This podcast is a warm embrace, soothing realness, and conscious girl talk. Black Girl In Om exists to hold and heal black women and women of color around the world on their unique wellness journeys, mending us from the inside out. Come into conversation with our founder, Lauren Ash and wellness and Spirit-centered guests across various industries to talk all things self-care and self-love, spiritual awakening, intergenerational healing, and more.
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Deun Ivory is back! In this mini-episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, Deun Ivory (she/her) joins Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around creative wellness and the Black Women Are Worthy movement. For those who are new to the show, Deun is the founder and creative director of The Body: A Home For Love, a 501C3 nonprofit and wellness members…
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#74 Divine Partnership and Conscious Hustling with Tiffany Hardin
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Award winning executive marketer, talent manager, and founder of boutique consultancy, Gild Creative Group, Tiffany Hardin (she/her) joins Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around conscious hustling and intentional partnerships. Tiffany is one of the phenomenal women co-creating the presence and impact of Black Girl In Om in the world. With gre…
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#73 Diving Deeper Into Our Ancestral Lineages and Practices with PariseNichelle
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PariseNichelle (she/her) or Iya Shango Didi as she is also lovingly called, joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around connecting with our highest selves by diving deeper into our ancestral lineages and practices. Parise is an initiated priestess, medium, diviner, and healer. For over 15 years, she has used her gifts to help wo…
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A Jubilant Juneteenth Cocoon of Inspiration with Lyvonne "Pastor Bae" Briggs
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Pastor Bae is back, y’all! Body and sex-positive preacher, writer, and transformational speaker Lyvonne Briggs aka “Pastor Bae” (she/her) joins Lauren Ash (she/they) for this special minisode all about the Queen Solomon Goddess Rising Summit coming up this Juneteenth. Lyvonne has curated this sacred space for those who are ready to embrace the powe…
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The Process: Unconditional Love begins tomorrow, June 10!
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Hi community! BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/they) is popping in with this special episode to announce that The Process: Unconditional Love begins tomorrow June 10th. This 28-day journey, exclusive for an intimate collective of members, will deepen into unconditional love and support with weekly group coaching with Lauren, a heart-chakra focused expe…
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#72 Creating Spaces For Ourselves Outside The White Gaze with Makkah Ali
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Makkah Ali (she/her), Chicago-based podcaster, facilitator, and public speaker, joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around spiritual seeking and creating spaces for ourselves outside of the white gaze. Makkah is a multidimensional being who makes space for others to find peace and beauty in the many identities they claim. She e…
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#71 Doing Everything With Love with Caprice Dominique
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Natural hair care stylist Caprice Dominique (she/her/they)joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/her) in conversation around naming and claiming our desires. Caprice has been blessing Lauren’s life and hair for several years with her healing hands and personal touch of love and compassion. She’s all about empowering Black women to own our unique hair j…
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Enroll Now To Join Us For 28 Days To Alignment
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Hey Community! Lauren’s popping in to announce that 28 Days To Alignment, Black Girl In Om’s quarterly alignment and intention masterclass, kicks off this Tuesday the 11th with an intention-setting gathering. This program is all about you setting a clear intention in your life and learning Lauren’s personal rituals, journaling inquiries, and person…
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#70 Becoming A Reflection Of Our Most Authentic Selves with Taylor S. Hunter
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Photographer, wellness guide, and artist, Taylor S. Hunter (she/her), joins Black Girl In Om founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around building self-trust and getting specific about our dreams. Taylor’s work is dedicated to affirming black women on their divine paths to self-love and self-discovery. Through her lens, she intentionally cr…
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#69 Suspending All Constructs Of The Mind with Dr. G
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Spiritual warrior Dr. G (Doc/She/This Being) joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (She/They) in conversation around the power of play and presence in the face of life’s transitions. Dr G is a clinical psychologist, death doula, writer, and multidisciplinary teacher who works with individuals to transform their adversity into the grounds for strength by br…
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#68 Reclaiming Wellness As Our Birthright with Bonkosi Horn
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In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, co-founder and creative director of Freedom Apothecary, Bonkosi Horn (she/her), joins BGIO founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around reclaiming self care and wellness as our birthright. Freedom Apothecary is a space that centers Black women & WOC coming together in community along their se…
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Lauren (she/they) announces that Black Girl In Om’s very first physical space, home, is coming soon to the Longfellow community in Minneapolis! In this mini-sode of the BGIO Podcast, Lauren takes us through the serendipitous journey toward crafting the vision and finding the perfect location to plant the roots of what will be an oasis of intergener…
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#67 Radical Self-Inquiry Through Yoga Nidra with Tracee Stanley
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In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, author and lineaged yoga teacher Tracee Stanley (she/her) joins BGIO Founder Lauren Ash (she/they) in conversation around why Yoga Nidra is the powerful healing practice the world needs. When we give ourselves the tools of rest, we build upon our strength, peace, and ability to focus on what matters.…
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#66 Expressing Love & Spirituality Through Food with Klancy Miller
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In this episode of the Black Girl In Om Podcast, chef & author Klancy Miller joins BGIO founder Lauren in conversation around the expansive power of expressing love to ourselves and our communities through the preparation and enjoyment of food. Klancy and Lauren share their unique food rituals that help them to create the perfect vibe for a truly n…
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#65 Embracing The Black Velvet Of The Void With Jas The Moon Mother
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Jas The Moon Mother guides people to retrieve their liberation and align with their soul’s purpose. She utilizes the tools of Human Design and intentional language to interrupt looping lies that can keep us trapped in cycles of burnout. In this episode of the Black Girl in Om (BGIO) Podcast, Jas joins BGIO founder Lauren in conversation around iden…
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#64 Integrating Sensuality, Spirituality, and Sexuality with Lyvonne “Pastor Bae” Briggs
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Lyvonne “Pastor Bae” Briggs is a body and sex positive pastor and preacher, spiritual life coach, transformational speaker, and founder of The Proverbial Experience, an IG Live series of spiritual gatherings to nourish your soul. She is committed to centering the experiences of Black women in her work of rooting spiritual practice in pleasure and a…
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#63 Freeing Up Our Bodies with Our Voice with Gina Breedlove
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Gina Breedlove is a sound healer, a vocalist, a composer and a medicine woman. She is committed to the liberation of us, one body at a time. In this episode of the Black Girl In Om (BGIO) podcast, BGIO Founder Lauren Ash and Gina Breedlove join in conversation and discuss the power of voice and listening as a radical act. They poetically weave us t…
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Join The Annual Day of Wholeness: Embodied Liberation Through The Chakras
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Journey through the chakras and renew your energy with BGIO on December 5th! The Annual Day of Wholeness is our annual radical trip within to explore the levels of your highest self and our divine, inherent liberation. We will journey through each core chakra in our bodies. spinning wheels of light in all of us that receive, recalibrate, and radiat…
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#62 Creativity as a Spiritual Practice with Chetna Mehta
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In this episode, Black Girl in Om Founder Lauren Ash explores the belief of creativity as a spiritual practice with mystic and mixed media artist, Chetna Mehta, creator of @mosaiceye. Through the lens of wisdom she has gained from lived experience and studying psychology, Chetna explains how practicing self-compassion can not only expand our capaci…
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Plumps pillows Sis, when’s the last time you invested in making your sleep ritualistic? Given the nature of the intensity that has been 2020, we hope that you can end this year on an intentionally regenerative note with us and consider how to enter 2021 more supported than ever. Because truly: #YouDeserve. At BGIO, our phenomenal sponsor Tempur-ped…
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#61 Affirming, Approaching, and Allowing Abundance: Accept The Calling with Rha Goddess
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We are buzzing with excitement because the number of vital life lessons shared in this conversation are too abundant to count. Listen in to experience the powerful (un)learning, necessary affirmation, and bountiful wisdom shared between Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash and the transcendent spirit that is Rha Goddess. As the Founder and CEO of M…
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#60 Dive into the Mystery Heart First with Mariam Mouna
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Mariam Mouna Guessous, Founder of I See You Wellness, is giving us the real life hacks—an Ikea Pinterest board could never. Join Lauren Ash, Black Girl In Om Founder, as she talks all things adventure with Mariam. Learn how to say yes to your soul-self by diving into the mystery when you follow your heart. Mar shares her story of breaking out of a …
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#59 Embody Your Power At Your Pace: An Invitation To Vibrate Higher Daily with Lalah Delia
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Press play to immerse yourself in this conversation that truly feels like a breath of fresh air. In this moment of sisterhood, Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash is joined by the one and only Lalah Delia. In what can be considered a continuation of her first BGIO podcast moment Lalah is here to keep us all on the path to vibrate higher daily and …
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We are back and we’re better, people, like that Bryson Tiller quote. Season 5 of the Black Girl In Om podcast is cultivating energetic and spiritual conversations that speak to deeper aspects of our healing journeys as black womxn and as multifaceted spiritual beings. At this moment in human history, in global history, BGIO is honing in on the valu…
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Wholeness is where it’s at: The Circle is LIVE and welcomes every part of you!
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We invite you to join The Circle to begin or continue your path to whole, visit the new blackgirlinom.com for more details and enrollment. BGIO has been uniquely positioned in the digital space and in-person to be able to connect with our community. We’ve always had a strong online component, from the beginning. So many of our community members hav…
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Affirming words—and our affirming new sister circle for you.
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Take a brief moment to close your eyes, breathe, and affirm with us that in this moment you have everything you need to get through. Our founder Lauren Ash offers a calming moment within what may be a storm for many of us right now. And, then, she offers an exciting announcement about something our team has been creating with love for our community…
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This year, say yes to the unfolding with our love, Danielle Lyles Barton.
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The darling Danielle Lyles Barton is back on the podcast to chat about the incredible journey she's taken since we last spoke in this special "minisode". Listen along as she and BGIO Founder, Lauren Ash chat through the evolutions that have birthed the incredible experience that is the unfolding. In this four day, immersive experience you’ll find s…
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This weekend, join (and support!) the body: a home for love for their #mybodymyhome LA experience.
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In this "minisode" our beloved sisterfriend Deun Ivory returns to the Black Girl In Om podcast to chat with Lauren Ash about what she is cultivating within her 501c3 (it's official, ya'll!) nonprofit organization the body: a home for love. For our Los Angeles loves, this Sunday, March 1st Deun and her team present an experiential fundraising activa…
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Creating Space To Expand: A Moment of Reflection and Meditation with Lauren Ash
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Happy New Moon, loves! We know many of you are still getting your lives from The Expansion Series and we have another treat from this tour to serve your journey to expansion. In this recording, live from the Los Angeles stop of The Expansion Tour, BGIO Founder, Lauren Ash shares a moving testimony on the expansive power of pleasure, connecting with…
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#57. Creating Space To Expand: A Conversation with Karlene Graham Perry
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Karlene Graham Perry is the founder and executive director of NUEVOLVE. She leads manifestation retreats and workshops in places like Bali and Peru, teaching women how to create ManifestAction Plans otherwise known as MAPs. These MAPs offer clarity around the pruning and planting needed to allow the seeds of your dreams to expand to abundant fruiti…
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#56. Creating Space to Expand: A Live Conversation with Alexandria Eregbu
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Alexandria Eregbu is a visual artist and arts practitioner. On a fundamental level, Alexandria believes that the impact of art is strengthened by shared values within community. As such, she is most dedicated to providing services that promote empowerment and advocacy for artists and communities engaging the arts. Her early background and interest …
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#55. Creating Space To Expand: A Live Conversation with Rachel Cargle
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Rachel Cargle is a public academic, lecturer, and author. Her work centers at the intersection of race and womanhood where she is building an intellectual legacy through teaching, storytelling, and critical discourse. Her organization, The Loveland Foundation, champions Black women through a sturdy commitment to integrity and intention. Rachel mani…
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#54. Creating Space To Expand: A Live Conversation with Erica Chidi-Cohen
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Erica Chidi-Cohen is an educator, author, doula, and the co-founder and CEO of LOOM, which provides empowered education from periods to parenting. She is passionate about helping people cultivate body literacy and sex positivity by giving them the tools to advocate for their and loved one’s reproductive health and wellbeing. Her work has guided tho…
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#53. Creating Space To Expand: A Live Conversation with Deun Ivory
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Deun Ivory is a traveling wellness creative, inspirational speaker, influencer, and multidisciplinary artist whose work centers and celebrates Black women. Widely recognized for her striking portrait photography and authentic influence in the creative and wellness industry, she has partnered with brands like Apple, Glossier, Nike, Netflix, and more…
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Join us for a full day of wellness this November!
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Our annual celebration of Black Girl In Om is here, y'all! To celebrate year five, we are *so* excited to announce The Annual, an elevated experience for women of color to practice holistic well-being. In partnership with The Assembly, we've created this immersive full day event to release what no longer serves you, receive all that's meant for you…
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Expansive intentions + an invitation for you.
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Press play to be blessed with some of the intentions from your fellow community members + share your intentions with us when you reserve your spot for The BGIO Expansion Tour: http://bit.ly/BGIOEventsBy Lauren Ash
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#52. Moving Mindfully: Motherhood, Meals, and Manifestations of Power with Jenné Claiborne
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Those of y’all who’ve been with us for a while already know today’s guest. The darling, jubilant, and all-around lovely Jenné Claiborne is joining us on this episode and we couldn’t be happier. Jenné has been a member of the Black Girl In Om family for years and recently expanded her own family in a whole new way: she gave birth to a beautiful baby…
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Join us for The Expansion Tour! Venture deeper into your wellness journey with Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash and an incredible group of very special guests. Sign up and be ready to expand and elevate yourself through meditation, intention setting, and reclamation of a space that's been ours all along. Head to our website to get all the detai…
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#51. Perfect, Whole, Complete: Connecting Curiosity And Conscious Communication with Dr. Crystal Jones
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You are perfect. You are whole. You are complete. All the thanks to the incomparable and absolutely incredible Dr. Crystal Jones for gifting us with that truth to forever hold onto. Throughout this conversation, Crystal reminds us that we are and always have been everything we most desire. As a longtime member of the Black Girl In Om circle we’ve f…
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#50. The Many Layers of Black Womanhood with Kenesha Sneed
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Press play and journey through the musings of an incredible and impactful multidisciplinary artist we love, Kenesha Sneed. She truly embodies what it means to be a multifaceted Black woman through her exploration of art forms and absolute refusal to be boxed into any specific way of being. We’re especially lucky to catch Kenesha at this time as she…
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#49. Explore, Examine, and Enrich: Reset Your Relationships with Nkechi Njaka
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Who are you in your relationships? In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder Lauren Ash and Art Director Deun Ivory are sitting down with the most mindful neuroscientist we know, the incredible Nkechi Njaka, to dive into this question in a major way. Given her status as a longtime, frequent, and beloved contributor to our online publication, consid…
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#48. Documenting and Defining: Determine Your Story with Rikkí Wright
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Through her words, her work, and her presence, Rikkí Wright is creating a legacy that will live on forever. As a modern-day storyteller, Rikkí demonstrates the beauty, the power, the vulnerability, and the stories of Black women through the unique perspective of her lens. If you haven’t seen her work yet, do yourself a favor and get familiar. In co…
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#47. Cultivating Connection Creatively with Morgan Harper Nichols
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What does connection mean to you? From the early days of Black Girl In Om, our consistent and unwavering core has always been this incredible community. Connection is at the heart of our lives as human beings and in this podcast conversation, Morgan Harper Nichols is sharing more on what that means to her. Through her incredible artistic endeavors,…
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#46. Ignite Intentionally: A Cannabis Conversation with DeJanae Evins
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As much as we love a huge green salad, smoothie, or juice, we’re discussing going green in a whole new way today. In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash and Art Director, Deun Ivory sit down with DeJanae Evins, an expert on cannabis, wellness, and their various intersections. As the creator of and creative mastermind behind Green God…
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#45. Claim Your Divine Reality with Millana Snow
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The life you desire is already yours, but do you trust that you can create it? With encouragement from the one and only Millana Snow, we’re confident your perspective will be changed forever. As an energy healer and ever-evolving spirit, Millana is fully focused on helping us heal through expanded consciousness in our everyday lives. Most recently,…
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#44. Loving, Living, Learning: A Liberated Life Talk with Rev. angel Kyodo williams
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This conversation goes DEEP, y’all. We know this episode is going to touch so many of you with the affirmations, advice, and real talk provided by the absolutely incomparable Rev. angel Kyodo williams. She is a teacher formally trained in the Zen tradition, a person deeply aware of who she is, and an honest reflection of what liberated living reall…
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#43. Authenticity Above All: Creating Sustainable Community with Abena Boamah
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In a word, this conversation feels like home. Join Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash and Art Director, Deun Ivory for this enriching, moving, cackle-filled chat with their very best * clears throat and sings * giiiiiiirlfriend, Abena Boamah.The mastermind founder of Hanahana Beauty has been a truly beautiful reminder for our community to stay sm…
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#42. Destigmatize Your Desire with Ev’Yan Whitney
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Let’s talk about sex, baby... but for real though! Black Girl In Om Founder, Lauren Ash and Art Director, Deun Ivory are sharing all types of fortifying, affirming, and healing thoughts on this topic with exceptional educator and sexuality doula, Ev’Yan Whitney. As she once shared on her Instagram, “a womxn doesn’t have to be modest to be respected…
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#41. Answers and Alignment with Deun and Lauren
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We’re back, loves! This new season is starting off with so much greatness, thanks to y’all. In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder Lauren Ash and Art Director Deun Ivory answer your questions with the wisdom they’ve received in their own lives. This conversation is just a preview of all that’s coming this season. We’re talking intention, transfo…
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Black Girl In Om Season 4 Teaser with Lauren Ash and Deun Ivory
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Catch the latest from Deun and Lauren with the first peek into Season 4! Support us on Patreon and subscribe today, wherever you listen to podcasts.By Lauren Ash
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