Seen, Heard, Whole- Candid Conversations with a Counselor: Recent Episodes
Carlete
Authenticity begets authenticity. Carlete Metoyer, Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Compassion Fatigue Professional, invites you into a space dedicated to being seen and heard while working to become whole. Based on the self-care wheel, each episode focuses on developing mentally, physically, personally, professionally, emotionally and spiritually...with a little counseling sprinkled in!
Guest Dr. Deanna Davis, Practice Owner and Provider of Smile Village Dental Care, discusses how dentistry and mental health intersect.
Feeling like you haven't arrived at the place you're supposed to be? This episode is for you.
Special Guest Chassidy Olainu-Alade provides a thoughtful perspective on what it means to be the caretaker of our own story.
Chassidy Olainu-Alade is the Coordinator for Community and Civic Engagement in Fort Bend ISD, where she leads the Sugar Land 95 Memorial Project.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Secondary Education from Louisiana State University, as well as a M.ED in Secondary Social Studies from Texas Southern University. During her education a major focus of her coursework and area of research has been African American Studies and History of American South. Olainu-Alade moved to Texas to pursue a career in education in 2006, where she served as a classroom teacher of 8 th grade American History for 7 years before becoming an instructional leader for Secondary Social Studies.
She is currently an advocate for teaching and learning about the system of convict leasing and is the leader of the Sugar Land 95 Memorialization Project. She has been instrumental in the adoption of curriculum standards and development of resources to support teaching about the period of Reconstruction and convict leasing. Her most notable work was the design and development of the Sugar Land 95 Exhibit within Fort Bend ISD’s James Reese Center which spotlights the discovery of the Sugar Land 95, system of convict leasing and post-Reconstruction America.
Chassidy Olainu-Alade was named the 2022 National Social Studies Leader of the Year by the National Social Studies Supervisors Association, following being named the 2021 Texas Social Studies Supervisor of the Year.
Having a hard time with the "let go"? Learn the reasons why it's hard and steps you can take to move forward.
Special Guest, Dr. Laide Ashimi Balogun, engages us in the homegirl conversation we all want to have with our doctor.
Wouldn't it be great to have certainty about every decision we make? And yet, if we are willing, tolerating uncertainty can yield benefits.
Oh to be seen...to be visible. Guest Malaika Easton, school counselor and licensed professional counselor (LPC), shares how the power of stories and storytelling can help us feel seen and heard.
Special guest Erial Green, owner and creator of Soultri Scents, shares her wisdom about self-care.
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Special guest Erial Green, creator and owner of Soultri Scents, shares her passion for taking care of others using her amazing products.
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We know the feeling of wanting to slow down, but do we actually know how? In this episode Carlete shares some lessons about slowing down to Be Here Now.
Special guests Giselle Keys and L'ren Keys of Keys Design Group discuss turning creativity into a business as well as the benefits of setting an atmosphere at home and work to enhance our health and wellbeing.
Guest Jason Brown shares from the head and heart about matters from a male perspective.
Guest Tiara Abu brings comfort AND correction as she discusses living in harmony as an entrepreneur, leader, wife, mother, friend...all the things!
Tiara Abu is the Founder and CEO of SHE CAN WORK School for Women. She is a career educator, leadership coach, and entrepreneur who has committed her life to the pursuit of justice for marginalized communities and developing leaders with a focus on people-oriented leadership. Her 17 year tenure in education, 13 years in leadership development, 9 years in the US Army and 3 years as a CEO of Lead WITH People, have given her robust experience in managing, coaching, and developing leaders at junior and senior levels of organizations. She is very passionate about matters of injustice and relinquishing inequities that exist among women generation after generation. Her goal is to empower women to take their place as the architects of society and pioneers of HER-story! Tiara is the proud mother of two boys, Ayden and Micah, and a wife to Austin.
Special Guest Mynika Collins, Mental Health Counselor at Texas Southern University, talks candidly about sitting in the therapist's chair AND on the therapist's couch.
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Welcome to Season 2! We're starting the year asking if we truly are the things we're professing, and if not, how to get there.
Guest Dr. Rizvan Quadri discusses the meaning of true wealth and how changing mindsets can improve our overall quality of life.
Guest Tim Chambers discusses the path to successful entrepreneurship and God's gifts to us- our mind and our life.
Nurse Practitioner and Aesthetic Artist Randi Horne shines a light on the nurse practitioner field and how to "glow up" with healthy skin care.
Special guest Tiffany Walton, owner of Humnos, shares what it means to be a worshipper.