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Resilient Voices & Beyond

Resilient Voices & Beyond

著者： Michael D. Davis-Thomas Aka MDDTSpeaks
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 Resilient Voices & Beyond is a podcast that amplifies the voices of those who were once silenced and aims to empower a new generation of foster care alum leaders. Through conversations with community partners, leaders, advocates, and activists, this podcast educates listeners on reforms, policies, and advocacy related to foster care, adoption, kinship, CCIs, JJ, and the child welfare system. The podcast challenges stigmas and labels surrounding these topics and creates a dialogue on reform and advocacy that is already happening or needs to happen. The core values of Resilient Voices & Beyond include empowerment, inclusivity, education, collaboration, authenticity, and innovation. The mission of the podcast is to create a platform for silenced voices to be heard and received, while the vision is to inspire and empower a new generation of leaders committed to making a positive change in the world.Michael D. Davis-Thomas/MDDTSpeaks 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1

    “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1
    2025/05/31
    Season 3, Episode 48
    🎙️ Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast
    Title: “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1

    In this explosive Part 1 of a two-part special, Resilient Voices & Beyond dives into one of the most underexamined yet critical realities in system reform: the nonprofit-to-government pipeline. Host Michael D. Davis-Thomas, nationally recognized advocate and Founder of MDDTSpeaks, sits down with two powerhouse changemakers—Bobbi Taylor, Founder & CEO of Proximate Solution, and Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW, clinical therapist, policy influencer, and child welfare advocate—for an unfiltered, intellectually rigorous, and emotionally grounded conversation about how broken systems are not only funded but protected by silence.

    We confront the sacred cows.
    We name what’s often hushed.
    We question whether systems are “broken”—or simply functioning as they were always designed to.

    These leaders don’t speak from theory. They speak from trenches. From lived experience as alumni of foster care and juvenile justice. From boardrooms where reform is discussed but rarely lived. From advocacy tables where funding decisions eclipse impact. This is a conversation about ethics, power, complicity, and survival in professional spaces that demand proximity—but punish truth-telling.

    Together, we dissect how nonprofits, while often well-intentioned, can become complicit in systemic harm by prioritizing contracts over community, grants over grassroots, and optics over outcomes. We explore how lived experience is sometimes tokenized rather than empowered—and what it looks like to reclaim that narrative.

    Featured Guests:

    Bobbi Taylor – Founder & CEO, Proximate Solution
    National systems-change strategist | Child welfare + juvenile justice advocate | Lived experience leader | Thriving Families Safer Children Executive Committee | Researcher, author, policy contributor

    Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW – Clinical Therapist & Child Welfare Advocate
    Foster care alumni | Mental health professional | State & national policy influencer | Public speaker | Systems disruptor | University of Kentucky graduate

    Key Themes Explored:
    • GROUNDING TRUTH: What it means to live through systems before analyzing them
    • TOKENIZATION VS. TRANSFORMATION: The risk of nonprofits centering funding over lived wisdom
    • FUNDED SILENCE: The invisible cost of staying quiet in systems built on compliance
    • VALUES VS. PAYCHECK: Holding onto truth in institutions that reward forgetting
    • BAND-AID POLICIES: When intention isn’t enough, and how surface-level reforms deepen wounds
    • THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH: Retaliation, blackballing, and standing in integrity despite it all
    • HISTORICAL ROOTS: The evolution of foster care as a profit-generating system, from orphan trains to federal incentives
    This episode is for you if:
    • You’ve worked in or alongside nonprofits and wondered why real change feels so far away
    • You’ve ever questioned whether advocacy is being bought and sold
    • You’ve been silenced, sidelined, or tokenized—and want language for what happened
    • You believe truth-tellers deserve platforms, not punishment
    🎧 Listen in as truth meets strategy, advocacy meets accountability, and silence is shattered—one story, one truth, one system at a time.

    Produced by: MDDTSpeaks Media
    This podcast is recorded, edited, and released independently to protect the integrity of truth-tellers and lived experts. Support our work through reviews, donations, and by sharing these stories that systems too often suppress.

    Because silence is comfort for systems—but truth is freedom for people.
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    1 時間 9 分
  • "Your direction is more important than your speed."

    "Your direction is more important than your speed."
    2025/05/17
    Season 3, Episode 47

    Title: “Your direction is more important than your speed.”

    Subtitle: From Surviving to Serving: Reclaiming Purpose Through Pain

    In this deeply moving episode of the Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast, host Michael D. Davis-Thomas (MDDTSpeaks) sits down with Andrea Atkins—a single mother of four, foster care alumni, and child welfare specialist—for an unfiltered, soul-stirring conversation about survival, motherhood, healing, and the audacity to rewrite your own narrative.

    With raw vulnerability and unwavering strength, Andrea shares her journey through the foster care system—beginning with removal at age four, adoption at ten, and ultimately a disrupted adoption that led her to find family in unexpected places. But this isn’t just a story about trauma. It’s a testimony of intentional healing, of learning to embrace authenticity after years of masking pain, and of turning personal wounds into a mission of service.

    Now a child welfare professional, Andrea doesn’t just occupy space in the system—she’s reshaping it. Fueled by lived experience and maternal wisdom, she advocates for youth who feel voiceless and unseen, helping to create trauma-informed spaces rooted in dignity, empathy, and care. This episode unpacks the messy, miraculous in-between: the tension of healing while serving, the weight of single motherhood, and the power in moving forward—not fast, but faithfully.

    Key Themes Covered:
    • Growing up in and aging out of the foster care system
    • Navigating disrupted adoption, identity loss, and cultural disconnection
    • Breaking cycles and reclaiming voice through motherhood
    • The unspoken pressures of “beating the statistics”
    • From performance to purpose: why healing is the real work
    • Systemic gaps in child welfare and the role of lived experience experts
    • Self-forgiveness, therapy, and the slow walk toward wholeness
    • The power of proximity in advocacy and why small actions matter
    Whether you’re a parent, professional, survivor, or simply someone navigating life’s unpredictable terrain—this episode will meet you right where you are. Andrea’s story is proof that your pain is not pointless, your pace is not your identity, and your past doesn’t disqualify your purpose.

    Guest: Andrea Atkins
    • Foster Care Alumni | Child Welfare Specialist | Advocate | Boy Mom of 4
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  • “Life is not what happens to you, but how you respond to it.”

    “Life is not what happens to you, but how you respond to it.”
    2025/04/19
    Season 3, Episode 46

    Title: “Life is not what happens to you, but how you respond to it.”

    Subtitle: Stepping Into the Call: From Surviving to Surrendering

    In this transformative episode of the Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast, host Michael D. Davis-Thomas (MDDTSpeaks) reconnects with long-time friend and fellow advocate Ashley Watkins—and what unfolds is nothing short of sacred. Together, they journey through Ashley’s powerful testimony of resilience, healing, and divine surrender.

    Ashley Watkins, a spoken word poet, therapist, foster care advocate, and founder of Her Untold Stories Heard, opens up about her evolution—from surviving childhood trauma, navigating the foster care system, and enduring abuse, to stepping boldly into the woman God called her to be. In this vulnerable yet victorious dialogue, Ashley shares how she moved from living in the shadows of her pain to reclaiming her voice, redefining her worth, and helping other women heal through truth and transparency.

    Key Conversation Highlights:
    • The journey from surviving abuse and abandonment to discovering divine identity
    • Choosing surrender over striving, and trusting God in the midst of uncertainty
    • Why healing isn’t linear—and how to stay the course when the process hurts
    • The importance of self-trust, faith-led obedience, and emotional accountability
    • Ashley’s founding of HUSH (Her Untold Stories Heard) and her mission to help women evolve through their truth
    • The spiritual tension of being called but not yet prepared—and what it means to wait well
    • The reality of mental health battles, faith fatigue, and learning how to pray when words run out
    Throughout the episode, Michael and Ashley exchange reflections on surrendering ambition for purpose, embracing God’s timing, and answering the call to be light—even when life has tried to extinguish that light. Their conversation is raw, rich, and soul-deep—reminding us that our response to adversity defines our resilience.

    If you’re in a season of questioning, healing, or trying to find your footing after brokenness, this episode is your invitation to stop surviving and start surrendering.

    Guest: Ashley Watkins
    • Spoken Word Poet | Therapist | Foster Care Advocate
    • Founder & CEO of Her Untold Stories Heard (HUSH)
    Connect with Ashley:
      • @soulevessel__
      • @heruntoldstoriesheard_
      • LinkedIn
      • Facebook
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    1 時間 2 分

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