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Resilient Black WomenRBW Season 5: ELECTION SEASON & MENTAL HEALTHSPECIAL EPISODE FOR THE CULTURE: In this episode you hear Joi McGowan talking with special guests Dr. Silena Scott and Dr. Jordan Harris all things ELECTION! As we know this year is election year, tensions are high and yet this election is so monumental to have a Black woman running for president. We hope you can grab some tangible skills for how to manage emotions regarding the election. We also hope you can celebrate with us that a Black woman is running for president!Dr. Silena is the executive director of Hearts for Healing Therapeutic Services in NWA. A member...2024-10-1132 min
The R WordSeason 3 Episode 7: Joi McGowan & Monique JonesIn this episode, Dustin and Lowell interview Joi McGowan and Monique Jones. Joi is the co-founder of Resilient Black Women and the co-host of the Resilient Black Women podcast. Monique is the director of the Squire Jehagen Center. Learn more about The R Word podcast, The R Word events, and The Zacchaeus Foundation at thezacchaeusfoundation.org.2024-07-261h 00
The BeLOVEd CommunityThe BeLOVEd Community Podcast: Season 2, Episode 4: “Joi For The Journey”In this episode we speak to Joi McGowan, from Amani Counseling about mental health. What it takes to be resilient in our mental health. Good mental health practices for minority communities and her journey to bring help, health and joy to Black and Brown people.2024-07-2554 min
District 3 PodcastEpisode #250: Resilient Black Women with Joi McGowan LPCOn this episode we sat down with licensed therapist Joi McGowan and talk mental health. Joi is also the creator of the Resilient Black Women podcast . The RBW Podcast seeks to reimagine mental health access for communities of color are committed to redefining what it means to have courage, resilience and a healthy sense of self. We loved this beautiful conversation of a topic that sometimes gets too stigmatized. Especially in communities of color. 2024-06-2054 min
Resilient Black WomenResilient Black Women: A Meditation for the End of the YearFor the final episode of 2022, Joi leads us in a quick end of the year meditation moment with co-founder and co-host, Deneshia, and few other guests. We hope this meditation moment allows you to reflect, let go, and breathe. This year is almost over. You have done enough. Now just take a moment to breathe…Meet Joi McGowan, LPC, co-founder/co-host of Resilient Black Women nonprofit and podcast! She has been a therapist for the last 8 years. She believes that meditation is a time for breath to take up ALL THE SPACE. There’s no room for criticism. Just compassion.Meet...2022-12-3118 min
UndisciplinedBlack Mental HealthBlack enslaved women were the center of the profit world in America; they not only produced capital with their free labor in the fields, but they reproduced more capital and more workers. In a post-slavery society, they have had to hold space for white men, white women, and Black men—often at their own expense. Joi McGowan is one of the founders of Resilient Black Women and she joins us to talk about mental health and the uphill battle for Black Women to get the care they deserve and need. Host: Caree Banton Producer and Cohost: Matthew MooreGuest: Joi McGowanUndisciplined is...2022-08-2444 min
Resilient Black WomenEpisode 6: Black Men Supporting Black WomenIn our final episode of the first season, Joi and Deneshia welcome back Dustin McGowan to discuss Black men supporting Black women, what are the obstacles in the way of this support and how we can move forward celebrating and supporting all women, but especially Black, Indigenous and women of color.2022-06-2442 min
Resilient Black WomenResilient Black Women: JuneteenthFor our fifth episode, Joi and Deneshia welcome Joi's husband, Dustin, to the podcast to discuss the origin and history of Juneteenth. A celebration of freedom, Juneteenth also has elements of sorrow, as it commemorates the freeing of enslaved African-Americans in Galveston, Texas, two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in the rest of the country. Plus, Joi and Deneshia honor the dozens of Black men and women who have perished at the hands of or in custody of police officers. Hosts: Joi McGowan and Deneshia Simpson, PLCsProducer: Leigh Wood2022-06-1042 min
Resilient Black WomenResilient Black Women: Black JoyIn the third episode, Joi and Deneshia discuss Black joy: how vulnerability is key to experiencing it, but is also a barrier to allowing yourself to feel it; how belonging and acceptance are keys to experiencing joy for everyone; what research shows about joy and suicidal thoughts; and how Black joy is necessary today with so many images and instances of Black death and trauma prevalent in our culture. And finally, how Black joy is communal and liberating. Hosts: Joi McGowan and Deneshia Simpson, LPCsProducer: Leigh WoodTheme music composed by: Jasper Logan2022-05-1329 min
Resilient Black WomenResilient Black Women: GriefJoi McGowan and Deneshia Simpson, LPCs, explore grief: how it effects the body, how it particularly effects African Americans and communities of color, and what you can do to down-regulate when you're feeling overwhelmed by it.2022-04-1427 min
Bad SeminariansThe Therapy Episode: Stigma, Faith, and Whole HealthThis week we are joined by Joi McGowan, a licensed and practicing therapist, to discuss the stigma of mental health and how we can pursue whole mental health.Resources mentionedtherapyforblackgirls.compsychologytoday.comFind and Follow Usbadseminarians.comIG: @BadSeminariansTwitter: @BSeminariansJanay's IG+Twitter: @janaywithawhyChristian's IG+Twitter: @thecw1990Joi's IG: @joi_est882021-02-1038 min
Decoder with Nilay PatelRecode Decode: Ronan FarrowPulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow talks with Recode’s Kara Swisher about his new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which details the extreme lengths men like Harvey Weinstein have gone to escape accountability for sexual abuse. He discusses why other journalists before him couldn’t nail the Weinstein story, and how the powerful Hollywood producer tapped into a network of shady allies in his attempt to suppress it — including some of Farrow's former bosses at NBC News. He also talks about how the public and the press mistreated women like Rose McGowan, his rece...2019-10-211h 02