Dem Black Mamas Podcast

#Dearmama it's time to tune in to your creativity with intention. It's time to liberate yourself from the false and often unattainable ideas of how your creativity is SUPPOSED to look. It's time for you to #decolonize by divesting from #grindculture, ableist productivity ideology, formulas, and comparison. It's time for you to rediscover the joy in your art. It's time for #blackmamacreativeweek an...

#DearMama When civilizations fall, art remains to tell the story.  The story we want to remain for this moment in time is our love for you.  #Juneteenth reminds us that our culture is a magnificent love story. Thank you to Shaira Lanice & Anya Doula for lending your voices.  Invest In Us! Don't just listen, subscribe Share with at least one person Follow us on any social media platform @demblackma...

#DearMama This is our offering to you.  Speak life into yourself.  Love on yourself.  Be kind, gentle and compassion with yourself.  Remember your humanity.  We have more than our blood and blood of our children to offer.  As the founder of Black Mom's Guide to Calm , Jamie Fleming works with mamas (and women) who are tired of being burned out, stressed out, and worn out and are ready to do someth...

#DearMama: Surrender.  Surrender is trusting. Surrender is knowing where you stop and a higher power begins.  Surrender is opening your arms to allow what you need to find you, hold you and nurture you.  This meditation is lead by our very own Thea Monyee and a concrete tool for rest and replenishment.  Thea is the one of the cohost of #DemBlackMamas & mother of three.  She has recently launched h...

#DearBlackPeople Birthing in a supportive chosen environment should not be othered or a privilege.  It should valued as the norm.  Whether we give birth or not we should all be connected to the experience.  We should all be fighting for Black birth persons to be empowered to articulate and unapologetically create the birth experience we want long before a positive pregnancy test.  Black maternal h...

#DearMama You are worthy of a reset.  A second chance. A shift.  This month's meditation is lead by Anya Willoughby and a concrete tool to transform a moment & realign your energy.  Anya works as a birth doula in the Greater Houston area and host of Intercultured Podcast. She worked as a nurse for over 15 years in women's health services. Anya became a Licensed Vocational Nurse while serving in th...

#DearMama especially my creatives mamas, create your thing, that book, that script, film, podcast, whatever, use social media, don't let social media use you, shoot your shot & then check your DMs because that's how we got the guest for this episode!  In this episode we speak with writer, director DeMane Davis.  DeMane is a proud product of the #AvaEffect & her receipts are long and strong.  She i...

It's #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHealingMonth and we are so excited to kick of #MeditationsByMamas lead by Black mamas who want to help us maintain in alignment with healing, creativity and liberation to manifest joy and abundance.  Our first mediation is a Full Moon/Shedding Meditation lead by Stepha LaFond.  Stepha is a motherhood transition coach who is dedicated to helping moms navigate the delic...

Dear Mama: We carry history in our wombs and we can create history in our wombs. These are words of our guest Sista Midwife Nicole Deggins .  The stats on Black maternal health are not our legacy and don't have to be our destiny. This isn't a long intro because this episode is packed and we want you to jump right into it. We go from why it's important to live the #HelloFreshFluffandFoldLife to exp...

#DearMama If you're feeling like you're in quicksand, disconnected, or running on empty, then this is the episode for you! It is a reminder to not to limit spirit, that spirit is in EVERYTHING and we must continue to dig deeper for a higher connection.  In this episode we revisit Episode 4 How I Made It Ova, recorded two years ago and evaluate our spiritual evolution since then. This is an "Empty...

Dear Mama, Take a trip with me back to when you read your first book by Terry McMillian, E. Lynn Harris or Eric Jerome Dickey and their names & their characters names rolled off our tongues like family members.  These authors wrote Blackness without explanation or apology. In these books we were allowed to love, fail, explore, and soar without the weight of being flattened by whiteness. Above all...

Dear Mama: Let all the myths of motherhood crumble at your feet.  Dig motherhood out from under the rock of sacrifice. Look at your children and be willing to be a student, be willing to receive.  See them as path makers and pathfinders. It is work. It takes presence. It takes an open heart and a willing soul. All the things white supremacy is built to beat out of us. The truth is, if we are commi...

Dear Mama: We believe EVERY BLACK MAMA matters and when we say EVERY we mean EVERY.  This episode is dedicated to the mamas giving birth in the belly of the beast of white supremacy, the US prison system, and the birth workers like our guest Doula Chauntel Norris who refuse to sit and wait for the world to change but live the words of Audre Lorde, we are ones we've been waiting for. We appreciate...

Dear Mama: Let's take a deep dive past sex tips and tricks, beyond stimulation and center pleasure.  Pleasure lasts beyond orgasms. Pleasure pours into us, inspires us and touches our deepest creativity.  We're talking nude yoga, Black porn, weekday sex and kundalini so this is what we call an #EarbudsEpisode meaning this episode contains explicit language of a sexual nature so you may wanna ask y...

EPISODE INTRO & SHOW NOTES #DearMamas Dear Village.  Thank you for loving us, sharing us and engaging with us.  Thank you to everyone who sent us questions and showed us some love.  Thank you for thinking enough of us to want to hear from us. We are so grateful you want to connect with us.  We don't want Dem Black Mamas to be a presentation or monologue. We want Dem Black Mamas to be an energy exc...

#DearMama Ask for what you want and what you need.  Believe you are worthy of help and you deserve to be free.  Believe your fave is watching your work and if you send her an email she'll say "Of course I know your podcast and I'd love to be a guest" Yes Yes Mama! our fave Black Mama Feminist Jamilah Lemieux joins us in the Mac & Cheese segment! Be sure to tag us on social media when sharing the e...

Dear Mama, Thank you for rocking with us for 20 episodes.  My, my how we've grown together.  This podcast is like our journal.  In this episode we're gonna look back at all the moments that helped us grow.  We hope you laugh, cry, exhale, learn, and heal. Love, real, free, Black Mama Magic Love, from Dem Black Mamas, Crystal, NeKisha, & Thea SHOW OUTLINE Clip 1 & 2 - Episode 2: Michelle 4C LaVaugh...

#DearMama Sometimes the armor gets heavy.  Sometimes we gotta put down our sword and shield and cry and grieve and hold each other.   There is no outline for this episode because we scrapped it.  We felt heavy and decided to show up authentic. When we hit record, we had no idea where we were going and releasing this episode and laying bare all of our vulnerability is scary as the truth often is.  ...

#DearMama In our darkest hour, when our deepest fears come to life, do we bury our head in the bloody wounded sand of America or do we heal?  We look back at our first episode, recorded immediately following the 2016 Election, and examine where we are now as opposed to where we thought we'd be and how that election transformed our lives as Black women, as Black creatives, and as Black mothers surp...

#DearMama Black women are fighting to stay alive while giving birth and Black babies are fighting to be born.  No one is coming to save us.  We are the ones we've been waiting for and there have been and continue to be brave Black women on the front lines of this fight. Our intention of this episode is to share the importance of Black birth workers and encourage Black mothers to discover the power...

Dear Mama We often dream FOR our children. What if we dreamed WITH our children? What if we discovered who they are instead of trying to determine who they should become? What if we allowed them to dance outside the box no matter how much it scared us? What if we let our children be free?  Our intention in this episode is to share how our personal journeys towards freedom impacted our parenting an...

Dear Mama: We know you got dreams. We know you wanna  start something, write something, build something, have always had a dream they haven't given birth to...This episode is for you! We want you to know it ain't over for you and we refuse to let you believe motherhood is the graveyard of dreams. Thea Monyee gives 7 concrete tips to begin that thing you've been thinking of doing but putting off.  ...

What's up Everybody! We're kicking off the month of July with an oldie but but goodie, a special REWIND episode of Dem Black Mamas.  We'll be dropping new content on the 1st and the 15th of each month. Until then check our most listened to episode Building Mama's Village.  In this episode we discuss the importance of and our different journeys in building villages, virtually and physically that ha...

Three #BlackMamaCreatives (Crystal Tennille Irby, Nekisha Killings, & Thea Monyee) give you all the #BlackMamaMagic your heart can hold as they discuss how to raise free Black children in an unfree world while pursuing their own dreams. #WomeOfColorPodcaastToo #WOCPodcasters #BlackPodcasts #PodcastsInColor #PodsInColor #DemBlackMamas #BlackJoy #BlackMotherhood #BlackWomen #BlackFamily #BlackChildr...

Three #BlackMamaCreatives (Crystal Tennille Irby, Nekisha Killings, & Thea Monyee) give you all the #BlackMamaMagic your heart can hold as they discuss how to raise free Black children in an unfree world while pursuing their own dreams. #WomeOfColorPodcaastToo #WOCPodcasters #BlackPodcasts #PodcastsInColor #PodsInColor #DemBlackMamas #BlackJoy #BlackMotherhood #BlackWomen #BlackFamily #BlackChildr...