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Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 13: Gratitude, Growth and the FutureIn this final episode in this series, we wrap up the series discussed our thoughts and what we have learned from collaborating with ECO City Farms. Quiana and Misty, had the wonderful opportunity to visit each farm and share more about each space and how they function. They continue to discuss what felt impactful about this experience and hopes about farming while Black.
Thank you all for joining us for this enlightening experience. We want to thank ECO City Farms for the opportunity to collaborate on this series. Also, a big thank you to our amazing guests w...2024-02-1127 minHealing While Black PodcastEpisode 12: Planting Seeds of Change: Incubating Farming Businesses That Enrich CommunityIn this episode, we explore the ways that engaging in farming can open up opportunities for local Black Farmers committed to making positive change across the Black diaspora.
In this episode, Misty and Quiana have conversations with participants of ECO City Farm’s Incubator Farm Program, Issac Zama of Amba Farmers voice as well as Phillipe and Ginnette Jean from SOFGI Connection. They each share their experience establishing their farm businesses with the support of ECO City Farms and their efforts to bring their knowledge and tools to the global Black community.
Thank you a...2024-02-111h 03Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 11: Agency, Power and PlantingIn this episode, we have a conversation about the sense of empowerment and agency we can gain through learning to grow our own food, even with sometimes limited space and resources. Quiana and Misty speak with a special guest, Skye Ellis, who is a beginning farmer in ECO City Farm’s Growing Urban Farms and Farmers Program. Skye speaks about her experience learning to grow food for her own sustenance and the resourcefulness she is gaining through learning to grow food in small and urban spaces. She also shares her perspective about the healing and grounding benefits that Black peo...2022-09-1135 minHealing While Black PodcastEpisode 10: There is Healing in the Soil: Connecting Back to the Land and Using Food as MedicineIn this episode, we have a conversation about how being connected to the land and healthy food systems can support healing and well-being for the Black community.
Quiana and Misty speak with special guests, Dr. Chemine Castor and Camille Hall, who are both members of ECO City Farm’s Growing Urban Farms and Farmers Program.
Dr. Castor and Camille share their unique perspectives as Black women farmers and about the great work they are doing around food justice and education and what it means to reconnect Black folks to the land. They also shed some lig...2022-05-0247 minHealing While Black PodcastHealing While Black Podcast & ECO City Farms: Farming While BlackFour part mini-series teaser presented by Healing While Black Podcast in collaboration with ECO City Farms.
About ECO City Farms & The Beginning Farmer Education Program:
ECO City Farms is a nonprofit urban teaching and learning farm in Prince George’s County that grows great food, farms and farmers in ways that protect, restore and sustain the natural environment and the health of local communities. Working with area children, youth and adults, ECO educates and trains the next generation of urban farmers and eaters.
ECO City Farm’s Growing Urban Farms a...2022-05-0203 minHealing While Black PodcastEpisode 9: Black Men and HealingIn this episode, we are in conversation with Martin X Henson, community organizer and activist, speaker, and executive director of The Black Men Engagement Network (BMEN). We talk with Martin about the unique struggles Black men face in a world that abuses and limits and new work being done to create space for Black men to heal and build in community with each other while shifting society's narrative about Black men.
Connect with and support (B)MEN Foundation at:
https://linktr.ee/Bmenfoundation
2022-03-151h 01Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 8: Decolonizing Our Minds and BodiesIn this episode, we welcome the beautiful, Thérèse Cator, who is a mother, healer, leadership and embodiment coach, storyteller and founder of Embodied Black Girl. Thérèse helps us engage with some of the wisdom of our ancestors through exploring inter-generational trauma and healing and what it means for Black people to decolonize ourselves in mind and body.
Engage with Thérèse:
IG: @theresecator
Embodied Black Girl IG: @embodiedblackgirl
Website: https://embodiedblackgirl.com/
2021-11-221h 05Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 7: Healing While Black Podcast at Brown UniversityWe are back for Season Two! In this episode Quiana and Misty joined the Brown University community for a live conversation about their previous experiences as Black, first-generation college, low-income students. They also explored what it feels and looks like to cope, heal and be in community as the U.S. grapples with its deep history of racial oppression amidst a global pandemic.
This episode was sponsored by the Brown Center for Students of Color, U-FLi Center - Undocumennted, First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center, and Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender
2021-09-271h 28Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 6: Season 1 Wrap Up: Guest Erika Cooksey, LMSWIn this final episode of season 1, guest Erika Cooksey, LMSW, talks about what came up for her as she tuned in this season and asks the hosts some questions. Misty and Quiana respond to more listener comments, questions and suggestions for upcoming seasons. Join us as we end our first season!
2021-03-101h 21Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 5: Keeping It Real: The beauty and struggle in Black authenticityIn this episode, Quiana and Misty talk about the power in Black people expressing the full range of our humanity and diversity and how our ability to live authentically is often challenged by the need to make white people feel comfortable.
2021-01-1855 minHealing While Black PodcastEpisode 4: Can’t Steal Our Joy: The Healing Power of MusicGuest, Ghislaine “Qi Dada” Jean of music duo Riders Against the Storm and host of Qi Dada Life join Quiana & Misty for a dynamic conversation about the role music has played in the lives of Black folks.
Follow our guest, Qi Dada, on Instagram @Qidadalife. Check out Riders Against the Storm at rashiphop.com and follow the duo on Instagram @rashiphop
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"I'm Great and I Know It" Coloring Book by Dor...2020-12-081h 30Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 3: Breakin' Down the System: The 4 I's of RacismQuiana and Misty discuss the multiple layers of systemic racism, some visible and invisible ways Black people are impacted by racism, and how knowledge can lead to healing and re-imagining our lives.
Resources:
The Four I's of Oppression article http://www.coloradoinclusivefunders.org/uploads/1/1/5/0/11506731/the_four_is_of_oppression.pdf
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2020-11-2354 minHealing While Black PodcastEpisode 2: Talking Mental Health: Guest Orin HowardToday's episode we're discussing mental health and the Black community. Joining the conversation is educator, speaker, and therapist Orin Howard.
2020-11-091h 05Healing While Black PodcastEpisode 1: Safety, Hope & Healing: Meet the hostsEpisode 1: Misty and Quiana interview each other in this opener episode.
2020-10-2640 minHealing While Black PodcastWelcome to the Healing While Black PodcastWelcome to the Healing While Black Podcast. Every other Monday, therapists, Quiana and Misty will discuss what it means to heal while being Black.
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