White Indoctrination with Kimberly Palermo | July 2, 2026

Race is a HUMAN CONSTRUCT.

Racism is REAL. And it's a whiter person problem.

What truths are hiding in plain sight because we've been taught not to see them?

Today we're diving into a conversation that asks us to look closely at the stories we've been taught about history, race, identity, and ourselves.

We are #LIVEINTHEHIVE with Kimberly Palermo, author of Indoctri-NATION 365, a book that challenges us to examine the ways we have been shaped by cultural narratives and omissions of historical facts - AND - to consider what it means to take responsibility for creating a more truthful future.

In this episode we discuss…

• Kim’s childhood awakening to racism – a story most white people can relate to – the intuitive tug that all was not right or fair, but witnessing no one speaking out.
• At 17, Kim discovered Jane Elliot, the American diversity educator who debunks “the rightness of whiteness”, famous for her Blue Eyes, Brown Eyes experiment, created to teach students about discrimination and racial stereotyping.
• Denial + racism as identity.
• “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." – Lyndon B. Johnson
• Kim lays out examples of unexamined systemic racism ex: redlining, Jim Crow laws, Mass incarceration as modern enslavement, slave patrols as the origin story of our present day police force.
• What is the difference between indoctrination and education?
• The remembrance we’ve inherited a racist culture.
• Resource: www.Race@Dinner.com with Regina Jackson + Saira Rao
• Resource: Ote Benga – a Congolese human who became an attraction in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
• The most powerful myth Americans have been taught about race.
• Kim shares the story of adopting a child from Ethopia.
• How to respond to the statement: “I don’t see color”.
• All this and so much more.

Kimberly Palermo holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from UC Davis, with a focus on multiculturalism, and a master’s degree in special education, with extensive training in group behavior and learning.

Kim began her teaching career as an elementary school teacher in Compton Unified School District during the Rodney King civil unrest, where she witnessed firsthand how historical erasure, systemic inequality, and trauma shape communities, and how education can either reinforce myths or interrupt them. That experience profoundly shaped her approach to teaching truth with clarity, empathy, and accountability.

For over twenty years, Kim has worked with people at the earliest stages of learning, including those who have received incomplete or oversimplified versions of history, helping guide them from uncertainty toward deeper understanding and personal responsibility.

She is the author of Indoctri-NATION 365 which reflects Kim's lifelong work at the intersection of education, behavioral science, and history, designed not to shame readers, but to give them the tools they were never taught.

Find Kim:

https://indoctrination365.com/about

https://www.linkedin.com/in/synergyunlimited/

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Asherah, Anat, and the Recovery of Goddess Traditions with Trista Hendren of Girl God Books | June 16, 2026

Who – and what – is The Goddess?

"The Great Goddess Asherah, the sacred tree, Mother-Goddess of all of the gods..."

— Miriam Robbins Dexter, Preface to Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree

We can all agree that we are living through a time of immense grief, polarization, and moral exhaustion.

And beneath our political events we find deeper stories about power, sacredness, domination, and what we believe about human life.

Today’s conversation explores one of those forgotten stories through the figure of Asherah and the recovery of goddess traditions.

Today we are #LiveintheHIve with Trista Hendren, author, speaker, visionary founder of Girl God Books and ONE POWERFUL voice and leader in the dismantling of the patriarchal mindset and the remembrance and return to the wisdom and mystery of the Divine feminine, and to the ancient truth of kinship, reciprocity, and inter-being. I’ve had Trista on before for the episode What Will It Take to Know The Girl God – listen HERE for that episode.

I wanted to have her back to speak about her anthology, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree, to expand on reclaiming the Goddess traditions, and share what is alive in her work today.

We touch on…

• I met Trista at The Goddess Conference: The Crone (2023) in Glastonbury. The information got a bit lost in some technical glitches in our conversation. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6PGa6n4Gg6l77LkruIJGXwpoT8LzQHi
• Spoiler alert: We talk about Dr Lynne Sedgemore and her upcoming book, "The Goddess Enneagram", endorsed by Trista, and to be published by ChangeMakers Books. Dr Lynne will be guesting in the fall.
• Whether a novice or a well-seasoned Goddess lover, this book, Asherah: Roots of the Mother Tree is for you, with academic research, creative writing, poetry and art.
• Trista shares who – and what – is the goddess, and how she discovered the goddess coming from a very devout Christian upbringing.
• Resource: author Burleigh Muten and her well-known book about the divine feminine, The Return of The Great Goddess.
• The story behind the creation of Girl God Books.
• Trista converted to Islam – the extraordinary story as to why?
• The power of art! Trista has a HUGE statue of the Venus of Willendorf on her property: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
• Girl God Books has produced over 50 books and anthologies, primarily by female authors.
• Spirituality and politics? Trista weighs in on abortion, female sensuality and Female RAGE (and who is the Goddess Anat).
• Resources: Women Who Run with The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes and The Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo, Barbara Mor.
• Resource: Wizard Bisan | https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/?hl=en
• The call to The Mother from the Palestinians.
• The Goddess Anat: The primal rage of the Mother. An upcoming anthology on ANAT, stay tuned.
• I LOVE THIS! Trista asks: Before Patriarchy did we NEED warrior goddesses?
• Trista is a PRO-Palestine activist. Her family is in Lebanon. The failings of our news.
• In honor of Father’s Day, Trista weighs in on Sacred Masculinity.
• Resource: Upcoming Girl God Book on Healing Spells and Rituals : https://www.facebook.com/thegirlgod/

Perhaps Asherah's greatest gift is not simply that she was remembered, but that her roots remained alive beneath the surface all along waiting for us to remember that we, too, belong to the Mother Tree.

Enjoy this episode.

#TheEdgeofEverydayPodcast #TheEdgeofEveryday #ThePowerofStorytelling #Solstice #Juneteenth #FathersDay #TheGoddessMovesMe #Asherah

Find Trista:

ww.TheGirlGod.com

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

@SandraBargman

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The Edge Between Performative Positivity and Genuine Happiness with Michele Phillips

When was the last time you actually felt energized by your life—not just getting through it?

What if real happiness isn’t about eliminating darkness — but learning how to integrate it?

Real happiness may begin where performance, perfection, and people-pleasing end.

In this episode, we’re pushing right up against that edge.

Today we are #LiveintheHive with Michele Phillips, author of Energize Your Happiness, and we’re getting into what it really takes to break patterns, reclaim your energy, and stop living on autopilot. Michele models and inspires the courage necessary to OWN your happiness and optimism, in a world committed to pessimism, outrage, and, at times, blatant cruelty.

Michele is a globally recognized leadership coach, speaker, and author who helps individuals and organizations harness personal energy to create extraordinary outcomes.

She is the author of Happiness Is a Habit: Simple Daily Rituals That Increase Energy, Improve Well-Being, and Add Joy to Every Day (Cedar Fort Publishing, 2013) and Energize Your Happiness: Tap into Personal Energy and Shape Your Destiny

Michele is the host of the Write Your Outcome podcast, where she interviews leaders, changemakers, and visionaries about the inner work behind meaningful success—exploring how energy, intention, and conscious choice shape both leadership and life.

In this episode we explore…

• The Happiness Habits that are so simple and yet so life changing.
• What is the concept of “positive psychology”? https://ppc.sas.upenn.edu/our-mission
• Emotion is ENERGY. What are the 20 energy rules that Michele teaches for clients to learn and master?
• In our patriarchal, left brain dominated society, we are not taught how to deal and work with our emotions. Is this why we’re in a crisis of consciousness?
• Some call it “creative flow”, others “in the zone.” Michele calls it Personal Energy Alignment. What is it? What are the steps you can take to increase your personal energy alignment?
• The “Ladder Up Technique” – what is it and the small, yet powerful choices you can make to energize your optimism, while completely acknowledging trauma, depression, and other challenging situations.
• What is the truth about happiness that people don’t want to hear?

“It’s Your Game and Your Rules”! – Michele Phillips

Find Michele and order her books:

www.EnergizeYourHappiness.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/michele-phillips-9409707/

Find Sandra:

www.SandraBargman.com

www.MagicThreadMedia.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandrabargman/

@SandraBargman

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