The Fragmented Whole

This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on May 1, 2019. Bethann James, Founder & CEO of Gemstone Professional Services Consultants, and public health professional and podcaster, Amarachi Anakaraonye, discuss the importance and challenges of presenting your authentic self. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on April 24, 2019. Digital storyteller, Amarachi Anakaraonye, and public health professional, Lydia Moges, discuss the ups and downs of nonprofit work; a life spent somewhere in the grey area. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

The process of unlearning problematic behaviors and learning affirming ones, is a sojourn. In this series finale episode, I share my fragmented journey to wholeness through virtual therapy sessions with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson.To learn more about Shanequa's services, you can visit her website, https://www.shanequaanderson.com/. Whether you are a seasoned subscriber or a first time listener, it has been my honor producing content for you. To stay tuned to my journey of fragmented wholeness, please visit my website, www.amarachia.com. Thank you for your support and happy listening! The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this episode I speak with two Black Women of Durham organizers, Rachel Singley and Brianna Hargrove-Kennedy, about their 10 tips for self and communal care: 1. Say no 2.Take a mental health day 3.Check-in with yourself 4. Five minutes of yoga or meditation 5. Have an organism 6. Aromatherapy 7. Breathe 8. Journal 9. Listen to your fav music or podcast 10. Get a massage Founded in 2018, Black Women of Durham is an organization that facilitates spaces for Black Women to promote, discuss and expand upon all topics affecting Black women and the Black community in Durham, NC and beyond. Happy listening! The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

Founded in 2016, Blackspace is a digital makerspace based in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It offers Black and Brown youth a breathing space to manifest their dreams by any medium necessary. In January 2019, I spoke with Mariah M., the Program Director and Slam Master for Blackspace Poetry, and Miranda Stephens, a BlackSpace Youth Artist. In this episode, I speak with Mariah and Miranda about the significance of black and brown centric spaces for POCs and strategies of self care for artists of color. Happy listening! The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this episode, I speak with Rita Phetmixay, the creator and host of the virtual healing space and podcast, Healing Out Lao'd. Healing Out Lao'd explores Lao diaspora storytelling, healing, and tools for sustainability. For my POCs, reframing intergenerational narratives of trauma begins with dismantling and rebuilding how we see our individual and collective purpose and value today and everyday. Choose joy! Happy listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

I began 2019, wrestling with one question: how do you manifest joy and heal from trauma when you're overburdened with societal expectations of resiliency? In this episode, I speak with activists, Desmera Gatewood and Marion Johnson, about the price of toxic resiliency and strategies for transcending and reshaping oversimplified stereotypes. Happy listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

According to LearnVest's 2014 Financial Confidence study, even though women's average income increases by more than 50% after age 25, their financial confidence decreases conversely around age 25. In this episode, I speak with financial planner and public health professional, Ashley Stewart, about strategies for gaining financial confidence at any-age by dismantling debt head-on. To learn more about Ms. Stewart's financial independence services, you can contact her at goodriddancedebt@gmail.com. Happy listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

Crone (n.): an old woman who is thin and ugly. What happens when that 'old' woman is Black, beautiful, bold, and outspoken? What happens when she's above the age of 40 and still wants bodily, sexual, and professional autonomy? In this episode, I speak with activist and storyteller, Omisade Burney-Scott, about all of this and more. Happy listening! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this episode, I process what it means to be an adult by putting it into practice. I speak with Dr. Asani Seawell of Pacific University about how forgiveness positively impacts one's health outcomes. If you get nothing else from this episode, forgive for you. You don't need permission from anyone to forgive. Happy listening. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this episode, I speak with Marcus Littles, the Founder and a Senior Partner of Frontline Solutions. Marcus provides strategies organizations can utilize to center equity not just in word, but in action. Happy listening to the entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers striving to facilitate spaces of production that are equitable and innovative. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

Why are Black people not extinct based on everything we've been through? What factors are contributing to Black women continuing to have full-term births despite experiencing racism across their lives? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Monica McLemore, a reproductive justice nurse, scholar, and activist at the University of California-San Francisco, about potential strategies for reducing the disproportionate rates of Black maternal mortality rates in the United States. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This season, we have explored an array of concepts and strategies for facing, combatting, and remaining resilient in the face of trauma. In this season three finale episode, I discuss with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson, LMSW, four present and future intentions for manifesting personal and relational joy and authenticity. Joyful listening and see you next season! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

Is it better to seek healing from acute or chronic trauma for oneself by oneself, or attain healing through the support of a community? What does it mean to be or remain resilient during or after a traumatic event(s)? The answers may not be so simple. Just a few questions that be sittin' on my brain. Joyful listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode features Vacation.Charlie a Black, trans, and queer educator, healer, and experience. He is the founder and facilitator of the workshop, 'Sex As Healing:Better Sex & Self Care.' In this episode we discuss how sex can be a tool of healing and revision how we've been socialized to see ourselves as sexual beings. Joyful listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode features, Venneikia Williams, a self-proclaimed sinner, sociologist, and seminarian. Currently pursuing her Masters of Divinity, her independent study explores the strategies women of color are taking to heal themselves and others in a society that can be less than supportive of our humanity. Curious about her findings? Hit play. Joyful listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode features licensed acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and yoga instructor, Emily Grace Siy, L.Ac. Her platform and practice, Emily Grace Acupuncture, is centered on helping clients attain balance and community in self-care and female empowerment. Joyful listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode features the insights of educator, healer, artist, and cultural bearer, Jana Lynne Umipig. Her platform emphasizes how self and communal care practices should incorporate one's ancestry, while simultaneously revisioning one's colonized identity. Wishing you joyful listening along this journey of resilient healing! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In the season three premiere, I provide a glimpse into my therapy session with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson, LCSW, in order to demystify what exactly therapy entails and the stigma that surrounds it, particularly for us black and brown folks. As a disclaimer, all therapists are different and use different approaches. Joyful listening! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

The season 2 finale episode highlights commentary made during the first live audio recording of The Fragmented Whole. With the 2018 midterm elections on the horizon, this discussion addressed the following ideals and tactics: 1. Intra- vs. inter-partisan unity and reconciliation, and 2. The facilitation of conversations between individuals and organizations from opposing ideological backgrounds. Until season 3 of The Fragmented Whole returns on June 25th, 2018, remain resistant and resilient. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This week's episode celebrates African diasporic representation in media, fine arts, and entrepreneurship by acknowledging the works of the African Chophouse founder, Stanley Lumax, and those of the Black Joy Project founder, Kleaver Kruz. If you aren't already, prepare to be inspired and mobilized to action. #WakandaForever --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

Co-hosts from Public Knowledge and the Detroit Community Technology Project, discuss how Congress, states, and communities are taking digital justice into their own hands with the repeal of net neutrality. The acts of mobilization discussed make you wonder, "has net neutrality really been repealed?" --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This week's episode explores Liberia's first peaceful transition of power in more than 70 years. With the insight of three Liberians of the diaspora, you'll gain a deeper understanding of the socio-political climate within which the 2017 elections occurred, the challenges the Weah administration will face, and hopes for the future. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This week's contributors, two Zimbabweans of the diaspora, reflect on the end of the 37-year reign of former President Robert Mugabe, critique the current presidential administration of Emmerson Mnangagwa, and look forward to the uncertainty of a 'free and fair' presidential election in 2018. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

The season 1 finale episode reflects on 2017 by shining a spotlight on some of the year's best films. From Hidden Figures to Get Out, let's reflect on this past year and prepare for the new year to come. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

The second and last of a two-part conversation on mobilization efforts to remove Confederate statues from public spaces. This episode is guided by the narratives of UNC students and staff regarding the presence of Silent Sam and efforts to have it removed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This two-part episode is centered on mobilization efforts to remove Confederate statues in public spaces. This week's episode sets the historical and social background of events that have led to the heightened resurgence of efforts to remove Confederate monuments in public spaces, particularly on collegiate campuses. Next week's episode will explore the commentary of UNC-CH students and faculty involved in mobilization efforts to have the Confederate statue, Silent Sam, removed. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

This episode examines the historical body shaming of women of color and centers this analysis on current Dallas TV anchor, Demetria Obilor, of Channel 8, who was body shamed by a white female viewer for her choice of apparel or more frankly, her body composition. Let's clap back in solidarity. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this week's episode, we discuss the role of men in discussions about gender-based violence, particularly with the #metoo campaign. We also shine a spotlight on a programmatic example of male allyship in Nairobi, Kenya. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In this week's episode, by analyzing such movements as the #WomenBoycottTwitter movement and the counter protest of #WOC Affirmation, we'll explore how the sentiments of women of color have been historically undermined and more importantly, how women of color have resisted such silencing. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

In the first episode of the series, we explore the -ism/-phobia of ‘nationality discrimination' within the context of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States, and the treatment of these American citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support

The Fragmented Whole examines the -isms and phobias that unite and divide us intrapersonally, interpersonally, and geographically. In each episode, we'll examine how these ideological frameworks play out in current events and pop culture, and hopefully gain a deeper understanding of how we: 1. See and treat ourselves 2. See and treat others, and 3. Act as social agents of change --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fragmentpodcast/support