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Talkin Story

Well Organized Podcast Crew

The Talkin Story podcast is a project of Well Organized. It features local people of the global majority (PGM) who are quietly acting as flashpoints for social and cultural transformation within Port Townsend/East Jefferson county. These are the people who have been steadily working almost under the radar to craft a world in which they exist with sovereignty and creativity. They may or may not be in designated leadership roles, but their very existence is a source of inspiration and a touchstone

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56:41

Creating Community in Place, with guest Cendre Hunt

Talkin Story ·

2025/10/31

Cameron and Oceana are joined by their colleague, Cendre Hunt, to riff on the experience of organizing and creating solid PGM community in this place settlers call Jefferson County.It's also worth noting that last December, the board of Black Lives Matter of Jefferson County-Well Organized voted to change the name of the organization to Well Organized of Jefferson County.Learn more about Well Organized & Nourishing Beloved Community:well-organized.orgnourishingbelovedcommunity.com---Music

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43:33

Community Thru the Arts (Season One episode replay),...

Talkin Story ·

2025/10/24

October, 2025:While we finalize the final episode of Season 2, we want to offer a replay of the conversation we had two years ago with Camelia Jade in Season 1 about making music and community.Not only is it a good segue into the next and final episode, "Creating Community in Place," it's also an opportunity to highlight the artist of the theme song for Season Two.Enjoy!---In this episode we spend a bit of time with local musician and audio engineer, Camelia Jade, on a journey of the senses as we

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23:42

Making Home in Place, with guest Eileen Kindling Spirit

Talkin Story ·

2025/10/17

In this episode, Cameron and Oceana sit down with Eileen Kindling Spirit to discuss her experience farming livestock in Jefferson county.Woodbridge Farm is a beautiful, 20+ acre property in Chimacum that she has poured a lot of blood, sweat, and tears into, and is proud to call her home.Eileen Kindling Spirit is originally from Philadelphia and has lived in Jefferson since the 1980’s. She and her son Peter are one of the few Black land-owning farmers in Jefferson County. Eileen has a life-long

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36:24

Birthing in Place, with guests Savannah Hansel and...

Talkin Story ·

2025/10/10

In this episode, we explore the otherside of giving birth as we chat with a couple local PGM folx - Savannah and Sasha - who both recently have given birth.The effects that community can have on families is poignantly explored in this episode, which could be heard as the second half of the previous episode with Meshell.Sasha Marshall is a local parent, dreamer, and data nerd. She finds joy in building up community and watching things flourish through the chaos.As an enrolled Haida tribal member,

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49:59

A Body in Place, with guest Meshell Orozco

Talkin Story ·

2025/10/03

In this episode Cameron and Oceana traverse the vast territory of body sovereignty with our friend Meshell. We touch on food as family, what it's like to try in a body related profession as a PGM, and gender fluidity in a traditionally femme dominated midwifery profession. Their fearless advocacy for culturally relevant agency over the body is nothing short of inspired.Meshell (they/she) is a Xicana Partera, a Certified Professional and Licensed Midwife (CPM, LM) and a Community Herbalist who

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42:19

Creating Art in Place, with guest davy (Bobby4Bobby)

Talkin Story ·

2025/09/26

In this episode, Oceana and Cameron get into some provocative material with davy regarding the intersectional identities and how to convey those as an entertainer, without it feeling extractive, as well as the near-taboo topic of colorism inside PGM community.davy is a Chimacum-based farmer, artist, performer, and radically tender human. Their art and the way they move through the world is informed by their experiences as a mixed race queer person. They are one half of the drag performing duo

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41:18

Writing in Place, with guest Lisbeth White

Talkin Story ·

2025/09/19

Welcome to Season 2 of Talkin' Story. In this first episode, "Writing in Place", Oceana sits down with author/poet Lisbeth White in a conversational ramble through writing grounded in relationship to the Earth, and what impact that can have on our individual and collective liberation.Lisbeth White is an enchantivist writer based in the Pacific Northwest. She is the author of American Sycamore (Perugia Press, 2022), and co-editor of Poetry as Spellcasting: Poems, Essays, and Prompts for Manifesting

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7:38

Talkin Story: It's a Wrap on Season 1

Talkin Story ·

2023/12/06

Thank you for joining us for the first season of Talkin Story podcast.Over the course of the past six months of recordings, and the past 9 weeks of episodes, we have traveled through the complex terrain of racialized challenges, profound insights, far more laughs than tears, and many, many moments of delight.What emerged and grew was a sense that our collective capacity and vision can, and in fact is, generating unique and resilient ways of living and creating in these shifting times.We extend our

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34:33

Bonus Episode: Conversation with Chiyokten

Talkin Story ·

2023/11/27

In our search for the right music for the Landback/Reparations episode, we had the pleasure of crossing paths with renowned flutist, Chiyokten. He spent a bit of time sharing with us how the life he has lived and is living is informed by ancestors, elders, and more-than-human beings.We hope you enjoy this special bonus episode.Paul Chiyokten Wagner is the founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea, an indigenous-led organization dedicated to protecting and restoring our Salish Sea through direct

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53:35

Landback/Reparations

Talkin Story ·

2023/11/24

This is a very special episode in which local indigenous people and an African-descended community member talk about their efforts and viewpoints on reparations and landback. It gets personal as well as hopeful.The original flute music in this episode was generously provided by Paul Chiyokten Wagner, a member of the Saanich tribe of Vancouver Island.Chiyokten is a knowledge keeper of Coast Salish ways of educating and governing pertaining to co-creating Paradise from the time of the animal people to

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51:02

Communal Healing

Talkin Story ·

2023/11/17

In this episode with Velda Thomas, we sink into a relational field that includes ancestors, more-than-human-kin, and each other.Velda also reads a beautiful original poem inspired by her recent exploration of communal healing called "For the Benefit of All" which you can find on her Patreon.Velda was born in England, with family ancestry sourced from Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas.Love of creative expression has been a constant thread running through Velda’s life. Whether visual, written or

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34:00

Owning Your Individuality

Talkin Story ·

2023/11/10

This episode with Ave Avelino, together with co-hosts, Ezra and Lorenzo, uncovers what it is like to grow up in a small, white, progressive town. Finding your way and maintaining a sense of self is not easy but entirely possible, as they describe.Ave Avelino is a second-generation Filipino/mixed-European American. They were born and raised in Port Townsend and have the interesting perspective of being a BIPOC person who has grown up in a primarily white town.They see their destiny as one that

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43:33

Community Thru the Arts

Talkin Story ·

2023/11/03

In this episode we spend a bit of time with local musician and audio engineer, Camelia Jade, on a journey of the senses as we wind our way through culture and the arts on our way to community.Since 2006, Camelia Jade has worked in audio production for music, live sound, radio, podcasts, analog and digital preservation, independent film, on-location recordings as well as youth audio workshops, gallery installations and more. As a musician composing on guitar, charango, rhythm and voice, Camelia

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54:29

Excavating Whiteness

Talkin Story ·

2023/10/27

Tomoki Sage wanders with us through experiences in the theater that mirror life as a person of the global majority in Jefferson county. Together we deconstruct the persona that wants to fit in the the dominant culture but never quite does and the what that makes possible.Tomoki was a child of the forest. He spent many long hours as a boy running through the woods of Port Townsend without any shoes on. His family wasn't completely poor, they were just hippies living in the glories of mother

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56:55

Liberating Education

Talkin Story ·

2023/10/20

In this episode with JooRi Jun, we wind up our conversation about PGM in schools with an in-depth exploration about the need for radical new models that allow our children to unfurl into their truest selves.Several resources are mentioned in this episode, should you wish to go further down the rabbit hole:Sky Bear ALC - www.skybearalc.orgAlliance for Self Directed Education: https://www.self-directed.org/Agile Learning Center Network: https://agilelearningcenters.org/Akilah Richards' work:

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42:49

Making Schools Habitable for PGM

Talkin Story ·

2023/10/13

Cherry Geelan and Aaron Hall take us on a deep dive into the challenges for our PGM students and teachers inside public school systems, where systemic racism continues to reign, despite decades of reform.An independent documentary called, The Right to Read, is specifically mentioned as a beacon of hope and a powerful depiction of effective advocacy for literacy among PGM children.We are pleased to offer the film for your streaming pleasure for a limited time (October 13-15, 2023). Our hope is that

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43:37

Shifting the Narrative for PGM Youth

Talkin Story ·

2023/10/06

Darrell Thomas and Melissa O'Neil drop the veil on a personal pivotal moment, stewarding children, and what it takes to support youth and each other as professionals as they make their way in educational systems setup for their failure.Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun

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36:09

Community Starts with Families

Talkin Story ·

2023/09/29

Azurite and Corey talk to Lorenzo and Oceana about the significance of culture in this episode. Notably, how the exploration of one’s own cultural ways allows for a kind of rootedness beyond place.Azurite is a biracial Black, neurodivergent, artist, community organizer and mother. Azurite was born and raised in the Southwest before moving to Port Townsend where she has lived for the better part of two decades. Azurite has been working with PGM youth and families in community settings through the

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15:33

Talkin Story: Origin Story

Talkin Story ·

2023/09/18

Welcome to Talkin Story! In this first episode, the co-hosts - Oceana, Lorenzo, and Ezra - describe how the podcast came to be and the point of the project.Talkin Story is a project of Well Organized: Collaborative Community Driven Organizing in Port Townsend, WA.https://well-organized.org/We appreciate the support of the Port Townsend Arts Commission, Jefferson Community Foundation, Finnriver Farm and Cidery, Addieun Foundation, the Community Equity Initiative, as well as private in-kind and

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