This episode closes Season Two: The Rerootd Renaissance with a grounded reflection on creative clarity and returning to vision.

Kaylyn offers a series of intentional practices to support artists and creatives as we transition into Spring 2026. Drawing inspiration from Octavia Butler’s Earthseed philosophy, this episode invites us to remember that when vision is clear, direction follows.

This episode also weaves together wisdom from this season’s guest speakers, offering a closing integration of the Rerootd Renaissance.

Together, we explore:

• Creative clarity as a daily practice

• Discipline through a compassionate, creative lens

• The role of wellness in sustaining artistic flow

• Witnessing, slowing down, and protecting your attention

• Returning to the body through craft and ritual

• Releasing distraction to reconnect with purpose

Episode Chapters

00:00 Welcome & Arrival

02:10 Grounding in gratitude

04:30 Earthseed reflection & vision

08:15 Practices for creative clarity

36:00 Community invitation

38:00 Closing reflections

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Resources & Mentions

📖 Parable of the Sower + Parable Series

https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries

📜 Earthseed Text

https://godischange.org/the-book-of-the-living-verse-56-when-vision-fails/

Cover Art: Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove in Nigeria

Invitation:

🌱 Rerootd Spring Community Kickback

🗓️ March 21

🕓 10am - 2pm

📍 Inglewood, Edward Vincent Park

RSVP: https://partiful.com/e/rnBZSu3kKHbknYiVX4Ui?c=1EF9Ua8Z

This is the final episode of the season—a moment to pause, reflect, and carry these practices forward.

From where I am, to wherever you are — thank you for listening with presence.

stay rootd. 🌱

Episode Description

This episode continues Season Two: The Rerootd Renaissance with a real conversation on artistry, ancestry, and the healing power of craft & community.

Kaylyn is joined by Moreau Halliburton — multidisciplinary Artist, Percussionist, Visual Storyteller, Community Crafter— for a heartfelt dialogue on reconnecting creativity with lineage, play, and cultural memory. Moreau is the Founder of HOMELAND BEADING🇬🇭.

Together, we explore:

* Craft as a gateway to ancestral connection

* Creativity as a form of cultural remembrance

* Diaspora journeys and artistic transformation

* Learning from Ghana and reconnecting with traditional beadwork

* Moving through creative blocks with play and curiosity

* Building community through art, workshops, and shared storytelling

This conversation invites creatives to remember that art is not only expression — it is connection, memory, and bridge-building across the diaspora.

Episode Chapters

00:00 Welcome & grounding meditation

02:10 Introducing Moreau Halliburton

06:40 Creative beginnings & crafting as a child

12:00 Live looping, music & creative exploration

18:18 Defining wellness through balance and love

22:04 Ghana journey & creative transformation

29:02 Discovering beadwork and cultural lineage

35:08 Ancestry and reconnecting with diaspora roots

40:37 Creating a film in Ghana

49:08 Film festival screening & creative future

56:49 Creative blocks & the importance of play

59:50 Adults rediscovering creativity

1:00:40 Closing reflections

Guest Spotlight

Moreau Halliburton is a proud born and raised Los Angelino who creates for herself and those who find comfort and inspiration in her personal expression. Their short film “Beads Build Bridges” screened at the 2024 Pan African Film Festival and they continue to facilitate beading/screening popups to educate and bring communities together. Moreau’s purpose is to give and receive Love through the Arts as she strives to remain a life-long learner.

Through workshops, film, and community gatherings, Moreau creates spaces where art becomes a bridge — linking creativity, heritage, and collective healing.

Connect with Moreau

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/m.reau/

Homeland Beading

https://www.instagram.com/homeland.beading/

Beads Build Bridges Documentary

https://www.beadsbuildbridges.com/

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Stay rootd. 🌱

Kaylyn is joined by Raishad Momar — storyteller, journalist, and Ifá practitioner — for a grounded dialogue on what it means to create while witnessing the world honestly.

Episode Chapters

00:00 Welcome & Arrival

02:45 Meeting Raishad Momar

06:12 Creative beginnings & journalism

12:38 Witnessing vs. reacting

19:20 Ifá, alignment & spiritual grounding

27:05 Media responsibility & cultural narrative

35:44 The role of the storyteller

42:10 Tools for staying rooted

48:55 Closing reflections

Guest Spotlight:

Raishad Momar

Website: https://raishadmomar.com/about

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ifabami.o/

Film Mentioned: Black News Terms and Conditions

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- Toni Cade Bambar

Sources :

🌱Toni Cade Bambara

🌱Documentary Film: TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing Film

🌱aja monet

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Kaylyn is joined by Adekunle “Kay” Rufai — artist, traveler, and founder of the Smiling Boys/Girls Project — for a powerful dialogue on what it means to create from your soul in a world shaped by capitalism.

Together, they explore:

🔆Art as a spiritual practice, not a product

🔆Choosing integrity over industry pressure

🔆Creativity as a form of healing and liberation

🔆The role of ancestors, lineage, and cultural memory in artistic expression

🔆Why artists are being called to remember their responsibility — not just their talent

Episode Chapters

00:00 Welcome to Rerootd Radio

02:03 Meet Adekunle “Kay” Rufai

04:07 Creative origins & poetry as medicine

08:31 When wellness entered the journey

12:44 Integrity, industry & walking away from music

19:14 Ancestors, Yoruba lineage & Fela Kuti

24:41 Non-negotiable wellness practices

30:45 Creativity as magic & spiritual channeling

36:00 Environment, pace & creative flow

41:47 What artists are being called to remember

48:50 Tools for creative block & wellbeing

52:35 Where to find Kay & Smiling Boys

54:49 Closing reflections

Guest Spotlight

Adekunle “Kay” Rufai is a British-Nigerian artist whose work spans visual art, poetry, fashion, and community-based healing. He is the founder of the Smiling Boys Project and Smiling Girls Project, initiatives rooted in happiness research, mental health, and dismantling stereotypes around Black youth.

Instagram: @universoulartist

Smiling Boys Project: @smilingboysproject

Smiling Girls Project: @smilinggirlsproject

Sources & Inspiration Mentioned:

1. Wole Soyinka

2. Chinua Achebe

3. Fela Anikulapo Kuti

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In episode 3 Kaylyn pauses to reflect on the meaning of art.

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction to ReRooted and the Theme of Art

07:02 Defining Art: Perspectives and Etymology

21:08 Afrocentric Perspectives on Art and Character

26:58 The Revolutionary Nature of Art and Creativity

Sources :

🌱Gloria Ogunbadejo

“Tapping into one’s creative potential requires breaking down barriers that hinder artistic expression” …As creativity flows, so does the connection to ancestral wisdom.”

🌱Art etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/art

🌱 Yoruba Aesthetics: Beauty and Character - Rowland Abiodun (Etymology of Art in Yoruba)

🌱 Divinity, Creativity, and Humanity in Yoruba Aesthetics - Babatunde Laval

🌱 Voices Of IWA

🌱 An Art Movement Built on Ancestral Wisdom https://youtu.be/741j2Jne1EM?si=Dmk-4ww2wGWOctv

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Stay rootd. 🌱

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In episode two, Season Two: The Rerootd Renaissance Kaylyn is joined by Danny Fluker Jr. — meditation teacher, yoga educator, author, and founder of Black Boys Om — for a reflective dialogue on creativity, wellness, and ancestral remembering.

Together, they explore what it means to live as a multi-hyphenate artist rooted in embodiment rather than burnout, how wellness becomes creative infrastructure, and why artists are not separate from their healing work — they are the medicine.

This conversation invites listeners to slow down, tend to themselves, and remember art as a sacred practice of community care and cultural survival.

~ Danny is offering 5 free copies of Book 1 to Rerootd listeners. See below for details ~

Episode Chapters:

00:00 Welcome & Arrival

03:18 Meeting Danny Fluker Jr.

06:42 Creative Origins & Lineage

10:55 When Art Becomes Identity

15:30 Wellness, Burnout & Returning to the Body

22:40 Artists as Healers & Ancestors in Training

28:10 Creating in an AI-Driven World

34:05 Tools for Staying Rooted

39:20 Closing Reflections & Offerings

Guest Spotlight:

Danny Fluker Jr. is the founder of Black Boys Om, an organization dedicated to empowering Black boys and men through culturally grounded mind-body healing practices, including yoga, meditation, somatic movement, and trauma-informed wellness arts.

Danny is also the author of the Afro-futurist novel series A Walk in the Night Sun, with Book 2 released earlier this year.

Sources :

🔆 DannySpeaksPeace

🔆 Black Boys Om

🔆 A Walk in the Night Sun (Book Series): Book 2 now available on Amazon Send a DM to @Rerootdradio on Instagram or email Kaylyn.irshard@gmail.com

🔆 Retreat for Men of Color: Healing, Rest & Embodied Liberation for Men of Color

📍 Esalen Institute, Big Sur — June 2026

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Season Two expands into community and conversation, inviting guest speakers who live at the intersection of art, wellness, and ancestral remembering.

Episode Chapters:00:00 Welcome03:42 Season One Reflections05:51 Updates & New Beginnings08:10 Season Two Vision10:01 The Role of Artists17:21 R.O.O.T.S Values

Sources & Inspiration:African Philosophy and the Creative Arts in Africa: What should they Mean to each Other and Why? LAWRENCE OGBO UGWUANYI

yasiin bey quote from Dave Chappell podcast “Midnight Miracle”

Toni Morrison snippet: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPUH53SikXZ/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Who are Your Artistic Ancestors

Peace & welcome to Rerootd Radio.

From where I am, to wherever you are — thank you for your presence.

Return to this episode whenever you need grounding and remembrance.

Stay rooted. 🌱

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Peace & Welcome to Re.rootd Radio

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Tune in to Rerootd Radio Playlist - Summer 2025

🌱 Invitation

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A weekly multi-sensory broadcast — featuring a visual affirmation collage, a podcast, and a curated playlist — generated to nourish your inner child, reconnect you to your why, and invite play into your creative practice.

🌿 Re/flections

* What are the highlights you are grateful for from your summer?

* What are you celebrating yourself for? What did you accomplish this summer?

* What was your anthem this summer? (Song)

🍃 Symbol of the Week: Owia A Repu

Learn more

(Origin: The Akan peoples of Ghana)

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🌿 Reminders

* We need you. We need your medicine. We need your voice.

* The change you’re going through right now will all make sense in the future.

* You are naturally creative.

* When you are in your authentic expressive state of being, everyone around you is blessed.

* Shine your light, beloved. Please, for your sake and for your community’s sake — do not let this world take your light.

🌻 Tune in... 🎶

This playlist is a sonic companion for your week — curated for grounding, remembering, and uplifting yourself.This week we are reminded of our genius, and encouraged to love all that we are.

🎧 Rerootd Radio Playlist

🍃 Symbol of the Week: Funtummireku-Denkyemmireku

Funtummireku-Denkyemmireku translates to “a two-headed crocodile with a common stomach.”

It is a symbol of the oneness of the human family despite cultural differences, reminding us of the need for unity — especially where people share one destiny.

Learn more(Origin: The Akan peoples of Ghana)

Return to these reminders & playlists whenever you need.

With gratitude,Kaylyn

A weekly multi-sensory broadcast — featuring a visual affirmation collage, a podcast, and a curated playlist — generated to nourish your inner child, reconnect you to your why, and invite play into your creative practice.

From where I am, to wherever you are in this moment — thank you for your presence.

This week we explore the intersections of art and wellness in practice. I share case studies of artists in my own community who embody both creativity and healing practice. Together we reflect on the artistic renaissance we’re living through — where the artist remembers their role of bringing wellness to the community.

🌿 Case Studies: Renaissance Artists

* Alice Coltrane

* Etienne Maurice — WalkGood LA

* Hugh Augustine + Hugh’s Hot Bowls

* Tesha Smith

* Website

* Meditation Album

* Dorothy Randall Gray

* Kay Rufai

🌳 Check in ...

Who in your community embodies both art and healing?How do you see your own creativity as a form of medicine?

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 8

This playlist is a sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, remembering, and uplifting yourself. This week we are reminded of our genius, and encouraged to love all that we are.

🍃 Symbol of the Week: AKOMA NTOSO

Sankofa is a symbol that means "linked hearts."

The physical symbol depicts four hearts linked together, emphasizing mutual sympathy and immortality of the soul. Metaphorically, akoma ntoso embodies understanding and agreement, as well as harmony within communities.

Learn more

(Origin: The Akan peoples of Ghana)

🌱 Invitation

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With gratitude,Kaylyn

1. Creativity is the natural order of life. Life is energy: pure creative energy.

2. There is an underlying, in-dwelling creative force infusing all of life -- including ourselves.

3. When we open ourselves to our creativity, we open ourselves to the creator's creativity within us and our lives.

4. We are, ourselves, creations. And we, in turn, are meant to continue creativity by being creative ourselves.

5. Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God.

6. The refusal to be creative is self-will and is counter to our true nature.

7. When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction.

8. As we open our creative channel to the creator, many gentle but powerful changes are to be expected.

9. It is safe to open ourselves up to greater and greater creativity.

10. Our creative dreams and yearnings come from a divine source. As we move toward our dreams, we move toward our divinity.

🌳 Check in ...

What came up when you heard these principles today? Which ones stand out to you?

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 5

This playlist is a sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, remembering, and uplifting yourself. his week we embrace the chaos and beauty of being creative. 

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🍃 Symbol of the Week: Osiadan Nyame

Osiadan Nyame is a symbol that means “God, the builder”. It represents God as the creator and sustainer of all things.

(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

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Return to these Affirmations & the playlist whenever you need.

With gratitude,

Kaylyn

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Creative Inspo:

Doechii on YouTube - Creative Recovery

Freestyle beat: “iseegod” by @gettcy on IG

A weekly dispatch of a multi-sensory broadcast — featuring a visual affirmation collage, a voice note, and a curated playlist — generated to nourish your inner child, reconnect you to your why, and invite play into your creative practice.

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This week we were blessed by the presence of two young voices who shared these Affirmations & reminders. I invite you to give yourself space to repeat them three times each out loud, whispered, or in your mind.

August 14 2025 Reminders

Jayden (12th Grade)

* Stay Funny, Stay Real, Stay Honest

* Speak UP

* Stay Determined

Amani (7th Grade)

* Keep Creating

* Stay Motivated

* Don’t Be Sad… Find things to Be happy About

Affirmations from your Innerchild

I am Funny I am Very Kind I am a Great Person to talk to when somebody needs someone to talk to

I am Amazing

I am Very Talented and Creative

My energy is Magnetic

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What came up when you heard these affirmations from the youth today?

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 5

This playlist is a sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, remembering, and uplifting yourself. This weeks' tracks focus on processing.

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🍃 Symbol of the Week: Sankofa

Sankofa is a symbol that means “Go back and get it”. It comes from the Akan proverb "Se wo were fi na wosan kofa a yenkyiri," which translates to “It is not taboo to go back for what you forgot (or left behind).”

It reminds us to look back at our past in order to create our future. More than a symbol, it is a principle of the Afrocentric worldview to honor our Ancestors and where we come from.

(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

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With gratitude,Kaylyn

A weekly dispatch of a multi-sensory broadcast — featuring a visual affirmation collage, a voice note, and a curated playlist — generated to nourish your inner child, reconnect you to your why, and invite play into your creative practice.

August 7 2025 Affirmations

* I Am Processing my Life Everyday

* I Make Space and Time to Review my Emotions and Experiences

* I Am in a Loving Reciprocal Relationship with the Earth

* I Allow myself to be Clear and Present in my Process

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 5

This playlist is a sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, remembering, and flowing back to yourself. This weeks' tracks focus on processing.

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🍃 Symbol of the Week: Asese Ye Duru

The Adinkra symbol of Asese Ye Duru translates to "The Earth has weight" or "The Earth is heavy”. It is a symbol of the divinity of Earth that emphasizes reverence for nature in the Afrocentric worldview.

(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

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Features:

Book: Earth Doula by Queen Hollins

Queen is a queer Black Indigenous healer and the Founder and Cultural Director of the Earthlodge Center for Transformation

With gratitude,Kaylyn

From where I am, to wherever you are in this moment — thank you for your presence.

R:R is a weekly dispatch of a multi-sensory broadcast — featuring a visual collage, a voice note, and a curated playlist — generated to nourish your inner child, reconnect you to your why, and invite play into your practice.

I invite you to give yourself space to engage with these re:flections out loud, in a journal, in meditation, or any expression.

July 30 2025 Re:flections

* Where can you be more honest with yourself as an artist?

* Who do you trust to engage in dialogue in your creative process?

* In what ways has the conditioning of social media influence your creative process?

* WHAT IS STOPPING YOU FROM RELEASING THAT PROJECT?

🌻 Tune in ... Rerootd Radio: Ep. 4 🎶

Listen to the playlist here.

🍃 Symbol of the Week: Nokore

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Find the full affirmations visual on Rerootd Ep. 3

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 3 Playlist

🍃 Symbol of the Week: Akoko Nan

This Adinkra symbol of the foot of a hen (Akoko Nan) represents nurturing in harmony with discipline. It comes from the proverb, “Akoko nan tia ba na enkum ba,” literally, “The foot of a hen steps on the child (chick) but it doesn’t kill the child.”

(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/symbols/akoko-nan/

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Find the full list of affirmations on Rerootd Radio Ep. 2

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 2

A sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, remembering, and flowing back to yourself. This weeks’ tracks focus on the inner child :)

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🍃 Symbol of the Week: Akoko Nan

This Adinkra symbol of the foot of a hen (Akoko Nan) represents nurturing in harmony with discipline. It comes from the proverb, “Akoko nan tia ba na enkum ba,” literally, “The foot of a hen steps on the child (chick) but it doesn’t kill the child.”

(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/symbols/akoko-nan/

🌱 Invitation

Thank you for taking a moment to pause with intention.

If these affirmations resonated with you, please join the Rerooted email list. I want you to be the first to know about the episodes!

With gratitude,

Kaylyn

Rerootd Radio Ep. 1 Permission to be Enough (July 10 2025)

🌻 Tune in ... 🎶 Rerootd Radio: Ep. 1 Playlist

A sonic companion for your week. Curated for grounding, softening, and flowing back to yourself.

🍃 Symbol of the Week: Denkyem

This Adinkra symbol of the turtle represents adaptability, resilience, and the wisdom to move through challenge with grace.(Origin - The Akan peoples of Ghana)

🌱 Invitation

Thank you for taking a moment to pause with intention.

With gratitude,Kaylyn