Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat
Welcome to Shaping Freedom where we teach you how to create the change you want so you are empowered to author a life story you love to read. I am your host, Lisane Basquiat. Each week I'll speak with inspirational leaders and we'll explore and share practical ways to create extraordinary life experiences!
Episodes
April 21, 2025 • 54 mins
In this powerful episode of Shaping Freedom, we sit down with Nichole MacDonald — entrepreneur, community builder, and visionary — as she shares how she transformed her brand into not just a business, but a movement and a thriving community. Through every trial and tribulation, Nichole stayed committed to her decisions and stayed grounded in her purpose. She opens up about the everyday challenges she faced personally and being res...
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April 14, 2025 • 67 mins
The NBA, NFL, NHL, or any other sports league is a place of glory, success, masculinity. So how does a sports star cope with their own sense of identity when things suddenly fall apart?
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we’re exploring what it means to lose your identity—and rebuild it with purpose. Lanny Smith was on his way to the NBA when an injury took him out of the game. What could’ve been the en...
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we’re exploring what it means to lose your identity—and rebuild it with purpose. Lanny Smith was on his way to the NBA when an injury took him out of the game. What could’ve been the en...
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April 7, 2025 • 63 mins
Storytelling shapes the world around us through movies, conversations, and the relationships we build. But what happens when an actor’s personal experiences intertwine with the characters they bring to life?
On this episode of Shaping Freedom, Lisane Basquiat sits down with award-winning actor, playwright, and director Edwin Lee Gibson—best known for his role as Ebraheim in FX’s The Bear. Together, they dive into the deep connection...
On this episode of Shaping Freedom, Lisane Basquiat sits down with award-winning actor, playwright, and director Edwin Lee Gibson—best known for his role as Ebraheim in FX’s The Bear. Together, they dive into the deep connection...
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March 31, 2025 • 72 mins
The art world is filled with biases, opinions, and social messages that strike at the heart of what artists create. The problem is that within this world is that the patrons of the art rarely want the messages of injustice, violence, and a need for change.
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we are taking a look at how one artist has navigated the biased world of art while staying true to the message behi...
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we are taking a look at how one artist has navigated the biased world of art while staying true to the message behi...
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March 24, 2025 • 56 mins
Striving for success is respectable but when does ambition turn into burnout? This week on Shaping Freedom with Lisane Basquiat, Lisane welcomes Dr. Mary Anderson, a clinical psychologist with experience at Harvard Medical School and Boston University, and author of The Happy Achiever: Eight Essentials to Overcome Anxiety and Manage Stress.
In this vital and prescribed conversation, Dr. Anderson breaks down the psychology of high ac...
In this vital and prescribed conversation, Dr. Anderson breaks down the psychology of high ac...
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March 17, 2025 • 57 mins
This week on Shaping Freedom with Lisane Basquiat, we dive into one of life’s biggest questions: Who am I? It’s a question that has followed humankind throughout history—one we may answer internally, yet find far more complex when the world tries to define us on its own terms.
To help unpack this, legendary publicist, image architect, and author Angelo Ellerbee joins us for a powerful conversation. With a decades-long career shaping...
To help unpack this, legendary publicist, image architect, and author Angelo Ellerbee joins us for a powerful conversation. With a decades-long career shaping...
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March 11, 2025 • 58 mins
We all need sleep—it’s one of the most important acts of self-care. Yet, so many of us struggle with it. Late-night scrolling, caffeine, alcohol, and even the comforting hum of a sitcom playing in the background can all disrupt our rest. So how do we fix it?
To help us find the answer, Shaping Freedom welcomes Julie Wright, renowned sleep coach and author of The Natural Sleeper. She’s literally written the book on how to improve sle...
To help us find the answer, Shaping Freedom welcomes Julie Wright, renowned sleep coach and author of The Natural Sleeper. She’s literally written the book on how to improve sle...
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March 3, 2025 • 58 mins
What does it really mean to live your truth? It’s a phrase we hear often, but rarely define. Is it about being your most authentic self? Seeing the world clearly and finding your place in it? Or is it something deeper?
Today on Shaping Freedom, we’re diving into this question with Emmy award-winning filmmaker, writer, professor, and Moth Grand Slam champion Phil Branch. His work sits at the intersection of identity, race, and media ...
Today on Shaping Freedom, we’re diving into this question with Emmy award-winning filmmaker, writer, professor, and Moth Grand Slam champion Phil Branch. His work sits at the intersection of identity, race, and media ...
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February 24, 2025 • 68 mins
We all strive for health—regular exercise, a salad here and there—but how often do we take the time to nurture our mental fitness? What does it really mean to be mentally fit?
In this episode of Shaping Freedom, renowned actor, author, and wellness leader Tina Lifford shares her invaluable insights on challenging your default mindset, manifesting a life that truly resonates, and cultivating a mental fitness practice that sustains yo...
In this episode of Shaping Freedom, renowned actor, author, and wellness leader Tina Lifford shares her invaluable insights on challenging your default mindset, manifesting a life that truly resonates, and cultivating a mental fitness practice that sustains yo...
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February 17, 2025 • 50 mins
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we are exploring what drives our lives purpose. What lights the fire in our creative, personal, and spiritual lives? This question has circled around the mind of this episode's guest, Cbabi Bayoc.
Cbabi is a renowned artist whose vibrant and meaningful work uses color, culture, and storytelling to create a powerful narrative about life, love, and family. You may know h...
Cbabi is a renowned artist whose vibrant and meaningful work uses color, culture, and storytelling to create a powerful narrative about life, love, and family. You may know h...
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February 10, 2025 • 60 mins
This week on The Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we’re exploring the deep, evolving bond between mothers and daughters—how they build, maintain, and sometimes find their way back to each other.
Our guest, Lacey Tezino, knows this journey well. She’s the visionary entrepreneur behind Passport Journeys, a digital therapy app designed to help mothers and daughters reconnect and heal.
Get ready for an episode that may stir ...
Our guest, Lacey Tezino, knows this journey well. She’s the visionary entrepreneur behind Passport Journeys, a digital therapy app designed to help mothers and daughters reconnect and heal.
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February 3, 2025 • 44 mins
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat, we are sitting down with Sharon Joseph, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of Harlem. However, Sharon is so much more than just a leader. She is a mother, daughter, founder of the Harlem Lanes bowling club—a black and women-owned and led business—and breast cancer survivor. Today, we’re going to explore what it means to break the silence of suffering as a black woman.
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January 27, 2025 • 66 mins
This week on the Shaping Freedom Podcast with Lisane Basquiat we’re taking a bird’s eye of the current state of our communities and our society at large with artist, activist, poet, musician, podcaster, and coffee curator Propaganda aka Jason Petty. Prop has he is better known is the host of the Hood Politics podcast and he is going to open up about his experience moving through this chaotic world.
From unlearning authoritarianism ...
From unlearning authoritarianism ...
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January 21, 2025 • 61 mins
Welcome to the New Year and a new season of Shaping Freedom hosted by Lisane Basquiat. 2024 was tough, there is no other way to cut it. So many negative events, emotions, and people have been influencing how we move around the world and how we see ourselves.
As an antidote to this toxic energy, we are talking to Rhonda Ross. Rhonda is an Emmy-nominated actor, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and a motivational singer whose music, spe...
As an antidote to this toxic energy, we are talking to Rhonda Ross. Rhonda is an Emmy-nominated actor, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and a motivational singer whose music, spe...
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January 6, 2025 • 52 mins
Happy New Year to all of you beautiful listeners. While we are busy crafting and perfecting the lessons we feel you need to take with you into 2025, we feel it’s imperative that you reflect on your relationships and how to navigate those that betray you.
We’re going to look back on Lisane’s conversation with Camille Tenerife. Camille is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles working with CBT/DBT training and specia...
We’re going to look back on Lisane’s conversation with Camille Tenerife. Camille is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Los Angeles working with CBT/DBT training and specia...
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December 23, 2024 • 52 mins
Throughout the course of 2024, we have had so many incredible and meaningful conversations about love, loss, growth, and lessons on the Shaping Freedom with Lisane Basquiat Podcast. The end of the year is a powerful time for everyone. It’s a time for us to reflect on what has shaped our year. Now there is time and space to ponder how our relationships with our friends, family, and ourselves have defined us. We can question what we ...
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December 16, 2024 • 43 mins
2024 is not a year any of us will forget anytime soon. The positives and negatives that defined this year have everyone reflecting and predicting what is waiting for us in 2025. Shaping Freedom is taking the time to look back on some of our best conversations this year with the amazing people trying to push us forward in our relationships, communities, and lives.
But before all of that, it has to be said that parents today have nev...
But before all of that, it has to be said that parents today have nev...
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December 9, 2024 • 64 mins
Today on Shaping Freedom, we explore what it looks like to become unstuck in your routine, how to build up safe spaces for black women, and how to break the toxic cycles of self-doubt and a feeling of otherness. To help us envision this space we invite Doctor Amber Howlett Bayock, founder of Dharma Management to the show.
Dr. Amber Howlett Bayock's journey is a vitally important one to better understand this process of becoming un...
Dr. Amber Howlett Bayock's journey is a vitally important one to better understand this process of becoming un...
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December 3, 2024 • 40 mins
Today on Shaping Freedom, we have a truly extraordinary guest to help guide us through this challenging and uncertain time. We have the honor of speaking with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. However, Patrisse is so much than that. She is an artist, author, creative, and visionary behind a new art collective, The Crenshaw Dairy Mart. Throughout our conversation we are going to explore what it means...
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November 11, 2024 • 47 mins
Today, on the Shaping Freedom Podcast, we’re embarking on a journey through the world of entrepreneurship, social media, and filling your personal cup with the things that matter in life with social media guru Brock Johnson. Brock is going to guide us on what it means to combine passion, consistency, and clear goals to create a thriving career helping others find success on Instagram and other social media.
Raised in a family of en...
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