Rewriting the Rules® interviews community and business leaders, youth champions, and other radicals whose work builds on the power and genius fundamental to Black communities, Indigenous Communities, and Communities of color. We shine a light on the legacies of creativity, strength and innovation sustaining these communities and offer practical tools for building smart, fair, and loving communities. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of St. Paul Youth Services, ...
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St. Paul Youth Services’ Annual LIT Party
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Send us a Text Message. In episode 8 of Season 3, Youth Host Connor Walford returns to Rewriting the Rules® to conduct “man on the street” interviews with guests of St. Paul Youth Services’ (SPYS)’ Annual LIT Party. Connor interviews guests about their favorite books, authors, and reasons why reading is important to critically and creatively make s…
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SPYS’ YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute Celebration, Winter 2024
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode of Rewriting the Rules®, we take listeners to a YouthPowerMN℠ Leadership Institute celebration following SPYS’ business partnership event with Allina Health called There’s a Career for You in Healthcare. This partnership event included a mentorship over 3-months between Allina Health adult leaders and SPYS’ Y…
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GAME ON! Closing the Gap between Gaming and Schooling.
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Send us a Text Message. St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS) continues to Amplify Youth Voice & Power to Contribute to Our Community in this episode of Rewriting the Rules®. For this podcast conversation, our host Dr. Tracine Asberry chats with youth author Miles Asberry-Wallace and his best friend Connor Walford about games as a tool for learning. The y…
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SPYS’ Podcast Interview/Youth Panel, SPYS’ Pre-Charge Diversion Symposium
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Send us a Text Message. Pushing limits is quite honestly a healthy part of youth development. How we respond to young people when they act out can dramatically alter the course of their lives for the better or much, much worse. At SPYS, we’re creating a community-wide culture in which young people feel not just welcome, but wanted everywhere they g…
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Miles The Author & His Audience. "LIVE" Podcast Recording Part 3 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. In Part 3 of our “LIVE” Event Recording! Series, guests who joined us to hear from youth author & illustrator Miles Asberry-Wallace asked him questions about his creative journey. In this episode, you’ll hear insights from Miles about his process and plans for the future. The launch of Miles’ first published comic book, King…
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WE ARE LIVE with YOUTH AUTHOR MILES ASBERRY-WALLACE Part 2 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. In Part 2 of our “LIVE” Event Recording! Series, Youth Host Connor Walford conducts “man on the street” interviews with guests joining us to hear from Youth Author & Illustrator Miles Asberry-Wallace and share their favorite books, authors, and reasons why reading is important to critically and creatively make sense of and n…
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WE ARE LIVE: With Youth Author Miles Asberry-Wallace Part 1 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. For our second episode of Rewriting the Rules® Season 3, we’re launching a three-episode series resulting from SPYS’ Podcast “LIVE” Event Recording held on Wednesday, February 7th. The youth-led event explored the power of dreams, the power of our stories, and the power of a beloved community that wraps its arms around one i…
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L.O.V.E. Unapologetically with SPYS' YouthPowerMN℠ Leaders
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Send us a Text Message. For Season 3, Ep. 1, of Rewriting the Rules®, we are talking about L.O.V.E.— With everything going on in the world. And all the things that we’re focused on locally and nationally, we rarely see or hear about the opportunities we, as adults, create to engage our young people in conversations about love. For this episode, we …
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Reconnect to Your Roots Through Travel Ft. Georgina Lorencz
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Send us a Text Message. For our seventh episode of Rewriting the Rules℠ Season 2, we’re shining a light on Georgina Lorencz, whose work builds on power and genius fundamental to Black communities. Our host, Dr. Tracine Asberry, talks with Georgina about her work helping people to connect to their roots and identity. Our aim with the conversation is…
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Be the Business Leader our BIPOC Youth Deserve ft. Frederick Bw'Ombongi, Vice President of Operations Clinical and Support Services with Allina Health.
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Send us a Text Message. For our sixth 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 business leaders. This is how we continue Creating a Community That Wraps Its Arms Around Our Youth. For today’s episode, we welcome Frederick Bw’Ombongi, a l…
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Send us a Text Message. For our fifth 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 and grandmothers. For this episode, host Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of St. Paul Youth Services, has a Sunday Dinner Conversation with tw…
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Send us a Text Message. For our fourth 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 and grandmothers. This is how we continue to create a community that wraps its arms around our youth. For today’s episode, we welcome back two of ou…
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Send us a Text Message. 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. For this episode, we’re taking a panel approach, mirroring a Sunday Dinner conversation. Through this conversation, we listen, learn, and build in c…
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Be the Adult You Wished You Had as a Teen Ft. Jamil Stamschror-Lott
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Send us a Text Message. For our second episode of Rewriting the Rules℠ Season 2, we focused on Creating a Community That Wraps Its Arms Around Our Youth. Our host, Dr. Tracine Asberry, Executive Director of St. Paul Youth Services (SPYS), spoke with one of her former SPYS’ Behavior Intervention Program Specialists, longtime community leader, and cu…
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The Making of a Teacher of the Year Featuring Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens
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Send us a Text Message. We're back for a new season at Rewriting the Rules℠ with Dr. Lee-Ann Stephens, Minnesota Teacher of Year (2006). Lee-Ann joins the podcast to kick off Season 2 by welcoming students back into the classrooms across the globe, detailing evidence on what makes a GREAT teacher in the classroom, AND offering recommendations to de…
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Send us a Text Message. Thank you for joining us on Season One of the Rewriting the Rules podcast!! This season, we explored the legacies of strength, creativity, and innovation in Black communities, Indigenous communities, and communities of color. It’s been a joy and a labor of love to get to sit in conversation with all of our amazing guests and…
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What We Got Wrong ft. Youth Leader, Kyra Hughes-Bester
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Send us a Text Message. Kyra Bester-Hughes 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. Tracine and Kyra also talk about SPYS’ youth-cen…
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What is Intersectional Racial Equity ft. Jason Jackson
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Send us a Text Message. 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. For this epis…
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Making a Superhero with Crown the Writer
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Send us a Text Message. 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. Crown's writing is deeply rooted in her upbringing and surroundings and she draws on her experiences to create Black characters who…
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‘Wail Song’ by Author, Chaun Webster - Wading Through and Against Antiblackness
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Send us a Text Message. 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. Chaun describes Wail Song as an “attempt at care,” which also “lays bare how the construction of the human and the animal both rely on Black abjection.” In this episode, Ch…
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Black People Don't Use Measuring Spoons ft. Leah Penniman
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Send us a Text Message. ‘Black People Don’t Use Measuring Spoons’ is the third installment of our Women’s History Month series. In this episode, Tracine talks to Leah Penniman, a Black Kreyol farmer, mother, soil nerd, author and food justice activist from Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, New York. Together, they explore the connections that Black commun…
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Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 3 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 3 of 3 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. In Part 3, we speak with Ajibike “BiKé” Ojomo, Michelle Dennard and Portia Jackson. In…
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Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 1 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 1 of 3 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. In Part 1, we speak with with Julia Freeman, Nyia Harris, and Chakita “Kita” Lewis. In …
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Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 2 of 3
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Send us a Text Message. Respecting Mothers as Loving Experts - Part 2 of 3 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. In Part 2, we speak with Jill Greendeer, an Indigenous mother and Eboun Wilbourn, a Lao…
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Send us a Text Message. ‘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, which Publishers Weekly described as “an astonishing report on the quest for sexual liberat…
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Send us a Text Message. Our first episode takes inspiration from feminist writer and thinker, bell hooks. 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. In conversation with host Tracine, Chaun explores how love inf…
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Send us a Text Message. We are Rewriting the Rules℠ A new bi-weekly podcast series brought to you by St. Paul Youth Services, a Minnesota US based non-profit that is a leader in reimagining how our community engages with and holds itself accountable for Black youth. Episodes begin on Thursday, February 16th. Learn more at www.SPYS.org/podcast…
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