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Living in 3D Power Podcast
Discover how to live authentically and lead courageously with Dr. Amber M. Sessoms on the Living in 3D Power podcast. Explore transformative questions, liberatory storytelling, and heartwarming insights her 10-year-old daughter, Emma, to uncover your power through Discovery, Discernment, and Determination. New episodes every week!
Episodes
60 episodes
The Practice of Presence: What Mister Rogers Taught Us About Listening to Kids
What might children teach us if we listened long enough to be changed by them?After watching A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood during a family trip to Pittsburgh, Amber and Emma reflect on Fred Rogers’ extraordinary practice o...
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Episode 59: What Does Love Feel Like?: Imagining Love Beyond Perfection, Mistakes, and What We’ve Learned to Earn
What if love wasn't something you defined...What if it was something you felt?Inspired by a challenge from Amber's therapist, this episode explores what it means to experience love—not as an idea, but as something embodied....
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Episode 58: I Regulated. Emma Testified.
What happens when fear shows up in two bodies, but gets two completely different responses?In this episode, Amber and Emma reflect on roller coasters, fear, faith, control, and what helps us feel safe. They also test the first set of Cur...
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Episode 57: Quiet Courage: A Conversation with Maya about France, Wonder & Growing Up
After a two-month break, Emma and I return with a special family episode. We are joined by my middle child, Maya, to reflect on our unforgettable journey across France. From the bustling streets of Paris to the medieval charm of Sarlat, the cav...
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Episode 56: "Ancestors in Training": Medicine, Memory, and the Stories That Keep Us Connected
What if medicine wasn’t just something prescribed… but something that reconnects us to ourselves?In this tender and deeply reflective episode of Living in 3D Power, Amber and Emma explore the idea of “mental medicine” after Ambe...
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What Kids Wish Parents Understood About Growing Up (Episode 55)
What happens when your child starts growing up… and you realize you are growing too?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Amber and Emma move from lighthearted conversations about birthdays, rules, and everyday family moments i...
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"You Have to Let Your Babies Grow Up": A Mother’s Day Conversation About Parenting Adult Children
“You have to let your babies grow up.”In this special Mother’s Day episode of Living in 3D Power, Dr. Amber Sessoms is joined by her oldest daughter, Jojo, for a deeply honest conversation about motherhood, healing, trauma, ther...
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Episode 53: Find the Song That Holds You: Feeling Your Emotions in Real Time
What if your emotions had a soundtrack?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Amber and Emma put Emma’s Chicken Nugget Wisdom into practice:“Find a song that matches your emotions… in the moment.”From Vi...
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Episode 52: Stop Waiting for Big Moments to Celebrate Your Life
Why is it so hard to feel celebrated—even on your birthday?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Amber and her daughter Emma explore how past experiences shape our beliefs about worthiness, love, and celebration.W...
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Episode 51: Being the Heart: Learning to Receive Love in Real Time (My 45th Birthday)
What does it mean to celebrate your life… while you are still here?In this special birthday episode, Amber turns inward—and invites Emma to lead.Through honest reflection, embodied practice, poetry, and real-time vulnerabil...
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Episode 50: Don't Rush Past Your Grief: Learning to Embody the Both/And
What does it mean to hold joy and grief at the same time?In this episode, Emma and I explore the tension of living in a both/and world. Through reflection, breath, and honest conversation, they unpack how grief shows up in the body, how ...
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Episode 49: The Power of Both/And: Holding Grief and Joy at the Same Time
What if joy isn’t something we earn after everything is okay… but something we practice while life is still unfolding?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Dr. Amber Sessoms and her daughter Emma explore the power of <...
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Episode 48: A Live Pause on Shame, Truth, and Letting Go
What if the thing you’ve been carrying… isn’t actually yours to hold?In this special episode of Living in 3D Power, Dr. Amber Sessoms invites you into a live 3D Power Pause—a guided space for reflection, breathwork, and t...
Episode 47: "Find Your Shame and Reverse It"
What if anxiety and self-doubt aren’t the problem… but the signal?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Emma and I explore the roots of toxic shame, how it forms in childhood, and how it quietly shapes identity, relationships, ...
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Episode 46: It's Hard Being 11: The Pressure Kids Feel to Grow Up Too Fast
What does it actually feel like to be 11?In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Emma and I explore the tension many kids experience during late elementary school. Expectations for maturity are rising. Independence is increasing....
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Episode 45: Amplifying Student Voice in Schools (Live at NASP 2026)
This special episode was recorded live at the National Association of School Psychologists 2026 Annual Convention in Chicago.What happens when student voice is not extracted but trusted?What shifts when adults move from ma...
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Episode 44: Recite a Black Girl's Poem: Emma in Conversation with Evita Colon
In this powerful, final Black History Month episode, Emma interviews poet, performer, and entrepreneur PoeticSoulQueen, Evita Colon, on Presidents’ Day from the property of President James Buchanan. Together, they explore Black creativity as su...
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Episode 43: Painting History at Home: Emma Paints with Keisha Finnie
In this Black History Month episode of Living in 3D Power, Emma sits down with Lancaster Pennsylvania-based artist Keisha Finnie (
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Episode 42: "You're Already Black History": Emma in Conversation with King Prolifik
In this Black History Month Black creatives kickoff episode of Living in 3D Power, Emma sits down with visual artist King Prolifik for a conversation that blends live painting, storytelling, and deep reflection on Black art, community, and crea...
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Episode 41: Love Thy Neighbor: A Child’s Guide to Democracy, Joy, and Belonging
In this episode of Living in 3D Power, Emma and I slow down to explore a big question sparked by Emma’s honesty: What does democracy really mean, and what do we owe our neighbors?This conversation was inspired by last week’s con...
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Episode 40: The Practice of Remaining Awake
In this special MLK Day episode, Emma and I reflect on the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the meaning of remaining awake during times of social upheaval, and what it means to bend the arc of the moral universe toward justic...
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Episode 39: One Year of Living in 3D Power
This episode marks one year of Living in 3D Power. A conversation that began as a simple mother-daughter experiment has grown into a space for reflection, truth-telling, and collective learning.In this anniversary episode, Amber and Emma...
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Episode 38: Visioning with Joy: Our Vision Board Experience
Vision Boards, Joy, and Gentle Intentions for the New YearIn this first episode of the new year, Emma and I slow things down and do something a little different. Instead of resolutions or pressure-filled goals, we explore joy...
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Episode 37: When Joy Arrives Unexpectedly
This short, reflective episode of Living in 3D Power was inspired by a question posed by a trusted friend, Hattie B. McCarter: “As we get ready for the end of the year...
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Episode 36: Tears of Joy: An 11th Birthday Surprise
This episode of Living in 3D Power is unlike any other.Recorded for Emma’s 11th birthday, this special episode centers community, love, and the power of being seen. What begins as a birthday surprise unfolds into a profound refl...
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