Episode 170: From the Skatepark To The Frontlines | Rose Archie | Nations Skate Youth
Rose Archie is changing what leadership looks like. As founder of Nations Skate Youth, she’s created a movement rooted in Indigenous pride, healing, and community. Rose shares her journey from growing up in Canim Lake to building safe spaces for Indigenous youth through skateboarding. Kara and Rose talk about identity, representation, grief, and what it means to show up with purpose. This is a conversation about community impact, self-made women, and the power of redefining success through service.
“We want indigenous youth to be confident and proud of where they come from. They are the future leaders. They are loved. ”
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Chapters:
00:00 Growing up in Canim Lake and finding skateboarding
01:15 Residential schools and generational impact
03:00 Creating Nations Skate Youth
05:10 Skateboarding as escape and safe space
06:45 Building confidence in Indigenous youth
09:00 Representation and visibility in skateboarding
11:10 Organizing the Stop Drop and Roll event
13:00 Mental health and community needs post-pandemic
15:15 What it means to use your voice for good
17:00 Indigenous culture, language, and legacy
19:30 Losing her sister and turning grief into action
21:00 Elders, mentors, and intergenerational wisdom
23:30 Why community impact matters more than money
25:15 Challenges of being a woman in skateboarding
27:00 Powerful means not apologizing for existing
29:00 Hopes for future Indigenous leaders
31:00 Opportunities for collaboration and support
We didn't really know too much about the residential school. We didn't, we knew our parents went there. Our grandparents didn't talk about it. We didn't hear any stories. But the effects of it were drug and alcohol abuse.
And that's Rose Archie, and this is The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
Hey guys, I'm Kara Duffy, a business coach and entrepreneur on a mission to help you live your most extraordinary life. By showing you that anything is possible. People who have mastered freedom, ease, and success, who are living their best and most ridiculous lives, and who are changing the world are often people you've never heard of until now.
Today's guest, rose Archie is a badass. She's a skateboarder, a multi-project and event founder, a nonprofit founder, and she's using skateboarding to bring visibility, access, pride, and mental health resources to indigenous communities. She is why she is rad, and most importantly, she's using her power for good.
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Welcome to The Powerful Ladies Podcast.
Hello. Thanks for having me.
I am very excited to talk to you. You do. Very cool stuff. So let's jump right in and tell everybody your name, where you are in the world, and what you're up to.
My name is Rose Archie. I'm from Canam Lake. We are located in the interior BC.
Our community is called Eskin. It means the people of Broken rock. And yeah, we're on the unstated territory of the
nation. Very cool. And you have the beautiful architecture behind you of the city. I think I've done so much with skateboarding in my life working for skate companies, hosting a powerful lady skate day.
And that's where you and I have some crossover. So tell us about Nation Skate Youth. How did that start? How did realize that skateboarding was your thing?
Nation Skate Youth started in my living room actually. It all came about because the community wanted me to attend to talk about mental health and to bring skateboarding into the community.
I didn't have anyone in mind that, like I, I was like, oh, that would be down. The first person I called was Joe Buffalo.
And Tristan Henry. Dustin Henry and Adam George. We all just came together naturally. Being an indigenous skateboarder, our community is very small to begin with.
So yeah, that was our first trip was to Fort St. John and. After that trip, we just wanted to get together and we brainstormed ways of bringing skateboarding to communities and making a positive impact on indigenous youth. And just being able to listen to everyone's input and, our dreams and being able to travel for skateboarding into an indigenous communities and giving back was something that we were all just.
On the same page and it made sense. So it just flourished from there. And I've been skateboarding since the early nineties growing up on the reserve in a small community. We didn't have access to skateboarding or skate parks. I found myself in the teenage years hitchhiking to skateboard with my sister, and it was like an hour and a half to two and a half hours away.
Wow. How did you find skateboarding?
When I was in grade two, my teacher's son. He was the first one to bring a skateboard into the community. And at lunchtime, I would see them, all the older guys in grade seven skateboarding. And it wasn't until I seen my sister try it, and she's two years older than me, so as soon as I seen her hanging out with them and trying it I wanted to do it.
And when I started, I wanted to do it every day. And so my sister and I and our friend Bernadette, we got skateboards. They were old ones. It, we didn't really care. Like I didn't really care. It was just something that like, put a smile on my face and yeah I use it as my time to get away and it definitely took.
A piece of the reality that was going on. And it just made me into that mode of just skateboarding and how fun it made it, how fun it was, and like how it made me feel.
You mentioned that skateboarding was an escape for you. What did you need to escape in your life at that time? 'Cause I feel so many people have found skateboarding because of the escape, because it gave them relief from whatever it was that they were going through.
Yeah. Growing up in a community that's so small first off, my, the community I am from Canna Lake. We are all connected. Every family knows everyone. We grow up going to school with the kids. We know all the elders. And yeah, we have a school. We had a school there, right? And. Growing up we didn't really know too much about the residential school.
We didn't, we knew our parents went there, our grandparents didn't talk about it. We didn't hear any stories. But the effects of it were drug and alcohol abuse. We had a lot of suicide and I feel like sometimes growing up there was a funerals. All the time.
And just in constant mode of grieving and as a kid you would see, the uncles and aunties crying and you would be listening to the le hell songs at the funeral.
And our traditions, we would see them constantly and I feel like that was what I wanted to get away from. And just being a kid and navigating through that, as tough as it is, and I didn't wanna fall into that cycle as well of
Constantly doing drugs and alcohol to escape. So skateboarding was a way for me to get away and to meet people and.
I didn't really talk about being on the reserve a lot when I was skateboarding. A lot of people thought I was Asian, and when I would say I was indigenous, they would be like, oh, really? Or they would just, oh, you look Asian. That's all. And. And they didn't have too much to say about it. Other than that, they probably didn't have a lot of exposure to it.
Yeah. I do feel like it, we were quite new to the community and there wasn't a lot of girls skateboarding up here in Canada at the time, so when we would go to a skate park, there would be two of us.
Yeah. Yeah. I think it's so interesting how skateboarding continues to break barriers internationally in, especially with women, in countries that are war torn and really providing this sense of community.
It makes me really proud to see. Either skateboarding or snowboarding or any of the action sports in the Olympics and seeing how women treat each other in those sports versus the others. To see everyone giving high fives and cheering on and like really being, even though you're skating for different country, it really is this tribe of, international skateboarders that are all aligned for what they love.
And I think that's one of the coolest things about what skateboarding provides to people. The hardest working people I've met, the most willing to collaborate the most open to new ideas and making things from scratch, tend to come and cross through and intersect with the skateboarding community.
How did it change your perspective on the world?
First of all, I felt accepted. It was very scary to go from the school and the community to a public school.
'Cause there was definitely some racism going on. I think our skin was just built so thick and we just got used of our parents telling us that's how they were raised.
That's how they are. And then you just get used to hearing that. I just stuck to my own little crew. But it's changed my life dramatically. Like it brought me opportunities where I was able to travel and meet other girls from all over the world through contests and yeah.
So it's been a really great, a great like couple decades. Of skateboarding for me. I've always seen it as a safe space and it broke my heart a couple years ago that some women and some girls didn't feel safe in the skateboard community and everything that I was numb to, I was numb to racism.
I was numb to guys yelling at me to do tricks. You just get to a point where you just you just ignore it. So I ignored it for so long and when I found out that, people were feeling unsafe, like I cried, I was like, really? I, because I, 'cause I, at one point, one point I knew what was going on, and another part was like, oh, like it's just how the culture is. It's, and that's just a lame excuse. So I wanted to be a part of that movement. And, it brought me to organizing an event in 2013, no, 2015, sorry. An event called Stop, drop and Rule, and it's an all women's event. And I just wanted women to come together. And, it, these events have been happening in California for so long, but in Canada it, it wasn't yet, our scene was still growing and there is that kind of joke, like we are 10 years behind the states with like fashion and like everything else but I wanted to bring that to Canada, to Vancouver.
And ever since then I've seen the scene grow. I've seen. People can come together and skateboard and feel supported. If they're a beginner. They've never stepped on a board before it's just, it's something that I was like, if it's not being done, I wanna do it. And it's the same with Nation Skate Youth.
There wasn't no nonprofits going around that were focusing on the mental health of indigenous that were giving back through. Skateboarding and choose is a small part of what we give back. But it's our time. It's the trust and the confidence that we can build with these kids and hear their stories and connect with them.
And I think that, our message is clear. We want indigenous youth to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Yeah. We want indigenous youth to. Not be ashamed to be indigenous. And we want to tell them that they're the future leaders, that they matter, that they're loved, and it.
To have that voice and to have that time and to have the opportunity is like it was a dream. After I lost my sister Tracy. I did not want parents, brothers and sisters to feel that way. And, losing someone in your family, it, it's human. It's a thing that happens and it's sad, it takes a long time to rebuild.
And I have a close connection with an elder, my Auntie Lorraine. And she told me when I started, this was to be true to who you are. And I didn't really know what she meant by that. And she would always tell me these things like, treat people how you wanna be treated, not how you were treated and to not talk about things that aren't true because then you're just wasting your time.
And. I've always had a close connection with my elders. Growing up I would go skateboarding or snowboarding and I would stop at my Granny Laura's and my at Tommy's and have tea, and they would have ice tea or cocoa, whatever. And they would always be like, have skateboarding going, and so when I see how far Nations has come, even starting it through a pandemic, having restrictions, seeing the mental health of communities deteriorate because of the isolation, because of, in the city we're lucky because we can order food in, we can. Yeah. Do certain things. We're in a community, they're in lockdown, they can't leave, and yeah, so I could see a lot of mental health struggles going on, and there were statistics of like suicide and increase in drug and alcohol overdoses.
So at the beginning of nations, I found myself emailing communities, being like, Hey, we're nations. This is what we do and like you wouldn't hear anything back. And then now the pandemic is over. Our inbox is just flooding with communities being like, our kids need something. We heard about what you do through another community.
We've seen your website, we've seen your videos. And that's so special because like we've, we worked hard to know what we wanna do, our objectives, our outcomes. And when you go to a community and you see the impact instantly, that's like something that's like truly amazing. That's something that I never had growing up, was to see another indigenous woman skateboard, to see another indigenous skateboard, pro skate see indigenous skateboard companies and clothing.
So I'm just happy to be in the mix. Keep empowering, inspiring, creating, leadership, creating opportunities for those communities.
It feels so good when you see the impact in real time, right? I've. I've worked with a company called project Bike Love, and it's women bringing bikes to people who've never had bikes 'cause they love bikes.
And see it's the same as when you're coming in with skateboarders and showing them and hanging out. Like it's real time opportunity to see someone's face light up and to Wow and to try a trick or to, to try to ride and be like, oh, what I can do this. There's something so contagious about seeing someone's.
Mind be blown. And like you can literally see it. It expands in front of you. And when you have situations like that, and I think it's so cool to be part of an organization that gets that hands-on experience. 'Cause so often when people are making an impact, it's through so many, walls of, oh, I donated here, or I supported this, or.
So much of it's far away, but to have like right in front of you hands-on opportunity to see how powerful you are for those people, it's amazing.
Yeah. I like that when the parents and the grandparents come out and to hear, like counselors from the schools come out and tell us I haven't seen those kids smile like that.
I haven't seen that voice smile like that. And then some kids get emotional.
When
you give them a pair of shoes and you tell them like, no, that skateboard is yours. You can keep that helmet if you want. And some kids cry because they're like, it's not even Christmas. And that gets us emotional because they're gonna remember that for the rest of their lives. Yeah. And that's the kind of impact that I'm, that I just wanna keep doing. I want to just keep. Bringing those opportunities to the youth that, that have never felt that before.
You talked about there being indigenous pro riders and companies, and so much of the skateboarding industry in the past two decades has consolidated.
So many brands have gone outta business so many. Riders have had to move to one of the, big three or big five companies because smaller and smaller brands have been dissolved or eaten up. What is it like to be part of a community and brands that are know opposite the statistics and proving that they can exist despite there being huge global brands that are taking up so much of the space.
There's a big shift in where people are putting their money nowadays. And that I see it a lot and I think that's why these brands are thriving, is because there's never really been a section 35 clothing company where, you know, you believe what they stand for and their values are aligned with you.
And there's companies like colonialism, skateboarding, where they're educating by the mass through social media. And when people see that, that's where their focus is. And the importance for sure, you're gonna wanna support that because you're gonna wanna see them succeed because it's never been done.
Yeah. Yeah, it's, you don't need to have a lot of money to be successful. You just need to have that solid support of your own people. And I, and that's what I love about it.
And I've always loved skateboarding because there's so many stories to be told through it as a medium, even bigger than a sport, right?
Because the skateboarding has always had a blurred line between sport and a lifestyle and sport and a way of existence, and. I had the pleasure a couple months ago to go to the premier of the Cuba skate video that came out the documentary. And it's another example of people using skateboarding to change a community and to change a country.
Every time I go to something like that it's, I'm left so much more inspired because I think the skateboarding way of doing things in my head also fits into the punk rock way of doing things, which is, it doesn't matter what we have, we can make it anyway. Like we, it's like literally like I joke with clients of mine, besides the podcast, I'm a business coach and like I joke with clients, I'm like, we can start something from nothing.
Yeah. We can. And there's something about being in that culture where. If you give us wheels and duct tape, we will figure it out.
Exactly. No, I love that. When I was younger, I had a summer job and me and my sister, we would travel to punk shows and skate contests and whatnot that were around there were very few around, so we took advantage of it.
We would use that money in the summer to put on our own punk shows. We would before Facebook and like there, there was nothing really, no social media to contact people. So we would email, had real flyers. Yeah. We would email the bands and say Hey, we'll pay for your gas money and we'll give you a place to stay.
Come play the show in the middle of nowhere. And so we were doing that in the summers, keeping us busy. Not really caring about the liability or just we would just rent a building, get a bunch of bands play, have fun, and to create our own scene.
And as two indigenous young teenage girls doing that, it was like, yeah, it was a successful lemonade stand.
Really. Yeah. We were meeting people in bands and making our own posters and putting them up in skate shops. And just meeting people through that way. So even in our small town, a hundred Mile house, there wasn't anything like that going on. So we just created it and made it happen. So I feel like I have a bit of that's been in me my whole life of if it's not happening, let's make it happen and yeah.
So I've tried to create much of, what I think is fun and try to spread that love and try to spread that inspiration. And being in the skateboard scene for so long is it's pretty neat. You get to meet a lot of people, a lot of women that are changing the scene.
And I just get a lot of inspiration from other women as well. But times do get tough, times are tough where you're like, you wanna give up and. I feel like those are the times that you really see how strong you are. You really see the support network you have, the friends you have that stick by you, the, and yeah.
So my parents they like never told me to stop skateboarding. They never, were like, okay, that's like you're grown up now. Put that away. So that support's been like really amazing and I let them know all the time.
I recently showed my dad a video of our nation's trip to the island, and when he was looking at the kids' smile and he was just seeing what I do, it really really made him proud.
Yeah.
And it was the first time really, that he was like, wow, when you are a young kid, skateboarding, he is I didn't think in my dreams that you would make it this far and do what you're doing.
And I'm getting emotional because, my dad went to residential school, and he was a sixties scoop baby and learning his story so late in my life, I now understand how much he had to sacrifice for us.
And and I can see that now. I always like think of the small things and when I wanna give up, I always think of what he went through. What my mom went through, what our grandparents went through for us to be here, for us to speak our language, to know our culture, to know our traditions. And I'm using my voice now to tell the kids that.
And yeah, and like I get to look at them right in the eye and say, and you're the future leader. It's so important to learn our culture, our language, and our history because at one point. We weren't allowed to do that. And our grandparents sacrificed so much and they relearned the language.
The elders taught us the language from kindergarten all the way to high school. So you see how much they sacrificed for us, and it's inspiring to me, and that's what I wanna be like that elder that's telling the young kids don't give up. The stuff that I'm told right now and.
Yeah. And I hope the outcome of Nations is 5, 10, 20 years from now, we have all these little kids teaching their younger cousins the same message. Or if someone asks 'em, when was the first time you started skateboarding? They can say, oh, nations skate Youth gave me my first board and now I'm teaching my own language in my own community.
And like those are some of the dreams and aspirations that I. That I want. And I know that all the other co-founders of Nations, they wanna see the youth being the best versions of themselves. And if we can empower and inspire them through skateboarding and they can pass it on yeah, just making that connection because what we tell the youth too is it's not just skateboarding, it's like filming, taking photos.
Doing the magazine, starting your clothing company like, and then you see their eyes and like we stay connected with them through Instagram or they message us and it's neat to see that they're still pushing around and they're progressing. And it's cute when you get to a community and you meet that 8-year-old girl who watched the Olympics because of skateboarding and and she's so excited to be sky brown when she grows up. And Sky Brown's only 13 or 14 years old herself. And little girls already wanna be just like her. It's really cool to, to just, yeah. To see them saying their dreams and I tell them myself what I'm living right now is a dream, i've dreamt of all of this when I was. 12 years old, I said, I wanna work in downtown Vancouver. And when I was working in downtown Vancouver in the business district, I was like, oh my God. Like I remember walking this exact street saying this exact thing when I was 12 years old.
And
in, yeah.
So I've been in Vancouver for about 20 years now and go home all the time. Home is Canam Lake and this is where I live,
and it, it, you're clearly a powerful manifester when you can. It's so cool when you can see oh wait, I asked for this. I said this is gonna happen. And to keep, I think one of the Jedi tricks of adulthood is like starting to see when what you asked for is showing up faster and faster.
Because usually it's not until hindsight you're like, oh my gosh, I forgot I asked for this at one point. And now to to really be present in the moment and be like, no, I asked for this and it's right here, right now, is one of the coolest feelings. Because I, people will often ask me. How do I make something happen?
I'm like, you just start, you write it down. You say it's gonna happen, but you don't have to believe it when you say it. Yeah, exactly. So often it starts with like complete doubt. Like it'd be really awesome if I could do X, Y, and Z, but it's probably not gonna happen. Is usually how the thought starts.
Yes.
Yeah. And with nation skate youth, we didn't know. Like how big we were gonna get. We didn't know. We didn't have a dollar amount of what we need. And when you do it right from the heart, people see that. If we were like, oh, we wanna do it for this much money and we're only gonna go to your community if you have this much money.
Sometimes we go to communities and. They'll give us like medicine, they will have an elder welcoming us or playing a song for us. And sometimes we get to try out the local food that, you know, that they make traditionally and that's like better than money, yeah, like our nonprofit.
Can't do what we do without donations. So during the pandemic, we were able to share our whys and, why it's important that we focus on indigenous youth. And then, yeah. So now, it's been tough up here because the residential schools finding all of the the children.
So that every child matters in the orange T-shirt day. Reconciliation being a core value and people actually hearing the truth makes me feel as a woman that I'm able to speak my stories of my grandparents and what they went through and what we went through. A lot of us are just learning that we're intergenerational trauma.
Yeah. Which is crazy, like a lot of people just thought that we, our communities were just a bunch of alcohol and like drug like abuse going on.
But before a contact, before the settlers came into our area, alcohol wasn't even a thing. It was brought in by, whoever, but it's just, we're a couple generations in and we're still not used to it, now I see the story and now I see where I come from and I learn who I am and why I am the way I am. I heard that a lot through other women and listening to their stories and the elder stories of saying they're crying and they're saying that is the way, that is why my kids are the way they are.
And they carried this on their shoulders for so long and yeah. So I honor all the children and I honor all the women. And, all of the fathers and the grandfathers and uncles that, that made sure that we were safe. And, in my community we were taught to live off the land.
So they taught us where to hunt, where to fish, where to pick berries, and I wanna pass that down to kids and show them how important it's to listen to those stories. Because in the next couple decades, if no one hears these stories or listens, they're gonna be forgotten.
And I think that's the importance that we wanna tell the youth through nations. And so it's really cool to get that opportunity.
One of the questions I think is so interesting is how different guests on the show think about the words. What does powerful mean? What does ladies mean?
What do they mean when they're together? Does it change when they're like, 'cause is power by itself different than power next to ladies? How do you feel about the word ladies? So I'd love to hear your opinion.
I put on a, like I talked a little bit about the, it's a stop, drop and roll event.
I do. And I learned a lot about what women wanna be called or, I called it like an all girl skateboard contest and then I'm not a girl, I'm a woman. And then you say, okay, it's a woman's contest. And then it's oh, there are girls too that are coming. And then, we changed it to women with an X Yeah.
To be more inclusive. And then a couple months down the road, you're getting, oh, women with an X, that's not really proper. So you know, you're back to women again. And just the social change that's going on with that and people wanting to be, seen as who they are and, the gender and the gender non-conforming.
And up here we have two spirit and trans and you respect that. You respect how they wanna be seen and what they wanna be called. So yeah, with the word ladies, is that right? Yeah. Yeah. Ladies? I think, like for me personally, I think that's like. A really nice way of putting woman like, oh, she looks like a lady.
It's like she's dressed up and I dunno. She's classy. But yeah, it's cla it's a classy name. Definitely a classy name.
And what does powerful mean to you?
Powerful means to not have to say sorry for existing. Powerful means you're gonna get things done because everyone told you it can't be done.
Powerful means that it's one of your best qualities and it's something that can work with you or against you. That is true and powerful is scary to some people. I come across intimidating because I know what I want. I'm not scared to say what I want. I'm not scared to voice my opinion as long as it's not hurting anyone's feelings.
I'm a big believer in self-esteem and confidence and uplifting those two things. And, but as soon as you start bringing somebody down because of your power you're abusing that. So if I was to look at powerful in a positive way, it would mean supporting and sticking up for those who would do the same for you.
And who don't have that voice.
Yeah. Which you are doing, so thank you. We also ask everyone on the podcast where they put themselves on the Powerful Lady Scale. If zero is average everyday human and 10 is the most powerful lady you can imagine, where would you put yourself on that scale today and on average?
Wow. I feel like I've grown a lot more than I realize. Yeah. And I feel like there's a lot more I can do. So wow. I wanna say like a seven. Beautiful. Just because, yeah. There's still more that I can probably work on to get there.
When you look back at what you've created and what you've caused to happen.
What are you most proud of and what's ha what was a turning point that you remember?
A few years ago I did a talk called Raven Speak, and we were gonna be up on stage for 11 minutes and I had to get a speech ready and it was a six month program. We had elders come in, mentors come in, and they just kept on asking, what's your story?
What's your story? And I was almost in tears because I was like, I don't have a story. I didn't do anything in my life. I don't know and at that time I was driving home every two weeks to be with my family, to be with my nephew. And so I had a six hour drive. And then a six hour drive back to Vancouver.
So that was 12 hours of me just being alone. And, I just, I had to so much time to think of what my story was and why I am here on this earth and what impact I wanna make. And because I know I wanna make an impact, I know that I wanna leave a legacy behind. I know that I wanna inspire someone else to take over.
Nations one day to take over, stop, drop and roll one day and carry on that legacy for me. And that was when I realized that Raven speak, that I knew what I wanted to do. I knew my story, I knew what I wanted to say, and I worked on myself a lot. I worked on, who I actually was. So that was the time where I realized okay, now I can be my true self.
And what everybody else sees is just their opinion.
Yeah. Do you know going through that experience, do you look at yourself sometimes and go, I'm a fucking badass? Holy cow.
I think I have more friends that tell me that on a daily basis than I tell myself that When my friends tell me that, I'm like, oh yeah.
But I think. When I hear it from others, it definitely makes me smile when I hear it from elders. I had a swa teacher come up to me and tell me, I've always been so proud of you, and you never listened to me though when you were a little kid. And and so like, when I hear stories of that I, it makes me happy to see how far I've come.
Yeah. As we're, in 2022 and things are starting to open back up and we're able to be together again. What are you looking forward to and what are you excited about?
I'm just excited to share all the exciting projects that Nations have is going to be doing in 2022. I'm excited to see.
The impacts that we can make with communities that are opening up and that are gonna be welcoming us. And I'm just excited to see more opportunities for Bipoc arise and more events where women are being treated fairly within skateboarding. It's just been recently where women are getting paid the same as the men.
And, and that's just, from women I looked up to, like Mimi New Care. Beth Burnside. I'm just looking to collaborate with more women and to do bigger things and to, and I like, it's a huge project nations and it's gonna be ongoing and i'm just looking to, all the support that we get and just let people know that we can't do this without them.
I love connecting the people I know who are rad and everyone I know in Vancouver is rad,
Oh, that's so good to hear.
If they don't already know each other, they should. They're all optical things. I love seeing people who've been in this podcast even collaborating with people that I knew from, past lives and work.
And other skateboarders up there. So it's just, this community is a powerful, big community. So we're also asking everyone on the podcast this year, what do you need and how can we help you? Because I bet there's someone in this community or someone listening that has that next key for you.
Yeah.
I think what I need is more resources to know how to deal with mental health. That maybe I don't know about. I need, I want someone to offer workshops. Hey, we heard of this great opportunity that, nations can go to and it's like a two day program and you get to learn about like certain things.
And I don't know, I just feel like opportunities like that where we're. Learning, always learning. Where we get opportunities to sit at the tables where our voices haven't been heard yet. Where we're invited into rooms where we should be where we're taking back opportunities and giving them to indigenous people.
I think if anyone can help us with those things, feel free to send us an email nations skate youth@gmail.com.
Perfect. I think it's a great segue as well to list all the other ways people can connect with you and Nations skate and everything else that you're a part of.
Yes. So we do have a website because of the pandemic and things like that, it's just been quite.
Quite slow, but we have a Facebook page and an Instagram page. Social media is just the way things are going right now. And if you want us to visit a indigenous community near you, send us an email as well. We love to connect like that
and everything's at Nation Skate Youth on all the platforms.
Exactly. Yeah. Okay. And if somebody wants to connect directly with you, is there any other, do you want them to go to your Instagram or anywhere else?
Yeah my Instagram is Skate Rosie. And yeah, you'll see all the links on there of what I do.
Yeah. Amazing. It has been such a pleasure to get to talk to you today, to share your story.
I cannot wait to hear how excited people are about this episode. But truly it's an honor that you are a yes to me and to the powerful ladies. So thank you.
Thank you so much. I'm really honored and yeah, what you are doing and your vision and, getting a voice out there of powerful ladies.
That's really cool. So everyone who hasn't checked it out already, you should check it out.
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I hope you're taking on being powerful in your life. Go be awesome and up to something you love.
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