Griot and Grits

Griot and Grits

Griot and Grits is a new take on the West African Griot, the storytelling, singing, poet, historian of the village that was tasked with passing on the history of the village orally. Griot and Grits empowers people to step into the role of a modern day Griot for their family, sharing the stories of love, loss, birth, joy, healing, perserverance, success and the myriad of other experiences that bind us all together within the beauty of our shared human frailty. We catalog those stories in the ark that is Griot and Grits, to preserve them into eternity....making the words of the Griot timeless

Episodes

July 21, 2023 10 mins
How do we present to the world, and ourselves, when our loved ones depart?

In this week’s episode of “Griot and Grits”, we discover that strength can come from the most unlikely of places. Sometimes that strength that we show to the world is exactly what we need for ourselves.

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Produced by C. Perry Eleazer II & Felicia Rousseau/S2T Media LLC

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In this episode, we talk about ditch water, plums and superheroes. And somewhere, in all of this, we talk a lil bit about imagination!

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July 8, 2023 10 mins
In this episode, we talk about ditch water, plum trees, wind and superpowers. And oh yeah, somewhere in all of this, we talk about the power of imagination.

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Presenting the story of the second ( yeah... the second) scariest night of my life.
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On this episode, we're talking about School Bells, Scars, and Mile Markers as I lead you through a particular........thorny aspect of my life and how it fundamentally shaped my basic philosophies around trials, community, and fatherhood


Produced by C. Perry Eleazer II / S2T Media LLC.
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February 7, 2023 12 mins
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December 9, 2022 11 mins
In this episode, we talk about Barricades, Bridges and Breakthroughs, one of the many stories that my family has about adopting my daughters.
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November 19, 2022 11 mins
Griot and Grits is a new take on the West African Griot, the storytelling, singing, poet, historian of the village that was tasked with passing on the history of the village orally. Griot and Grits empowers people to step into the role of a modern day Griot for their family, sharing the stories of love, loss, birth, joy, healing, perserverance, success and the myriad of other experiences that bind us all together within the beauty ...
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