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PURPOSE FINDER PODCASTFrom Civil Rights Roots to Healing and Wellness: Dwania Kyles’ Story - Episode 35On today’s episode of the Purpose Finder Podcast, we’re exploring a story shaped by faith, family, creativity, and history. Our guest grew up in a home where music and art were the heartbeat of daily life; her father directing choirs, her mother dancing, her siblings singing. Creativity wasn’t a performance; it was her family’s foundation, and it would later become her place of healing.
Her name is Dwania Kyles, and long before she understood the language of healing, she lived through one of the most pivotal moments in American history. At just twelve years ol...
2025-12-111h 24
Civil WrongsHealing from racial trauma through breathingIn 1961, Dwania Kyles was among the first group of 13 Black children to integrate Memphis’ public school system. To aid in her own healing from that traumatic experience, she became a certified wellness coach. Now, she helps others find healing through deep abdominal breathing, which is known to help reduce stress, anxiety, blood pressure, and heart rate.Resources mentioned in this episode:
Dwania Kyles: Speaker, Civil Rights Advocate, Wellness Consultant, Breath Coach
Memphis 13 Foundation
2025-03-0309 min
Real Talk Memphis with Chip WashingtonDwania Kyles and Leigh MansbergEpisode Notes
My guests include a true Memphis trailblazer and barrier breaker in 1961. As she was a member of the Memphis 13, who helped open doors in education many of us take for granted. Dwania Kyles shares her story as one of the first Black students to integrate a Memphis City School. Next, Junior Achievement of the Mid South is an organization dedicated to empowering our youth. President Leigh Mansberg joins to talk about their latest project. That and more Monday, 6-7 pm, WYXR 91.7FM, WYXR app, TuneIn, Facebook Live, You Tube and wherever you get your podcasts...
2024-02-1958 min
Real Talk Memphis-with ChipS1E153 - Dwania Kyles and Leigh MansbergEpisode Notes My guests include a true Memphis trailblazer and barrier breaker in 1961. As she was a member of the Memphis 13, who helped open doors in education many of us take for granted. Dwania Kyles shares her story as one of the first Black students to integrate a Memphis City School. Next, Junior Achievement of the Mid South is an organization dedicated to empowering our youth. President Leigh Mansberg joins to talk about their latest project. That and more Monday, 6-7 pm, WYXR 91.7FM, WYXR app, TuneIn, Facebook Live, You Tube and wherever you get your podcasts!It's time to...
2024-02-1958 min
The SparkDecoding DiscriminationIn this episode of The Spark, Dr. Weiss sits down with three Bornblum Fifth Graders—Sasha, Dylan, and Ezra—to talk about their experience meeting and talking with Dwania Kyles, one of the Memphis 13 and co-founder and president of the Memphis 13 Foundation. They talk about the importance of the Civil Rights Movement, showing empathy to others not like us, what they've learned in Fifth Grade Social Studies in regards to desegregation, and what we can do to make the world a kinder place.
2024-02-1617 min
ChangeMakersDwania Kyles, Co-Founder of The Memphis 13 Foundation - Approaching Healing and Leading with LoveDuring the interview, Dwania talks about her parents, the important role her mother and women played in the Civil Rights Movement, seeing a cross burning in their yard, and how she approaches healing and leading with love to take the lessons of her past to become a spark for building community and connectedness through her efforts today with The Memphis 13 Foundation.Visit https://thememphis13.com to learn more about The Memphis 13 Foundation and http://dwaniakyles.com to learn more about Dwania Kyles. About Dwania Kyles:Dwania Kyles, Civil Rights Advocate, Wellness C...
2022-01-101h 02
simply: health coachingS3 B8 | A health plan for the holidaysJust as we might be putting on a few pounds of winter weight and sliding into the doldrums of inactivity during the cold weather, here come the holidays! This year, approach them with a plan, some strategies, and some tactics as well as a lot of joy—you really can stay healthy and fit over the winter.
resources
Purchase a Simply: Health Coaching Annual Membership—at a special price through December 31, 2021!
Breathing practices: Dr. Andrew Weil’s 4-7-8 breath and Mark Divine’s box breathing
Attend FWW's January 15 "Just Breathe" retreat with Dwania Kyles
Episode S3 B4...
2021-12-1123 min
simply: health coachingS3 E12 | Breathing correctly with coach and civil rights activist Dwania KylesWhat's even more fundamental to our health than our nutrition? How do we make self-care sustainable? How are the majority of us not breathing properly? What can we do when we wake up in the middle of the night, unable to go back to sleep? Join me and Dwania Kyles, breathwork coach and civil rights activist, as we dive into these topics and more.
bio
Dwania Kyles, aka Breathing Beauty, is a Breath Coach and Certified Wellness Consultant who, simply put, teaches people how to Breathe correctly by providing tips, tools, and activities for those...
2021-12-0751 min