Season 1
part 1: WELLNESS AND RELATIONSHIPS
In this Podcast episode, we explore what shifting your mindset takes through a detailed storytelling journey into Shawnee’s path. We further discuss her self-evolution, going from a Licensed Social Worker to a Mindset Coach and Author. Throughout the conversation, we hope to give the readers and listeners tools on how to overcome mental and emotional barriers to find holistic wellness.
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Tune in as we explore cultural comfort foods, the root causes behind emotional overeating, and how it all circles back to operating in survival mode. Furthermore, we dive into beauty perceptions of natural beauty vs. external enhancements in marginalized communities and bring forth awareness of human trafficking across the marginalized spectrum in urban cities. Karina is a creative health-wellness advocate that works for one of the top tech-companies as a health coach. She dedicates her time towards promoting growth within the WOC community by teaching them how to stay motivated in their wellness journey. She has been recognized as a leading Latinx influencer that breaks through cultural barriers
Tune into this detailed storytelling journey into her path to becoming an Author. Throughout the conversation, we hope to give the readers and listeners tools on how to start having difficult conversations around family dynamics and confront barriers to find healing, and begin to reparent ourselves. Lizbel Ortiz, a 27-year-old woman who was born and raised in East New York after my parents migrated here in the late ’80s from the Dominican Republic. She is a home-based Baker and Writer for the last ten years and recently published her first book “Let’s Talk About It.” Most of her teenage years and early adult years into researching and dissecting Dominican and Caribbean culture. Plus the effects racism, sexism, and classism have had on us and our elders. It is without a doubt that her goal is to educate the Latinx community on how to pinpoint and unlearn toxicity, violence, ideologies, and beliefs that were taught to us by the wounded so we can heal ourselves and raise children who don’t have to fight through the chaos.
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Join us while we go on this rollercoaster ride of the tried and true. Michaelle Syleus, a current LMHC in practice, and her spouse Ricardo Alexander are two millennials navigating life together through the peaks and valley. As big-hearted Disciples of Christ, they hoping to make a difference in lives of others through their personal journey. In this episode we learn what it was like to get married during a pandemic. Throughout the conversation we hope to give the listeners tools on how to navigate new love in this day and age.
Season 1 Part 2: Economic Racial Equity
Tune in as we discuss collaboration, building trust and healthy work relationships, the importance of being organized and maintaining it, , learning how to identify micromanaging and building economic equity in urban areas Learn more about Ricely and her services in social media content creation and creative storytelling via @theglomedia and our upcoming episode streaming via most listening platforms and youtube. Ricely Tejada Video and Creative Marketer Owner of GloMedia www.theglomedia.com Meet Ricely, a Afrolatina, Jesus loving, and marketing videographer who is the current creative owner of TheGloMedia. Tune in as she joins me in conversation on how she found her purpose and our take on branding, marketing, and social influencing. Ricely values helping others tell their story in today’s digital era. She believes your brand is more than just a product or service, your story is what sets you apart & her goal is to help you tell it.
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Here we explore his unique path and goals in the Higher Education realm. We look into motives, intellect vs. emotional intelligence, alchemizing education, and personal experiences in creative ways. Throughout the conversation, we hope to gain more personal insight into finding balance with it all, finding support, challenges, handling expectations and advice. Gerson Sanchez is a Ph.D graduate from Florida International University whose research and work concentrates on the ways race, class, gender, and sexuality work in relation to political activism. He is also the founder and host of WokeWednesdays. WokeWednesdays is a multimedia movement dedicated to addressing social justice issues.
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Breauna Dorelus is the Founder and Chief Cause Consultant at Connecting the Cause, a consultancy dedicated to helping volunteers and those that lead them identify and uproot harmful volunteer practices specifically towards Black and brown communities. Breauna Dorelus is an advocate for voices of color to be heard, recognized and valued in the service and volunteerism sector and believes in keeping the community centered in all aspects of the volunteer process.
Breauna's work is built on the principle that transformational service must help instead of harm. Starting her decade plus stint in the nonprofit sector as an AmeriCorps member, she has continuously held positions in leading volunteers, creating programming, and spearheading community initiatives in the areas of humanitarian aid, refugee resettlement, and ministry. She received her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies from Georgia Southern University, and her Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Nonprofit Management from Georgia State University (Summa Cum Laude) Explore with us what is serving effectively as leader, business partner, volunteer, or worker looks like. More on what starts to happen when we forget about staff/volunteers and apply more emphasis on funders and board members. Learn with us why as BIPOC are hesitant at times to negotiate salary. Want to know how to revoke access to performative allyship, confront upper management possessive attitudes and advocate for side hustles and passion projects without fear or intimidation of corporate harmful practices? tune in now.
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All the way from Birmingham, United Kingdom, Co-Founders of HeyGirlDreamer Amna and Kiran join in conversation with your host as they discuss how and what led them to start a nonprofit for WOC that supports personal and professional development of young women of color. Here we discuss cross culture, changing paths to reach a purpose, breaking cultural traditions, and the different stages of entrepreneurship from start up to now scale up stage. Kiran and Amna are best friends and fellow Co-founders of GirlDreamer, a non-profit organization based in the UK that supports the personal and professional development of young women of colour to tackle social inequality and pursue their dreams.
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Here we explore a detailed storytelling journey into your path to becoming a Co-Founder. Throughout the conversation we hope to give the listeners and viewers on your resilient journey thus far. A heavy focus on triumphs and trials to find healing and begin to embrace her current calling Diamond L. Delancy (she/her/hers) is a queer, black woman dedicated to utilizing her Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology to understand further the role of mental health and human behavior in the United States' criminal justice and legal systems. Her career experiences and expertise in event planning, public relations, and social justice organizing has shaped her to succeed as Brazen's Chief of Organizational and Cultural Strategy by providing her with the avenues to comfortably and creatively foster and facilitate learning and discussions surrounding social justice issues, oppression and intersections of identity. As a survivor of sexual assault, she primarily hopes to provide workshops for fellow survivors as well as create spaces for black folx to reconnect to and decolonize Black Spirituality and African Traditional Religions (ATRs).
Season 1 Part 3: Arts and culture
Here we explore a detailed storytelling journey into her path to becoming a Producer and Owner of La Gringa Loca Productions. Throughout the conversation we hope to give the listeners and viewers a take on highlighting Boston inner cities local talent and advocacy in film.
Paloma Valenzuela is a Dominican-American writer, Director and actress originally from the city of Boston. She is the Creative Director of the production company La Gringa Loca Productions, LLC. She is the writer/producer/creator of the comedic web series "The Pineapple Diaries". In 2017 the show was featured in Latina Magazine's "5 Web Series Every Latinx Needs to Watch Right Now". Her work has participated as Official Selection at film festivals such as the New Orleans Film Festival and Miami Short Film Festival among others. In 2019 Paloma was featured in Boston Magazine's "Boston's New Creative Guard" and selected as one of the WBUR The Artery 25, a series highlighting millennials of color making an impact in the Boston arts scene. In 2019 Paloma won Best Supporting Actress at the Premios IRIS Dominicana Movie Awards for her role as Lolita in the film "Un 4to de Josue" which is streaming on HBO. Paloma has collaborated with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a museum Neighborhood Salon Artist Luminary. She is the recipient of the 2016 Creative City Grant and in 2019 she was granted the City of Boston Artist Fellowship. In March 2020 Paloma finished editing and launching the third season of "The Pineapple Diaries". She is currently planning for future projects and also has been working as a teaching artist teaching screenwriting and productions for organizations such as GrubStreet in Boston and the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston. She is currently directing a video series for the Gardner Museum called the "Luminary Lens Series". Starting January 2021, Paloma has joined the faculty at Brandeis University as Lecturer of English, teaching Screenwriting in the Creative Writing Department.