The Empress Addi Podcast

A short clip on my personal definitions of Voice, Sound, and Audio

Season Two of The Empress Addi Podcast opens with a powerful and unforgettable conversation featuring the legendary Carole Demesmin — artist, cultural icon, Manbo, producer, and fierce guardian of Haitian memory. In this episode, Empress Addi sits with Carole to explore Haiti beyond the surface: music as ancestral archive, Vodou as cultural inheritance, the responsibility of artists, the bridge be...

What does it really mean to claim Indigenous identity in the U.S.—and how is that different from “Foundational Black American” (FBA)? In this episode, constitutional advocate Geronimo Moimaiya joins Adlore “Empress Addi” Casseus to unpack the intersections of nationality, identity, treaties, and documentation. We go deep on maternal lineage research (to 1741 NC), treaty history (Powhatan, Miami, e...

Coach and advocate Tamera Rowls joins Empress Addi for a candid, solutions-focused conversation on navigating hostile systems, documenting retaliation, protecting your peace, and building careers that match your brilliance. We ground this talk in data, lived experience, and practical tools leaders can use to fix the “broken rung.”What you’ll hear:Receipts vs. rhetoric: why merit must be measured,...

Physician–memoirist and CMO Dr. Marie Andrine Constant joins Empress Addi to explore care that honors the whole person—clinical excellence, cultural wisdom, and spiritual safety. We talk language as a medical intervention, trauma-informed design, diaspora identity, and the systems moves that make equity real. What you’ll hear:Equity as design (not charity): levers leaders can pull nowSpiritual saf...

This is a video about “Passports, Purpose, and Play: An Honest Talk with Kenol Thomas”Kenol is a marketing professional who’s spent the past few years helping companies grow through creative campaigns and cross-team collaboration. He enjoys connecting people and ideas to make things happen. Beyond work, he founded Black MAN Travels, a platform created to inspire people to explore the world, no mat...

In this episode of The Empress Addi Podcast, I sit down with Michelle Moreno, MS, RDT, CPT—a registered drama therapist, performer, and healer based in Miami, FL. Michelle partners with the Adrienne Arsht Theater and educational institutions to bridge the gap in mental health awareness through creative arts therapies, psychoeducation, and trauma-informed practices. She is also the co-founder of Dr...

The Hidden Power of Haitian Vodou: Decolonizing Spirituality & Psychology with Dr. Charlene Désir Join Empress Addi in conversation with Dr. Charlene Désir as they explore Haitian Vodou beyond stereotypes — as a healing system, an alternative psychology, and a tool for decolonizing mind and spirit. Together, they unpack ancestral wisdom, identity, and how Vodou offers pathways to wholeness oft...

This episode wasn’t just a conversation — it was a mirror. A sacred reminder that you are not broken. You are in process. That intuition you keep ignoring? It’s sacred. That version of you before the heartbreak, the burnout, the role-playing? She still exists. And if you’re feeling lost right now, maybe you’re not lost at all. Maybe you’re unbecoming everything that was never really you.

In this premiere Kreyòl edition, my friend Juliette and I have a light-hearted conversation on dating and sex, deal breakers, and how we initially connect with someone. It's funny, it's raunchy, and real.

This episode is titled “Sacred Rage & The Soft Rebellion” because softness is not silence. And rage? When it’s rooted in truth—it is sacred. Clarifying. Transformational. This high level conversation is with the very graceful, Dr. Valencie Exceus, Licensed Acupuncturist, trauma-informed practitioner, retreat facilitator, and speaker who has served the South Florida community with grace and wis...

“What’s one sacred, soft ritual you’ve inherited or created that keeps you from going numb?” You are not here to prove anything. You are here to be. And being can be soft. Sacred. Still powerful. This is The Empress Addi Podcast. Uncensored. Unapologetic. Unshakable.

There was a time… when I didn’t know what my voice sounded like. Not the sound, but the substance . It had been muted by fear, by survival, by years of walking on eggshells in a home that was supposed to be safe but never felt like it. But voice has a way of returning. Sometimes in whispers. Sometimes in screams.

A sanctuary for soul truths, radical thought, and ancestral wisdom. The wait is over. In a world full of noise, The Empress Addi Podcast arrives as a reckoning. A homecoming. A space to remember, reclaim, and rise. I created this show for women who are tired of filters and falsehoods—who crave real conversations about identity, culture, relationships, healing, and what it means to be both soft and...

A sanctuary for soul truths, radical thought, and ancestral wisdom. The wait is over. In a world full of noise, The Empress Addi Podcast arrives as a reckoning. A homecoming. A space to remember, reclaim, and rise. I created this show for women who are tired of filters and falsehoods—who crave real conversations about identity, culture, relationships, healing, and what it means to be both soft and...