Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat

Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat

Welcome to Shaping Freedom where we teach you how to create the change you want so you are empowered to author a life story you love to read. I am your host, Lisane Basquiat. Each week I'll speak with inspirational leaders and we'll explore and share practical ways to create extraordinary life experiences!

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January 6, 2025 52 mins
Happy New Year to all of you beautiful listeners. While we are busy crafting and perfecting the lessons we feel you need to take with you into 2025, we feel it’s imperative that you reflect on your relationships and how to navigate those that betray you. 

We’re going to look back on Lisane’s conversation with Camille Tenerife. Camille is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles working with CBT/DBT training and specia...
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Throughout the course of 2024, we have had so many incredible and meaningful conversations about love, loss, growth, and lessons on the Shaping Freedom with Lisane Basquiat Podcast. The end of the year is a powerful time for everyone. It’s a time for us to reflect on what has shaped our year. Now there is time and space to ponder how our relationships with our friends, family, and ourselves have defined us. We can question what we ...
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2024 is not a year any of us will forget anytime soon. The positives and negatives that defined this year have everyone reflecting and predicting what is waiting for us in 2025. Shaping Freedom is taking the time to look back on some of our best conversations this year with the amazing people trying to push us forward in our relationships, communities, and lives. 

But before all of that, it has to be said that parents today have nev...
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Today on Shaping Freedom, we explore what it looks like to become unstuck in your routine,  how to build up safe spaces for black women, and how to break the toxic cycles of self-doubt and a feeling of otherness. To help us envision this space we invite Doctor Amber Howlett Bayock, founder of Dharma Management to the show. 

Dr. Amber Howlett Bayock's journey is a vitally important one to better understand this process of becoming un...
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Today on Shaping Freedom, we have a truly extraordinary guest to help guide us through this challenging and uncertain time. We have the honor of speaking with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, Patrisse is so much than that. She is an artist, author, creative, and visionary behind a new art collective, The Crenshaw Dairy Mart. Throughout our conversation we are going to explore what it means...
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Today, on the Shaping Freedom Podcast, we’re embarking on a journey through the world of entrepreneurship, social media, and filling your personal cup with the things that matter in life with social media guru Brock Johnson. Brock is going to guide us on what it means to combine passion, consistency, and clear goals to create a thriving career helping others find success on Instagram and other social media. 

Raised in a family of en...
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In this episode of Shaping Freedom, we sit down with multifaceted, Jamaican-born artist Ainsley Burroughs for a heartwarming conversation. He is going to tell us about his first solo exhibition, The Third Future: A Self-Portrait. Through this collection, Ainsley invites us into his inner world, where he explores the convergence of family, identity, and culture through a reflective and prospective lens. Together, we explore what it ...
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In this episode of Shaping Freedom, we’re going to explore the true meanings of resilience, transformation, and the impact of being genuine in a world full of insincerity. We have the honor and privilege of speaking with Garrain Jones, a renowned personal development coach and author of “Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life.” Garrain has traveled worldwide, teaching others how to grow from their adversity and build a genuine life ...
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In this episode of Shaping Freedom, we have a raw and honest conversation with British-born Ghanaian artist Joseph Aoua Darko. As an artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist, curator, and writer, Joseph bares so much of his soul, his artistic process, and how he has come to terms with his mental health and sexuality. Joseph stands proudly behind his commitment to supporting those in their mental health journey. 

In this conversation, Jo...
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Today, on Shaping Freedom, we are sitting down with a powerful and honest creator in the healing space, Monica Wisdom. Monica is the founder of Black Women Amplified and she offers her emotional and personal journey of healing and how it led to the creation of her platform. Black Women Amplified is a space safe for Black women to speak their truth and amplify their lived experiences. 

Together we are going to explore Monica’s early ...
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Today on Shaping Freedom, we are welcoming an old friend and previous guest, Aaron Robinson. As the founder of Opening Presence, which in his words, is the all-terrain vehicle for your healing journey. Aaron is in a unique position having worked in both the practical and spiritual side of healing ourselves and others. Together we are going to reflect on our emotional struggles, exploring the feelings of confusion, stress, and grief...
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Today on Shaping Freedom, we get the opportunity to talk to the third member of The Be Greater Collective Jasmine Harper. As you would have heard from our last episode with Be Greater Than, this collective is reimaging what mental and social wellness means for a broader audience. 

As for Jasmine, we are going to look deeper into what it means to apply the lessons taught at Be Greater Than in a more practical way. Jasmine is going to...
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Welcome to Shaping Freedom the show where we aim to give you actionable insight into better showing up for yourself and your community. Striving to be the best version of yourself has been one of the golden rules of life. However, like most things in life, this rule is much easier said than done. So how can we be greater than the stresses, anxieties, and toxicity that fill our modern world? 

To answer this question I am sitting down...
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Welcome to Shaping Freedom, I’m your host Lisane Basquiat. A question that we all need to be asking is how we can find the balance in the passion and purpose that drives us all. How do we find true fulfillment in all aspects of our lives? Today we are welcoming Robert Young, a legacy filmmaker, host of the Bright and Shining Podcast, and founder of R7 Holdings to explore this question. Together we are going to reexamine the interse...
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Today, on Shaping Freedom, I sit down with author, speaker, mother, and someone so full of love and wisdom, Abby Kamen. Coming hot off the release of her new book Generation We, we discuss how trauma can affect us all. While not all trauma may be created equal, we are all equal in the baggage that we carry in the aftermath of our pasts. 

In this powerful episode, we discuss how reexamining the relationship with our trauma can help u...
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Today, on Shaping Freedom, I have the honor of welcoming an incredible athlete, NLP practitioner, and personal friend, Chukky Okobi. Chukky isn’t your typical mental and spiritual guide, at least not on the surface. 

Chukky started his career as an NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, but after his time in the professional sports world, he felt that his own personal life was lacking a sense of direction and clarity. 

This is where...
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Today on Shaping Freedom, we ask what it means to support creators as they step into the world of business. For too long, artists and creatives have found themselves left out of the world of business acumen, including the marketing and the finances around their work. 

Enter Ian Davis, Founder of Age of the Creative. Davis founded his consultancy with the mission of equipping and empowering the artist and creative community with the ...
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Welcome to Shaping Freedom, I’m your host Lisane Basquiat. When you think of hip-hop, a common image is that of a “hard” man who is strong, stoic, and above all else, perfect. However, we both know this isn’t possible. Men struggle with the same mental health challenges we all struggle with. 

Today, I sit down with Shanti Das founder of Silence the Shame, a mental health foundation. As more famous artists open up about the challenge...
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In this episode’s conversation with Antonio Neves, we explore some of the most pressing issues affecting modern men–and women. We talk about how to get out of that comfort zone that’s leaving you unfulfilled and find alignment through community, self-exploration, and a little time in nature.

Antonio’s newest book, Stop Living on Autopilot, is an informative and inspirational look at why so many of us are left feeling unfulfilled whi...
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In this episode,  I have the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Raquel Martin, a licensed clinical psychologist and professor at Tennessee State University and Host of the “Mind Ya Mental Podcast,” Dr. Martin's work extends beyond academia and what drew me to a conversation with her is that she openly states that she believes deeply in the power of black mental wealth, emphasizing its role in legacy building and longevity.

We talk about ...
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