Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this Part 1, we learn from Habeebah Rasheed Grimes and her journey as a daughter, strong sister, mother, community member, and leader. Habeebah is an accomplished speaker and advocate for trauma-informed practices and is the current CEO of the Positive Education Program, or PEP, in Ohio. To learn more about HRG, please visit the links provided at the bottom of this description. Stay tuned for Part 2 & 3 coming soon! 

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Xavier Smart 

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

Habeebah is the creator and non-profit executive of her Podcast: No Crystal Stair

Check out and follow Habeebah's professional website. / www.habeebahrgrimes.com 

Learn more about Positive Education Program (PEP) on their website. / www.pepcleve.org 

Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this episode, we learn more about Serene Thin Elk and her experiences as a Native American mental health counselor, director of behavioral health at the South Dakota Urban Indian Health Institute, and co-founder of Generation Red Road. www.genredroad.org 

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Val Lopez

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this part 3, we learn more about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist, and healing the community through art.

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers

Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally.  The art doesn’t stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices.  Katrina’s work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison.  While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin’ The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator.  Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago’s Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.

Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this part 2, we learn more about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist, and new mother during COVID-19 and managing her identities. 

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers

Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally.  The art doesn’t stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices.  Katrina’s work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison.  While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin’ The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator.  Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago’s Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.

Welcome back! In this Women Pioneering Healing Series, we interview and learn from women who are at the forefront of innovation and community care. We recorded this series during the month of March to commemorate Women's History Month. We recognize and celebrate that women and the feminine should, and must, be celebrated all year. In this episode, we begin to learn about Katrina Brook Flores and their journey as a Xicanx artist.

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Odessa Peters 

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

To learn more about Katrina, please read below and visit: https://www.girlillatactics.com/staff/el-la-katrina/ and you can contact Katrina via Instagram @katrinabrookflowers

Katrina Brook Flores aka El La Katrina is a Xicanx multimedia and multi-practice artist born in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Their work addresses the meaning of boundary-spanning, border-crossing, and binary-breaking through calling-out the way colonial systems, hierarchical institutions, gendered constructs and conquer & divide tactics have hurt Indigenous communities and natural ecosystems globally.  The art doesn’t stop at interrogating these unhealthy practices.  Katrina’s work goes beyond interrogation and seeks to offer solutions, healings and hope in calling forward a (re)claimed and (re)imagined future rooted in joyful ways of being and ancestral teachings. El La Katrinais a graduate from UW-Madison.  While at UW-Madison, Katrina served in multiple roles including the Arts-In-Education Director for OMAI & First Wave as well as the Co-Director of Breakin’ The Law: International Festival of Urban Movement and co-created InterCultural Dialogues (ICD), a “For-Students-By-Students” undergraduate course in Sociology. After moving to Chicago, Katrina served as the Community Programs Director for RedMoon Theater and was later hired as a consultant for The B-Series at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago where she also served as B-Series Internship Coordinator & Associate Curator.  Before becoming a full-time artist, Katrina worked as the Chief Operating Officer of The Firehouse Community Arts Center in the Chicago neighborhood of North Lawndale to assist in building the capacities of the organization in their inaugural year of funding with the Chicago CRED Program under Arne Duncan to achieve a transformative reduction in Chicago gun violence with justice involved youth. Katrina is the co-founder of GIRL ILLA Tactics, a production company that centers the work of Black and Indigenous women in Hip Hop as well as a Dark Matter Residency Artist at Chicago’s Elastic Arts and is the creator, co-director and a featured artist in the musical film SEED POLLINATE BLOOM.  

Welcome back! In this Part 3, we interview and engage with Ben Callif, HIR Wellness Board Vice President, Milwaukee-based philosopher, scientist at Bader Philanthropies, Inc., YouTube educator at The Paradox Perspective, and owner of eightstep me coaching and consulting. Ben shares with us his story, experiences, and teachings around the paradoxes of consciousness and how science intersects with a holistic sense of purpose. Thank you for joining us during this 3-part conversation with Ben. 

Organumics: An Epigenetic Re-Framing of Consciousness, Life, and Evolution: https://www.amazon.com/Organumics-Epigenetic-Re-Framing-Consciousness-Evolution/dp/1893121755

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Alison VB

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

Welcome back! In this Part 2, we interview and engage with Ben Callif, HIR Wellness Board Vice President, Milwaukee-based philosopher, scientist at Bader Philanthropies, Inc., YouTube educator at The Paradox Perspective, and owner of eightstep me coaching and consulting. Ben shares with us his story, experiences, and teachings around the paradoxes of consciousness and how science intersects with a holistic sense of purpose. In this episode we discuss the memes, words, and dialogue that exists all around us. Stay tuned for Part 3 soon!

Organumics: An Epigenetic Re-Framing of Consciousness, Life, and Evolution: https://www.amazon.com/Organumics-Epigenetic-Re-Framing-Consciousness-Evolution/dp/1893121755

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Alison VB

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

Welcome back! In this Part 1, we interview and engage with Ben Callif, HIR Wellness Board Vice President, Milwaukee-based philosopher, scientist at Bader Philanthropies, Inc., YouTube educator at The Paradox Perspective, and owner of eightstep me coaching and consulting. Ben shares with us his story, experiences, and teachings around the paradoxes of consciousness and how science intersects with a holistic sense of purpose. Stay tuned for the Part 2 and 3 soon! 

Organumics: An Epigenetic Re-Framing of Consciousness, Life, and Evolution: https://www.amazon.com/Organumics-Epigenetic-Re-Framing-Consciousness-Evolution/dp/1893121755

Hosts: Fondé Bridges & Alison VB

Join Healthy Words™ Founder & Head Chef Fondé Bridges as he interviews with the HIR Wellness Institute team to engage in meaningful conversation around the complexities of our collective healing, learning, and living.

If you are looking to engage in the conversation and reflect for yourself, come along with us as we free-think and activate our medicine together. Come as you are!

Join us as we reflect together!

Episode 6 Recap: We dive deeper into Healthy Words and ask the questions on our minds.

Hosts: Fondé &

CAM Cohort:

John (with Odessa's support)

Min

Marcy 

& Lea

Join us as we reflect together!

Episode 6 Recap: We dive deeper into Healthy Words and ask the questions on our minds. 

Hosts: Fondé & Cory 

CAM Cohort:

Xavier

Alison

Odessa