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STFU Podcast

Nishea Balajadia

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Welcome to STFU Podcast with Nishea Balajadia. I am a single mother, survivor of childhood abuse and domestic violence, a retired foster parent, a community advocate in Fresno, California. I grew up in corporate tech world (I worked at Fortune 500 Companies like AT&T, Google, and Flextronics) and left in 2017 to pursue community organizing and advocacy where I was roped into evangelical megachurch cult life and escaped their grasps in 2019 while fostering three toddlers under three. I began ...
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becoming HER

Destiny Burns & Nishea Hendricks

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This podcast is all about creating a resource for young women to jumpstart their personal growth by talking through the process of becoming healthy: mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Discovering what it looks like to develop an enthusiasm for life, and learning to build up resilience to face societal pressures. This is a guide for young women, by young women, to becoming HER.
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Andre and I recorded this episode a couple of weeks before his album Make It To Tomorrow released. Our conversation talked about Andre's creative process this album and the stories behind his writing. We had a beautiful discussion about accountability in families and shed a few tears together. I was able to listen to the EP afterwards and have been…
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This conversation with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard is so important when it comes to adoption, the difference between private adoption, foster-to-adopt, and fostering, and how this system is designed to harm all three parties [birth parent(s), child, and adoptive parent(s)]. I love this conversation with Kelsey and really grateful that we were able …
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I am really excited to be able to start this season off with this conversation with Tiff. We talk about red flags in the church, what it's like to find spirituality daily, and after leaving a cult mega church. If you have ever been in toxic and abusive spaces you know how difficult it is to leave, Tiff and I discuss what the enmeshment untangling l…
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In today’s episode, Destiny interviews Dr. Artina McCain, Assistant Professor of Piano and Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at the University of Memphis and Co-Founder/Director of the Memphis International Piano Festival and Competition, for an engaging conversation discussing her journey in music education and…
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In today’s episode Destiny and Nishea are thrilled to have Mrs. Robena Griffin, founder of YouTube Channel “Sincerely Mrs. Griffin” as a guest to discuss her personal story and her journey as a Christian woman walking through depression. Get to know Mrs. Griffin here! “I moved to the US from Liberia, West Africa in 1992 with my mom and two sisters …
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Sexual abuse is now a part of my genetic makeup (trauma changes a survivor on the molecular level {citing every psychology and biology report on trauma}). And while I deal with it every day, I know there are others who also have the pain of dealing with the consequences of someone else's actions on their life. This is my experience with my abuse, r…
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