Black Women in Europe® (BWIE) Podcast: Recent Episodes
Black Women in Europe (BWIE) Podcast
Hosting special guests and having real conversations between Adrianne and Angela, the Black Women in Europe® podcast will amplify the voices of the ordinary and extraordinary among us by exploring their lives, discussing relevant news, and tackling interesting and difficult topics including racism both subtle and overt; adapting to new customs, citizenship and residency challenges and requirements, hair care, mental health and more.
🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – How Black Culture, Ancestry, and Rituals Heal and Ground Us 🌍✨
Co-Hosts: Adrianne, Black Women in Europe, and Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate takes us on a deep dive into how Black culture, ancestry, and rituals are not just vital for survival but integral to healing. From our roots to our rituals, our music to our meals, Kate explores how these powerful elements are the foundation of resilience, healing, and strength—especially for Black women.
Kate opens up about what it really means to heal from racial trauma: It’s not linear, it’s messy, it’s layered—and it's absolutely vital to ground ourselves in our culture and ancestry. In this episode, Kate discusses how reclaiming ancestral wisdom, leaning into rituals, and holding onto cultural practices helps us not only survive but thrive through the pain.
✨ You’ll hear about:
🔹 The power of cultural coping in overcoming racial trauma
🔹 How ancestral memory keeps us connected, even through hardship
🔹 The grounding rituals that help us stay rooted
🔹 Music as the soundtrack of survival and healing
🔹 Food, faith, and memory as anchors in tough times
🔹 What we pass down to future generations to preserve culture
🔹 White supremacy may have tried to take everything, but it couldn’t steal our spirit
🔹 Mindfulness and ancestral grounding as practices to reconnect with our roots
Plus, our founder Adrianne shares a powerful mindfulness practice that will help you reconnect, ground, and realign your energy with your ancestors.
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – Why Black Women Shouldn’t Have to Educate Everyone 💥
Co-Hosts: Adrianne, Mindfulness Activist | wellnessontheweekly.com & Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Truth-telling by: Kate PearlMindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate dismantles the exhausting and deeply ingrained expectation that Black women must always educate, explain, and endure. From content creation to day-to-day conversations, we’re too often expected to be unpaid educators, emotional fixers, and tireless listeners—and it’s time we call that out. 🛑
Drawing from lived experience and collective wisdom, Kate walks us through the emotional and spiritual cost of this burden—and how we reclaim our peace, power, and softness.
🔹 Why the myth of the “Strong Black Woman” is harmful
🔹 The toll this expectation takes on mental and physical health
🔹 How to lovingly set boundaries
🔹 What it means to rest, soften, and say “no more”
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne to help you breathe deep, reconnect, and reclaim your emotional energy.
“We don’t need to hold the world on our backs to prove our worth. Rest is resistance. Boundaries are love. And your softness is sacred.”#racialtrauma #mindfulness
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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In this powerful episode of Season of Healing Racial Trauma, we’re joined by Bree the Champagne Gal—media critic, cultural commentator, and truth-teller. Bree unpacks the British media’s long-standing treatment of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and how it reflects deeper issues of race, power, and protection in the UK press.
She breaks down:
Why the media’s "defense" of Meghan was never what it seemed
The patterns of coded language and dog whistles
How systemic racism operates even in so-called progressive outlets
What this all means for Black women navigating public life in Britain.
🎧 Whether you watched the royal interviews or just want to understand media bias in a new light, Bree brings the receipts—and the Champagne energy.
▶️ Watch Bree on TikTok
Bree on Meghan & the Media @breethechampagnegal
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SeasonOfHealing #BlackWomenInEurope #BreeTheChampagneGal #MeghanMarkle #BritishMediaBias #RacialTraumaHealing #RepresentationMatters
TikTok Live Replay: Meghan Markle, the British Media & Why We’re Still Talking About It
📅 AFull Podcast epidose Air Date: August 7, 2025
👥 Guests
- Bree the Champagne Gal (Guest)
- Kate Pearl (cohost)
- Adrianne (host, mindfulness activist + author)
🔊 Episode Summary
This episode is the replay of our powerful TikTok Live featuring Bree the Champagne Gal and Kate Pearl, where we took the conversation even deeper ahead of the August 7 episode drop.
Together, we unpacked:
- The media’s complicated history with Meghan Markle
- What “support” looked like — and why it wasn’t real
- How British headlines weaponize language against Black women
- The personal and public cost of stepping into the spotlight
- Why we need to keep calling it what it is: racialized bias, not royal drama
🔥 This Live was so real, raw, and necessary, we’re sharing it here in full.
🎧 Tune in and decide for yourself: Did Meghan ever really stand a chance?
🔗 Related Links
- Watch Bree on TikTok
- Follow Bree the Champagne Gal on TikTok and Instagram
- Subscribe to the podcast for more conversations centering Black women’s truths
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SeasonOfHealing #BlackWomenInEurope #BreeTheChampagneGal #KatePearl #MeghanMarkle #BritishMedia #HealingRacialTrauma #RoyalCoverageExposed
🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – Why Black Women Shouldn’t Have to Educate Everyone 💥Co-Hosts: Adrianne - Black Women in Europe @bwietoday
Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.comMindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate dismantles the exhausting and deeply ingrained expectation that Black women must always educate, explain, and endure. From content creation to day-to-day conversations, we’re too often expected to be unpaid educators, emotional fixers, and tireless listeners—and it’s time we call that out.
🛑Drawing from lived experience and collective wisdom, Kate walks us through the emotional and spiritual cost of this burden—and how we reclaim our peace, power, and softness.
🔹 Why the myth of the “Strong Black Woman” is harmful🔹 The toll this expectation takes on mental and physical health
🔹 How to lovingly set boundaries🔹 What it means to rest, soften, and say “no more”
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne to help you breathe deep, reconnect, and reclaim your emotional energy.
“We don’t need to hold the world on our backs to prove our worth. Rest is resistance. Boundaries are love. And your softness is sacred.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com and Adrianne's wellness books here.
Remember to subscribe to the Black Women In Europe podcast 🎙
Available everywhere you get your podcasts!
🎙️ Season of Healing Racial Trauma: Breaking the Silence That Broke Us
Co-Host: Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast | blackwomenineurope.com
In this powerful follow-up episode, Kate explores the silence we’ve been taught to keep—and what it costs us.
Drawing from her own experiences of growing up in small-town Britain to navigating workplaces and family dynamics, this conversation peels back the layers of racial gaslighting, internal conflict, and the emotional weight of “keeping quiet to stay safe.”
🔹 Why silence became a survival strategy
🔹 The generational impact of “don’t talk about race”
🔹 How racial gaslighting chips away at your reality
🔹 What shifts when you finally name the truth
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne, to help you ground and reclaim your voice.
“We can’t heal what we don’t name. But once we do? That’s where the healing starts.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
👩🏾💻 Learn more about starting a mindfulness practice with Adrianne at Linktr.eeRemember to subscribe to the Black Women In Europe podcast 🎙
Available everywhere you get your podcasts!
🎙️ Season of Healing Racial Trauma: This Isn't Burnout; It's Racial Battle Fatigue
Co-Host: Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Author of Wellness on the Weekly: 52 Fun Prompts for Mindfulness, Movement, and a Whole Lot Less Stress!
In this opening episode of the Black Women In Europe podcasts Season of Healing Racial Trauma, Kate dives deep into the reality of racial trauma—what racial trauma is, how it shows up in our bodies, our behaviours, and across generations.
From hypervigilance and code-switching to the myth of the "strong Black woman," this is about naming the pain so we can start healing it.
🔹 What racial trauma really is
🔹 How it affects the nervous system
🔹 The emotional cost of survival
🔹 Why naming it matters
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Founder and Host, Adrianne, to support your healing journey.
“You are not broken. You are responding to a broken system.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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What better way to launch SEASON FIVE! than with the amazing Nkonye Oyewusi in England? Not only is she a mother, wife, systems engineer, and skincare formulator, but she is also a skincare formulator.
Listen in!
Tall Chic Naturals https://www.tallchichnaturals.com
Find us where you are. Black Women in Europe ® | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree
In light of the current post US election situation, it's time for Black expats to get their finances in order.
It's always a good idea, but now that people are feeling some kind of way, and for good reason, Lisa R. Mitchell is here with sound advice, as usual. Updated for 2025.
She loves to receive personal finance questions from expats via email!
expatfinances #money2025
Find us where you are https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
info@livingagloballifestyle.comLivingaglobalifelivingagloballifestyle.com
Sometimes to you have to walk away from organizations that don't serve you and make you sick. Listen to this conversation with Tonya from The Angry Black Women in Germany.
WARNING: This is a L.O.N.G. conversation.
Maybe take a pause when we take a pause. Be sure to check out The Angry Black Women website:
https://theangryblackwoman.de/
Be well.
seasonofhealing #walkingaway #walkaway
When We All Vote Volunteer-Hosted Zoom Event
Americans living outside of the United States can vote in Federal elections back home.
Register, request your ballot, and download and submit a FWAB.
The Federal Emergency Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB) can be used if your ballot doesn't arrive on time.
You can submit an FAWB now and if your ballot does come in time to get it back to your State by their deadline (pay attention to deadlines) submit it and that will be counted instead of the FWAB.
Only use the postal service to submit your ballot if your State insists on it. Otherwise, use digital means.
NEWSWORTHY: Astronauts have been voting from space since 1997, the year the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing NASA employees to vote from space. David Wolf was the first American to vote from space while aboard the Mir Space station in 1997, the agency said, while NASA astronaut Kate Rubins voted from the International Space Station in the 2020 election. Read more.More tips in the podcast.
Vote2024 #overseasvoters
Love TaShia Asanti podcast is a US-National Speaker on Race & Racism, Success Planner, Retreat Host, Author of 9 Books, Celebrated Journalist & Filmmaker, Award-winning Poet & Performing Artist, Book Doctor, and Priestess & Spiritual Teacher.
Visit her website to learn how you can partake of her magic: http://www.officialtashiaasanti.com/
We're super excited to welcome former co-host, and Black Women in Europe Power Lister, Angela Fobbs to the podcast! She's here for our Season of Healing to talk about voting in the US elections from overseas.
Why is this part of our Season of Healing? Because we're broken, we American abroad, looking at the state of politics back home. And we can vote and make our voices heard.
Prep now, because it's election season, baby!
get your overseas ballot and registration done via Vote From Abroad.
Want to be a guest on the podcast? Complete the intake form and let's talk.
Find us where you are.
bwie #uselections #votefromabroad #overseasvoters
Huntsville, AL-based Renee Lucas is a Life Coach, Yoga teacher, online Yoga studio owner, herbalist, and nutritionist. She's also written a book of poetry.
Find her online. @TranquilyogastudioInner Exploration, Outer Expression, and Holistic Expansion
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Liz Okoh is a Women Empowerment and Self-love Advocate through Art. She's London-based and if you can get there, she'll show you who you really are through her boudoir photography.
Visit her Women on The Frontlines exhibition: https://elizabethokoh.com/gallery/women-on-the-frontlines/
Visit Liz's social media:Instagram
Youtube
Teejay, the person who inspired the reason for Liz's book.
Pick up Liz's novel, The Returnees.
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Janet M. Taylor is an organizing and project management expert with over 25 years of experience. Her experience ranges from managing multiple government contracts to helping a corporate client downsize from 10,000 square feet to less than 3,000. Janet has provided organizational transition recommendations and developed procedures for growth, eliminated wasteful expenditures, and increased workflow. This resulted in one firm’s recovery of over $55,000 of what would have been lost revenue. Clients praise Janet as they successfully pass yearly audits.
Janet has conducted corporate training (onsite and virtually) for Fortune 500 firms on topics that help employees be more organized and efficient on the job and in life. As a presenter, Janet has designed and facilitated workshops for IKEA, Teachers, and Administrators. She delivered presentations to groups of over 200 and achieved a 93% rating by all participants for content, delivery, and the ability to hold participants' attention. In 2021 Janet conducted over 100 virtual trainings with some over 200 in attendance and was a keynote at a Summit held in the United Kingdom.
At the suggestion of a mentor, Janet launched a podcast Got Clutter? Get Organized! with Janet. She has produced and hosted over 400 episodes with listeners in 36 countries. In 2021 the podcast ranked #1 in the Top 100 Indie Home & Garden Chart and ranked #1 in the Top 100 Home & Garden Chart. The podcast is also ranked the #2 organizing podcast and is streamed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts to name a few. Visit her website: janetmtaylor.com/ Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.
seasonofhealing #getorganized #reducestress #lowerstress #lifecoach
OK, yes, it's time for black Americans living in Europe to prepare to vote in the US elections.
In this episode, we take a look a voting in 2020, what's happening for black politicians aiming for high office, why we should vote from abroad, look at black Trump and Biden supporters, and Robert Kennedy Jr's Super Bowl ad.
Request your overseas ballot from https://fvap.gov or https://votefromabroad.org
Excerpts:Jon Stewart Tackles The Biden-Trump Rematch That Nobody Wants | The Daily Showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ
Overseas voting in U.S. election could double as anxious Americans mail in their ballots October 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQym8PHSvH4
2024: Message from former US Ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman https://www.facebook.com/reel/3144839885647740
2024: African American participation in American politicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eUheCgopoo
2024: Blacks for Trump' Rallying Against Indictmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xJGwBY2s4
2024: What Black voters in South Carolina are saying about President Bidenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KttH5spKRn0 Robert Kennedy Jr Super Bowl commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXJJRjGVT4
Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.#vote2024 #overseasvoter #blackvoter
Twanna Hines helps us heal our intimate relationships and take stock of our sexual health. She keeps it real the entire time.
We tour her home and get practical tips for making moves abroad.
Visit Twanna's website to find out how to work with her on your relationships, or grow your business.
sexpert #relationships #portugal #sexualhealth
🌿✨ "The Season of Healing" Podcast Series! ✨🌿It's so fun to announce our theme for 2024: HEAL. We'll explore many aspects of wellness. They contribute to a harmonious life. We call the journey "The Season of Healing" podcast series.
Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.
Meet this dynamic sexpert, business consultant, performer, and all-around fantastic woman, Twanna Hines.
Here's a preview of her episode that airs next Tuesday.
See you soon!
Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.#twannahines #sexpert
It's 2024 and that means it's Season 4 on the Black Women in Europe Podcast. Whoot whoot!
It's so fun to announce our theme for 2024: HEAL. We'll explore many aspects of wellness. They contribute to a harmonious life. We call the journey "The Season of Healing" podcast series.
Thanks for being a part of the family.
Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.
seasonofhealing #heal
Kelechi says it best:
I am Kelechi Okafor and I'm a lover of words. I act, I direct and I write. I tweet and I dissect bits about society one podcast episode at a time.
When I am not doing all of the above, I teach pole dance and twerk at my studio Kelechnekoff Fitness in Peckham.
Society teaches us that we must fall into categories somehow. All I know is that I'm just a Baby Girl.
AND Kelechi "reads" me with her Tarot Cards!
Website: https://www.kelechiokafor.com/
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4773169/
Instagram: http://instagram.com/kelechnekoff
Twitter: http://twitter.com/kelechnekoff
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It's Black History Month in the UK and some countries in Europe!
What is the difference between equality and equity in the workplace?
Why does it matter for women of colour?
We talk with 2023 International Women's Day inspiration Jenny Garrett, OBE in the UK. We learn so much from her including the difference between equality and equity, how to implement both in the workplace, what women of color can do to navigate advancement in the workplace, and more.
You can pick up Equality Vs Equity: Tackling Issues of Race in the Workplace here - https://amzn.to/44dgvxg
Visit Jenny's website for Back History Month events: https://www.jennygarrett.global/Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter.
Operatic Soprano Kristin Lewis, one of our Power Listers, joins us from Verona, Italy. From the rehearsal theater, talking about life in the Arts on this side of the pandemic, paying tribe to the late Grace Bumbry, philanthropic efforts, and what it takes to be an Opera singer.
BONUS! After our conversation ends, you can listen to Kristin's African American Spirituals performance for Black Women in Europe during the throws of the COVID-19 pandemic.
View Kristin's African American Spirituals performance for Black Women in Europe during the throws of the COVID-19 pandemic:
https://youtu.be/PK90C5ztWiU
Grace Bumbry performances
Carmen: https://youtu.be/Qs0E2CufQ7c
Berlin Opera Night: https://youtu.be/KC4evoiBiAs
Documentary
The Bumbry Way: https://youtu.be/unUXi9D8pFc
Kelidi Jeen has many talents including Yoga Instructor, and Reiki Healer, and now is working with clients to dive deeply into their souls.
What does that mean? How did she get here?
Listen to her harrowing story of giving birth in a pandemic, rediscovering her purpose, and being your best self.
We end with a guided meditation.
Find out how you can work with Kleidi on your own soul work here: kleidijeen.com/embodiedessence
Join our community Youg for Stress Relief class hosted by Always Home Yoga to commemorate Juneteenth.
We free! Now we need to be well.
Gather your pillows, bolsters, blankets, and other items that make you feel supported.
@alwayshomeyoga
yogaforstress
Adrianne talks with Kadian Pow, Ph.D. about the natural haircare line she developed, doing business in the UK post-Brexit, and gives us a preview of her book that is released today: Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness (Black Studies). Not feeling Amazon? You can purchase her book here too.
Visit BB Naturals to see her full product line.
- https://www.facebook.com/bbnaturalsuk
- https://twitter.com/bbnaturalsuk
- https://www.pinterest.com/bbnaturalsuk/
- https://www.instagram.com/bbnaturalsuk/
- https://www.tiktok.com/@bbnaturalsuk?lang=en
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_6Me3Vc3d41J6paft_pDxw
Visit the Black Women in Europe ® Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope and get social.
Adrianne meets Gifty Enright in the London area who left Corporate Europe to find balance as a working mother. Can you say burnout? Do you want to make your wellness a priority?
The author of Octopus on a Treadmill is on a mission to help other working mothers manage their hectic lives.
Curious about what Gifty offers? Take her free Master Class: https://webinar.giftyenright.com/r/cPfM4s?id=lPBVPbFind her here:
- Website: https://giftyenright.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giftyenright/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Gifty_Enright
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gifty.enright/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/giftyenright/
- Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/wpwm1 Visit the Black Women in Europe ® Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope and get social.
Adrianne and Angela check-in for the third time with Kemo from Omek about the situation in Ukraine, learn how the Diaspora pulled together to help African students caught up in the war flee the country, and how you helped.
We also learn about upcoming OMEK events in May, corporate partnerships, and the power of community.
Omek - Home of the global bicultural community https://myomek.com/
Baobab Nights: Africa Day
When: Saturday, May 27, 2023
5:30PM - 10:00PM (CEST)
Location: The Extra Mile, Hessenbergweg 8, 1101 BT Amsterdam, Pays-Bas
Visit the Black Women in Europe ® Linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope and get social.
Zhana is the bestselling author of Success Strategies for Black People, Black Success Stories, Secrets of Manifestation and more.
Zhana experienced a great deal of abuse during her childhood and adolescence. This was mostly mental and emotional abuse, along with some physical abuse. As a result of this childhood trauma, she suffers from mental health issues.
Zhana has helped hundreds of people to overcome their difficulties and achieve their goals, and she can help you, too.
The Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence https://blognonviolence.weebly.com/about.html
https://www.facebook.com/Success-Strategies-for-Black-People-298668754078
What They Don't Want Us to Know
https://whattheydontwant.weebly.com/money-relationships-health-success.html
You can find all our social media links at https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
We’re also interested in hearing from you! If you have a podcast or blog, get in touch! We’d love to join your conversation too. Reach us a podcast@blackwomenineurope.com.
Lei is an attorney from South Carolina who is currently living Mozambique. She works for the largest company in France where she manages mega projects in oil and gas industry. She also married into one of Europe's oldest dynasties and is a Countess. We hope you will enjoy this inspiring interview.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mme_moz_habsburg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lei-von-habsburg-lothringen/?originalSubdomain=mz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lei_von?lang=en
You can find all our social media links at https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
We’re also interested in hearing from you! If you have a podcast or blog, get in touch! We’d love to join your conversation too. Reach us a podcast@blackwomenineurope.com.
Antonella Bundu from Florence, Italy, where she city council member, leading the left opposition "Sinistra Progetto Comune" group. Her work as an anti-racist and anti-fascist in Florence led to her standing as a candidate in the mayoral election. In 2019 she was a candidate to be Mayor of Florence, making her the first black woman to run for mayor of a major Italian city.
Antonella Bundu Italy
Website: https://www.antonellabundu.it/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AntonellaBunduxFirenze/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antobundu2019/?hl=en
You can find all our social media links at https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
We’re also interested in hearing from you! If you have a podcast or blog, get in touch! We’d love to join your conversation too. Reach us a podcast@blackwomenineurope.com.
The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.votefromabroad.org/
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you are still registered.
Today we talk to Dr. Monique Y. Wells about the African American Artist Beauford Delaney. This is a fascinating story of Monique's research into Beauford's life and the continuing discovery of his work has led her to explore the fascinating stories of other African Americans who came to Paris to pursue their passion for the visual arts.
Because of her work with study abroad programs, she is aware that African American writers and musicians are far more frequently the focus of such programs than artists. Through projects supported by her newest non-profit organization, the Wells International Foundation, she is committed to rekindling the historical renaissance that 19th- and 20th-century African American artists experienced in the City of Light.
Dr. Monique Y. Wells is a multipreneur – she’s a preclinical safety professional, productivity expert, writer and editor, speaker, and travel professional. A 23-year resident of Paris, France, she is co-founder of the travel planning service Discover Paris! and the creator of the company's Entrée to Black Paris tours and activities.
Entrée to Black Paris! https://www.entreetoblackparis.com/entree-to-black-paris-other-walking-tours
Les Amis de Beauford Delaney - the blog: https://lesamisdebeauforddelaney.blogspot.com/
Beauford Delaney: So Splendid a Journey (video documentary) The Gotham Film & Media Institute - Fiscal Sponsorship: https://fiscal.thegotham.org/project.cfm/2267/Beauford-Delaney-So-Splendid-A-Journey/
Wells International Foundation - Beauford Delaney: https://wellsinternationalfoundation.org/
You can find all our social media links at https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
We’re also interested in hearing from you! If you have a podcast or blog, get in touch! We’d love to join your conversation too. Reach us a podcast@blackwomenineurope.com.
The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you are still registered.
Ellen Brudet is the founder and creator of Colorful Goodies which is the first BLACK DOLL GIFT SHOP in Europe. Ellen sells beautifully made dark-skinned dolls, and even delivers custom hand painted dolls with vitiligo, albinism & Down syndrome, making sure all children can have a companion they can relate to.
Colorful Goodies
Website: https://colourfulgoodies.nl/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GiftsWithColour
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/colouredgoodies/
You can find all our social media links at https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
We’re also interested in hearing from you! If you have a podcast or blog, get in touch! We’d love to join your conversation too. Reach us a podcast@blackwomenineurope.com.
The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you are still registered.
This episode we talk to Fayida Jailler about Black History around Europe. Fayida is a journalist, activist and tour operator from London, Great Britain. She was inspired to create ‘Freedom Is Mine’ having spent the past decade travelling the world, encountering Black communities she never knew existed.
Connect with Freedom Is Mine
Website: https://www.freedomismineofficial.com/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FreedomIsMineOfficial
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In October each year, Black History Month is marked in some European countries to celebrate and highlight the lives and the achievements of Black people throughout history and in the present. It is also a month of discussion, reflection and campaigns which bring challenges faced by Black communities to light.
For our first Black History Month episode, we talk to Daphne Di Cinto, Screenwriter, Film Director, Actor, and Creative Writer. She is the director of the upcoming film Il Moro -The Moor. The true story of Alessandro de' Medici. The son of an enslaved African woman and Pope Clement VII turns out to be the heir to the Medici dynasty and becomes the first Duke of Florence, despite his own family having trouble accepting him.
Watch the trailer:
https://youtu.be/QbeOerqzRLE
Daphne Di Cinto
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daphne-di-cinto/
https://www.instagram.com/daphnedicinto/
https://www.facebook.com/dapdicinto/
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
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We talk to Iris Öhrn in Sweden. She grew up in Cuba and moved to Sweden and works bring investments in life science to Sweden.
https://www.investingothenburg.com/
http://linkedin.com/in/irisohrn
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you /are still registered.
We talk to Dr Tokie Laotan-Brown. She works as a Heritage Architect and Cultural Economist with Merging Ecologies. She is also a BWIE Power Lister.
http://Drtokie.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AfricanVernacularArchiturePredatedTo1980
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.tokie/
Syntec Wines
http://syntec.wine/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SyntecWines/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/syntecwines
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you /are still registered.
We talk to Cavana (pronounced Sevahnuh) Hazelton. She is a Freelancer in Arts & Education, music, vocal arts and intercultural negotiation. We have wide ranging talk about music, star trek, culture, racism, women's rights, and sexual violence. This is an emotional episode.
Website: http://cavanahazelton.com/about/
Bandcamp: https://cavanalee.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cavanahazelton
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cavanalee/
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.fvap.gov
Americans at home go to https://www.bit.ly/wwavsgrho to register to vote or verify you /are still registered.
We have a wide ranging conversation with Joseph Johnson. He is a father, hemp farmer, mixed media artist, social media activist, and founder of the #DigitalLiberationFront. You can find Joseph's work here:
Digital Liberation Front
https://www.digitalliberationmedia.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DigitalLiberationFront
https://www.youtube.com/c/digitalliberationfront
https://www.kancelklankulture.com/
https://www.instagram.com/johnsonjoeb/
Twitter: @johnsonjoeb
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.votefromabroad.org
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The midterm elections are on November 8, 2022. All our rights are on the ballot this year. Be a voter!
Americans Abroad request your absentee ballot at https://www.votefromabroad.org/
Americans at home go to https://www.iwillvote.com/ to register to vote or verify you are still registered.
Angela and Adrianne check in with Kemo from OMEK about the situation in Ukraine, what's happening now with African students, and how you can still help. We also talk about OMEK's Africa Day Celebration.
Omek - Home of the global bicultural community https://myomek.com/
Do you want to help, or are you Looking for help?
OMEK UKRAINE RESOURCE LIST https://omek.carrd.co/
Celebrating Africa Day in Amsterdam & Online 25 – 29 May 2022 https://www.africaday.events/
80,000 students were trapped in Ukraine at the start of the war. Students of color were not allowed to leave. Now some of them have made their way out of Ukraine and now they need help.
As each day passes and the conditions and horrific treatment of people of African descent who are stuck in Ukraine and are trying to flee. The Omek team, together with a group of organizations and individuals supporting people of African descent fleeing Ukraine, are working hard to ensure that our fellow brothers and sisters make it to safety, are taken care of, and live the lives that they want live.
Omek - Home of the global bicultural community
https://myomek.com/
Do you want to help or are you Looking for help?
OMEK UKRAINE RESOURCE LIST
https://omek.carrd.co/
Ukrainian Refugee Fund on the Generosity Network
https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8HVKiMk5Ic
Happy New Year everyone! This week we talk with Akunna Onwen, Paloma Sandberg, and Saida Mäki-Penttilä from the Good Hair Day Collective in Finland. Music by Yeboyah - Musta tyttö magiaa ft. Rosa Coste Good Hair Day Website: https://goodhairday.fi/
GHD Instagram: @ghdhelsinki
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvYukwEwEzHSUZY4qRjPK9g
GHD Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GHDhelsinki/
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We talk with Andy Collins about holiday food, music, traditions, and gratitude.
Happy Holidays from Adrianne and Angela - Black Women in Europe
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We talk with Brenda King, MBE in the UK.
Brenda King, CEO, African & Caribbean Diversity (ACD or ACDiversity)
https://www.acdiversity.org/
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EP5 - Meet Trina Roach
This week we speak to Trina Roach. She first came to Germany as a high school exchange student, returned for college, and has had a very successful life and career there.
Where you can contact Trina Roach:
https://www.facebook.com/stillcreatingtomorrow
https://www.instagram.com/still_creating_tomorrow/
https://www.picktime.com/creatingtomorrow
https://www.linkedin.com/in/creatingtomorrow/
https://coaches.xing.com/profile/Trina_Roach
Music: Des'ree - You Gotta Be
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This week Adrianne and Angela talk with our first guest. DC woman has lived in Sweden since the 1970s.
Music: Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac
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Adrianne and Angela talk about making friends in Europe and keeping up with friends at home.
Music: Friends by Whodini
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We get to know Angela, why she moved to Germany, her life there, and more.
Music: Attention by Rouge Rouge
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We talk about the BWIE origin story and get to know our founder Adrianne.
Music: Outstanding by The Gap Band
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Hosting special guests and having real conversations between Adrianne and Angela, the Black Women in Europe® podcast will amplify the voices of the ordinary and extraordinary among us by exploring their lives, discussing relevant news, and tackling interesting and difficult topics including racism both subtle and overt; adapting to new customs, citizenship and residency challenges and requirements, hair care, mental health and more.
For the past 15 years, our blog readers have come from around the globe, and today we’re having adult conversations with, about, and for Black Women whose family goes back generations on the continent, are new arrivals, or seasoned ex-pats. We wholeheartedly welcome our family from the Diaspora, our allies, and those seeking to be allies wherever you are.
By the end of each episode, we will make new friends, celebrate successes, and try new things. Listeners will meet interesting people and hopefully won’t make the same assumptions about black women in Europe ever again. Oh, and we’ll have fun along the way.
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xx Adrianne and Angela