
Progressive Love and Communication (Season 2 | Episode 95)
12/08/22 • 35 min
Progressive Love and Communication (Part 1)
with Kenya and Carl Stevens (Season 2 | Episode 95)
[TESSA] Kenya and Carl Stevens have appeared in major media. They have great insight into up-leveling our communication. While they are a poly couple, the lessons they teach are applicable to us all. They have created something really special with their Progressive Love Academy. Their three children are out of the house, yet they are still watching over them carefully.
Get to know Kenya and Carl this week on The Open Nesters Podcast.
PROGRESSIVE LOVE ACADEMYKenya and Carl: Progressive Love Academy
Kenya K. Stevens is a relationship expert, love coach, best-selling author, wife, and mother of three. Kenya attended Howard University in Washington D.C. where she graduated in 1997 with a degree in Education/ Psychology.
Not only did she scoop up a degree, but she also met and married a fellow Howard student Carl Stevens.
In 2005 this power couple founded built JujuMama LLC, now known as Progressive Love Academy into a worldwide love coaching conglomerate, training center for coaches and online Love Academy.
And – some news right now – look for their new podcast, The Benefit is Love, coming soon.
Below are snippets and links to our most recent Adult Children and Us episodes.
Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving (S3 | E143)Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving. They're coming home soon from college, or life, this time of year. Are we ready?? !!
November 28, 2024Playing with the Unexpected with Laura & IzzyPlaying with the Unexpected with Laura & Izzy. Polyamory. Community. Communication. Support. The Open Nesters Podcast.
October 17, 2024Mothering Love and Success Part Two (S4 | E162)Mothering Love and Success PART TWO (S4 | E162) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
June 6, 2024Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161)Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
May 22, 2024Catastrophe Soup | Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158)This week on The Open Nesters. Catastrophe Soup Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158) Adventures from the empty nest.
April 10, 2024Trust and the Empty Nest (Part 2)We talk about giving each other space in this short episode. Part 2 of our intimate episode about trust and generosity.
December 14, 2023Trust and the Empty Nest with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147)An episode about Trust and the Empty Nest (and generosity!) with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147) | The Open Nesters Podcast
December 7, 2023Empty Nest Love (in the Love Lab – S3 | E146)Open Nesting in the Love Lab (S3 | E146) | We sit down for a second time with Sue Jaye and Joe from Relationship Tripping.
November 29, 2023Progressive Love and Communication (Part 1)
with Kenya and Carl Stevens (Season 2 | Episode 95)
[TESSA] Kenya and Carl Stevens have appeared in major media. They have great insight into up-leveling our communication. While they are a poly couple, the lessons they teach are applicable to us all. They have created something really special with their Progressive Love Academy. Their three children are out of the house, yet they are still watching over them carefully.
Get to know Kenya and Carl this week on The Open Nesters Podcast.
PROGRESSIVE LOVE ACADEMYKenya and Carl: Progressive Love Academy
Kenya K. Stevens is a relationship expert, love coach, best-selling author, wife, and mother of three. Kenya attended Howard University in Washington D.C. where she graduated in 1997 with a degree in Education/ Psychology.
Not only did she scoop up a degree, but she also met and married a fellow Howard student Carl Stevens.
In 2005 this power couple founded built JujuMama LLC, now known as Progressive Love Academy into a worldwide love coaching conglomerate, training center for coaches and online Love Academy.
And – some news right now – look for their new podcast, The Benefit is Love, coming soon.
Below are snippets and links to our most recent Adult Children and Us episodes.
Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving (S3 | E143)Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving. They're coming home soon from college, or life, this time of year. Are we ready?? !!
November 28, 2024Playing with the Unexpected with Laura & IzzyPlaying with the Unexpected with Laura & Izzy. Polyamory. Community. Communication. Support. The Open Nesters Podcast.
October 17, 2024Mothering Love and Success Part Two (S4 | E162)Mothering Love and Success PART TWO (S4 | E162) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
June 6, 2024Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161)Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
May 22, 2024Catastrophe Soup | Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158)This week on The Open Nesters. Catastrophe Soup Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158) Adventures from the empty nest.
April 10, 2024Trust and the Empty Nest (Part 2)We talk about giving each other space in this short episode. Part 2 of our intimate episode about trust and generosity.
December 14, 2023Trust and the Empty Nest with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147)An episode about Trust and the Empty Nest (and generosity!) with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147) | The Open Nesters Podcast
December 7, 2023Empty Nest Love (in the Love Lab – S3 | E146)Open Nesting in the Love Lab (S3 | E146) | We sit down for a second time with Sue Jaye and Joe from Relationship Tripping.
November 29, 2023Previous Episode

C.c.elaine & Intuitive Living (Season 2 | Episode 94)
Intuitive Living
with C.c.elaine (Season 2 | Episode 94)
[TESSA] Intuitive Living. C.c.elaine is such a delight, and is so soulful She understands dreams and intuition through the hard times. So you should really enjoy this interview.
Our conversation brings me back to my days at The University of Florida with so many Georgian friends and that beautiful southern twang that is so soft and delightful.
It’s a truth. C.c. puts up a truth perceived with a quick insight, almost like intuition that we need to practice having. She started younger, but this teaching of looking at each setback as a way to refine our path and our dreams and what is the universe trying to teach us. And it seems so simple, but those things are the hardest things. I love how she talked about each child, her own adult kids, and how each of them has her own ways to adapt. And I really love her idea of refinement and resetting.
To Follow C.c.elaine: #thepathisprotected #divineappointments #allisconnected #theuniversehasyourback #intuitiveliving #dreamweaver
A Crisis and a New Life
[C.c.elaine] My whole life crumbled. I went through a whole life shakeup, and I ended up moving in with my brother to start saving for us to move here to Atlanta. And he helped me take care of my kids. It was the scene of my mom dying and my whole life falling apart. Aside from that, you know, my marriage, I had to give up my business. I lost my home all in the same year. That is such a hard place to be in, to feel all alone.
My hope is that I can help others get to a place of feeling supported and comforted even when they actually are alone in their journeys. And the other big piece is having dreams and purpose. That’s another reason why people feel so much despair is not having any purpose in their lives. And a lot of people don’t know how to find purpose. And that’s another aspect to my intuitive living work, to help people activate their dreams and then to be able to see the signs and clues and guidance from nature and the universe as they move along to achieve their dreams.
Below are snippets and links to our most recent Adult Children and Us episodes.
Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving (S3 | E143)Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving. They're coming home soon from college, or life, this time of year. Are we ready?? !!
November 28, 2024Playing with the Unexpected with Laura & IzzyPlaying with the Unexpected with Laura & Izzy. Polyamory. Community. Communication. Support. The Open Nesters Podcast.
October 17, 2024Mothering Love and Success Part Two (S4 | E162)Mothering Love and Success PART TWO (S4 | E162) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
June 6, 2024Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161)Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
May 22, 2024Catastrophe Soup | Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158)This week on The Open Nesters. Catastrophe Soup Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158) Adventures from the empty nest.
April 10, 2024Trust and the Empty Nest (Part 2)We talk about giving each other space in this short episode. Part 2 of our intimate episode about trust and generosity....
Next Episode

Progressive Love and Communication (Part 2)
Progressive Love and Communication (Part 2)
with Kenya and Carl Stevens (Season 2 | Episode 96)
[TESSA] In Carl’s words:
One of the major things that Kenya was focused on was the freedom of women: to express themselves sexually in the ways that they desire to, without being judged by the ways of society. We studied things like Tantra and Sacred Sexuality. That pushed us into the ‘open arena.’ It is really important to me that Kenya can express herself and be free, not be caged. And not feel like she is going to be judged for having desires.
This is part two of our conversation with Kenya and Carl. To listen to part one, click here.
PROGRESSIVE LOVE ACADEMYKenya and Carl: Progressive Love Academy
Kenya K. Stevens is a relationship expert, love coach, best-selling author, wife, and mother of three. Kenya attended Howard University in Washington D.C. where she graduated in 1997 with a degree in Education/ Psychology.
Not only did she scoop up a degree, but she also met and married a fellow Howard student Carl Stevens.
In 2005 this power couple founded built JujuMama LLC, now known as Progressive Love Academy into a worldwide love coaching conglomerate, training center for coaches and online Love Academy.
And – some news right now – look for their new podcast, The Benefit is Love, coming soon.
Below are snippets and links to our most recent Adult Children and Us episodes.
Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving (S3 | E143)Kids, Identity and Thanksgiving. They're coming home soon from college, or life, this time of year. Are we ready?? !!
November 28, 2024Playing with the Unexpected with Laura & IzzyPlaying with the Unexpected with Laura & Izzy. Polyamory. Community. Communication. Support. The Open Nesters Podcast.
October 17, 2024Mothering Love and Success Part Two (S4 | E162)Mothering Love and Success PART TWO (S4 | E162) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
June 6, 2024Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161)Mothering Love and Success (S4 | E161) with Leslie Russell, Tami Nora and Tessa. Another exclusive from The Open Nesters Podcast.
May 22, 2024Catastrophe Soup | Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158)This week on The Open Nesters. Catastrophe Soup Ingredients for Reinvention (S4 | E158) Adventures from the empty nest.
April 10, 2024Trust and the Empty Nest (Part 2)We talk about giving each other space in this short episode. Part 2 of our intimate episode about trust and generosity.
December 14, 2023Trust and the Empty Nest with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147)An episode about Trust and the Empty Nest (and generosity!) with Tessa and Amir (S3 | E147) | The Open Nesters Podcast
December 7, 2023Empty Nest Love (in the Love Lab – S3 | E146)Open Nesting in the Love Lab (S3 | E146) | We sit down for a second time with Sue Jaye and Joe from Relationship Tripping.
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