RAARE Woman Collective

08/30/2025

🌟 Live Informational Webinar Invitation 🌟

This is for ALL women ready to take the next step in life-changing, transformational advocacy work. Advocacy in Action is an activation program—a grace-centered coaching experience that equips women to lead with courage, clarity, and conviction.

Join Nikki R. Lanier and Annie Kuensting, M.A. on Tuesday, September 2nd at 5:30 PM (ET) for a live Zoom conversation about our next cohort of Advocacy in Action: A Grace-Centric Approach.

📅 Date: Tuesday, Sept 2nd
🕠 Time: 5:30 PM ET
💻 Location: Zoom

➡️ Register now to secure your spot: https://api.leadconnectorhq.com/widget/form/FauiuqK6kBXlNzOyvIQE

The question is: What side of history do you want to be part of?

08/20/2025

✨ Advocacy in Action: A Grace-Centric Approach ✨

OPEN TO ALL WOMEN

Sisters, the world doesn’t just need more advocates — it needs better ones.

On September 9, is the launch of the next cohort of Advocacy in Action, an 8-week group coaching experience designed to help women build the muscle, rigor, and grace to advocate for equity in every space we enter.

This isn’t about call-outs, clap backs, or shame-driven activism.

This is about cultivating courage, clarity, and compassion so we can lead conversations that heal, not harm.

If you’ve ever thought:
• “I care deeply about equity, but I’m not sure how to show up without misstepping.”
• “I want to advocate with confidence and heart — not fear and ego.”

…this program was designed for you.

Join us → We begin September 9.
Your voice matters. Your advocacy matters. The world needs you grace-centered and equipped.

Register Here ➡️ https://advocacyinactionhub.com/advocacy-in-action-5373

07/27/2025

What are your children learning about race, culture, and belonging—just by watching you?

Uncommon Ground is a compassionate, Kentucky-rooted guided journal for moms (and caregivers) who want to raise children who can thrive across differences. Written by Dr. Nikki Lanier, founder of RAARE and trusted Black woman leader, it offers:

✔️ 80+ guided reflections
✔️ Activities for multicultural fluency
✔️ Conversation prompts for age-appropriate equity building
✔️ A trauma-informed, grace-centered tone

If you’re navigating these questions yourself—or want a roadmap to start—this book is for you.

Available now on Amazon or wherever books are sold.

Join Nikki this Tuesday at 8:00 PM EST on Zoom as we dive into this topic in community.

07/25/2025

Join us for a powerful conversation on parenting, race, and values. Whether you're a parent, auntie, teacher, or mentor—your influence matters. This live Zoom event explores how to raise conscious kids in today’s world. Featuring Dr. Nikki R. Lanier and Holly Hartman of RAARE Woman Collective Community

Please share this with your network. Help us spread the word.
📅 Tuesday, July 29 | 8PM EST
💻 Free & open to all women

Topic RAARE: Parenting with Purpose: What Are Your Kids Learning About Race? Description Join us for a Special Meeting hosted by Dr. Nikki R. Lanier (Founder of RAARE) & Holly Hartman (Director of RAARE) - Tuesday, July 29th at 8:00 PM EST - On Zoom | Open to ALL Women Topic: Parenting with Purpose:...

07/23/2025

Join us for a special BREO Peer-to-Peer Meeting hosted by

Dr. Nikki R. Lanier (Founder of RAARE) & Holly Hartman (Director of RAARE)

🕗 Tuesday, July 29th at 8:00 PM EST
📍 On Zoom | Open to ALL RAARE members

Topic: Parenting with Purpose
What Are Your Kids Learning About Race?

Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, auntie, or mentor—this conversation is for you. What we model matters. Silence teaches. And influence goes far beyond bloodlines.

We’ll be reflecting on:
– What values we’re teaching (intentionally or not)
– How race shows up in our parenting and caregiving
– What it looks like to raise kids who are conscious, not just “kind”

You’ll also get to hear from Dr. Nikki R. Lanier about her powerful new book, Uncommon Ground—a guided journal for raising kids who can thrive across difference.

✨ Come as you are. Let’s grow together.
📥 Not on the list? Get the Zoom link here:

https://us05web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HCd7hyhAS2q05bF2GPATpA?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLrSFdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiewYj1zOapwc7fFPO2RVQkRk-VniOUgEd6zO13NmgREibWW6wphtjvSDx2__aem_rqxKo4NO_8OWYngoItpzLA #/registration

07/13/2025

📬 Are You on the RAARE Newsletter List Yet?
Every week, I send a newsletter to over 4,000 subscribers—and if you’re part of the RAARE Woman Collective, this is a resource you don’t want to miss. (Check Spam Folder)

✨ These weekly emails are real, relevant, and relational, created to support white women (and those socialized as white) in unpacking racism, healing in community, and taking meaningful action.

Each newsletter includes:
🔍 A powerful weekly theme
🪞 Personal reflection and storytelling
📚 Educational tools + curated resources
🛠️ Tangible, trauma-informed action steps
💭 Reflection prompts for growth
🤝 Alignment with our monthly BREO meetings

If you’ve ever felt stuck, siloed, or unsure how to stay engaged—this is your lifeline.

💡 Whether you’re new to RAARE or have been walking this path a while, get connected to the heartbeat of this work.

👉🏼 Join the list here: https://www.raarewomancollective.com/contact
Click “Stay in the Loop” to sign up!
Let’s keep showing up—together.

06/19/2025

Juneteenth: A Day to Remember, Reflect, and Respond

Juneteenth marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans were finally informed of their freedom—two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

It is a day of celebration, yes—but also a day of reckoning.

At RAARE Woman Collective, we hold space for white women doing the intentional work of racial equity. Today isn’t about polished posts or performative allyship. It’s a return to the heart of why we’re here:

To remember the cost of silence.
To reflect on the systems we’ve inherited.
To respond—not with shame, but with responsibility.

We believe:
• Growth begins with grace, not guilt
• Accountability can be compassionate
•And the work of ending racism must start where we live, work, and lead

Juneteenth invites us to ask:
How are we using our influence to create spaces where racism cannot live?
Where do we still have work to do—and are we willing to do it?

This day is sacred. Not just because it marks delayed freedom—but because it calls us into a deeper kind of presence. One where healing, truth, and liberation can take root.

Let us show up with humility.
Let us keep learning with open hearts.
And let us never forget: freedom is not passive—it is practiced.

06/14/2025

When Allyship Becomes Performative Pressure

I believe in equity.
In showing up. In listening. In using my platforms to amplify those who’ve been historically silenced.
I go to the events. I share the businesses. I do the work—imperfectly, but intentionally.

But I’ve also learned that allyship isn’t a performance.
It’s not for display.
It’s not about being seen doing the right thing.
It’s about who you are when no one’s clapping.

And yet—sometimes the pressure creeps in.
To explain yourself.
To defend your values.
To prove your heart is in the right place when someone questions your motives…
even when you’ve already lived your commitment ten times over.

This is for those of us who are trying to get it right—who lead with love, who center equity not as a trend but as a throughline—
and still find ourselves managing the emotional labor of someone else’s assumptions.

Let me be clear: feedback matters. But not all projections are your responsibility.

You can show up.
You can stay in integrity.
You can hold space for hard truths—and still say, this is not mine to carry right now.

That’s not fragility. That’s discernment.

To the bridge-builders, the boundary-holders, the imperfect but intentional leaders:
You don’t have to turn your allyship into a performance to prove it’s real.

Sometimes silence is strength.
Sometimes redirection is protection.
Sometimes choosing not to engage is the most powerful thing you can do to stay aligned with your actual work.

Keep building. Keep showing up.
But do it from your center—not from someone else’s stage.

06/02/2025

Dr. Nikki R. Lanier—a visionary leader, mentor, and friend whose work continues to shape and inspire this movement.

If you’re a mom committed to raising culturally competent, anti-racist children, don’t miss this powerful new resource she’s created. Nikki R. Lanier’s dedication to equipping women to lead with purpose and disrupt systemic racism is transformational.

I’m so proud to support and share this offering—it’s a reflection of the deep impact she continues to make.

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05/23/2025

We have another powerful voice joining our cohort… and we are deeply honored to celebrate her!

Please help us welcome Mary Jo Honiotes the newest RAARE woman to say yes to Advocacy in Action: A Grace-Centric Approach.

Mary Jo brings a profound legacy of leadership, spiritual depth, and community care to this space. As a BREO Leader, she’s shown up with grounded wisdom and unwavering compassion—holding space for others while fiercely committing to her own growth.

Her advocacy is rooted in decades of healing-centered work, guiding others through life’s sacred transitions with reverence and radical love. Now, she’s stepping into this next evolution of grace-centered leadership, ready to deepen the work of equity and embodied justice.

Mary Jo, we are so grateful for your yes.
Your presence is a gift to this movement, and we can’t wait to walk alongside you in this next chapter.

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More powerful announcements are on the way—this cohort is filling with women who are ready to lead with heart and disrupt with grace.

RAARE women, if you’re feeling the call… this is your moment.

🔗 https://www.raarewomancollective.com/advocacy-in-action

Let’s rise together. The movement is moving.