Uphold Voices in Family: Recent Episodes
Uphold Voices in Family
Uphold Voices in Family is a bilingual, global podcast (English & Haitian Creole) that honors past-present multidimensional stories of parental figures and childhood experiences. This archiving is rooted in collective remembrance of our voices today and for generations to come. From the gateways of memory, Uphold Voices in Family embraces with love and respect what flows to meet us where we are today. From the roots of lineages, each human being is always becoming and transforming. Therefore, abundant possibilities of who we have been and who we are today are welcomed here. It is about amplifying this practice of memory preservation from your voice, my voice, our voices, our ways of perceiving in this lifetime. The podcast is hosted by Nagiarry Porcena-Meneus with meditative intentions as a griot and story-weaver. This podcast is an extension of www.upholdvoicesinfamily.com with a thorough list of resources, visual and writing archives. To be a guest, please email hello@upholdvoicesinfamily.com. Gratitude, always. Our voices are vital and richly alive. What flows through your voice today?
Uphold Voices in Family is an archive honoring and preserving our stories, from this present moment with the aim for generations to come. It is an intentional passage through past-present stories of childhood and parental experiences.
Welcoming Amani Reid to Episode 4 full of gratitude sharing reflections:
- How does she see reflections of herself through the people who are close in her life from career explorations and personal characteristics? How does the intimacy of finding oneself connected to knowing her family history?
- What are the narratives that she would tell herself as a child that held her back from expressing her voice in the ways that spoke to the freedom of her being?
- Instead of her own voice throughout the years, whose voice and which relationships had a deep influence as to how she navigated through the world?
- When did she give herself permission to see her own voice and to express herself?
- What were her childhood hobbies and interests? How does she strive to reconnect with her inner child today and give her space to speak?
- What does it mean to have multiple passions at the same time, and how is she navigating the process of giving them all space to be free?
- What roles do her parents have in her life and what is she immensely grateful for?
- How does her grandmother impact her life? How does she channel their memory and how do they live through her each day?
- Where does her love of the environment root and flourish from?
- How is the myriad of cultures in her lineage? What was her trip to Ghana like the first time she visited and what is she dedicated to upholding as part of her memorable legacy?
Amani Reid is a wonderful and radiant human being who speaks about the influential power that we have by simply being who we are and expressing our voices! To love ourselves, to know that we are good enough by exploring what speaks deeply to our inner beings. Today, we honor the gift of listening to Amani sharing her being, her voice, her heart, her truth with us. It is this prayer of who she is and continuously growing into that we honor today. May we know through listening to her story that we too, can choose to do the same. To express ourselves whenever it aligns best with our journeys.
Amani has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with an Environmental Studies minor from Temple University and is a former U.S. Army Reservist. She is also a Temple University Diamond Award Recipient. She is currently serving as Policy Engagement Manager for Pennsylvania Interfaith Power & Light and Legislative Assistant with State Representative Donna Bullock.
Amani is dedicated to stewardship and advocacy work including climate justice, environmental justice, and equality. She is a New Jersey native, however, she loves to travel and has been to London, Paris, Rome, Barcelona, and Accra, Ghana. She is the founder of Black Butterly, an initiative rooted in environmental justice and creative expressions. She is a writer, musician, and environmental advocate guided by faith.
This archival dialogue with Amani is an honor to having faith in ourselves and reconnecting with the passionate creative expressions of the inner child. As you listen in today, we invite you to reflect on your own childhood experiences and how you find your voice growing today.
Connect with Amani below:
LinkedIn: Amani Reid - Legislative Assistant - State Representative Donna Bullock | LinkedIn
Black Butterfly Instagram Page: Black Butterfly 🦋 (@black_buttterflyyy) • Instagram photos and videos
Amani's Personal Instagram Page:Amani Reid (@mani._.xoxo) • Instagram photos and videos
Uphold Voices in Family is an archive honoring and preserving our stories, from this present moment with the aim for generations to come. It is an intentional passage through past-present stories of childhood and parental experiences.
Welcoming Nana Ama Addo or Asiedua to Episode 3 full of gratitude sharing reflections:
- What are the ancestral origins of her name and what is the daily legacy that she strives to embody through her name each day?
- Why does she identify herself, amongst her many multidimensional identities, as a hood princess? What is the reflective power that breathes through that?
- When she thinks of her voice, what are the words or stories that come to mind?
- When did she start speaking and expressing her thoughts as a child? What are the activities or hobbies that cultivated her voice?
- What is her relationship with the delicacies of food and the cultural memories formed through them?
- What are her hopes for her inner child?
- How did love seek her and embrace her during childhood? From where and to whom does she pay homage to?
- What comes to mind when she thinks of her mother and step father? What are the similarities that she finds when she thinks of who she is today? What’s a phrase that her mother would repeat to her that she continues to remember?
- What is a message that she would like to share for future generations?
- What led to move abroad from the US to Ghana — and connect with her lineages?
Nana Ama Addo or ‘Asiedua is a Ghanaian-American storyteller and the founder of Asiedua’s Imprint, a lifestyle brand that provides creative and repatriation resources for people of the African diaspora. As her brand’s tagline ‘Finding Beauty Between Worlds’ suggests, Asiedua is the product of a Ghanaian father and an African American mother, and has always danced between these two cultures. While visiting Ghana for the first time in 2014, where she met family members and connected with the creative energy of the country, she was inspired to spend more time in the land. After a series of prolonged stays in Ghana, Asiedua finally packed her journal and repatriated from her home city, Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, to Ghana, to contribute to the country’s growing creative economy.
Today, she lives in Accra, where she is a full-time entrepreneur and artist. In addition to
managing Asiedua’s Imprint and her creative agency ‘Chi: The Agency’, Asiedua is
gearing up to release her debut single ‘All In’, which tells a story about Ghana repatriation,
and the short film ‘The Return’, an experience that explores the mystical journey of a
goddess who escapes the concrete jungle and reconnects with her ‘Warrior King’ Ghana.
This archival dialogue with Asiedua is an honor to the inner child, to finding beauty between worlds, to our voices and all the expressions that derive from our being. As you listen in today, we invite you to reflect on your own childhood experiences and you find your voice growing today.
Connect with her brand on social media:
IG: @Asieduas_Imprint
FB: Asiedua’s Imprint
TikTok: @Asieduas_Imprint
Website: www.asieduasimprint.blog
YouTube: Asiedua’s Imprint
Uphold Voices in Family is an archive honoring and preserving our stories, from this present moment with the aim for generations to come. It is an intentional passage through past-present stories of childhood and parental experiences.
Welcoming Jimmy Champagne to Episode 2 full of gratitude.
- What were his childhood experiences like?
- What was it like for the mother of his daughter to pass away a couple of days after giving birth? What did the grieving process look like, what does healing mean to him today?
- How did he navigate through guilt and how did he shift his mindset to be in the present moment?
- What did the mother of his child teach him? Who are the master teachers of his life that helped him become who is continuously growing into?
- What did have to unlearn from relationship-building with others and with himself that led him to be more present for his daughter? What did I have to let go of, to release and become?
- As a father, how does he strive to give space for the humanity of his daughter to grow and bloom and be? What does fatherhood mean to him? What are some of the activities that they do together?
- How did he have to work on himself in order to be present for everything else around him? What is the role of meditation, discipline, and all the wellness practices that he strives to embody each day?
Jimmy Champagne is a life coach, motivational speaker, qigong instructor helping people incorporate wellness practices into their livelihoods. He believes in the power of connecting with the life within us and in the transformative power of meditation.
Jimmy is the father of his beautiful 9-year-old daughter, striving to parent consciously by being in tune with himself and becoming the best that he can. He believes that children learn from what they witness, and coming back to himself, connecting with his breath has been a beautiful experience.
Tune in to his story! Jimmy Champagne hosts online and in-person meditation classes. You can connect with Jimmy Champagne on Instagram @lifecoachjimbo and Facebook @JimboMotivation. Grow along with his inspiring Talk Show airing every Sunday called Jimbo Talk Show. The recaps are also available on Youtube.
Uphold Voices in Family is an archive honoring and preserving our stories, from this present moment with the aim for generations to come. It is an intentional passage through past-present stories of childhood and parental experiences.
Welcoming Zazou to Episode 1 full of gratitude.
Zazou describes herself as a multidimensional human being with infinite possibilities. She is a mother, a chef, and a nomad by spirit. Zazou practices conscious and intuitive parenting while valuing the importance of honoring and caring deeply for self. She believes that children learn actions, from what they witness each day. Therefore, her devotion is also to be her most authentic self to the best that she can. Zazou loves to travel, create, and of course, eat, develop recipes and cook delicious food.
She dives into reflections of including:
- What are some of her childhood memories? What have the people in her lineages taught her throughout the past years and how does she ground herself in that connection?
- How does she strive to incorporate plant-based living and eating with her 4-year-old dear child, herself, and family? What are some of her practices?
- What does it mean to not be a self-sacrificing parent while not having the shame of doing so? How does she strive to honor her motherhood, her humanity, her womanhood?
- What was her pregnancy experience like, and what are the mindful practices that aligned best for her well-being?
- What was her breastfeeding experience? How does she strive to honor her womb and connect with her womb still, today?
You can connect with Zazou on Instagram @lakouzazou
Welcome to Season 2 of Uphold Voices in Family! Stay tuned for upcoming episodes to be released biweekly on Sundays. Grateful for this journey.
Our voices are vital and richly alive. What flows through your voice today?
Website: www.upholdvoicesinfamily.com
Email: hello@upholdvoicesinfamily.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upholdvoicesinfamily/
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 12: Nagiarry is joined by a beautiful human being and dear mother named Barnica "Nica" Hosty who is a loving wife, director of education, podcast host, a trailblazing entrepreneur for the past years. Nica has a passion for helping others, and for leading them to foster the impact that they were meant to create in this world.
This episode includes her breastfeeding experiences, self-appreciation, the values that she is instilling into her daughter, the vitality of communication while married, having a village by her side, the journey in leaning into the value of asking for help, navigating through feelings of not being good enough of a mother, and her own childhood experiences. Highlighting love, she opened up about how her view on love looks like, and what she learned about what it means to love people equally. Nica also shared with us how she is striving to take care of herself while being lovingly present for her children and family. What is the mindset that she cultivated when things are beyond her control? How does she learn to trust in her journey? In her experiences, the transformative roles of self-awareness, boundaries faith, community, radical authenticity, surrender, and trust have been essential.
Congratulations! Nica is expecting another wonderful baby blessing in this world! In this fruitful episode, she shared with us her pregnancy journey alongside a special message that she has for her children whenever they may listen to this episode years from now.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected. Happy Holidays!
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Nica, our special guest below:
Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/nica.lovhosty/
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Instagram: @upholdvoicesinfamily
This episode is in Haitian Creole. Moving forward, there will be episodes in Haitian Creole or English to connect with various people, cultures, and ways of being. Thank you so much for being on this journey with us! We each have a voice, and at Uphold Voices in Family: we value the ability to create accessible spaces for people of multidimensional identities to the best that we can.
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Previous episodes, so far, in English.
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Sezon 1: Matenite
Episode 11: Nagiarry te pase y'on bel moman ak y'on manman, e Limye ki rele Christina Beauboeuf Marcelin. Li identifye tankou manman, imen, pwofesyonel, madan mari'l ak anpil lot idantite lavi a pote <3
Nan epizod sa Christina diskite ak nou: PCOS, jounen gwoses li an, relasyon ak mari'l nan gide pitit li, anfans premye pitit li, sa'l ta renmen aprann pitit li ak enpotans sipo li kontinye resevwa nan jounen li ye an. Christina pataje avek nou kijan li kreye kominote, kisa kominote vle di pou li. Anviwonman y'on timoun vreman enpotan, e Christina te pataje avek nou jan paran'l ak jenerasyon nan fanmi'l enflyanse moun li ye jodyan. Li pale avek nou jan y'on manman se y'on imen, e fason l'ap eseye fe sa li kapab pou onore tet li nan jounen li ye kounyean. Eske lavi y'on manman fasil? Kisa Christina gen pou'l pataje sou nou a pwopo de sa? E depresyon matenal? Koute, tande istwa'l ak sa ki ede'l nan chemen li chak jou.
Ann kontinye defann ak onore vwa manman, imanite manman paske tout sa konekte ansanm.
Mizik: Song of Mother by Benson.
Konekte ak Christina, manman ki pataje istwa'l avek nou:
Instagram Page:https://www.instagram.com/mbchri7
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Instagram: @upholdvoicesinfamily
Welcome, inspirational voices. Let us continue to uphold voices in family!
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
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Chrystien has a special message for all medical professionals.
Sharing her premature birth experience as a first-time mom, raising her daughter who healed from brain cancer and now journeys through with cerebral palsy. See below for more details.
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 10: Nagiarry is joined by a beautiful human being, black woman, and dear mother named Chrystien Guyton who is a brand stylist, graphic designer, and amazing photographer for the past years. She is also the podcast host of the Moxie Stride Podcast. It is a podcast for millennial entrepreneurs to share inspiring stories that can help people step out of their comfort zone. Chrystien has a passion for helping others, and for leading them to foster the impact that they were meant to create in this world. She has a special focus on heart-centered and purpose-driven entrepreneurs. Recently, Chrystien created a 7-step personal brand photography blueprint available for downloads.
This episode includes her premature birth experiences and her young daughter's healing from brain cancer, and now, journeying with cerebral palsy. Chrystien also shared with us her hospital experiences and what she desires that more medical professionals do especially in regards to first-time mothers. Highlighting the importance of black maternal health: Chrystien touched upon her depression diagnosis, to trusting her intuition regarding communication with medical professionals. In her experiences, the transformative roles of self-awareness, faith, community, radical authenticity, surrender, and trust have been essential.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Chrystien Guyton, our special guest below:
Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/mschrysguyton
Personal Website: https://chrystienguyton.com
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Instagram: @upholdvoicesinfamily
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 8: Nagiarry is joined by Ta'lor L. Pinkston who is a self-love activist, speaker, and therapist. Ta’lor is the founder of a virtual support group, centered on self-love, mental health and healing on Facebook with more than 1,300 members and counting: for all individuals, ages 18+. Healing Over Healing offers writing prompts, weekly sessions for truth-sharing, venting, and giving advice. She is a beautiful human being full of identities and interests that keep on blooming every day all while helping individuals use self-love as a coping skill for mental health and healing. Based in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and connecting with people around the globe, Ta’lor is the host of various programs under the umbrella of the non-traditional therapy practice named Our Heart Advocate which also includes guides, templates, and journal entries. It is about encouraging human beings to become their own Heart Advocates along the way.
In addition to such beautiful offerings, Ta’lor is a full-time therapist at Healthy Start specializing in prenatal and postpartum mothers especially online sessions. Within her offerings to the world, through all of them, Ta’lor is a cherished black woman, honorable human being, and mother to her beautiful daughter named Xael.
This episode includes:
- Parenting mindfully and incorporating her mental health journey in building a healthy relationship with her daughter
- Healing from a past toxic relationship and choosing self-love for her dear daughter and herself
- Defining her values and identities as single mother, learning how to co-parent
- Navigating through guilt and arbitrary timelines predicting the ‘right time’ to get pregnant
- Embracing body positivity, freeing self from inner bullying and healing from being bullied at a young age
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Ta'lor L. Pinkston, our special guest below:
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/theheartadvocate
Website: https://ladyhoodjourney.com/
Facebook Group, Healing Over Everything Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/305046589974713/
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Connect with Nagiarry - our host, and friend below:
Instagram: @upholdvoicesinfamily
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 8: Nagiarry is joined by Ronke Faleti who is the founder of the korédé brand, a handbag line for modern womaning which was born out of a personal need for beauty and functionality to coexist harmoniously. korédé is a genuine leather handbag brand designed for today’s modern womaning. korédé focus’ on everyday staples with built-in functionality with a design patent issued and a utility patent pending. korédé means “bring goodness” with a desire to join modern women on their quest to bring goodness to the places and people they touch. You can find korédé everywhere online at @shopkorede or www.shopkorede.com. The grit and valor of entrepreneurship began in her early years in America, witnessing first hand the necessary hustle to make it as an immigrant. These lessons came at the hand of her dear mother and other family members launching ‘mom and pop’ American dreams. Ronke is also Senior Vice President of communications strategy at Wells Fargo Advisors.
Ronke is married to Yinka, the Democratic nominee for Missouri Secretary of State, and together, they shepherd the lives of their beautiful children named Fisayo, Tiwa, Sade, and Motunrayo.
This episode includes vulnerable truths about breastfeeding, pregnancy journeys, guilt, exhaustion. Ronke also shared with us how chores, the relationship with her husband, childhood teachings from her mother, meanings of family, her dearest values and what 'pouring into herself' have been and can continue to look like in the months ahead. Wondering how she navigates through the various roles that her identities embody while raising her four beautiful children? How has she been giving herself grace, overcoming insecurities and embracing her body? Please tune in to hear the journey! It was such a reflective, honest, vulnerable, transformative, and empowering conversation full of discoveries.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Ronke Faleti, our special guest below:
Instagram Korede Brand: https://www.instagram.com/shopkorede/?hl=en
Korede Brand:www.shopkorede.com
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Instagram: @upholdvoices
Thank you for being here. Our vision is to have diverse representation on a global basis to enhance humanity's connectedness, perspectives on family relationships and to encourage space for our beings to be all while remaining in tune with the impacts that intersectionality and systems have in our lives.
We are here to learn and unlearn together. We are here to grow, teach, explore, and support one another. We are here to heal, amplify holistic narratives, and build upon ways that our families can be empowered for generations to come. We are here to liberate consciously for ourselves and our families.
This interlude is an introduction to the origins of this podcast as it keeps intentionally evolving and transforming with our insights, visions, strengths, and roadmaps.
The first season is about motherhood. Stay tuned!
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
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Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their inner selves and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 7: Through vulnerable, meditative, and poetic words, host Nagiarry dives deeper into the reasons that fuel her commitment to our community. As she creates a platform to curate the honest stories of families across the global collective, Nagiarry wanted you to meet the maternal instincts passed down continuously influencing the roadmaps we examine on the podcast. She also explores how holding space for conversations with other mothers has been a catalyst in carving out space for her own healing from grief.
As you learn more about the family stories that gave birth to the @upholdvoices podcast and that sparked up this first season centering motherhood, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for being part of our community.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
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Instagram: @nagiarry & @upholdvoices
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mothers are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 6: Nagiarry is joined by Tash Haynes who is a small business owner for the past 11 years as a professional photographer, travel, motherhood & lifestyle blogger, writer, speaker, educator, a mentor with 20+ years of experience in youth development. She is a black woman, wife and the mother of two gorgeous girls named Wisdom and Courage
This episode includes her experiences growing up in the foster care system, personal ways of dismantling preconceived notions of children in foster care. Tash also shared with us the transformative role of faith, intentionality, and influences of how wisdom and courage were applied in her life since birth. She touched upon navigations through recent racial injustices, the touching discoveries of her identities, and how they are then shared along to her generational legacy. Wondering how they decided to name their children? Please tune in to hear the full journey! It was such a life-changing, inspiring, and empowering conversation full of healing, insights, teachings.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Tash Haynes, our special guest below:
Instagram Page: https://www.instagram.com/itstashhaynes/?hl =en
Personal Website: https://www.wisdomandcourage.com/
Wedding & Portrait Photography Business: https://ikeandtash.com/
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Instagram: @nagiarry & @upholdvoices
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mother figures are striving to remain aware of the influences that their humanity and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 5: Nagiarry is joined by Miranda Alexander who is the founder of the Caribbean Community in Philadelphia, an organization that seeks to positively reframe the narrative about and for the Caribbean People. Miranda is from Trinidad and Tobago and is the mother of a 20-year old young man. Let’s make this National Caribbean Heritage Month a special one by cherishing Miranda as we explore resource-sharing for immigrant families, grief support after losing her parents, advocacy for her children amid the many systems that he is involved in, mental health awareness, the search of resources for her family after moving to the United States, challenges and beauty of parenthood, nourishing connections by village-building.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Miranda Alexander, our special guest below:
Facebook Group: here
Website: https://www.caribbeancommunityinphiladelphia.com/
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Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mother figures are striving to remain aware of the influences that their inner selves and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Episode 4: Nagiarry is joined by Briara Lowery who is a wellness advocate and founder of The Village of Wombmanhood. This episode includes advocacy for mental health awareness, resources for motherhood, overcoming generational trauma, intentional relationship with food lifestyles, access to public health for black communities, and surrendering to the process of holistic wellness. It was such a dynamic conversation full of teachings and wisdom.
Happy Father's Day! In this episode, Briara also shared the relationship, understanding, acceptance, and love for her father.
Let us continue to uphold voices in motherhood and humanity that thrive because they are all interconnected. As Briara said, “ a journey that we are all in whether we are awakened to it or not”
Follow & Connect with Briara, our special guest below:
Instagram: here
Website: https://www.thevillageofwombmanhood.com/
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Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mother figures are striving to remain aware of the influences that their inner selves and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 3: Nagiarry is joined by Boomie Bol who is a writer of short stories, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and essays as she gifts us the honor of cherishing her story. This episode includes how her interpretations of humility changed through life experiences and authenticity of the passing of values to her children. She shared with us the roles of both Nigerian and American cultures in her children’s lives. This touches upon her navigations through grief, scars, love, self-confidence, kindness viewed as a weakness, and the boxing of excellence in genders with her children. Lastly, what would Boomie say to her children if they come to her one day and say that what she has done hurt their feelings? Just because someone is family, does it mean that they love you and cherish your existence?
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Boomie, our special guest below:
Instagram: here
Website: https://boomiebol.wordpress.com/
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Episode 2: Due to the recent and continuous racial injustices against black families, Nagiarry created this special episode to cultivate inner wellness and soothing energy through reflective meditation with her listeners. Based on the expressed grief of mothers and families throughout this past week, she desired to uphold their voices, by letting them know that their inner selves are valued. Each family who expressed and will express their stories matter to me. You, as our tribe of listeners in the family dynamic matter to me. As stories are being shared, this is my way of letting each of you know that your wellness is important. I am allowing this Sunday to be a time of reflection inward as we move towards episodes with our special guests in the weeks ahead.
What are you giving yourself permission to embrace lately? Take 25 minutes of your day to be rooted, breath, give space for soft words, and empower the sacredness of your blackness and our inner selves with me. This is created intentionally for black families with healing, and poetic calming waves at heart. As someone who is also part of a family structure, with a family and parents, I too have continuously been navigating inward and cherishing that space.
By catering to our multidimensional realities and identities, we can continue to cultivate our family relations. We can continue to uplift their beautiful blackness, stand with them, be with them, and let them know that they too matter in themselves, to you as well, and many others.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Season 1: Motherhood - In honor of the multidimensional ways that mother figures are striving to remain aware of the influences that their inner selves and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Connect with Nagiarry - our host, and friend below:
Instagram: @nagiarry & @upholdvoices
BlackLivesMatter #SayTheirNames
Advocate against racial injustices by visiting the sites below:
https://www.change.org/p/andy-beshear-justice-for-breonna-taylor
https://linktr.ee/NationalResourcesList
https://blacklivesmatter.carrd.co/
Season 1: Motherhood
In honor of the multidimensional ways that mother figures are striving to remain aware of the influences that their inner selves and surrounding environments have upon their children while cultivating their growth.
Episode 1: Nagiarry is joined by Donnya Negera who is a mom blogger and influencer as she gifts us the honor of cherishing her story. This episode includes the acknowledgment of how her childhood experiences within her Haitian heritage influenced how she mothers her children today. It also touches upon the journey towards self-confidence, trust, happiness, and triumphs through expectations placed upon the emotions of black children and of mothers as people.
Music Credit: Song of Mother by Benson.
Follow & Connect with Donnya, our special guest below:
Instagram: here
Website: issamom.com
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