The Soul Mama Podcast

The second part of my conversation with Layla B Rashid, an entrepreneur, mother, soulful changemaker and business mentor, traditional Mororccan postpartum trainer, writer and philanthropist. She describes her mission as being to revive, reclaim and restore sacred and ancient Traditional Moroccan Postpartum Medicine, to document the wisdom and keep it alive. We talk about what it means to truly mot...

Layla B Rashid is an entrepreneur, mother, soulful changemaker and business mentor, traditional Mororccan postpartum trainer, writer and philanthropist. She describes her mission as being to revive, reclaim and restore sacred and ancient Traditional Moroccan Postpartum Medicine, to document the wisdom and keep it alive. We talk about what it means to truly mother the mother.  Full show notes on ww...

Kamila Mcdonald is a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, author of the mind body and spirit lifestyle guide Wake up and Live and founder of the Well Fit club, a movement and membership offering online classes that support women on their health and fitness journey. Born and raised in Jamaica, she began her public profile through sharing her transformational journey from being overweight...

Kamila Mcdonald is a certified personal trainer, fitness instructor, author of the mind body and spirit lifestyle guide Wake up and Live and founder of the Well Fit club, a movement and membership offering online classes that support women on their health and fitness journey. Born and raised in Jamaica, she began her public profile through sharing her transformational journey from being overweight...

This is the second part of my conversation with Rachelle Garcia Seliga is a Mother, Wife, and Certified Professional Midwife, with 18 years of experience working within the realms of holistic women’s health care. She is the Creator and Director of INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care Trainings; which offer a framework of postpartum wellness to birth and health care providers worldwide. Rachelle is Co...

Rachelle Garcia Seliga is a Mother, Wife, and Certified Professional Midwife, with 18 years of experience working within the realms of holistic women’s health care. She is the Creator and Director of INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care Trainings; which offer a framework of postpartum wellness to birth and health care providers worldwide. All of Rachelle’s work is dedicated to midwifing a cultural sh...

In the second part of the conversation Yoli Maya Yeh speaks about the healing power of Yoga Nidra, how motherhood and a healing crisis led her to become her own patient and what this new paradigm means and is calling from us. Yoli Maya Yeh is a Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist and Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies. Yoli works at the intersection of Indigenous Preservation, Healing Arts...

Yoli Maya Yeh is a Yoga & Shiatsu Therapist and Educator in Comparative Religions and Global Studies. In this first part of the conversation we go in on Yoli’s journey – her studies of the traditional paths, and her later rejection of those.  Also, how motherhood and a healing crisis led her to become her own patient and forced her to make some drastic choices. Yoli works at the intersection of In...

Join me for this first solo episode and last of the season to look back over the highlights of Season 1, some of my story and motivations and a forward look to my intentions for Season 2. I end with a guided visualisation opening to the warmth and support of sisterhood. I pray this episode nourishes your soul. Enjoy! Much Love Nehanda xx

Olivyah Bowens  is a mother of two, a doula, birth photographer and an advocate for women's maternal health and wellbeing. Through her popular Instagram feed @herholisticpath she guides women to prepare for the best births they can. Here she speaks honestly about her own pregnancies and births, and the shortcomings of the medical system. She honestly shares about the challenges of modern motherhoo...

Dr. Rocío Rosales Meza is an intuitive, energy worker, healer, and coach. She has a Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology and is a Reiki Master. She has helped hundreds of women of colour on their spiritual journey of decolonization. Her values lie in anti-oppressive, decolonial, liberation work and in collective healing. Dr Rosales Meza has such a gentle delivery but her words are strong and powerful....

Kelley Palmer, also known on Instagram as the @peacefilledmama is a coach, writer, wellness advocate and community organizer committed to using the tools and philosophies of yoga to cultivate liberation, joy and peace for herself and others. Being a mother of two liberated souls has created a point of focus that brings these tools to the way she mothers and also calling her to share this with all...

Caroline Shola Arewa is a Wellness coach and Author of 5 books including the seminal text Opening to Spirit now in its 20 year edition.   In this conversation I invite Shola to unpack the chakra system to learn how they really affect us and we talk about the effects birth can have on the root chakra and ways we can energetically come into balance after new motherhood. I hope you enjoy. Follow me o...

Akilah Richards is an unschooling mother of two, Tedx speaker and host of the widely celebrated podcast, Fare of the Free Child which explores the intersections of parenting, personal leadership, and tools for liberation-centered community. She is the author of the forthcoming book, ‘Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work’ due to be published later this year. This conversa...

Malaika Maitland is a yoga therapist and Mama Glow Doula. She is also the co-founder of Spice Harmony Yoga studio in Grenada, in the Caribbean, where she lives and works. We discuss her experience supporting other women through pregnancy and birth, whilst also being pregnant herself. She shares about her home birth, the landscape of medicalised birth in the Caribbean and ways we can break intergen...

Mimi Kuo Deemer is an author, yoga and Qigong instructor. She is the co-founder of Beijing’s first and leading Yoga Studio and teaches regular Yoga and Qigong classes in London. In this conversation, we speak about what we can learn from nature, how self-cultivation builds on the concept of self-care. Mimi speaks about her personal journey of pregnancy loss, and the impact this can have on the bod...

Dr. Kimani Borland is a Naturopathic Doctor, qualified Vinyasa, and Kemetic Yoga teacher, and mother to two sons. She was born and raised in a Rasta family in Jamaica, graduated from Stanford University, and currently runs a practice in Jamaica, where she specializes in an Integrative approach to wellbeing, using herbs, nutrition, lifestyle & perspective shifts.  I loved speaking and learning more...

Dani McClain is a writer and award-winning journalist who reports on race and reproductive health. Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is mother to one daughter and author of the book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, which wa...

Mars Lord is an award-winning doula and birth activist with a burning desire to see the ‘colouring in of the landscape of birth.’ She is also committed to finding out the reasons for the increasing maternal and neonatal morbidity rates for women of colour. Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation for women of colour. Her desire for reproductive justice led to the creation of the Reproductiv...

Jessica Huie MBE is an entrepreneur and the author of bestseller 'PURPOSE, find your truth and embrace your calling’ published by Hay House. Having worked for years as a publicist to the stars, to creating the UK’s first range of multicultural greeting cards, Jessica’s life has been an ongoing  journey of self-discovery and becoming. We speak about her abrupt awakening of motherhood at the tender...

The Soul Mama podcast features healing conversations for women on the sacred journey of motherhood who want to live conscious, natural and spiritual lives.  I’m Nehanda Truscott Reid, aka @SoulMamaCoach , a mother of two, and Holistic Wellness Practitioner. In this podcast I speak with inspiring leaders, healers, authors and more whose messages serve to awaken, inspire and elevate us. Welcome to t...