May 23, 2025 • 30 mins
This Foremother Friday, Morgan closes out Land Rights Week with a soul-stirring meditation dedicated to Mother Earth. Vanessa brings us back to the basics, guiding a tech-in on how to start a GirlTrek Walking Crew and sharing essential tips on how to walk to save your life. Then, our homegirl, Trelani, returns with the wisdom of our ancestors, weaving powerful stories that remind us of the strength, resilience, and legacy that walks with us. Tune in—and don’t forget to claim this week’s Shirley Chisholm badge!
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We are sick and tired of being. Sick and tired.
The disrespected person in America is the black woman, but
still like dust, all right. Pretty girls in the VIP they
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came with drain. They'll need ideas.
The revolution will not be televised, brother.
You are by the. New Joe John, even if.
You are not ready for the day. It cannot always be night.
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Welcome to self-care school y'all.
It's Friday and we're ready to swing.
But now, are you there? Listen, it's Friday.
It is for Mother Friday. Wherever you are walking on this
great, beautiful planet, we welcome you here.
We are a million strong at your left.
At your right, we are Girl Trek.We are the largest health
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movement in the world for black women.
And we are growing to be even larger.
Why? Because we walk for our bodies.
We walk to inspire our daughters, and we walk to
reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods just 30 minutes a
day, five days a week. So if you have walked five days
this week, or if this is your fifth walk high five sister, you
have earned your badge of your foremother.
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We're going to talk about our foremothers today, but before we
begin, we begin on our porch. Open your front door.
Let the wind in. Let the sunshine in.
Step out on faith in the direction of your healthiest,
most fulfilled life. Yeah, we usually do one single
for mother. But because we've talked about
the environment this week so much, I want to dedicate today's
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Daughter of Daughters of Porch Meditation to the one and only
Mother Earth, which we know humanity started in Africa.
The oldest land is in Africa, sowe know Mother Earth must be
African. So we are going to start with
Mother Earth. Place your feet firmly on the
earth, on the concrete, on the gravel, on whatever stone she
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manifest as today on the wood. You are the daughters of this
rootedness. You are the soil, you are the
sacred ground. I want you to say to yourself, I
am rooted, I am nourished, I am part of the land.
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Now please touch your chest or your heart and think of the air.
Breathe in and breathe out. The winds that carried the
voices of ancestors now flow through you.
Think to yourself, I inhale life, I exhale peace, I move
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with grace. Now follow me in, touching our
throats or our lips, and think about water.
Let the rivers within you speak.Your voice flows like a healing
stream. Say with me.
I speak with clarity, I flow with truth, and I honor emotion.
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Finally, we're going to touch our bellies, the place where the
fire is centered. Your fire is holy.
Burn with purpose, not haste. Think to yourself, I ignite joy,
I hold power, and I burn clean. Now we are going to touch the
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earth with our hands. Just squat down and touch the
earth with your hands and know that you walk with abundance,
that this earth can hold you, that you kiss the earth with
your feet. Every time you move, feel the
earth beneath you. Now stand up and stretch to the
sky. Lift your face to the heavens.
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Daughter, you are the land dreaming.
You are the fruit of my tree. Say to yourself, I honor the
earth. I honor my breath.
I live as the blessing and the bloom.
Let's get ready to walk you all.You can walk to your driveway.
Are you there V? Thank you, Mother Earth, for all
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the ways that you hold us. I am here, Morgan.
I appreciated that meditation for this week and we're in the
porch now. Morgan and I have just a few
questions for folks on this Friday before we head out for
our walk. My first question is, are you
proud of yourself that you made it?
And so take a big old step forward.
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Are you proud of yourself that you made it for this week to
these five days, you're on this Friday.
Congratulations, we are proud ofyou.
So take a big step forward if you have, if you're feeling any
anxiety just about what we learned this week, especially
about housing insecurity, about renting, about mortgage.
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If you felt in any anxiety, likethe information felt just a tad
bit overwhelming for you, take astep back.
If you've made your space, your home, the place that you live in
more beautiful or peaceful this week, inspired by something in
this episode, just took a littlebit of extra time to carve out
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some sort of beautiful space in your home to really enjoy it.
Home and apartment, wherever youlive.
Take a step forward. If you haven't stepped outside
outside in nature and really touched a tree of grass, the
dirt, really spend some time. Maybe you've been doing all of
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your walks inside on the treadmill or on one of your
walking pads. If you haven't gotten outside,
take a step back if you caught avision, like it might have just
been a glimpse, or it might be afull old Technicolor dream.
If you've caught a vision for how you might live or rest
differently in the future, this week take a step forward.
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If you told yourself you're going to have to settle for what
you have, I want you to take a step back.
It's for Mother Friday, Morgan on for Mother Friday, the last
day of the week. We bring into the conversation
our home girl, Trellanie. Trellanie, are you on the line?
I'm. Here.
Good morning y'all. Good morning, Trellanie.
I'm happy to have you on the line with us today, talking
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about land, talking about housing.
You always bring in a foremothers voice into this
conversation and I want you. I want us to start early with
that for mother verse. Taya Miles, she's like a really
dope historian and she's a Marcus Garvey professor at
Harvard. Last year she published a book
about Harriet. It was called Night Flyer and in
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it she shared and I really love this part.
She shared how Harriet fell for a con man's get rich hack and I
love and I wanted to share that particular part because it's
like you can make a financial mistake.
It's not the end of the world. Keep going.
Now I'm about to start Tyus quote from the book.
But Harriet regrouped after the set back, for she had built a
resilient community and expandedher land base with the purchase
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of an additional 25 adjacent acres in 1896.
In the final decades of her distinctive life, she invested
in an above ground social network rooted in black-owned
land that function as communal space.
Harriet, her home, her dreams inher land were social magnets.
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People came to seek her out and all could find shelter under her
roof. Harry's dream in late life was
to acquire enough land to establish a home and healthcare
Center for people who were ill, elderly or living with
disabilities. End Quote.
And she did it. That's like the the most
beautiful part of that to me. She did it.
She placed those 25 acres that she bought in several buildings
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under the care of her church. And she named and y'all talked
about this on the podcast Buku, but she named that main building
John Hall Brown. And we know that was a good
friend of hers who was also an ally and did all he could but
was ultimately murdered. And that second building was
called the Harriet Tubman Home for the Age after herself.
In 1913, she took her last breath inside of John Brown
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Hall, inside the very haven thatshe built with her own hands in
her own vision. And so that's kind of what I
wanted to send in a day like land gave Harriet room to
breathe, room to gather her people, room to make mistakes
and start again, and room for her dreams to take root like she
brought her. She brought her new husband
there, raised her adopted daughter was, I think her name
was Gertie. There she showed to her parents
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and her siblings, started garden, including fruit trees,
raised pigs as nourishment and investments.
And so that in that land investment continued on with
more investments. And it's where she died.
But with dignity and with peace in that old age, let me
emphasize. So land, when it's stewarded
with love and with vision, like it can outlive us.
You know, it carries our care forward.
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And so this fight for, you know,economic and environmental
justice, like, you know, you often talk about so much earlier
in the week. It's not just about buildings,
it's about building futures. And so like Shirley Chisholm and
Harriet Tubman, what they both showed us was that when black
women claimed space, we don't doit.
We don't do it just to make roomfor ourselves.
We're doing it for our whole communities.
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Oh man, Trillani, I loved the richness of the detail of what
you just shared. And I know a lot of that story
and I know a lot of women listening to a lot of that
story. But the way you just shared it
and the way you just tied it back to one, what we are talking
about this week, the life savingskills that we're going to learn
today. And I spent a lot of time
thinking about this. I was like, it's the end of the
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week. We've talked about so much
stuff, two of the greatest things that we can do as Black
women for our neighborhoods and for the environment.
Girl Trek is already doing. We can start a walking crew in
our neighborhood. It makes our block safer.
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We build community, which is thefoundation of housing stability.
We claim reclaim public space that's often made to feel unsafe
or inaccessible. We push back against
displacement, isolation, and disconnection.
We create belonging. All of that happens with just
you deciding. Morgan, I was thinking about
this. The 1st place to start even is
that we told people to walk outside of their front doors.
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And we've talked a little bit about that.
But today we're going to talk about how you start a walking
through right outside of your own front door so that you can
build infrastructure structure in your own actual neighborhood
so that you can make your own neighborhood safer immediately
so that you can make your own neighborhood more valuable
immediately just by you startinga walking crew.
And then we're in a week about the environment.
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And I was like, I have to bring in the voice of Wangari Maathai.
I have to blame her in to talk about the movement that the
Greenbelt movement that she started in planting trees so
that black women can understand that we're not just
environmentalists in this land, but we've been environmentalists
around the world. And then that brings me back to
how do women a reminder of how women start their own gardens
and specifically the girl trek garden movement that we have
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started in launch and particularly how that movement
is an extension of the Negro garden clubs that for secretly
and seditiously organizing in really powerful ways for
generations. So those are the two life saving
skills that we're going to end this week on y'all.
And I thought that actually we could start Morgan by bringing
in the voice of Wangari to talk about the Hummingbird.
It's a beautiful story that she originally told when she was
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accepting the Nobel Peace Prize,which she won.
She was the first African woman to win it.
And this is a her retelling thatstory.
And I want to start here so thatwe all understand we are the
hummingbirds. We are constantly being
bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get
completely overwhelmed. The story of the Hummingbird is
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about this huge forest being consumed by a fire.
All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed
as they wash the forest, burning, and they feel very
overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little Hummingbird.
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It says, I'm going to do something about the fire.
So it flies to the nearest stream, takes a drop of water,
he puts it on the fire and goes up and down, up and down, up and
down as fast as it can. In the meantime, all the other
animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big
trunk, could bring much more water.
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They are standing there helpless, and they are saying to
the Hummingbird, what do you think you can do?
You too lay low, This fire is too big.
Your wings are too lay low and you're big, so small you can
only bring a small drop of waterat a time.
But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them
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without wasting any time and tells them I'm doing the best I
can. And that, to me, is what all of
us should do. We should always feel like a
Hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I
certainly don't want to be like the animals watching as the
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planet goes down the drain. I will be a Hummingbird.
I will do the best I can. And I love that.
I love that Morgan and I think that we were originally just two
hummingbirds and now I think that there are 1,000,000
hummingbirds out there. Y'all, so can we get into
Morgan? How do women start a
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neighborhood crew in their own neighborhood?
It's a powerful Hummingbird action that can have a ripple
effect both for women's personalhealth and for their community.
The 1st and most important thingto understand about starting a
crew in your neighborhood is that where two or three are
gathered is the foundational principle.
A crew does not have to be 50 women walking in your
neighborhood. It doesn't even have to be 10
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people walking in your neighborhood.
It can start with you plus one other person forming a crew to
walk outside of your front door and become a crew in your
neighborhood. And the first resource to
starting that crew is on my selfcareschool.com.
You just click access the classroom, you Scroll down to
the bottom and we have a really beautiful field guy that will
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walk you through all of the things that I'm going to tell
you right now. So we're two or three are
gathered, y'all. That's the first principle of
starting your crew. The next thing that you actually
want to do is invite them that person out to walk with you.
You don't want to ask them to plan a walk, you want to invite
them to your walk. That means you want to be very
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consistent and figure out what is a time, a date and a place
that works for you. But location and in your
neighborhood really matters. Walking outside of our front
door gives us the ability to build community in such a
powerful way. Y'all to really actually be a
neighbor to our neighbors. Like for them to see our faces.
This happens to me like for themto see our faces, for them to
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know our names, for us to wave at each other for for little
kids to see activity out on their actual blocks, for us to
walk our blocks and even understand what the challenges
are to actually audit them. Morgan walked us through a
beautiful audit on Monday to understand what the challenges
are in our neighborhood so that we can start to even activate to
bring about what we want, whether it be green space or
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more storefronts or whatever it is.
It has to start with us claimingownership over the place that we
are at. So outside of your front door, a
walking crew in your actual neighborhood.
Once you start to form your walking crew, a lot of people
start to shake in their boots. They hear like, Oh my God, I
ain't got no formal training. What is this?
I ain't Morgan and Vanessa. I ain't got no podcast voice.
I don't know what to do. Here's what you need to know
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y'all. You don't need a podcast voice.
You don't need to be an expert at anything except your own
story, your own neighborhood andyour own life.
All girl trek crew walks start in the exact same way.
It's in your field guide. It is called a talk before the
walk. It is something that women do
everywhere as a consistent way to start the walk.
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And we're going to Talk Before the walk has three parts.
What are the three parts girl? It's the three s s.
Oh, you're preparing. This is the three s s.
It is the story of the movement.Like what is Girl Trek?
It is. And it can also be the story of
your own testimony because you are the movement, right?
So it can be the story of why I started walking.
And then it's the summary of theroute.
So it's like we're going to walk.
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It's pretty much flat. We're going to go down by the
Creek and then we're going to make a right.
We're going to make a big loop and we'll come right back.
We'll be back in 30 minutes. And then it's any safety hazards
or any safety concerns like you know, I know you're bringing
your daughter, I know she got asthma.
Do you have her pump? All of it is in the field guide,
but you just remember the three s s, the story summary of the
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route, and safety. Those are the three s s, y'all,
They will get you going on your actual walk.
You can have a lot of fun and then once you're on the walk, we
have some simple rules, y'all. We call it the trek code.
The trek code are the most basickind of sister's keeper kind of
let's make this a safe sacred space for all women and make the
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experience feel great. So we have some very simple trek
codes that we I will go over with you.
The 1st is 7 minute rule. What's the seven minute rule?
7 minutes is on, early is on time, so you arrive 7 minutes
before other people, but if you're at your house, you're
already there. Boom.
Boom, there you go. That's right, that's right.
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But be on time, be reliable. The second one is loop and
scoop. Loop and scoop is we never leave
a sister behind, so we always double back to make sure
everyone finishes. And many women, when they're
walking in groups, particularly choose routes that go in a loop
so that it's easy for women to loop and scoop so that you don't
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have to worry about doubling back.
So be mindful that you can go back and loop and scoop people
and be mindful y'all of taking up too much space on the
sidewalk or the trails or wherever it is that you're a
walking. We don't want people to see
those blue shirts and be like, Dang, those women be mobbing and
they're inconsiderate. Inconsiderate is not us laughing
and joking in the morning like that woman put in the comment on
the New York Times, but it is ifwe're not considerate.
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So we have something called single file and smile.
It's a very simple we share the sidewalk with our neighbors.
We collapse into a single file line and let people pass.
We collapse to the right. It's actually really fun.
We start to do it like a military jail.
Single file and smile and boom we get information y'all, so
that's the third trek code. The 4th trek code Y'all is the
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girl trek pace. This one's important.
We don't be moseying. We really do be trying to work
up a sweat. We really are out there trying
to save our own lives and the goal you may not start there,
but the goal y'all is that you can work up to a 15 minute mile
all right then let's there's only two more.
The next one is we celebrate ourvictories at the end of every
walk y'all. We try to mark the fact that we
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did it. We could have been anywhere
else, but we chose to be on the pavement.
We have two traditional ways that we celebrate our victories
and we like to capture all of those celebrations and hashtag
them. Girl trek if you're on social
media so that you can inspire another woman out there.
But the victory celebrations include a victory bridge and you
can go on to YouTube and type inGirl check victory bridge.
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There's several examples and we'll put some on Instagram and
Facebook for y'all to see. But a victory bridge, put your
hands up, create a tunnel, let the women walk through.
It's also a perfect way to make sure no woman is left behind.
So if there's a woman who's a little bit behind, y'all can
just stand there and cheer her on and wait for the victory
bridge. Or you can do my personal
favorite, which is a joy. Jump high up in the air, swing
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your arms, swing your legs, get up high.
It's just a fun, celebratory. For both yourself and for the
folks around you. So celebrate your victories.
And the last one, which I just slightly mentioned is we tell
our story. And y'all, you could tell your
story in the group chat. You could tell your story at
praise and worship service on a Wednesday night at church.
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You could tell your story by calling up a friend.
This does not have to be social media.
Tell your story. But the point is, don't let the
goodness stop with you. Don't let the goodness just end
with what your experience is. But we really are on a mission
to grow the movement intentionally through word of
mouth because we want to bring as many of our sisters and our
friends behind along with us. So those are the trek codes.
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That was a talk before the walk.I promise you, every single
woman who's just sat through or walked through and listened to
this, you are ready right now tostart a Girl Trek crew.
There are thousands of crews outthere.
All right, now that we know how to start a Girl Trek walking
crew. Morgan I want to just do some
final shout outs for the Girl Trek Garden Club because beyond
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walking crews and Girl Trek, we are deeply organizing around the
things that help us to increase our life expectancy.
And for several years now we have been moving down a
nutrition route that is empowering and teaching women
and organizing women who are already starting gardens into a
Girl Trek Garden Club. This is an homage and a
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continuation of the garden clubsof the 50s and the 60s and the
70s especially. Like throughout Virginia and
throughout the South, there weregarden clubs that were really
powerful organizing Centers for women.
They remember there was 1 GardenClub where Martin Luther King
was like, that's where you got to go.
There was like, where you going to go visit when you come into
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town and me, there's like you got to go to the Garden Club
because black women were organizing in those garden clubs
in really yeah ways. And our Garden Club is.
AI want to give a shout out to Christina, who did so much of
this research for us and who laid the groundwork for Girl
Trek Gardeners. And I also want to give a shout
out to Angie, who worked directly with Christina and who
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has started to manage it in really beautiful, flawless ways.
These women are they're like, they're heroes to me.
Christina is comes from a familyof black farmers in South
Carolina and their land was given to them by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And they're one of the oldest black farming families in
America. And she's so smart.
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And so I remember I was just telling somebody this on
Saturday night, she and I were sitting on the beach in South
Carolina and she was like, I gotit.
She was like, I got the idea we're going to do garden
clothes. And she just brought out the
Negro Garden book. And I so Christina, I, I see you
sister, and I just want to give you a shout out and give you
love. Christina to me is like up on a
mountain and a hill. Like she's aspirational in terms
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of where I hope to go with like my own kind of like she's always
seems like she hasn't like some sort of cool overalls or some
sort of she's always seems like she just seems like she was like
made for the land. And I don't feel that way.
Like I have never felt like thatdeep connection to the land in
that way. So I feel sheepish and shy
around learning to garden. And I live in an apartment now.
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I do have a nice balcony and I could garden on my balcony, but
I just haven't taken the initiative yet.
So this really was even a lessonfor me y'all, that I'm going to
1 go on to the Girl Trek Garden Club on Facebook.
If you're on Facebook, they havean entire community there that's
very, very active. You can e-mail us at
infogirltrek.org. You can put Garden Club in the
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subject line and we will connectyou with some resources via
Angie if you want to learn to garden.
But I am promising myself, Morgan, that by the time we get
to next Friday's episode, so I'mgiving myself seven days that I
will have planted on my balcony at least one thing.
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And I think I'm going to start simple.
Y'all, I googled, I'm going to start with mint because mint is
easy to grow. It actually grows wild.
So if you're putting it outside,be careful because it can really
take over the other plants. But for a balcony, it's actually
a really good thing for me to grow in a pot.
It's very easy and I use a lot of mint, so I'm going to start
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with mint. I'm going to grow it on my
balcony, and I'm inviting every single woman out there who's
feeling a little bit sheepish tostart with growing one thing.
All right, family, I hope you'vebeen inspired by this
conversation to think about yourneighborhood crew and how
starting a neighborhood crew could be such a value add to the
neighborhood and community that you are in.
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And I hope you've been inspired by this conversation around
gardening to think about what you can grow, what you can
plant, and what abundant harvestit will bring to your life.
These are two very practical, 2 very Hummingbird moves that when
we knit together could be the most significant, significant
things that we do as a communityto change generational outcomes
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for our families, especially as we're thinking about environment
and housing and land. I hope you all will join us back
on Monday because we are going to be back for self-care school
with a brand new week of episodes this weekend.
Please share one of these episodes that's really inspired
you with somebody and your friends or your family or your
community group. Please catch up.
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If you've missed any episodes, please make sure you download
your badge for this week. It's a Shirley Chisholm badge.
She's a bad Mamma jamma and you can get your Shirley Chisholm
badge, your digital badge. As a reminder, we will have
physical badges for everyone to purchase at the end of this live
10 week experience that we're doing that's going to end on
Juneteenth. That's all I got.
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I queued up. Morgan, do you have anything
else before I queue up? Our I do, I do, I feel like the
only thing I want to add is thatthe practical step for starting
a crew and starting a girl Trek garden is to let us know that
you're doing it so that we can count you among our ranks.
And so the easy way to do that is to bring up an e-mail right
now and just put in info@girltrek.org.
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And then the subject line, you can put crew if you want to
start a crew or in the subject line, you could put garden if
you want to start a garden. And our and our care, we have a
member care team. They will get you to the right
people. If you need more resources, they
will send you the field guide. So you don't have to look around
for anything. Just pull up your e-mail, type
in info@girltrek.org. Shout out to Marcy, shout out to
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Carla, who will help get you to the right person on our team so
that you can start a crew. It is very easy and you don't
have to tell us you can do it. There's crews all over the world
that we don't even know about, but to be counted, it's helpful
if we send you the step by step instructions.
So and then shout out to Katora if you are starting a crew and
you just want more tips and tricks.
She leads really wonderful workshops, so we're here to
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support. Yes, Morgan, thank you for that
information. Those were the announcements,
y'all. We're not passing the plate.
We're closing out for this Friday.
I am bringing in some of our ownbeautiful members from our old
school crew who are reading a beautiful rendition of Sonia
Sanchez's Catch a Fire. We're going to close out with
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this reading. Remember this reading, Morgan?
Where's your fire? Yeah, yeah.
So we're going to close this out.
It's a beautiful rendition of Sonia Sanchez's poem recited by
a few of our Girl Trek members. Thank you all for joining us.
Sometimes I wonder what to say to you now in the soft afternoon
air as you hold us all in a single depth.
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I say, where's your fire? I say, where's your fire?
You got to find it and pass it on.
You got to find it and pass it on from you to me, from me to
her, from her to him, from the son to the father, from the
brother to the sister, from the daughter to the mother.
From the mother to the child. Where is your fire?
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I say, Where's your fire? Can't you smell it coming out of
our past? The fire of living, not dying.
The fire of loving, not killing.The fire of blackness, not
gangster shadows. Where's our beautiful fire that
gave light to the world? The fire of pyramids?
The fire that burned through theholes of slave ships and made us
breathe? The fire that made guts into
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chitlins. The.
Fire that took rhythms and made jazz.
The fire of SIT insurance and marches that made us jump
boundaries and barriers. The fire that took St.
Talk sounds. And made righteous I'm in hope
tip raps. Where's your fire?
The torch of life full of in Zynga and Nat Turner and Garvey
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and Dubois and Fannie Lou Hammerand Martin and Malcolm and
Mandela. Sister, sister, brother, Brother
come. Sister, Sister, Brother,
Brother. Come, come, catch your fire.
Don't kill. Hold your fire.
Don't kill. Learn your fire.
Don't kill. Be the fire, don't kill.
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Catch the fire and burn with eyes that see our souls walking,
singing, building, laughing, learning, loving, teaching,
being. Hey brother, brother, sister,
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sister. Here is my hand.
Catch the fire and live, live, live, live, live, live, live,
live, live. Live, live, live.
Oh, I love that. I love this, I love this.
We are sick and tired of being. Sick and tired.
The disrespected person in America is the black woman, but
still like dust, all right. Pretty girls in the VIP they
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came with drain. They'll need ideas.
The revolution will not be televised, brother.
You are by the. New Joe John, even if.
You are not ready for the day. It cannot always be night.
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Welcome to self-care school y'all.
It's Friday and we're ready to swing.
But now, are you there? Listen, it's Friday.
It is for Mother Friday. Wherever you are walking on this
great, beautiful planet, we welcome you here.
We are a million strong at your left.
At your right, we are Girl Trek.We are the largest health
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movement in the world for black women.
And we are growing to be even larger.
Why? Because we walk for our bodies.
We walk to inspire our daughters, and we walk to
reclaim the streets of our neighborhoods just 30 minutes a
day, five days a week. So if you have walked five days
this week, or if this is your fifth walk high five sister, you
have earned your badge of your foremother.
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We're going to talk about our foremothers today, but before we
begin, we begin on our porch. Open your front door.
Let the wind in. Let the sunshine in.
Step out on faith in the direction of your healthiest,
most fulfilled life. Yeah, we usually do one single
for mother. But because we've talked about
the environment this week so much, I want to dedicate today's
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Daughter of Daughters of Porch Meditation to the one and only
Mother Earth, which we know humanity started in Africa.
The oldest land is in Africa, sowe know Mother Earth must be
African. So we are going to start with
Mother Earth. Place your feet firmly on the
earth, on the concrete, on the gravel, on whatever stone she
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manifest as today on the wood. You are the daughters of this
rootedness. You are the soil, you are the
sacred ground. I want you to say to yourself, I
am rooted, I am nourished, I am part of the land.
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Now please touch your chest or your heart and think of the air.
Breathe in and breathe out. The winds that carried the
voices of ancestors now flow through you.
Think to yourself, I inhale life, I exhale peace, I move
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with grace. Now follow me in, touching our
throats or our lips, and think about water.
Let the rivers within you speak.Your voice flows like a healing
stream. Say with me.
I speak with clarity, I flow with truth, and I honor emotion.
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Finally, we're going to touch our bellies, the place where the
fire is centered. Your fire is holy.
Burn with purpose, not haste. Think to yourself, I ignite joy,
I hold power, and I burn clean. Now we are going to touch the
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earth with our hands. Just squat down and touch the
earth with your hands and know that you walk with abundance,
that this earth can hold you, that you kiss the earth with
your feet. Every time you move, feel the
earth beneath you. Now stand up and stretch to the
sky. Lift your face to the heavens.
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Daughter, you are the land dreaming.
You are the fruit of my tree. Say to yourself, I honor the
earth. I honor my breath.
I live as the blessing and the bloom.
Let's get ready to walk you all.You can walk to your driveway.
Are you there V? Thank you, Mother Earth, for all
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the ways that you hold us. I am here, Morgan.
I appreciated that meditation for this week and we're in the
porch now. Morgan and I have just a few
questions for folks on this Friday before we head out for
our walk. My first question is, are you
proud of yourself that you made it?
And so take a big old step forward.
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Are you proud of yourself that you made it for this week to
these five days, you're on this Friday.
Congratulations, we are proud ofyou.
So take a big step forward if you have, if you're feeling any
anxiety just about what we learned this week, especially
about housing insecurity, about renting, about mortgage.
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If you felt in any anxiety, likethe information felt just a tad
bit overwhelming for you, take astep back.
If you've made your space, your home, the place that you live in
more beautiful or peaceful this week, inspired by something in
this episode, just took a littlebit of extra time to carve out
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some sort of beautiful space in your home to really enjoy it.
Home and apartment, wherever youlive.
Take a step forward. If you haven't stepped outside
outside in nature and really touched a tree of grass, the
dirt, really spend some time. Maybe you've been doing all of
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your walks inside on the treadmill or on one of your
walking pads. If you haven't gotten outside,
take a step back if you caught avision, like it might have just
been a glimpse, or it might be afull old Technicolor dream.
If you've caught a vision for how you might live or rest
differently in the future, this week take a step forward.
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If you told yourself you're going to have to settle for what
you have, I want you to take a step back.
It's for Mother Friday, Morgan on for Mother Friday, the last
day of the week. We bring into the conversation
our home girl, Trellanie. Trellanie, are you on the line?
I'm. Here.
Good morning y'all. Good morning, Trellanie.
I'm happy to have you on the line with us today, talking
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about land, talking about housing.
You always bring in a foremothers voice into this
conversation and I want you. I want us to start early with
that for mother verse. Taya Miles, she's like a really
dope historian and she's a Marcus Garvey professor at
Harvard. Last year she published a book
about Harriet. It was called Night Flyer and in
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it she shared and I really love this part.
She shared how Harriet fell for a con man's get rich hack and I
love and I wanted to share that particular part because it's
like you can make a financial mistake.
It's not the end of the world. Keep going.
Now I'm about to start Tyus quote from the book.
But Harriet regrouped after the set back, for she had built a
resilient community and expandedher land base with the purchase
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of an additional 25 adjacent acres in 1896.
In the final decades of her distinctive life, she invested
in an above ground social network rooted in black-owned
land that function as communal space.
Harriet, her home, her dreams inher land were social magnets.
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People came to seek her out and all could find shelter under her
roof. Harry's dream in late life was
to acquire enough land to establish a home and healthcare
Center for people who were ill, elderly or living with
disabilities. End Quote.
And she did it. That's like the the most
beautiful part of that to me. She did it.
She placed those 25 acres that she bought in several buildings
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under the care of her church. And she named and y'all talked
about this on the podcast Buku, but she named that main building
John Hall Brown. And we know that was a good
friend of hers who was also an ally and did all he could but
was ultimately murdered. And that second building was
called the Harriet Tubman Home for the Age after herself.
In 1913, she took her last breath inside of John Brown
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Hall, inside the very haven thatshe built with her own hands in
her own vision. And so that's kind of what I
wanted to send in a day like land gave Harriet room to
breathe, room to gather her people, room to make mistakes
and start again, and room for her dreams to take root like she
brought her. She brought her new husband
there, raised her adopted daughter was, I think her name
was Gertie. There she showed to her parents
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and her siblings, started garden, including fruit trees,
raised pigs as nourishment and investments.
And so that in that land investment continued on with
more investments. And it's where she died.
But with dignity and with peace in that old age, let me
emphasize. So land, when it's stewarded
with love and with vision, like it can outlive us.
You know, it carries our care forward.
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And so this fight for, you know,economic and environmental
justice, like, you know, you often talk about so much earlier
in the week. It's not just about buildings,
it's about building futures. And so like Shirley Chisholm and
Harriet Tubman, what they both showed us was that when black
women claimed space, we don't doit.
We don't do it just to make roomfor ourselves.
We're doing it for our whole communities.
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Oh man, Trillani, I loved the richness of the detail of what
you just shared. And I know a lot of that story
and I know a lot of women listening to a lot of that
story. But the way you just shared it
and the way you just tied it back to one, what we are talking
about this week, the life savingskills that we're going to learn
today. And I spent a lot of time
thinking about this. I was like, it's the end of the
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week. We've talked about so much
stuff, two of the greatest things that we can do as Black
women for our neighborhoods and for the environment.
Girl Trek is already doing. We can start a walking crew in
our neighborhood. It makes our block safer.
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We build community, which is thefoundation of housing stability.
We claim reclaim public space that's often made to feel unsafe
or inaccessible. We push back against
displacement, isolation, and disconnection.
We create belonging. All of that happens with just
you deciding. Morgan, I was thinking about
this. The 1st place to start even is
that we told people to walk outside of their front doors.
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And we've talked a little bit about that.
But today we're going to talk about how you start a walking
through right outside of your own front door so that you can
build infrastructure structure in your own actual neighborhood
so that you can make your own neighborhood safer immediately
so that you can make your own neighborhood more valuable
immediately just by you startinga walking crew.
And then we're in a week about the environment.
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And I was like, I have to bring in the voice of Wangari Maathai.
I have to blame her in to talk about the movement that the
Greenbelt movement that she started in planting trees so
that black women can understand that we're not just
environmentalists in this land, but we've been environmentalists
around the world. And then that brings me back to
how do women a reminder of how women start their own gardens
and specifically the girl trek garden movement that we have
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started in launch and particularly how that movement
is an extension of the Negro garden clubs that for secretly
and seditiously organizing in really powerful ways for
generations. So those are the two life saving
skills that we're going to end this week on y'all.
And I thought that actually we could start Morgan by bringing
in the voice of Wangari to talk about the Hummingbird.
It's a beautiful story that she originally told when she was
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accepting the Nobel Peace Prize,which she won.
She was the first African woman to win it.
And this is a her retelling thatstory.
And I want to start here so thatwe all understand we are the
hummingbirds. We are constantly being
bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get
completely overwhelmed. The story of the Hummingbird is
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about this huge forest being consumed by a fire.
All the animals in the forest come out and they are transfixed
as they wash the forest, burning, and they feel very
overwhelmed, very powerless, except this little Hummingbird.
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It says, I'm going to do something about the fire.
So it flies to the nearest stream, takes a drop of water,
he puts it on the fire and goes up and down, up and down, up and
down as fast as it can. In the meantime, all the other
animals, much bigger animals like the elephant with a big
trunk, could bring much more water.
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They are standing there helpless, and they are saying to
the Hummingbird, what do you think you can do?
You too lay low, This fire is too big.
Your wings are too lay low and you're big, so small you can
only bring a small drop of waterat a time.
But as they continue to discourage it, it turns to them
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without wasting any time and tells them I'm doing the best I
can. And that, to me, is what all of
us should do. We should always feel like a
Hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I
certainly don't want to be like the animals watching as the
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planet goes down the drain. I will be a Hummingbird.
I will do the best I can. And I love that.
I love that Morgan and I think that we were originally just two
hummingbirds and now I think that there are 1,000,000
hummingbirds out there. Y'all, so can we get into
Morgan? How do women start a
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neighborhood crew in their own neighborhood?
It's a powerful Hummingbird action that can have a ripple
effect both for women's personalhealth and for their community.
The 1st and most important thingto understand about starting a
crew in your neighborhood is that where two or three are
gathered is the foundational principle.
A crew does not have to be 50 women walking in your
neighborhood. It doesn't even have to be 10
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people walking in your neighborhood.
It can start with you plus one other person forming a crew to
walk outside of your front door and become a crew in your
neighborhood. And the first resource to
starting that crew is on my selfcareschool.com.
You just click access the classroom, you Scroll down to
the bottom and we have a really beautiful field guy that will
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walk you through all of the things that I'm going to tell
you right now. So we're two or three are
gathered, y'all. That's the first principle of
starting your crew. The next thing that you actually
want to do is invite them that person out to walk with you.
You don't want to ask them to plan a walk, you want to invite
them to your walk. That means you want to be very
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consistent and figure out what is a time, a date and a place
that works for you. But location and in your
neighborhood really matters. Walking outside of our front
door gives us the ability to build community in such a
powerful way. Y'all to really actually be a
neighbor to our neighbors. Like for them to see our faces.
This happens to me like for themto see our faces, for them to
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know our names, for us to wave at each other for for little
kids to see activity out on their actual blocks, for us to
walk our blocks and even understand what the challenges
are to actually audit them. Morgan walked us through a
beautiful audit on Monday to understand what the challenges
are in our neighborhood so that we can start to even activate to
bring about what we want, whether it be green space or
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more storefronts or whatever it is.
It has to start with us claimingownership over the place that we
are at. So outside of your front door, a
walking crew in your actual neighborhood.
Once you start to form your walking crew, a lot of people
start to shake in their boots. They hear like, Oh my God, I
ain't got no formal training. What is this?
I ain't Morgan and Vanessa. I ain't got no podcast voice.
I don't know what to do. Here's what you need to know
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y'all. You don't need a podcast voice.
You don't need to be an expert at anything except your own
story, your own neighborhood andyour own life.
All girl trek crew walks start in the exact same way.
It's in your field guide. It is called a talk before the
walk. It is something that women do
everywhere as a consistent way to start the walk.
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And we're going to Talk Before the walk has three parts.
What are the three parts girl? It's the three s s.
Oh, you're preparing. This is the three s s.
It is the story of the movement.Like what is Girl Trek?
It is. And it can also be the story of
your own testimony because you are the movement, right?
So it can be the story of why I started walking.
And then it's the summary of theroute.
So it's like we're going to walk.
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It's pretty much flat. We're going to go down by the
Creek and then we're going to make a right.
We're going to make a big loop and we'll come right back.
We'll be back in 30 minutes. And then it's any safety hazards
or any safety concerns like you know, I know you're bringing
your daughter, I know she got asthma.
Do you have her pump? All of it is in the field guide,
but you just remember the three s s, the story summary of the
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route, and safety. Those are the three s s, y'all,
They will get you going on your actual walk.
You can have a lot of fun and then once you're on the walk, we
have some simple rules, y'all. We call it the trek code.
The trek code are the most basickind of sister's keeper kind of
let's make this a safe sacred space for all women and make the
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experience feel great. So we have some very simple trek
codes that we I will go over with you.
The 1st is 7 minute rule. What's the seven minute rule?
7 minutes is on, early is on time, so you arrive 7 minutes
before other people, but if you're at your house, you're
already there. Boom.
Boom, there you go. That's right, that's right.
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But be on time, be reliable. The second one is loop and
scoop. Loop and scoop is we never leave
a sister behind, so we always double back to make sure
everyone finishes. And many women, when they're
walking in groups, particularly choose routes that go in a loop
so that it's easy for women to loop and scoop so that you don't
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have to worry about doubling back.
So be mindful that you can go back and loop and scoop people
and be mindful y'all of taking up too much space on the
sidewalk or the trails or wherever it is that you're a
walking. We don't want people to see
those blue shirts and be like, Dang, those women be mobbing and
they're inconsiderate. Inconsiderate is not us laughing
and joking in the morning like that woman put in the comment on
the New York Times, but it is ifwe're not considerate.
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So we have something called single file and smile.
It's a very simple we share the sidewalk with our neighbors.
We collapse into a single file line and let people pass.
We collapse to the right. It's actually really fun.
We start to do it like a military jail.
Single file and smile and boom we get information y'all, so
that's the third trek code. The 4th trek code Y'all is the
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girl trek pace. This one's important.
We don't be moseying. We really do be trying to work
up a sweat. We really are out there trying
to save our own lives and the goal you may not start there,
but the goal y'all is that you can work up to a 15 minute mile
all right then let's there's only two more.
The next one is we celebrate ourvictories at the end of every
walk y'all. We try to mark the fact that we
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did it. We could have been anywhere
else, but we chose to be on the pavement.
We have two traditional ways that we celebrate our victories
and we like to capture all of those celebrations and hashtag
them. Girl trek if you're on social
media so that you can inspire another woman out there.
But the victory celebrations include a victory bridge and you
can go on to YouTube and type inGirl check victory bridge.
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There's several examples and we'll put some on Instagram and
Facebook for y'all to see. But a victory bridge, put your
hands up, create a tunnel, let the women walk through.
It's also a perfect way to make sure no woman is left behind.
So if there's a woman who's a little bit behind, y'all can
just stand there and cheer her on and wait for the victory
bridge. Or you can do my personal
favorite, which is a joy. Jump high up in the air, swing
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your arms, swing your legs, get up high.
It's just a fun, celebratory. For both yourself and for the
folks around you. So celebrate your victories.
And the last one, which I just slightly mentioned is we tell
our story. And y'all, you could tell your
story in the group chat. You could tell your story at
praise and worship service on a Wednesday night at church.
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You could tell your story by calling up a friend.
This does not have to be social media.
Tell your story. But the point is, don't let the
goodness stop with you. Don't let the goodness just end
with what your experience is. But we really are on a mission
to grow the movement intentionally through word of
mouth because we want to bring as many of our sisters and our
friends behind along with us. So those are the trek codes.
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That was a talk before the walk.I promise you, every single
woman who's just sat through or walked through and listened to
this, you are ready right now tostart a Girl Trek crew.
There are thousands of crews outthere.
All right, now that we know how to start a Girl Trek walking
crew. Morgan I want to just do some
final shout outs for the Girl Trek Garden Club because beyond
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walking crews and Girl Trek, we are deeply organizing around the
things that help us to increase our life expectancy.
And for several years now we have been moving down a
nutrition route that is empowering and teaching women
and organizing women who are already starting gardens into a
Girl Trek Garden Club. This is an homage and a
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continuation of the garden clubsof the 50s and the 60s and the
70s especially. Like throughout Virginia and
throughout the South, there weregarden clubs that were really
powerful organizing Centers for women.
They remember there was 1 GardenClub where Martin Luther King
was like, that's where you got to go.
There was like, where you going to go visit when you come into
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town and me, there's like you got to go to the Garden Club
because black women were organizing in those garden clubs
in really yeah ways. And our Garden Club is.
AI want to give a shout out to Christina, who did so much of
this research for us and who laid the groundwork for Girl
Trek Gardeners. And I also want to give a shout
out to Angie, who worked directly with Christina and who
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has started to manage it in really beautiful, flawless ways.
These women are they're like, they're heroes to me.
Christina is comes from a familyof black farmers in South
Carolina and their land was given to them by Harriet Beecher
Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
And they're one of the oldest black farming families in
America. And she's so smart.
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And so I remember I was just telling somebody this on
Saturday night, she and I were sitting on the beach in South
Carolina and she was like, I gotit.
She was like, I got the idea we're going to do garden
clothes. And she just brought out the
Negro Garden book. And I so Christina, I, I see you
sister, and I just want to give you a shout out and give you
love. Christina to me is like up on a
mountain and a hill. Like she's aspirational in terms
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of where I hope to go with like my own kind of like she's always
seems like she hasn't like some sort of cool overalls or some
sort of she's always seems like she just seems like she was like
made for the land. And I don't feel that way.
Like I have never felt like thatdeep connection to the land in
that way. So I feel sheepish and shy
around learning to garden. And I live in an apartment now.
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I do have a nice balcony and I could garden on my balcony, but
I just haven't taken the initiative yet.
So this really was even a lessonfor me y'all, that I'm going to
1 go on to the Girl Trek Garden Club on Facebook.
If you're on Facebook, they havean entire community there that's
very, very active. You can e-mail us at
infogirltrek.org. You can put Garden Club in the
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subject line and we will connectyou with some resources via
Angie if you want to learn to garden.
But I am promising myself, Morgan, that by the time we get
to next Friday's episode, so I'mgiving myself seven days that I
will have planted on my balcony at least one thing.
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And I think I'm going to start simple.
Y'all, I googled, I'm going to start with mint because mint is
easy to grow. It actually grows wild.
So if you're putting it outside,be careful because it can really
take over the other plants. But for a balcony, it's actually
a really good thing for me to grow in a pot.
It's very easy and I use a lot of mint, so I'm going to start
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with mint. I'm going to grow it on my
balcony, and I'm inviting every single woman out there who's
feeling a little bit sheepish tostart with growing one thing.
All right, family, I hope you'vebeen inspired by this
conversation to think about yourneighborhood crew and how
starting a neighborhood crew could be such a value add to the
neighborhood and community that you are in.
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And I hope you've been inspired by this conversation around
gardening to think about what you can grow, what you can
plant, and what abundant harvestit will bring to your life.
These are two very practical, 2 very Hummingbird moves that when
we knit together could be the most significant, significant
things that we do as a communityto change generational outcomes
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for our families, especially as we're thinking about environment
and housing and land. I hope you all will join us back
on Monday because we are going to be back for self-care school
with a brand new week of episodes this weekend.
Please share one of these episodes that's really inspired
you with somebody and your friends or your family or your
community group. Please catch up.
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If you've missed any episodes, please make sure you download
your badge for this week. It's a Shirley Chisholm badge.
She's a bad Mamma jamma and you can get your Shirley Chisholm
badge, your digital badge. As a reminder, we will have
physical badges for everyone to purchase at the end of this live
10 week experience that we're doing that's going to end on
Juneteenth. That's all I got.
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I queued up. Morgan, do you have anything
else before I queue up? Our I do, I do, I feel like the
only thing I want to add is thatthe practical step for starting
a crew and starting a girl Trek garden is to let us know that
you're doing it so that we can count you among our ranks.
And so the easy way to do that is to bring up an e-mail right
now and just put in info@girltrek.org.
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And then the subject line, you can put crew if you want to
start a crew or in the subject line, you could put garden if
you want to start a garden. And our and our care, we have a
member care team. They will get you to the right
people. If you need more resources, they
will send you the field guide. So you don't have to look around
for anything. Just pull up your e-mail, type
in info@girltrek.org. Shout out to Marcy, shout out to
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Carla, who will help get you to the right person on our team so
that you can start a crew. It is very easy and you don't
have to tell us you can do it. There's crews all over the world
that we don't even know about, but to be counted, it's helpful
if we send you the step by step instructions.
So and then shout out to Katora if you are starting a crew and
you just want more tips and tricks.
She leads really wonderful workshops, so we're here to
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support. Yes, Morgan, thank you for that
information. Those were the announcements,
y'all. We're not passing the plate.
We're closing out for this Friday.
I am bringing in some of our ownbeautiful members from our old
school crew who are reading a beautiful rendition of Sonia
Sanchez's Catch a Fire. We're going to close out with
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this reading. Remember this reading, Morgan?
Where's your fire? Yeah, yeah.
So we're going to close this out.
It's a beautiful rendition of Sonia Sanchez's poem recited by
a few of our Girl Trek members. Thank you all for joining us.
Sometimes I wonder what to say to you now in the soft afternoon
air as you hold us all in a single depth.
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I say, where's your fire? I say, where's your fire?
You got to find it and pass it on.
You got to find it and pass it on from you to me, from me to
her, from her to him, from the son to the father, from the
brother to the sister, from the daughter to the mother.
From the mother to the child. Where is your fire?
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I say, Where's your fire? Can't you smell it coming out of
our past? The fire of living, not dying.
The fire of loving, not killing.The fire of blackness, not
gangster shadows. Where's our beautiful fire that
gave light to the world? The fire of pyramids?
The fire that burned through theholes of slave ships and made us
breathe? The fire that made guts into
(28:46):
chitlins. The.
Fire that took rhythms and made jazz.
The fire of SIT insurance and marches that made us jump
boundaries and barriers. The fire that took St.
Talk sounds. And made righteous I'm in hope
tip raps. Where's your fire?
The torch of life full of in Zynga and Nat Turner and Garvey
(29:06):
and Dubois and Fannie Lou Hammerand Martin and Malcolm and
Mandela. Sister, sister, brother, Brother
come. Sister, Sister, Brother,
Brother. Come, come, catch your fire.
Don't kill. Hold your fire.
Don't kill. Learn your fire.
Don't kill. Be the fire, don't kill.
(29:28):
Catch the fire and burn with eyes that see our souls walking,
singing, building, laughing, learning, loving, teaching,
being. Hey brother, brother, sister,
(29:48):
sister. Here is my hand.
Catch the fire and live, live, live, live, live, live, live,
live, live. Live, live, live.
Oh, I love that. I love this, I love this.
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