Ep062: Join us at our new podcast!
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
We have a new digital home and a new podcast! Join us at becomeagoodancestor.com ..read more
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Ep061: 2021 End of Year Bonus Episode - Part 2
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
I’m thrilled to share our final bonus episode of 2021 Good Ancestor conversations. (You can find our first bonus episode here) As you listen to these wonderful excerpts from Episodes 50 through 59 you will find all the joyful emotions come to surface. What a glorious way to end our podcast listening year with our special guests who have uplifted our spirits and showed how to continue to live the life of a Good Ancestor ..read more
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Ep060: 2021 End of Year Bonus Episode - Part 1
Good Ancestor
by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
As we close out this year it is my honor and pleasure to bring you the first of two bonus episodes highlighting our memorable episodes this wonderful year. We wanted to close out this year with a celebration of all of the wonderful guests we've had the pleasure of speaking with this year. Thank you for sharing your time this past year, which as Layla mentioned in the introduction of this episode is the most valuable thing in the world. We are grateful for our Good Ancestor community. Happy listening to our Good Ancestor Podcast highlights from Episode 41 through 49. Here are their respective ..read more
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Ep059: #GoodAncestor Valarie Kaur, author of ‘See No Stranger’
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with best-selling author, lawyer, filmmaker, educator, and civil rights leader, Valarie Kaur. Valarie Kaur’s debut book, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love is our Good Ancestor Book Club selection for the month of November 2021. Valarie Kaur is a renowned civil rights leader, lawyer, best-selling author, award-winning filmmaker, educator, innovator, and celebrated prophetic voice. She leads the Revolutionary Love Project to reclaim love as a force for justice. Valarie burst into American consciousness in the wake of the 2016 election when her ..read more
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Ep058: #GoodAncestor Jasmine Mans, author of ‘Black Girl, Call Home’
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with Black poet, Jasmine Mans. Jasmine Mans is a poet from Newark, New Jersey. Her recently published book, Black Girl, Call Home (Penguin Random House) has been named one of Oprah’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books and a TIME Magazine Must Read, to name a few; and Jasmine herself named as Essence’s #1 Contemporary Black Poet to Know. Jasmine’s poetry has gone viral many times over on YouTube. She has opened packed shows for Mos Def and Janelle Monae; and performed at such esteemed venues as the Kennedy Center, Broadway's New Amsterdam Theater, the Wisconsin Governor’s Man ..read more
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Ep057: #GoodAncestor Thérèse Cator on Embodied Black Girl Liberation
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with embodiment practitioner, leadership coach, Thérèse Cator. Thérèse is a mother, a trauma-informed embodiment practitioner, leadership coach, artist, and founder of Embodied Black Girl, a global community that stands for the embodied liberation of Black women and femmes and women of color everywhere. Embodied Black Girl is devoted to creating a safe space for Black women and femmes and women of color to heal from intergenerational trauma, racialized stress, and colonial conditioning in service of our individual and collective liberation and healing. Her work deeply ..read more
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Ep056: #GoodAncestor Savala Nolan - ‘Don’t Let It Get You Down’
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with writer, speaker, and lawyer, Savala Nolan. Savala Nolan is a writer, speaker, and lawyer. Her first book, Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender and the Body is our Good Ancestor Book Club selection for the month of October 2021.  Savala is executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She and her writing have been featured in Vogue, Time, Harper’s Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, the Boston Globe, and more. She served as an advisor on the Peabody–winning ..read more
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Ep055: #GoodAncestor​​ ​Leesa Renée Hall on the Inner Field Trip®
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with the anti-bias facilitator and mental wellness advocate, Leesa Renée Hall. Leesa Renée Hall is an anti-bias facilitator who has helped over 65,000 leaders with quiet, gentle, and highly sensitive personalities go on an Inner Field Trip® to explore their unconscious biases so they protect their energy, stand on the side of justice, and become better ancestors. In 2017, Leesa embarked on a personal journey of writing half a million words over 365 consecutive days. Over that year she used questions to help her unpack her own unconscious biases around her race, gender ..read more
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Ep054: #GoodAncestor​​ Pragya Agarwal on '(M)otherhood’
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
2y ago
In this episode, I speak with author, speaker and behavioural & data scientist, Pragya Agarwal. Pragya Agarwal is a behavioural and data scientist, who has worked as a consultant and speaker for the United Nations, UNESCO, Environment Agency, NHS, UK Police Commissioners, Cabinet Office, and US Defence Services, and various international universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, Koblenz, Imperial College and more. Pragya has held a Leverhulme Fellowship and senior academic positions in US and UK Universities for over 12 years. She has also held fellowships at University of Califo ..read more
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Ep053: #GoodAncestors ​Rebecca Walker & Lily Diamond on ‘What's Your Story?’
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by Layla Saad, Good Ancestor Podcast
3y ago
In this episode, I speak with the co-authors of 'What's your Story? ', Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond. Rebecca Walker is a bestselling author, editor, and cultural critic who has contributed to the global conversation about race, gender, culture, and power for over two decades. She has spoken at over four hundred universities, conferences, literary festivals, and corporate campuses around the world, and is a co-founder of the Third Wave Fund, an organization that supports women and transgender youth working for social justice. Rebecca has won many awards, and was named by Time magazine as one ..read more
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