Shaping Freedom With Lisane Basquiat

Shape Your Foundation 3-Day Retreat: The Women in the Family

In this week’s conversation with Hannah Summerhill we explore her insights on how we can all work to overcome the barriers that prevent us from having conversations on race, inequity, and how to best navigate these issues while creating more inclusive and equitable communities.

Her new book, "Real Friends Talk About Race: Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations,” was co-authored with Yseult P. Mukantabana and discusses how to best approach these conversations. Their book can and can be found on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever major physical and digital publications are sold.

Hannah Summerhill:
https://www.hannahsummerhill.com/

Real Friends Talk About Race (Bridging the Gaps Through Uncomfortable Conversations):
https://www.amazon.com/Real-Friends-Talk-About-Race/dp/0778387054

The Kinswomen Podcast:
https://www.kinswomenpodcast.com/

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Shape Your Foundation 3-Day Retreat: The Women in the Family

In this episode of Shaping Freedom, Lisane Basquiat is joined by Ruby Warrington, author of "Sober Curious," "The Sober Curious Reset," and her latest book, "Women Without Kids," to discuss the intersections of sobriety, redefining motherhood, and finding freedom in our choices.

The conversation begins with Ruby sharing her personal journey to sobriety and how it led her to explore spirituality. She highlights the importance of exploring sobriety as a tool for personal growth, rather than just a means of quitting alcohol.

The discussion then moves to the societal expectations placed on mothers and the need to redefine motherhood and find freedom in our choices. Ruby challenges the belief that motherhood should be the primary focus of a woman's life and encourages us to create our own definitions of motherhood.

Lisane and Ruby then dive into Ruby's latest book, "Women Without Kids," which explores the stigma surrounding women who choose not to have children and the societal pressures they face. Ruby discusses how she hopes the book will encourage conversations around this topic and provide support to women who have made this choice.

Finally, Ruby shares how she found spirituality as a means of connecting with something greater than herself and how it has been a transformative experience on her journey towards freedom.Key Takeaways:

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This week I’m joined by the wellness guru, founder, speaker, and fellow human, Tai Beauchamp. After leaving a career in publishing, Tai decided to pursue her entrepreneurial heart and follow her desire to help women of color to connect and care for themselves. We’ll talk about Tai’s journey from her impressive journey in publishing to the founding of her wellness beauty brand Brown Girl Jane and why she decided to start her Instagram live experience Morning Mindset with Tai. We’ll talk about the privilege of caretaking and how we have to find a balance between our personal and professional lives. And we’ll talk about the complexities of growing at different rates than those around us. I had such a wonderful time talking with Tai and I know you’ll connect with her humanity just like I did.

Tai on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/taibeau/?hl=en
The Morning Mindset With Tai: https://www.instagram.com/morningmindsetwithtai/?hl=en
Brown Girl Jane: https://www.browngirljane.com/

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This week I’m joined by Oliver Chittenden, the founder of Head Talks, a site that gathers hundreds of educational and inspirational stories about the different ways people care for their mental and emotional well-being. The site has been dubbed TED Talks for the mind. We’re talking about how to build your own toolbox for your mental and emotional health. We’re all unique individuals with different needs and one-size-fits-all solutions don’t work for everyone. And even as the stigma surrounding mental health melts away, we need to learn to recognize what makes our own struggles, recoveries, and successes our own. We’ll talk a little bit about Oliver's own journey to self discovery and how he hopes to help people everywhere get to know themselves better and find the tools that work best for them. If hearing new perspectives on finding a healthy balance for your mental health is exciting to you like it is for me, I think you’ll love listening to my conversation with Oliver Chittenden.

Visit Head Talks here: https://www.headtalks.com/

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This week’s conversation is with Steve Simms, a Brooklyn born brother of color who is leveraging his own journey from anger and hitting rock bottom to help other men, like himself, to a greater level of self-awareness, personal growth, and the achievement of their personal goals.

He brings personal insights and his own self-improvement approaches through self-awareness, meditation, dedication to achieving personal goals, and all with an upbeat Brooklyn, New York, approach to what life may bring.

Steve and I discuss the best way to shift energy, priorities, and guidance on personal and family relationships, difficulties, and how to overcome these struggles through making these more emotionally manageable while maintaining personal, inspirational growth.

He currently hosts two online groups, “The League” and “The Breakfast Club” on Telegram, and can be booked for one-on-one life coaching sessions in the link below:

https://stvsmms.com

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This week I spoke with Stephanie Singleton, owner and founder of Prana Wellness.
Today we discuss how she started her personal wellness journey after her work started affecting her health when she hit peak burnout through her self-reflection and spiritual journey learning about meditation, yoga, and breathwork to manage stress.
You can find more information and book a session with Prana Wellness in the link below:

https://pranawellnessworks.com/about

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My conversation this week is with Stu Massengill, a renowned life coach and personal development speaker that has inspired millions through his seminars and events.

He has worked with the one of the top personal development coaches in the world, Tony Robbins, as a National Speaker and Peak Performance Advisor for over 10 years and hosts his own podcast, “Finding Direction,” showcasing his strategies and personal reflections on life, personal improvement, and how to best constructively approach difficult and tragic events.

In this episode we discuss how important it is to reflect inward, find solutions when personal issues arise, and make sure we all achieve what’s possible.

If you liked our discussion please check the first part of our conversation on Stu Massengill’s podcast, “Finding Direction,” here:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6urGWYinAQfodAsGEAChpS?si=R00r22vJRNCA1k34vZvo7A

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This week I’m joined by corporate inclusion visionary and author, Deepa Purushothaman.

A former senior partner at Deloitte, Deepa spent more than 20 years helping clients grow. She was the first woman of color and one of the youngest people to make partner in the firm’s history. From the outside, everything looked like it was going well. But a severe health scare amplified by consistently working hundred-hour work weeks forced her to ask herself a big question: “Do I have to do a job like this to feel worthy?”

It was this question that encouraged Deepa to completely re-imagine and re-evaluate what she needed to feel healthy and whole. Eventually, Deepa left Deloitte and founded nFormation, a membership-based community for professional Women of Color. In 2022, she published her first book, The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America. And she continues to speak on the themes of power, inclusion, leadership and advancing women. I highly recommend her TED talks, which have almost 3 million views.

In today’s episode, Deepa and I talk about the experience of being first generation, the pressure that comes with being a woman of color in corporate America, and how we tend to use our careers to carve a sense of identity and belonging.

If you enjoyed my conversation with Deepa Purushothaman, I highly encourage watching her TED talks and read her book The First, The Few, The Only: How Women of Color Can Redefine Power in Corporate America.

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This week I’m speaking with fashion designer and motivational coach Destinee Macklin or “Mack the Tailor.” Her focus on custom tailoring applies not only to the clothes her clients wear, but also to the habits and thoughts that rule their day to day lives. We’ll talk about how Destinee went from being a detective in the Baltimore Police Department to a mentor and designer. And how her decision to keep moving is about much more than meets the eye. We’ll talk about how she turned tragedy into triumph, how we can turn our struggles into the fuel to our fire, and what it means to raise a black son in this world.

Follow Mack the Tailor on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mackthetailor/?hl=en

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This week I am joined by a special guest and longtime friend Luke Iorio. Luke is the former CEO of IPEC, the professional institute of coaching where I obtained my certification many years ago. He is now a coach and entrepreneur, and he currently hosts his own podcast called “On this Walk.”

After going through what he refers to as an “epic burnout stage”, Luke realized that he wasn't in alignment with where he needed to be in life. This began a seven year spiritual journey, during which he stepped down from IPEC and explored different practices and modalities on his own walk toward a deeper discovery of himself and the meanings of Balance, Peace, Fulfillment, and Freedom.

In this episode, Luke and I had a much needed conversation about the sacred messiness of life. We talked about what burnout really means, how one gets to that point, and about how important it is for us humans to create a space to regulate, reflect and sit in the sometimes uncomfortable space of embracing the unknown.

If you liked our discussion, I encourage you to listen to Part 2 of our discussion on Luke's podcast "On This Walk": https://open.spotify.com/show/7yXk7J8ioPTIXSoN4L65oo

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