A Love Letter to Ancestors: Writing, Motherhood and Burt Bridges featuring Cassandra Lane, Author and Editor

Jas Moon is an Aquarian Entrepreneur and champions others to be too—to embed practices that support the holistic wellbeing of themselves & their customers into their mission driven businesses.  Links:  Connect with Jas Moon on Instagram @jasofmoon Follow The Aquarian Entrepreneur on Instagram @theaquarianentrepreneur Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

This week I welcome Carmen Harris into conversation, a visionary, healer, and co-founder of Two Inches Beyond Black. This episode is an offering, a meditation, a call to come back into yourself an invitation to breathe.   Links:  Connect with Carmen Harris on Instagram @carmendharris Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

In this episode, we have DaTiana Guerrero, a doula and care consultant. We talk postpartum and the recurring familiarity that arises in life in different seasons between birthing and grieving. Links: Connect with DaTiana Guerrero on Instagram @datianaguerrero Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

Imani is the founder of HURU, which creates sacred spaces for vast experiences that foster emotional well-being and wholeness. LaTonia is the founder of Adjourn Teahouse, which is the product that brings the practice of rest into our daily rituals. Imani Samuels and LaTonya Cokeley, both visionaries who truly understand and I believe embody the power and the gift of sisterhood, rest, grace, and authenticity, share the mic to be in conversation, as the friends who they are to talk about rest, Afro-futurism and liberation. Links: Connect with Imani Sanders on Instagram @imanijoye Connect with Adjourn Teahouse on Instagram @adjournteahouse Visit Adjourn Teahouse’s website Visit HURU’s website Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

In this episode, we have Marisa Renee Lee, author of Grief is Love. We unpack grief, moving away from the limited definition society has of it to the expansive journey it can be.  Links:  Connect with Marisa Renee Lee on Instagram @marisareneelee Visit the Maria Renee Lee’s website Purchase the book: Grief is Love Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

We are back! After a summer and fall hiatus, we are back with season SIX. Chloe starts this season with lessons on discernment, a gift of community, and an invitation to join the conversations.

Chloe closes season five with three questions for listeners. — Fitbeads is a self-love platform centered around waist beads and their ability to uplift, enrich, and encourage self-care. They cultivate conversations around culture, history, and meaning, while also creating spaces for personal connection and self-discovery. Follow Fitbeads on Instagram @fitbeads.co Visit Fitbead’s website (use code LIFEISWEAR20 to get 20% off your first purchas) Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

In this episode, Chloe speaks to Kenda Fields, content strategist, about the power of second changes, her history in sisterhood, and the mysteries, divisions, and unity that decorate our family experiences. She speaks about the vulnerability required to move past her fear and through her own healing.  Links: Connect with Kenda Fields on Instagram @kendaelisefields Visit Kenda’s website Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

I chat with Hannah Tall, Director of Programs at The Loveland Foundation. Hannah begins by sharing the excess of love and the access to love that she learned was possible through her mother. We also go on to talk about what and who got her here as a village child. Follow The Loveland Foundation's work on social channels because the community care they offer, like mothering, is the nurturing we all need.  Links: Follow The Loveland Foundation on Instagram @thelovelandfoundation Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear

I chat with Lyn Patterson, poet and artist, about her life story. We chat about overcoming trauma through poetry, shifting dynamics of family, accepting your wild, and awareness of "how we consume life, or how it consumes us if we aren't careful."  Links:  Connect with Lyn Patterson on Instagram @poetryntings Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram @lifeiswear