Hand On Heart Podcast

Riece Hamilton is a sex educator at the University of Louisville. She is also a bad arse activist! We talk about so much great stuff in this conversation from believing in and voting for women, to reproductive rights and sex education in schools. We talk about the current social justice movement and the ways Riece has been involved as well as the changes she has seen in white folks so far. The most important message of this conversation is that we need to sit down together and listen. We white folks need to listen and really sit with the hurt and harm that we have created and from that place make change!

Today on the show I chat with Nannie Croney from the grassroots organization, Change Today Change Tomorrow- a kick arse women run organization that serves marginalized folks in Louisville and focusses primarily on education, food justice and public health.

Nannie talks about having our needs met and it made me think about how people are showing up for me during a really challenging period of my life and that we should perhaps use Nannie’s words as inspiration to be there for one another always.

In today's episode, anti-diet coach, yoga teacher and body positive facilitator, Naomi Finkelstein and I talk about reclaiming the word fat, shifting beyond the weight loss paradigm, the famine response and so much more!

A special meditation treat for you all today! A meditation for rest and replenishment. So get comfy, tell your loved ones to bugger off and enjoy your good selves!

Meditation starts at 1:36 so feel free to skip the intro and go straight into meditation mode.

Just know that this practice is for you and your healing process, therefore, if something doesn’t feel good for you, you don’t have to continue… or you can just focus on your breath rather than my voice! The meditation includes visualization, which is super hard or even impossible for some. If that’s the case for you, don’t worry about it, again, just focus on your breath!

Take care and enjoy!

Dancer, creative, and one of my besties, Jonni Homsey talks self care as a path to community care and social justice work as well as inclusion and access in the arts. Jonni is one of the best humxns ever and I think that you’ll feel good just by listening to him gas bag away- he is an absolute delight.

This is a short episode to explain that I will not be taking up space as a white person this week. It’s important that the voices and efforts of black folks are amplified. I'll be back soon!

Today we talk self-love, self-compassion, meditation, racism, Malcolm X, mindfulness, trauma, mental health care, creating change and much more good stuff! Dr. Broderick Sawyer is my guest and he’s a psychologist, meditation teacher, and mental health advocate. You’re going to love this conversation! Broderick treats trauma, anxiety, and depression using treatments backed by clinical research but he also integrates holistic health practices such as meditation, and yoga, and he integrates spiritual practices into treatment when relevant.

Karina Barillas, of Louisville’s La Casita center, a not for profit supporting the Latinx community, speaks beautifully about decolonization, feminism, and solidarity. I also talk about spirituality as a path of compassion and action, rather than simply one of self-exploration. Then I go on a bit about “bad othering” and I offer a meditation suggestion too. I hope that you enjoy the episode!

Jon Asher Tenholder identifies as trans masculine and non-binary and kindly speaks to us about their transition process and the challenges that they have experienced along their path. This episode is about change and letting go and sitting with uncertainty. We are all in a massive moment of change right now and who the f*#k knows what’s going to happen next, and you know what, it’s ok if we are not coping so well with it because change is tough! This episode is kind of just a permission to do change in your own perfectly messy and beautiful way. Plus also Jon’s interview is heartfelt and glorious. Enjoy x

In today’s episode we explore fear. And love. And paying reparations. And creating a better world. And surviving covid-19. And the full moon in Libra.

I also interview Rosey Green, a Louisville local who works tirelessly with a kick arse grass roots organization called reparations roundtable. We talk about scarcity and food apartheid, afro futurism (imagining a better world- a utopian future rather than white centered dystopian apocalyptic situations) and the work of black organizers.