Body Liberation for All

Ian Kumamoto (he/they) is a journalist, a queer person and a Chinese-Mexican who is active on social media sharin what's actually going on in his part of the world and serving us truth. Ian was born and raised in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and moved to the US  and spent some time in their childhood in Spain. He graduated BA. in Print Journalism and Globral Liberal Studies from NYU in 2019 and shortly after, co-founded, Chaos+Comrades, a magazine by and for queer people of color.



In addition to their freelance work, they are current a writer for Mic, covering  health, identity, sex, drugs, money, career, and travel.

This episode we discuss:

🌈 Finding your own unique way to get through educational systems that don't support you

🌈Writing in English as multilingual person

🌈 Love-hate relationship with social media platforms

🌈Reclaiming your identity outside of racialized sexual objectification as a queer man of color

🌈Healing race based body dysmorphia

Episode Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness and grab exclusive access to my author lead bookclub  https://www.daliakinsey.com/book

Connect with Ian Kumamoto

TikTok: @chino_cholo

https://instagram.com/ian.kuma

https://www.jikumamoto.com/

https://chaosandcomrades.com/

This episode Goddess joins me in a heartfelt discussion of our shared experience of leaving the cult in which we were raised, deconditioning ourselves, and finding our way to our true selves. 

Goddess (they/them/theirs) is the Proud MoMo of Sun Seed Community; a platform for the practice of collective healing. Creating Goddess’ tools of liberation took a whole community of support and they hope their village's stories can resonate with others.

They graduated from the Healing Arts Institute of Massage in October of 2018 and continue to explore therapeutic and spiritual practices. You can usually find them in the "pagan" section of the bookstore, sitting in the back of a concert, caressing crystals at your local metaphysical shop, or binge-watching old sci-fi movies while cooking.

This episode we discuss:

🌈 Identifying marks of cults

🌈 Recovering your true identity 

🌈 Communicating with family that is inside a cult or high control group

🌈 Weaponization of the need for community

🌈 Critical thinking as protection and a tool for liberation

Resources Mentioned in the Show

• Sun Seed Community Podcast https://sunseedcommunitypodcast.buzzsprout.com


• Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness and grab exclusive access to my author lead bookclub  https://www.daliakinsey.com/book


• The Guardian Watch out for Tell-Tale Signs Rick Ross https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/27/cults-definition-religion


• Song: No White God by Sizzla - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ZB1gjKvJY


• How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community by Mia Songbird - https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Show-Community-Fractured/dp/1580058078


• Cutie BIPOC Fest - https://www.facebook.com/qtbpocfest/


• Mystic Soul - https://www.mysticsoulproject.org/


• Black Healing October - https://reclaimugly.org/black-healing-october/

Connect with Goddess Carroll

Website: https://www.sunseedcommunity.com/

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/sunseedcommunity/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sunseedcommunity

Season 2 is launching on January 1st.

Episodes are now monthly.

Spotify episodes now have an interactive element.

Email is the best way to reach me [email protected].

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

Season one is over but we can still hang out in the Decolonizing Wellness Facebook Group.  I'm working on the finishing touches for Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

Season two will be coming at you this fall.  

Resources

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

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Zac Potter, founder of Lion's Heart Health, is an Atlanta-based Health & Wellness teacher and author leading a whole health journey that starts from the heart. With 15+ years of training in Yoga, Weightlifting, Track & Field and Gymnastics, he meets you where you are in your health journey while focusing on balance, function and progressive performance in the pursuit of your best physical self. Zac believes firmly that our physical fitness journey is powered by something deeper—our "why"—and that health is best approached as a way to love ourselves—and others—to our fullest potential.

This episode we discuss

🌈Bringing Your Heart and Love Into Fitness

🌈Functional Strength that Supports Your Life

🌈Posture and Rehabilitating Weak Muscles

🌈Finding Internal, Sustainable Motivation

🌈Healing from the Heart Outward

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Zac

https://www.lionshearthealth.com

https://www.instagram.com/cz_potter/

Beginner Yoga Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwNAcKBx5Js

Credits for this episode's music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!)

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I loved this conversation with Gerard Cole from Turning Cole Into Diamonds so much I wanted to share it with you.  You can listen to more TCID episodes here https://www.tcidpodcast.com/

This episode we discuss

Managing Imposter Syndrome as queer folks of color 

Learning to use food to build self-trust and confidence 

How listening to the body can transform your life 

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

After graduation from Prairie View A & M University, Britni D. Andrews became a queer counselor intern based in Houston, TX.



Britni has utilized an artistic medium of language and an eclectic approach to wellness to sculpt their role as Creative Director of @TheKIDDORG, a community initiative. They have produced creative workshops in collaboration with Covenant House California (CHC), Covenant House Texas and Harris County Juvenile Probation Department (HCJPD). @THEKIDDORG has a mission to push the state of change forward in conversations about mental health, community engagement, criminal justice reform and LGBTQ+ community support.



Recently named as an Idea Fund Round 12 Grantee, Britni is producing “The Session: LGBTQ+ Mental Health feat. QPOC”- a short film composed of private unscripted dialogues with Queer People of Color (QPOC) reflecting on their unique identities within their cultures, the LGBTQ+ community and the challenges faced in expression of their gender, sexuality and development of affirming and inclusive relationships.

This episode we discuss

🌈 Being called to create resources that we once needed 

🌈Destigmatizing mental health 

🌈Connecting to the wisdom of our Black Queer History

🌈Managing the stress of holding multiple marginalized identities

🌈How and when to tap in to therapy as a healing tool 

Resources

Connect with Britni

www.thekiddorg.com

instagram.com/@TheSessionQPOC

Queer Black History 

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Mike Iamele is a Life Purpose Expert + Brand Strategist and the author of Enough Already: Create Success on Your Own Terms. For nearly a decade, his Sacred Branding® system has helped hundreds of celebrities, artists, entrepreneurs, influencers, and spiritual seekers to map their experiences and discover their subconscious motivations, unique brand, and life purpose. People use this work for all kinds of things — from branding and building a business, to exploring identity and sexuality, to finding their artistic voice, to even re-discovering themselves after a life-altering event, like divorce or retirement. 

This episode we discuss:

🌈Why some of us shy away from clarity on our purpose

🌈What comes after finding your purpose

🌈Coming to terms with or overcoming feelings of being too much or not enough

🌈Recognizing your lived experience as the ultimate authority

🌈Learning to decipher your true self vs your conditioning and social programing

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Mike 

mikeiamele.com/map for a free 36-minute training + worksheet to map your sensitivities 

instagram.com/mikeiamele

facebook.com/mikeiamelewrites

Amazin LeThi is a global Vietnamese LGBTQ advocate, keynote speaker, athlete and thought leader. She is a former competitive bodybuilder, entertainment executive and the first Vietnamese internationally published fitness author. Amazin has captured audiences with her story from the United Nations to Google and governments from all around the world.   As a thought leader and through conversations, panel discussions and Q&As, Amazin shares her personal journey of homelessness to becoming one of the most visible and influential LGBTQ activists in the world. Her story was included in the It Gets Better campaign and the first White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Asian anti-bullying campaign Act to Change.

In this interview Amazin shares her story of being raised in an intensely anti-Asian environment. This episode will make you want to finish construction on your time machine to go back and back hand some folks in young Amazin’s defense.  If you are able to do that let us all get in on that. 

It's heart breaking to face how much trauma some of us have survived at the hands of white supremacy culture, how much of the racism we internalized and how many years we’ve had to dedicate to recovery.

The beauty of the story is that Amazin not only survived, but found a way to repair her self-worth and actively work to fight systemic oppression and shield the most vulnerable from abuse and bigotry. 

This episode we discuss:

🌈The transracial adoptee experience

🌈Discovering the empowering nature of body building 

🌈Recovering from low-self worth and internalized racism

🌈Intersectional activism and fighting AAPI hate

Resources

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program 

Connect with Amazin 

www.amazinlethi.com

www.twitter.com/amazinlethi

www.facebook.com/amazinlethi

www.instagram.com/amazinlethi 

Dontá Morrison is a Los Angeles-based community change agent focused on bridging gaps and improving the lives of marginalized individuals. He works tirelessly to change the way communities engage in conversations about sex, sexual behavior, and human sexuality. HIV Plus magazine listed him as one of the top 20 most amazing HIV+ people of 2018. He is the recipient of numerous awards and recognized by many for his ambitious approach to sexual health within communities of color. Additionally, he has challenged the traditional Black church to be more inclusive and welcoming of persons from all sexual identities. Realizing that faith-based sexual exclusion plays a negative role in how LGBTQ persons deal with themselves, he aims to shift the paradigm in that area.

This episode we discuss 

🌈The key to consistently practicing safer sex

🌈The traditional Black American church and its relationship to queerness

🌈Developing a personal relationship with God after experiencing religious trauma

🌈The connection between self-acceptance and HIV prevention

Resources

Connect with Dontá

https://linktr.ee/donta_morrison

Order your copy of Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Health Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation 

📧 Get your free copy of Beat the Binge: Decoding Your Hunger  https://www.daliakinsey.com/links

Join the Facebook Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/decolonizingwellness

💻Learn more about working with me 1:1 Mastering Intuitive Eating and Self-Trust Total Transformation Program