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
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
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?
28. Lettie Elizabeth
On today's episode I get to interview my friend Lettie Elizabeth about what it means to be an actual historian and why it's important for history to be taught by people of color. Lettie also shares why this country has a fear of Black history and how education was kept from Black people. Lettie goes on to discuss the following:
—How she practices self-care
—Productivity vs self-worth
—How she shows up authentically
—The importance of doing what you're called to do
—How she honors her ancestors
—What she wants people to learn from her lessons
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.
2. Experiencing Domestic Violence with Tereska Muishond
In this episode, we are diving into the impact that growing up with domestic violence can have on you and your relationships.
Today I am talking to Terska Muishond. Tereska is a single mother, writer, poet, and activist. She grew up experiencing domestic violence and fear but was able to find her release through poetry and putting her feelings into words. Tereska and I go deep into experiencing domestic violence, overcoming shame, and how healing takes a lifetime.
Listen is as you are in for a treat as Tereska reads two of her poems during this interview.