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The MTHR Project
by Erica Stephens
The MTHR Project Podcast celebrates and amplifies the voices, ideas and actions that honor and protect every mother, everywhere. We explore the social, spiritual and economic lives of mothers and encourage new ways of honoring and protecting those who birth and nurture life in our communities. MTHR Project is hosted by MTHRhood activist and Nana Grants founder Erica Stephens. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mthrproject/support
Episodes
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After her mother's death, Toni became "mom" to her younger siblings
Toni is a gifted healer, massage therapist and Reiki practitioner. I’ve been a client of Toni’s for years, so you can imagine my surprise when she mentioned she'd once been a professional welder. The sudden loss of Toni’s young mother left Toni in charge of raising her siblings and changed the...
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After becoming a teenage mother, Jennifer quietly struggled with depression and suicidal thoughts.
Since the COVID 19 pandemic began reshaping our lives, there’s been a new openness to discussing mental health. Celebrities, athletes, artists and others in the public eye have opened up like never before, sharing their personal experiences with anxiety and depression and other mental health...
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Transcending modern myths and archetypes of motherhood
Kate Ferguson is an Atlanta-based licensed professional counselor who specializes in working with women, in particular those experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Kate incorporates the idea of myths and archetypes in her work with women. In this episode, we talk about how media...
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How does she do it? Strength, resilience and an abundance of "Want to"
I met our next guest, Sandra Mercer, at the end of 2019 when she applied for a Nana Grant to help with child care for her three little boys. Sandra was a 4.0 computer science student at West Georgia Technical College and a single mother. She worked as a computer science tutor and supported her...
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"My goal is to positively influence these girls."
Alexis grew up in foster care and became a single mother at a young age. Fresh out of Clark Atlanta University, she is using her degree in social work to make a direct and meaningful impact on young girls at a group home where she was once a resident. To learn more about nsoro Foundation, which...
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Brant and Brian's Unpaved Road to Happily-Ever-After
Brant Rawls-McQuillan always dreamed of having a family that included children. But he was also a gay man who came of age in the early-90s, when happily-every-after stories featuring two guys, two kids and white picket fence simply weren't part of our cultural narrative. To get there, they had to...
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Our Stories are Meant to Be Told: A conversation with Tracey Palmer, Per Scholas
Tracey Palmer is the Atlanta-based managing director for Per Scholas, a nationwide nonprofit that provides tuition-free technology training to unemployed or underemployed adults. Raised in a tight-knit family in West Virginia, Tracey was a high-achieving student — good grades, an athlete, a...
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A Mother's Grace: Coming of age during the Iranian revolution
Afsaneh Abree was born the eighth child in a well-off, traditional family in Tehran during the last decade before the Islamic Revolution. One summer she recalls running around in shorts, reading novels and enjoying a typical childhood. The next summer, she was wearing a headscarf, books were…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The MTHR Project Podcast celebrates and amplifies the voices, ideas and actions that honor and protect every mother, everywhere. We explore the social, spiritual and economic lives of mothers and encourage new ways of honoring and protecting those who birth and nurture life in our communities. MTHR Project is hosted by MTHRhood activist and Nana Grants founder Erica Stephens. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/mthrproject/support
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The MTHR Project Podcast celebrates and amplifies the voices, ideas and actions that honor and protect every mother, everywhere. We explore the social, spiritual and economic lives of mothers and encourage new ways of honoring and protecting those who birth and nurture life in our communities. MTHR...
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