Black Women in Wellness

Alexis Motley is contagiously positive and passionate about nutrition and creating healthy lifestyles for everyone in her community. She is known for her comprehensive approach that encompasses a positive relationship with food and physical activity.  She takes her professional expertise and practical ideas to make nutrition fun and easy.  Alexis received her Bachelor of Science in...

Sheryl Jackson is a Savvy Entrepreneur, Business and Private Yoga Wellness Coach. She specializes in helping Yoga Teachers & Wellness Entrepreneurs to create financial well-being through coaching and online courses. She also helps women struggling with hormone imbalance. This is done through The Conscious Woman Midlife Detox program. A holistic 90 Days step by step optimal online, private well...

In this interview, I had the great pleasure of sitting down with Licensed Psychotherapist, Wellness Coach and Certified Life Coach Aisha Antoinette Picott. She has over a decade of experience in the field of social work and mental health in the healthcare setting and is passionate about empowering women to find their passion, live their purpose and fulfill their dreams.  She helps navigate th...

For this interview, I sit down with friend and Black Girl Social Club -- Costa Rica Chapter President Celesté Lawson. We have a chit chat about a recent volunteer project we did at the Pro-Huerta Guanacaste Community Garden. Born in Queens, NY and bred in Columbia, South Carolina, Celesté is from the best of both worlds. Celesté served in the US Army for 4 years including a 1 year deployment in...

Tasha Whitaker is a speaker, author, educator, trainer and owner of TWhitaker Enterprises, a consulting agency that provides professional development training, health and wellness workshops for healthcare professionals that build capacity. A passionate health and wellness advocate for communities she empowers communities to take charge of their wellness. She is the Founder and Host of The CHW Crew...

Marsha Hoffmann is a NYC based Registered Dietitian. She is a first-generation Haitian American. Marsha graduated from Stony Brook University with a Bachelors's in Hispanic Language and Literature. After completing her bachelor's she discovered food as a career and went back to school to study dietetics at Queens College in NYC. She then went on to do her dietetic internship at Lehman College...

The lovely Sufia Giza returns to kick off season 2 of the interview series and talk about her journey to veganism, her vegan cookbook, and her new venture of growing her own food. Sufia Giza is a yoga teacher, filmmaker, and writer who has released a vegan cookbook called Vegan SOULfood: Food for the SOUL. She has been vegan since 1992, and has 30+ years of vegetarian food prep. She also has a Cer...

For our season 1 finale episode, I'm bringing you an interview with me! I sat down with my dear friend Rev Saundra Porter Thomas to talk about my journey as a wellness provider.  I have been a yoga teacher for some time now, and am also a meditation teacher. To say the journey has been interesting is an understatement, but it has definitely been worthwhile.  And it has brought me to the...

In this episode, we have our final interview in our reproductive health conversation. I'll be talking to another doula who has her own unique experience to share about birthing wellness. Teaisha Whittingham is very passionate about birth and all things babies. She is a certified Birth and Bereavement Doula, trained through Doula Training Canada and stillbirthday academy.  She is also a mother...

For today's Friday inspiration, I have a bonus interview for you with business coach Tam Luc Tam Luc is a #1 International bestselling author, and founder of Women with Vision International who shares the triumphs, stress, and struggles of balancing her life to help women grow their business. After 20 years as a business entrepreneur, she helps women leverage their message and create the lifestyle...

We are continuing our conversation on reproductive health this episode with birth doula Shawna Morant. Shawna Morant graduated from Winthrop University in 2008 with a Masters of Social Work, emphasis on Health and Mental Health. She has worked as a professional social worker for the past 12 years, serving some of the most vulnerable in Mecklenburg County. During her own pregnancy and motherhood jo...

This episode is the first of three episodes that we'll be doing discussing reproductive wellness.  Dr. Alicia D. Bonaparte is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and trained as a medical sociologist with a specialization in reproductive health, health disparities, and female crime and deviance. Her publications and research interests examine the gendered social hierar...

V. Ophelia Rigault whole-heartedly believes that grief is our greatest teacher, and there comes a time that the griever has to choose to get through their grief or become mired in it. Ophelia knows that grief is not meant to be fixed - it is meant to be witnessed and healed. After the death of her mother, Ophelia tried to "fix" her grief, and was waiting to "get over it". Her grief became an unwan...

I had the great pleasure of attending The Black Love Experience last week, and in this minisode I talk about my take-aways from the Black Joy Matters panel discussion.  The Moderator for the discussion was Jessica Solomon , and the panelists were Alex Hardy, Christine Platt , Derrick Weston Brown , and Zoë Pulley .  You can find the black joy archive here . To learn more about Black Wome...

Janna Zinzi is a traveling storyteller documenting cultural changemakers in arts, spirituality and social justice. When she saw that most travel guides are written by and for heteronormative white folks, she worked to cofound WanderWomxnTravels which is a collective of womxn of color and femme travelers. Wanderwomxn seeks to create a space that provides travel and safety information because the wa...

In this minisode, I talk about making big habits small so that they are more sustainable. This Friday's inspiration comes from: Sustainable Vegan "How Tiny Habits Can Change Your Life"  BJ Fogg "Tiny Habits -- The Small Changes that Change Everything" Life Kit on NPR "Tiny Habits Are The Key To Behavioral Change" To learn more about Black Women in Wellness you can go to blackwomeninwellness.c...

Rev. Saundra Porter Thomas is a SynErgy Wellness Practitioner, Interfaith-Interspiritual Minister, Next Level UP! Life Coach, Intuitive Messenger, Singer/Songwriter, and StoryWeaver currently based in Costa Rica. She has 30 years of experience working with clients. In her SynErgy Wellness practice, which includes her Next Level UP! Life Coaching, she draws on knowledge of Energy Medicine, music, c...

In this mini-episode, I talk about getting vulnerable about our mental health. We are living in an unprecedented moment right now, and having support for our mental health needs is crucial. Here are some resources if you need to reach out: The National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) 24 hour helpline: 800-950-6264. Disaster Distress Helpline: 1-800-985-5990 (press 2 for Spanish), or text TalkWith...

Venecia Runningwolf is medicinal musician out of South Carolina Practicing who has been practicing in the realm of music and sound therapy for over 12 years. Some of the tools she uses to work with clients are medicinal songs, gongs, flutes, and  the Chinese Guzgeng harp. She also works with Cannabis ceremonially as a medicinal aid to deepen the processes of discovery and healing for her clie...

In this bonus mini-episode, I talk about being inspired to rest this week. Shout out to @thenapministry on IG for reminding us all to take time to rest. Go give them a follow. And make sure you're following Black Women in Wellness also @bwiw_interviews

In this episode, I sit down with the beautiful spirit that is Sufia Giza. We talk about what it was like for her as black woman going through yoga training. She also schools us about yoga's African origins and the importance of intention in our yoga practice. Find out more about Sufia at her website http://yoga4longevity.webs.com/ and get a copy of her cookbook here .

Here's an introduction to the Black Women in Wellness Interview series and a preview of what you can expect from season 1. Find us on the web: https://blackwomeninwellness.com/ Follow us on Instragram: @bwiw_interviews Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackwomeninwellness/