Come to The Brink w/ Zoë Flowers 🪬

This conversation was years in the making!! I got to sit down with longtime colleague Tony Porter. Tony is an author, educator, and activist working to advance gender and racial justice and create a more equitable society. He is internationally recognized for his efforts to prevent violence against women while promoting a healthy, respectful vision of manhood and he informed so much of what I thin...

LisaLyn and I had an in depth conversation about her article: “Mockery Masquerading as Strength: America in the Throes of Metastatic Masculinity.” And what it reveals about power, governance, and the very real consequences people are living through right now. https://justsolutionsconsulting.wordpress.com

Dr. Sandra Marie and I talk about the stepse she took to disrupt the way we experience spiritual/wellness communities. DR. Sandra Maries is a nurse, clinician, and lifelong questioner who has spent years at the intersection of healthcare, spirituality, and lived human experience. Her work, Spiral Rebellion , was born from her own journey of releasing identities that no longer served her—and recogn...

Who Benefits when we don't show up for ourselves? "Black Girls make pain look lit." Zoe Flowers "Love Is A Battlefield" -Pat Benatar

Welcome to Come to the Brink . I’m Zoë Flowers. This season is called The Disruptors . These are conversations with people who refuse to accept the way things have always been — especially when those ways are harming the very people they claim to serve. Because disruption, in this space, isn’t just about calling things out. It’s about telling the truth. It’s about shifting culture. It’s about choo...

The wellness industry has become big buisness. So much of what we see in modern wellness is performative. We are in a situation where wellness practioners are operating at lower capacity and clients often feel they have to look well even if they don't feeling well. Caress Fitch believes every part of nature rests deeply, and need to do the same. She's also dedicated to having 3 belly laughs a day...

Today’s guest disrupts the boundaries between the physical and spiritual worlds, between humans and animals, between grief and connection. Kimmie Haliburda is a psychic intuitive, medium, animal communicator, and energy healing practitioner based in Knoxville, Tennessee. She offers a range of readings, including Akashic Records, and teaches classes on candle magic, animal communication, and develo...

Lindsay Braynen, The Bahama Mama Of Burlesque, is a card-reader, star-gazer, and self-described Magical Girl High Priestess. We had a wide-ranging conversation about finding the divine outside rigid systems, colonization, Obeah, Hoodoo, her view of pop culture as living myth, and, of course, Burlesque. https://androsiawilde.com https://linktr.ee/androsiawilde

Lindsay Braynen, The Bahama Mama Of Burlesque, is a card-reader, star-gazer, and self-described Magical Girl High Priestess. We had a wide-ranging conversation about finding the divine outside rigid systems, colonization, Obeah, Hoodoo, her view of pop culture as living myth, and, of course, Burlesque. https://androsiawilde.com https://linktr.ee/androsiawilde

I was very excited about our conversation. Not only because we are both survivors of childhood sexual abuse, but also because we know how important the church is for communities...especially in communities of color and especially for survivors of domestic and sexual violence. Veronica Thompson, LCSW, is a trauma therapist, a committed Christian, and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. She has de...

NPR Interview A study from the University of Arkansas suggests that college-educated, African-American women are at a greater risk of being abused by a spouse or significant other. Zoe Flowers shares her story and her reaction to the findings.

Movement and Chakra Healer Shanda is back! This time around, she is sharing her experiences with Mardi Gras. I aIso asked her to give us a reading for this Fire Horse Year, and we got answers. The ancestors came through and gave us a spiritual lashing, I mean, a lesson. lol. https://www.domangotraining.com

Welcome to Come to the Brink . I’m Zoë Flowers. This season, The Disruptors , is about people who challenge what we’ve been told to accept—about work, identity, healing, leadership, and who we’re allowed to become. Today’s guest understands disruption not as rebellion for rebellion’s sake, but as an inward reckoning that changes everything outward. I’m joined by Joyce Kyles. At the heart of Joyce...

Welcome to Come to the Brink . I’m Zoë Flowers. This season, The Disruptors centers people who have challenged the status quo—not just through ideas, but through decades of sustained, embodied work. People who stayed long enough to see what harms us, what exhausts us, and what it actually takes to heal. Today, I’m joined by Vanessa Timmons. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to liberation t...

Today’s episode is about a difficult, necessary question: How do we interrupt harm in our movements and organizations without becoming the very thing we’re trying to dismantle? Darin J. Dorsey is a facilitator, consultant, and trainer who supports organizations and coalitions in strengthening internal resilience, advancing strategy, and improving cross-movement coordination. His work focuses on he...

UGoddess is a poet and hip hop artist. By day, she is a proud paralegal. But no matter how demanding her life gets, she chooses her music, poetry, and truth-telling even when it would be easier to stop. Her work blends old-school hip-hop with her Jamaican culture, creating music that is rooted and intentional. https://www.instagram.com/ugoddess_the_poet/?hl=en https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_AS...

Today’s conversation is about dreaming as disruption. I’m honored to talk with author, independent researcher, and community connector Dr. Stephanie R. Burns. Dr. Burns is a Master Dreamer, founder, and host of Reimagine New Orleans . Reimagine New Orleans is a series of community gatherings that invite residents, artists, elders, culture-bearers, and thinkers to collectively envision the future o...

Welcome to Disrupting Distress , a bonus space inside Come to the Brink. In this episode, I'm reflecting on inherited fear. I'm also inviting you to calm your nervous system and interrupt the collective distress with me through reflection, storytelling, and breath.

Welcome to Season Two of Come to the Brink w/ Zoë Flowers... The Disruptors This season, I'm talking with folks who refused to shrink themselves to fit broken systems. We all have moments where what was no longer fits, and what’s coming hasn’t revealed itself. If life is shifting or you feel the call to imagine things differently, lock in. Season two of Come to the Brink: The Disruptors begins now...

Happy New Year!! After the sudden loss of her mother, Diandra Ford-Wing made the courageous decision to pause her thriving corporate career—choosing healing over momentum, reflection over productivity. That decision became the seed for her debut novel, Red Bird , a deeply moving exploration of loss, resilience, and becoming. Today, Diandra advocates for grief-literate workplaces —challenging organ...

My Torok and I are filming a seasonal digital installation. This is Winter

Welcome to Come to the Brink. I’m Zoë Flowers. This is the space where we gather in truth— where we talk about the grief that lingers, the moments that shape us, and the sacred pauses that bring us back to ourselves. Today’s episode is different. There are no guests. Just me. And a year I didn’t plan to have

This is a throwback episode to earlier this year, when I was invited to be part of a roundtable talk hosted by the Black Women Talking Back Podcast about the women of SINNERS. It was a spirited conversation for sure!

Welcome to Come to the Brink, the place where we tell the truth about what breaks us, what remakes us, and what it takes to keep going when life drags you to the edge. This is where we meet the parts of ourselves we’ve avoided, the parts we’ve abandoned, and the parts that are still here — waiting for us — even when we think we’re out of time, out of breath, or out of courage. Today, I’m talking a...

I sat down with my long-term colleague Aleese Moore Orbih to talk about how spirituality, art, and healing practice revolutionized my work in the gender-based violence movement.