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Leslie Priscilla, creator of Latinx Parenting and author of Chancla (available everywhere on August 18, https://bookshop.org/a/12611/9780316567602), joins David for a conversation about parenting, power, intergenerational violence, and what it takes to build different relationships with children without pretending any parent can do this perfectly.

The conversation explores how violence against children extends beyond hitting, why parents struggle to believe their own needs deserve attention, the relationship between capitalism and rest, faith and surrender after religious dogma, and what happens when the nervous system takes over during a parenting conflict.

Leslie also explains why she is skeptical of the way “gentle parenting” has been packaged and separated from Indigenous ways of raising children. She and David connect those ideas to Restorative Justice, schools, homeschooling, the systems that make connected parenting harder, and what it means to raise children who are capable of questioning those systems.

They also wrestle with a harder question: how can people invite others into a different way of relating without turning their own values into another set of rules used to judge people?

At its core, this is a conversation about trying to give parents and children more grace while still taking seriously the responsibility to interrupt harmful patterns and create something different.

Chapters

00:00 Meet Leslie Priscilla
00:57 What are we restoring by ending Chancla culture?
03:58 How Leslie’s childhood became her public work
09:37 Do we actually believe we deserve our needs met?
14:14 Rest, productivity, guilt & being a parent
21:57 Faith, surrender & tiny moments of liberation
27:52 What happens when parenting overwhelms your nervous system
34:28 Violence beyond hitting & the problem with “gentle parenting”
41:44 Indigenous practices, colonialism & Restorative Justice
44:40 Building alternatives when systems fail families
47:46 Schools, homeschooling & raising future ancestors
53:44 The less obvious forms of violence against children
57:49 How to challenge people without becoming prescriptive
1:04:49 Grace for parents who are still learning

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Tashmica Torok joins David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris to talk about joy as an organizing strategy, why we should plan for care over chaos, and her decades long efforts to end child sexual abuse.

In this conversation, Tashmica shares how joy and community care have sustained her activism, what it takes to build hope in the midst of grief and injustice, and why treating children as full human beings is essential to preventing violence.

She reflects on stepping away from nonprofit leadership, the lessons she’s carrying forward through Aletheia Coaching & Consulting, and the many roles people can play in creating safer, more connected communities.

Topics we cover:

• Joy as a survival skill and organizing strategy
• Planning for care instead of chaos
• Lessons from a decade leading The Firecracker Foundation
• Survivor-led approaches to healing and prevention
• Building resilient, abolitionist communities

Learn more:
Follow Tashmica Torok → https://tashmicatorok.com/

Hear our conversation Tuesday August 12 https://tjparenting.substack.com/

Follow Amplify RJ & David → http://amplifyrj.com/links

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What happens when you speak out for justice and its costs you everything?

In this raw and intimate conversation, Michelle MiJung Kim (author of The Wake Up and host of I Feel That Way Too) joins us to explore the aftermath of speaking up for Palestine in a world that often punishes courage.

We explore:

• Losing clients and credibility after speaking up for Palestine
• Grieving the collapse of a once-successful career and public identity
• Shame, silence, and the tension between self-love and social impact
• Navigating burnout, belonging, and friendship ruptures in justice spaces
• Rebuilding worthiness outside of productivity and applause

Whether you’ve ever felt lost, unworthy, or unsure how to show up, you’re not alone. This conversation is for you.

Listen to Michelle’s podcast: I Feel That Way Too –https://www.ifeelthatwaytoo.com/
Read The Wake Up: https://www.michellemijungkim.com/book
Connect with Amplify RJ: https://amplifyrj.com/links

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