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The Blind ChickDancing Beyond Limits with Brandy Mimms AKA Unique The Deaf Dancer1) Episode Summary In this episode of The Blind Chick, Penn Street and Moses Street welcome Brandy Mimms AKA: Unique The Deaf Dancer for a powerful conversation about identity, resilience, art, and refusing to let other people’s limitations define your future. Brandy shares her story of being adopted, growing up hard of hearing, losing her parents at a young age, surviving Hurricane Katrina, and eventually building a life in Arkansas rooted in dance, advocacy, and creativity. What makes this conversation land is Brandy’s honesty. She talks about the pain of being underestimated, the long road o...
2026-04-2358 min
Women Gather ARBe Your Own Valentine - Loving Yourself FirstValentine’s Day just a few days away and many of us have already made elaborate plans on how we will focus on showing love to others. Today, we want to take some time to talk about Self-Love. For those who aren’t familiar with the term self-love, it is the loving, healthy relationship you cultivate with yourself. It’s about how you speak to yourself and the caring actions you take towards yourself. Join Amy, Adora and Calli for a heart felt conversation with licensed psychotherapist and a thought life coach, Cameisha Brewer Dickerson, Ed.S, LPC and guests...
2021-02-101h 00
Sustaining CraftEpisode 23: Brandy Mimms: Listening with Your EyesGrowing up in the hearing world, Brandy Mimms didn’t realize for years that there was an entire other community she could participate in. “I grew up mostly in the hearing world,” Brandy explained. “So we have the deaf world and we have the hearing world. I grew up in the hearing world because my family wanted me to be hearing so badly. I appreciate them, thank you, but they never really exposed me to the deaf world as a kid.”
Still, she followed her interests, which included music. To listen, she simply has to feel it. “I have to fe...
2020-02-1359 min