Dana Robb is joined by Kawika Allen and Nathan Ormsby to dispute the notion that men are unnecessary and promote the truth that men are truly valuable and we need to build interdependent relationships to support one another. “I think all men and husbands should strive to be more nurturing as well. I think it's just helpful for our children to see that modeling of a nurturing father.” - Kawika Allen “Just showing that emotional support and care is not something that you do often enough, and espec...
Jun 29, 2025•35 min•Ep. 65
Shelli Spotts, Carolina Allen, and Alma Olaveson discuss what it means to work in the advocacy space as mothers referencing Alice Walker’s book, We are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Light in a Time of Darkness and her daughter, Rebecca Walker’s book, Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence . “Advocacy is such an innate maternal thing to do, to advocate for other people that are vulnerable and can’t help themselves… it just comes with the territory of being a mother.” ...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 64
Carolina Allen shares the op-ed she wrote for the Deseret News, Published May 10, 2025. https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/05/10/what-is-maternal-feminism/ including some parts that were not included in the published article. “Creating life is not only about giving birth, however miraculous that truly is. And when we say ‘maternal,’ we are not only referring to women with children. We’re also speaking of a maternal way of being — a capacity to see and fill needs, to nurture, and to lead with f...
May 28, 2025•14 min•Ep. 63
Carolina Allen discusses motherhood with Erica Komisar, LCSW and Madeline Wallin from FEFAF and Haro “Free women. Free women from feeling terrorized and imprisoned by the narrative that unless they are a hard driving career woman, making lots of money competing with men out in the world, that they have no value. Free women, and give them permission to embrace instincts that they feel, but society doesn’t give them permission to feel.” - Erica Komisar “How can we talk about the future of the worl...
May 16, 2025•33 min•Ep. 62
Shannon is joined by Big Ocean Women members Diane and Alina Fisher to discuss promoting life culture in the womb, the home, and our ecological environment. The WAVE that Diane and Alina run throws baby showers for women who have unplanned pregnancies. Connect with us at our Virtual Wave Meeting. Find out more at bigoceanwomen.org “Some people believe motherhood starts when you have the baby. Motherhood starts when you get pregnant.” - Shannon Russell “Something that I hope is something we give ...
Apr 26, 2025•48 min•Ep. 61
Carolina Allen is joined by Maddi Cheers to discuss Life Culture. *Trigger warnings for abortion and abuse. “I'm a big proponent of the divine feminine and where that intersects with the divine masculine. And that. . . when you start, it doesn't matter what culture you're looking at, I do a lot of looking at Celtic culture, you can look at Native American culture, the Mother Earth, that the womb is the center of the woman's power.” - Maddi Cheers “I think that what you said is so important, Madd...
Apr 10, 2025•57 min•Ep. 60
Dana and Shannon are joined by Susana Lopes and Laura Uplinger from the Prenatal Alliance. They are preparing for their upcoming virtual summit on prenatal wellness, March 21-23, 2025 and the celebration of World Pregnancy Day March 22. “There’s no frontiers for what human beings can do when we are together and we value and cherish humankind.” - Susana Lopes “Mothers are nurturers; they are teaching through love and care. Mothers are healers; they are soothing their babies with their voice, thei...
Mar 13, 2025•48 min•Ep. 59
Dana Robb is joined by Proviah Tutoreinwe from Uganda as they discuss inherent worth, the value of loving and serving those around you, and the importance of education for mothers and empowering women. “I am worthy of respect because of how unique I am with the gifts and the talents that Heavenly Father has given me. And this is the time to act.” - Proviah Tutoreinwe “That was a time when I needed to kneel down in prayer, and through personal reflection the Holy Spirit helped me to realize that ...
Feb 28, 2025•32 min•Ep. 58
Carolina Allen discusses Innate Worth with Jeremy Boberg, LCSW, who specializes in treating trauma and unmet needs and addictions. *Trigger warning for discussion of suicide, domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and human trafficking. Carolina and Jeremy discuss the value of seeking help if you’ve been the victim of abuse or trauma. Help is available in many forms. Everyone is of worth, regardless of what they’ve experienced in life. Domestic violence and abuse were exacerbated Covid as people had to s...
Feb 17, 2025•43 min•Ep. 57
Dana and Shannon are joined by Karola de la Cuesta, whose story is told in the book, Faith, Love, and Human Trafficking: The Story of Karola de la Cuesta by Raquel Caspi. They discuss Karola’s experiences and how faith has helped her to heal and become an advocate for survivors and human rights. Karola expresses that it is vital to be aware, as parents and friends, of signs of abuse, and to also be the safe place where our loved ones can turn to to be believed and helped, no matter what. Links t...
Jan 29, 2025•47 min•Ep. 56
A Heart to Heart Conversation About Faith “I think that my faith in my Savior, Jesus Christ, has really anchored me and given me hope amidst a lot of heartache and in navigating different relationships.” - Carolina Allen “I'm really grateful that I can go to the Lord in prayer, and that I am loved unconditionally. You know, I think that that feeling of unconditional love sets me up for hope in the future.” - Carolina Allen “When I think about faith in Jesus Christ, for me, it is a conviction. It...
Jan 22, 2025•34 min•Ep. 55
Carolina Allen interviews Dana Robb, our usual host, about her visit to the CESE summit to address ways to protect our children online. We need to start and, and be very, very basic with parents. What is extortion? Because I think that sometimes we as parents, we just can't fathom that this is happening and that it's as prevalent as it is. —Carolina Allen TikTok's safety investigation team actually has done some really remarkable things. So they now have at least 20,000 safety investigators that...
Oct 24, 2024•39 min•Ep. 54
In this episode of Currents, special guest Grace Rajay, who heads up the global strategy committee at Big Ocean Women, discusses her experiences attending the UN hosted Nairobi Civil Society Conference and the upcoming Summit of the Future. The conversation delves into the true happenings at the UN, the relevance of grassroots perspectives, and the importance of self-reliance and family-oriented solutions. 00:00 Introduction of Grace Rajay and Her Role 01:20 Contrasts Between Textbook UN and Rea...
Sep 13, 2024•49 min•Ep. 53
Exposing Social Engineering in Media and Protecting Family Values In this episode of the Currents Podcast by Big Ocean Women, Carol delves into a conversation with Andrew Young about the troubling admissions from major animation studios like Disney that their storytelling has been tarnished by social engineering and political agendas. They discuss the widespread acknowledgment of this issue, peel the layers back to see where the issues originated, the societal impact, and the backlash from paren...
Aug 06, 2024•57 min•Ep. 52
The Importance of Fathers: A Conversation with Tim Rarick In this episode of Currents, hosts Dana and Shannon engage in a thought-provoking discussion with Tim Rarick,a professor at BYU Idaho specializing in marriage, family, and human development. The conversation centers around the critical role of fathers in both parenting and society. Tim discusses his experiences speaking at the United Nations on the importance of fatherhood, addressing how societal and media influences often downplay the v...
Jun 12, 2024•48 min•Ep. 51
Dana and Shannon meet with Celeste Mergens, founder of Days for Girls and author of the book, The Power of Days to discuss how we are empowered by our feminine nature and honoring our procreative power. “Today, Days for Girls has reached 145 countries. . . including the USA. And in fact, I guarantee right where everyone listening to this is, it's happening in our backyard because anywhere where you have to choose between food and a pad, if you need a new job and you have to choose between fuel i...
May 29, 2024•38 min•Ep. 50
Andrew Young has worked for XBox, DreamWorks, and other kids entertainment companies. He has seen firsthand how deliberate decisions to insert specific scenes and vocabulary take place. He talks about his experiences with what he found out about social engineering when he worked as an animator at DreamWorks, the effects we see in our society, and what we can do to counteract it as we stand for faith, family, and motherhood. Quotable quotes from Andrew Young during this discussion on social engin...
May 13, 2024•54 min•Ep. 49
Danna Robb, Shelli Spotts, and Gloria Ezeonyeasi discuss being a woman of faith. “Our faith tenet with Big Ocean really focuses on the fact that through our faith, we feel inspired to act in our communities and to be involved.” - Shelli Spotts “That’s how we grew up . . . knowing that our faith is everything that we have; God is everything. [My mother] taught us to depend on God completely.” - Gloria Ezeonyeasi “I can’t imagine a life without faith. Because when you’re faced with a challenge, wh...
Mar 08, 2024•34 min•Ep. 48
In this archive episode from 2020, Carolina Allen and Shelli Spotts discuss the origin and roots of the gift economy, and the way maternal feminism rests on an alternative structure, a way of living that does not depend on getting ahead but the responsibility to lift everyone up. "We are born into a gift economy, one that starts with our own mothers. It is a far more natural way of living that does not depend on the economy of exchange, but on trust and generosity." Genevieve Vaughn Genevieve Va...
Jan 17, 2024•40 min•Ep. 47
As Big Ocean women, we value our identities as women of faith. We represent 83% of women who identify with a faith tradition. This figure is considerably higher in women than in men, which might suggest that many of us are intrinsically connected with religion and naturally experience the world through a faith-filled lens. Of the many women of the world who carry children, families, communities, and nations upon their shoulders– and with such strength, courage, and grace– it can be said that the...
Jan 17, 2024•43 min•Ep. 46
“Epicurus said that it’s not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes abundance. And I really love that because it takes it out of the material realm. We're not talking about an abundance of money or an abundance of possessions or properties. We're talking about the things that make our life fulfilling and joyful and purposeful and bring light to us.” -Martha. “If we can find a way to focus on what we can do and what we can control in our life right now, then that's where we can find that joy...
Jan 02, 2024•28 min•Ep. 45
“It's one of my son's birthdays today. And I was saying to my husband, I have never given him a present he actually likes. I don't know how to do that. And I felt kind of discouraged by that because I just can't figure it out. And he is old enough now. He has his own career. He doesn't really need something from me. But I realized as I was driving other kids around today that he gives him actually his love language. And so once I put that together, I realized, oh, I can give him the things that ...
Jan 02, 2024•31 min•Ep. 44
Dana Robb and Carolina Allen are joined by Sharon Slater to discuss the Model of Powerful Impact. “If you have a willing heart, somehow God puts you at the right place at the right time with the right tools.” - Carolina Allen “Just one individual can make such a difference when you … take opportunities and just think, ‘What if my gifts and my talents and my willingness were to be used for a greater purpose?’” - Carolina Allen FamilyWatch.org Stop Comprehensive Sexuality Education “We’ve got to i...
Dec 30, 2023•42 min•Ep. 43
Dana and Gloria discuss the Model of Powerful Impact “We do live in difficult times, and there’s so much conflict in the world and there’s a lot of divisiveness… there’s never been a greater opportunity to do good, to influence others in a positive way across the globe.” - Dana Robb “You think, well, there's 7 billion people. And who are you? You're just one little dust mote among that 7 billion. So it doesn't really matter what you do or don't do, but that's simply not the case. It's the wrong ...
Dec 18, 2023•38 min•Ep. 42
Dana Robb and Carolina Allen discuss the Model of Powerful Impact with Karen Ashton. “I really have a perspective that maybe a lot of people don’t have, and the longer I live, the more I understand how rich our life is when we take care of that which is most important, which is our relationships within our very own families.” - Karen Ashton “It is so difficult for us to make the changes that [coming into motherhood] requires that sometimes we can be a little bit resentful over that kind of sacri...
Dec 05, 2023•37 min•Ep. 41
Carol and Kim discuss the Model of Powerful Impact. Powerful Impact is the idea that we can make the greatest impact when we prioritize and allow for a natural flow of energy to do its thing, essentially. We have outlined three very key ways that we can do that and will discuss it through the month, “…but the very first one, the greatest and deepest and most profound kind of impact we can make is when we are filled, when we are impacted ourselves, by the source of all energy itself, which is God...
Dec 01, 2023•31 min•Ep. 40
Margo Watson and Ann Takasaki are joined by Kathie Horman, LaReita Berky, and Dennis Lifferth to discuss the Model of Powerful Impact and the power of charitable giving. “Charity, being charitable, is critical to our well being, our soul, who we are as people, and being part of the human race.” - Margo Watson “I have MS, and I struggle with it, but I’m doing great. And I thought I can give what I can while I still can. And so it’s been a real joy to me… I just love doing it, is what it boils dow...
Nov 24, 2023•36 min•Ep. 39
Christy by Catherine Marshall is a historical fiction book that follows the fictional character of Christy who decides to serve as a teacher in the Appalachian Mountains. It was based partially on reality and the experiences of Catherine Marshall’s mother. She goes thinking she has so much to give and ends up finding there is so much more for her to learn. “I love how she goes in with the intent of, ‘I’m going to help these people,’ and ultimately, it’s them helping her.” - Dana Robb “It’s one o...
Nov 21, 2023•52 min•Ep. 38
Margo Watson, Debbie Hart, and Dr. Tabitha Campbell discuss the tenet, “We seek after knowledge and wisdom.” “Education is power, and it also helps us to overcome fear. Oftentimes we have fear of the unknown. So the more that we know, the better prepared we are.” - Debbie Hart “You have to take care of your physical health in order to take care of your mental health and vice versa.” - Dr. Tabitha Campbell “Education is truly a springboard for opportunity.” - Margo Watson “Wisdom comes with exper...
Nov 14, 2023•33 min•Ep. 37
Dana Robb, Shannon Russell, Andrea Garn, and Grace Raje discuss the tenet, “We recognize and follow our internal compass to speak and act with integrity.” “One thing is certain, [this internal compass] is like your own personal language, if you will. The more you learn to understand this language, speak it, and more importantly, act upon it, the better your choices become.” – Shannon Russell “Choosing to listen to your inner compass will help you to heal, and it will allow you to feel the most b...
Oct 13, 2023•36 min•Ep. 36
