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Her Story Speaks

Andrea Miller

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When we have the courage to share our stories-walls break down and shame is cast out. Stories have the power to build bridges and break down stereotypes. Relationships, connections, compassion and empathy are built on stories shared and heard. Can stories change the world? Yes—but only if we are brave enough to tell our story and listen to the stories of others. Join me as as real women speak their stories- raw and real, broken and whole, finished and open-ended.
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Our Story Speaks

Andrea Piercy

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I'm Andrea, the creator and host of Our Story Speaks. I believe that women have the answers and when we come together we begin to heal each other. This podcast is a space for women to share the stories, experiences and ideas that unite and connect us.
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Liz Childs Kelly is a writer, award-winning researcher, educator, community builder, and host of the popular Home to Her podcast dedicated to amplifying the voices of the Sacred Feminine. She is also the author of Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine, a 2023 Nautilus Gold award winner, and the founder of Home to Her A…
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Rozella Kennedy is a thought-leader, author and content creator specializing in equity, intersectional women’s history and storytelling as a tool for change. She founded Brave Sis Project in 2019, publishing the world’s only guided journal and day planner honoring BIPOC women in US history and creating events and facilitations supporting authentic …
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Samantha Salem is a proud Palestinian mother of three, currently living in the Kansas City area. Having lived ten years in Gaza and with most of her family still living there but currently displaced, she knows firsthand the devastating effects of Israel’s occupation of the land of her ancestors. With a passion for educating others about Palestine a…
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For this episode, I am joined by Dr. Paige Rawson (she/they). Paige is a writer, speaker, life coach, epistimactivist and a biblical scholar with a doctorate in religious studies. Having survived five years of reparative therapy, Paige knows firsthand the trauma inflicted by exclusivist ideologies and toxic theologies, including those of white Chri…
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The Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis (she/her) uses her gifts as author, activist, preacher, and public theologian toward creating an antiracist, just, gun violence free, fully welcoming, gender affirming society in which everyone has enough. Jacqui is the Senior Minister at Middle Collegiate Church-preaching Fierce Love throughout the year. She is the first …
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Rev. Dr. Angela Yarber: an award-winning author, artist, and founder of Tehom Center Publishing. Her newest book, Queering the American Dream, is the subject of our conversation where Angela shares the radical journey of her queer family who left it all and the revolutionary women who taught them how. With five of her eight books listed in QSpirit'…
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In this episode, my guest and I talk about the healing benefits of psilocybin. We share our personal journeys about the healing we experienced on psilocybin as well as medical facts that support the healing. My guest, Jennifer Chesak is the author of The Psilocybin Handbook for Women. She is an award-winning freelance science and medical journalist…
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Lyvonne Briggs, MDiv, ThM, Emmy Award winner, is a body- and sex-positive womanist preacher. She is an author, pastor, spiritual life coach, and highly sought-after transformational speaker and seminar leader. A TEDx speaker, she has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, and The Washington Post, and Sojourners named her one of "11 Women Shaping t…
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Marcie Alvis-Walker is an author and curator of the popular Instagram handle @blackcoffeewithwhitefriends, which focuses on race, theology, and current events with a companion blog of the same name. She is also the writer and creator of Black-Eyed Bible Stories, a Substack newsletter and podcast focused on Black Womanist readings of the Bible. In h…
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Tina Strawn (she/they) is a joy and liberation advocate, activist, author of "Are We Free Yet? The Black, Queer Guide to Divorcing America," and the owner and host of the Speaking of Racism podcast. The heart of her work is founding and leading Legacy Trips, immersive antiracism experiences where participants visit historic locations such as Montgo…
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Sara Cunningham is an author, activist, and founder of the non-profit organization Free Mom Hugs. Her journey is a surprising one that began in conservative Oklahoma when her son, Parker, came out as gay. As a woman of faith, Sara wrestled with the news until she began to study, research, and reconcile the two worlds. This journey resulted in her b…
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Hillary Whittington is a mom, author, and advocate who has dedicated her life to her children and to raising awareness about the transgender community. After discovering her son was both deaf and transgender, Hillary began dedicating her efforts to raising awareness about the transgender community. Hillary created a viral YouTube video and co-autho…
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When Breonna Taylor was killed, her police report was virtually blank. Feeling as if she was suffocating in the initial silence and lack of public outcry, anti-racism educator and activist Faitth Brooks wondered, “Would the world care about and remember me if I was killed?” In her new book, Remember Me Now, Faitth grapples with the answer, charting…
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Saira Rao grew up in Richmond, Virginia, the daughter of Indian immigrants. For forty years, she wasted her precious time aspiring to be white and accepted by dominant white society, a futile task for anyone not born with white skin. Several years ago, Saira began the painful process of dismantling her own internalized oppression. In this episode S…
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In part four of this bonus podcast series, paying tribute to Black motherhood, I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker, Cha Sears-Barefield, Patricia A. Taylor, Dr. Quintrilla Ard and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the theme “In Our Mother’s Gardens.” In this episode the women share their experiences of being multidimensional Black women and how they hav…
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In part three of this bonus podcast series where we are paying tribute to Black motherhood, I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the Black Motherhood in Media. Not only do they share their own experiences growing up and the Black mothers in media that influenced them but also share their passion for …
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In this bonus podcast series we are paying tribute to Black Motherhood. For this episode I am joined by historian Lettie Gore, Marcie Alvis-Walker, and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the The Imprint of Black Mothers on our Country. The women discuss everything from our country's Founding Mothers, to Black domestics raising white children, to Black m…
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In this bonus podcast series we are paying tribute to Black motherhood during the month of February in honor of Black History Month. I hand over the mic to a group of phenomenal Black women as they bring their voices and expertise to talk about all aspects of Black motherhood. In this episode I am joined by historian Lettie Gore, Marcie Alvis-Walke…
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In this episode, I sit down for a conversation with my 20 year-old daughter, Grace Kingsley Miller, for one of the most vulnerable conversations I have had to date. Grace shares her story of struggling with mental illness starting at the age of 14. She shares about some of her childhood trauma that impacted her mental health as battled self harm an…
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Karen González is seeking to see and love her neighbors as God does. She is a speaker, writer, public theologian, and immigrant advocate, who herself immigrated from Guatemala as a child. Karen is a former public school teacher and attended Fuller Theological Seminary, where she studied theology and missiology. For the last 15 years, she has been a…
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Rev. Aurelia Dávila Pratt is an imago dei enthusiast, sacred space maker and paradigm shifter with a passion for liberation. She’s the lead pastor of Peace of Christ Church, a radically loving community in Round Rock, Texas. Named by Sojourners as one of “Ten Christian Women Shaping the Church in 2022”, Aurelia is also the author of A Brown Girl’s …
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Rev. Kyndall Rae Rothaus (she/her) is an award winnng preacher, spoken word artist, feminist theologian, spiritual director, and preaching coach. She is the author of Thy Queendom Come: Breaking Free from Patriarchy to Save Your Soul (2021) and Preacher Breath (2015). She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Nevertheless She Preached, a nati…
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Myisha T Hill is a mental health activist, speaker, and entrepreneur passionate about mental wellness and empowerment for all. Myisha runs the advocacy site Check Your Privilege with over 700K followers on Instagram. Her newest book, “Heal Your Way Forward”, is the book her followers have been waiting for—a marriage of her personal story, antiracis…
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Quantrilla Ard, PhD, is a recent transplant to the Atlanta area along with her husband and three littles. A passionate creative at heart, she has answered the call to encourage women in all stages of life and of various backgrounds through empathy, transparency, and love. Quantrilla is a faith-based personal and spiritual development writer, dynami…
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Mindy Corporon was the CEO of a successful wealth management firm, when an unimaginable tragedy struck. Mindy’s father and oldest son were murdered by a white-supremacist intent on killing Jewish people. In a split second, Mindy’s life purpose changed from guiding people financially to helping people find space to learn about their differences and …
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Jeannie Gainsburg is an award-winning educational trainer and consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusion and effective allyship. Formerly the Education Director at the Out Alliance in Rochester, N.Y., she is now the founder of Savvy Ally Action and author of the book, The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate. Jeannie has a BA…
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For this bonus episode I am joined by past guest, Mariah Humphries. Mariah is a Mvskoke Nation citizen, writer and educator. Through her experience navigating the tension between Native and White American culture, she brings Native awareness to non-Native spaces. With over 20 years of vocational ministry service, she is focused on theology, racial …
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Idelette McVicker describes herself as a creative soul and midwife for liberation. She was born and raised in South Africa during the apartheid era and spent half of her life living in a system created to benefit her white body. When she was 16, she read a book that cracked open her all-white world and shattered so many of her belief systems. Since…
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Leading Christian activist, author and founder of the consulting group Freedom Road, Lisa Sharon Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews and genealogy. In her new book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World—and How to Repair It All, Harper draws on h…
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In this episode Tasha Hunter shares her journey with forgiveness, infertility, and mothering her bonus daughter. Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW is Black, queer Internal Family Systems therapist and consultant. She is the owner of Ascension Growth Center, PLLC located in North Carolina. As a United States Air Force veteran, she primarily serves military, B…
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Did you know that women in this country continue to experience discrimination and disadvantage in nearly every sphere of life? A 2018 survey named the United States among the ten most dangerous countries in the world for women and the World Economic Forum recently ranked the United States 53rd out of 153 nations for gender parity. In this episode w…
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In part four of this bonus podcast series, paying tribute to Black motherhood, I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker, Cha Sears-Barefield, Patricia A. Taylor, Dr. Quintrilla Ard and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the theme “In Our Mother’s Gardens.” In this episode the women share their experiences of being multidimensional Black women and how they hav…
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In part three of this bonus podcast series where we are paying tribute to Black motherhood, I am joined by Marcie Alvis-Walker, Patricia Taylor and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the Black Motherhood in Media. Not only do they share their own experiences growing up and the Black mothers in media that influenced them but also share their passion for …
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Christena Cleveland Ph.D. is a social psychologist, public theologian, author, and activist. She is the founder and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal as well as its sister organization, Sacred Folk, which creates resources to stimulate people’s spiritual imaginations and support their journeys toward liberation. A weaver of Black liberat…
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In this bonus podcast series we are paying tribute to Black Motherhood. For this episode I am joined by historian Lettie Gore, Marcie Alvis-Walker, and Nya Abernathy as they discuss the The Imprint of Black Mothers on our Country. The women discuss everything from our country's Founding Mothers, to Black domestics raising white children, to Black m…
  continue reading
 
In this bonus podcast series we are paying tribute to Black motherhood during the month of February in honor of Black History Month. I hand over the mic to a group of phenomenal Black women as they bring their voices and expertise to talk about all aspects of Black motherhood. In this episode I am joined by historian Lettie Gore, Marcie Alvis-Walke…
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Staci Frenes is a Christian author, singer/songwriter and speaker. Her new book Love Makes Room is about the process by which her heart and faith grew when her daughter came out as gay. As someone with a conservative Christian background, When Staci Frenes learned her teenage daughter was gay, she found her dreams for the future—along with her life…
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Patricia Taylor is a wife, mom and California native turned Georgia peach. She believes in Jesus, loving all our neighbors, and having critical conversations around racial justice with grace and honesty. Her work is rooted in anti-racism education, and she currently serves as the Director of Programs for Be The Bridge. Patricia is also a co-host fo…
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Monica DiCristina is a Licensed Professional Counselor with over fifteen years of experience in mental health. She runs a private practice in Atlanta, GA serving individuals and couples in therapy. Monica walks with people as they process difficult experiences, helping to bring healing to their relationship with themselves and others. The intersect…
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Mariah Humphries is a Mvskoke Nation citizen, writer and educator. Through her experience navigating the tension between Native and White American culture, she brings Native awareness to non-Native spaces. With over 20 years of vocational ministry service, she is focused on theology, racial literacy and reconciliation within the American Church. In…
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Emmy Kegler is a pastor, author, and speaker called to ministry at the margins of the church, especially among LGBTQ+ Christians. Emmy has a Master’s in Divinity from Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minn., and is an ordained pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. In this episode, Emmy shares herstory of walking with mental Illness for…
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In this episode Tasha Hunter and Andrea Miller talk about finding community in the wilderness. They discuss the invisible wilderness so many seem to be living in right now, and opening yourself up to relationships after experiencing hurt and loss. They share about their meeting one year ago on IG in Oct of 2020, at a time when both felt to be livin…
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As a former journalist, Kayla Craig is adamant about paying attention and embracing curiosity in her work as a writer and podcast producer. She writes nuanced, nurturing prayers at Liturgies for Parents on Instagram and co-founded the Upside Down Podcast, a place for ecumenical conversations on faith and justice. Professionally, she writes, produce…
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Dr. Angela N. Parker is a Womanist New Testament scholar and an Assistant Professor of New Testament and Greek at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. With an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Bible, Culture, & Hermeneutics from Chicago Theological Seminary she is a notably educated and accomplished author, speaker and theol…
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In this episode I welcome back Emmy Kegler for a bonus conversation about raising kids beyond purity culture in an LGBTQ+ affirming home, we talk about what to do if and when a child comes out to you and how to best support them, setting up boundaries and the importance of teaching kids about body autonomy and consent. Emmy Kegler is a pastor, auth…
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For this bonus summer 2021 episode I am joined by writer and thinker Marcie Alvis-Walker, the creator of the IG account and blog “Black Coffee With White Friends.” Marcie is also the creator of Mockingbird History lessons for adults where she shares the missing narratives of history and her most recent project, Black Eyed Bible study, where she div…
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Dr. Paula Stone Williams is an internationally known speaker on gender equity, LGBTQ advocacy and religious tolerance. As a transgender woman, Paula brings a unique perspective to her work on gender equity. She says, "The differences between living as a man and a woman are massive. There is no way an educated white male can understand how much the …
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Jamie Bruesehoff (she/her) is an award-winning writer, speaker, and advocate. She is an openly queer woman married to a Lutheran pastor and mom to three spirited children, including a 14 year old transgender daughter, Rebekah. She is passionate about sharing her family’s story, because she believes our stories are bridges to understanding, compassi…
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Cha Sears-Barefield is a powerful speaker, entrepreneur and talk show host of The Cha Show. The Cha Show is committed to fostering meaningful conversations that bring people together, create a safe space to share our stories and inspire our hearts to be better, love better, and hope more. Cha believes in the power of pushing the needle towards love…
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