Liberated Love Notes

Brittany Janay invites us to embody a spirit of Loving Accountability. As she shares, we are rarely ever given the space to "mess up" as Black bodies in an anti-black world, and yet... we must be open to holding ourselves accountable in loving ways. Brittany Janay invites us to lean into a form of accountability that nourishes and supports our growth... the kind that may sting a little, but also cleanses. The kind of love that uproots, but also seeds and plants...because we deserve.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay offers a liberated love note that affirms our authenticity as gift, a gateway, an act of reclamation of our bodies and values. Sometimes conversations around authenticity can relegate our ways of being as "preferences," not recognizing the ways in which authenticity can be a source of our power. In the spirit of loving accountability Brittany also invites us to reflect on how we might interpret others' authenticity and freedom. She ends with wise words from Nikole Hannah-Jones.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay invites us to lean into our interdependence and affirms the significance of community to our ability to thrive. In this week's episode, she shares her reflections on what community (that moves beyond the transactional) feels like. Brittany Janay offers us a series of reflection questions to consider as we strive to invite nourishing, loving community in our world.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay revisits a liberated love note she wrote for herself this time last year, "My Refusal is Divine." As she shares in this episode, the affirmation just hits different in this season. She recalls the history of Igbo landing, which inspired the affirmation, and invites us to consider what it means for us and our lives as we navigate spaces, places and people with whom we are in community.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay invites us to honor the fullness of our humanity and divinity this week. She reflects on how honoring both as parallels rather than polarities offers us space and grace to grieve and hope during challenging seasons. She ends with a liberated love note and invitation to move beyond fear and move with faith, ease, alignment and intention.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay kicks off this episode with a collective remembering and invites us to join her in honoring those who are part of our lineage. In the spirit of loving accountability, she shares a special Liberated Love Note for Black leaders, founders and entrepreneurs inviting them to consider the ways in which systems of oppression can be perpetuated in the spaces they lead and create. She speaks on her own experiences in Black-led and white spaces. Brittany ends with a loving call to action, an invitation for Black Leaders, Founders and Entrepreneurs to return to love and liberation.  Stay in the loop on the Return to LovexLiberation Experience. https://bit.ly/3t494bx Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay shares an authentic, loving reminder this week as she prioritizes her own rest: "My best effort is always enough." Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay affirms her truth in this week's episode: "America does not deserve Black people." The heaviness of national and local news related to the murders of Black life calls on her to affirm all that we are deserving and worthy of: love, community, joy, pleasure, ease, remembering and returning to ourselves. In response to a world where systems of oppression and injustice would have us feeling as though we are less than or defective, she ends sharing a Liberated Love Note voiced by someone who is special to her... reminding us that "we are enough." Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay reminds us that we deserve to imagine and create beyond the limitations of this world, these systems, whiteness, and the projected limitations of others. This week she shares a liberated love note that came to her after a good night's rest, yet again experiencing the power of rest and stillness. She invites us to sit at the feet of one of our ancestors, Audre Lorde, as she reads a passage from "Poetry is Not Luxury," which connects back to her invitation to imagine.. create... feel. There's a lot going on in our worlds and the world. Sometimes remembering the wisdom of the past is a form of self-care, restoration for the present.    Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay invites us to consider, "Who is on my spiritual, ancestral board of advisors?" She shares a story where she reflects on a big decision she had to make and the human inclination to seek out advice without attention to ourselves, our spirit and divinity. Though it is valuable to seek support from those with whom we are in community, too much advice can cause what she refers to as intrapersonal confusion. Brittany shares a divine download she experienced and invites us to affirm and remember: "In our stillness, we have access to divine wisdom and energy."   Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay is back this week with a reflection and something like a call to action: When we are gifted with the opportunity to mentor, sponsor and lead others, we must see it as divine stewardship, a love practice. We must unlearn colonial mindsets that impede our capacity to see those we lead as fully human and disrupt toxic American norms that suggest their can only be “one” of us. We must avoid interpreting others' expansion as an affront to us. Brittany affirms… We must choose love over indifference when another's light shines. Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay acknowledges the divinity of this past week and month, as some of us reflect on the resurrection of Jesus or participate in Ramadan. She processes and reflects on one of her life transitions and connects it to the spirit of Good Friday, a day of death and mourning but also a portal to new life and a new way. Brittany shares her reflections on a question she was asked recently, "How do you cope with the harm you may experience in community with other Black folks?" It just hit different. She shares her thoughts on the difference between "closure" and "peace," being led by your spirit vs. your trauma. Brittany ends with an affirmation ... something like a divine petition that calls for loving accountability and reimagining how we show up in loving community.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay welcomes us back to the second season of the Liberated Love Notes podcast and invites us into what she describes as her own season of transition. Brittany reintroduces herself, and asks us to reflect on the same: Who are you [beyond what you do]? Who are you from? How is that different from how you may have responded last year? Brittany ends with a journal entry that she penned to process transitions, endings and beginnings, affirming "Just because it didn't last forever doesn't mean it wasn't good." Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay ends this season in a posture of gratitude and love, reminding us that we are somebody's answered prayer and wildest dream. As the year comes to an end, we might get a bit distracted by all the things we didn't accomplish or resolutions we might set for the year to come. Brittany reminds us that our just BEing is someone's answered prayer, our ancestor's wildest dream. And... that is worth celebrating. In the spirit of celebration, she ends this episode and season with one of her favorite poems by Lucille Clifton.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay pulls three cards from the Liberated Love Notes deck this week that take her back to the origin story of Liberated Love Notes. She reflects on how her own personal experiences, learnings, unlearnings led her to create ,and she uses this to affirm the divine purpose of our experiences. In other words, whatever we are going through in our present can be and will be used for the greater good of the collective. Our ancestors are also a reminder of this. This week, Brittany affirms and calls on us to remember that the future needs you ...needs us. Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay passes the mic this week and Claudia Shivers offers a note of loving accountability to lighter skinned Black women. There's been a lot of discussion in the "mainstream" about colorism, and the insidious nature of white supremacy's manifestation within community. In this week's episode of Liberated Love Notes, Claudia speaks her truth as a darker skinned Black woman and offers a open letter, love note and reminder to her sistas that, inasmuch as there is a shared experience in our Blackness, sometimes "your Black ain't like mine." Visit Claudia's website. https://bit.ly/3HIHt5q She's also on Facebook. https://bit.ly/3kTxroc Take a look around her shop, Queen Coffee Bean. https://bit.ly/3FStqbV Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

This week, Brittany Janay offers a loving note of accountability, a remembering of the words of Audre Lorde, "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." She encourages us to reflect on the ways in which we have internalized white supremacy and colonialism, and reproduced them in our own spaces and work. Brittany reminds us that liberation can only be realized when all Black people are free, and challenges us to reconsider what we're really "building" if that ain't the goal.  Watch Amber J. Phillip's video unpacking colorism. https://bit.ly/3qFphDQ Read Audre Lorde's essay, "The Master's Tools Will Not Dismantle the Master's House." https://bit.ly/3ClYWwu Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

This week, Brittany Janay shares a special liberated love note and affirmation for Black folks working in 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' (DEI) or any change-making role. She revisits a few questions offered to her during a session she facilitated at The Forum on Workplace Inclusion: "Can DEI work truly heal the impact of colonialism and white supremacy culture? What do we do when "the work" feels more retraumatizing than it is restorative? How do we navigate the toll and complexity as Black folks who are personally impacted by the same systems we're simultaneously seeking to dismantle? There ain't no easy answers to any of these questions. Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay reminds us this week that our learning, our journey, our growing consciousness is a blessing and a gift. We must resist the urge to weaponize our "wokeness" as a tool to condemn others. In a culture that values perfectionism and getting it "RIGHT," we must strive to prioritize community, love, growth and accountability. Likewise, when we are challenged or held accountable by those with whom we are in community, we should see it as a calling to higher understanding instead of an affront. It's all love in liberation.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay kicks of this week with a loving reminder that we are a gifted people. We have inherited gifts that our people and world need. She reads a passage from a book she has referenced throughout this season on "The Black Helping Tradition," and shares more on the work of Black scholars, ancestors Alexander Crummel & W.E.B. DuBois. In a world that often times pathologizes Blackness, we must be intentional about centering Black joy, Black strength, Black gifts. Our history and lineage is rich ... our liberation requires us to REMEMBER.   Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx Learn more about the book Brittany referenced. https://bit.ly/3atpqk8 You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay reminds us of the beauty and power that exists in "the pause." In a culture of white urgency, we often carry this burden and expectation to immediately respond, react, and DO...without attention to our bodies, our spirits, our minds. We don't always hold space to process, to work though, name and lean into tensions any more than we strive to "fix" or come to immediate resolve. We deserve better. Brittany Janay offers embracing the power of the pause a reclamation of our time, possibility for ease, and a resource each of us has access to.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

"We will not lose our souls." Brittany Janay offers a loving affirmation, a reminder that even as we exist in systems not created with us in mind, we have the choice (and responsibility) to stay true to our values and community. She shares her thoughts on the difference between assimilation & code-switching and healthy adaptation, calling attention to what it means to use our power and honor our own complexity in lieu of losing our souls. She uses a historical anecdote, referencing the experiences of slave preachers and conjurers, and offers it as possibility for us-- what it means to exist "IN" a system while still being "FOR" our people. Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Existing in a culture that is heavy on the "individual," heavy on the "bootstrap," heavy on "climbing the corporate ladder, and "dog eat dog," can have us forgetting what is true to us: COMMUNITY. In this week's episode, Brittany Janay encourages us to unlearn patterns of individualism and REMEMBER the significance of community to our Blackness. She shares a passage from a book, "Spirituality and the Black Helping Tradition" by Elmer P. Martin and Joanne M. Martin, that beautifully describes the ways spirituality and community have influenced how we've contributed to our collective advancement from one generation to the next. Brittany ends with a loving reminder and affirmation that community ain't new to us, it is true to us; and is necessary to our ability to thrive.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay is back this week with a loving affirmation for those moments when we are questioning whether or not we "belong" in the room. Within the context of a system of domination influenced by white supremacy, patriarchy, capitalism, among others, it is a common experience to question our since of belonging and internalize the lie that is imposter syndrome. As she puts it, not only do we belong, we are worthy of taking up space. She also asks listeners for some input. Reach out via IG (link in the show notes) or email (me@BrittanyJanay.com) if you have any thoughts on how the Liberated Love Notes Podcast can continue to evolve to center your experiences and nourish you.  Check out the Liberated Love Notes IG page. https://bit.ly/3BJPbIx You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Instagram and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/3vA2qso https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

"Interrupting white supremacy and toxic individualism be like..." Brittany Janay reflects on what it means to unlearn what can feel like this perpetual need to be validated through mainstream, oppressive norms--to be seen as the ONE, to be seen as better than, to be regarded as THE best. She asks us to consider, "What happens when our vision or goals for ourselves, our businesses, our leadership, our BEING are contingent on someone else being seen as lesser than?" Brittany shares her thoughts on the difference between striving to be YOUR best versus striving to be seen as THE BEST ... because the latter can come with its costs.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Listen to the Liberated Love Songs to Self playlist on YouTube. https://bit.ly/2Wk6Gja Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

This week, Brittany Janay shares her reflections on the language of surviving and thriving and how she's been evolving in her understanding of this juxtaposition. She offers up how positioning surviving and thriving as a good/better binary might unintentionally lead to qualifying someone's state of being, living and existing as better than others. Brittany talks about this in the context of how we've traditionally come to describe "Black Excellence." She shares beautiful insights from Toni Morrison and a poem by Audre Lorde, A Litany for Survival, and ends by affirming "Our survival is deeply spiritual - our survival is Black Excellence." You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

In this week's episode, Brittany Janay reflects on the mainstream conversations surrounding Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Black women, mental health and boundaries. She shares her thoughts on the beautiful opportunity in this cultural shift we're experiencing, specifically as it relates to how we show up in community with each other, at work and at home. In the spirit of loving accountability, she also calls attention to the intrapersonal work we must engage in to ensure we are honoring the boundaries set by those in our daily lives, rather than interpreting them as an affront to us. She ends with a Liberated Love Note affirming our inherent worthiness of rest and reminding us that our best effort is always enough -- we are enough.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Inspired by her re-reading of bell hooks' "All About Love," Brittany Janay shares her reflections on our learned norms around power. She talks about how we've come to understand power as something to be "asserted over" others, whether in relationships, parenting, and even the workplace. Brittany challenges us to interrogate and unlearn some of our unhealthy expressions of power that end up stifling our ability to connect and build community. She ends with a Liberated Love Note that reminds us to strive to use our power as something to be shared and used to uplift, not "assert over" or dominate.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay kicks off this episode feeling reaffirmed. She briefly revisits a previous episode, "Our Refusal is Divine," offering a timely connection to recent announcements shared by Dr. Nikole Hannah-Jones. Brittany focuses the remainder of the episode reflecting on power-- how ingesting the need to assert "power over" can lead us to devaluing the beauty and complexity of Blackness. She affirms that we must honor the humanity and worthiness of Blackness in all its forms--Black women, Black trans people, Black queer people, Black people who are and have been incarcerated, Black people at different intersections all matter to our work and liberation.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

"They are not my work." It might sound harsh on the surface... and in this week's episode, Brittany Janay affirms how clarity and being able to track others' "work," unresolved traumas, unhealed forms of injected white supremacy helps her create healthy boundaries in conflict and disagreement. We should not internalize other folks' work (internalized perfectionism, scarcity mindset, respectability) as deficiency in us. Brittany reminds us that we can be loving, gracious and invested in those of whom we're in relationship and be very clear, particularly in conflict and disagreement, when their own "work" is beyond our capacity to change.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay reminds us of our inherent brilliance. She affirms that not only are we our ancestors' wildest dream, we are a manifestation of their gifts, their resourcefulness, their brilliance. Brittany Janay shares a few historical and present day anecdotes as example of how Black people have and continue to share their brilliance in community and with the world--from vaccinations to bonnets. In the context of systems literally set up for our demise the fact of the matter is this: our existence, our survival is brilliant, our innovation, no matter how big or small, is brilliant. Brilliance is within us.  Interested in ordering a shirt? Click here. https://bit.ly/2U5GSGK You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay affirms that our time is sacred and our own ... and we don't owe any more time nor patience to people and environments that do not serve our humanity. Brittany channels the words of our ancestor, James Baldwin, as he calls out the absurdity of requests for more time for progress. Brittany Janay reminds us that we do not have to feel guilty for nor tentative about holding people and institutions accountable. She ends with a love note that reminds us that although change does take time, we do not always need to bear the burden of waiting. Our time is sacred and our own.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay is back this week with a timely affirmation, "Our Refusal is Divine." She declares that we deserve to be unapologetic about our "no's," naming them as spiritual and our divine right. Brittany makes the connection to tennis player Naomi Osaka's decision to prioritize her mental well-being and a recent story of a Black woman chemist, Dr. Lisa Jones, who leveraged her refusal on behalf of the collective. In the spirit of REMEMBERING, Brittany shares a historic anecdote of divine refusal, the story of Igbo Landing, a reminder that refusal is also resource. Whether it's saying "no" to uncompensated emotional labor, turning down invitations to join all the diversity committees, or prioritizing one's own well-being in the face of toxic capitalism... our refusal is divine.  Learn more about the Igbo Landing on the IGBO History & Facts Twitter page. https://bit.ly/3woENDQ You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay kicks off this episode with some announcements that relate to the topic of this week's liberated love note: amplification and abundance mindset. She shows some love and shouts out a few Black women - IG tags in the show notes - and shares a story about how Liberated Love Notes ended up on the coffee table of writer and wypipologist, Michael Harriot. This week, Brittany encourages us to disrupt notions of internalized lack and scarcity mindset, and affirms our inherent capability to own our individual and collective light. She sings a song by Beautiful Chorus that reminds us of the beauty and freedom in shining our light, and ends with a Liberated Love Note affirming that, despite the lie of toxic white individualism, we can ALL eat. Read the VICE article Brittany mentioned in the episode. https://bit.ly/3p3YJZO Brittany shouted out three Black women (and/or their business,) Pinch Design Co., KFinch Photography, and Chevara Orrin. Connect with them on Instagram. https://bit.ly/2SLxVRZ https://bit.ly/3p7d0F2 https://bit.ly/3icyy1A You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Learn more about Liberated Love Notes. https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay shares her reflections on the power in REMEMBERING--remembering the richness of our history, our lineage, the stories and values of our parents, elders, ancestors. She shares ALL the feels she got after watching, "In our Mothers' Gardens," (IG: @inourmothersgardens) a documentary on Netflix directed by Shantrelle P. Lewis (IG: @apshantology). Brittany Janay names "remembering" as resource we have infinite access to. She reminds us and affirms that we are more than our oppression, our pain, our trauma, and our fatigue. We are joy, we are love, we are strength, we are resilience... we are the best of our mamas, fathers, grandmamas, papas, and all those who have come before us--and so... we must REMEMBER. She closes with a poem from her forever favorite, Lucille Clifton.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay lifts up one of her intentions from the top of the year: to move and make decisions from a place of ease, not urgency (in other words, not feeling the need to DO THE MOST). This episode she does something different...a little less "challenging" and "unpacking" and a lotta more affirming. Inspired by a bedtime moment she shared with her son, Brittany recounts the words and art of our elder, Useni Eugene Perkins. Perkins is most known for the book, poem "Hey Black Child." Brittany Janay ends with a love note affirming our worthiness of ease, a reminder that our best effort is enough...we are enough.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay picks up on last week's episode and offers some related reflections around work, worth, and purpose. She shares her reflections on sayings like, "if you are walking in your purpose, it won't feel like work," or "if it is your purpose, you'll do it for free," and offers a reframe, affirming that we can love our work and still set healthy boundaries...AND when we are walking in purpose our output is invaluable so WE DESERVE to be compensated accordingly. Brittany Janay puts this frankly: just because "we are not our work," doesn't mean we shouldn't be paid for it. She closes affirming our inherent brilliance and excellence. You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay shares her personal reflections on productivity, work, and worth. She offers a delineation between who we we and what we do as model of self-love and disruption of internalized colonialism, capitalism, and anti-Blackness. Brittany draws from the wisdom of ancestors Audre Lorde and Lucille Clifton, and ends with an affirmation reminding us that we are not our work, we are more that what we "do" ... and our work is not indicative of our worth. You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk https://bit.ly/3vA2qso Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay shares a liberated love note of accountability, challenging the the injected forms of oppression that suggest Black bodies are only worthy or deserving IF. Our worthiness needs no qualification. She shares that we must reject those lies and calls on us to affirm our inherent worthiness despite the broader social order or the organizational systems in which we exist.  You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Brittany Janay shares her timely and vulnerable reflections upon learning of the killing of Daunte Wright. She REMEMBERS the words of Fannie Lou Hamer, "America is desperately ill, and man is on the critical list," and offers a Liberated Love Note of affirmation as we grieve and mourn: We are not deficient. We are not inadequate. We are enough. We are everything." Our rage is righteous. You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu Link to Fannie Lou Hamer's video: https://bit.ly/3go5SSG Link for more information on how to support the family of Daunte Wright: https://bit.ly/3amCuIK Link to learn more about Liberated Love Notes: https://bit.ly/3trVuge

Zach welcomes Brittany Janay to the Living Corporate family on today's special episode announcing Brittany's new podcast series, Liberated Love Notes. Liberated Love Notes™ is a starting point for integrating self and community affirmations into your daily practices that will center the experiences of Black folks existing in white systems and speak to overcoming imposter syndrome, disrupting injected & internalized forms of oppression, embodying an abundance mindset and building a healthy racial identity. Look forward to the first episode dropping! You can connect with Brittany on LinkedIn and Twitter. http://bit.ly/2Wmveq6 https://bit.ly/2QcqUZk Check out her personal website. https://bit.ly/3g4WgMu