The Soul Mama Podcast

S1/E5.Self Cultivation and Healing through Miscarriage with Mimi Kuo Deemer

Mimi Kuo Deemer is an author, yoga and Qigong instructor. She is the co-founder of Beijing’s first and leading Yoga Studio and teaches regular Yoga and Qigong classes in London. In this conversation, we speak about what we can learn from nature, how self-cultivation builds on the concept of self-care.

Mimi speaks about her personal journey of pregnancy loss, and the impact this can have on the body and a relationship. She shares what helped her heal through the shame and self-blame of multiple miscarriages to move into a place of self-compassion and wholeness.

Mimi has such an aura of calm and she speaks with such grace and clarity, I really hope you gain as much wisdom from this episode as I did.

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S1/E4. Dr. Kimani Borland on Medicine, Movement and Motherhood, Beyond the Facade with1

Dr. Kimani Borland is a Naturopathic Doctor, qualified Vinyasa, and Kemetic Yoga teacher, and mother to two sons. She was born and raised in a Rasta family in Jamaica, graduated from Stanford University, and currently runs a practice in Jamaica, where she specializes in an Integrative approach to wellbeing, using herbs, nutrition, lifestyle & perspective shifts. 

I loved speaking and learning more from Dr. Kimani in this conversation. We have a lot in common and although it was our first time connecting, I felt like I'd found a long lost friend. She’s humble and honest and speaks candidly about the initiation of becoming a mum for the first time at 21 and her experiences of having two very different cesarean births.

She reflects on the philosophies and foundations that set her in good stead along her path and the struggles as well as triumphs along the way. We talk about the reality for many women living in Jamaica and the Caribbean and what personally motivates her to keep going. I know her insights and assuring wisdom in this conversation will uplift you. 

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S1/E3. Dani McClain on The Political Power of Black Motherhood

Dani McClain is a writer and award-winning journalist who reports on race and reproductive health. Her work has been recognized by the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, the National Association of Black Journalists, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America. She is mother to one daughter and author of the book We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood, which was published in 2019.

In this conversation, we go deeper into Dani's personal motivations for the book. We talk about the state of affairs in the US. We talk about 'motherwork' and what it means to belong to a black family today.  Dani reflects on her own upbringing and her personal experience of mothering her young daughter in a co-parenting relationship.

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S1/E2. Birthing a New Paradigm for Women of Colour with Mars Lord

Mars Lord is an award-winning doula and birth activist with a burning desire to see the ‘colouring in of the landscape of birth.’ She is also committed to finding out the reasons for the increasing maternal and neonatal morbidity rates for women of colour.

Mars created Abuela Doulas, a doula preparation for women of colour. Her desire for reproductive justice led to the creation of the Reproductive Justice Retreat and she is a constant force in the community propelling the conversation for women of colour and birth forward.  We talk about the role of a doula, about the importance of ancestral wisdom, and explore some ways we can move out of victimhood and regain our power as women and as mothers.

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S1/E1.Discovering our Purpose through Motherhood with Jessica Huie MBE

Jessica Huie MBE is an entrepreneur and the author of bestseller 'PURPOSE, find your truth and embrace your calling’ published by Hay House.

Having worked for years as a publicist to the stars, to creating the UK’s first range of multicultural greeting cards, Jessica’s life has been an ongoing  journey of self-discovery and becoming. We speak about her abrupt awakening of motherhood at the tender age of 17 whilst still growing and mothering herself, to becoming a carer for her late father and the presence and awakening that came as a result. Jessica carries such grace and gentle wisdom and I love the way she sees motherhood as an interweaving of lessons and inseparable from the fabric of life.

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The Soul Mama podcast features healing conversations for women on the sacred journey of motherhood who want to live conscious, natural and spiritual lives. 

I’m Nehanda Truscott Reid, aka @SoulMamaCoach, a mother of two, and Holistic Wellness Practitioner. In this podcast I speak with inspiring leaders, healers, authors and more whose messages serve to awaken, inspire and elevate us.

Welcome to the Soul Mama Podcast.