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In this episode, ahead of Mother's Day, Quai discusses the importance of mothers and how we should acknowledge and show gratitude to our mothers every day. She discusses her 3 children & gives some highlights and lessons learned during her own 15-year motherhood journey. Quai also reflects on her moms and how influential they are and have been in her life. She touches on maturity, reflection, forgiveness, understanding and forward movement; healing past maternal hurts in order to appropriately and effectively move forward as she raises her own children. Sometimes it takes us becoming mothers for us to better understand, respect and appreciate our own. Whether you're a mother or not, HONOR and CHERISH yours. Tupac said it best: "There's no way I can pay you back, but the plan is to show you that I understand...you are appreciated.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MAMAS!

Listen Beautiful! As we continue to grow through our journeys, it's important to shout out all the Moms out here! I had the pleasure of speaking with a friend of mine and we let it all out! The real behind the scenes of becoming a Mommy and navigating the world with this title. 

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Dear Mama,

Come celebrate with us.  Celebrate this beautiful mothering journey.  Celebrate with us the powerful legacy of Black motherhood that always offers healing, is abundant in creativity, and expands liberation. We are celebrating Women’s History Month by elevating the radical work of mothers raising transgender children.  In this episode guests midwife Jamarah Amani & Michelle are Black mothers building a Promise Land rooted in equity and love.

We would like to say thank you for your patience during our unexpected hiatus while I was healing from COVID.  

SYLLABUS

Church Announcements/Prayer Requests/Praise Reports:

• All who have had COVID and lost love ones to COVID
• Frontline workers
• Gratitude
• Crystal writing workshop coming up on Sunday, March 28th & NeKisha's first conference keynote on Monday, March 29th (check the show notes on our website for registration links: demblackmamas.com)

Mac & Cheese:

• In this episode we talk with midwife Jamarah Amani & transgender youth advocate Michelle about what they learned about themselves & what raising transgender children taught them about liberation. 

Black Mama Say:

• Black Mamas on The Insurrection

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Now let's get free yall & jump into Episode 37 of Dem Black Mamas!

Season 4, Episode 2: Corporate Diversity

Mel and Tash discuss how the Black Mom is affected in the new Corporate world of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion.

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In part two of the season opener, Mika's son shares his experiences for the very first time. Now 13 years old, he speaks out about his family dynamic and how it was growing up in a broken home.

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Host B. Nicole talks about normalizing Breastfeeding in the Black community with guest Ayanna Robinson PhD and founder of Black Girls Breastfeeding Club. They discuss the pros and the cons of breastfeeding, what you can do while breastfeeding, like drinking or other activities, breastfeeding with Covid-19 and the resources available to our community. 

If you had to create a survival kit for Black women to thrive in this country, what would you put in it? B.Nicole and guest Regina Sanders from Let Me Fix My Crown Podcast discuss what they would include in their Black Woman's survival kit. 

A lot of Mothers may find themselves feeling guilty about splitting their love for another baby? Will you be able love your next baby just as much as your first? Will you be able to share your heart with both children so no one feels left out? 

I'm here to share this is a common worries a lot of us Mommy's feel and on this episode I share a little of my own experiences and worries about the arrival for my second baby!

Host B.Nicole discusses how to deal with the stress of parenting during quarantine with guest Klia, mom of 4 from Cleveland, Ohio. They talk about avoiding Mommy Burnout, leaning on your village, and handling your "Wifely duties". 

The “Your Story” Series

This week we are excited to be shifting our story narratives from parents to a daughter! Tershone Phillips, host of “The Right Mistake Podcast,” is joining us to share how her body image was challenged at the pivotal tween years and the protective measures that her parents took to help her maintain her confidence. We know parents can’t solve or control everything, as much as we wish we could, but we love the perspective of what we can try our best to accomplish in the home environment to raise confident kids inside and out.

Where we are raised can greatly impact our body story, as we discuss this week, due to the sub cultures that vary from community to community. We are grateful for our listeners from all over the world and, as you all listen along with us this Season and rewrite your body story, our journal prompt for you is this: how was where you were raised, where you currently live, and the sub cultures that come along with your geographic locations, contribute to your lived experience in your body?

No matter where you live, as parents it will be crucial to attempt, to our best abilities, to have our children exposed to various places and people to build kindness and awareness of diverse body sizes and shapes, races and ethnicities, religions and cultures. We are excited to hear Tershone chat today about her story, how her parents were a support to her, and give some great insight to us listeners who are parents about how we can keep our kids focused on what really matters!

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Christina Acosta-Martinez, founder of Growing Up Gorgeous is a homeschooling mom and wife that makes it a daily task to share her faith and encourage a relationship with Christ. We discuss the answer to how we can share this with our children and how she has overcome challenges in early motherhood.

Key takeaways:

1. You have to work to find your meaning in motherhood
2. Part of Christina’s identity is being a mom but it’s not all that she is
3. Easy ways to share faith with your children throughout the day

Keyaira & Tarawoner talk through some of the issues they have that causes tension in their relationship with Dr. Akilah Reynolds. Keyaira voices frustration that she feels judged for breaking from traditional values when it comes to her dating/love life, and Tarawoner explains how hard it can be to watch your child run into situations with obvious red flags. Tarawoner also explains how as a baby boomer, she feels left behind as technology zooms ahead, while Keyaira sometimes feels her mom is capable of more when it comes to computers, but isn't willing to try. 

For the next two episodes, "Talk To Your Mom" pod has a special guest, Dr. Akilah Reynolds of Black Girl Doctor, to work through a few issues hosts Tarawoner & Keyaira are struggling with. In part 1 of 2, Dr. Akilah explains the complicated tension between moms and daughters, and why more moms and daughters should seek therapy together and/or separately to have healthier, happier lives. 

Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith was singularly focused on her career when she was younger. Once she became a mother she didn't let up on work - writing a book, working a full schedule, being a wife and mom and this led to her experiencing burnout. If you are experiencing a period of being burnout or don't know if you are or not - take a listen and find out. Plus, Dr. Dalton-Smith shares how she got out of it and how you can to.

To get through the burnout period she realized that getting sleep was not going to be enough to help her, she had to fully work through what she found were 7 types of rest.

Are you experiencing burnout?

Here's the way to recover - get fully rested. Working through the 7 types of rest can lead you to the way out of burnout.

The 7 Types of Rest

1. physical
2. mental
3. spiritual
4. emotional
5. sensory
6. social
7. creative

Listen to this podcast to figure out if you are experiencing burn out and how to recover from that to become a better mother.

Keyaira opens up to her mom about the fears she has surrounding motherhood. Being that child rearing is starting later for a lot of us, Keyaira explains she's spent so much of her life focused on her own wants and needs, she is afraid of what the transition to new motherhood and ultimate sacrifice would look like. Tarawoner discusses how even though she had to put a lot of her dreams aside when she became a mom at 19, now, in her 60s, it's all about her again.

Jacquelyn Rodgers is another creative mom that I'm trying to keep up with! We talk about how she continues her love of being creative to cover up mommy guilt. She started as a working mom in consumer goods and now has created Greentop Gifts a line of Black holiday products for her son and now we can all have it!

Key Takeaways

1. Use something you love to do to combat any mommy guilt you may have and still support one of your hobbies.
2. Walk around, get dressed, and keep your desk hidden are her tips to make working from home easier.
3. How Greentop Gifts came to be in just a few months - out of an idea for something she wanted for her son!

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For Sabrina Seymore, motherhood came naturally to her. She is an event planner and entrepreneur while growing a community of confident women called The Prevailing Woman.

Key Takeaways

1. Sabrina shares her plans to transition to a new field and how she's thought out all of the steps
2. Why your goals for your kids might come before your personal goals at times
3. How to mother your own way

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Whew, it's a lot going on in the world today. But you also may have a lot going on at any point in time. Finding the good in your situation can certainly help you get through it.

This week I'm talking about what I'm taking away from the quarantine and social issues regarding racism that have come up once again. There are things that I'm able to do that I would have missed out on or not done if I was at work all day being my normal distracted self.

I also shared what some of you said you were taking away from all this into your "new normal".

This is an episode straight from the heart. No script. Just a Black Momma pleading for someone to hear me and my sisters to help us get healthy enough to birth our next generation. 

Weathering as a phenomenon that has been found in Black women and is one of the reasons we see an increase in fetal and neonatal mortality and morbidity It has been found that in Black women, the younger we are the healthier our children are born and the older we are, the more complications our unborn children deal with. In comparison to other races, it's the opposite. 

Why? Because the older we get, the more stress we build in our bodies. This stress causes chronic disease and complications in future pregnancies. By the time we get to late 20s, our mind, body, and spirit are broken. No matter that we are more financially stable, our wombs are stressed. 

This episode is a talk from my heart on how others can help decrease the stress Black women face everyday which will help us birth healthier babies to help lead the next generation.