What's The T w/ Delmar D

This is the last episode of What's The T w/ Delmar D. Everything has a beginning, middle, and end. I reflect on the birth of this project, my interviews, and share why it's time to wrap this up. I want to work on a new podcast called "Story Disruptors" and a children's book entitled "Dear Hassan". Once I work on these new ideas I will definitely share it with you all. During this difficult time, I recommend you create a personal and work routine to give you some control back and find a hobby/creative passion project to fill up your new found time. "Done is better than perfect" don't let the fear of not knowing how to do things stop you from starting. I jumped into this knowing nothing about podcasting and now I've created a world of knowledge and resources. Please keep listening to episodes and sharing them. The project is over but these stories still have value, re-listen to your favorite interviews and checkout ones you didn't have time to listen to before. Thank you for all the support you've shown me, it truly means the world to me. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Amani and I met in high school and our paths crossed again in graduate school when we were becoming social workers. She currently works in a hospital outpatient clinic with HIV+ clients. During our conversation, we reminisce about our experiences together, being an afto-Latina, and the painful journey of breaking up with a partner. Amani is dropping gems on this episode so please tune in because what's the t is coming to an end soon. Check out her Instagram: @afrolatina_ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Mr. Kenneth B. Morris descends from two of the most influential names in American history: he is the great-great-great grandson of Frederick Douglass and the great-great-grandson of Booker T. Washington. In honor of black history month, I interview Ken about his family’s legacy of anti-slavery and educational work as co-founder and president of the nonprofit Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives (FDFI). Lastly, he shares some exciting updates such as an upcoming Frederick Douglass musical in Washington DC and a movie that is in the early stages of development. Check out their website for more information on FDFI: http://www.fdfi.org/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Warsan is a first generation Somali-American. We share a very similar upbringing and unpack the intersections of our culture. Her family's immigration journey later shaped her passion for international development. Warsan worked for the International Rescue Committe (IRC) and the United Nations. Living and working in New York City for the last few years has sparked her interest in tech and print marketing. In addition, she is currently working on developing a few upcoming creative and entrepreneurial projects...be on the lookout! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Dr. Erica King Toler (aka Dr. EKT) is a SEEK Counselor at John Jay College. In this episode, we discuss her personal and family's journey in education, specifically as black people in this country. From Jim Crow to school segregation to the present day realities of schooling, her family tree seems like a historical timeline. Listen to the advice Dr. EKT gives other black parents as we wrap up 2019. We will be on a mid-season break and will start again in early February! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

April is a yoga and fitness instructor that uses a strength-based framework in her classes. My favorite course she runs is "intensati" - where she uses positive affirmations with a cardio workout routine. As she says in this episode, the body and mind were once friends and her work helps to reconnect them. Listen to how she fell in love with helping people re-own their body. We recorded in the field (aka Brooklyn Tea) so you'll hear some unique sounds in the background. If you're interested in taking a class with her, here is her website: http://ahimsamyllc.mystrikingly.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Bianca Mona is a black creative and artist that specializes in oral histories and sound performances. She shares with us how she got into this work and the importance of preserving black stories. With a national and global perspective of storytelling and art, Bianca has traveled the world looking for her village and next project. In the near future, Bianca will be pursuing a Ph. D in the Carribean. Lastly, a thread through her work is wellness and healing. We hope this discussion offers you something on your journey to reflect on! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Laci Chisholm is the creator of the amazing Fit 4 Dance studio that allows people to take dance fitness workout classes to engage their body, mind, and spirit. In this episode, you will hear how Laci became a business owner, moved to Brooklyn from South Carolina, and the health scare that put her on this holistic fitness & wellness journey! I highly recommend you stop by her studio and take a class, here is her website: https://fit4dancenyc.com/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Jeenie Yoon is a licensed social worker with 10+ years of experience working in the field of sexual assault. Of course Jeenie flipped the script using her expert skills to help me unpack my work place trauma and name the abusive behaviors many of us witness and experience from bosses, partners, family members, and friends. Listen to her share what an unhealthy workplace she was formerly at and the helpful advice for folks currently in toxic environments. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Christine and I chat about spirituality and religion. We unpack some of our initial experiences with faith and the importance of connection. Each of us are connected to one another in this world and all of our energy impacts the universe. "Everyday God for Everyday People" is a potential title for Christine's upcoming podcast, she plans to expand our conversation and create a series to delve deeper into people's experiences with faith. Listen to Christine share her journey and give great examples about things we have all felt. Looking forward to the conversations that will be sparked from this! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

One of my new favorite places to spend time in, read a book, and decompress from a long work week is the beautiful and welcoming Brooklyn Tea shop. I interview Jamila McGill about her journey to New York City, being a black owned business, and the healing power of tea. She is one part of the amazing duo, with her fiancee , that runs the shop. Everything in Brookyln Tea is put together intentionally and allows for a communal afro-centric environment. I recommend not only listening to our episode but stopping by if you are ever in the Crown Heights/Bed Sty area to drink a pot of tea, you wont regret it! Check out their website: brooklyntea.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Shantrice and I visit Montgomery, Alabama to see the Legacy Museum and Lynching Memorial. We started our trip by taking a tour with the amazing tour guide and owner of "More Than Tours", Michelle Browder. She shares what inspired her to move to the South, start her own business, and why this work is important. I highly recommend visiting Montgomery and taking her tour! Follow her on social media: Facebook: morethan1 Twitter: I Am more than --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

This is the season 1 finale of "What's The T w/ Delmar D". In this episode, I reflect on the entire process of creating my podcast and what I've learned from each guest that I interviewed. It was such a beautiful experience to examine this journey and my growth over the last few months. I'll be taking a break before I put out season 2 to work on improving the podcast and will have interviews lined up in the fall. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to be a guest, have an idea for a future episode, or want to know how to follow the page I'll be creating on social media platforms soon. As always, thank you for listening and joining the What's The T community. #blackexcellence #blackcreatives #growth #journey #healing #daringtobebrave #queer #qpoc --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Shadenia Davis is an actress, author, poet and songwriter, whose spoken word performances and poetry are infused with a love of hip hop combined with social justice and activism. Her powerful and thought-provoking pieces are inspired in part by her own life experiences - which include growing up as one of 13 children in the Bronx, New York. Shadenia was my manager years ago when we worked at Pinkberry. Listen to us chat, and laugh alot, about her moving away from retail toward her passion of preforming and writing. Offering profound performances, word craft, intense delivery, and her depth of feeling and perception will leave you shaken, stirred and wanting more. You can pre-order her book "Child of the Ghetto" here: https://shadeniasivad.com/new-page-1 #BlackCreatives #BlackGirlMagic #BlackExcellence #Healing #ChildOfTheGhetto --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Mary Vin Rose is best known for her limited talk cable series "Healthy Living in The Bronx", where she highlights people and organizations that are helping Bronx residents live a healthier life. Mary is a self-love and mental health advocate who is dedicated to promoting wellness through art and media. We met during our time at Binghamton University and re-connected over similar post-graduate experiences. The bulk of our conversation focuses on unhealthy friendships and the rarely discussed experience of breaking up with a close friend. In the end, we share some tips for folks walking away from a toxic platonic friendship. #Healing #BlackExcellence #WomenofColor #FriendBreakup #HealthyLivingBronx --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Nylisha is an entrepreneur, vegan, and graduate of SUNY Albany. We talk about our friendship, our unique coming out story, being vegan, and more! While our conversation is causal, we have some heavy moments with a healthy source of laughter. Coming out is a never ending process for LGBT+ folks and the intersection of our other identities only makes that more complicated. Toward the end of episode, we give our younger selves advice and we remind everyone to come out when they choose to and feel ready to make that decision. #LGBT #Lesbian #QPOC #Pride #WOC #ComingOut #Vegan #Healing #Blackexcellence #Blackgirljoy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Popy Begum is an adjunct lecturer, doctoral student, and social justice warrior. Popy chats with me about a deeply personal experience with the criminal justice system. Her older brother's incarceration and passing at an early stage in her life set Popy on the path to see people beyond the bars in front of them. In addition, she shares her research on force marriages and ends with some important advice for women of color. #CriminalJustice #Healing #Researcher #WOC #BeyondBars --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Omaima 'Mimi' Khan is a multi-ethnic Muslim feminist committed to international human rights. We chat in her living room about being raised in upstate New York, being a Muslim woman of color in the US, and her intersecting identities. Currently, Mimi is a lead organizer in a historic women's rights movement and navigating the intricacies of living in New York City. If you'd like to connect with her or learn more about her work, her Instagram page is yungbindi #Muslim #WOC #Feminism #Womanist #Healing #NewYork #Bing  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Tanya Fields is an environmental and food justice warrior. Executive Director of the Black Feminist Project. Mother of six kids, the Bronx, and the Earth. During our conversation, she makes a clear connection between her food justice work and using cooking as a way to educate and entertain. While Tanya has spent years creating more just spaces and shifting the status quo narrative of black women, she wants to devote more time to her Mama Tanya Kitchen project. Be on the look out for that and here is her organization if you want to make a donation: https://theblackfeministproject.org/  #MotherNature #BlackExcellence #FoodJustice #BlackGirlJoy #Bronx --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Shamsi and I reconnect about our similar academic journey, her path to becoming a nurse practitioner, and her new role as a mother. Recently, Shamsi struggled with postpartum depression and she invites us into her experience. Vulnerability is power, I cant think of a more powerful person than my friend sharing her story. Here is a great resource she shared with me for someone struggling with postpartum depression and/or the loss of a child, the Seleni Institute: www.seleni.org #Healing #Nurses #NP #selfcare #Postpartum --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Sean chats with me about his experience as a twin, transitioning, and being a trans man at Mt. Holyoke college. Sean wanted me to include, while he said he was "born female" during the episode he wants my listeners to be clear that he was assigned female at birth. Often, folks are assigned a gender at birth that they do not identify with. In addition, he shares his experience as a paralegal in a toxic work environment. Pay attention as Sean takes us on his journey to manhood and unpacks the importance of an intersectional perspective. #Transition #Blackexcellence #Healing #Blackboyjoy #Transmen #Queer #Healing --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

I chat with Xavier in our living room about being roommates, his restorative justice work, and courses he took in college on prison abolition. He is a first generation Salvadoran American committed to issues of equity and shifting how we deal with conflict. During our conversation, he shares a pivotal point in his life that has put him on this journey of healing. #Roommates #RestorativeJustice #Harm #Healing #PrisonAbolition #ElSalvador --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Johanna Foster and I sit down in my office to discuss her work as a mental health counselor, unpack how folks experience various forms of trauma, and why we should embrace a community care perspective. All of her work is grounded in anti-racist organizing and principles. Johanna recently opened a group practice to provide psychotherapy with her colleague, Karly Rodriguez, called "Our Kitchen Table" at www.kitchentablehealing.com #Trauma #CommunityCare #WomenofColor #WoC #MentalHealth #OurKitchenTable #Healing --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

Shantrice King and I talk about her speech patterns and being a doula- specifically black women's reproductive health! She also talks about living in Paris, her Fulbright research, and the barriers black women face when it comes to decisions about their bodies. We constantly hear that "black women are dying at alarming rates during and after childbirth", but Shantrice wants us to go beyond that narrative. Thus, she will embark on her Masters in Nurse-Midwifery from Yale University this upcoming fall semester to achieve her dream of opening a birthing center. Please listen, ya gonna learn soooooo much!!! #BlackGirlMagic #ReproductiveHealth #Podcast #WomenStudiesMajor #Paris #Brooklyn #Doulas #ChildBirth #HealthCare #Equity --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/delmard/support

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