The DDQ Podcast: Where conversation meets examination, and sparks transformation!

**Before listening to this episode, you may want to listen to Episode 18: Holding Space - Honoring, Loss, Longing, and all Forms of Mothering** Mother's Day Special - revisiting the 2025 Mother-Daughter Series.

Hey QueenSiS, before we step into our next season of the Dayclean Devotion Queen Podcast, I want us to take a moment and look back. Because what we experienced together during our Conversion Conversations season… wasn’t just a series of interviews. It was a remarkable, beautiful pattern being revealed. We heard from dynamic women at different stages in their life journeys, who left, learned, and r...

Dr. Keonda Grant-Taylor is an intergenerational financial trauma advocate dedicated to helping Gullah Geechee communities and people of color heal their relationship with money, power, and legacy. With over 25 years of experience in finance and accounting, dual bachelor’s degrees in finance, an MBA, and a doctorate in organizational leadership, she blends technical expertise with trauma-informed f...

Sea Islands Heritage Academy Founder & Executive Director, Alana finds her heritage in Gullah culture. The proverb "mus tek cyear a de root fa heal de tree,” roughly translates to “you must take care of the root in order to heal the tree.” As an experienced educator, Alana knows that students’ “roots” must be firmly planted in order for them to exercise agency and access the opportunities avai...

In this deeply thoughtful and powerful conversation, I sit down with Attorney Ajua Hawkins — private attorney, public defender, educator, and truth-teller — to explore what it means to live and practice law with integration, integrity, and courage. We talk about leaving home and returning transformed, about navigating multiple legal spaces, and about who the law is truly meant to serve. Ajua refle...

The theme for our first season of 2026 is Conversion Conversations. Not conversion like somebody trying to recruit you to a new religion QueenSiS! But conversion like a soul changing directions. This season is for the women who left old versions of themselves and walked straight into who they are meant to be for such a time as this. Today’s featured guest is an amazing change agent in the field –...

This episode is the opening in our first series for 2026: Conversion Conversations. Not conversion like somebody trying to recruit you to a new religion QueenSiS! But conversion like a soul changing directions. Like womanifesting a way of burnout, when the spirit finally says, “this part of life no longer fits me.” This season is for the women who left old versions of themselves and walked straigh...

We catch up with one of our favs in this episode about celebrating the season! Get connected with Donellia Chives and her boutique NGOME Lifestyle at the links below.   / donelliachives   https://ngomelifestyle.com/

In this episode, I want to celebrate Giving Tuesday by highlighting some of my favorite community-centered, culture-rooted, and purpose-driven nonprofit organizations. These groups are doing transformative work, from empowering young women, to preserving the Gullah Geechee story, to protecting our land, our farmers, and our future: Empower Her 2 Be — Beaufort, SC: https://www.empowerher2b.org/ Emp...

We are catching up with Kersha Burton - a woman whose story and spirit embody so much of what Dayclean Devotion Queen stands for! Find her products and more details at:  https://www.kershastouch.com/shop

Welcome back to The Dayclean Devotion Queen Podcast — where we celebrate creativity, culture, and conscious living. Today, I’m starting something for the holiday season — The DDQ’s Favorite Things List! These are craftswomen and artisans whose products I’ve personally experienced and absolutely adore. They represent healing and heritage, legacy and generational wealth building: Skin Care & Sel...

Happy Ancestors Day QueenSiS! We had the pleasure of visiting with Kathryn Thompson in her beautiful Reiki Room to discuss energy and spirits and healing. You can purchase some of Kathryn's candles at this link: https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheUCLife?dd_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Check out the full episode for this week on Ancestor Day!

Now, I know some of y’all are like, “Najmah, how is using a dayplanner a celebration?” Butstick with me okay? Because I’ve learned the hard way that planning is not just a work task or management strategy – planning is an act of self-love. It’s a way of honoring your time, your peace, and your purpose. Listen for more details!

In this episode, I’m reflecting on two incredible women in my family who shaped me, inspired me, and continue to guide me in ways I’m still discovering. I share that my Aunt Josephine had a podcast before podcasts were cool - here is a link to the channel she started in 2014 at youtube.com/@josieb4460 ( “Enjoy and Love Your Life’s Journey").

Hermina Glass-Hill is a writer, historian, preservationist and sustainability advocate who has worked for more than two decades on environmental justice and human rights.  She is the founder and executive director of the Susie King Taylor Women’s Institute & Ecology Center in Midway, Georgia, having moved there in 2018 from Atlanta to anchor its work in Susie King Taylor’s birthplace. She earn...

Hey QueenSiS, its Najmah, your Dayclean Devotion Queen, welcoming you back to autumn and back to the DDQ Podcast. We’ve just about wrapped up powerful third season, all centered on Creativity and today, I want to take a little time to reflect on the wisdom our guests have shared, and the practices that I personally have carried with me. This season was all about creation, not the hustle kind, but...

Richmond, VA office for The Bair Foundation. She has been employed with numerous companies but when she sawthe opportunity with this organization, she knew that this is where God wanted and needed her to be. She has been with The Bair Foundation for a year and a half and is working to bring more awareness to fostering. Learn more about her work at ⁠https://www.bair.org/services/family-services/

In this solo session, I recap my "day away from adulting" at Disney World!

Basu Blaksis Nefertem aka Eboni Holmes was born in Boston, Ma and moved to Atlanta in 1998. Always an avid reader, and writer she began writing with the intent to perform, after a friend took her to Yin Yang Cafe, more recently known as Apache Cafe. Blaksis is an active member of her community and works and writes to free the minds of African people throughout the Diaspora. She has shared the stag...

Clarenda "Farmer Cee" Stanley is a visionary entrepreneur, farmer, herbalist, and advocate for ethical business and sustainable living. Known affectionately as "Farmer Cee," she is the founding CEO of Green Heffa Farms, a wellness brand and herb farm that celebrates the power of nature to heal and nourish. Raised on her maternal grandparents' farm, with an awarded professional background in market...

Moment of transparency: I almost didn't get to post this episode...I'm feeling tapped-out-tyyyed QueenSiS! But I'm also giving thanks for the time and space to share a few of my creativity course-correction steps for this season. Drop your thoughts on our Daily DDQ Blog, IG or Substack page - let me know what you do to keep the creative energies flowing!

Kathryn Thompson is the Development Director for the Partnership for Housing Affordability in Richmond, VA.  She has a BS degree in Public Relations from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is passionate about bringing creative and cultural arts opportunities to low-income youth.  She wrote her first film screenplay in Summer 2020, The Return To Me.  The short film was a feature in the Afrikana...

We took a hiatus from the DDQ Podcast for a summer of romance & rest! After some much needed time to reflect, reset, revised approach…now it is time to relaunch! Listen for Q3 Season themes, and be sure to connect with the #DDQmmunity on these platforms: The Daily DDQ – our blog with quick reflections on the day’s meditation theme – go to mydayclean.com click on The Daily DDQ to read and comme...