Who is Gen Alpha and why are they so important

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SPEAKER_00 0:02

Oh hi everyone, welcome back to solo parenting. I'm your host, Jennifer, and I've got another ama amazing guest today. Her name is Queen Michelle. She's an author, a blogger, and a creator. So she's lived in four years in the Lake Chapella area of Mexico. She's written a book called Consideration and it's a guide for moving abroad, and it's available on Amazon. Um, she's got also a blog called Keeping Tabs in Mexico. And the book itself and the blog has documented her experience moving from Atlanta to, I believe, uh Mexico. If I'm not so um she's got a brand started consideration, sorry, considerations of the soul. She holds a permanent resident visa in Mexico, and she's also traveled to West Africa back in 23, and she had discovered that through the ancestory DNA testing that she was from the Fula tribe, and that trip is also documented in her blog called My Soul's Journey Home, and so My Soul's Journey Home. Yes, so there's a whole bunch of stuff, but I'm I want I want you to say I've been busy. I wanted to hear you say it. So how are you doing today? I'm well, Jenny. How are you doing? I'm doing awesome. Awesome.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

So let's start. Well, thank you so much for having me on your show. I cannot wait to um talk to your solo parents and and and tell them about generation alpha and why they are important uh today. But uh before I do that, let me go ahead and qualify just a little bit more, okay, as it relates to you know how I know, right? I'm a retired teacher of 27 years. I've taught across the country, certified in Michigan, Nevada, and Georgia. Um, I've taught in private, public, charter, and magnet school arenas. I've also uh administrated as a principal and a vice principal. Um, but with that comes the fact that I am a light worker, a way shower, a frequency code holder, a new earth representative, a sage, blogger, author, creator. Um, I'm also a citizen of the U.S., but I'm a permanent resident in Mexico, and I will be returning to West uh Guinea-Busa, West Africa in 2028 uh to receive my uh citizenship there as well as I've proven through African ancestry DNA testing that my original maternal bloodline originated in Guinea-Busa, West Africa, uh, from the Fula tribe in Guinea-Busall, West Africa, because this I didn't take Ancestry.com, I took African ancestry because over 20 years ago, a group of black scientists got together and they created the largest database of black blood in the world. If you do ancestry.com, they'll tell you you a little bit of this, you a little bit of that, and your region is over there. But if you were to take the African ancestry test, not only would it tell you what country out of the 54 sovereign countries on the continent of Africa, it'll also tell you your tribe. Um, so it's it's it's through uh those qualifications that I'm ready to uh dive into generation alpha and exactly who are they? Um, I created a social emotional learning and emotional intelligence program for middle and high school students. It's called 52 Insights for Gen Alpha, a conscious curriculum. Um, but who is Gen Alpha? Now, through a set of circumstances, all the work that I did during my first four years in Mexico, it wasn't for the work, the the books and the blogs, it wasn't for the audience I thought it was for. Through a set of circumstances, I found out that it was for Generation Alpha. And see, the universe is perfect because had I known, I probably would have messed it up in some way. But in its purity, it is for Generation Alpha. But who are they? Jen Alpha was born between 2010 and 2024, the oldest of that generation turned 14 last year. They are the children of the millennials and some of the exes that got in it got in the game kind of late. Um, they are the first generation to be born fully in the 21st century. What that means, Jennifer, is Generation Alpha has been clicking and swiping since infancy. Understand that they right now are on in spaces and on platforms that their parents don't understand, they are in spaces and in platforms that um that's free from parental influence. Here's the thing um, because they have always been external, externally uh taught, not like any other generation before. And understand, too, that they will be the largest generation in the history uh of the world, and they are responsible for the conscious evolution of humanity. The generation what alpha. Alpha is beginning, it is beginning, they are going where we are not going. What's going on with them right now, though, and how the schools cannot service them in this way, the way they serviced us, uh, because they are a different breed. Um, their nervous system is deregulated. Uh their their emotions, they have not and cannot, uh, within a school system and even with their parents, uh gather the tools necessary to navigate their world. They they need a different set of tools. They don't need the set of tools that we had, or you know, or I had. I'm a boomer. And here's the thing about being a boomer um there was a time when the TV went off. You understand me? The TV went off, I believe it was at midnight, and those lines would come across it, and the spark, the star spankle banner would be played, and it's off. Go to bed. You you understand? But this world, this 21st world, uh Sesame Street, and when I was raising my children, Sesame Street went off. You know, there was a time that Mr. Rogers went off, and Sesame Street went off. Their world is that of 24-7 stimulation. Um, they're overstimulated, their nervous system is deregulated, and they don't know how to regulate their system. Now, I took my program, 52 Insights, and I was able to pilot it on uh in two middle schools in Detroit, Michigan, um, during the 2024-25 school year, you know, and it got into the school. I had such a hard time getting it into a school just because of the word conscious. Why would we want them conscious? We want them, you know, a certain that's not part of the curriculum, you know, how we want them. Uh, we want workers, not conscious thinkers, right? So uh I but I was able to get it into two middle schools, and it was uh during that pilot um that I learned a very valuable lesson, and that was get this, Jennifer, unconscious can't teach consciousness. No nibble on that for a minute, right? Um it's a personal journey that that that one must take, it's not a group trip, right? And and see, teachers are not equipped to take students on a journey that they haven't yet been on themselves. Because we're all on different levels of the spectrum when it comes to emotional intelligence and and and social emotional development. We all are, I mean, because of our family dynamics, our environment, our individualized programming and conditioning, even our diet, you know, we're all over the place. Adults and families who work with and live with Generation Alpha cannot demonstrate, teach, or equip them with the emotionally self-regulating tools necessary to navigate their world because they are in need of those same tools themselves. Okay, so with that, um I believe we can create healthier lives for ourselves and for our families, and especially for the next generation. Uh, my program, 52 Insights for Gen Alpha, it takes you through an evolved social emotional learning um curriculum. This is not your put it this way, it's your evolved character education program that all schools, it's that the the that five pillars of of the uh social emotional learning development. See, that's how I got it into the school, you know, because it's under it got into the to the schools under the uh social emotional learning framework, which is really is five pillars, relationship skills, um uh self-awareness, which in my program is called mindfulness, okay, self-management, uh social awareness, and instead of uh decision making, mine is conscious decision making, conscious decision making. And uh what happens is, and because this is an individualized journey, after that pilot, I learned that those two things unconscious can't teach consciousness, it's an individualized journey, um, because we're all on different levels on that spectrum, and then I uh learned that I needed to integrate AI into the curriculum in order for it to be adaptable, uh or even marketable, right? And so um I learned I took a course in uh curriculum, I already knew how to design curriculum, um, but I took uh curriculum design with AI, and I discovered a model called and it's cutting edge, uh, it's innovative, it's called adaptive learning. And I I partnered with the number one it learning management system platform called Cyber Learning. So I partner with them because they specialize in adaptive learning, and so now the curriculum is as such that yes, you take that journey, but you take it by yourself, and it's a hundred percent online, it's a hundred percent self-paced, okay? There are no um quizzes or tests or assessments or assignments to turn in. There are no check-ins. You take a journey, you you make your plate, yeah, and then you take the journey, and you will chew the grass and spit the sticks as it relates to the concepts uh of social emotional learning slash uh emotional intelligence. You will chew the grass and spit the sticks. Uh that those concepts that resonate will stay with you, and those that don't, they will fall off, you know, because again, we are on different levels. So those five pillars are actually paths. Now, and and what the person would do is take at the at the onset of the program, they'll take a personal uh a personality test, a Myers-Briggs like personality test. And from that test, that's adaptive learning, they are placed on their own individual path. Now they'll hit all five pillars, but the way that the adaptive learning sets it up for them, their path based on their personality test. It's it's cutting edge, it's one of a kind, it's phenomenal. And I am now piloting the program again online, and it starts. And now, see understand this is a year-long program. 52 insights is 52 weeks. Okay, okay, you know, it's a less than a week, however, the pilot is only a sample of the entire year's program, it is 25 weeks, so it's like half of the uh entire curriculum, and it's free because it's a pilot, right? And I'm sponsoring a hundred uh participants from ages 13 through seniors. See, because this is just not for generation alpha, it's for their parents, it's for their teachers, counselors, social workers, um anyone who is sewing into parents, of course, grandparents who are sewing into the lives of generation alpha. I have my grandson is eight years old, generation alpha, you know. Um, so anyone who's sewing into their lives again, because you really can't give them those tools if you don't have them, because I tell you, Jennifer, when I piloted that program during the 2024-25 school year, all I watched, and now I'm a veteran teacher, so I'm back in the classroom. It's been like I don't know what nine years, 10 years. I retired in 2015, so yeah, 10 years. And stepping back into the classroom, and I know it's after the pandemic and everything, and of course, 10 years things have changed. Now my expectation was that, but all I witnessed was all teachers do is put out fires all day long. All day long, all they do is put out fires, put out fires, put out fires. Very little uh instruction or learning uh uh goes on at all. Um they're not connecting with Generation Alpha because they're different, yeah. Um they're a different breed and they don't have the tools. I couldn't, they what I witnessed, they couldn't tell them to breathe or show them how to breathe because they didn't breathe. They don't breathe, they don't do breath work. I'ma tell you, you know, yeah, uh that they don't meditate, they haven't learned or have the tools necessary to navigate this external world that we're in. You know, we're all and I don't blame millennials because I get it, I get it. They were so busy trying to keep up with technology as it was going. When that tablet or that phone went into that infant's hand, they looked and oh shit, I can get the I can get my paper done. Oh shit, I can get dinner done. Oh, I can get and and here's the thing they're learning, so hey, right? However, common there's consequences to such a laxed way of of not being able to shut off the the stimuli to to shut off the uh the 24-7. They're caught up in it themselves. I get it, not blaming, but I am trying to raise awareness, and this is my mission. This is my soul contract. I came forth for a time such as this, and and I want to invite your listeners to um stop over uh at my website. Um there's a tab called 52 Insights. Click on that tab and consider registering. Registration um ends August 31st, and it starts September 8th, and off on a journey you go again. All I'm asking for as it relates to the curriculum uh program is to take the journey. That's all you have to take again. There are no assignments, there are assignments, but it's practices and exercise that you personally work into how you live, move, and have your beingness here, you know. Um, and that's and and and it will do the rest. I know that this program is impactful, I know that it's needed. I just need people to participate to prove that very fact because that's the light work that I'm anchoring here. Yeah, 52 insights for GN Alpha Plants, Seeds, and Waters Plants for New Earth Living, and actually, that was uh the title of the book in Mexico. This my program was written in Mexico, like I said, I thought for a totally different audience. That's why it's 13 through senior, you know, not the little ones, but I'm so when they get a hole of this, there will be those out there who will be assigned because the universe is perfect to modify that to modify it down for kinder, first grade, fifth, however, this my responsibility was to do it and get it out there, and and I'm I'm so excited because once the program uh uh concludes March 12th, um, and it's successful, and it will be successful, and now I have data, and that data is just of engagement. Did they engage, you know, and then uh surveys and possibly some interviews, people you know, saying, Hey, I did this, and hey, you know, so with that, now I go to the big guys and I said, Hey, I have this program, Hoffman Mithlin and Pearson or Ed Tech Companies. And um after that, Jennifer, I'm gonna take yearly cross-country train rides and river cruises. Because I would have I would have um done what I came to do, and the universe uh will can will reward me with uh my heart's desire, yes, which is cross-country train rides, yeah in the cruise.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

Oh, that would be so nice, just uh man, listen that somebody just watched it. Yes, oh that would be ideal. So, what made you want to travel to like Mexico or like how did this all journey start?

SPEAKER_01 21:14

I didn't even start, right? Well, see, here's the thing: like I said, I retired uh in 2015 with 27 years, and Jennifer, I was gonna do uh three more years. I uh I retired at 52. I was gonna do three more years. I would have been um 55, 30 years, but I tell you, sweetie, those three years seem like an eternity. Seem like an eternity. So I went ahead, baby. I went ahead and I took that, I took that bite and I retired at 52. Pension wasn't as as large as it would have been, you know, but it paid the rent. But that's all it did.

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So I

SPEAKER_01 22:00

Myself having to do other work to supplement my pension, you know. So having retired with 27 years, I became an Uber driver. Um, I did some remote teaching, I did some curriculum uh design. Oh, I be one of my favorite jobs was a uh I was a shuttle driver for uh a transportation company that serviced the railroad. So I was taking conductors and engineers to and from their trains, you know. That was a cool job, and that was all cool for about a year after I retired. And I said, Hey, hey, hey, wait a minute. I'm always have to do this. Yeah, I'm gonna always have to work to supplement my pension. And you know, because I at 52, I'm way, way from uh from retirement, yeah, and I didn't want to be 70 years old saying, Welcome to Walmart, yeah, you know, um, because we out there, we Ubering, and you know, we we Walmart greeters, we had the airports, we had restaurants, shit, we had McDonald's, okay. Supplementary, and we're out there not because we want to be, we're out there because we have to be. And here's the thing: I would have worked until I couldn't work anymore, yeah, and then I would live substandardly because I wasn't working, and in that moment, Jennifer, the epitome for me was that I don't owe anyone or anything my life. Good for you, you just don't get to get it. You just you you can't have it, and here's the thing I could have stayed on the wheel, Jennifer. I could have stayed on like so many of us do, and I get it, just you know, because of the programming and the conditioning, stay on the wheel, right? Stay on the wheel. But here's the thing: the only thing I would have been doing on the wheel is working to pay bills. See, there would be no weekend getaways, there would be no fine dining, there would be no uh uh uh uh concerts. I would work, pay bills, work, pay bills until I couldn't do that anymore. And again, live substandardly. So again, the universe is perfect. Um, I came across an article in International Living called The 10 The Top Ten Places to Retire. And at that time, I'm talking 2016. Yeah, um, they were Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Thailand, Colombia, I think Nicaragua, something like that. Um, at that time, Mexico checked all the boxes for me because I was um I was living in Atlanta, and the area that I was looking at, knowing that Mexico has 32 states, I was looking at the state of Jalisco because Jalisco houses the largest freshwater lake in the country of Mexico called Lake Chipala. Now, surrounding that lake are little towns and villages, and on the north shore of that lake, it's the largest expat community in the country of Mexico, Americans and Canadians and others who've kind of figured it out, right? They've retired there, and it's an older uh generation generation on that north shore of Mexico. Um, but I I began researching and and and and researching and made the decision because the capital of Jalisco is Guadalajara. And Guadalajara in Atlanta and from Atlanta, there's a three and a half hour uh flight nonstop from Atlanta to Guadalajara. I fly into Guadalajara, there's a 30-minute, 45-minute ride in the town, you know, and I'm talking, it's beautiful. Lake uh Lake Chapala was voted by National Geographic uh as the second best climate in the world because it's eternally spring. Yeah, there's a wet spring and a dry spring, but it's spring nonetheless, huh? And um, so a location, climate, and then with it being the largest expat community in the country of Mexico, uh, it made for a very soft landing uh for me when I took that leap. Now I'm not in Lake Chapala anymore. I'm actually I actually live now in Tulume. I've lived in three states uh in Mexico since moving in 2017, Lake Chapala. Then I lived in um Chiapas in a town called San Cristobal de la Casas, and now I'm in uh uh Quintana Roo, the state of Quintana Roo, uh in the town I call it of not so much a city, but a town um of Tulum, which is two hours outside of Cancun.

SPEAKER_00 27:30

Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Two hours outside Cancun. So I'm hot. You be hot here, girl. But here's the thing, Jennifer, with all of that. Yeah, had I stayed on the wheel, and it would have been very easy to have stayed on the wheel, yeah, work, pay bills. But had I done that, there would be oh, and and and when I moved, that's when I started writing. My first book was called Considerations: a Guide for Moving Abroad. It's 10 chapters. Each chapter is a consideration. Consider visas, consider finances, consider downsizing, consider communication, you know, you know, so it's 10 chapters. It's just written, it's based on my experience of uh moving from Atlanta to Mexico. Uh uh, it's on Amazon, and it's it's been on there since 2019.

SPEAKER_03 28:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

I wrote that that was my first book was Considerations, a guide for moving abroad. But after that came other books, you know, as my uh awakening uh took place there, you know, and as I began to step into my purpose, but then even at that time, not really knowing that through a certain set of circumstances, that book I wrote, uh 52 Insights for Living New Earth Now, yeah, would eventually become 52 Insights for Gen Alpha, a conscious curriculum. Okay, so the and in the story of how it got there, you know, it's amazing, it's amazing, it's magic. Uh again, I came forth for times such as this, so I'm really excited. But I I need participants, so I would love for your uh listening audience, if you would go check it out. Um, there would be no, had I stayed on the wheel, there would be no uh Fula Um History and Genealogy Society in America. That's my nonprofit organization um that I created when I came back from visiting uh Guinea-Busao, West Africa. I created a nonprofit, and there's a tab on that nonprofit website, 52 Insights for Gen Alpha. There's also my blog is on that tab, on that uh website called My Soul's Journey Home, and that is a 16-chapter blog, videos, pictures of my uh trip, visit back to the motherland, and um chapter seven of that blog that's on that website. You actually see me step foot in my ancestral village. The and the fula and my ancestors village, you know, those people, the those uh the fula tribe that embraced me are my my blood, you know, my maternally speaking, that is my you know, my blood. And so there's a video I asked the uh tour guy, can I can I hug them? But they they set out a feast for me. I was only the third person who have ever stepped foot, you know, back into the into the village. Um so and and and and while I was there um on the continent of Africa after leaving Guinea-Busal, I did uh travel over to Egypt and I cruised the Nile, and there's a whole just a whole document. It's like I said, it's 16. It could have been a book, but it's so much better as a blog because you get the videos and you know the pictures, and and yeah, it really puts you there a lot better than what a book would have done.

SPEAKER_00 31:27

Yeah, if somebody wants to connect with you or just get some more information about the 52 insights, um, where could they reach you? Like, are you on social media at all?

SPEAKER_01 31:37

On that, thank you for asking. It's on that website, and the website is fula f u l-a American, because I'm not African American, I'm Fula American, right? Fulaamerican.org.

SPEAKER_03 31:54

Okay, perfect.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

You know, the tabs are there, the blog is there, 52 Insights is there, and then um the nonprofits work is there, you know, on that website. That's the umbrella for everything, but fulaamerican.org and click on 52 insights and that blog.

SPEAKER_00 32:16

Okay, awesome, awesome. That was a lot of information. I know, right? Yeah, you've left this job because a lot of people are miserable, like they thinking like how can they survive with this pension, but then they keep grinding at the job that they don't like, but exactly, exactly. So exactly good for you, good for you.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

Yeah, have had had I not got off that wheel, it would have not been uh 52 Insights, it wouldn't be full American, you know, it wouldn't be uh considerations of a guide for moving abroad. None of that would have taken place. Imagine what would open up, yeah, if one could chapter one of considerations, uh, a guide for moving abroad is faith versus fear, yeah, you know, because you gotta take that leap. Now, just don't take it haphazardly. I plan and prepared for over a year uh to make that move, uh move uh abroad to make move abroad. But I tell you, I promise any of your listeners, if you take that, if if you're really if your soul is unhappy, which it probably is, yeah, because it's in the backseat while your ego is in the front seat driving seat, and the ego is very comfortable and pleased with its uh position in the front seat. Now it's not that ego uh does not serve, it does. Ego has three um uh three jobs. Ego is a uh defense mechanism, is that fight or flight sense in us? It is a thought producer and it's a thought processor, it has a general purpose, but it's not the general. And the thing is, most of us live this ego-driven life due to programming and conditioning, and the soul stays in the backseat. So that shift in consciousness or that shift that takes place, you know, your paradigm shift when your soul self comes up front, and go ahead and put ego in the back and let him serve, you know. He you know, he will serve, or it can serve in the back, yeah. But you get your soul self, and now you are being led, guided, and directed by your soul self from here. You you will live a life from within, out, as the way it's supposed to be, because we are here to create, to experience, to explore, to have fun, to find our bliss. You know, that's why I felt so strongly about I'm not just about to give you my life, that was my soul. So I tuned into my soul enough to listen. And if you take that one step, I promise, promise, promise. If you you know, if you can tap into your you know, your soul, then you will begin making conscious decisions, not just decisions, but conscious decisions because new earth is not a place, Jennifer. It is a state of consciousness. That's all I'm living new earth now. This conversation that we're having now, the frequency or the bandwidth that's being that we're on, that we're tuned in, turned on, and tapped into, that frequency is that of new earth. Yeah, you know. Uh it's it's it's a it's a state of consciousness, a uh state of resonance in that state of consciousness, and one needs the practices or exercises that helps to maintain because you just don't get the new earth, and now you're there, you know. You have to maintain the bandwidth because you can be in that 3D, you can be in the matrix, but you don't have to be of it, yeah. You don't have to be of it. I'm so sorry. I can go on, yes, I can go on, yes. But I I I hope you guys got something out of it. I did, I did.

SPEAKER_00 36:54

I guarantee you the listeners would really love this as well. Thank you. Because then if they want to reach out to their soul's purpose, you know, just gotta kind of listen, and maybe they'll reach out to you and get some help.

SPEAKER_01 37:07

Or yes, um, I tell you, the best the best help I can offer that what I came forth to do, y'all head over to uh foolamerican.org, click on 52 insights, and go ahead and take the journey. It's free. Yeah, go ahead and take the journey. It's it's online, it's it's self-paced. You know, there's no assignments or tests or quizzes, there's no right or wrong answer. It's just a journey.

SPEAKER_00 37:35

Yeah, perfect. Thank you so much. You too. Thank you. All right, man. Take care. You too. All right, everyone. That was Queen. So if you wanna reach out to her, you can reach out to her website. It's called fulaamerican.org. Or if you want to reach out to me, you can reach out to me on my email. It's jennifergill68 at gmail.com. And I've also got a book on solo parenting guide if you need some help. It's available on Amazon, or you can reach out to me on my email. Until the next time, have a great day, and I will see you next time. Have a good one. Bye for now.