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Sex With Ashley
The Black Girl's Guide To Menopause
In this episode, Ashley Cobb and Omisade Burney-Scott discuss the often-taboo topic of menopause, particularly from the perspective of Black women. They explore the importance of open conversations about menstrual health, the symptoms and experiences of perimenopause, and the impact of societal narratives on women's identities as they transition through menopause. The discussion also touches on the complexities of sexuality during menopause, challenging common myths and emphasizing the potential for positive sexual experiences during this life stage. In this conversation, Omisade Burney-Scott and Ashley Cobb explore the multifaceted experience of menopause, discussing its impact on sexuality, self-discovery, and health...
2025-04-28
36 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season of Orisii: The Burney Girls
Welcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individuals and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have...
2024-11-14
00 min
Pleasure In The Pause: Smart, Sexy Midlife Conversations about Menopause, Hormones & Female Pleasure
29 | The Power of Storytelling to Transform Your Menopause Experience with Omisade Burney Scott
Do you see menopause as a beginning? Or as an ending? Can you see it as a dynamic transformation from one version of yourself to another? My guest today, Omisade Burney-Scott, believes menopause is more than a physical experience and every person has a unique story to tell. This week, episode 29 of Pleasure in the Pause is about embracing menopause as a transformative journey! In this episode of Pleasure in the Pause, Omisade Burney-Scott shares the importance of centering stories from the margins to elevate voices that have been historically invisible. and actionable steps you can take r...
2024-10-16
1h 06
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season of Orisii: Jasiatic Anderson Usher and Elsworth Usher
Welcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our l...
2024-09-27
1h 09
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season of Orisii: The Sisters Brown, adrienne and Autumn
Welcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our l...
2024-08-01
1h 13
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season of Orisii: Michelle Graham Freeman & Sterling Freeman
Welcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers, and siblings offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individuals and as Orisii. We, as people capable of menstruation, understand that each experience is unique and impacts both ourselves and the connections we have with our love...
2024-05-23
56 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season of Orisii : gina Breedlove & Ash-lee Woodard Henderson
Welcome to our 6th iteration of the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause podcast: the Season of Orisii. Building on our international diasporic tour from last year, this season's theme is Orisii, or 'pairs' in the Afric language of Yoruba. We've invited different types of pairs to explore the through-line between menarche and menopause. You will hear parent/child, partner/lovers and siblings to offer their reflections and observations about this journey as individual and as orisii. We as people capable of menstruation understand that each experience is unique and impacts both our selves and connections we have to...
2024-03-20
59 min
Holly Cotton Conversations
Surviving Menopause: Black Women's Experience
In this episode, host Holly Cotton and Omisade Burney-Scott talk all things “woman”. In this episode not only do they talk about Omnisade’s specialty of women over 50, but also dive into defining sexy over 50, how they also focus on LBGTQ communities, empowerment, common questions about menopause, and of course laughs! Omisade is the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. Omisade is a sought after, nationally recognized speaker whose energy and auth...
2024-03-14
1h 00
Embodied
Menstruated: What Our Period Blood Tells Us
In the 34 years that guest host Omisade Burney-Scott was a menstruating person, she always felt that blood held more significance than just the biological. She meets an OB/GYN who shares little-known facts about period blood, and talks with two menstrual health advocates about how art and community have connected them to their cycles. Plus, an attorney discusses what she's paying attention to this year in terms of period policy.Meet the Guests:- Dr. Charis Chambers, who is known as "The Period Doctor," talks about how period blood can inform menstruators about other things...
2024-02-02
31 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
BGG2SM Hits the Road Final Episode: Toronto and Puerto Rico!
During 2023, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause continued to bushwack a maroon path for those menopause stories left at the margins by launching a diasporic tour that took our team to the UK, Harlem, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. Our intergenerational team has learned to hold the “both/and” dynamic tension of curating storytelling spaces more deeply. We are infinitely grateful for the lessons we have learned from our travels together, community conversations, and partnerships that include: What it means to make offerings in communities where we do not reside What...
2023-12-31
43 min
Practice You with Elena Brower
Omisade Burney-Scott
On holding space for the realities of menopause, normalizing the multiple truths of aging, prioritizing the power of shared intergenerational story to end the negative ways in which we relate to our bodies. Omisade Burney-Scott (Oh-me-SHAH-day, she/her) is a seventh generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller and social justice advocate. She is also the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause (BGG2SM), a multimedia project focused on normalizing menopause and aging through the centering of the stories of Black women, women-identified and gender expansive people. BGG2SM curat...
2023-10-14
40 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
BGG2SM Hits the Road: The Harlem, NY Episode!
Happy World Menopause Month! This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause has been deepening our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We are also co-hosting intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba). The peer learning and the Orisii dinner are being offered in partnership with community-based women-led organizations. We identified each of these locations because of their strong Black diasporic communities. We have local partners on the ground...
2023-10-09
19 min
Spiritually Fly Podcast with Faith Hunter
14. Thriving and Glowing through Menopause with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this episode, Faith Hunter connects with Omisade Burney-Scott . Omisade (she / her) is a Black southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer with decades of experience in nonprofit leadership, philanthrophy, and social justice. She is a founding tribe member of SpiritHouse and previously served as a board member of The Beautiful Project, Village of Wisdom, and Working Films. Omisade is the creator of The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project seeking to curate and share the stories and realities of Black women and femmes over 50. She is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill, th...
2023-08-16
1h 08
Hysterical
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause with Omisade Burney-Scott
Omisade Burney-Scott is the visionary creator behind the sensational "Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause."This multimedia project is an exquisite tapestry woven with the authentic experiences, stories, and realities of non-binary, Black women, and femmes over 50, exploring the delicate threads of aging, intimacy, body, spirituality, and transformation through the captivating medium of audio storytelling.Omisade's work has taken the world by storm! With sold-out events gracing the vibrant cities of Washington, DC, and Durham, NC, and an unforgettable international conference in Kenya, her impact knows no boundaries. Her sensational project has garnered over 5K...
2023-08-13
1h 07
The Hotflash inc podcast
86. SOLO episode: 'I belong in this room'
Send us a textBIG NEWS: Hotflash inc is the #1 Women's Health Podcast on Goodpods, and in the top 1.5 percent of podcasts according to Listen Notes. Thanks so much for making that happen! In today's episode, I talk about traveling to New York for my first big event on behalf of Hotflash inc. And how I finally realized that I belong in the room. The broad themes are connection, confidence and purpose.But...
2023-08-04
30 min
Therapy for Black Girls
Session 318: Demystifying Menopause, Part I
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Simply uttering the word “menopause” can result in feelings of dread for anyone born with a pair of ovaries. Hot flashes, sleepless nights, and painful sex are some of the many transitions that we associate with getting older and experiencing menopause. But menopause doesn’t have to be the secretive, painful experience that so man...
2023-08-02
38 min
The Mindset Shift With Jezelle's podcast
Session 318: Demystifying Menopause, Part I
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. Simply uttering the word “menopause” can result in feelings of dread for anyone born with a pair of ovaries. Hot flashes, sleepless nights, and painful sex are some of the many transitions that we associate with getting older and experiencing menopause. But menopause doesn’t have to be the secretive, painful experience that so many of us wer...
2023-08-02
38 min
Parenting for Liberation
Episode 70: Intentioned: Parenting Ourselves and Our Kids (From Embodied Podcast)
On this episode, Trina is an invited guest on the Embodied podcast to discuss Gentle Parenting along with content creator Destiny Bennett and guest host Omisade Burney-Scott. Listen as Trina outlines her parenting evolution and breaks down how she creates consequences without using punishment. Resources: www.wunc.org/podcast/embodied-podcast/2023-06-23/intentioned-parenting-ourselves-and-our-kids-parent-child-gentle-conscious-intentional-generational-trauma
2023-07-27
27 min
The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation
Menopause: Let's Talk About It with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this episode, we invite you to join us in ending the taboo surrounding a normal phase in a person's life–Menopause: Let's Talk About It This episode of The Unfolding: Presented by The Loveland Foundation with Rachel Keener and Creator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, @omisadeburneyscott(TW // Suicide mentioned in podcast episode) Omisade Burney-Scott is a seventh-generation Black Southern feminist, storyteller, and social justice advocate. She is also the creator/curator of @blackgirlsguidetomenopause(BGG2SM), a multidisciplinary culture shift project focused on normalizing menopause and aging through the c...
2023-07-20
46 min
Dem Black Mamas Podcast
DBM Ep 56: Menopause, Black Women & Spiritual Ritual with Omisade Burney-Scott
Dear Mama, What if I told you understanding menopause was a matter of life and death? In her 2022 book You Got Anything Stronger, Gabrielle Union went into deep detail about how in her words, “the surge and retreat of hormones” during perimenopause and menopause caused her to have passive suicidal ideations and pointed out that science has focused on hiding symptoms or treating the symptoms of menopause that have mattered most to men like vaginal dryness. The part of Union’s book that made me pause (see what I did there) was when Union stated, “According to a 2020 CD...
2023-06-26
1h 27
Embodied
Intentioned: Parenting Ourselves And Our Kids
Guest host Omisade Burney-Scott is well aware that gentle parenting is a divisive concept. So she's gets into it! Omi talks with two other Black mothers about their definitions of gentle parenting and how it can break cycles of generational trauma. Then her older son shares how he has seen her parenting evolve over the past three decades. Meet the guests: - Destiny Bennett, a content creator and mother of three boys, explains why she chooses to describe her parenting philosophy as "intentional" and how important connection and communication is in her parenting ...
2023-06-23
35 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
BGG2SM Hits the Road: The UK Episode!
This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause plans to deepen our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We are also co-hosting intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba). The peer learning and the Orisii dinner are being offered in partnership with community-based women-led organizations. We identified each of these locations because of their strong Black diasporic communities, we have local partners on the ground, or we are seeking to connect with more partners on the...
2023-06-02
24 min
How to Survive the End of the World
Witch School, Chapter 1: Omisade Burney-Scott
Witch school is in session. adrienne interviews the resplendent Omisade Burney-Scott, curator of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause, doula, priestess of Ifa, and Black southern mama. Omisade talks about the magic of place and relationship, the witchcraft of knowing beaten paths from bushwhacking, and the practice of protection. --- SUPPORT OUR SHOW! - https://www.patreon.com/Endoftheworldshow --- TRANSCRIPT --- Music by Tunde Olaniran and Mother Cyborg --- HTS ESSENTIALS SUPPORT Our Show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com...
2023-05-10
1h 11
Women & Wellbeing with Natalie Anderson
Omisade Burney-Scott: The Menopausal Multiverse, Creating Community & Self Love & Healing
This week Natalie is joined by the founder and curator of the hugely successful Black Girls Guide To Surviving Menopause podcast and platform, Omisade Burney-Scott. During this empowering episode the pair discuss Omisade’s concept of the menopausal multiverse alongside how we can smoothly evolve into new iterations of ourselves and the importance of intergenerational conversations in navigating the perimenopause & menopausal path. Omisade notes how our changing bodies deserve to be treated with compassion and kindness and how experimenting with fashion and the way in which we present ourselves to the world can help us sh...
2023-04-30
1h 03
The Radically Well Podcast
Episode 503. ⏪ Rewind ⏪ Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. This episode is brought to you by: LMNT Right now LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase, That’s 8 single serving packets FREE wi...
2023-04-14
46 min
The Radically Well Podcast
Episode 503. ⏪ Rewind ⏪ Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. This episode is brought to you by: LMNT Right now LMNT is offering my listeners a free sample pack with any purchase, That’s 8 single serving packets FREE wi...
2023-04-14
46 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Season 5: The Magical Menopausal Multiverse School Bus Tour!
This year, the Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause plans to deepen our intergenerational narrative shift work by co-creating peer learning exchanges to normalize the menopause experience of Black people in the UK, New York, Toronto, and Puerto Rico. We want to take you all along with us on our Magical Menopausal Multiverse School Bus tour! In each location, we will also co-host curated intergenerational menopause storytelling events called "Orisii" ( "pairs" in Yoruba). The peer learning and the Orisii dinners are being done in partnership with community-based organizations fulfilling a pre-COVID commitment to center the...
2023-03-28
20 min
Finding Refuge
The Black Girl's Guide
Omisade Burney-Scott (she/her) is a 7th generation Black Southern feminist, creative and social justice advocate. Over the past 25 years, her “work” has been grounded in social justice movement spaces focused on the liberation of marginalized people, beginning with her own community. This commitment to liberation has manifested through advocacy work, philanthropy, community organizing, and culture work. She is the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project that curates the stories of Black women, women identified, and gender-expansive people who are perimenopausal, menopausal, or post-menopausal. This project is a direct result of Omisade...
2023-02-15
1h 03
KQED's Forum
Why Is There So Much Misinformation About Menopause?
When New York Times Magazine staff writer Susan Dominus began reporting her cover story on menopause, she was surprised by the number of women she met who had resigned themselves to a life of hot flashes, poor sleep, brain fog and depression, all of which are common symptoms of menopause. There was a near universal acceptance that this was their new reality. But in fact, there are medically accepted therapies, like hormone treatment, to address these symptoms. Yet few women seem to be offered this relief. Why is menopause, a normal biological condition that over a million women in...
2023-02-09
55 min
Come As You Are
The Science of Great Sex in Long-Term Relationships
A listener in his eighties wants to know if there’s an expiration date on his sex life, and how to reconnect in the bedroom with his wife. Luckily, Emily is writing a new book about sex in long-term relationships. She delves deep into what the research reveals about couples who sustain a strong sexual connection over many years. Plus, she shares practical, science-backed sex advice on aging and navigating your changing body. If you have a question for Emily, call the Come As You Are hotline at (646) 397-8557 or send a voice memo to emily...
2022-12-28
36 min
Circling the Drain
Scheduling Our Farts - A CTD 2022 Wrap-Up
Send us a textListeners... we're really going for it on our year-end wrap-up. At this point, we assume you have been listening regularly and that you don't need us to review every single guest we've loved and every lesson we've learned, so we decided to have a blast going rogue. Join us as we roll a set of sexy dice given to Ellie by her husbo, we review a map of porn fetishes broken down by U.S. state (sent to Julia by HER husband), and perform a dramatic reading of a particularly contentious email exchange...
2022-12-21
42 min
Hello Menopause!
“Apparently There’s a Pre-Game to Menopause” with Omisade Burney-Scott
Meet Omisade (Omi) Burney-Scott, founder of the multimedia project, Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause. Omi is a Black Southern 7th generation native North Carolinian feminist, mother and healer. She uses her platform to uplift stories of Black women, femmes, nonbinary, and trans people navigating menopause through the Black Girl’s Guide to Menopause podcast, zines, and intergenerational dialogues. In this episode, she talks about her experience learning about perimenopause after getting pregnant with her second child and how her clinical depression and anxiety were linked to menopause. Join Robin, Christine, and Omi as th...
2022-12-13
37 min
The Radically Well Podcast
S9: Episode 487. Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. Resources ●Connect with Omisade: https://twitter.com/Osunsweetnsour l https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopause/?hl=en l https://www.linkedin.com/in/omisadeburney/ ●Shop the Black Girl’s Guide...
2022-11-25
42 min
The Radically Well Podcast
S9: Episode 487. Navigating Personal Experiences of Menopause, Aging, and Family with Omisade Burney-Scott
In this week's episode, join us in Radically Loved as Omisade Burney-Scott tells us how to normalize difficult conversations about aging and menopause. Aging is a natural transition in life. However, it's common for people to view aging negatively. But if we don't discuss aging and menopause, we'll never understand it. Compassionate conversations about aging and menopause are vital to break the stigma around them. Together, we can reclaim your menopausal journey. Resources ●Connect with Omisade: https://twitter.com/Osunsweetnsour l https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopause/?hl=en l https://www.linkedin.com/in/omisadeburney/ ●Shop the Black Girl’s Guide...
2022-11-25
42 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Welcome to Black Technologies: BGG2SM Season 4 Recap!
Welcome to the O. Estelle Butler Intragalactic Train Station, where all of our Milky Way is always within your reach. Please follow the illuminated paths to the ticket kiosk, your train line, and other needs you may have about the station. This is Omisade Burney-Scott and welcome to ‘Black Technologies of the Menopausal Multiverse.’ The voices and stories featured in this exhibition include our guests from Season 4 of the Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause and myself. But what exactly are Black Technologies? These are methods, strategies, and formulas those born with uteri have learned and adopte...
2022-11-18
30 min
Directionally Challenged
Oh Yes, You’re Getting Older w/ Omisade Burney-Scott
Kayla is joined by feminist, mother, and healer, Omisade Burney-Scott, who has a mission to make the topic of aging and menopause more commonplace and accessible. All bodies, all ages, and all identities are welcome to this important conversation. Follow Omisade Omisade’s Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlsguidetomenopauseCheck out the Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-girls-guide-to-surviving-menopause/id1462589097Follow Us:Instagram: www.instagram.com/candicekayla/ Twitter: www.twitter.com/CandiceKayla Website: www.candicekayla.com
2022-11-14
50 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Ethos
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause measures our impact by the continuation of expanding and normalizing the conversations and understanding around menopause to be inclusive and centering all Black people---all gender identities, sexual expression, and ages. There is a growing ecosystem of Black people talking about menopause and aging. Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause has played a vital leadership role in ushering in this landscape and movement. We are menopausal alchemists, doulas, cartographers, and advocates. We have created a space that hasn't existed on this scale before this platform for Black women, women-identified and gender-expansive people navigating menopause...
2022-10-17
54 min
Circling the Drain
What's Gonna Happen to My Vagina, Auntie? with Omisade Burney-Scott
Send us a textOmisade-Burney Scott is the coolest. She is the creator/curator of The Black Girls’ Guide to Surviving Menopause, a multimedia project engaged in culture and narrative shift work which includes, among other things, a podcast, a zine titled Messages From The Menopausal Multiverse, and the Say More Card Deck, which is a collection of conversation and journaling prompts that empower you to deepen your relationships with people in, preparing for, or supporting loved ones through menopause and aging — as well as your relationship with yourself. And that's not even all of it. We were...
2022-10-12
1h 13
Embodied
Horrified: Joy, Memory & The Body In Black Horror
For most of guest host Omisade Burney-Scott's life, she was a reluctant viewer of horror films — squinting through her fingers long enough to get to the closing credits. In recent years, that trepidation has turned into thrill as she's watched the Black horror genre evolve. She talks with a filmmaker, director and horror scholar about how they see their own experiences reflected in the Black horror renaissance. Meet the guests: - Lana Garland, writer, director, producer and curator of the Hayti Heritage Film Festival, reminisces about the Black horror films that left their mark on he...
2022-10-07
30 min
SHE2.0
The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
Menopause is a confusing and alienating time for most of us. We don't know whether we're coming or going and we can't seem to get the information and support we need. Now, imagine going through that same frustration but not as a white woman, but as a black woman? Just the colour of a woman's skin can change her experience with her symptoms and the support she receives. This inequity can be very harmful for women of colour. Omisade Burney-Scott, the founder of Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause joins me to talk about the jo...
2022-09-29
55 min
Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause
From Zane to Judy Blume
There is a growing ecosystem of people talking about menopause and aging. The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause sees ourselves as menopausal alchemists, doulas, cartographers, and advocates and has taken up an intentional role in ushering in intergenerational Black voices and narratives into the menopausal landscape. We see our intergenerational work, healing, and storytelling as an ethos. An ethos is "an element of argument and persuasion through which a speaker establishes their credibility and knowledge, as well as their good moral character". Ethos elements include: Phronesis or the wisdom or intelligence you ha...
2022-09-15
1h 12
Embodied
Destined: Using The Stars As A Guide
Guest host Omisade Burney-Scott is a proud Aries Sun-Leo moon-Virgo rising and has been looking to the stars since the ‘70s. She and her best friend of over 50 years look back on how astrology influenced their relationship growing up and how they move in the world today. Plus, she talks to two astrologers about how this practice can play a role in social justice movements and in the intersections of our identities. Meet the guests: - Cheyanne Headen, a community and de-escalation specialist and Omisade's cousin and best friend, talks about how astrology influences her wo...
2022-09-09
34 min
Ghost of a Podcast: Astrology & Advice with Jessica Lanyadoo
274: Omisade Burney-Scott + Horoscope
Omisade Burney-Scott of The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause joins Jessica for a look at her birth chart. She gets a surprise about her rising sign, and they go deep into loving oneself while loving someone else. This week's horoscope starts and ends with oppositions, but first Jessica offers a refresher on the big-picture themes at play in the sky and how they are impacting us both personally and socially. 🎟 Register for Jessica's September 3rd class, Sex & Sexuality In Astrology, here: https://www.astrologyuniversity.com/shop/search-by-astrologer/jessica-lanyadoo/sex-sexuality-in-astrology/ 🔮 To learn more about...
2022-08-28
1h 47
HOT FLASHES & COOL TOPICS
Black Women and Menopause with Omisade Burney Scott
Did you know that black and latino women enter menopause earlier and may have more intense symptoms? Did you know black and latino women have hot flashes longer on average than non-hispanic white women? On this week's episode, we speak to Omisade Burney Scott, host of the podcast/media platform The Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause. Omisade shares her personal journey through menopause and the need for education and awareness. Omisade developed her platform because she wanted to "create[d] a space where the wildly diverse stories of different types of Black people could be he...
2022-07-20
46 min