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A Friend for the Long Haul: A Long Covid PodcastCOVID-Conscious Creativity: Reflections on Art and Mind 2025 with Sista Creatives RisingWelcome back to another episode of A Friend for the Long Haul - A Long COVID Podcast! In episode 11 of Season 3, I sit down with Claire and Amaranthia from Sista Creatives Rising. We met shortly after Art and Mind 2025 so that we could recap the experience and tap in to how they were feeling after hosting the event. Held on Thursday, September 25th, Art and Mind 2025 gathered an impressive turnout and showcased a blend of artists, community care, and education. The team who helped support Claire and Amaranthia and who were featured artists includes:Sarena BrownChi WhiteBrenda Macintyre...
2025-11-2555 min
Phantom Electric GhostArt & Mind Interview with Chi: Disability, Climate Justice, and HealingIn this special episode with Sista Creatives Rising, we sit down with guest Chi (they/them), a talented artist, graphic designer, and mental healthcare worker from New York. Chi shares their journey of creating powerful infographics on the impacts of COVID and climate change, specifically as they relate to Indigenous and Palestinian displacement, illness, and disability.Discover how their art serves as a healing experience for marginalized communities. This interview highlights the mission of Sista Creatives Rising—a virtual project founded by a Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo. We champion homebound disabled, queer, and BIPOC creatives, offering free virtual ev...
2025-08-2359 min
A Friend for the Long Haul: A Long Covid PodcastArt & Mind 2025: COVID, Climate, and Our Future with Sista Creatives RisingWelcome to this bonus episode of A Friend for the Long Haul - A Long Covid Podcast! Season 3, Episode 6 features Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia, the mother/daughter duo behind Sista Creatives Rising. The mission of Sista Creatives Rising is "To help creative marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing." In this episode, we discuss:Our experiences with chronic illnesses and disabilities, and their impacts on our personal growthHow Claire navigated a cancer diagnosis during the height of a Covid surgeAmaranthia's experiences growing up in Japan and...
2025-08-161h 56
The Passionistas Project PodcastElevating Marginalized Voices in the Arts with Claire Jones and Amaranthia SepiaClaire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia are a Black, invisibly disabled mother-daughter duo who are the co-founders of the grassroots project Sista Creatives Rising. SCR's mission is to help creative, marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing. They seek to strengthen their community by increasing the visibility of these artists through virtual events such as workshops, keynotes, and their virtual film event, Art and Mind. If you're joining us here live today, please feel free to drop any comments or questions in the chat, and we'll do our best to have...
2024-05-291h 02
Selective HearingThe Art Of Breaking Generational Trauma CyclesIn this compelling episode, special guests Amarathia, Claire, and I delve into the transformative power of self-expression and art as tools for healing intergenerational trauma. Join us as we embark on a profound journey about how art helped these two harness the strength to break the inherited and un-inherited pain cycles.My guests share personal narratives illuminating intergenerational trauma's far-reaching impacts and how it can be passed down through generations. We explore how self-expression becomes a beacon of hope to confront and release the burdens of the past and inspire others to live their truth and walk...
2024-02-0658 min
Butler's BabbleButler's Babble Episode #10 - Claire Jones & Amaranthia SepiaClaire grew up in the Barbados, where she sought relief from living under domestic violence. In March 2022, she lost her mobility, enduring emergency surgery to remove a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma from her spine. After retuning to America, her daughter Amaranthia was severely bullied after spending her childhood in Japan.
*disclaimer
Original podcast was a video podcast and host and guests might refer to images on the screen. To see the visual, you can go to see the video version of the podcast at https://youtube.com/@butlersbabble
2024-01-311h 22
Living on the B SideEmpowering Marginalized Artists Through Healing and Visibility, chat with Sista Creatives RisingIn this episode of Living on the B Side, I shine a spotlight on a remarkable grassroots project making waves in the world of art and creativity: Sista Creatives Rising. Join us as we explore their mission to empower marginalized women and gender-diverse individuals, offering them a platform for personal healing and artistic visibility.
Sista Creatives Rising is a force for change, breaking down barriers that historically marginalized individuals in the arts have. I sit down with the dynamic leaders, Amaranthia Sepia and Claire Jones, behind this movement to discuss the transformative power of...
2023-10-0946 min
CancerTalks PodcastCancer's Gift: A Mother and Daughter's Bond with Claire Jones & Amaranthia SepiaOur guests this week are Claire Jones and Amaranthia Sepia. Not only are Claire and Amaranthia mother and daughter, they are also sisters and soulmates. The episode follows the story of their life together, supporting each other through disability. Claire and Amaranthia’s most recent project is called Sista Creatives Rising, a platform for events including their upcoming series "Art & Mind," which showcases creative folk who are underrepresented women and marginalized genders. Claire & Amaranthia’s Resource List: "The world is what you make it" | Sadhguru | MotivationArk Audio book: Seat of the Soul...
2023-09-011h 10
We Can Make a DifferenceEpisode 1: Supporting marginalized women and marginalized genders through art with Claire and Amaranthia SepiaIn this episode, I interview mother and daughter duo, Claire and Amaranthia Sepia. Claire and Amaranthia are the founders of Sista Creatives Rising, an organization devoted to promoting accessibility and visibility of marginalized women and marginalized genders in the arts. We discuss the unique challenges they faced as black women with disabilities in getting their initiative up and running. They also share how art can be used as a form of self-advocacy and expression of the challenges marginalized groups face. Finally, Claire and Amaranthia share their advice for Gen-Zers on how they can make a difference by pursuing their pa...
2023-07-0339 min
Lighten Your Load Podcast with Melissa MillerSeason 3 Episode 2: The Power of Inclusivity: Building Accessible Spaces for Immunocompromised Individuals with Claire & Armanathia Sepia
Attention caregivers of immunocompromised individuals! Have you heard these myths about creating accessibility in healthcare and the arts?
Myth #1: Immunocompromised individuals don't need as much accessibility as others.
Myth #2: It's too expensive to create accessibility for immunocompromised individuals.
Myth #3: It's impossible to make healthcare and the arts fully accessible for immunocompromised individuals. Don't believe these myths!
Meet Claire and Armanathia Sepia, two dynamic artists, and advocates dedicated to making healthcare and the arts more accessible for immunocompromised individuals. Through their work with Sister Creatives, they create su...
2023-06-2044 min
The Truth About BurnoutCanvas of Courage: Unveiling the Power of Art in Overcoming Adversity with Claire and AmaranthiaClaire and Amaranthia are a creative disabled Black mother-daughter duo who develop virtual disability-accessible art shows for BIPOC and LGBT women. Their mission is to help marginalized women and femme creatives gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing. The duo is known in their community for their relatively new charitable virtual art event, "Art & Mind." "Art & Mind" collaborates with Brain Arts Org, a non-profit in Boston which supports marginalized artists and creatives. Through documentaries, "Art & Mind" showcases activist artists that utilize various mediums to discuss the importance of art as a healing tool.
2023-06-1232 min
Multispective025 PTSD & Agoraphobia Caused by Bullying and Racism [Part 2]This episode is part two of a two-part series, where we interview Amaranthia, who shares with us the years of bullying she faced as a minority of color in a predominately white neighborhood. She reveals the deep impact it had on her mental and even physical health during her teenage years, leading to agoraphobia and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and how she utilizes art as therapy. To view and support her business, visit https://www.sistacreativesrising.comSend us a text Support the showAdditionally, you can now also watch the f...
2023-06-051h 01
True To YouThe women behind Sista Creatives RisingI am so excited to share today's episode with you all! I am speaking with Claire and Amaranthia of Sista Creatives Rising.
Sista Creatives Rising was created to help marginalized women and marginalized genders gain accessibility and visibility in the arts to facilitate personal healing.
To learn more go to:
Website: SistaCreativesRising.com
Instagram: @SistaCreativesRising
LinkedIn: Sista Creatives Rising
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2023-05-1743 min
Lighten Your Load Podcast with Melissa MillerSeason 2 Episode 1: "Finding Balance In Your Identity Beyond Motherhood: Jenna Hodge Shares Her Journey"Rediscovering your identity and reconnecting with yourself is essential to being the best mom, wife, and caregiver you can be.
"It can't be all about your kids."-Jenna Hodge
"We can't fill from an empty cup. We really can't. And if we don't have a full cup, we can't nurture our marriage, take care of our children, serve our clients, and produce helpful resources. It is very important that you put yourself first."-Melissa Miller
Jennana Hodge is a busy mom of three and passionate about helping other moms reconnect with themselves. She...
2023-01-3050 min
Lighten Your Load Podcast with Melissa Miller“Sometimes It Hurts to Mom with Lauren Rose"It's not fun, and sometimes it literally hurts to be a mom, but there is no shame in that. Do whatever you need to do and prioritize yourself - you can't fill an empty cup."
Lauren Rose is a busy wife, mother, and entrepreneur.
She began dealing with chronic illness began back when she was just eight years old dealing with depression and anxiety and well into her teens, 20s, and 30s have been diagnosed with a number of health issues: tension headaches, migraines, neurology headaches TMJ disorder autoimmune disease arthropathy inflammatory arthritis, spinal degeneration....
2023-01-2344 min
Lighten Your Load Podcast with Melissa Miller"Motherhood Identity Crisis: Heidy De La Cruz's 3 Tips for Reconnecting"In this bonus podcast episode, Heidy De La Cruz confronts the challenge of redefining her identity as a daughter of Christ, wife, mother, and online entrepreneur, and offers her insight on how to intentionally nurture relationships and practice self-care for lasting success.
"You are more than just being a mom, online entrepreneur, your identity as being a certain crafter. You are so much more than what any label or stigma society could ever place on you. You are a daughter of Christ, first and foremost, and have been given this one life, this one body."
Hei...
2023-01-2030 min
Lighten Your Load Podcast with Melissa Miller"Talking about the Impact of Generational Trauma on Your Health" with Claire & AmaranthiaIn this episode of the Caregiver Coffee Chat Podcast, I sit down with Claire and Amaranthia, are mother-daughter co-founders of sistacreativesrising.com which is their business for helping marginalized Black Women heal from their experiences of childhood and domestic abuse or bullying through art.
Claire's Story:
In one week in March 2022, days after launching Sista Creatives Rising with her daughter Amaranthia, Claire lost her mobility by the hour. Enduring emergency surgery to remove a diffuse large B-cell lymphoma from her spine, she let go of all delusions and illusions about her health. Claire is now within the 1% category to walk...
2023-01-161h 33
A Gift from AdversityA Gift from Adversity ~ Claire and Amaranthia~Ep.94A Gift from Adversity ~ Claire and Amaranthia~Ep.94
Interviewed by Juri Love
Claire and Amaranthia shared their adversities during this episode.
Claire is a domestic violence and cancer survivor who continues to fight for herself and other people.
Amaranthia went through extreme bullying since the age of 6 and suffered from PTSD and illness.
Mother and daughter shared their own stories and shared their wisdom, tools that they use to overcome adversities, and a gift that came from it.
Follo...
2023-01-1057 min
G00n PodWIBU: Black Voices MatterI suppose this is the first installation of Why Is B Upset (WIBU). The rant that floated into my mind relates to Black Lives Matter. In a general sense, the steam, hype, trend of BLM has fizzled down a bit. It is still very active, and even if it wasn't, that does not mean we should stop our growth, nor should we slow our pursuit of justice. Stay mindful of the small habits and behaviors that you make adjustments to in your day to day life. Unlearn a common generalization, saying, assumption, stereotype. Learn the history, background, and hidden...
2020-08-2414 min
The Hidden AlmanacThe Hidden Almanac for 2015-02-11Today we remember the arrival of the Sphinx. It is also the birthday of Constabulus. It is the Feast Day of St. Amaranthia, and in the garden, the irises are gone.
Be Safe, and Stay Out of Trouble.
2015-02-1100 min
The Hidden AlmanacThe Hidden Almanac for 2015-02-11Today we remember the arrival of the Sphinx. It is also the birthday of Constabulus. It is the Feast Day of St. Amaranthia, and in the garden, the irises are gone. Be Safe, and Stay Out of Trouble.
2015-02-1100 min