Reverend Mary Bogan is a native of Mississippi, principal consultant of The Philippian Group and L'Erin's beloved auntie.

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Welcome back to the Black Girl Mystic Podcast Portal, where we gather weekly with extraordinary Black women and femmes, healers, teachers, and medicine folk from across the African diaspora. Today, I am deeply honored to share a profound conversation with my mentor and community elder, Dr. Maxine Mimms.

Dr. Mimms, a true icon of education and community empowerment, founded The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus, shaping countless lives through her wisdom, boldness, and unapologetic approach to truth. In this episode, she shares her journey growing up in the segregated South, her unique perspective on joy, and the rich lessons of reciprocity and presence.

Dr. Mimms offers rare insights into the essence of Black women's brilliance and resilience, affirming the beauty of slowing down, honoring one’s body, and creating a life steeped in joy.

This conversation is an invitation to reconnect with your own divine power and to remember the sacredness of Black lineage, love, and legacy.

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Born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Curtisha LaShundra’ Johnson is professionally known as Madam CJ — chart topping singer/songwriter, dancer, Certified Strategic Self Care Ambassador, Licensed Certified Liquid Motion Instructor and Nichiren Buddhism practitioner.

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This is your year. Regardless of what’s happening in the economy, politically, socially or environmentally, you can create a life of success, joy, peace, ease and sweetness — RIGHT NOW.

During this gathering of the Black Girl Mystic Podcast Portal L’ resources ancestral wisdom, insight and messaging to illuminate how you can create a life of success, on your own terms.

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VISION BOARD FOR MANIFESTING Your Best Year Yet!

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Janeen Uzzell, Chief Operating Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, is deeply rooted in a rich spiritual practice of surrender + growth.

Originally from Newark, New Jersey, USA, Janeen is a daughter of the Great Migration and guided by legacy as her north star navigation — in corporate America and beyond.

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a Queer Black Troublemaker and Black Feminist Love Evangelist and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings. Her work in this lifetime is to facilitate infinite, unstoppable ancestral love in practice.

Alexis’s prolific work inspires artists across form to create dance works, installation work, paintings, processionals, divination practices, operas, quilts and more.

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Bea Dixon, founder of The Honey Pot Company, shares her journey of building an empire rooted in ancestral wisdom and unapologetic authenticity.

In this rich and soulful conversation, Bea reveals the sacred power of following your intuition, honoring your lineage, and embracing radical freedom in every aspect of life.

This episode dives into her life-altering dream, her revolutionary approach to feminine care, and the ways we can all stay grounded in our truth while moving through a world that doesn’t always make it easy.

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Junauda Petrus-Nasah is a creative activist, writer, playwright, and multi-dimensional performance artist whose work centers around Black wildness, -futurism, ancestral healing, sweetness, spectacle and shimmer.

Her first book, the young adult novel, The Stars and The Blackness Between Them, received the 2020 Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award.

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Thea Monyeé is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist whose work dives into the intersections of healing through decolonization of joy, pleasure, and mental health.

Her unapologetic work stems from the unwavering commitment to healing and her belief that true healing can only occur in a liberated and non-oppressive society. She is currently studying to add certified sex therapist to her list of credits.

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Shirley has taught yoga for the last 10 years and is certified in various lineages and techniques including Kundalini Yoga, Prenatal Yoga and Vinyasa Yoga.

She holds a Master's Degree in clinical psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies and is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice with couples and individuals in Oakland, California.

In her clinical practice, she specializes in working with intimacy, money, self confidence, and sexuality.

In her free time, she loves practicing yoga, Cuban salsa dance, eating good food, hiking, spending time with friends, and doing nothing.

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