We seek after wisdom, and we believe wisdom is the highest possible form of knowledge. Brittany Homer from the Raising Today’s Kids podcast and Project Stand . “I remember when I was young, realizing the importance of giving children a good foundation, how if they are given a good foundation in their life, then there is no limit to their potential.” – Brittany Homer “Anytime you try to change the economy of God, you’re doing it wrong.” – Haitian guide as remembered by Brittany Homer “In order to...
Oct 06, 2023•48 min•Ep. 35
Dana Robb and Becky Rogers discussing the tenet, “We seek after knowledge and wisdom.” Families Mentoring Families has educational tracks for teaching family life skills, basic literacy, academic, vocational skills, leadership, and agriculture. They have 110 literacy centers across Africa, in Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, and Rwanda, and are working to continue to expand. They also have an aftercare program for girls who have been trafficked as well as an education program to help girls avoid the lure o...
Oct 06, 2023•38 min•Ep. 34
We greatly value the unique and contributing role of families. Margo Watson is joined by Gloria Boberg and Dr. Tres Tanner. “Families are the unit in society which is especially comprised of a man and a woman who are husband and wife who are bonded so that they can meet each other's physical and emotional needs as well as to, among other things, have the opportunity to procreate and bring children into the world so they can then care for those children” - Dr. Tanner “The family is the stability ...
Sep 18, 2023•48 min•Ep. 33
A discussion with Kimberly Ells The Invincible Family “Sexualizing children is not ok on any level, and the family destructive elements that are tied into the movement to sexualize children is especially concerning.” – Kimberly Ells “The family… is the place of greatest power.” – Kimberly Ells “The family is powerful for many reasons… When new people are born, they’re born as babies, they’re born to mothers in cooperation with fathers, and that matters a lot because then it is the mother and the...
Sep 06, 2023•46 min•Ep. 32
Carolina Allen and Susan Roylance discussing standing up for the family. “The family is that cellular level of society. And if we don’t preserve it, if we don’t look favorably upon it, it’s really hard to move forward in every aspect of society, and so it’s really critical that we talk about it in Big Ocean Women. It is central to who we are.” - Carolina Allen “That’s kind of been the thing that I contributed or tried to contribute, is bringing together the good language (in UN and Conference do...
Sep 02, 2023•48 min•Ep. 31
Native American Fatherhood & Families Association (NAFFA) began in 2002 with just one father and the mission of bringing men back to strengthening their families. Since then, NAFFA has successfully impacted thousands of lives and families. Listen as Carolina and NAFFA Founder, Al Pooley, take an in-depth look at the challenges that fathers and families face, and the heart of the solution based on NAFFA’s great success!
Jul 20, 2023•51 min•Ep. 30
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 b...
Jun 19, 2023•44 min•Ep. 29
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 ...
May 24, 2023•37 min•Ep. 28
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. When...
May 06, 2023•32 min•Ep. 27
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 th...
Apr 30, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 26
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, ...
Apr 20, 2023•40 min•Ep. 25
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. Join the discussion of parents working to collect and reclaim their children here: https://groupme.com/join_group/87684967/SOO68O2i Dana Robb loves adventure. Whenever presented with the opportunity, Dana is all in. Curren...
Mar 19, 2023•30 min•Ep. 24
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. Referenced episodes: 1.4 and 1.10 Join the discussion of parents working to collect and reclaim their children here: https://groupme.com/join_group/87684967/SOO68O2i Dana Robb loves adventure. Whenever pre...
Mar 19, 2023•50 min•Ep. 23
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 organizati...
Mar 03, 2023•35 min•Ep. 22
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 ...
Feb 27, 2023•32 min•Ep. 21
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. Women Stats Project 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 c...
Feb 16, 2023•51 min•Ep. 20
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...
Feb 10, 2023•31 min•Ep. 19
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 prov...
Feb 02, 2023•50 min•Ep. 18
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 t...
Jan 26, 2023•47 min•Ep. 17
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 w...
Jan 18, 2023•51 min•Ep. 16
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 connection...
Jan 11, 2023•30 min•Ep. 15
In this first episode of our new series focusing on our monthly tenets, Carolina Allen and Kim Landeen discuss the first tenet of Big Ocean Women “We believe in God and are women of faith.” “We are connected to divinity, we are divine and that power both outside and within us compels us to help mold our actions and it helps empower everything we do both internally and externally in changing our lives and shaping our lives and the lives of our family and the lives of our communities.” – Kim Lande...
Jan 04, 2023•59 min•Ep. 14
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...
Sep 15, 2021•48 min•Ep. 13
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 Ed...
Sep 01, 2021•25 min•Ep. 12
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 pract...
Aug 11, 2021•39 min•Ep. 11
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,...
Aug 03, 2021•49 min•Ep. 10
Currents hosts a guest podcast episode from the Diamonds for our Children Podcast featuring a conversation between Katie Jo LaRiviere and Carolina Allen.
Jul 27, 2021•49 min•Ep. 9
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.
Jul 19, 2021•43 min•Ep. 8
A discussion with Nicholeen Peck on parenting, peace, and finding balance during stressful times by teaching children self government.
Nov 05, 2020•37 min•Ep. 7
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.
Oct 08, 2020•33 min•Ep. 6
