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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.
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Thursday Feb 09, 2023
Carolina Allen and Dana Robb visit with leaders from the Houston WAVE, Nikki Brown and America Ririe, discussing February’s tenet, “We are each unique and innately worthy of respect” and their many impactful projects.
“If I had one goal in life, it would be to debunk this idea that you have to prove your worth, that you have to have more and be more or do more than someone else to be able to show your value, because that just really isn’t true. We each have innate worth.” - Dana Robb
“…America had this idea, and had this unique perspective on it, and she was able to move it forward in a way that only she would have done and anyone else would have said, ‘Oh, gosh we can’t do this right now,” but she understood the vision and she kind of allowed herself to be an instrument, to be a light for others because she was willing to move it forward.” - Nikki Brown
“I think that sometimes in our lives, like, the things that are our greatest hurdles become our greatest triumphs.” - Carolina Allen
“We always talk about good acts rippling outward, and I think this is such a great example of that.” - Carolina Allen
“I think you just take a step forward and the pieces come together … As we move forward, we’ve found everybody puts in a little drop and it really does collect and move forward.” - Nikki Brown
“With each of our unique backgrounds … just everyone’s unique talents and abilities came together and made it happen.” - America Ririe
“We create so much more when we work together as a team and we all have something specific to contribute.” - Dana Robb
“The exciting thing to me is the fact that everywhere around the world there are women with unique talents and strengths and that the combination of all of those within, like, these local WAVEs all over the world creates something significant, and then all together, all of us are creating something really, really profound.” - Carolina Allen
“We’ve been given those talents for a reason, and if you’re using them for what they’re intended, you should never downplay them or apologize for them, you should use that strength to lift others up as well.” - America Ririe
“I am becoming better at recognizing and using my strengths as I more proactively acknowledge and … support other people in their strengths.” - Nikki Brown
“I think in part when we are treating other people as though they are enough and acknowledging that, then we are literally changing those messages that we’re sending ourselves … the way our brain operates, the more that we think certain messages, the more that we are believing it and kind of subscribing to that.” - Nikki Brown
“I think, to me, that’s ultimately what we’re trying to do, is allow others to share who they are, and we accept them as they are.” - Nikki Brown
Nikki Brown says her greatest joy comes from being a wife of 18 years and a mother of 6 kids! She also loves serving within her faith community. She works as a therapist and recently completed the process to become a Registered Play Therapist. She loves learning, running, yoga, and being outdoors.
America Ririe is a stay at home mother of six. She lives with her family in Houston, Texas and has enjoyed being a part of the Big Ocean Women Houston WAVE. She works closely with Nikki Brown (President) and other local members, to raise awareness, advocate and bring change about various causes throughout the community. Big Ocean Women has become the catalyst in bribing about real change and a force for good.
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.
Dana Robb: Whenever presented with the opportunity for adventure, 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. She is drawn to the opportunities being involved with Big Ocean Women provides. Dana loves connecting to a global sisterhood where women’s issues are being addressed through reframing and an abundance mindset.
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Wednesday Feb 01, 2023
Hosts Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss this month’s tenet: “We are each unique and innately worthy of respect.”
“I feel as though the world would be completely different if everyone truly understood what this tenet really means.” – Carolina Allen
“As we really focus on the uniqueness, our individual uniqueness, and the uniqueness of those around us, and we see the worth, the divine and inherent worth within that uniqueness, great things can happen.” – Kim Landeen
“There’s an Islamic proverb that I love that says, ‘A lot of different flowers make a bouquet.’” – Kim Landeen
The Mother Tree: Discovering the Love and Wisdom of Our Divine Mother by Kathryn Knight Sonntag
- Set your roots, engage in the work of the root, discover who you are, do the hard work of soul engagement
- Grow, don’t just stay in the root work and “self-discovery,” get out of yourself and serve others
“The term ‘self-care’ has been kind of co-opted to mean ‘self-indulgence’ in a way.” – Carolina Allen
“I know as moms we give a lot, … I get it, … we are stretched thin, but also like there’s power in that, like we’re actually building something, it’s not for nothing, you know, and it’s worth the effort, it’s worth the work.” – Carolina Allen
“You can gain internal peace without needing to gain justice.” – Kim Landeen
“We get to really know what we’re made out of and who we are when we’re put to the test, like when we have to actually engage and apply these things in very real ways and the best way to do that literally is to be there for people and serve them.” – Carolina Allen
“I believe we need to reclaim ourselves… as maternal feminists, the reclaiming of who we are, are divinely inspired, empowered women, that show up in our homes, our communities, and this world. We need those women.” – Kim Landeen
“As we sacrifice for the rising generation because of our maternal identities and because of … know the sacrifice that our physical bodies go through just to even bring about life and nurture that life after that life has been born, because of that there is a very powerful thread that we hold as an authority to the rising generation by way of influence. Meaning, because I am a present loving selfless person within the walls of my home with my children, … all of that authority built from love and from sacrifice has a very unique influence over that child ... in a sense that ‘My mom has been there for me, … I’m going to listen to what she has to say.’ And If you live in a selfish manner, it’s not there, you don’t have that sway, you don’t have that pull, you don’t have that influence. The influence, to me, in my book is the greatest power that exists on the planet which is why I think mothers and this maternal work has been so undermined and has been so devalued throughout time to kind of make us forget … what it is the power that we really have … the way to exercise that power, like that self-empowerment, is to lean into the selflessness not the selfishness. And I think that there are … contradicting messages in our society. I'd say there’s a really strong message in our society to lean into the selfish component and I think that we need to be really careful with that.” – Carolina Allen
“To be a mother is to hopefully have influence… The jobs that we do in our home influence not just today or not next week, it influences generations.” – Kim Landeen
“It’s easy to pit these two against each other. It’s easy to say you can either be selfless or selfish, and by definition, that’s correct… I think it goes back to the intention of what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. It is selfless for me to say I am going to have structure in my life so I can get up and I can get the things that I need to get done so I can be present with my children when they are awake. It is selfless for me to say I’m going to take care of my body and refuse the things that I want to indulge in so I can have the energy and the stability to show up in the world when I need to show up. It is selfless of me to say I am going to study and I’m going to develop these different qualities so that I can then engage in political and social conversations. All of those things, the waking up early, the eating what I want to eat, the exercising, all of those could be seen as selfish components of what I’m doing, but it’s the intent of what I’m doing… That’s what it comes down to is the intent… It ultimately comes down to why are you doing what you are doing? What is it doing for you? What is it doing for those around you?” – Kim Landeen
“These identity markers are important; they are deeply important to who we are… but how am I going to show up as that person? And that is where uniqueness comes in. That is where those divine gifts start to really shine. And there are moments of reflection, there are moments of going down into the roots and those are so important, so don’t lose those moments of reflection. Don’t say I’m just going to sacrifice everything and just keep going and going because there is burnout, there is lack of focus, there is lack of intentionality, that’s where those roots come… When you disengage from what you’re doing, and you get on this superficial level and you’re not truly becoming a better person and you’re not truly rejuvenating, you’re not truly feeding yourself in a way that your body needs.” – Kim Landeen
“I really wish that for everyone in the world, number one that everyone can understand that they’re innately worthy of respect, … and that they are valuable irrespective of external circumstances or validation, that there is something unique about each and every listener, everyone on this planet that that means that like you as a person are valuable ... My single wish is that we can feel that, you know, that we can really feel in in the most humble the most beautiful but the most confident way and that we can have … courage to go and share our talents and not hide our light under a bushel but to stand and have this confidence this kind of inner confidence and inner … peace about us that can really influence the world.” – Carolina Allen
“Healing truly comes from connection… There is also deep connection and healing that comes from reaching outside of yourself having those that are dependent on you be able to trust you and depend on you.” – Kim Landeen
“The way I think the world needs to change is unique to my experiences. I’ve seen things that I want to improve.” – Kim Landeen
Call to action: Engage in a way that you feel like you need to engage in to make the world better because of your unique experience.
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.
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.
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Thursday Jan 26, 2023
Members of Big Ocean Women discuss Faith and how it impacts their lives, their actions, and their wider beliefs.
As moms of faith It is one of our deepest desires that we can translate our value system to our children… the way to do that with children is to know and understand first what you believe in. Children can feel a sense of discrepancies between your ideas what you believe and what you do.
-Carolina
As a young mom, they were three ideas that I wanted to impart upon my children I wanted them to Love God, love for people, and love this world. I decided that if they loved and understood those three things everything else would come naturally.
-Kim
When raised in faith We invariably reach a point in our lives, where our faith is challenged, but if you walk through that complexity, and you ask questions, and research and dive into the complexity, you reach a place of simplicity on the other side of complexity that is a beautiful place to be, that is more valuable than staying in the original simplicity.
-Dana
Recently, I was having some personal trials, and I wanted answers, and I felt like the only answer I was getting was to be still and I felt like that was not the answer that I wanted because I wanted to know more about what the future would look like and all I kept getting this be still be still…and as I did that, I came in to that next simplicity again and I’ve had a lot more peace in my heart, and in my mind
-Lisa
I have gone through a number of faith crisis, and I have learned that I need to give myself the grace to step back when I need to step back into engage when I need to engage… when I need to step back what I personally focus on is eternal patterns its this meta this level above scripture in my mind less linguistic and more symbolic.
-Grace
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
Wednesday Jan 18, 2023
In this third episode, Kim Landeen and Carolina Allen discuss the biodiversity of faith with Melissa Inouye.
“If people have described religion as trying to keep lighting in a bottle, charisma is the lightning and organization is the bottle. Kind of a balance between the two: if you have too much bottle, you can’t see the lightning, and if you have too much lightning you break the bottle.” – Melissa Inouye
“I believe that God created the world, and I believe that … we can draw from the natural world, created by God, some principles, and just looking at the world it seems pretty significant that we have biodiversity that seems to be the key to making a lot of things work.” – Melissa Inouye
“I believe that God has also created us with spiritual biodiversity.” – Melissa Inouye
“One of the ways we start becoming better as people is … developing our understanding of our fellow beings and becoming a little more mature in being able to understand goodness in other people and faith and to see that goodness and to learn from other people. I think that God has … nudged us toward that trajectory through creating a world with incredible spiritual and physical biodiversity.” – Melissa Inouye
“Everyone has a lot to learn, and we can learn so much from people who teach us in different ways.” – Melissa Inouye
“Lean in to the ways that religion holds together the fabric of societies.” – Melissa Inouye
“Religion is a motive source in many ways for a lot of social change and social cohesion.” – Melissa Inouye
The Way of Openness: https://civicfriendship.org/the-way-of-oppenness/
The Ten Conventions for Dialogue:
- Be Honest
- Be Kind
- Listen Well
- Share the Floor
- Presume Goodwill
- Acknowledge Differences
- Answer the Tough Questions
- Give Credit Where Credit is Due
- Speak Only For Yourself
- Keep Private Things Private
“My faith has literally saved my life. I had a really scary diagnosis… I think one of the reasons why I’ve been able to beat really bad odds for such a long time is because even when I myself didn’t have faith or hope in myself, there were other people that I could rely on who did and I think that the body responds to that.” – Melissa Inouye
BioDiversity Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsPERjmBH0
Every needful Thing; Book preorder: https://deseretbook.com/p/every-needful-thing?variant_id=200906-paperback
Melissa Inouye works as a historian at the Church History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She is also an honorary Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Auckland. She is currently researching the life of Chieko Okazaki, a Japanese American Latter-day Saint who was the first person of color to hold a prominent general-level position in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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.
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 Jan 11, 2023
Wednesday Jan 11, 2023
In this episode, Carolina discusses religious liberty and persecution with Fatima Njoku, a WAVE leader from Jos, Nigeria. Fatima emphasizes that it is important for everyone to know their rights, be respectful, and hold everyone to the same rule of law which should protect everyone’s rights of religion and expression.
In Fatima’s advocacy she found that “most of the minority rights issues were linked to religious identities.” She also said, “Freedom of religion and belief has a lot of connections into other things… When we talk about human rights, it links in many ways.” - Fatima Njoku
“We have to respect each other's religion and religious belief and objects of faith, right, but then there has to be clearly defined boundaries.” - Fatima Njoku
“We have to at some point recognize boundaries and recognize where your freedoms end and someone else’s begins.” - Fatima Njoku
Why should the world care about this?
“Many lives are at stake… when it happens to one, it happens to all. How many countries can handle a refugee crisis from Nigeria?” - Fatima Njoku
What is the solution?
“We have started by talking about it. Keep talking about it and raising these issues and keep raising these issues. Secondly, is to educate people. We need to have workshops and educate people on their human rights and then victims of these types of things…. We have to care for them and support them. Keep denouncing these types of things.” - Fatima Njoku
“When we hear that something is happening to people, let’s not feel that because it doesn’t affect us directly that we don’t care; we really need to care, and there’s always something that we can do.” - Fatima Njoku
Fatima Njoku is a lawyer working in Nigeria and currently a doctorate candidate at the University of Jos. She has been a human rights advocate for over 11 years, in the course of her advocacy, she has been to the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva, she had meetings at Capitol Hill, House of Lords, Swiss Press Club and the like. She has been serving her community through Big Ocean Women in Nigeria where more than 50 women meet regularly for encouragement around the importance of faith, family, and motherhood. This group also carries out community development projects that have touched many lives.
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.