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Resilient Voices & Beyond

Resilient Voices & Beyond

著者： Michael D. Davis-Thomas Aka MDDTSpeaks
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 Resilient Voices & Beyond is a podcast that amplifies the voices of those who were once silenced and aims to empower a new generation of foster care alum leaders. Through conversations with community partners, leaders, advocates, and activists, this podcast educates listeners on reforms, policies, and advocacy related to foster care, adoption, kinship, CCIs, JJ, and the child welfare system. The podcast challenges stigmas and labels surrounding these topics and creates a dialogue on reform and advocacy that is already happening or needs to happen. The core values of Resilient Voices & Beyond include empowerment, inclusivity, education, collaboration, authenticity, and innovation. The mission of the podcast is to create a platform for silenced voices to be heard and received, while the vision is to inspire and empower a new generation of leaders committed to making a positive change in the world.Michael D. Davis-Thomas/MDDTSpeaks 心理学 心理学・心の健康 衛生・健康的な生活
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  • “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 2

    “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 2
    2025/07/12
    🎙️ Episode 49 – Season 3
    Title: "Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” (Part 2)
    Guests: Bobbi Taylor (Founder & CEO, Proximate Solution) & Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW (Clinical Social Worker, Advocate, Foster Care Alumni)
    Host: Michael D. Davis-Thomas | Founder & CEO, MDDTSpeaks

    💥 Episode Description:

    In Part 2 of our ground-shifting series "Broken Systems, Funded Silence," we continue the courageous conversation that most platforms avoid—dissecting the dangerous comfort between nonprofits and government systems. This episode isn’t just a discussion. It’s an exposé.

    Host and systems reformer Michael D. Davis-Thomas sits down with two national powerhouses: Bobbi Taylor, a cross-sector systems leader and Founder/CEO of Proximate Solution, and Tamara Dillard, a licensed clinical social worker, policy influencer, and fierce advocate. Together, they deconstruct the nonprofit-industrial complex—unpacking how funding stipulations, performance-based contracts, and “collaborative” partnerships often dilute community-centered missions into digestible, data-driven deliverables for the very systems they’re supposed to challenge.

    From the trauma of tokenization to the manipulation of “lived experience,” this episode brings the raw truth: nonprofits cannot claim proximity to community while dancing to the tune of governmental preservation.

    We ask hard questions:
    • What happens when organizations built to fight systems start protecting them instead?
    • Can you really center community if you're still begging for permission to speak?
    • What does ethical inclusion look like when your invitation comes with a muzzle?
    Michael, Bobbi, and Tamara also reflect on deeply personal stakes—sharing their own sacrifices, burnout, and battles with survival in a world that capitalizes on their pain but rarely funds their power. They address the emotional tax of being the bridge, the weight of being “brought in but not brought under,” and the exhausting cycle of being visible yet voiceless.

    Tamara reminds us: being showcased is not the same as being centered. Bobbi adds: transparency without accountability is just theater. And Michael? He gives voice to the silent screams of so many: we are tired of being sold as data and discarded as people. This episode is both an indictment and an invitation—to reimagine, rebuild, and reclaim nonprofit work as sacred, not systemic.

    🔊 Listen in as we honor truth, challenge power, and amplify the unapologetic voices of those who have not only survived the system—but are actively rewriting it.

    🎧 Now streaming everywhere podcasts are available.
    🧾 Support the podcast, share this episode, and let the world hear what funded silence can no longer bury.

    📚 Featured Book: Letters to the Village by Tamara Dillard – Available now on Amazon. 📌 Take Action:
    • Support this work through donations, reviews, and reposts.
    • Book these guests for your next training, panel, or consulting engagement.
    • Demand better from the nonprofits in your region—follow the funding, follow the harm.
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    1 時間 31 分
  • “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1

    “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1
    2025/05/31
    Season 3, Episode 48
    🎙️ Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast
    Title: “Broken Systems, Funded Silence: Deconstructing the Nonprofit-Gov Pipeline” – Part 1

    In this explosive Part 1 of a two-part special, Resilient Voices & Beyond dives into one of the most underexamined yet critical realities in system reform: the nonprofit-to-government pipeline. Host Michael D. Davis-Thomas, nationally recognized advocate and Founder of MDDTSpeaks, sits down with two powerhouse changemakers—Bobbi Taylor, Founder & CEO of Proximate Solution, and Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW, clinical therapist, policy influencer, and child welfare advocate—for an unfiltered, intellectually rigorous, and emotionally grounded conversation about how broken systems are not only funded but protected by silence.

    We confront the sacred cows.
    We name what’s often hushed.
    We question whether systems are “broken”—or simply functioning as they were always designed to.

    These leaders don’t speak from theory. They speak from trenches. From lived experience as alumni of foster care and juvenile justice. From boardrooms where reform is discussed but rarely lived. From advocacy tables where funding decisions eclipse impact. This is a conversation about ethics, power, complicity, and survival in professional spaces that demand proximity—but punish truth-telling.

    Together, we dissect how nonprofits, while often well-intentioned, can become complicit in systemic harm by prioritizing contracts over community, grants over grassroots, and optics over outcomes. We explore how lived experience is sometimes tokenized rather than empowered—and what it looks like to reclaim that narrative.

    Featured Guests:

    Bobbi Taylor – Founder & CEO, Proximate Solution
    National systems-change strategist | Child welfare + juvenile justice advocate | Lived experience leader | Thriving Families Safer Children Executive Committee | Researcher, author, policy contributor

    Tamara Dillard, MSW, CSW – Clinical Therapist & Child Welfare Advocate
    Foster care alumni | Mental health professional | State & national policy influencer | Public speaker | Systems disruptor | University of Kentucky graduate

    Key Themes Explored:
    • GROUNDING TRUTH: What it means to live through systems before analyzing them
    • TOKENIZATION VS. TRANSFORMATION: The risk of nonprofits centering funding over lived wisdom
    • FUNDED SILENCE: The invisible cost of staying quiet in systems built on compliance
    • VALUES VS. PAYCHECK: Holding onto truth in institutions that reward forgetting
    • BAND-AID POLICIES: When intention isn’t enough, and how surface-level reforms deepen wounds
    • THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH: Retaliation, blackballing, and standing in integrity despite it all
    • HISTORICAL ROOTS: The evolution of foster care as a profit-generating system, from orphan trains to federal incentives
    This episode is for you if:
    • You’ve worked in or alongside nonprofits and wondered why real change feels so far away
    • You’ve ever questioned whether advocacy is being bought and sold
    • You’ve been silenced, sidelined, or tokenized—and want language for what happened
    • You believe truth-tellers deserve platforms, not punishment
    🎧 Listen in as truth meets strategy, advocacy meets accountability, and silence is shattered—one story, one truth, one system at a time.

    Produced by: MDDTSpeaks Media
    This podcast is recorded, edited, and released independently to protect the integrity of truth-tellers and lived experts. Support our work through reviews, donations, and by sharing these stories that systems too often suppress.

    Because silence is comfort for systems—but truth is freedom for people.
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    1 時間 9 分
  • "Your direction is more important than your speed."

    "Your direction is more important than your speed."
    2025/05/17
    Season 3, Episode 47

    Title: “Your direction is more important than your speed.”

    Subtitle: From Surviving to Serving: Reclaiming Purpose Through Pain

    In this deeply moving episode of the Resilient Voices & Beyond Podcast, host Michael D. Davis-Thomas (MDDTSpeaks) sits down with Andrea Atkins—a single mother of four, foster care alumni, and child welfare specialist—for an unfiltered, soul-stirring conversation about survival, motherhood, healing, and the audacity to rewrite your own narrative.

    With raw vulnerability and unwavering strength, Andrea shares her journey through the foster care system—beginning with removal at age four, adoption at ten, and ultimately a disrupted adoption that led her to find family in unexpected places. But this isn’t just a story about trauma. It’s a testimony of intentional healing, of learning to embrace authenticity after years of masking pain, and of turning personal wounds into a mission of service.

    Now a child welfare professional, Andrea doesn’t just occupy space in the system—she’s reshaping it. Fueled by lived experience and maternal wisdom, she advocates for youth who feel voiceless and unseen, helping to create trauma-informed spaces rooted in dignity, empathy, and care. This episode unpacks the messy, miraculous in-between: the tension of healing while serving, the weight of single motherhood, and the power in moving forward—not fast, but faithfully.

    Key Themes Covered:
    • Growing up in and aging out of the foster care system
    • Navigating disrupted adoption, identity loss, and cultural disconnection
    • Breaking cycles and reclaiming voice through motherhood
    • The unspoken pressures of “beating the statistics”
    • From performance to purpose: why healing is the real work
    • Systemic gaps in child welfare and the role of lived experience experts
    • Self-forgiveness, therapy, and the slow walk toward wholeness
    • The power of proximity in advocacy and why small actions matter
    Whether you’re a parent, professional, survivor, or simply someone navigating life’s unpredictable terrain—this episode will meet you right where you are. Andrea’s story is proof that your pain is not pointless, your pace is not your identity, and your past doesn’t disqualify your purpose.

    Guest: Andrea Atkins
    • Foster Care Alumni | Child Welfare Specialist | Advocate | Boy Mom of 4
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    1 時間 1 分

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