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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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Episode 3: Andre Henry and Make It To Tomorrow EP
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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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Episode 2: Decentering Adoptive Parents with Kelsey Vander Vliet Ranyard
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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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Episode 1: Decolonizing Spirituality + Reclaiming & Discovering Self With Tiff Perez
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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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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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