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Welcome to the insights of J. Miakoda Taylor, a visionary leader with over 25 years of experience in conflict transformation, trauma healing, and organizational development.

This content shares the strategies, practices, and perspectives Miakoda uses to support teams and individuals in achieving radical collaboration, leading liberated lives, and working in true alignment with their values.

Some of the content below refers to previous iterations of the Get Free work known as Fierce Allies.

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Embodying “Otherness”: A Portal to Dignity and Collective Freedom

ALL of us could embody our otherness as an authentication of our most unique selves—if we simply resist the pressure to conform. And in doing so, each of us would become part of the “we” building collective power outside the confines of business as usual.

Fierce Allies 11/4/25 Fierce Allies 11/4/25

Rebirthing Fierce Allies & Getting Free

“I emerge from the transformative chrysalis of the last six years with a resounding belief that we can and must care for ourselves and each other. We must affirm and celebrate one another — laugh, cry, bitch, moan, and dream unreasonable visions, in a symphony of sounds that reverberates throughout the cosmos. This is how we get free.”

Fierce Allies 1/1/24 Fierce Allies 1/1/24

Meeting the Moment, Keeping the Momentum: Stories of Racial Equity and Liberatory Practices from the Field

Miakoda’s work is showcased in the 2024 REACH grantee report with Borealis Philanthropy for their approach to transforming tensions into trust, repairing harm, building communities of practice, and advocating for collaboration within the racial equity field.

Fierce Allies 12/14/23 Fierce Allies 12/14/23

Beloved White Kin, Now is The Time

Miakoda calls white allies into accountability and solidarity with the resistance to the genocide in Palestine.

Samantha Wong 10/3/23 Samantha Wong 10/3/23

Quiet Lightning’s “Better Ancestors” - The Story of We

Miakoda describes their reclamation of authority to author their own narrative in a performance of their piece “The Story of We.”

Samantha Wong 12/2/21 Samantha Wong 12/2/21

Our Shared Humanity - Ep #11

Miakoda discusses the challenges and opportunities of rematriating the lifeways, lands, and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.

Samantha Wong 11/15/21 Samantha Wong 11/15/21

Seeing Through (Actual) Native Eyes

Fireside chat at the 2021 Nature Connection Leadership Conference with Pınar Sinopolous-Lloyd (founder of Queer Nature) about the importance of decolonizing the “nature connection field” and rematriating Indigenous land and lifeways.

Samantha Wong 9/13/21 Samantha Wong 9/13/21

Walking the Talk of Fierce Allyship

Miakoda shares candidly on Egg Meets Sperm Podcast about the application of Fierce Allies Practice of Change on their journey towards motherhood.

Samantha Wong 9/12/21 Samantha Wong 9/12/21

Intersecting Shame, Rage & Healing

Miakoda teaches Ancestral Medicine facilitators how to catalyze shame and rage in personal, cultural and ancestral healing work.

Samantha Wong 8/1/20 Samantha Wong 8/1/20

Shaping Change: Disorientation for a New Orientation

In August 2020 Miakoda joined Aryeh Shell, Thrive East Bay and the Medicine For These Times Series to share how Fierce Allies’ work supports change agents to prepare for and choose disorientation as a pathway to change.

Samantha Wong 7/23/20 Samantha Wong 7/23/20

Flipping The Table - S2, Ep #16

Miakoda unpacks the role of white fragility, its relationship to shame, numbness and rage, and the ways to “keep ourselves on the hook,” in order to participate in the healing of our nation’s deepest wound.

Samantha Wong 6/11/20 Samantha Wong 6/11/20

Flipping The Table - S2, Ep #14

Find out how Miakoda was REALLY doing as a BIPOC single mom, during the early days of COVID-19 and black murder pandemics, and what they are REALLY needing from white allies.