Best Anika Wilson Podcasts (2024)

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Asking for help: Strength or Weakness with Andrea Hancock 43:52

1+ y ago43:52

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Help is one of the greatest gifts we can give or receive. It allows us to offer assistance to others in need and also provides us with an opportunity to receive help when we are in need. However, despite the importance of help, many people are reluctant to ask for help when they need it. This is often because of the stigma that is attached to askin…

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Why I’m Dedicating An Entire Season to Leadership? 23:40

1+ y ago23:40

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As a leader, your voice has the power to inspire, educate and effect change. So why not use it to your advantage? This season, the podcast will focus on leadership, diversity, and social issues. And I know that you have expertise in either similar areas or the intersection of some of my interests. That's why I wanted to share the topics and dates f…

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Identity & Femininity with Natasha Degazon 24:09

1+ y ago24:09

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Identity and femininity are trending topics, along with imposter syndrome, self-image, and identity. As women running businesses that serve clients around the world, it is imperative that we embrace our identity, own our femininity, and make bold moves. Our guest hails all the way from Montreal, Canada. She has been in the makeup industry for 15 ye…

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Using-Your-Strengths-as-Freedom-of-Choice 1:03:46

2y ago1:03:46

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Strengths are measurable constructs that are often overlooked and minimized by challenges. Today, we discuss ways to identify, nurture and implement strength-based strategies to Lean In To The Best Version of You! Meet our panelists: Eddie L. Johnson: Founder & CEO of E4 Inspiring Motivations, LLC brings a variety of personal and professional exper…

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Using your Strengths as Freedom of Choice-Power Panel 1:03:46

2y ago1:03:46

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Strengths are measurable constructs that are often overlooked and minimized by challenges. Today, we discuss ways to identify, nurture and implement strength based strategies to Lean In To The Best Version of You! Meet our panelists: Eddie L. Johnson: Founder & CEO of E4 Inspiring Motivations, LLC brings a variety of personal and professional exper…

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What’cha Workin With? 54:41

2y ago54:41

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Times are calling for a change in every industry. Let's start with your mindset, to identify the most valuable skills, gifts, and talents. As entrepreneurs, professionals and educators, we strive to impact others through knowledge sharing, support, and resources attainment. Our guest panelists are here to share tips and tools to enhance your leader…

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Is the Glass Ceiling Shattered, Cracked or Broken? with Lindsay Tramel-Jones and Cathy McKinnon 52:07

2y ago52:07

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2022 is here and we are ready to break through the taboo topics plaguing women striving for excellence. Women have fought long and hard for equal rights since the 1940s. Women are now leading in the boardroom, the household, and in business. Despite the appearance of women in male dominating industries, equality, compensation, and respect are still…

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Our Listening Community 0:51

2+ y ago0:51

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We want to hear from our listening community! We need your input, your feedback, your agreements and your disagreements. Share your thoughts and help shape the future of Being Seen by filling out our listener survey. It only takes two minutes and can be found at beingseenpodcast.com/survey.By Harley & Co. and ViiV Healthcare

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Transforming Trauma Into Resilient Leadership- Power Panel 1:04:53

2+ y ago1:04:53

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Resilient leadership is all about bouncing back from adversity and applying your lived experiences to help others advance. This discussion is prompted by the recent events around the world wreaking havoc on individuals, families, communities, organizations, and more. Change is inevitable, so is adversity. However, there are ways to navigate adversi…

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Transferable Skills Podcast Panel 40:38

2+ y ago40:38

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Transferable Skills are classified as portable skills that transfer from one job to another. As entrepreneurs, we often minimize our skills and abilities shortchanging our impact on others. This podcast will expose skills that you can promote to your target market, strategic partners and clients to properly communicate your products and services to…

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Being Seen, Episode 30, Movement 49:46

2+ y ago49:46

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How does movement show up in our lives and what power does it hold? With movement comes the future, the ability to grow, to try something new, adapt, and become. Featured in this episode: A’ja Wilson, Ashley Everett and Lady Jess. Artwork provided by Sarah Dahir. Photography provided by Amber Pinkerton…

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Dominating As A Leading Woman Of Color- Power Panel 1:09:57

2+ y ago1:09:57

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“We are not born women of color. We become women of color. In order to become women of color, we would need to become fluent in each others’ histories, to resist and unlearn an impulse to claim first oppression, most-devastating oppression, one-of-a-kind oppression, defying comparison oppression. We would have to unlearn an impulse that allows myth…

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Being Seen, Episode 28, Safety 45:31

2+ y ago45:31

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The ability to feel safe -- when and how one wishes. How do we define safety, on our own terms? What does the future look like when we create, and dream into being, safe spaces for all Black women? Featured in this episode: Jessamyn Stanley, Aria Sa’id and Mariame Kaba. Artwork provided by Tiffany Alfonseca Photography provided by Kate Sterlin, Nyd…

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Being Seen, Episode 27, Laughter 36:35

2+ y ago36:35

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Laughter as a salve, a weapon, a commentary, and an intimacy that is often best shared. Where does laughter show up in our lives, and how can we use it as a tool for empathy and understanding? Featured in this episode: Ts Madison. Artwork provided by Uzo Njoku Photography provided by Kourtney King and Amber Pinkterton…

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Being Seen, Episode 26, Freedom 38:51

2+ y ago38:51

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How can we find our freedoms and ourselves through our stories? Freedom from stereotypes, from stigma, from silence. The freedom of visibility. The freedom of being seen. Featured in this episode: Dominique Jackson, Calida Rawles and Jacqueline Woodson. Artwork provided by Calida Rawles Photography provided by Kate Sterlin…

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What If? A Controversial Paradigm Shift 34:29

2+ y ago34:29

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Diferent is an author, motivational speaker and advocate passionate about social awareness, mental health, and self care. She is the owner of Th3rd Eye Entertainment.TH3RD EYE Entertainment is a limited liability company that is parented by Difernt an Author, Entrepreneur, and Motivational Speaker. Diferent strives to educate, promote, and inspire …

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Making Health Accessible for Everyone with Lisa Peranzo 40:28

2+ y ago40:28

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Lisa Peranzo is the CEO and Founder of A Healthful Life offering healthy living solutions tailored towards the individual and their specific goals. She strives to make health accessible to everyone on a global scale through her fitness coaching and amazing Instagram LIVE's featuring daily workouts for Busy Moms so they can find health again. Lisa i…

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Being Seen, Episode 25, Motherhood 36:41

2+ y ago36:41

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All too often motherhood is a narrowly defined space full of bias and assumption. How can we think about it more expansively and in what ways have we provided or received mothering in our own lives? Featured in this episode: Raquel Willis, Ciarra Covin and Kaitlyn Greenidge. Artwork provided by Sydney Vernon Photography provided by Imani Dennison, …

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Being Seen, Episode 24, Health 38:48

2+ y ago38:48

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A conversation about health and care, with a focus on mental health. How can we create the spaces and systems needed to dismantle stigma for ourselves and for each other? Featured in this episode: Taraji P. Henson. Artwork provided by Megan Gabrielle Harris Photography provided by Lucie Rox and Ruby Okoro…

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Unlocking Communication Potential with Malika Dudley 1:01:01

2+ y ago1:01:01

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Malika Dudley is a Broadcast Veteran. Keynote Speaker. Podcaster. Blogger. Influencer. Media Consultant. Communication Scholar. Mom. Does she elevate the give-back component? "I'm blessed to be financially secure and therefore I can pay forward things like creating pre-roll ads for local businesses as an incentive for them to donate to local charit…

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Being Seen, Episode 23, Responsibility 29:33

2+ y ago29:33

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What are we asked to be responsible for? Do we assume our responsibilities willingly or are they placed upon us? A conversation on the many things we have been asked to carry. Featured in this episode: Sydney Barber, Tiya Miles and Martha Jones. Artwork provided by Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi Photography provided by Nydia Blas and Kate Sterlin…

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Being Seen, Episode 22, Power 36:49

2+ y ago36:49

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An exploration of power. How we use it, how it can be used against us, and the many ways it manifests in our lives. Featured in this episode: Ledisi (Singer & Actress) and Roxane Gay (Author). Artwork for this episode provided by Quiana Parks.By Harley & Co. and ViiV Healthcare

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Being Seen, Episode 21, Introducing Season 3 27:06

2+ y ago27:06

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A conversation between Darnell Moore, host of Seasons 1 and 2, and Anika Noni Rose, host of Season 3, on occupying this space at this moment and the importance of prioritizing the voices and experiences of Black women. Featured in this episode: Darnell Moore (Host of Season 1 and 2) and Anika Noni Rose (Host of Season 3) Artwork for this episode pr…

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How To Use Your Vulnerability To Share Your Story with Janine Hernandez 27:02

2+ y ago27:02

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"If your dreams don't scare you, they're not big enough"-Janine Hernandez Janine Hernandez is a Serial Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Single-mother and founder of the Book Publishing Academy. After working in corporate Human Resources for 13 years, she endorsed her vision and pursued a full-time life shift into building her empire. In this episode, J…

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Finding Joy In The Journey with Callie Teegardin 54:17

2+ y ago54:17

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Callie Teegardin is Your Journey Guide, a serial entrepreneur that started her first business in 2006 after leaving corporate. In 2009, she started her second business to gain control of her time, energy and resources. She strives to help others Find Joy In The journey through relationship marketing. She speaks about Business Networking, Leadership…

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Our Community 0:43

3y ago0:43

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We want to hear from our listening community! We need your input, your feedback, your agreements and your disagreements. It only takes two minutes to fill out and can be found at beingseenpodcast.com/survey.By Harley & Co. and ViiV Healthcare

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Being Seen, Episode 20, For The People 21:54

3y ago21:54

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A look behind the scenes at what it means to create in this moment. Reflections on community, fellowship and love from the creators of Being Seen. Featured in this episode: Emil Wilbekin (Founder, Native Son), Darius Brown (Emmy-Award Winning Producer), Gioncarlo Valentine (Visual Narrator, Writer & Curator), and DaShawn Usher (Founder, Mobilizing …

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Become The Master of Your Life with Esperanza 39:09

3y ago39:09

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Esperanza Smith is a Holistic Educator, Healer, Writer, and Motivational Speaker. She authored the book: Girl Seeking Pearls and Founder of PureEsperanza, NFP. She is an educator committed to human development and holistic educator trained in Waldorf Education. Her passion for healing, metaphysics, spiritual science, religions, mysticism, esoterici…

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Being Seen, Episode 19, Sports 34:40

3y ago34:40

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How gay and queer Black men are reimagining sports, creating space, and discovering new possibility models. Featured in this episode: Nate Burleson (Sports Commentator & Former NFL Player), Jason Collins (Former NBA Player), and LZ Granderson (Award-Winning Sports Journalist). Artwork for this episode provided by Jonathan Lyndon Chase, and photogra…

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Being Seen, Episode 18, Trans Masculine Experience 44:18

3y ago44:18

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An exploration of masculinities through the eyes of trans masculine people, gender-expansive individuals, and the ones who love us. Featured in this episode: Guest Host Texas Isaiah (Visual Narrator), Wazi Maret (Producer & Songwriter), Ahya Simone (Multidisciplinary Artist), and Marquise Vilsón (Actor & Activist). Artwork for this episode provided…

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Being Seen, Episode 17, Afro-Latinx 33:06

3y ago33:06

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How interconnected identities shape our stories, through the lens of the Afro-Latinx experience. Featured in this episode: Representative Ritchie Torres, Steven Canals (Screenwriter & Producer), and Wilson Cruz (Award-Winning Actor). Artwork for this episode provided by Gustavo de Nazareno and photography provided by Steven Molina Contreras & Gionc…

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How To Get Prospects to Say Yes-with the Micro-commitment Strategist Vladamir Adonis 31:56

3y ago31:56

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Vladamir Adonis is a Micro-Commitment Strategist dedicated to the development of lead generation. Vladamir shares his story of failure from his first business venture costing him $80,000 leading him to his passion of marketing. Marketing is a broad field yet he manages to provide entrepreneurs with the tips, tools, strategies and systems to success…

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Being Seen, Episode 16, Hollywood 23:54

3y ago23:54

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An exploration of representation in Hollywood and how entertainment can become a tool for transformation. Featured in this episode: Anthony Hemingway (Director & Producer), Brandon Goodman (Writer & Actor), and Colman Domingo (Actor, Writer & Director). Artwork for this episode provided by Xavier Daniels and photography provided by Dustin Thierry.…

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Conversations with ”The Joy Junkie” 48:48

3y ago48:48

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We all deserve joy, despite our pasts, present and future experiences. This episode features the world renowned "Joy Junkie" Amy Smith, a life coach and hypnotherapist. She is dedicated to helping women believe that they are worthy, deserving and valuable despite their false perception of lack. She motivates women to live, act and thrive as the for…

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Being Seen, Episode 15, Barbershop 32:42

3y ago32:42

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Finding spaces where we can inhabit shared visions of freedom. Featured in this episode: Quincy Mills (Professor & Author), Marc Lamont Hill (TV Host, Author & Activist), and Lorenzo Lewis (Advocate, Speaker & Author). Artwork for this episode provided by Stephen Towns and photography provided by Antonio Johnson.…

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Being Seen, Episode 14, Youth 25:49

3y ago25:49

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An exploration of marking our existence, building community and cherishing our youth. Featured in this episode: Shangela (Actor, Comedian & Performer), Kalen Allen (Creator, Writer & Actor), and Keiynan Lonsdale (Dancer & Singer-Songwriter). Artwork for this episode provided by Daniel Marcellus Givens and photography provided by Widline Cadet.…

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Being Seen, Episode 13, Mentorship 25:48

3y ago25:48

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The power of mentoring to create representative narratives, construct community and build a collective legacy. Featured in this episode: Guest Co-Host Lena Waithe (Writer, Actor & Producer), Gina Prince-Bythewood (Writer & Director), Little Marvin (Writer & Producer) and LaDarian Smith (Writer & Producer). Artwork for this episode provided by Jon K…

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Being Seen, Episode 12, Fatherhood 32:15

3y ago32:15

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An exploration of the power, the challenge, the opportunities and the experience of fatherhood. Featured in this episode: Dennis Williams (SVP, WarnerMedia), Jericho Brown (Award-Winning Poet), and Calvin & Tim (Fathers & Advocates) joined by their daughter Grady. Artwork for this episode provided by Cbabi Bayoc and photography provided by Gioncarl…

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Hypnosis Simplified with Melissa Conkling 42:07

3y ago42:07

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Melissa Conkling is a Certified Hypnotist currently pursuing her NLP Practitioner and Life Coaching certification. She works with the subconscious mind to make changes on a deeper level to release blocks, overcome limiting beliefs and build confidence. Her passion is to help women transform creating powerful changes in their lives by uncovering lim…

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Finding Joy with Linda Shively 38:17

3y ago38:17

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Linda Shively is a best-selling author, award-winning speaker, neuroscience and mindset expert. She has presented across the country at places like the Harvard Club of Boston, the New York City Bar Association, Walmart, and Carnegie Hall. Linda has been a multiple-time guest and a host on cable television, featured in a feature-film with Winona Ryd…

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Being Seen, Episode 11, Futures 36:50

3+ y ago36:50

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Stories as freedom. Our futures. Transforming culture and ourselves through the power of narrative, community, and our connection to our pasts. Featured in this episode: Lena Waithe (Writer, Actor & Producer) and a special interview with James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni (courtesy of WNET and originally recorded for Soul!). Artwork for this episode …

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Being Seen, Episode 10, Stigma 35:28

3+ y ago35:28

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The pain of stigma and the power we have to dismantle it. Building communities that embrace and care for people living with HIV in all the ways. Giving them the love, care and consideration they have always deserved. Featured in this episode: Dr. Kimberly Smith (Head of R&D, ViiV Healthcare), Emil Wilbekin (Founder, Native Son), Tboy (Community Act…

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Being Seen, Episode 09, Faith 35:54

3+ y ago35:54

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Creating inclusive communities of faith, sexuality and the divine, the church as a “horizon for imagining the terms of Black life.” How can we create spaces of faith that expand and affirm the fullness of all of our existences? Featured in this episode: Mykal Kilgore (Musician & Activist), Bishop Yvette Flunder (Pastor & Activist), and Josef Sorett…

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Being Seen, Episode 08, Love, Radically 33:07

3+ y ago33:07

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Black men loving Black men is, as the deceased Black gay writer Joseph Beam opined in the 1980s, a “revolutionary act” because every moment a Black man is transgressive enough to love what he has been socialized to hate, he commits an act of insurgency. And this is what it is to love, radically. Featured in this episode: Luke James (Musician & Acto…

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Being Seen, Episode 07, Intimacy 31:33

3+ y ago31:33

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How do we define intimacy and in what ways do we cultivate it or allow it to show up in our lives? Are our intimacies many or are they few? And do we ask the people we let into our spaces to show us the care and consideration we both need and deserve? Featured in this episode: Zeke Thomas (Musician & Advocate), Dyllon Burnside (Actor), Kai M. Green…

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Being Seen, Episode 06, Being Seen 28:52

3+ y ago28:52

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Double consciousness. Who defines how we are seen and who creates our archives? What is the power of process when creating more accurate representations? The effects of the many gazes that fall upon us and the ones we apply to ourselves. Featured in this episode: E. Patrick Johnson (Artist & Scholar), Gioncarlo Valentine (Photographer & Curator), T…

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Being Seen, Episode 05, Creating Context 25:41

3+ y ago25:41

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Mississippi, Texas, the Bronx, Camden. The power of context. The places and landscapes that define us from our countries to our bodies. The stories that take place amongst these backdrops and the ways in which our specificity should never be denied or overlooked. Featured in this episode: Kiese Laymon (Author), Diedrick Brackens (Artist), Jerome La…

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Being Seen, Episode 04, Creating Space 23:19

3+ y ago23:19

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Spaces. Space. The places we occupy and a trip that takes us beyond to a point where we can transcend. Eddie Ndopu plans to be the first disabled person to go to space, the first Black queer disabled person. This quest is confirmation of what we should all already know, that people like Eddie are magnificent in all of their multiplicities. Featured…

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Being Seen, Episode 01, The First 32:35

3+ y ago32:35

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A Strange Loop, making it in Hollywood, getting to Broadway, Billie Holiday. What is the story behind culture firsts that break down barriers, push back against invisibility and refute stereotypes? How does the creation impact the creator? Why are we still fighting to get these firsts made? Featured in this episode: Lee Daniels (Writer, Director & …

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Being Seen, Episode 02, Finding The Story 29:43

3+ y ago29:43

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Who decides what stories will be told and how can we rewrite the narrative of what constitutes the “American” story? How can stories become our proof of life? What will it take to bring forth more stories from places that aren’t officially sanctioned? Featured in this episode: Saeed Jones (Poet & Author), Ben Cory Jones (Writer, Director & Producer…

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