. And men, we ask you to partner with us. Truly partner with us. Step up. Yoke yourself beside us. Let’s raise these families, let’s raise society, let’s raise each other in the process. Let’s become the best us we can be by becoming the best we that we can be. Let’s raise our families, let’s strengthen our society. We need you!” – Kim Landeen
Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Wednesday May 24, 2023
Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss the tenet “We are empowered by our feminine nature and biology, and we honor our procreative power.”
“I hope that this episode today can inspire and spark just gratitude for yourselves for anybody listening, any woman listening, that this is for you, and that you’re included.” – Carolina Allen
The Big Ocean Women definition of “mother” is: every woman who has the best interest of the rising generation at heart, and willingly gives of herself to nourish and protect the rising generation.
“In today’s standards, the word sacrifice, to put yourself kind of in the background so that something else can flourish and grow has become a really bad thing. But I want to highlight it as a really good and powerful thing.” – Carolina Allen
“I want that [menstruation] to be a celebrated time of life [for my daughters] when they do recognize that they’re coming into womanhood, a time when they’re recognizing their ability to create, which is such a divine power… my definition of divinity is something of creation.” – Kim Landeen
“I wish that everyone around the world, all young girls and women, had that kind of celebration and dignity in their menstruation.” – Carolina Allen
The Power of Days: A Story of Resilience, Dignity, and the Fight for Women’s Equity
“One reason why I will never ever stop talking about biological reality is because women deal with it every single day, and it all starts with our menstruation. I refuse to be called a menstruator or a menstruating person. It’s extremely, extremely offensive, and it’s … psychologically gaslighting millions of women around the world. You can’t pick up and just divorce yourself from your biological reality. It’s just completely absurd.” – Carolina Allen
“The biological evolution of life is you start with menstruation, and hopefully there’s empowerment there. And when there’s empowerment there then there’s empowerment in other relationships that progress. So the relationship with intimacy and the beauty that can be had in our procreative power and … that we get to decide who is part of that process, that nothing is forced upon us, that we get to be very careful and meticulous gatekeepers of that power. … If there’s empowerment there then it’s built upon that foundation and then there’s empowerment in birth.” – Carolina Allen
“If women, if we step into that power and link arms as sisters, then the rest of society has to start shifting their perspective and worldview on who women are, and the power and strength that we have.” – Carolina Allen
“The highest level of power is influence.” – Carolina Allen
“The most generative and sustainable change happens generationally, and the gatekeepers of that generational change are mothers and women because of our sacrifice for the rising generation.” – Carolina Allen
“I love this idea of linking arms together because through this struggle, through these joys, through this experience of motherhood, we have or should have sisters in our lives. We should have Aunties. We should have Grandmothers. There should be this intergenerational connection, and whether that occurs in a biological family … or you create that, I think it is of a vast importance to have multiple different ages of women leading and guiding and holding hands together as we raise these precious, precious children.” – Kim Landeen
“We as individuals, as independent actors have the choice to be a victim and/or to grow from that experience. And to take that experience and say, you know what I am going to make it better; I'm going to make it better for me; I'm going to make it better for my kids.” – Kim Landeen
“The word sacrifice really embodies that you’re setting something aside for something greater in the future, and that’s a hope driven thing. That’s a faith-filled thing.” – Carolina Allen
“Everything can be taken from a man [or woman] but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.” – Viktor Frankl
“Your children will never get another childhood, and you are the one that can facilitate and create that for them, thus healing your past self.” – Carolina Allen
Carolina Allen is the founder and Exective Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.
Saturday May 06, 2023
Saturday May 06, 2023
One of the most important things we can do as communities is to create spaces for connection and creativity, places that nurture the bonds between community members that are not places of commerce. Spaces that serve multiple purposes. Gloria Boberg talks about how a few extra acres in her community became one of those places, offering the space for a community garden that has served to connect and foster the relationships between all the members of her small town.
Dana Robb loves adventure. Whenever presented with the opportunity, Dana is all in. Currently this includes riding the local mountain biking trails with her husband, canyoneering, and climbing the hills of southern Utah. She loves to learn and explore with her six kids whom she’s been homeschooling since 2009. Her other interest include health and wellness and humanitarian work. If given the choice between cleaning her house and reading, she will choose reading every time. Drawn to the opportunities Big Ocean provides, Dana loves connecting to a global sisterhood where women’s issues are being addressed through reframing and an abundance mindset.
ShelliRae Spotts is an essayist, advocacy writer, screenwriter, and sometime poet who teaches creative writing and composition at Brigham Young University. She is passionate about exploring the ways we use stories to build bridges within our communities and her essays delve into the connections we discover through languaging our lived experiences. Shelli has attended the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women as an advocacy writer for the last several years, and is dedicated to social justice and environmental causes. She was the co-director and writing mentor for "Words for Water: Dancing the Stories of our Home Waters," a collaborative writing/dance advocacy project focusing attention on the challenges facing our rural river watersheds. She is the author of a forthcoming essay collection, "Radical Creativity: On a New Economy of Care." When she is not teaching, writing, or reading, Shelli loves to spend time with her husband and four adult children watching great movies, attending live theatre, or dragging everyone outside to “look at the sky.”
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Saturday Apr 29, 2023
Carolina Allen and Maddi Cheers discuss environmental stewardship and earth stewardship and our tenet, “We live and promote a life-culture within the womb, the home, and our ecological environment.”
“When we appreciate that we were given this great planet to look after for everybody, when we establish a relationship with her and with the Creator, then we are serving each other.” – Maddi Cheers
“The biggest difference between the way native people work, the way we work, the way you work, and the way environmentalists work is that native people establish a relationship with the earth… There is no saving the earth without having a relationship with her. And that relationship is one of appreciation.” – Maddie Cheers
Original Instructions: to be grateful, to treat each other and all of nature with kindness and respect, to live in families/clans that create loving communities.
“You can’t be a steward of the earth if you are not a steward of human beings also. You’re not being a steward if you are angry at everybody and all of your energy is directed at, ‘Oh, I’m worried about the earth because my generation may not survive.’ That’s selfishness… That’s a way different attitude than waking up every morning giving thanks for all the people, giving thanks to mother earth and all of nature, and proceeding with your day from there.” – Maddi Cheers
Blackfoot Physics by F. David Peat
“I myself have no power. It’s the people behind me who give me any power that I have. Real power comes only from the Creator. If you’re asking about strength, then I can say that the greatest strength is gentleness.” To Become a Human Being by Steve Wall
“The biggest problem with the environmental movement is that it’s a disconnect from nature at the same time as they’re saying, ‘We have to take care of nature,’ you can’t take care of something you’re disconnected from.” – Maddi Cheers
“The reason we are going through all of this turmoil on this earth … is because we are disconnecting from each other, and She is trying to wake us up.” – Maddi Cheers
“We know from ice core samples out of Antarctica, and this is solid geological science, not greenhouse theory… that the earth goes through these cycles of cooling and warming ever since it has been the earth.” – Maddi Cheers
“Just because we can, does it mean we should?” – Maddi Cheers
“Spirituality, religion, these invisible, intangible things are real, and they’re important. And I think that more and more people are feeling it, because it’s a feeling, it’s a gut, intuitive thing that they’re recognizing that family is important, relationships are important, community is important, love, respect, gratitude, all of these things have a creative force, and they have a protective and a healing force.” – Carolina Allen
“Sisters, cling to your children, cling to your families, bring your men with you, convince them; this isn’t a battle against men, our maternal feminist identities are bigger than that. We’re stewards of not only this planet, but of spirits, and this is our stewardship… claim it and step into that power.” – Carolina Allen
“This is our work, to bring that kind of calling, to bring that to the women and to stand together.” – Carolina Allen
“When you look at these great wisdom teachings all over the world, they have the same message, it is the same message of love one another. Don’t lose your connection to the planet.” – Maddi Cheers
The Good Mind and the Quick Mind:
The Good Mind is slow to anger, slow to judge, quick to love.
The Quick Mind is quick to anger, quick to judge, slow to love.
“When we are using that good mind, we are connected to everything and everyone, because our connection is through love, is through understanding that we are here for each other, and when we look at the natural world, that is what the natural world teaches us.” – Maddi Cheers
Maddi Cheers is first and foremost a Wisdom Activist. She is a storyteller, ceremonialist, dancer, teacher, poet, and interfaith minister. She is also the founder of The Women’s Oneness Project, dedicated to bringing women (and men) together to respectfully discuss and consider our differences. In 2019, at 65, Maddi dedicated her final chapter to passing on the knowledge and teachings she has gained from indigenous elders, spiritual leaders, and her own life experience. “In every decision we make we must consider how it will affect the next seven generations, based on the wisdom of the seven before.” - The Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee
“You know what the two most
important words are?: Thank you.” Tom Porter, Bear Clan, Mohawk Iroquois
Spiritual Leader
Carolina Allen is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
Wednesday Apr 19, 2023
One of the Big Ocean Women beliefs is that we live and promote a life culture in the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. These three environments form the basis of an ethical code of consistent life culture. Join Carol and Kim as they discuss these three environments.
“It’s an idea that is really integral to Big Ocean Women and how we work… We promote life culture within the womb, which is our first environment, and then we promote that into our second environment which is our home, and then everything else, community, ecology, ecological environment, outside of those two environments is the third environment. It’s the idea that if you can preserve peace and non-harm and abundance within those spheres that it just will naturally flow outward into the community or into the ecological environment because we’re all integrated. We’re all part of each other as human beings; we’re all part of our greater ecosystems. It’s important to look at the womb as an ecosystem. It’s important to look at the home as an ecosystem, and then it just spills over all of the abundance created within those first two spheres, those first two environments, it will spill over to the third.” – Carolina Allen
“This is a topic that we can address literally every single issue and/or problem and/or positivity in this world is through this lens of the three environments.” – Kim Landeen
“Environmental activism, Environmentalism, it very much pits human beings as an enemy to the environment… Environmental stewardship, on the other hand, looks at human beings as an integral part of the ecosystem, that we’re not apart from the environment at all, that we’re completely integrated, and that we have a more protective stewardship responsibility with the environment.” – Carolina Allen
“The abundance mindset that’s just generated from gardening is unreal.” – Carolina Allen
“The family system is an organic system.” – Carolina Allen
Carolina refers to being inspired by the work of Vandana Shiva; read more here.
“There truly is a cost to creation.” – Kim Landeen
“Truly when you’re caring for the earth, it feeds back into the family, it feeds back into the individual, and vice versa, when you as an individual feed into the earth obviously, it is improved, if done in organic, natural, and cyclical ways.” – Kim Landeen
“Our faith should lead into our environmentalism, into our environmental stewardship.” – Kim Landeen
“The word stewardship perfectly encapsulates what this is all about. It’s not environmental authority over, it’s environmental stewardship which means that you recognize that this doesn’t belong to you, that it’s just under your watchful care, and that as a steward you have the responsibility.” – Carolina Allen
Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Having your children attached to you is vital to being able to influence them. If you fear your kids are peer-attached, it’s not too late. In this episode we will continue our discussion of Hold Onto Your Kids and share ideas about how to “collect” and “reclaim” your children.
Dana Robb loves adventure. Whenever presented with the opportunity, Dana is all in. Currently this includes riding the local mountain biking trails with her husband, canyoneering, and climbing the hills of southern Utah. She loves to learn and explore with her six kids whom she’s been homeschooling since 2009. Her other interest include health and wellness and humanitarian work. If given the choice between cleaning her house and reading, she will choose reading every time. Drawn to the opportunities Big Ocean provides, Dana loves connecting to a global sisterhood where women’s issues are being addressed through reframing and an abundance mindset.
Emily Judd is the proud mother of 6 sons. Supporting her husband and boys is her greatest pleasure. They are an Army family, currently serving in Arizona. She loves her hands in the dirt, striving to create beautiful and delicious gardens. She looks everyday for a way to connect with God and mankind, longing to be his hands. If she isn’t checking on someone then she is looking to learn something new. She is interested in nutrition, holistic medicine and photography, and loves spending time in the mountains, biking, skiing with her family.
Tricia Kelly is a small town girl who grew up in South Jordan when there was just one stoplight and lots of farms all around. She has been living in Payson,Utah for over 20 years. She has six children, most of whom are grown, her kids consist of 5 girls and 1 boy who just got married! She loves being a grandma to her beautiful granddaughter. She loves going on walks, taking in the beautiful sunshine, watching cheesy hallmark movies or cuddling up to a good book. When she can she loves to get away to her family’s cabin up logan canyon.
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
Saturday Mar 18, 2023
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.
Dana Robb loves adventure. Whenever presented with the opportunity, Dana is all in. Currently this includes riding the local mountain biking trails with her husband, canyoneering, and climbing the hills of southern Utah. She loves to learn and explore with her six kids whom she’s been homeschooling since 2009. Her other interest include health and wellness and humanitarian work. If given the choice between cleaning her house and reading, she will choose reading every time. Drawn to the opportunities Big Ocean provides, Dana loves connecting to a global sisterhood where women’s issues are being addressed through reframing and an abundance mindset.
Emily Judd is the proud mother of 6 sons. Supporting her husband and boys is her greatest pleasure. They are an Army family, currently serving in Arizona. She loves her hands in the dirt, striving to create beautiful and delicious gardens. She looks everyday for a way to connect with God and mankind, longing to be his hands. If she isn’t checking on someone then she is looking to learn something new. She is interested in nutrition, holistic medicine and photography, and loves spending time in the mountains, biking, skiing with her family.
Tricia Kelly is a small town girl who grew up in South Jordan when there was just one stoplight and lots of farms all around. She has been living in Payson,Utah for over 20 years. She has six children, most of whom are grown, her kids consist of 5 girls and 1 boy who just got married! She loves being a grandma to her beautiful granddaughter. She loves going on walks, taking in the beautiful sunshine, watching cheesy hallmark movies or cuddling up to a good book. When she can she loves to get away to her family’s cabin up logan canyon.
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
Thursday Mar 02, 2023
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 global sisterhood.” - Kim Landeen
“... [E]veryone is feeling this burning passion to belong to an organization that doesn’t just spew out a litany of problems, but that we’re … super pumped about supporting one another and being the solution to those problems and creating … generative solutions. That means solutions aren’t just band-aid approaches that they’re going to get at the root of real issues and that … our children will benefit from what we’re doing and that’s the whole purpose…” - Carolina Allen
“... [A]ll it takes is a single woman that has an idea that wants to improve her own situation and the situation of those around her, and Big Ocean is here to help.” - Kim Landeen
“I think that’s the beauty and kind of why we’ve been so successful at the United Nations is it is that pure feeling of love. There is a divine love that stands within us as women of faith, and we see and acknowledge that innate unique worth of individuals and we truly do desire to work in partnership with our global sisters from a very empowered place that creates those generative solutions for ourselves, for our communities, and ultimately for our children that stand at the center of everything we do.” - Kim Landeen
We believe that every woman who has the best interest of the rising generation at heart, and willingly gives herself to nourish and protect the rising generation, is a mother.
“To mother and to nurture, those are action words, … they carry with it a big responsibility, and so for those women in the world that are keyed into that responsibility and want to carry that with us, then we welcome you.” - Carolina Allen
“I want you to think about your strengths. What do you have to offer? What are you good at? … What’s something that sparks your interest or that you gravitate towards? And then start exploring that and start finding ways in your community, in your family, within your extended family, within your work environment, ways that you can freely offer that like as a gift. And as you do that, it’s going to make you feel so confident and so happy and fulfilled. Then the next step is just to keep expanding that and take something that you … may not be that proficient in … but you have interest in it, and then you keep developing that skill and over time, the more that you put that into practice by serving other people and by engaging and helping others around you, that skill and talent will get polished and will become really a huge asset. And we are inviting everyone to join us, because the more we collaborate together, the stronger we are.” - Carolina Allen
“It is fairly common that we are brought to tears because of the work that you guys are performing and the miracles and generative solutions that are changing our world every single day that is wrought by the leadership of our WAVEs.” - Kim Landeen
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Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
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 for and fed and nurtured, even at their own expense.” – Margo Watson
“When women can truly understand that innate power that comes from within them, that intergenerational power that comes in families and family units, they are unstoppable. Like you cannot stop a mother, and there is not a stronger force in this world, political, social, or otherwise that could truly defend the family unit, that could truly lift up society than that of a challenged mother.” – Kim Landeen
“We have to talk about things as they really are, but then we can always look for the positive, and the hope in that realness.” – Lisa Bjornberg
“There is power in the masculine and the feminine coming together, … those energies of creation that occur - it is those lines that I’ve seen - when men truly become feminists that amazing things happen in the home. When women can honor the masculine and when the masculine can honor the feminine, there is power that resides in that relationship; there is power that permeates from that relationship that empowers and emboldens those that are surrounded by that power and that love.” – Kim Landeen
“There is nothing that can replace a father.” – Margo Watson
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.” – C.S. Lewis
“When we think of the divine nature of people and respect that and help them get through those tough times, they’re empowered then to pay it forward.” – Margo Watson
“I want everybody to know that they are worthy of respect, and I feel like one of the ways that we can feel that in ourselves is by showing that to other people. The more I show love to other people, the more I can love myself. The more I respect other people, the more I can respect myself.” – Lisa Bjornberg
“Now I know, and now I will act. I am going to choose to be that person over and over and over again.” – Kim Landeen
“The words that we speak are so powerful. As we continue to speak the truth then it magnifies itself. It also works the other way though. As we tear ourselves down, as we tear other people down, then that becomes that reality, and so that’s why it is so important that Big Ocean Women looks at what’s going on in the world, and then we speak hope, and we speak truth, and we speak light with our reframing. … It’s so important to remember that our words have power.” – Lisa Bjornberg
“Regardless of what circumstances you are at in life, there is a choice there… This is probably going to be one of the themes of my life: You choose what you want to be and who you want to be and how you want to show up.” – Kim Landeen
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.” – Alice Walker
“When a woman knows her rights, how to use them, and how to advocate for her rights, she is stronger.” – Amal Women for Women International Program Participant
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Marianne Williamson
“We as women need to replace any negative thoughts … and remember our divine worth and what innately we are supposed to be doing! Recognize our light, our power, and once we do that, we liberate ourselves to liberate others and empower them to be their best selves.” – Margo Watson
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.
Margo Watson is the Marketing Director for Big Ocean Women. With a Bachelors in Communications and a Masters in Fine Arts/Media, Margo hopes to expand this new division of Big Ocean Women with creative, resourceful individuals, coordinating with the Communications Division to give BOW more exposure. A few goals include finding raving fans in businesses, media, fundraising donors that share similar values that society is better when safeguarding Faith, Family and Motherhood and empowering Men to protect those entities. Margo has worked for 35 years in Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Politics, Theater, Television, Production, Real Estate and the Arts. She is a former soloist with national orchestras and musicals, pageant judge, and a former Mrs. Utah. She has five talented, married children and nine irresistible grandchildren. She passionately wants them to have a Great America like she had so volunteers in political outreach as well. Her husband Jay D. Blades is a constant support!
Lisa Bjornberg is the Communications Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. She loves to look for the divine in everyone around her. Lisa is passionate about helping women share their stories and recognize their innate power. She loves to read, sing, and to be active and outdoors. She and her husband Chris are the parents to four children. Lisa loved the years she had homeschooling her children, and is adjusting to them becoming adults. She has come to recognize that life is a grand adventure and faith is essential.
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
Wednesday Feb 15, 2023
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.
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 an adult human female
“I certainly feel exactly the same way [outraged] about men, males, who feel that they can take on the identity of those that they have oppressed and maltreated, not just for centuries, but for millenia, and claim to speak for us. It is an absolute outrage, it is male imperialism of the worst sort and should be resisted by all women of goodwill.” - Valerie Hudson
“You cannot make progress for women, if ‘women’ includes ‘men.’” - Valerie Hudson
“We can’t even know who we are and what we do and what our threats are if we cannot name ourselves as a sex class that has been maltreated by the other sex class for millenia.” - Valerie Hudson
“They’re fleeing womanhood as if it were a house on fire!” - Valerie Hudson
“Now, the overwhelming majority of people who are transitioning are adolescent girls who have seen the porn and have said, ‘There is no way on earth that I am going to be that woman. I want out of womanhood.’” - Valerie Hudson
“I demand, and I will continue to demand, that there is a healing that occurs in our society, and I am grateful for the men that do step up; at Big Ocean we believe in the interdependence of men and women, and we have seen the possibility of interdependence where men and women rise together, respecting each other's differences and the strength in those differences. That is the protection that children need to be raised in.” - Kim Landeen
“This change needs to happen, but this change needs to happen first and foremost in the home.” - Kim Landeen
“The strongest thing you can do to save the future is raise your children in a household where the mother and father respect each other as equals, where there is no maltreatment, where there is no porn use, where there is no financial abuse or emotional abuse, where you give them a vision of why there are men and women and how that can be a good thing and not a horrible thing … what you pass on is what you live.” - Valerie Hudson
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution - Louise Perry
The Veil is Beginning to Burst
Valerie M. Hudson is a University Distinguished Professor and holds the George H. W. Bush Chair in the Department of International Affairs of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where she directs the Program on Women, Peace, and Security. She is a coauthor of Sex and World Peace (Columbia, 2012), The Hillary Doctrine: Sex and American Foreign Policy (Columbia, 2015), and The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide, among others. She is the founder of The WomanStats Project and Database.
Carolina is the founder and leader of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Carolina holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Utah with an emphasis in cultural religions and philosophy of science. Her inspirational and philosophical work has been presented at various international U.N. conferences. She is just too a native of Brazil, and a fluent trilingual. She and her husband Kawika are parents to 7 children. She is an avid soccer fan and had a brief career as a semi-professional player.
Kim Landeen is a founding member and a Global Team Director of Big Ocean Women, the international maternal feminist organization representing perspectives of faith, family, and motherhood throughout civil society. Kim has a deep love for the natural world. She lives in Alaska with her family where she enjoys spending the slower paced life with her children combing the beach for treasures, gardening, picking wild berries, and spending rainy lazy days making bread, reading books, and watching movies. She is an ecotour captain in Glacier Bay National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where she helps educate her clients on the relationship between humanity and the larger eco-environment. In addition to her love of nature, she also enjoys studying theology and the inner workings of the soul as well as tracking global political and social movements. Her love for God, people, and this world drives her to continually seek to improve her own circumstances and the circumstances of all those with whom she comes in contact.