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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 Apr 06, 2022
S2 E1: Lena Wood — Midwifery as an intersectional practice
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
Wednesday Apr 06, 2022
We’re back for Season 2 with our first guest, Lena Wood, a certified nurse-midwife located in Tacoma Washington! In this episode, we get into, and go beyond, birthing babies to understand what it means to be a full-spectrum midwife. We learn about other services provided for us by midwives and talk about the various stages of care for people with uteruses. Lena tells us about her midwife origin story and some insight as to what it means to provide a trauma-informed healthcare experience. We also talk about diversity in midwifery. Plus, in a new segment this season, Zahra and Hien wrap up the episode by sharing their thoughts on midwifery and their conversation with Lena.
Lena's website: https://revolutionsmidwifery.com/
Lena's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/revolutionsmidwifery/
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
S2 E0: Welcome to Season 2
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
0:00 Greetings and check-ins
6:24 What to expect from Season 2 and the guests we'll have on
18:50 Upcoming plans
Twitter: @ThoughtfulWRPod
Instagram: @ThoughtfulWellnessRevolution
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Bonus Episode Preview: Jessica Young
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Jessica's favourite saying is that she's 'finding her way back home'. As a movement teacher who is trained in yoga and dance, she uses trauma-informed practices to help people connect and find agency for their own bodies. She hosts public and private movement classes and is the creator of Meaningful Movement, a training workshop focusing on accessibility and community within 'wellness'. Jessica creates programming and classes centralizing BIPOC communities and bigger bodies. She believes that exclusive spaces are necessary for healing and creating a greater sense of safety. Jessica also advocates for BIPOC teachers within the wellness industry.
Listen to the full 41 minute bonus episode by subscribing to our Substack for $5 a month.
https://thoughtfulwellnessrevolution.substack.com/p/bonus-episode-jessica-young
Jess’s website: https://www.jess-be.com/
Jess’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessbe__/
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Bonus Episode Preview: Sophia Ellis
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Sophia Ellis is a Trinidadian-American artist, educator, curator, and cultural critic. She is a Master’s Student in Public Humanities at Brown University and studies public art, informal learning, and visual and material culture in the digital age. Her focuses center colonization and its afterlives in the art world and beyond. Sophia is interested in community learning spaces and arts-based education as practices of care.
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https://thoughtfulwellnessrevolution.substack.com/p/bonus-episode-sophia-ellis
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Bonus Episode: Valentine’s Day Special
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Monday Feb 14, 2022
Because we love you, here's a bonus Valentine's Day episode!
0:29 Zahra and Hien answer questions from the unCURATED card game and "The Chakra Game" also known as the Mind, Body, and Soul game.
31:23 Season 2 updates and release date
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Unedited transcript of the episode here.
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Bonus Episode Preview: Brittini Carter
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
Wednesday Feb 02, 2022
With over 14 years of experience, Brittini Carter is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher in Central Florida. It is her passion to heal minds and souls concurrently in the black community and with marginalized populations. She is recognized for providing a safe environment while teaching individuals and couples how to manage their responses to life events and occurrences. Brittini is the owner of Carter Therapy, LLC which integrates Therapy, Yoga and Guided Meditation for a holistic wellness experience.
Brittini graduated from Troy University with her Masters in Counseling Psychology, is a Certified Yoga Teacher, Qualified Supervision, Certified Couples Counselor, and Certified Parent Trainer. Therapy Specialties are: Women’s Issues, Anxiety, Coping Skills, Depression, Grief, Body Image, Life Transitions, Family Issues, Anger Management, Self Esteem, Marginalized Populations, Parenting, Codependency, Stress Management
In addition to the services mentioned above Brittini is also the Author of the self-paced E-course More Than A Mother, a guide to rediscovering yourself. This course gives mothers at any stage the opportunity to find balance in motherhood and live a more fulfilling life.
Listen to the full 55 minute bonus episode by subscribing to our Substack for $5 a month.
https://thoughtfulwellnessrevolution.substack.com/p/bonus-content-brittini-carter
Brittini's Website: https://cartertherapyllc.com/
Brittini's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cartertherapy/
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Bonus Episode Preview: Milton Stewart
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Wednesday Jan 19, 2022
Milton C. Stewart, MBA is a certified Enneagram and Career Coach. He is the founder of Kaizen Careers, Coaching, and Consulting LLC; where he teaches, coaches, facilitates and consults using the Enneagram. He has learned the Enneagram from a variety of different schools. These schools include the Enneagram in Business programs, Narrative Tradition, CP Enneagram, Spectrum Enneagram, and Enneagram + Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Anti-Racism program. Milton is also an Associate Member of the Enneagram in Business Network. Milton is the host of Do It For The Gram: An Enneagram Podcast. Prior to Milton’s Enneagram work, he worked in the education sector in adult and elementary education. Milton feels compelled to mentor youth and to teach the Enneagram to underserved communities in hopes of healing them.
Milton's Website: https://www.kaizencareers.com/
Milton's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kaizencareers/
Do It For The Gram Podcast https://www.instagram.com/doitforthegrampodcast/
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Bonus Episode Preview: Meesha Sharma
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Wednesday Jan 05, 2022
Meesha (she/they) is a first generation desi (Punjabi and Kashmiri). She owns a virtual yoga studio called Alchemystic Studio that seeks to reclaim yoga back to the indigenous keepers of it's wisdom, decolonize the practice to promote inclusivity, and uplift all folks who are often left out of white-washed wellness spaces. Meesha teaches yoga as a holistic philosophy and lifestyle rather than a workout, and uses her voice to teach the origins of this ancient medicine.
You can find more of her work here at her website: www.alchemysticstudio.com or IG: @alchemystic_studio
Listen to the full 38 minute bonus episode by subscribing to our Substack for $5 a month.
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
S1 E7: Not your standard neoliberal self-care BS
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
Wednesday Dec 15, 2021
In this week’s episode, Zahra and Hien get together to reflect on their year and talk about the podcast’s future. It gets passionate and political. Check out the timestamps below for the major talking points.
0:00 Greetings
0:50 What’s been on Hien’s mind
1:26 What’s been on Zahra’s mind
5:21 Zahra talks about her year including health conditions and Enneagram trainings
10:41 Hien talks about her year including yoga trainings, her enneagram type, and her personal life
15:33 Expectations vs. Reality, recapping the process of Season 1
22:39 Plans, hopes, and dreams for Season 2
27:07 Hien and Zahra discuss what decolonization in wellness means to them
35:37 Hien and Zahra talk about neoliberalism and wellness
42:47 How we can disrupt neoliberalism with wellness and self-compassion
49:08 Things to look forward to during our off season (Clubhouse!) and closing
Landback https://landback.org/
Neoliberalism -- the ideology at the root of all our problems
Hien’s self-compassion course (general)
Hien also has a free self-compassion course for POC, email her at Hien@HienHong.com to take it.
Quote that inspired Hien when she talked about decolonization in wellness: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.” ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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Theme song: Katy Pearson
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
S1 E6: Jessica Young — Who takes care of the caregivers?
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
Wednesday Dec 01, 2021
In this week’s episode we are joined by Jessica Young, an artist and movement facilitator located in the Toronto area. The energy Jess brings to this episode will encourage you to ask yourself some tough questions and simultaneously wrap you in self-compassion.
To start, we recognize the beautiful friendship of Jess and Hien, sparked by a shared passion for advocacy and creating human-centered spaces. Plus, we learn about Jessica’s relationship to movement and how she began teaching. She also gets into the specifics of what it looks like to create a “container of care” for students.
Much of this episode centers around the various levels of privileges and barriers facilitators face in yoga (and movement) spaces. Jess brings up issues around labor and compensation in studios. From prep time to volunteer hours, we also get into the studio model that capitalizes on seva, or, “karma yoga.” Hien points out how mainstream studio culture commodifies teachers, especially BIPOC or marginalized folks.
We share our experiences of teaching during a pandemic and how normalizing online classes is changing life for teachers and studios. Jess highlights the realities faced by many marginalized folks and shares the difficult conversations she had with herself about recognizing her value. She also walked us through an exercise ALL movement teachers should do. (And we don’t use the word “should” lightly here at TWR).
We divulge some of our own experiences with studio culture, and Jess makes some brilliant points about how we’re taught to view our fellow teachers. Jessica champions the idea of community over competition and shares her ideas of how we can support fellow teachers. We end with insightful honesty from Jessica about owning your mistakes and acknowledging your privileges so you can use them as resources to learn, listen, and use your voice to ask difficult questions and advocate for others.
Jessica's website: https://www.jess-be.com/
Jessica's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessbe__/
Follow us on social media
Twitter: @ThoughtfulWRPod
Instagram: @ThoughtfulWellnessRevolution
For bonus content, subscribe to our Substack.
If you enjoyed the podcast, please rate and review on Apple or Podchaser
Theme song: Katy Pearson