The Be Well Beautiful People Podcast

Be Well Beautiful People podcast, the show that inspires you to live your best joy filled life by centering healing and liberation above all. This episode features Amanda Sweet, The Creative Fairy Godmother, who is a global speaker, community leader, and event activist dedicated to helping people make friends, get fly, and save the world through community. She is also the founder of The ReVamp, a...

Be Well Beautiful People podcast, the show that inspires you to live your best joy filled life by centering healing and liberation above all. This episode features Kevin McNeil, speaker, author, survivor, and founder of The Twe12ve Project, Inc. , who spent 20 years in law enforcement, including 12 in the Special Victims Unit. Kevin reflects on how witnessing trauma in others helped him confront h...

In this episode, Demarra West speaks with Dr. Mays Imad, neuroscientist, educator, and founder of the Trauma-Informed Growth Institute. They discuss how the nervous system responds to adversity, heals through connection, and why co-regulation is key to collective healing and liberation. Together, they explore sanctuary as a way of being, the role of relationships in repair, and how healing begins...

Be Well Beautiful People podcast, the show that inspires you to live your best joy filled life by centering healing and liberation above all. In this episode, Demarra West is joined by Reggie Hubbard , a stroke survivor, an internationally recognized yoga and meditation teacher, political strategist, and founder of Active Peace Yoga LLC . This conversation sheds light on what happens when life bre...

Be Well Beautiful People podcast, the show that inspires you to live your best joy filled life by centering healing and liberation above all.  In this powerful super extended episode, Demarra West is joined by Carol Adams, a survivor, retired officer, and advocate who has spent decades transforming the system from the inside out. Carol shares her deeply personal story of loss and resilience, and h...

This Father’s Day, Be Well Beautiful People presents a moving conversation about what it really means to be strong from the inside out. In this special episode, host Demarra West sits down with Coach Greg Wallace, veteran fitness educator and founder of IATO Fitness, whose faith-centered approach invites us to see our bodies not as something to fix but as something sacred and worth caring for. Coa...

Be Well Beautiful People podcast, the show that inspires you to live your best joy filled life by centering healing and liberation above all.  For this special Black History Month episode, Demarra West sits down with Kukuwa , aka Mama Kuks,—an African dance icon, global wellness leader, and cultural ambassador—to explore the power of movement as a tool for healing, liberation, and cultural connect...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights nine inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In our final episode of the  Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact  series, Demarra West sits down with  James “Screal” Eberheart Jr.  As the founder of  Motivating Inner New Dreams  Screal has...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights nine inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode, Demarra West has a heartfelt conversation with Katrina Stewart, author of Through Trauma to Grace, as she shares her incredible journey through generational trauma, abuse, and al...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights nine inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode, Demarra West chats with brilliant  Keesha V. Johnson MDes. , an award-winning human-centered-systems designer. Keesha is dedicated to advancing equity in Michigan’s food systems...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights nine inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. The s eries continues with our host Demarra West's powerful conversation featuring Kwaku Osei, Executive Director of The LOVE Building. In this conversation, he shares the personal challenges tha...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights nine inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode, Demarra West sits down for an inspiring conversation with Cyekeia Lee , Executive Director of the Detroit College Access Network (DCAN) which provides college access support for...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights 9 inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode, host Demarra West sits down with Raphael Wright, a serial entrepreneur, author, and changemaker from Detroit. Raphael is the founder of Urban Plug L3C, a social investment company t...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights 9 inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode, host Demarra West sits down with Audra Carson, environmentalist, CEO of Izzie Global, and trailblazer in Environmental Justice. Since founding De-tread in 2009 to combat tire waste...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights 9 inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this episode of the Be Well Beautiful People podcast, host Demarra West sits down with Dr. Yusef Bunchy Shakur, an author, educator, founder, and neighborhood organizer, whose extraordinary journ...

The Alchemizing Trauma for Community Impact series highlights 9 inspiring stories of Detroit leaders who have transformed individual and community trauma into transformative work in Detroit and beyond. In this powerful episode, host Demarra West is joined by Bryce Detroit , a multimodal Afrofuturist artist, activist, griot, pioneer of Entertainment Justice and an award-winning music producer and c...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...

Welcome to the Trauma & Healing podcast series hosted by and inspired by our host Demarra West and her debut book Me Too: A Therapist’s Journey to Heal, Find Liberation, & Joy. This 12-episode series helps individuals understand the universal nature of trauma and its pervasive impacts, and a pathway towards healing and liberation for us all. The book and this series delves into Demarra’s r...