Educators Johnnie and Arlaana share personal experiences with education. Arlaana shares about getting into Columbia University when she was initially laughed at for trying, and how she and other Buddhist educators started a successful public, and later charter school, when the odds were severely stacked against them. Johnnie, who grew up on Hilton Head, the birthplace of the Port Royal experiment to educate freed slaves after the Civil War, explains how education was like breathinng or food growing up and the key to escaping generational poverty. She further relays how she successfully earned graduate degrees and raised highly educated and successful children. Both Johnnie and Arlaana are passionate about the need for a revolution in education.

Money, as we all know, is a part of life, whether you have it or not. How healthy is your relationship with money? Do you control it, or does it control you? In this episode, we discuss various aspects of money, share personal experiences, ans suggest ways to create a healthy and value-filled relationship with our finances. We also discuss the need to educate our youth on money matters so that they too can create and maintain a healthy financial future.

Do you ever blame the mirror if you don't like what you see? As silly as it sounds, we tend to blame our environment, rather than self-reflect. Our eyelashes are so close but we can't see them, so how can we see ourselves? It's so much easier to look at other's perfections or imperfections and compare ourselves. In this episode, we give examples of how you can "straighten up" your life and create a more positive YOU and make self-reflection your SUPER POWER!

In this episodde, we discuss Freud and Maslow and role play various coping and defense mechanisms: denial, rationalization, projection, for example. We include terms such as the id, ego, super-ego and how these impact our lives. We reiterate the importance of living in the present moment, not to be a severe self-judge, and how we are affected negatively by feelings of guilt. We remind everyone that we are all treasures, just as we are and ask our listeners to email us at mommas.podast@gmail.com telling us five things they are grateful for

How do we define and measure mental illness and mental health? In this episode, we share our personal experiences with mental struggles and mental illness, incuding bipolar disorder, neurosis, psychosis, and discuss ways to lead a more healthy and optimistic life. We share the relationship between mind and body, and how regret and guilt can be the destroyers of happiness.

In this episode, we discuss how health is the new wealth. But it's not just about staying healthy, it's all about living with an undefeated spirit, no matter what difficulty you are experiencing. Johnnie and Arlaana share their personal experiences and the experiences of others -- being defeated by illness and overcoming and conquering illness, with a heart filled with appreciation and a determination as fierce as a lion's roar. Email us at: mommas.podcast@gmail.com. We would love to share your experiences of overcoming illness or your current battles with illness.

What is magic? It means creating something out of nothing. Life is filled with magic. Even in the most difficuilt times. What does it mean to be in sync with the universe? In this episode Johnnie and Arlaana share how they accomplished the impossibile, like getting married and having children, as far-fetched as becoming a billionaire!

Don't Mess with the Mommas episode 3: Sisterhood (mommas.podast@gmail.com) reveals how Johnnie Mitchell, from the Gullah Geechee "kingdom" and Arlaana Black, from Brooklyn, New York, can have completely dissimilar backgrounds, yet can have similar experiences, including emotional challenges, feelings of isolation, the desire to belong, and a mutual desire to transform our circumstances through education. Our motto is: You are the Protagonist, not the Victim of Your Destiny. We end each episode with encouraging words and hope that our listeners can get inspiration through our shared lives.