Heart to Heart Podcast: Recent Episodes
Love Now Media
Heart to Heart is a youth produced podcast, hosted and produced by teen Journey Moses, and co-hosted by Jos Duncan which features intergenerational conversations about pressing topics in pop culture, social justice advocacy, and entertainment. Through exchanging knowledge about and between generations, they hope to keep often divided generations informed and connected.
In this season finale episode of Heart To Heart, host Journey Moses and new guest host Gabby Cooper lead an all youth panel to discuss the important topic of safety and security in schools. Panelists, Arionna Matthews (high school), Nathan Mutale (college), and Bianca Damsik (high school) share their experiences with active shooter drills and how they feel about them, discuss the effectiveness of school safety measures, thoughts on they ways administrators communicate safety information to students, and offer insights into how students can advocate for safer schools. Through their conversation, the panelists highlight the importance of intergenerational conversations about pressing social issues and the value of listening to and learning from our youth. This episode also features previous host Jos Duncan Asé as she steps down in her role of adult co-host to provide more space for our youth perspectives.
This podcast is Executive Produced by Jos Duncan Asé & Love Now Media
Hosts: Journey Moses & Gabby Cooper
Panelists: Nathan Mutale, Arianna Matthews, and Bianca Damsik
Producers: Journey Moses, Gabby Cooper, & Nathan Mutale
Audio Recording: Tezarah Wilkins
Editing: Nathan Mutale
Thanks to the Philadelphia Foundation for their support in the production of this podcast.
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Following the podcast our Producer, Syreeta Martin, had several additional questions for Antoine Stewart and Marquise Richards. Here are those questions and answers.
Antoine Stewart and Marquise Richards join Jos and Journey to discuss what it is like being a black male teacher in the current educational environment.
Aisha Eubanks joins Jos and Journey to discuss what it is like to be a Special Education Compliance Monitor in the public school system.
Erika and Ethan (mother and son) join Jos and Journey to discuss what it is like to be a teacher and student in the current educational climate.
Teens Journey and Estee share their experiences with exploring pronouns while Jos navigates her changing perspectives.
Journey and Jos are joined by 15 year old Mason Skennoto who has over 30,000 followers on TikTok and his mom April Harley who runs a new popular wellness studio in Philly.
Journey and Jos discuss music and its influences in both their generations. Producer, Nebia, chimes in with an additional Gen Z perspective.
Radeen Adams (Journey's Grandmom) joins the podcast to talk about fashion in the 60's. Journey and Jos talk about fashion in their generations, trending looks, and their favorites.
In this episode, Journey and Jos discuss beauty standards across the generations and share stories about judging and being judged about their hairstyles, the bonnet debate, dying "wokeness" and who's really responsible for "triggers."
Meet your host, 14-year old Journey Moses and her co-host 40-something year old Jos Duncan. In this pre-launch, first recording of the podcast, they introduce themselves, the hot topics between their generations and what to expect in future episodes of Heart to Heart.