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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39. Joquina Reed
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39. Joquina Reed

In today's episode and am speaking with my one of the funniest, and most intelligent Black women in my community, Joquina Reed. We discuss:

—Institutional racism

—Joquina's superpower and kryptonite

—The Triad (white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism)

—How whiteness and white supremacy harms

—Race being a social construct

—The importance of intellectual humility

—Divesting from Whiteness

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30. Bonus Episode: People Pleasing
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30. Bonus Episode: People Pleasing

Today's episode is by request and I'm speaking about the people pleasing. I am discussing some of what I believe is the root cause of people pleasing behavior, symptoms of people pleasing behavior, Internal Family Systems perspectives as the behavior being a protector, and the long-term impact of people-pleasing, and ways to address the behavior and speak up without allowing fear to stop you.

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29. Black Women Woes Part I
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29. Black Women Woes Part I

Today's episode was birthed from an idea that I had several months ago. So Cha, Lettie, Marcie, and Patricia all said yes to speaking about the power of being a Black woman and some of what we deal with on a regular basis.  I wanted to utilize the month of August to talk to feature all of us together. This episode is more than I could have dreamed. They represent healing, love, courage, authenticity, and truth. Listening to the convo made me proud to be in community with them and this wasn't just a podcast recording--- it was Black Woman power being exemplified. Here are just a few of the questions that I asked them:

1. What will you no longer return to?

2. What will you no longer accept from others?

3. How are you honoring your Blackness from the perspective of self-care?

4. How is pleasure incorporated into your lives? What give you pleasure?

5. What have you learned about love?

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