Listen to Award-winning writer and Antiracism Consultant Verneda Adele White, MBA, share her experience living and working in Brooklyn, New York during the Covid-19 pandemic. She talks about being a creative — speaker, executive producer, writer — and how she pivoted from running in-person live events pre-pandemic to running virtual events during the pandemic on the social-media audio app — Clubhouse — which launched in April of 2020. Verneda has over 15,000 followers on Clubhouse where she hosts a weekly Club — “America’s Hot Sauce."
Listen as she shares about losing someone she knew to Covid-19 and about her ex-boyfriend losing his father to Covid-19. She talks about the trauma of losing them from afar and of not being able to visit loved ones in the hospital due to the pandemic.
She talks about witnessing an altercation on the subway between two men, because one coughed without a mask on and the other became enraged at the possibility of the maskless man spreading the virus.
She talks about why in general Black people don’t go to therapy and why she does go to therapy, because she wants to thrive as a Black American woman in a thriving Black family as the antithesis to white supremacy.
You can read Verneda’s 2x award-winning article in The Daily Beast that she wrote while sheltering-in-place due to the pandemic in 2020:
You can find Verneda on social media or purchase her merch here:
Instagram: @vernedaadele
Clubhouse: @vernedaadele
America's Hot Sauce Pop-up Store: www.americashotsauce.club
Here’s the link to the New York Times article that I reference at the end of the podcast around minute 47:00 about Long Covid (The Cruel Reality of Long Covid-19):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/22/podcasts/the-daily/covid-psychosis-mental.html
