The Marvyn Harrison Podcast: Culture, Identity & Fatherhood

No matter what your relationship with God, religion takes on a different role in your day to day lives. Religion is very prominent in the black community, within our culture and is often embedded in the way we grow up, so this week Leanne, Shan and Liv discuss their personal relationships with religion, what spirituality means to them and how this manifests if you have different religious views to your partner.

The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood. 

Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.

You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook

This week on the podcast we are joined by a group of Dads who have teenagers. We welcome Darwoood Grace, Kwame Kwaten and Mod Russel and Stephen Ismail Thomas.   

We live in a world where our children are digital natives and social media can do more harm then good it can challenging for our children to lack confidence and self esteem within the way that they look especially in their teenage years. In this episodes we get a group of Dope Black Dads together to discuss how they deal with any insecurities that their child has and how to teach them to develop self love.

Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.  

 Join the conversation and community online through our social channels:   Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads  

If you want to get in touch with us, email us on [email protected] or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”

This week, the Dope Black Women are joined by fellow DBW - Social Media Consultant and Podcaster, Pilar Nalwimba. Pilar previously ran social media accounts for ITV and Love Island and currently hosts the Reality Tea Podcast. As a group they discuss the representation of black people on reality TV in general, whether reality TV shows stereotype black people and why certain reality shows are so obsessed with the character of the angry black women. They also discuss the most important question about the most popular reality show on at the moment: is the UK ready for a black couple to win Love Island?

The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood. 

Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope.

You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.

Having a presence at your child's school is a responsibility that has to be shared between both parents and is not solely the responsibility of the mother. Very often black Dads are given a negative perception in school life and it's very important that as Black Dads we are present, contribute and are active in our child's school life.

Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.  

 Join the conversation and community online through our social channels:   Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads

 If you want to get in touch with us, email us on [email protected] or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”

There are lower rates of marriage within black women compared to other races and only 23% of dark skinned women are married. This week, Leanne, Roshan and Liv discuss whether marriage is something we strive to achieve as women in 2020, whether we're still influenced by traditional cultural values to get married and what finding a life partner means to them. 

The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.  

Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.

You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook

This week on the podcast we are joined by a group of Dads who have teenagers. We welcome Darwoood Grace, Kwame Kwaten and Gavin Johnson. 

In what is some of the most formative years in your child’s life, this can also be some of the most challenging, together the Dads discuss how to develop your teenager into a man/woman. What core values do you teach them? How do we teach them to understand their emotions, show compassion and respect authority?

Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.

Join the conversation and community online through our social channels:   Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads  If you want to get in touch with us, email us on [email protected] or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”

We're back for the new year and as you're planning all your trips, holidays and bae-cations for 2020, the Dope Black Women discuss dating on holiday. From Island romances, to whether cheating counts when you're on holiday to asking the question -  would you move to a different country to be with someone? There's even a story where a guy ends up throwing a chair across a rave in rage! You'll have to listen to hear the full story!

In this episode the Dope Black Women also discuss Meghan and Harry's announcement of their plans to step down from their positions as senior royals. What will they do now? Where will they live? How will they be financially independent? We discuss it all in this episode.

The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood. 

Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.

You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook

This year on the podcast we're bringing in a variety of Dads at different stages of fatherhood to share their stories, experiences and learnings from being a Dad. This week we welcome Stephen Ismail Thomas who teaches mindfulness to primary and secondary school children, Sam Olagbaju who works with young offenders and Dare Dario, who each have children that are aged 5 - 12. 

Together they discuss how to develop emotional intelligence in your kids, teaching them how to be their own person and not bow down to peer pressure, as well as teaching our children how to understand their moods and emotions and being socially aware. 

Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.

Join the conversation and community online through our social channels:   Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads  If you want to get in touch with us, email us on [email protected] or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”