CONFETTI ALL AROUND
Rooted in Reflection presents Confetti All Around, a podcast that provides an intimate space for vulnerability, inner child joy and ancestral energy to co-exist and give generously to others listening for the comfort and the cuentos. Confetti All Around is intimate and brave. It's compassionate and timely. We are pulling back the veil on all the work behind the scenes of coming to this part of our lives where we can celebrate and rejoice from the roots to the fruits!Mission:On Confetti All Around we hold space for the celebration of our success and the mess after the party's over. We dive into vulnerability to share a moment in our lives we thought we did not have direction or felt utterly defeated and the lessons learned from them to get to where we are now. We center self compassion, creativity and intergenerational healing. Host:Confetti All Around is hosted by Chicana Therapist Cynthia Perez, LCSW who has worked in the field of Los Angeles, CA for 15 years as a social worker in schools, homes and hospitals and realized what everyone wants is connection and a good story. Cynthia interviews friends, mentors and cycle breakers.
*This podcast is not therapy.
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Production & Original Song: The AV CartVisual Branding: Host: Cynthia Perez of Rooted in Reflection. @rooted_in_reflection @confetti_all_around
CONFETTI ALL AROUND
S02-EP04: "Navigating Racial Imposter Syndrome & Listening to Transracial Adoptees" with guest Hannah Jackson Matthews
This episode with Hannah Jackson Matthews is powerful and loving. Cynthia saw Hannah's impactful instagram posts and wanted to take a deeper dive into the experience of transracial adoptees and Hannah's own story of advocacy and reclaiming her cultural identity and inner child dreams. This episodes highlights the impact of "white saviorism" in adoption, re-claiming cultural identity as an adult adoptee, and how music and books have often had the notes, words and rhythms to nurture our younger parts when we may not have the words.
Hannah Jackson Matthews is an author, educator, and speaker who designs and presents educational content for transracial adoptees (people raised by families whose race and ethnicity are different than their own) and their families in order to better navigate race, embrace racial identity, and combat racism and white supremacy. She is an adult transracial adoptee: a biracial woman who was domestically and privately adopted as an infant by white parents. The racial difference between her and her parents made navigating race, racism, and culture, along with developing a positive racial identity, notably challenging. Her experience informed her her first career as a high school English teacher, during which she earned her master’s degree in Urban Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Although she’s no longer teaching in the traditional sense, Hannah uses education as a means to combat racial and cultural ignorance especially within in the context of transracial adoption.
Find Hannah on IG:hannahjacksonmatthews
