A Black Woman's Journey

This season we highlight conversations with leaders in the media and entertainment space and drill down into how the themes we uncovered in season one are experienced by women in the prime of their lives and careers. First up: Joy Lowen, CEO of the National Screen Institute in Winnipeg.

In this episode, we're joined by guest co-host Jennifer Fyffe from Penguin Random House and we chat with Antonio Michael Downing, Author, Musician and Activist. His 2010 debut novel, Molasses, was published to critical acclaim. In 2017 he was named by the RBC Taylor Prize as one of Canada's top Emerging Authors for nonfiction. We caught up at the Vancouver Writer’s Fest to talk about Grandmothers, Music and Belonging centred on his second novel Saga Boy: My Life of Blackness and Becoming.

In this episode we speak with Yannick Rice Lamb, Journalist and Professor at Howard University in Washington, DC. Yannick has held senior leadership roles with BET Weekend, Heart & Soul and the New York Times magazines, won awards for her health journalism work, has written three non-fiction books, her forthcoming debut novel, Nursing Wounds will be out soon, AND she’s pursuing a PhD in Medical Sociology. I am so grateful she remains part of my network after all of these years. Let’s get into it… here’s my chat with the incomparable Yannick Rice Lamb.

In this episode author and former MP Celina Caesar-Chavannes joins us to talk about courage and manifestation ahead of the release of her fist book, “Can You Hear Me Now?” We learn about Reiki and Rolfing from Mayumi Hara (www.MayumiHara.com). Rachel Hayek takes us through a meditation. https://www.amazon.ca/Can-You-Hear-Me-Now/dp/0735279594

A Black Woman's Journey is a quarterly podcast in three parts: expert advice, how to turn advice into action, and tools for self-care. In each episode we seek to share what we wished we had known years ago that can help lead Black women to better professional and health outcomes. Hosted by a rotating group of women, this is where we stop self-editing our authentic selves. It is a selfless and a selfish space where we share what we know with a focus only on us.  Perform or Perish In the first episode of the podcast we explore the pressure to perform and conform to a myopic script that society has allowed Black women to exist in. We share life stories, how we've played to the script and veered completely off script. How it all matters (to us individually) and how none of it matters (to dominant, patriarchal society).  Life, love, health and trauma are touched upon within the context of Say Her Name. Then we close out the discussion with wellness tips and tools in the form of coping mechanisms and a meditation. This is a Black Woman's Journey