S2 E10 - The Amber Anderson Episode | Keeping Surprises, How Many Kids & Olive Juice
Amber Anderson stops by the studio to continue our talk about relationships. We love hearing origin stories of how people met, and Amber tells us about how she fell in love with her husband’s lightning bolt hair, his quirks and his chivalry (AND the legit swagger move that reeled her in).
How do you know when it’s time to get married? Is fate a thing? Just how and when do we talk to our kids about race? And what's for dinner?? No, seriously. Aren’t you making dinner?
All that and more as Amber breaks down life as a working mother of four, maintaining her creative side, keeping up with @OliveJuiceBlog, keeping up with that husband energy, and all while keeping it real for the Mixed Modern Family.
We want to connect with you. Please reach out to us at the following info@mixedmodernfamily.com www.mixedmodernfamily.com Twitter : @mixedmodernfam Instagram: @mixedmodernfamily iTunes Google Play You can find Amber at the following: www.olivejuiceblog.com www.olivejuicegoods.com
This week, we look at another side of the Mixed Modern Family experience as we talk with Sam Anderson. Father of four, husband, and Pastor, Sam walks with me through the sucky parts of marriage, diversity in the church, and filling out that Nissan Envy.
Sam is a truth preaching, dad life loving, down to earth dude, keepin it 100. And this episode is jam packed with #mmfam topics like babies and our babes. Sam also schools us on ‘soul care’ and how it plays into this new political climate. Plus, I poke a little to find out if everyone really is welcome at church, like the sign says.
In the end, Sam shares his perspective (brought to you by thee JC) about why the goal is unity and the way is grace and forgiveness and caring for each other more than we care for ourselves. Food for thought. I’ll bite.
Check out this week’s episode as we sit down with one of L.A.P.D.’s finest, former Officer Anthony Escobar. This is a guy I’ve come to gain tremendous respect for in a short period of time. In this episode, Anthony and I are able to have an honest and open conversation, diving into Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter.
This week’s conversation is very important to me because the topic is the reason Mixed Modern Family exists. I set out to shine light on the back stories and the understanding that seem to get lost in oversimplification these days. There’s not really a right or wrong conclusion. We simply wanted to share different perspectives. Today I think we do just that.
Once you’ve checked out today’s episode, I encourage you to have a healthy conversation with your friends or acquaintances with different points of view. And reach out to your local law enforcement officers. Let's talk to each other. Let's listen to each other.
So, thanks for this listen. Have a great week and know that you are liked, you are loved and most importantly, you're okay.
Big thanks to Anthony Escobar
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Have you ever wondered what the cultural experience is like for those who are biracial or multicultural? This week we talk with multicultural film maker Eli Steele about his latest creation, “I am or How Jack Became Black”.
This film is a wonderful exploration into the reality multicultural people deal with in identifying with the different cultures that make up their ancestral background. Sometimes forced to check a box, Eli takes on a journey of exploration into the various experience of being multicultural
Eli has been a filmmaker for quite sometime now. With pilot projects for MTV as well as other previous work. What I find interesting about his film making it that he is partially deaf. While this is not a topic of his latest film, it intrigue me to know how it impacts his filmmaking style...BUT please, do not take that as a criticism. It’s more of an acknowledgement of how being deaf could add another awesome dimension to the filmmaking process. So enjoy this week's episode.
Hey fam, this week’s conversation is dedicated to all that struggle with suicidal thoughts and depression. Depression can feel very lonely and unforgiving. You feel as though no one can relate but we disagree.
In today’s discussion we talk about the realities of dealing with depression and real steps you can take to address it.
This was just one sincere conversation about depression and suicide. There’s a lot we covered, but there’s so much more that we didn’t even get to. So please, keep talking. Say more.
I want to take a minute to really drive home the idea that feeling suicidal is not always a place or a space that a person can think their way out of on their own. Its very existence requires that ideas that seem “more rational”, in the very least, are difficult to access or act on.
And fighting depression, it’s relentless. It’s hard to realize that you are even in the clenches before you are deep in the hole with the darkness closing in. And fighting a battle so unforgiving and so personal and that damn stealthy… well, these are some of the strongest people among us humans. And we don’t give them enough credit.
QJ asks, if I only had one minute to help a person who is thinking of ending their life, what would I say… and during the conversation, I struggled with this question because I know so deeply that the response to a person feeling this low cannot be just some pocket line of supposed sunshine. Because they have likely been through a different pain than I could ever even begin to comprehend or imagine or think up.
If you feel this way, please know that you are not alone, you DO have choices. Find community, like a church. Make a new friend for which you can tell all your faults. Finally, please call The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline @ 800.273.8255 if all else fails.
Just know that you...YES YOU are liked, your are loved but most importantly, you are OK.
