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Our podcast aims to explore wellness by highlighting BIPOC leaders and changemakers in the wellness industry. We look at the intersection of wellness and social justice, including issues that affect all of us -- such as whitewashing, decolonization, and dominant culture. Our guests give valuable insight on how to build a better wellness world. Because wellness isn’t wellness, if it’s just for you.
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Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Wednesday Aug 03, 2022
Denise (they/she) is a somatic trauma resolution practitioner, steward of consensual culture, abolition feminist, writer and dancer. Their work focuses on creating spaces for the embodiment of self-worth, sovereignty and sexuality for melanated people on the feminine spectrum through their extensive training in somatic trauma resolution, erotic movement arts, spiritual consciousness and ancestral power. Denise offers 1:1 sessions, immersive group experiences and healing circles as an intuitive space holder. They are a queer, nonbinary Malaysian Chinese immigrant femme of Daoist descent.
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https://instagram.com/denisedimensional
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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Wednesday Jul 20, 2022
Chichi Agorom is a lifelong student of what it means to be fully human. She is a Certified Enneagram Teacher & Adjunct Faculty with The Narrative Enneagram and holds a Master of Arts in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and a Post-Master's Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy. She is the author of the book, The Enneagram for Black Liberation.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TheEnneagramForBlackLiberation/
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Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Lena Soo Hee Wood (she/her) is a midwife, mindfulness teacher, Zen Kitchen witch, aspiring herbalist, mama, and forever student. Her practice, Revolutions Midwifery, focuses on general sexual and reproductive health, fertility and home IUI services, medication abortion, as well as perinatal mental health care, childbirth education, and lactation support. Revolutions Midwifery is a feminist, BIPOC-owned, queer and trans-inclusive, pro-choice midwifery practice rooted in the framework and practices of reproductive justice.
Lena is also currently a student at Frontier Nursing University, studying to add certification as a psychiatric mental health nurse-practitioner to her clinical offerings. In her play time, she enjoys garment sewing and hand quilting, watercolors, gardening, cooking, and spending time with her family.
You can find more of her work here at her website: https://revolutionsmidwifery.com or IG: @RevolutionsMidwifery
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
It’s a wild one…
0:00 Heat
1:31 Rage and Roe v. Wade being overturned thoughts
06:45 Season 2 Recap
14:12 What’s next
19:55 Pop culture - Brad Pitt, Tom Hanks, Beyoncé mentions
35:33 Hopes
45:05 More pop culture featuring Umbrella Academy spoilers, royals, and Kardashians
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Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
On this episode we are delighted to introduce you to our last guest of the season, Jennie Joseph, a British-trained midwife, advocate, teacher, and business-owner. We start our conversation off by talking about the history of midwifery and the difference between the fields of obstetrics and midwifery. We hear some specifics surrounding the birth mortality rate in the US compared to other countries, as well as why Black women (and Black folks with uteruses) are the ones most impacted.
Jennie shares with us her experience as a British-trained midwife in the US, and her work with marginalized populations. We are also fortunate enough to hear Jennie share the 4 tenets of The JJ Way®, which are the foundational teachings in her midwifery school, Common Sense Childbirth. Jennie shares how the JJ Way is working to revolutionize birthing for women in communities of high need. We finish up our interview by asking Jennie about what she’d like to see more of in the birthing and wellness world.
During the post-interview conversation, Zahra and Hien talk about how amazing Jennie is, and how much we love to see advocates in action. Plus we get into our feelings about children, talk about the weather (and maybe climate change?), and of course, dive into some Enneagram conversation.
Website: https://commonsensechildbirth.org/
Jennie Joseph is a British-trained midwife who fights to ensure every person has their healthiest possible pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience with dignity and support.
Jennie created The JJ Way® which is an evidence-based, maternity care model delivering readily-accessible, patient-centered, culturally-congruent care to women in areas that she terms 'materno-toxic zones'. Her focus and drive is to ensure that Black women and other marginalized people remain safe and empowered inside broken and inequitable maternity health systems that have become dangerous and all too often, lethal.
She is the Executive Director of her own non-profit corporation Commonsense Childbirth Inc. which operates a training institute, health clinics and a birthing center in Orlando, Florida, and is also the founder of the National Perinatal Task Force, a grassroots organization whose mission is the elimination of racial disparities in maternal child health in the USA. In July 2020 her school, Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery became the first and only privately-owned, nationally accredited midwifery school owned by a Black woman in the United States.
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Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
*At 46:19-47:25 in the post-interview, Zahra and Hien discuss Riverdale spoilers
This week we have the pleasure of speaking with Melissa Jay, a registered psychologist and the lead instructor with Canmore Counselling and Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School. She starts our episode with a grounding practice and then we talk about what it means to be honest with ourselves about our needs around grief and work. Melissa shares with us some of her back story, including what is offered through her Canmore Counselling practice. She breaks down what her “holistic approach” is and we discuss the ways those buzzwords can be confusing. Melissa shares some wisdom from one of her teachers, Dr. Albert Marshall, called “two-eyed seeing”, which centers on bridging Western Psychology and trauma theory with Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Zahra and Hien wrap up the episode by gushing about Melissa and talk more about the blending of Indigenous knowledge with Western theory.
Email: welcome@canmorecounselling.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/canmorecounselling
Website: http://canmorecounselling.com
Dr. Melissa Jay (she/her) is a cisgender, able-bodied, Nehiyaw (Cree) member of the Métis Nation of Alberta, registered psychologist, and assistant professor at Athabasca University. She uses her privilege to pave paths towards trauma-informed, socially just, anti-oppressive support by integrating ancient wisdom traditions and psychology. As the current Indigenous Director for the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, she is grateful to walk alongside Indigenous kin, across Turtle Island. Melissa is also director of Canmore Counselling and Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School, dedicated to her own healing journey and lifelong studentship. She lives in Chuwapchipchiyan Kude Bi (Canmore, AB) with her spouse and rescue dog, Lulu.
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Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
This week we have the pleasure of speaking with Inara Valliani, a Public Health Candidate in Health Behavior at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She talks about her background and journey into the field. Inara “geeks out” and blesses us all with her knowledge on health as a social model of how we live, play, and work, not just a medical model of illness or wellness. We get into the social determinants of health, the various factors that make up our individual and societal health. Plus, Inara introduces us to the concept of “positionality”. Hien and Zahra wrap up with their thoughts on the episode and a heated conversation about the relationship to the coaching industry and neoliberalism.
Inara's email: Inara.Valliana@gmail.com
Inara (she/her) is a 1st year Master of Public Health candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. Inara became passionate about public health after witnessing and experiencing the chronic effects that health disparities pose on the well-being of communities, specifically on people with marginalized identities. She has spent a significant portion of her academic career studying health equity, substance use prevention, and adverse childhood experiences. She currently serves as a Graduate Research Assistant in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center supporting junior faculty and BIPOC staff on grant writing mechanisms. Additionally, she works with Planned Parenthood’s Muslim Organizing Program in the South Atlantic Region, where she supports community mobilization efforts through coalition building, facilitates meaningful conversations about sexual and reproductive health, and empowers fellow Muslim Americans in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area.
In her free time, you can usually find Inara listening to music or going to concerts. A typical conversation with her will likely include anecdotes about her hometown Atlanta, her love of Dunkin Donuts, and her extensive sneaker collection.
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
0:00 Greetings
3:24 Roe v. Wade, abortion rights
17:40 Future plans
32:31 Recap of season 2 so far + the upcoming episode
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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
This week we are joined by our lovely guest Denise Chang, a somatic trauma resolution practitioner, located on Kumeyaay land. We start off with Denise’s story and how they got into the somatic work. We learn about the field of trauma resolution and what Denise does as a practitioner. Plus, you’ll get a more clear definition of ‘somatics’ and some helpful advice for finding and creating a relationship with a somatic practitioner. Denise shares their work with Consensual Culture, a framework they developed/uses in their work. We get real about the heaviness of the last few years and Denise shares some ways to practice embodiment when life is hard. Zahra and Hien end with a conversation discussing their frustrations, hope, and potential for the people/systems in this country.
Denise (they/she) is a somatic trauma resolution practitioner, steward of consensual culture, abolition feminist, writer and dancer. Their work focuses on creating spaces for the embodiment of self-worth, sovereignty and sexuality for melanated people on the feminine spectrum through their extensive training in somatic trauma resolution, erotic movement arts, spiritual consciousness and ancestral power. Denise offers 1:1 sessions, immersive group experiences and healing circles as an intuitive space holder. They are a queer, nonbinary Malaysian Chinese immigrant femme of Daoist descent.
https://instagram.com/denisedimensional
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Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
Wednesday Apr 20, 2022
On this week’s episode we have the pleasure of speaking to Chichi Agorom, a writer and Enneagram teacher, located in Los Angeles, CA. Chichi is the author of the book “The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry”, which is out now. We talk about her new book, the first Enneagram book written by and FOR Black folks, and we find out a little about what she means when she describes Enneagram types as armor. Chichi so kindly shares with us how she brought more joy into her life and the challenges of personal and collective grief of the last few years. Plus, Chichi tells us why 11 seconds is such an important amount of time. Hien and Zahra end the episode gushing over their love of Chichi and get a bit vulnerable about their lives at the time of this interview.
Chichi's Instagram: @TheEnneagramForBlackLiberation
Chichi's website: ChichiAgorom.com
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Theme song: Katy Pearson