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The Papaya Podcast

The One About Ancestral Teachings, Motherhood & Truth with Tasha Spillett-Sumner

The Papaya Podcast

The Papaya Podcast

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tasha Spillet-Sumner is an Afro-Indigenous NYT Bestselling Author, speaker, PhD Candidate and Mama. Today we sit down to talk about the ancestral teachings that helped her move through motherhood, into her writing and work that she does today. Join us for a powerful and moving conversation around what led Tasha here now, isolation with a new baby back into the world, and talking about the unsettling of things we thought to be true (and so much more).

Follow Tasha @Tasha.Spillett on IG, read her blog tashaspillett.com and find her books “I Sang You Down From The Stars” & series “Surviving the City”

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a deer media production.

0:05.9

Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

0:10.0

I'm your hostess, Trine Hermosta, Sarah Nicole, and each week I'm going to be

0:14.4

dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

0:20.6

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in the

0:25.5

digital space together.

0:33.8

Today's guest is no exception. I have not had a hour I want to say where I haven't thought

0:40.0

about some of the things that she said to me when we recorded this. So I'm so excited to welcome

0:46.7

her to this show. Take a listen, get your tissues potentially ready because I got a little tear

0:55.2

jerked at this a couple times. But I just think she's just one of the most special humans and I'm

1:01.8

so grateful to have been introduced to her. So thanks for listening. As always, adore you so much.

1:09.1

And also thanks to our sponsors who by the way are the reason we get to produce and put on

1:13.9

the show. So thank you for listening to their messages as well because they always give us such

1:19.8

incredible coupon codes and they give us such amazing offers and they just are really great to

1:25.7

work with. They wouldn't be on the show if they weren't incredible to work with. So thank you so

1:29.5

much for them as well. Let's get into today's show. Just wanted to kind of just say hi.

1:34.2

Take a little breather. I haven't done a solo pod in a while. I'll do one this summer. We're

1:38.1

going to have like a fun Q&A this summer. I'm figuring out how to do it. I haven't like 100%

1:42.7

figured it out yet. I mean, everybody's told me how to do it a few times. I just haven't actually

1:47.2

put that into action. My editor, Nick, is listening to this right now. And it's like Sarah, I've

1:52.0

already, I've already emailed you instructions like 45 times. But there's going to be like a call

1:56.2

in episode where we can, you can call in and leave a voicemail and I'll be able to listen and answer

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