Episodes
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Kena Hodges is the example that you can be whatever you want to be, whenever you DECIDE to be. She is an artist, a holistic healer, a wellness warrior, an influencer, a student, a teacher, a coach, an author, and a mom. With a specialization in mindset coaching, manifestation, self-love/inner work, nutrition, herbal/supplemental medicine, fitness, yoga, and meditation, Kena guides individuals to explore the depths of who they are and shed aspects of themselves that are no longer serving their greater good.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Stories Come Through the Heart w/ Tonya Melendez, founder of Writing Through the Wounds
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Tonya Melendez is an award-winning psychic medium who teaches people to harness their intuitive intelligence to empower their lives and lifestyle. A former librarian, Tonya turned her coffee shop tarot readings into a thriving wellness, wisdom, and woo business. Tonya was voted the #3 Psychic Medium in the world by STB TV Channel (Kyiv, Ukraine). A licensed spiritual counselor and certified yoga instructor, she also is the co-founder and hostess of Royal Reset Retreats in her adopted home of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where she is living the life of her cat mama dreams. She is also the creator and host of The Clairvoyant Podcast.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Purpose Is Linked To Provision w/ Kimberly Brazwell, author of Browning Pleasantville
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Kimberly Brazwell is a Washington DC transplant and native of Columbus, OH, and is the CEO and founder of KiMISTRY, which specializes in the unique intersection of trauma, justice and holistic wellness. Through writings, paintings, blogs, vlogs, social media content, and community conversation forums, Brazwell creates safer spaces to use story-sharing as a healing approach. She is also a contributing author of Implicit Bias in Schools with a chapter entitled, “Practical Application of Implicit Racial Debiasing”. Brazwell has also performed two TEDx Talks – “Over, Under, Around and Through Trauma” and “Crazy and Black and Poor”.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Kiaundra Jackson is a trusted Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist that gets results. She has been seen on OWN’s TV show, Love Goals and has been featured in Oprah’s Magazine, Essence, Women’s Health Magazine, FOX, CBS and Forbes as one of the ‘Next 1000.’ She is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, TV Personality and a noted expert on healthy relationships and mental health where her work has been recognized by Beyonce and the NAACP. Kiaundra is the visionary of KW Couples Therapy, a thriving private practice in the Los Angeles area and the Co-Founder of Black Speakers Rock, a network for new and emerging speakers.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
For over 16 years, Sonja Herbert has served as a social worker and established a deep professional commitment to fitness training, devoting herself to teaching classical Pilates and integrating it with her clients' fitness and athletic goals. Sonja is currently working on an MSW through Fordham University and has plans to intentionally meld two of her career loves together to create a studio for both Pilates and clinical services. She is also the founder/creator of Black Girl Pilates®️ which is a platform highlighting/supporting Black Pilates instructors all over the world.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Breathwork to Live Fully Liberated w/ Zee Clarke, author of Black People Breathe
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Zee Clarke, Harvard MBA, went from leading teams at Fortune 500 companies and startups in Silicon Valley to teaching mindfulness and breathwork to people of color. After experiencing a number of race related challenges, from racial profiling and harassment by the police to microaggressions in the workplace, she realized that mindfulness and breathwork were much more powerful outside of the yoga studio and in the context of our everyday lives. Trained in India, Zee leverages her toolkit of yoga, meditation, breathwork, sound healing, and Reiki, to ensure that all people of color have the tools to thrive despite any challenges that race, gender, or sexuality might present.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Sabia Wade (she/they), is a Black, Queer, CEO, Investor, Educator, Full Spectrum Doula, and expander of Black Luxury. Sabia is the founder of Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings, an accessible and inclusive training program for community care workers, and For the Village, a non-profit providing doulas at no or low-cost to low-income and marginalized communities in San Diego. Her newest business, Loads of Pride, is serving as a frontier in the trucking industry, centering jobs for BIPOC & Queer individuals, and aims to show just how connected it all is.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Lyvonne Briggs, MDiv, ThM, an Emmy Award winner, and body- and sex-positive womanist preacher and speaker, is the host of Sensual Faith Podcast, the author of Sensual Faith: The Art of Coming Home to Your Body (Convergent/Penguin Random House out March '23), and co-host of Sanctified, a faith-based, Spotify-exclusive podcast on Jemele Hill’s Unbothered Network. Lyvonne is also a spiritual life coach and TEDx speaker and has been featured in Essence, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post. She also has the prestigious recognition of Sojourners naming her as one of "11 Women Shaping the Church” and is a graduate of The Lawrenceville School, Seton Hall University, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary who has roots in New York City but is currently based in New Orleans, LA.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Jenny Block’s work has appeared in a number of high-profile publications from The New York Times to Huffington Post, and is the author of four books, including Be That Unicorn: Find your Magic. Live your Truth. Share your Shine. She has been featured regularly on HuffPo Live and in their videos and multimedia projects. Jenny has also appeared on a variety of television and radio programs, including Great Day Houston, AM Northwest, Nightline, The Tyra Banks Show, Good Morning Texas, Playboy Radio, and BBC Radio.
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Wednesday Apr 05, 2023
Rafaella Smith-Fiallo (she/ella) is a licensed clinical social worker, sexual liberation activist, and therapist specializing in relationship, sex, and trauma therapy. She owns Healing Exchange LLC, a therapy private practice, and co-founded Afrosexology, a sex-positive, pleasure-based sexuality education business. Her work has been featured in numerous media outlets like HuffPost, Teen Vogue, Vibe Magazine, Broadly, and others. Additionally, she has worked in the field of suicide prevention and crisis intervention in civilian and veteran populations, and in inpatient, outpatient, and community mental health settings.