When We Speak is a podcast where we have inspirational, candid, and empowering conversations. It’s a place where we share insight into how we cope, heal, and find meaning in a wide range of experiences. Hosted by mental health therapist, speaker, and author of “What Children Remember”, Tasha Hunter, MSW, LCSW.
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35. Bonus Episode: Suicide and How to Save a Life
Today's bonus episode is in honor of Suicide Awareness Month and the one person every eleven minutes who decides to end their life. I start this episode by sharing my own story of being a Black woman who struggled with suicidal thoughts since the age of ten years old. I also discuss some of the thoughts and experiences that led to my attempt to end my life. I believe that we heal when we tell our story. We heal when we're honest about our experiences, about our pain, and about our trauma. I also discuss the following:
—the importance of confronting fear, discomfort, and uncertainty
—how to have hard, uncomfortable conversations
—how to care for yourself
—the importance of community care
—how we save a life
—showing intentional love
—radical love/radical self-care
It's my hope that after listening to this episode you're able to have hard conversations with you loved ones and hopefully practice loving the people in your life and decreasing suicide rates.
13. Financial Literacy in the Black Community with Darleana McHenry
Today we are speaking with Darleana McHenry about what it means to have financial literacy in the Black Community and how to become more financially literate.
Darleana explores some of the challenges in the Black community as a result of poverty and lack of economic stability. Darleana provides insight into simple steps that people can take immediately to become more educated and ways to seek support to manage financial issues that are often generational.
Darleana is the founder of Black in Money Recovery. Darleana says her family struggled with money issues for generations that included bouts of abundance as well as bouts of poverty. Darleana says her father was absolutely brilliant as a businessman yet he struggled to maintain his wealth because of generational curses and racism. Darleana started Black in Money Recovery, Black in Debtors Anonymous, Black in Underearners Anonymous which are all Twelve Step Programs for the Black community after realizing she was not going to heal in the spaces created by and for White people.