Currents: the Big Ocean Women Podcast

Erica Komisar talks to us about why being there for your children, especially in the first few years of life, is so important. Ms. Komisar is a clinical social worker, psychoanalyst, and parent guidance expert who has been in private practice in New York City for over 30 years. She strives to help parents live more satisfying lives and raise healthier children. 

 

A graduate of Georgetown and Columbia Universities and The New York Freudian Society, Ms. Komisar is a psychological consultant bringing parenting and work/life workshops to clinics, schools, corporations, and childcare settings.  She is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The New York Daily News.  Erica is the author of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, and is currently finishing a second book on the topic of raising resilient, emotionally secure adolescents in an age of anxiety.

Dana interviews Aditi Aromi, talking about honoring our feminine biology through the gift and power of breastfeeding as well as the model of powerful impact as we reach out to meet needs in our community. 

Aditi is a born-again Christian, full-time mother of two beautiful children and a wife to the same husband of 22 years. Residing in Southern Utah as an entrepreneur of three family oriented businesses. She is the founder of Free2Feed a local motherhood support group, the owner of Sound Start Education where she works as a Certified Lactation Education counselor. And most recently the campus Director and CEO of the Learning Space, Homeschool Micro Campus in Southern Utah. 

Michelle Meline is the mother of six children and grandmother to 2.  She has been involved in PTA, Boosters for the Performing Arts, bake sales, little league, girls softball, school plays, and endless hours of homework with her children.  She even built a five story pagoda entirely out of food storage, once!

She wants women everywhere to know that they are all gifted and uniquely talented and they possess abilities to love and nurture goodness in every facet of life.  She hopes everyone will practice peace, choose joy, believe in goodness, never give up and keep being amazing!  Favorite words to live by “Be beautiful, Be real and Bring light!  These are written on her heart and the bathroom mirror in lipstick! She celebrates womanhood and believes that the strongest good can be accomplished by working together with good men! 

Michelle’s Professional adventures have taken her to several industries.  She has worked for and assisted firms in Marketing, Advertising, Law, Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Healthcare, Interior Design and Media. She has had the pleasure of meeting many talented and wonderful artists including Hiroshima, Earth Wind and Fire, and Kenny Loggins who she sang happy birthday to.

She has also served with Interfaith Boards and in the Dept. of Communications as a director of media relations at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Currently, she is serving as a board member for Big Ocean Women which is an international women’s organization.  This organization’s mission is to gather and train women to be deliberate thinkers and to engage as powerful forces for good in their homes, communities, and the world.  She invites you to visit bigoceanwomen.org for more information

63 million girls are missing from the Indian population.

In India there are estimated to be:

70 million sex selective abortions yearly
37 million more men than women
1 girl for 8 boys in some villages

There is even a village called Devra that has no women in it.

These are just a few of the realities based one on of the most tragic circumstances in the world-the belief that girls are liabilities.

What do we do? Listen to this interview with Jill McElya to learn more, gain hope in a better future, and become part of the solution.

BIO: Jill McElya is an attorney, whose experience includes extensive public
service, in both criminal and civil law practice. In January 2008, she moved to
India to serve as the Deputy Director for the Chennai field office of an
international human rights organization. In this capacity, she and her staff of
Indian lawyers worked to rescue victims of bonded labor (slavery) and hold
their perpetrators accountable through the public justice system.
While living in India for two years, Jill and her husband, Brad were
exposed to the practice of female gendercide (the systematic killing of females).
After studying the issue and forming relationships with Indians from
organizations that combat the problem, they founded Invisible Girl Project
(IGP) in 2011. IGP’s mission is to save girls’ lives to end female gendercide in
India. Jill now serves as President for IGP, a 501(c)(3), charitable organization,
headquartered in Raleigh, NC, where she now lives with her husband and their
own two little girls.

 

Currents hosts a guest podcast episode from the Diamonds for our Children Podcast featuring a conversation between Katie Jo LaRiviere and Carolina Allen. 

An interview with Katie Jo LaRiviere of Mount Angel Abbey and Seminary where we discuss motherhood, literature, and the deep emotional connections of finding a shared humanity. 

Katie Jo LaRiviere is an associate professor of literature who writes and produces the Diamonds for Our Children podcast, a public humanities project and motherhood ministry launched in 2021. LaRiviere’s weekly poetry live sessions can be found @diamondsforourchildren on Instagram.

A discussion with Nicholeen Peck on parenting, peace, and finding balance during stressful times by teaching children self government. 

 A conversation with Leslie Grossman, Faculty Director of the Executive Women's Leadership Program at George Washington University, on how to harness our strengths as women, the power of supporting other women, and the ways we can lead out and lead up. Leslie is the author of Link Out: How to Turn Your Network into a Chain of Lasting Connections.

We discuss menstrual health and the wide array of options available to us, trying to break down some of the stigmas associated with being a woman. 

In this episode Dana Robb hosts a roundtable discussion on the book Eleni by Nicholas Gage. What can we take from good literature? How do we relate it to our lives? Let's discuss. You won't want to miss this episode!