Same person. Different face.
Lisane Basquiat talks with Emmy winners, artists, founders, and everyday leaders about what they built, the patterns that shaped it, and the choices that changed everything.
The Truth About Why Families Keep Repeating the Same Pain
with Lee Hawkins and P. Frank Williams
Why So Many People Are Quietly Falling Apart Right Now
with Shanti Das
You Can Have Money…and Still be Losing Everything
with Ricco Ross
How Kids Are Learning Peace Before the World Teaches Fear
with Jill McManigal
We’re Losing Them… And Don’t Even Realize It
I Was One of the Best in the NFL. I Was Also Dying Inside.
with Darren Waller
The Relationship Didn’t Break. The Pattern Finally Became Visible.
What 'Ricky' Gets Right About Black Boys, Black Women, and the Burden That Gets Passed Down
with Rashad Frett & Lin Que Ayoung
You Don’t Marry a Person… You Marry Their Trauma
with Yvette and Glen Henry
They Almost Lost It All… But This Changed Everything
The Week That Shaped Her Life Forever
with Autumn Rowe
Start Where You Are — What You Have Is Enough
Your Body Is Talking—Are You Listening?
Building Sanctuary in the Age of Chaos
How to Stay Grounded When Everything Feels Chaotic w/ Ayanna Gregory
Give Yourself Permission to Live Differently
with Simone Adams
Hard Work Is Heart Work: Breaking Limiting Beliefs
with Dr. Karmetria Burton
The Cost of Success: Shavone Charles on Reclaiming Purpose
You’re Not Broken: Britany Williams on Healing, Motherhood & Finding Your Way Back
Teen Mom to CEO: Ingrid Best Built I-Best Wines
Shaping Freedom: The 13 Conversations That Defined Our Year
Unlearning, Leading & Becoming: Jasmine LaFlore on Purpose-Driven Success
Daily Habits That Turn an Ordinary Day Into a Great One
Slow Down to Go Fast: Redesigning Your Relationship
with Time
Give Me What I Need, Not What I Want: Faith, Health & Self-Rescue
Healing Out Loud & Building Your Own Table w/ Shameika Rhymes
Bread from Lemons: The Transformative Power of Resilience
How Johnny Nunez Turned Empathy into an Empire Behind the Camera
Building Legacy Through Purpose: A Conversation
with Hill Harper
Turning Grief Into Legacy: Rob & Emily McGowan on Love, Loss & Resilience
Living Fully Through Creativity, Healing, and Resilience
How to Reclaim Your Energy & Purpose
How to Build Unshakable Confidence: 5 Lessons from KJ Rose
Healing Without Losing Yourself: 4 Lessons on Trauma, Courage & Freedom
with Dana Mason - Episode 108
How to Stop Sabotaging Love: 3 Truths from Gay & Katie Hendricks - Episode 107
How To Shape Legacy Through Education & Empathy With Principal Toria Avila - Episode 106
Finding Dignity, Community & Justice After the Eaton Fire
with Chris Holden & Doug Boxer - Episode 105
The #1 Mindset Shift That Turned My Life Around- Devin C. Hughes on Gratitude, Joy & Healing - Episode 104
How to Heal, Citizen, and Thrive in a Machine World: Lessons from Baratunde Thurston - Episode 103
Emotional Overload? Heal Your Brain & Reclaim Power w/ Dr. Napatia Gettings - Episode 102
Stuck in Old Patterns? Carmella Johnson on Breaking Cycles and Stepping Into Freedom - Episode 101
Then vs. Now: Celebrating 100 Episodes That Changed the Way We Heal - Episode 100
The Courage to Reroute: Melba Moore on Embracing Change Without Permission - Episode 99
How Community HousingWorks is Building Generational Opportunity Through Housing - Episode 98
Why Your Armor Is Blocking Real Connection
Eboné Almon on Creating Her Pink Print
How Brotherhood Heals
Say It Right
Dating, Doubt & Self-worth
How Speaking Up Changes Everything
How To Build Self-trust (Even After Burnout)
5 Rules for Building Black Wealth
with Lanny Smith - Episode 90
3 Storytelling Secrets That Can Change Your Life
with Edwin Lee Gibson - Episode 89
How To Break Generational Cycles
with Art
Burnout Is Not A Badge
How To Build A Legacy That Lasts
Wake Up Refreshed: The Power of Deep Sleep
with Julie Wright - Episode 85
Family, Identity & the Stories We Carry
with Phill Branch - Episode 84
The Inner Fitness Revolution: Tina Lifford on Healing, Resilience & Freedom - Episode 83
Painting the Truth: Cbabi Bayoc on Fatherhood, Joy, and Transformation - Episode 82
Facing the Truth: How Honest Conversations Transform Mother-Daughter Relationships w/ Lacey Tezino - Episode 81
Redefining the "Strong Black Woman" w/ Sharon Joseph - Episode 80
Finding Balance In A Fractured World w/ Jason Petty - Episode 79
Turning Negative Self-Talk into Self-Love w/ Rhonda Ross - Episode 78
A Year in Reflection
Family in Focus: Celebrating Our Top Talks From 2024 - Episode 76
Finding Joy And Breaking Free From Limiting Beliefs
with Dr. Amber Howlett Bayoc - Episode 75
Art, Activism, and Abolition
Beyond The Algorithm: Brock Johnson on Family First, KPIs, and Finding True Joy- Episode 73
A Conversation About the Third Future: Mental Health, Art, and Beyond W/ Ainsley Burrows- Episode 72
Changing Your Mindset, Changing Your Life: Lessons from Garrain Jones - Episode 71
The Emotional Labor of Art W/ Joseph Awuah-Darko - Episode 70
Guiding Black Women To Transform Their Story W/ Monica Wisdom - Episode 69
De-intellectualizing Our Narratives w/ Aaron Robinson- episode 68
Real Talk About Dancing With Motherhood W/ Jasmine Harper
Nurturing Your Soul, Building Your Tribe W/ Ashley Everett And Randy C. Bonds
A Creative's Journey From Passion to Purpose
with Robert Young - episode 65
When Our Emotions Need Space w/Abby Kamen - episode 64
Challenge Your Beliefs And Change Your Life
with Chukky Okobi - Episode 63
The Business of Being Creative With Ian Davis - Episode 62
Shanti Das on Breaking the Mental Health Stigma - Episode 61
From Autopilot To Authenticity: The Humanization Of Men With Antonio Neves - Episode 60
What is Black Mental Wealth? With Dr. Raquel Martin - Episode 59
Fighting Social Media Burnout With Lia Haberman - Episode 58
Season 3 Update With Lisane Basquiat and Ryan Tillotson - Episode 57
Kevin Powell’s take on love, violence, and responsibility of creatives. – Episode 55 (pt.2)
Kevin Powell on the intersection of hip-hop, poetry, and an unwell society – Episode 55 (pt.1)
Finding Your Purpose
with Stephanie Mitchell – Episode 54
Journey of Resilience
with Dr. Salvatore Forcina – Episode 53
Beyond Comfort Zones: Embracing Race Dialogues with Friends and Family
with Hannah Summerhill – Episode 52
Redefining Motherhood & Sobriety
with Ruby Warrington - Episode 51
Embracing Your Humanity: A Candid Conversation About Self-Care With Tai Beauchamp- episode 50
Mindful Living: Prioritizing Self-Care and Mental Health
with Oliver Chittenden - episode 49
Healing and Self-Care: A Male Perspective
with Steve Simms - episode 48
Overcoming Burnout
with Stephanie Singleton - episode 47
Shifting Your Mindset to Open Up Possibilities
with Stu Massengill - episode 46
Life After Corporate: How to Unlock Your Potential
with Deepa Purushothaman - episode 45
From Tragedy to Triumph With Mack The Tailor - episode 44
Be the Author of Your Story - from my convo
with Tavis Smiley
Addressing Burnout Through Messy Life Moments
with Luke Iorio - episode 43
What does living in the present actually look like
with Keith Mitchell - Episode 42
How to Avoid Burnout while Building Businesses
with Jadah Sellner - Episode 41
A Deeper Understanding of Forgiveness
with Dr. Robert Enright - Episode 40
Your Life Wellness Legacy
with Aaron Robinson
Defining Your Legacy
with Brandy Knight
Choosing to Grow
with Michelle Yvonne Toney
Finding Joy
with Cynthia Delaney
Relationship Betrayal: An empowered perspective
with Camille Tenerife
The Importance of Sleep
with Tammy Hawkins Part 1
Entrepreneurship the Right Way
with Luis Martinez
"Corporate Persona"
with Camille Tenerife
You Are Not Alone
with Spiritual Medium Erika Gabriel
Mindfulness
with Vani Shiroor Part 2
Mindfulness
with Vani Shiroor Part 1
Comedian and Thought Leader Leo Flowers
Recognizing Burnout
with Larnell Vickers
Girlfriend Happy Hour
Virgen Barnet Part 2
Virgen Barnet Part 1
Enlightenment Part 2
My First Solo Episode on Enlightenment
“We’re Back” Part 2: Returning to podcasting during a pandemic.
Enlightenment: The Path to Freedom
"We're Back" Part 1: Returning to podcasting during a pandemic.
How to Break Negative Family Patterns w/Aaron Stark
How to lead a purposeful life during uncertainty
with Jadah Sellner
Revamp Your Dating Life With Amy Wells
Motherhood, Community, and Making Things Happen
with Nichole MacDonald
Red Lipstick As A Path To Female Empowerment w/ Dr. Karmetria Burton
How to Be in the Moment as an Act of Self Care w/Brandilyn Davidson
Rebranding Midlife for Women w/Juju Hook
Personal Transformation Through A #hellishyear w/ Keasha Lee Ince
Confidence: The Super Power That Drives Your Results
A Millennial Perspective On Divorce, Parenting, and Growing Up w/Jessica Kelly
How You Can Maximize Your Current Job to Prepare You For Entrepreneurship w/ Emilio Vargas
Why Living Your Truth Matters W/ Lisane Basquiat
How to Be Beautifully Honest Without Being Brutal W/ Elaine Swann
Finding Your Passion With Sophia Heriveaux
The Power of Social Media & Influencing w/ Eli Vazquez
Leveling Up Your Mindset w/ Kelly Stokes Brown
Entrepreneurial Burnout is Real w/ Guest Troy Hoffman
Accounting to Artist w/ Ainsley Burrows
Introducing: Shaping Freedom™ Podcast
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The life you inherited does not have to be the life you repeat, or pass on.
Most of us believe we’re responding to what’s happening in the present moment. More often, we’re responding to beliefs, roles, emotional strategies, and survival patterns formed long before we had the awareness to choose them. Those inherited patterns often shape how we lead, love, communicate, build relationships, navigate conflict, pursue success, and create the legacy we leave behind, while we’re on autopilot.
Shaping Freedom with Lisane Basquiat is a podcast that explores the invisible patterns shaping human lives. Through conversations with influential voices in the arts, entertainment, psychology, business, science, and culture, alongside everyday people whose lives offer extraordinary insight, each episode uncovers the story beneath the story. Together, my guests and I move beyond accomplishments and headlines to explore what shaped them, what they’ve had to unlearn, and what freedom has required.
I’m Lisane Basquiat®, a Legacy Healing Strategist. Through Shaping Freedom®, my methodology for recognizing and transforming inherited emotional patterns, I help people consciously choose what they carry forward, what they release, and the legacy they create.
These conversations explore relationships, resilience, communication, identity, creativity, leadership, purpose, and the emotional architecture that connects them all.
At the heart of every episode is one belief:
The quality of our lives is shaped less by what happens to us than by the patterns we inherit, and the ones we choose to keep.
When we become aware of those patterns, we gain the freedom to make different choices. Emotional leadership begins with self-leadership, seeing ourselves clearly enough to interrupt unconscious patterns, strengthen our relationships, lead with intention, and build lives that reflect who we choose to become.
Because the life you inherited does not have to be the life you repeat.
Every guest is different. Every conversation is asking the same question:
What shapes a human life, and what makes lasting freedom possible?
If you’re seeking deeper self-awareness, stronger relationships, more intentional leadership, and a new way of understanding yourself and the life you’re creating, welcome to Shaping Freedom.
Shaping Freedom® with Lisane Basquiat is a weekly podcast featuring conversations with Emmy-winning artists, founders, and leaders about success and the inherited patterns beneath it.
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