Podcast Parlor

JCF is excited to host Oceana Sawyer, program director of Nourishing Beloved Community (NBC) as the co-host of our first Podcast Parlor on Weds, 2/11 at 11am.

The podcast parlor is a new series that invites a local non-profit to choose a podcast that has inspired or provoked them to think differently about their work. We get to listen on our own time. And then we come together for the conversation.It’s an opportunity to connect in meaningful dialogue, increase awareness of local nonprofit efforts and to seed the way for new ideas to take root in our community!

For February’s Podcast Parlor, Nourishing Beloved Community director Oceana Sawyer has selected this podcast for us to listen to: How to Move Through Chaos Without Needing Control with Nigerian philosopher, author, teacher and trans-public intellectual: Bayo Akomolafe.

“What if the rupture of these tumultuous times is not an ending, but an opening? In this episode, Willow speaks with Bayo Akomolafe, philosopher, poet, and thinker whose work challenges us to step beyond binaries and into the fertile, unpredictable space of emergence. They dig into how transformation doesn’t come from rigid certainty or oppositional thinking, but from the cracks—where new possibilities take root. Nature does not resolve tension; it composts it, making way for something unexpected to arise. Bayo invites us to see the turbulence of our moment not as a problem to be solved, but as an invitation to step out of fixed ways of being and embrace the “third way”—the space between and beyond, where new ways of relating, knowing, and becoming can unfold.”

The mission of NBC is to use sustainable models for addressing food access and other forms of well-being while also building a socially and economically cohesive thriving community for the people of the global majority (PGM) as well as the LGBTQIA people in Jefferson county.

Listen to the podcast and then join us for the Podcast Parlor on

JCF’s Nonprofit Resource Center – 2409-B Jefferson Street | Port Townsend, WA

ARE YOU WITH A NON-PROFIT THAT MIGHT WANT TO CO-HOST A FUTURE PODCAST PARLOR?

Reach out to Crystie at: Crystie@JCFgives.org