Final Season Teaser: Exploring Radical Ethical Spirituality with Family & Friends

What happens when a doctoral dissertation transforms into a mixtape that redefines spiritual and cultural paradigms? Join us for the fourth and final season of Life After Leaven, where we unravel a radical ethical spirituality grounded in ethnographic tradition. This isn’t just any dissertation; it’s a multimedia project that challenges conventional wisdom and shapes a new epistemological framework for our post-digital, post-Christian, multi-faith, and non-faith world. Together with my co-host Mish and a roster of special guests, we'll explore the profound impact of this mixtape on the leadership of Black college students, delving into cultural texts, film analysis, and personal narratives that make up this transformative work.

Kickstarting the season with a heartfelt interview, my mom helps set the stage for the autobiographical journey we’re about to embark on. Following this, intimate conversations with my grandmother Leah and Uncle Demi stitch together the familial threads that underpin my work. We’ll dig deep into my love for hip hop and womanism with Dr. Daniel White Hodge, host of Profane Faith, and reconnect with Robert and Tamara for a nostalgic "Where’s the Lie" reunion. As we prepare to launch the mixtape in August, expect episodes that meticulously break down its components and cultural significance. Buckle up for a season that promises to be both intellectually stimulating and emotionally resonant. Let’s get it!

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:33

The fourth and final season is going to be centered around my doctoral dissertation and will accompany that, and what I've created for my doctoral dissertation is a mixtape. It is a radical ethical spirituality that's grounded in ethnographic tradition and I'm arguing that this epistemological framework is a new wineskin for a post-digital, post-christian, multi and non-faith world. And so what I'm going to do on the podcast to close it all the way out. It was a great follow up to the book, but I'm just finding myself being drawn to different projects. I'm on co-hosting Deep Resonance with my homie Mish and coming on some other projects, and then I'm just doing a doctorate right now. So I can't fully commit to doing a podcast. But you'll be excited about the next few episodes because the episodes that are going to fill the final season, the fourth season of Life After 11, have to do with the mixtape. So me and my girl Rose J Percy, we're going to run the mixtape in August and that's going to be exciting. We're going to actually walk you through the framework where it comes from. But as far as the dissertation is concerned, there's going to be a lot of stuff related to cultural text, film analysis, my own autobiographical information and how this framework affects the leadership of Black college students. So I'm inviting you into my dissertation and I'm trying to produce a multimedia project for my doctorate. So that means that the rest of the episodes of Life After 11 and the final episodes of Life After 11 will all be around radical ethical spirituality grounded in ethnographic tradition. We'll talk to guests, we'll have co-hosts, we'll do a lot of different things to help sort of supplement and round out this theology and this epistemology from a theological perspective, from a cultural perspective, from an autobiographical perspective, which is why I'm excited to tell you that the next episode coming up is from my mom.

Speaker 1: 2:42

Yes, I interviewed my mom for the podcast and so I needed to create a video to let y'all know that this one is special. After that, I actually interviewed my grandmother Leah, from the book Leah in the chapter about Obama. I interviewed her brother the book Leah in the chapter about Obama. I interviewed her brother, her younger brother, her baby brother, uncle Demi, and that episode is going to follow up from my mom, because I felt like the mixtape needs to tell the story, the autobiographical story, of me and where I come from. After that, we'll get into a little bit more about why I love hip hop so much, why I love womanism so much, what I've been thinking about spiritually and what I love about our tradition. So I'll follow it up with an interview with Dr Daniel White Hodge, who is the host of Profane Faith and who's done a ton of scholarly research around hip hop. And then I also have an interview with Robert and Tamara and I don't know if you know me for any amount of time.

Speaker 1: 3:41

You know that we had a podcast right after I left IHOPKC called Where's the Lie. That will always hold a special place in my heart because it was finding my voice and figuring out what I was mad about, and so we just had kind of a Where's the Lie reunion. So those are the next four episodes coming down the pike and then from here on out we'll take a break. In July and in August we're going to kick off the mixtape. We'll start releasing episodes around the mixtape itself, what it's made up of and why it matters. So thank you for rocking with me. Welcome to the next season of Life After 11. Let's get it.