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This Is How We Homeless: Panhandling

The Chronicles of The Emancipated Momma This Is How We Homeless - Panhandling Chapter 1: The Guts and the Glory Section A: The Guts Continued - Panhandling Welcome and welcome back 👋🏾! It's another amazing day in paradise 🤩. Thank you for being here. Today I want to delve into the topic of panhandling. Yes, Wisdom and I panhandle. I need to say, panhandling is NOT a sign of laziness. It could be a sign of deep desperation, incredible courage and/or unwavering faith. Personally, I hate doing it. So for me, it's a sign of my determination to lead the changes our world needs. Because our needs being met and/or exceeded is a measurement of how compassionate our community is. This video is from the last time we panhandled. I personally call what we do elevated panhandling because we have several signs plus bubbles and stuff to give away. I even have a "commercial" I created playing out of a Bluetooth speaker with a megaphone in front of it to amplify the sound.  (Conti...

This Is How We Homeless: The Guts and the Glory

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The Chronicles of The Emancipated Momma This Is How We Homeless Chapter 1 - The Guts and the Glory Section A: The Guts Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here. Today I'm going to talk about "the guts", both literally and figuratively. (Please Note: I'm catching up. This was originally posted to my social media one days ago, on Thursday, April 2, 2025.) This pic is of Wisdom's guts, literally. Yes, I know. Gross . But we experience is real life too. Early Wednesday morning his allergies were bothering him so much that he vomited. By early I mean 2:30 in the morning. He woke up mumbling about needing to blow his nose. I knew he was trying to stop a coughing attack but while blowing, it started. He gagged and reached for the door handle. It was the second time he'd done that in less than 8 hours. It's the 3rd year in a row we've experienced it (2023, 2024, 2025) because the pollen count is much ...

This is How We Homeless: Intro

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The Chronicles of The Emancipated Momma Book 1: This is How We Homeless  Introduction Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  (Please Note: I'm catching up. This was originally posted to my social media two days ago, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.) This is the start of a series God has been pressing me to start. But I've been hesitant because one of two things will happen. Either people will LOVE it and they will eventually flock by the thousands to like and share or they will ignore it . Both are terrifying to me But what's more terrifying to me is what I will miss in my relationship with God if I don't trust the reason for Him guiding me to do this. To get started out, there be a pic post with a description. So... here we go! I want to take a moment to talk about being The Emancipated Momma. Most people know the word emancipate because of the Emancipation Proclamation, the document that freed the slaves, but...

Momma Kai for Matriarch

Momma Kai for Matriarch Social Media Super Drop! Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here. I appreciate your choice to invest your time with me. Life continues to be such a fascinating adventure for Wisdom and I. We continue to face so many challenges while at the very same time be privileged to experience so many incredibly phenomenal blessings.  So... what's next for us is me! It's time! It's my time to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight. Welcome to MY Evolution. It's time to launch my revolution! I have been creating videos for the last month or so and just not posting them.  I am so grateful for technology that allows me to post stuff, kinda like a long form commercial, and get my messages out for people to see.  Because I've sat on my content for so long (and I keep getting thoughts about what to do next), today I've just taken all the stuff and I'm dropping it here at once.  Since ...

Freedom Friday: The Definition of Insanity

The Definition of Insanity Welcome and welcome back! It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  I need to admit, this is not the post I had planned. It's not even in the timeframe I had planned for. I have 3 or 4 posts that are in my drafts, waiting to be finished so they can be posted. But after the way this week has played out and all the information my brain has been processing, it is time for this post.  As I have slowly been moving forward to becoming the next mayor of Raleigh and having been inundated with so much  information,  yesterday  God said "you need to do a post called "The Definition of Insanity'". I know for sure that one of the reasons is because this election season is soooooooo critical. Have you ever heard the "definition of insanity"? It's not what you will find when you look in the dictionary. It's a saying I've heard repeated for decades. If you don't know it, the saying goes, ...

Momma's Monday: Leading with Compassion and Neuroscience

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Leading with Compassion and Neuroscience Welcome and welcome back. Happy Monday. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here. Happy Labor Day. For some of you, that might be Laboring Day.  No matter how you're celebrating, i t's an exciting time to be alive. There is a lot going on in the world and I'm grateful for where I am right now in my journey. Do  you know I'm going to be the next mayor of Raleigh? Yes, I'm talking about this year.  Now if you look on the Board of Elections website you will not find my name to confirm this information... yet. That’s because I didn’t file to run... yet. Because I didn't file during the filing period (that puts my name on the ballot), when I do register... this week... I will run as a write-in candidate. Yes, that does increase the likelihood that I will NOT win. I admit it so it’s noted when I overcome it. Now technically some would suggest I'm "behind the 8 ball". I mean I have...

Let's Talk Tuesday: Joe continued

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Joe (continued) Photo caption: If you saw the post from yesterday, this is the dolly Joe was pushing in the back of my car. Please don't judge the mess! Welcome and welcome back. It's another amazing day in paradise. Thank you so much for being here.  I did a short post about Joe yesterday and I'm going to continue today simply because his story is as fascinating as it is heartbreaking. I don't normally highlight other unhoused people because I meet so many of them. And I generally don't meet them at the beginning of their journey. I met Joe probably a few days after he left the last place he lived, a house right around the corner from Jaycee Park. I noticed he had stuff locked up at the corner of the pavilion. The dolly in the video (shown above, now in my car), plus some other items.  He left them there thinking the park was a safe place to leave them as he came and went. Sadly, h e would come to find out that wasn't true.  Joe had lived in the same place for ...