Melanin In Maine: Recent Episodes
René Goddess
This delicious podcast asks questions and amplifies Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, kin of color living on stolen First Nation's Lands. Where racism is manifested in daily white violence, this podcast hopes to inspire BBAI kin of color as we flawlessly and difficultly maneuver WHITE TERRORISM. You are NOT ALONE KIN. Every week I bring listeners through my personal journey of internal epigenetic narrative changes, carefully detaching from my toxic trauma responses, and building personal wealth while dealing with daily experiences of white racial emotional labor. Let's transform together KIN. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ren351-goddess/support
This 12-minute meditation invites you to practice slowing down and being present in this current moment. There is a chime at the beginning and end of the meditation.
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This 16-minute meditation invites you to release a person, a place, or a situation that is not for you, or your growth. There is a time at the beginning and the end of the meditation.
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This 12-minute meditation is a call and response meditation with Shames at the beginning and the end of the meditation.
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This 11-minute meditation is a call and response meditation. There is a chime at the beginning and the end of the meditation.
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This 6-minute meditation invites you to confront the word TIME, there is no ambient music in the back round, and there is a wind chime heard twice.
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This 6-minute meditation is for building a truth-telling practice for self, with no ambient music in the background.
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This 20-minute meditation is a call-and-response meditation with no ambient music in the backround.
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This 30-minute meditation is a full body scan, with no ambient music in the background.
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In this week's 25 minute episode I talk about why changing your mind is an important skill to have. I'm excited about our black business and black movie of the week and as always I want to know what is your wellness practice?
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In this 25 minute episode I get right to the point. Everyone is sitting in a chaotic world whether you are doing healing arts work or not whether you are in therapy or not whether you are doing anti-racist or decolonizing work or not, the world is chaotic as f. Let's talk about it, don't do this s alone. I give you a black business as well as a great black series to watch, spoiler it's South African. And of course our wellness of the week discussion, which is a continuation of our goddess talk conversation.
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In this 20 minute episode I talk about power, and the conversation I'm having with myself about what my power is tied to. Business and black movie, I'll give you a hint it's got Tessa my love in it, and of course this week's wellness.
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In this 30 minute episode I talk about the difficulty of continuing to build new narratives for my nervous system. This week's exciting black movie of the week is a must see, and this week's black business of the week is a Duo like none I've ever met before.
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In this episode I talk about this week's black business of the week as well as our new black movie of the week. I'm speaking directly to black, brown, indigenous, asian sis folk this week. Also this week's question is relevant for anyone and everyone.
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In this 28 minute episode we say goodbye to 2021. I talk about the values of the embodied Equity play tools and why these 12 values are so important to my work in anti-racism and decolonizing as an indigenous queer fem goddess on stolen wabanaki land. Also a new black business of the week and an exciting black movie of the week.
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In this week's Short episode I talk about the importance of having a plan. Not just for white terrorism. I also asked about who's part of that plan. Also check out this week's black business of the week and our new black movie of the week. I'm finally caught up with our movies, and looking forward to the new series, I'm slightly obsessed with Nollywood right now.
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In this very short episode I talk about where your sense of urgency lies as you're doing anti-racist and or decolonizing work. A lot of you, well to be honest your priorities are very f*. We check in about aligning those priorities with the work that needs to be done. And not the work that feels the most comfortable to you. Also a new black movie of the week as well as a nod to a very special black business of the week.
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In this episode I continue to talk about white culture parenting and the importance of relationship buildings. My questions are rooted in how are you perpetuating systems harming everyone not just black brown indigenous asian can of color. I give you a new black business of the week as well as a new movie of the week.
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In this episode I talk about what it might look like or feel like to develop a positive identity. Specifically for white folk, we know your culture does not give you any tools to really do this work confidently. Black, brown, indigenous, asian people of color, well we have more practice. White terrorism forces it upon us. In this episode I talk about why developing a positive identity is so important for the future liberation of those historically underrepresented in most white terrorist driven systems.
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In this episode I talk about some of the steps you could be taking toward I'm doing your white culture parenting standards. Whether you are raising children or not you are indoctrinated in this system especially if you live in United States of america. How are you changing that, what is your anti-racism practice? What is your decolonizing practice? What is your daily work toward not perpetuating terror?
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After 7 weeks off, of much needed emotional rest, I'm back! In this episode I talk about how difficult it is to continue to watch how little people are being affected by white culture parenting styles. I also talk about all of the black movies we watched since the last time we were together, and I asked you to discover a new black business.
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In this episode I discuss how important it is for white people to stop asking us for our help without a clear stipend, honorarium, or payment system. No more dinners, no more coffees, no more can we just talk. Also I reveal our black movie of the week as well as our black business of the week.
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In this episode I talk about radicalism, and why it's the only form of expressionism for me. I also reveal this week's black business of the week as well as our black movie of the week. As always we end our sessions with honoring, wellness, and lots of love.
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In this week's episode we get a new black business of the week, a new black movie of the week is revealed, and goddess talk is all about how leaving my apartment was probably not a good decision. More specifically how whiteness is crushing me on a regular basis, but we already knew that.
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In this episode I have a conversation with myself about my responsibility to my community, and the world. As someone who understands her power not fully, but through embodiment, I recognize it is my duty to use my power to help the world. But at what consequence to me? And possibly what consequences to other folks. Also I reveal the black business of the week as well as the black movie of the week. Don't forget to check in with our Wellness segment, my new favorite segment.
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In this episode I bring you a new black business of the week, I reveal the movie of the week, I asked you a very important question during goddess talk, and I remind you why personal wellness is priority.
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In this episode I introduce myself to those who don't know me or my work. I explain why the embodied Equity play tools are so important, and how I use them in my daily life. Also I reveal this week's black movie of the week.
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In this episode I discuss how I harmed someone in my own community, and the consequences. I feature a new black business of the week, and reveal this week's black movie of the week.
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In this episode I talk about how important it is for me to keep recognizing that empathy, patience, rest, and belief in myself, are tools I will need to work through my black self-hate over and over again.
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In this episode I talk about how hard decolonizing my body is, specifically how hard it is trying not to do the wrong thing. What is the right thing? Assimilation, and white terrorism have me so bound in needing to do the right thing. What happens when I do the wrong thing, can I handle the consequences?
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This week I talk about why it is important for us as kin to be having conversations with our Littles. How are the ways that your child selves are affecting your adult lives in negative ways, and what are you doing to change it?
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I open up about the need for community resting and community healing. I talk about how the scary thinga we don't want to go near, need to be dealt with, as a xommunitt. There is a need for collaborative community understanding of leadership and leadership roles and responsibilities. I talk about collective repair and understanding of how we perpetuate white terrorist systems.
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In this episode I talk about the Black liberation summit of Maine and how important the work being done at this event is for the future of Maine's Black, Brown, Indigenous residents of color. I encourage each of us to get a skin routine. Your skin is your largest organ, it needs serious hydration y'all!
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In this episode I give an update of last week's episode to bring to light again how black women are being attacked for being themselves I talk about identity healing and rest and how my 74-year-old mother is still struggling with those very things.
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in this episode I talk about how a recent interaction with a CIS white male and the ways he took up space in a room that I created make me feel. Don't forget to check out black business of the week and the black movie of the week.
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In this episode I talk about how politicized black female bodies are. Sparked by what's happening to Chloe Bailey and the way that it made my body react, I dig a little deeper into how intergenerational perpetuated white terrorism affected me. How it still affects me.
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In this episode I talk a little bit more about what I do for work as an Embodied Equity Consultant specifically for Black, Brown, Indigenous People of Color,and I talk about why rest is so important for us, again.
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In this episode I speak directly to white women about how harmful they're entitlement is. As my body starts showing sign of severe stress I recognize how much whiteness affects me. Both physically and mentally.
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In this episode I talk about being a human flesh bag, being a star child, and how important collective energy work and grieving is right now. The pandemic is a wake-up call for all of us to be resting more, now is the time to imagine what our future could be and start making plans for it to be so.
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In this episode I talk about why sleep is important for us as americans, and as consumers. Capitalism, white terrorism, and consumerism, are dangerous and they are slowly killing us everyday. Go to sleep!
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In this episode I update you on my current housing situation spoiler alert it's good news! I also cover how my black self hate is affecting me, and how difficult it is to live with such a low self-esteem. I open up in a big way about how little I think about myself, why that's a problem and how I'm changing it.
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In this episode I discover that Shonda Rhimes has been preparing me for the white patriarchy and white matriarchy f** for a while. I give an update on the white harm that I am currently experiencing with my fiscal sponsor.
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In this episode we talk about the fact that white womxn are perpetuators of white terrorism. I’m feeling unsafe and needing to discuss why white womxn make me feel unsafe.
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In this episode Nicole Chioma joins us again. She gifts us with updates on what is going on at the Bowdoin House, I warn you it's white fuckery!
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This episode is a quick 30 minutes of me updating you on my current housing which is an Airbnb here in Portland on Spring Street. It has leaked water from the ceiling twice since being hrte. I also update you on what's going on with Melanin.
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I talk for thirty minutes about some current events, and my housing crises. I introduce an artist I admire and I disclose why therapy is my favorite thing ever!
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In our fifth episode, a continuation with last week's guest Nicole Chioma Antoinette Mokeme. We talk about gardens, plant sharing, and juicing, the day after the 2016 elections and the future of RISE AND SHINE YOUTH RETREAT!
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In this episode we meet the one and only Nicole Chioma Antoinette Mokeme. Nicole has been living in Maine for 12 years, she has a delicious nine-year-old child, and she is one of my favorite people in the entire world. Enjoy getting to know the Art of Devine Living.
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René Goddess talks about why building generational wealth and health is important for all Black, Brown, and Indigenous People of Color.
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René Goddess discuses, coming to America as a refugee in 1991, and how her small PoC community was a heavy part of assimilating to becoming black in America. She talks about Maine’s racist and violent history, which has created shame and avoidance around the topics of race and racism.
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In this short episode René Goddess, our host, introduces herself and one of the inspirations for starting this delicious podcast. Her mother Stella.
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Melanin and Maine is about generational understanding, representation, and generational wealth building. In each episode René Goddess talks about how she is dismantling her body. Through deep introspective conversations with self and her community René Goddess shares how do you colonization and anti-racist work affect her, and changes her. When Renee has a guest on, the audience is invited to a relationship between two people, that is rooted in joy, love, and resource sharing for the betterment of everyone around them. With each episode a black movie and a black business are revealed as well as a segment called Wellness this week that really dives into how we as Kim can keep taking care of ourselves through white terrorisms everyday attacks. https://www.patreon.com/embodiedequityplay,
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