As an educator and activist, Cristina Garcia is dedicated to guiding women of color to reclaim & affirm our identity & voice through revolutionary healing & liberation practice. Through her work, her belief is that that our stories need to be elevated in all corners of society and that the key to reclaiming all parts of who we are is by leading with our own unique voices and staying rooted and grounded in the richness of our lineages and cultures.

In this episode, Cristina shares her perspective and guidance on how we can unapologetically own all of who we are to revolutionize the way we show up in the world. She reminds us that even though our voices and identities have historically been erased, we have the ability to assert our power and affirm ourselves. 

We also talk about:

• Her relationship with her voice
• How growing up in an immigrant household impacted her voice
• The liberation process of releasing self-censorship
• The process of discernment
• Ask yourself the question: Where is home?

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here
• Cristina’s website: https://www.shegrowswegrow.com/
• Follow Cristina on IG: @shegrowswegrow

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

Listen, breaking up is hard to do. Whether you’re breaking up with a partner, a friend, a job, etc., it takes an emotional, physical, and mental toll on ya. While we can’t escape heartbreak completely, we can learn how to navigate through it when things get tough. 

In this episode, Kayla is grounding into the intersection of self-love and grief as we navigate through the rocky terrain of heartbreak. Her intention with this conversation is to not only be the supportive friend who lends a warm shoulder for you to cry on but also a friend who can offer you a thing or two that’s worked for her so you don’t feel alone. 

We also talk about:

• Why just “getting over it” won’t work
• How grief can show up in the body
• Creating a self-care box to pull out when you need it
• Calling on your support system
• The importance of giving yourself time to release 

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

As a Sexuality doula®, somatic practitioner, and sensualist, Ev’Yan Whitney is dedicated to sex education and sexual activism for women and non-binary folks, helping individuals reclaim their unique sexual expressions and reconnect to their sensual bodies. Through her work, her goal is to focus on decolonizing, unshaming, and liberating sexuality at the intersection of identity, pleasure, and embodiment.

In this episode, Ev’Yan gets intimate with us about the role sensuality has played in their personal life more recently, and how they’re tapping more into what sensuality looks like for them in this current moment. This conversation is an invitation for you to look at your own relationship with sensuality, how you can get more grounded in your sensuality practice, and starting with the basics of what feels good to you. 

We also talk about:

• Their relationship with sensuality
• The difference between sensuality and sexuality
• How our views of sensuality can actually shrink us
• How we experience sensuality and hard feelings
• Performative pleasure
• Holding the pose with your boundaries
• Taking a role in someone else’s sensuality

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here
• Ev’Yan’s website: https://www.evyanwhitney.com/
• Follow Ev’Yan on IG: @evyanwhitney

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt jealous? (Raises both hands). Whether you’ve experienced these feelings when you see someone on social media or in your day-to-day relationships, we’ve all had different ways that this sneaky little emotion can wreak havoc on our well-being.

In this episode, Kayla is kicking back to have a real discussion on jealous feelings, the mindset shifts we can make to release the negative energy surrounding getting jealous, and some of the biggest lessons we can learn from the emotion itself. This episode is an invitation to feel the jealous feelings, but not let them overtake the beauty of who you are and how you show up in the world.  

We also talk about:

• Kayla’s history with jealous tendencies 
• How judgment and comparison is normal
• The role judgment plays in our safety
• The difference between jealousy and envy
• Letting your jealousy have a voice

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

As a dentist, speaker, and entrepreneur, Dr. Joke Alesh is passionate about the prevention of oral disease and helping patients meet their oral health goals. Through her work, her goal is to act as a steward for improving access to care for underserved populations and increasing the diversity of the dental workforce.

In this episode, Dr. Alesh shares her philosophy on why her focus on community health is so important in her practice. She also offers a deeper look into being an expander as a black doctor, and her thoughts on why she believes that oral health is a key to overall health. 

We also talk about:

• Her path to becoming a dentist
• The role of being a public servant
• How she manages her stress and mitigates burnout being in healthcare
• Tips for better oral hygiene
• The science behind plaque buildup  

Connect with us after the show at wellnessglowup.com!

Resources

• Connect with us for daily inspiration and reflection prompts at @wellnesglowupmeda
• Order Kayla’s book Things I Could Never Thank You For for paperback here
• Dr. Alesh’s website: https://www.doctoralesh.com/
• Follow Dr. Alesh on IG: @doctoralesh

Sponsors

• BLK+GRN | Visit BLKGRN.com and use the promo code wellnessglowup for 10% off your order.  

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

When you look up the word ‘love’ on the internet, you get 14.7 billion results. We figure it’s because people have their own interpretation of what love actually is and how it shows up. This makes sense if we think about how everyone learns to love differently in the context of relationships

In this episode, Kayla brings you along her journey of getting to the core of what love for her is, how we can best show up within love, and some universal truths around love. This episode is an invitation to define love for yourself, not based on the idea of love that we get from fairy tales and romcoms.  

We also talk about:

• How liberation and love are closely related
• Our culture focusing mostly on the attraction 
• Honing your relationship skills 
• Vulnerability as the building block of intimacy
• Feeling freer in someone’s presence of love

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here 

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

As a photographer, doula, and energy healer, Karissa Raya’s purpose is to help you in keeping memories of your family's history. It was her birth experience that led her to connect more intimately with her intuitive nature and also realize that there are so many gaps in the care of women as they enter the formative postpartum phase.

In this episode, Karissa shares her philosophy about how she supports people in the transition to parenthood. She also offers a deeper look into how we can be our own storytellers as we document ourselves to keep our family history alive. 

We also talk about:

• Her relationship with motherhood
• The duality of rebirth and death within giving birth
• Her thoughts on embracing change
• The symbiosis between motherhood and nature
• Releasing a capitalistic view of mothering and being enough
• Raising children differently than how we were raised

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here
• Karissa’s website: https://www.olivelavida.com/
• Follow Karissa on IG: @karrisamraya

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

Kayla has always taken a more critical look at gender and the gender norms we’ve been socialized to believe in. If you think about it, gender itself touches every aspect of our lives as we work to reprogram our own subconscious to how we want to show up in this world. 

In this episode, Kayla brings you along her journey of discovering what gender means to her, how we can release those stereotypes that don’t feel good to us, and living in our own truth. This episode is an invitation to define gender for yourself, not for the perception of other people as we keep in mind that gender is a social construct. 

We also talk about:

• Gender roles as it relates to our expressed emotions
• The socialization of how we’re expected to present ourselves as women
• Redefining being a woman
• What makes a good woman, man, or person?
• Looking at gender roles at the intersection of race 

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

As a psychic channel and spiritual guide, Aycee Brown is dedicated to illuminating the psychic, intuitive, and divine talents within you, while inspiring you to consciously claim them and reroute your life in a way that feels lighter and more empowered at once. Through her work, she maps out ideas, concepts, and spiritual information in a way that eliminates confusion and any feelings of doubt or worthlessness.

In this episode, Aycee shares her philosophy about how we can work to cultivate our own inner truth and bring ourselves back home into our bodies. She also offers a deeper look into the ways we can commit to learning to trust and surrender to the innate power and magic we hold within. 

We also talk about:

• Her relationship with the truth 
• Why truth is relative to the individual 
• Living more consciously within our truth
• How to connect to our guides
• Finding clues and investing our own healing
• Holding multiple truths at one time

Resources

• Connect with me on TikTok: @kaylanedza
• Order my books here
• Aycee’s website: https://www.ayceebrown.com/
• Follow Aycee on IG: @ayceebrown

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.

In this episode, Kayla is catching up with our community to chat about what’s been going on and what everyone’s been feeling. Kayla’s intention with these ‘Ask Me Anything’ episodes is to not only provide a different perspective with more common questions and topics but share what’s going on with her personally. Today she’s answering your questions about sobriety, self-criticisms, and the importance of friendship as you’re working through your own self-mastery journey.

 We also talk about:

• The hardest part of Kayla’s sobriety 
• Why do we feel the need to do the self-development journey alone
• Navigating why we’re our harshest critic
• Dealing with the comparison trap
• Why finding “the one” is a bunch of BS

Connect with us after the show at wellnessglowup.com!

Resources

• Connect with us for daily inspiration on IG: @wellnessglowupmeda
• Order Kayla’s book Things I Could Never Thank You For for paperback here

Sponsors

• BLK+GRN | Visit BLKGRN.com and use the promo code wellnessglowup for 10% off your order.  

This podcast is for educational purposes only. The host claims no responsibility to any person or entity for any liability, loss, or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly as a result of the use, application, or interpretation of the information presented herein.