by Carpenter's Daughter
Carpenter’s Daughter Podcast Faith. Justice. Service. Lived Out Loud. Carpenter’s Daughter is a podcast hosted by Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based women Ifeoma Ike and Alexis Confer, exploring what it means to practice faith—not perform it. Rooted in Christianity and shaped by justice work, art, politics, and lived experience, the show centers builders who confront injustice, resist oppression, and repair what is broken.
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1/19/2026
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June 25, 2026
<p>In this bonus episode of The Carpenter's Daughters, hosts Alexis Confer and Ify Ike sit down with Iranian-American advocate and media literacy champion Maryam Mehrtash — recorded on Persian New Year, March 20, 2026 — for a conversation that stayed with them long after the mics went off.</p><p>Maryam shares her family's story: parents who fled Iran after the 1979 revolution, a mother who got off at the wrong train station with two-year-old Maryam in her arms, and a grandmother named Giti — Kurdish singer, actress, activist, and political prisoner at Evin Prison, tortured four years for the crime of her voice. She reflects on how that lineage shaped her belief that art is resistance.</p><p>She also reframes how the world sees Iran: a population with a 99% literacy rate where women make up 60% of post-secondary graduates and 70% of STEM — and where education has become less a path to opportunity than a ticket out. And she pushes back hard on the question "why don't Iranians fight for themselves?" They have. They are. The resistance isn't new.</p><p>The conversation connects Iran's struggle to the fights for equity, dignity, and human rights everywhere — asking what it means when faith gets weaponized by governments, and when seeing each other's full humanity becomes the most radical act available to us.</p>
March 23, 2026
<p>In the Season 1 finale of The Carpenter’s Daughter, hosts Alexis Confer and Ify Ike reflect on feeling personally okay but existentially overwhelmed by current events, then spotlight “salt of the earth” leadership and community care. Alexis shouts out the Mosaic Collective and women Olympic athletes using their platforms for equity, while Ify highlights Nneka’s “Black Women Rising” network responding to mass job losses affecting Black women and explains why Black women have been concentrated in public-sector work. The conversation defends protest and the First Amendment, critiques attacks on press and civic freedoms, and flips the table on calls to abandon “identity politics,” arguing politics is already shaped by whiteness and that centering Black women’s outcomes benefits everyone. They discuss Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Senate primary featuring Crockett and a Christian opponent, turnout and vote milestones, and criticize cookie-cutter Democratic strategies, urging local, relational organizing, mutual aid, rest, and new leaders to step forward.</p><p>00:00 Show Introduction</p><p>00:27 Checking In Today</p><p>02:25 Shoutouts Mosaic Collective</p><p>03:48 Olympics And Athlete Activism</p><p>07:15 Patriotism And Protest</p><p>10:14 First Amendment Basics</p><p>12:18 Speaking Up Is Risky</p><p>15:46 Black Women Rising Jobs Crisis</p><p>16:54 Why Public Sector Matters</p><p>24:26 Community Organizing Hope</p><p>27:54 Flip The Table Identity Politics</p><p>28:48 Jasmine Crockett Shoutout</p><p>31:19 Faith Versus Nationalism</p><p>32:13 Texas Senate Showdown</p><p>34:26 Identity Politics Backlash</p><p>37:58 Calling Out Double Standards</p><p>39:35 No Cookie Cutter Strategy</p><p>44:53 Organizing That Works</p><p>49:33 Lazy Narratives And Lessons</p><p>54:51 Pick Up Your Cross</p><p>56:52 Leaders Rise Locally</p><p>01:00:09 Rest Mutual Aid Closing</p><p>01:00:41 Gratitude And Sign Off</p><p><br></p>
March 16, 2026
<p>Hosts Alexis Confer and Ify Ike welcome Milly Tamarez—The Carpenter’s Daughter’s director and a Brooklyn-based comedian, producer, writer, and co-creator of Flex and the Diverse as F**k Comedy Festival, to discuss how community and in-person connection counter modern alienation. Milly shares how she and Alexis met at a creative retreat, then they unpack what “networking” really means as organic, integrity-based relationships. The conversation moves into dating culture, red pill/incel online ecosystems, and how the internet has become a dangerous “third space” that monetizes rage, especially for young boys. Milly reflects on making comedy from vulnerability without spreading hopelessness, the realities of beauty politics and patriarchy, and how Buddhist principles around integrity, resilience, and not being swayed by praise or blame inform her path. She closes by urging people to meet in person and “go touch grass.”00:00 Show Introduction00:27 Meet Milly02:56 Retreat Pool Story04:21 Rethinking Networking07:48 Dating Paradox08:35 Loneliness And Alienation10:27 Red Pill Explained13:20 Third Spaces Online18:37 Incel Culture And Adolescent23:47 Patriarchy And Modern Love28:12 Comedy In Heavy Times31:11 Culture Shifts Forward32:37 Global Cool Shift33:16 Comedy From Lived Truth34:57 Humiliation Into Punchlines38:48 Beauty Politics Reality Check46:31 Touch Grass Offline Life50:09 Flipping Tables In Comedy52:02 Karma Privilege And Grit57:27 Mentors And Staying Steady01:02:36 Community Connection Closing01:05:47 Final Sign Off</p>
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Carpenter’s Daughter Podcast Faith. Justice. Service. Lived Out Loud.
Carpenter’s Daughter is a podcast hosted by Jersey-born, Brooklyn-based women Ifeoma Ike and Alexis Confer, exploring what it means to practice faith—not perform it. Rooted in Christianity and shaped by justice work, art, politics, and lived experience, the show centers builders who confront injustice, resist oppression, and repair what is broken.
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