The Deep End Friends Podcast

Nacala Ayele is a joy coach for Black, Indigenous and People of Color. You can find out more at: https://www.joyfulpractices.info/ . She is also a massage therapist and has served as a teaching artist for Young Women Empowered sharing her talents as a culinary historian and a joy pracititioner. She has traveled to Ghana, Kenya, Guatemala, Jamaica, Trinidad, and The Bahamas to gather recipes, meet...

Jackie Amatucci is a retired high-school teacher, artist, who has worked as a Creative Consultant for over twenty-five years.  She began working as an "art-barn facilitator" the year after Charlie Murphy and Peggy Taylor started the Power of Hope.  She has facilitated and mentored other adults to hold space, create and imagine in setting up Art Space for youth in Young Women Empowered, and Partner...

This episode was recorded in Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica with relocation specialist Davia Antonia. You can find her at https://lifeaholiccostarica.com/ . 

Leilani  is a shaman and leadership visionary, interpreting messages from the unseen to bring more joy, balance, and hope to our world. She is the author of "Paradox of the Water Bearer" and the host of The Intuitive Catalyst podcast.  Leilani  is a leadership expert and executive coach, supporting and guiding intuitive leaders in reconnecting with their spiritual truth in service of guiding their...

Sonora  Jha is the author of the memoir  How to Raise a Feminist Son   (2021) and the novel  Foreign   (2013). After a career as a journalist covering crime, politics, and culture in India and Singapore, she moved to the United States to earn a Ph. D. in media and public affairs.  Sonora 's OpEds, essays, and public appearances have featured in the  New York Times , on BBC, and elsewhere. She is a...

Howie  Echo-Hawk has a lot of names and does a lot of things. They are one of the human beings, as (hopefully) are you. Music, words, jokes, laughter, joy, dancing, being hot are among her many activities.  Howie  produces events and art with Indigenize Productions, makes music and art under the name "there's more," and has so many instagrams that at this point it's become a little unwieldy. After...

Mari   Shibuya  (they/she) (Duwamish / Coast Salish territory) is a Visual and Social Artist specializing in murals, community visioning through the arts, and scribing. Their work focuses on the intersection of public art activation, visual thinking and creative empowerment while inviting in the spirit of collaboration and connection. 

Shake a tambourine for Black Feminism! Sista Docta Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice. She leads retreats and has published several books. Find out more here: https://www.alexispauline.com/about

After a two year gap we are back. We've missed you. Check in on what Anastacia and Reagan have been up to during the pandemic and how we're framing our 4th and final season. 

On Sept 6, 2020 The Deep End hosted it's Season 3 Finale livestreaming through Seattle Town Hall. The theme was Black healing and we interviewed Mary Williams, Victoria Santos, Rocky Lester, and Taqueet$. Mary Williams is an anthropology student at the University of Washington who is studying coping strategies for viral Black death. She is the co-founder of Blackout Healing and co-organized the Bl...

On Sept 6, 2020 The Deep End hosted it's Season 3 Finale livestreaming through Seattle Town Hall. The theme was Black healing and we interviewed Mary Williams, Victoria Santos, Rocky Lester, and Taqueet$. Mary Williams is an anthropology student at the University of Washington who is studying coping strategies for viral Black death. She is the co-founder of Blackout Healing and co-organized the Bl...

BJ STAR (they/them) is an experience designer, facilitator, and consultant invested in transformational learning, building powerful teams, and transitioning to a life-affirming society. BJ began as a trainer with Generation Waking Up and The Work That Reconnects, and has grown several organizations that strengthen Black, POC, womxn, and youth leadership throughout the country. Today they are an in...

Originally from Ecuador, Paulina has made Seattle her home over the past 15 years and has been with DRCC/TAG for eight years. Paulina has over 25 years of experience working with issues of civil rights, social justice, equity, education, and diversity. She has and continues to demonstrate commitment and engagement in the community through the advocacy of multiple important civic policies including...

Susan Balbas is the co-founder and executive director of Na'ah Illahee Fund ( Mother Earth in the Chinook language), a Seattle-based nonprofit organization with a mission to support and promote the leadership of Indigenous womxn in the ongoing regeneration of Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Teaching. Her ca...

Brenetta Ward is a Seattle-based fiber artist and third generation quilter. Her work has been exhibited at the National Afro-American Museum; Textile Center: A National Center for Fiber Art; Ethnic Heritage Art Gallery; Tacoma Art Museum; Northwest African American Museum and Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Selected pieces have been published in Spirits of the Cloth and included in public and...

Dre Say is really beyond their ancestor's wildest dreams. They are a member of the CID [Chinatown/International District] Coalition and also a member of Got Green. Dre's primary interests are engaging people disconnected from politics and organizing, and fighting against displacement in South Seattle. Jacqueline Wu is a second-generation Chinese-Filipino American, who was born and raised in Los An...

Loretta J. Ross is a Visiting Professor of Practice in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University teaching "Reproductive Justice Theory and Practice" and "Race and Culture in the U.S." for the 2018-2019 academic year. Previously, she was a Visiting Professor at Hampshire College in Women's Studies  for the 2017-2018 academic year teaching "White Supremacy in the Age of Trump."...

Carl Livingston is the lead professor in the Political Science Department at Seattle Central College (SCC). A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, he has been an adjunct Business Law professor at Seattle Pacific University's School of Business and at South Seattle College. He was chair of the panel appointed by the Seattle City Council that reported on the inadequate preparations of the 1999 WTO Min...

Maritess Zurbano is the only Filipino-American magician in history. She performs and lectures on magic around the world. Her prose has won awards and grants including a Hedgebrook Residency. Her performances, plays, and prose details how she became a Las Vegas magician in a male-dominated field. These works have been produced in NYC theater festivals and across the country. Her books are currently...

Patricia Valentine Jones was born and raised in Chowchilla, California. She moved to Sacramento in 1960, married and had two daughters.  As a young person she sang in a 125 voice community choir.  The Voices of Inspiration traveled to Seattle to sing at the worlds fair in 1962.  Little did she know she would move to Seattle in 1982 to marry and live.  She began her work career as a Cosmetologist i...

Natasha Ria El-Scari is a writer, Cave Canem fellow, and educator for over a decade. Her poetry, academic papers, and personal essays have been published in anthologies, literary, online journals and even as decor in a restaurant in London. She has opened for and introduced many great writers, singers and activists, and has been featured at a host of universities and venues nationwide. Born and ra...

Lashanna (she/her) is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Washington's own Northwest Academy for the Healing Arts. During a massage, her goal is always a flowing conversation between her hands and your tissue. "My touch is not a pointed deep touch, yet we access deep tissues without you leaving in pain. Causing pain  is counter-intuitive to how I want to walk this life. "   Lashanna pract...

There are times when just one healing practice or modality won't achieve the balance and healing that some need. Omitosin, The Spiritual Curator, brings many gifts, spiritual tools and workshops to help her clients with their personal transformation…Her collection of healing tools is vast and she supports clients on their path with loving kindness and non judgement. Using intuitive Ifa readings, r...

writer and dj riz rollins (just ' riz ' to his friends) has been a presence in the seattle music landscape where he hosts a variety and electronica show on  90.3 fm  for almost thirty years. a stalwart in both the club and event scene, he has played alongside a diverse roster of artists that includes nirvana and james brown, die antwoord and funkadelic, amon tobin and osunlade. proficient with a p...

Tommy "Teebs" Pico is author of the books IRL , Nature Poem , Junk , Feed , and myriad keen tweets including "sittin on the cock of the gay." Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation, he now splits his time between Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He co-curates the reading series Poets with Attitude, co-hosts the podcasts Food 4 Thot and Scream, Queen! and is a contributing ed...