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Season 2, Episode 6: Be the Business Leader our BIPOC Youth Deserve ft. Frederick Bw'Ombongi, Vice President of Operations, Clinical and Support Services with Allina Health
Season 2, Episode 6: Be the Business Leader our BIPOC Youth Deserve ft. Frederick Bw'Ombongi, Vice President of Operations, Clinical and Support Services with Allina Health

For our sixth episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 2, we welcome Frederick Bw’Ombongi, a leader in the health care field who is committed to ensuring health care access around the globe.

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SPYS WebsiteNovember 15, 2023
Season 2, Episode 5: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 3 of 3)
Season 2, Episode 5: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 3 of 3)

For this episode, host Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of St. Paul Youth Services, has a Sunday Dinner Conversation with two of our loving experts from our last season, Chakita “Kita” Lewis and Eboun Wilbourn.

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SPYS WebsiteNovember 2, 2023
Season 2, Episode 4: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 2 of 3)
Season 2, Episode 4: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 2 of 3)

For today’s episode, we welcome back two of our mothers and loving experts from our last season, Michelle Dennard and Nyia Harris.  

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SPYS WebsiteOctober 19, 2023
Season 2, Episode 3: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 1 of 3)
Season 2, Episode 3: Mothers as Loving Experts (Part 1 of 3)

For our third episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 2, we’re continuing our focus on being the adult we wished we had as a child and teen, from the perspectives of our mothers.

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SPYS WebsiteOctober 5, 2023
Season 2, Episode 2: Be the Adult You Wished You Had as a Teen Ft. Jamil Stamschror-Lott  
Season 2, Episode 2: Be the Adult You Wished You Had as a Teen Ft. Jamil Stamschror-Lott  

For our second episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 2, we focused on Creating a Community That Wraps Its Arms Around Our Youth.


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SPYS WebsiteSeptember 21, 2023
Season 2, Episode 1: Be the Next Teacher of the Year with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens
Season 2, Episode 1: Be the Next Teacher of the Year with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens

We're back for a new season at Rewriting the Rules® with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens, Minnesota Teacher of Year (2006). 


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SPYS WebsiteSeptember 7, 2023
Season 1, Episode 9: Season One Recap with Tracine
Season 1, Episode 9: Season One Recap with Tracine

This season, we explored the legacies of strength, creativity, and innovation in Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color


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SPYS WebsiteJune 7, 2023
Season 1, Episode 8: What We Got Wrong ft. Youth Leader, Kyra Hughes-Bester
Season 1, Episode 8: What We Got Wrong ft. Youth Leader, Kyra Hughes-Bester

Kyra Hughes-Bester is a remarkable youth leader and a friend of St. Paul Youth Services. She joins the podcast for a fearless conversation that explores some of the mistakes adults have made when working with her through challenging times; as well as what they’ve gotten right.


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SPYS WebsiteMay 26, 2023
Season 1, Episode 7: What is Intersectional Racial Equity ft. Jason Jackson
Season 1, Episode 7: What is Intersectional Racial Equity ft. Jason Jackson

What does it mean to live fully and free? In this episode, Tracine invites longtime friend, Jason Jackson, a Human Resources Diversity and Inclusion consultant for HealthPartners (a US-based Medical Insurance Company) into our ongoing discussion on how the practice of love shows up in our work and in our lives. 


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SPYS WebsiteMay 10, 2023
Season 1, Episode 6: Making a Superhero with Crown the Writer ft. Crown Shepherd
Season 1, Episode 6: Making a Superhero with Crown the Writer ft. Crown Shepherd

Emerging fiction, picture book, and comic book writer,  Crown Shepherd (aka Crown the Writer) joins the podcast to explore the journey of discovering and harnessing her own superpower and genius. 

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SPYS WebsiteMay 3, 2023
Season 1, Episode 5: ‘Wail Song’ by Author, Chaun Webster: Wading Through and Against Antiblackness
Season 1, Episode 5: ‘Wail Song’ by Author, Chaun Webster: Wading Through and Against Antiblackness

Chaun Webster, Graphic Designer, Publisher and Poet, is back on the podcast to talk about and read from his newly published poetry collection, Wail Song.

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SPYS WebsiteApril 13, 2023
Season 1, Episode 4: Black People Don’t Use Measuring Spoons   ft. Leah Penniman
Season 1, Episode 4: Black People Don’t Use Measuring Spoons ft. Leah Penniman

‘Black People Don’t Use Measuring Spoons’ is part of our Women’s History Month series. We talk to Leah Penniman, a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm.

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SPYS WebsiteMarch 30, 2023
Season 1, Episode 3: Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts
Season 1, Episode 3: Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts

‘Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts’ is part of our Women’s History Month series. In this special three-part episode, we are honored to share the wisdom, discernment, and intuition of eight mothers who are experts at living.

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SPYS WebsiteMarch 20, 2023
Season 1, Episode 2:  Forward Figures ft. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
Season 1, Episode 2: Forward Figures ft. Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

‘Forward Figures: Untold Stories of Black Girls and Women’ is part of our Women’s History Month series. In this episode, Tracine talks to Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, a Ghanaian feminist, writer and author of The Sex Lives of African Women.

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SPYS WebsiteMarch 2, 2023
Season 1, Episode 1: All About Love ft. Chaun Webster
Season 1, Episode 1: All About Love ft. Chaun Webster

‘All About Love’ is an intimate discussion with Chaun Webster, a Minneapolis Graphic Designer, Publisher and Poet, that explores love as a practice for rewriting the rules of society.

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SPYS WebsiteFebruary 16, 2023
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