Uncomfortable Conversations

Uncomfortable Conversations

By Dr. Zakkiyyah Salaam-ReederScienceSocial Sciences
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Uncomfortable Conversations episodes

  • Killer Mother's Day Addiction
    Penny is an adult but was a child whose mother was an addict of meth and murdered. Miss Peggy is a mother and grandmother who has been using drugs for over 50 years. Peggy started using before she had children her children have long since grown up and raise their own children. However, Piggy continues to use drugs as she sees fit. Despite Penny's experience with her mother being murdered by her meth addict boyfriend while her mom was also using. Penney still indulges in her own drug use primarily marijuana.
    32 min
  • Hollywood Mike Poetry pt.2
    From a life of crime and not so great choices, Mikey D is working to provide his community youth with options he didn't have. After close to 30 years served in prison, Michael DiVicino morphed into a poet and activist.
    34 min
  • Masculinity Poetry pt 1
    Maxsim Ealy who is a journalist, author, poet , and father happens to be a Polyamorous pansexual. We discuss masculinity and the toxicity of it which he shares through some of his poetry.
    33 min
  • Queer Parenting
    Sy and Bash from Gender Justice discuss with Emer.GenZ some of the challenges of parenting as a queer. They also provide solutions to why queer parenting is healthy for children to experience.
    33 min
  • Women's History Celebration pt 5
    Community Health worker Alyssa Howard and I discuss the power of being a woman. We also discuss the social and medical disparities within the African-American community. She also provides some solutions for achieving the gap in Health Equity among black and brown communities.
    29 min
  • Women's History Celebration pt. 4
    Join me with Brittany Soul as we discuss a woman's love. We touch on the woman's perspective of love when in a domestically abusive relationship. As well as a healthy relationship and what that looks or feels like.
    32 min
  • Women's History Celebration Pt.1 with Natasha Smith
    Uncomfortable Conversations with Natasha Smith
    Uncomfortable Conversation kicks off Women's History Month celebration. I had a very heart felt Conversation with a mother whose child was 16 when he was murdered.
    Join me as Natasha Smith shares her journey through healing as a woman and mother. The loss of anyone near to you is tragic. However, the loss of your only child to senseless violence is an uncomfortable conversation no parent ever wants to have.
    #WomensHistoryMonth
    #motherslove
    #womanspain
    #march
    #2023
    29 min

About Uncomfortable Conversations

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Uncomfortable Conversations™ is a human systems dialogue platform created and hosted by Dr. Zakkiyyah Salaam-Reeder, Human Systems Transformation Strategist. Through vulnerable, transparent dialogue, the podcast explores how environment, lived experience, and inherited systems shape language, behavior, trust, relationships, and reality. Each episode brings avoided subjects and unspoken experiences forward, transforming shame into understanding and expanding how people see themselves and one another. “Language is the translation of our reality.”