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Simple Families

Family Connection

Simple Families

Cloud10 and iHeartPodcasts

Kids & Family, Parenting, Education For Kids

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

I’m thrilled to welcome our first Mother-Daughter duo to the podcast today. Quyionah Wingfield and her daughter Serenity are entrepreneurs. They’ve written books, launched online dance classes, and now their first family game app. All their ventures have a common theme–building family connection. You can find Qui and Serenity here: Cool Moms Dance Too Website Cool Moms Dance Too on Instagram Gen Connect Game Quyionah Wingfield, mother of two, founder, creator and CEO of Cool Moms Dance Too! (CMDToo!), founder and host of Set An Intention For Your Day Morning show is a family health and wellness provider and advocate. Quyionah Wingfield co-founded CMDToo! an organization that focuses on family dance wellness and play to help improve physical and mental health for mothers and their children. Quyionah studied Psychology at Georgia State University and is an AFAA/NASM certified fitness instructor and CEU training provider. In 2018 Quyionah was an award recipient for Atlanta’s A3C Action Summit for Social Justice for her work addressing health disparities, health education and equity. Emory University’s Goizueta Business School’s Start:ME accelerator awarded Cool Moms Dance Too! for their business strategy and outstanding local community work. Quyionah successfully completed The Center for Civic Innovation and Sara Blakely Foundation’s fellowship. Currently, Quyionah and CMDToo is completing a incubator with the city of Atlanta’s Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative and has been featured as a #Forbes1000 company. Quyionah also has a background in Accounting and Finance most recently working with Audacy Communications; Radio Broadcasting Company. Serenity Marie is an entrepreneur, author and actor born and raised in Atlanta, GA. The daughter of entrepreneur Quyionah Wingfield, Serenity is a sweet and charismatic kidpreneur, co-founder of Cool Moms Dance Too!, and co-author of “The Bully Police Book.” In October 2021, Serenity and her mother released their first app, Gen Connect Game – The Game that gets Families Talking in an initiative to help 22,000 families by Spring of 2022 build stronger connections via communication and play. Her organization Cool Moms Dance Too has helps over 8,000 parents and children and has been featured as a #Forbes1000 company. In addition CMDToo! has created partnerships and collaborations with Invest Atlanta, Atlanta Hawks, Sara Blakely Foundation, Spanx, Mental Health America Georgia, NAMI Georgia, V103 Atlanta, Kate’s Club and more. Serenity studied dance with Kameo Production Studios, Ballethnic Dance Company and acting lessons at the Alliance Theatre and The Actors Scene. Her career accomplishments have been being featured on NBC 11-Alive, Cool Moms Dance Too series choreographer, opening for KidzBop Kids, working with Mental Health America GA and NAMI GA as a presenter. Serenity’s future aspirations are to be an interior designer and entrepreneur. The post Family Connection appeared first on Simple Families.

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0:00.0

So it is very important to be intentional about how we connect about the questions that we ask,

0:06.1

how we ask them and how we're building that constant communication and flow of engagement,

0:12.8

really, because we have to be creative. And I think that goes in in both ways, you know,

0:18.6

being creative about how we address life as a family and being creative about how we engage with

0:26.5

one another on various levels. Hi, this is Dene. I'm the founder of Simple Families. Simple

0:34.3

Families is an online community for parents who are seeking a simpler, more intentional life.

0:40.1

In this show, we focus on minimalism with kids, positive parenting, family wellness,

0:45.9

and decreasing the mental load. My perspectives are based in my first-hand experience raising kids,

0:52.0

but also rooted in my PhD in child development. So you're going to hear conversations that are

0:57.6

based in research, but more importantly, real life. Thanks for joining us.

1:07.2

Hi there. I am excited to welcome Keanu Wingfield and her daughter's Serenity to the podcast

1:11.7

today. This is the first time I've ever had a mother daughter duo. Key and Serenity are

1:17.0

entrepreneurs. They have written books together, launched online hip-hop dance classes,

1:24.0

and most recently a family game in the form of an app. The one thing that underlies

1:29.2

all of their work is the need to improve and increase connection with our children,

1:35.7

especially as they get older. I think you're going to enjoy hearing about their process and their

1:41.2

work, and I encourage you to download the app GenConnect, GEN Connect. Key and Serenity are

1:47.5

aiming to get 22,000 families to download and use the app by 2022. And it might be the perfect

1:53.2

thing to get your family talking to each other this holiday season. Speaking of the holiday season,

1:58.3

I am having somewhat of an anti-black Friday sale. I'm doing 20% off of my tame the toys workshop.

2:06.8

If you are ready and committed to scaling back on the toys this holiday season,

2:11.8

go to simplefamilies.com forward slash toys. You can use the promo code NOV for November,

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