Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue

In this episode, Yvette and Dionne dive into how love, faith, and spirituality shape our grief—and how they can help us find steadiness when life shakes us to the core. They explore the role of breathwork in calming the nervous system, the rituals that ground us, and the ways signs, dreams, scripture, and nature can offer comfort. Yvette shares the spiritual messages that carried her after losing...

Hip-hop legend Bun B joins Two Mothers, One Aché for a raw and deeply human conversation about brotherhood, loss, and healing. He opens up about the morning he learned of Pimp C’s passing, the identity-shifting grief that followed, and why he chose to grieve publicly in a culture that often equates vulnerability with weakness. Together, Bun, Yvette, and Dionne explore how grief reshapes us, what c...

In this episode of Two Mothers, One Aché, Dionne and Yvette welcome their very first guest—author, athlete, mother, and fierce grief-advocate, Myra Sack. Together, they explore how grief lives in the body—how it tightens the throat, aches in the heart, disrupts our systems, and demands to be felt. Myra shares the story behind her memoir 57 Fridays and the creation of eMotion, the nonprofit she fou...

In this episode, Dionne and Yvette explore the rituals that help us carry our loved ones forward—especially on the hardest days. Sparked by a moving clip from Cardi B about grief, they dive into how culture, creativity, food, altars, anniversaries, and even breathwork become ways to honor memory and move through pain. From candle lighting and birthday traditions to sip-and-paints, playlists, and p...

In this powerful and intimate episode, co-hosts Yvette Love Dávila and Dionne C. Monsanto open their hearts to explore the tender intersection of motherhood and grief. Through laughter, breathwork, and raw storytelling, they hold space for the beauty, guilt, and resilience that come with being mothers after loss. Yvette shares the story of saying goodbye to her son, Dasan, and the difficult conver...

In this deeply resonant episode, co-hosts Dionne C. Monsanto and Yvette Love Dávila return to ask a deceptively simple but transformative question: What do we really mean when we say grief? Together, they broaden the definition of grief beyond death—naming the hidden losses that shape who we are and the cultural silences that keep us from healing. Through raw, honest storytelling—from Uncle Al’s c...

In the debut of Two Mothers, One Ache: A Grief Dialogue, Yvette Dávila and Dionne C. Monsanto invite you to the kitchen table—bring tea, water, cafecito—while they open the door to who they are, how they met, and the ache that birthed this show. Between laughter about their Hunter College days and “hair did, nails did” glow-ups, they ground the conversation in breathwork, faith, and the Yoruba con...

Two Mothers, One Aché: A Grief Dialogue brings listeners into raw, transformative conversations about love and loss with Dionne C. Monsanto and Yvette Dávila —two mothers bound by grief after the deaths of their children, Siwe at 15 and Dasan at 26. Rooted in faith, culture, and lived experience, the podcast explores grief in its many forms—child loss, identity shifts, estrangement, rage, and rene...