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- Healing is Not a Luxury
Dr. Charmain Jackman is an award winning psychologist who has trained at two of the top Harvard Medical School training hospitals in the country. She uses her 23+ years of mental health experience work towards normalizing mental health and therapy. Her mission is to increase access mental health resources for people who have historically not had access to quality, culturally-informed care.
In this episode, Dr. Jackman states that healing is not a luxury. It is a necessity, and it is essential for us to understand how and why distrust in medicine developed among Black people. Therapy was not designed with the needs of Black people in mind therefore, ensuring that your therapist is aware of these gaps and flaws is critical to avoid experiencing more harm than good.
When you heal yourself, you heal your community and you avoid passing on your trauma to your descendants. We’ve passed down corporal punishment and withholding love and affection. It was a means of coping and survival. Today, embracing indigienous practices of healing will help you to accelerate growth and mental well-being.
Connect with Dr. Charmain Jackman: LinkedIn | Facebook|Website
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YoutubeProduced by Breadfruit Media
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37 min - Empowering Global Black Communities with Technology
William Adams is a rare combination of engineering sage and empathetic change leader. He’s a pioneer in promoting diversity who believes technology exists to empower people. He's on a mission to help Blacks, women, and other underserved communities get an ownership stake in technology companies.
Equally at home speaking geek to coders or sharing inspirational stories of leadership and personal transformation, William is an engaging, energetic speaker and an even better listener. Humorous and on-point, his authentic, clear-eyed talks leave audiences inspired to take concrete actions to help their companies and communities prosper.
Connect with Williams Adams: LinkedIn | Website
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | YoutubeProduced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
52 min - Growing Your Career through Networking & Exposure
At just 25 years old, Korryn Williamson is breaking new ground in the staffing industry. As the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Insight Global, one of the nation’s largest staffing companies, Korryn is making great strides to change what the future of the workforce looks like in America.
In this episode, Korryn shares that through her work, she is creating new opportunities for job seekers by having tough conversations with employers to change the way companies select job seekers for interviews and hire for positions. Her advice for job seekers and employees generally is to network and create more opportunities for exposure. Listen to Korryn share her experience and how networking & exposure helped her career.Connect with Korryn Williamson: LinkedIn
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
27 min - Leading in Crisis: Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Resilience
Andrena Sawyer is an author, consultant and strategist whose background includes surviving the civil war in Sierra Leone. Her authenticity and innovative business principles inspire audiences to take control of their lives and move toward success.
In this episode we discuss resilience and perspective as two skills you need to thrive and bounce back from crises. As a kid, you learn ways of responding to crises from people you observe such as your parents, but as an adult, you have an opportunity to learn new ways of responding to crises.Even if you have socially conditioned to avoid being vulnerable and you may be someone that has to learn the hard way from hitting rock bottom, give yourself the grace of evolution. You can change. You can unlearn. Don’t waste the lessons and take daily steps to practice vulnerability.
Lean on your spiritual component and surround yourself with friends who love you enough to challenge you and tell you when your mindset is not helping, but hurting.
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.Connect with Andrena Sawyer: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook| Twitter
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
38 min - Winning in the New Global Economy
Have you ever given any thought to what is required to win in the new Global Economy? Living in a borderless world with an increase in remote work opportunities have afforded many the luxury to entertain relocating to new places in international territories. It has afforded many the opportunity to think about doing business in multiple locations, currencies and cultures. But if we are to get serious about sustainable and lasting impact, we must adopt a special curriculum...one that requires more than just knowledge, but deep, experiential learning in order for true transformation to happen.
In this episode, I highlight several of my previous guests and their insights required for awakened and aligned way of living as Black people:
- Foundational Knowledge on Building and Creating
- Understanding History and Decolonizing Your Curriculum
- Identifying Systems and Intersectionality
- Doing the WORK
- The impact and reach of business when having done the WORK
- Business
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Website
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
29 min - Business Principles for Success
In this episode, I discuss:
- Reflection and recommendations for business development and success now and in the future
- Development areas of Mindset > Reputation > Customer Experience and Communication Skills
- The Ultimate Speaker’s Guide
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.
Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Website
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
18 min - What is Interconnectedness? Nature and Faith
Stone Gye immediately takes us on a journey into nature and how it’s lessons have helped him to navigate his life. Stone Gye is an aggregation of Hypnotherapist, Strength Coach, Combat Veteran, Lomi Lomi Masseur, Business Coach, Digital Agency Strategist, Senior Landmark Worldwide Graduate, Business Automation Junkie, Dad and more.
From this interview with Stone, we get a clear picture of how nature gives us lessons of how we are interconnected as human beings. We learn how to ward off attacks, how to form community and how to embrace each other. This is only if we understand the role nature plays and see ourselves as one with nature, rather than nature as a transaction.
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.Connect with Stone: LinkedIn | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
29 min - How to Prime Your Mind For the Future
Without reflecting on our experiences and movement towards desired goals, we miss the lessons that will help us assess where we could improve and maintain what is already working.
In this episode, I discuss:
- Reflections and observations on leading a niche podcast focused on Understanding and Black Unity
- Why we need to be intentional about our connections
- The importance of challenging the stories from mass media we consume and embracing new media
- Acknowledging the barriers and difficulties we face and not running away from or avoiding them
Using value systems and a similar mindset as a basis to connect with others
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.
DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE WORKSHEET HERE.Connect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Website
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
15 min - Why Re-Connecting to Your Country of Origin is a Gift
Have you ever felt disenfranchised from your country of origin? Have you chosen to disconnect and disassociate with where you are from because of pain, and pressure? Many immigrants choose to disconnect from their origin country not realizing that it symbolizes a disconnection of self. When you become aware of your history and understand the impact of re-connecting, you can leverage the greatest gifts you have available. Clara Angelina Diaz, the founder of the ClaraFying Coaching and Consulting Institute, shares her journey to not only reconnect with her country of origin in the Dominican Republic but embrace her origin of Africa.
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.
DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE WORKSHEET HERE.Connect with Clara Angelina Diaz-Angerson: LinkedIn | Instagram
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
30 min - Premium Business Branding Strategies
Nick Nelson is an award-winning visionary Marketing and Brand Executive. As CEO of BRANDPRENUER Nick helps remarkable people who show up well in person show up just as well online by developing brand strategies, creating assets (photography, videography graphic design, web design), and teaching clients how to GET NOTICED by creating custom content across social media channels.
How can I have more impact? This is a question many people ask. Nick Nelson tells us to perform a self-audit. Ask, “who am I today?”. “Is it time to solve a different problem?” Stop competing and start collaborating more and remember that your Blackness is your Superpower.This is the formula for premium business branding success. Expose yourself to other cultures and in my doing so you open up yourself to learn more. When you learn more, you become more valuable.
Listen to the episode and share your biggest insight or learning moment.
DOWNLOAD THE EPISODE WORKSHEET HERE.Connect with Nick Nelson: LinkedIn | Instagram |
Or email with feedback or questions: [email protected]
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Support the showConnect with Monique Russell: LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook | Youtube
Produced by Breadfruit Media
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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About Bridge To U:
From the publisher's feed
Bridge to U focuses on diversity, inclusion and understanding for black cultures.
It is a place where Monique Russell hosts transformative discussions focused on enhancing communication skills, nurturing emotional intelligence, and navigating the intricate tapestry of intercultural dynamics and diversity within Black cultures. The vastness of the African diaspora requires us all to do our own D&I work. This work is necessary in order to build up unity through conversations and insights required for an awakened and aligned way of living as Black people.
Monique Russell serves as your guide through a world where communication is an art. Through insightful conversations and engaging storytelling, listeners explore the nuances of effective communication. From speech to body language, Monique equips her audience with tools to foster understanding and empathy.
At the heart of "Bridge to U" lies emotional intelligence – a vital skill in today's interconnected world. By interviewing thought leaders and individuals with compelling stories, Monique delves into the intricacies of emotional intelligence. Listeners uncover layers of self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal finesse, pivotal in forging authentic connections.
It doesn't stop there. She delves into the vibrant landscape of intercultural communication. Monique's podcast sheds light on diverse viewpoints and offers actionable insights to navigate communication barriers.
Diversity and inclusion take center stage as Monique Russell amplifies voices within Black cultures. The podcast becomes a safe haven for thought-provoking conversations about identity, representation, and the urgent need to highlight positive Black perspectives.
"Bridge to U" is a catalyst for personal transformation and societal change. Each episode is an opportunity to bridge gaps, forge connections, and cultivate appreciation for the fusion of communication skills, emotional intelligence, and intercultural dynamics within Black cultures.
Subscribe now to unlock insights that reshape your approach to communication, elevate emotional intelligence, and deepen understanding of the cultural mosaic around us.