Azizi Birkeland: Conscious Parenting & The Importance of Sovereignty

Azizi Birkeland is a conscious (and serial) entrepreneur on a mission to redefine “home” in all that she does, from the inner self to the outer realms of homeschooling and building intentional community as a life-learning family. She’s the founder of Tiny Green Chef and Stone Soup Family Pop Up.

In this moment when schools have closed in 100+ countries and 1 billion students are now learning at home, the concept of “home” comes into existential question. This episode covers a wide-ranging feast of topics that include:

• Practicing sovereignty as a commitment to self-accountability vs. reaching a “happily ever after” destination

• How to claim your sovereignty as a parent through the tools of developing home in all its facets — homeschooling, home making through intentional community, and the inner development of “home”

• Why home education starts with parents doing the work of re-educating themselves first

• The difference between outsourcing your power vs. claiming sovereignty in the realm of education, nourishment, healthy debate and conscious dialogue

• The inspirations and opportunities behind Tiny Green Chef, a plant based nutritional cooking program for kids to become discerning eaters and better fuel their body, mind and spirit as future stewards of a New Earth

• The challenges and possibilities facing life-learning families who move and design new lives abroad (and how this catalyzed Stone Soup Family Pop Up, a worldschoolers social network)

• Exploration of “Old World Paradigm” vs. “New World Paradigm” in the cultivation of the sovereign or true self 

• The importance of centering into the question “If the old life was so great, what was urging yourself to leave in the first place?”

• The secret to prioritizing yourself and why Bali is the greatest teacher of devotion and ritual