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Odyl Rozendaal is a psychologist and walking coach, who loves the summers in Amsterdam, getting lost in beautiful and old villages in France and there is something about beachlife, about the sea, the ocean that makes her feel humble.
She started with rollerskating to feel more connected to her inner child and feels the most free when she dances, something she never wants to give up.
In this episode we talk about the power and benefits of walking coaching, what Odyl means when she says she is a coach of colour, mum guilt and the difference between toxic positivity and positive psychology. We speak about loss and grief, precisely the death of Odyl’s dad who keeps popping up here and there throughout the entire episode.
And while we are doing all of this our overall aim is to go against fixed labels, that put us into boxes and that not only prevent us from being ourselves but also denounce who we were when we started life. So we want to kick those boxes, smash the labels and stop justifying ourselves and over explaining.
In doing so Odyl shares with us her in betweenness, the pain, the tears, her thought processes, doubts, describes things that were difficult. She reflects and connects and I am happy that we have had this conversation together.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#toxicpositivity #positivepsychology #walkingcoach #coachofcolour #father #motherhood #memories #mothersguilt #intersectionality #feminist #podcasters #saltthepodcast #suriname #amsterdam #dancing #rollerskating #amsterdamsummer #smashthelabels #smashtheguilt #innerchild #grief
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Abbiola Ballah (she/her) is the founder and CEO of Phern Education Studios, an organisation that is a catalyst for change in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging space. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Abbiola has spent the past 20 plus years living, studying and working in Japan, the US and Belize.
An educator for 17 plus years, she has held leadership roles in various educational institutions, focusing on creating inclusive environments in these spaces, being especially passionate about supporting others to create communities where everyone's intersectional identities feel a sense of belonging. Abbiola is an avid reader, a travel nerd, a theatre buff, and a Japanese karaoke queen.
In this episode, we speak about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB). What do these terms mean, and why did Abbiola choose to become a diversity worker? Her personal journey is obviously inexctricably linked to her answer because the personal is political.
In our conversation Abbiola also dismisses the myth that DEIB work is solely a US issue and highlights the importance of creating safer and braver spaces by outlining what those spaces actually mean. She introduces us further to the term co-conspirator as coined by Bettina Love.
It is an educational episode in which the brilliant Abbiola nurtures us with lots of book recommendations, her humor and by sharing her knowledge with us. Thank you Abbiola.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#diversity #equity #inclusion #belonging #access #Justice #japan #karaoke #bookrecommendations #intersectionality #feminist #podcasters #collective #communitydriven #saltthepodcast #saferspaces #braverspaces #trinidad #belize #curriculumdesign #carribean #diversitywork #academic #priyaparker #kimberlecrenshaw #privilege #accountability #positionality #mayaangelou #coconspirator #bettinalove
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Nani Jansen Reventlow is an award winning human rights lawyer specialised in strategic litigation at the intersection of human rights, social justice and technology. Nani is also the founder of Systemic Justice , a new organisation that seeks to radically transform how the law works for communities fighting for racial, social and economic justice.
Nani has an extensive background in promoting human rights in the digital context and in defending journalists and activists in some of the most repressive environments in the world. She previously founded and built the Digital Freedom Fund , which supports digital rights litigation. Throughout her career, Nani has seen first-hand how unequal power structures in society affect people’s ability to exercise their rights and achieve justice when they have been harmed or wronged.
By broadening access to judicial remedies and strengthening the ability of communities to leverage the power of the courts, Nani’s new organisation, Systemic Justice will help dismantle the power structures that underpin racial, social, and economic injustice and work to develop a more just society. Through her public speaking, academic work, and teaching at some of the world's leading universities, Nani is shaping the next generation of human rights lawyers and public policy professionals.
Our conversation centers around Systemic Justice, its trajectory, its foundational values, its transparent recruitment process, and the importance of community driven strategic litigation. We also speak about the appropriation of terms such as decolonize, and intersectionality by capitalism and by white dominated organizations, about the importance of love, vulnerability and collective care in social justice movements. Hear about one of Nani's favourite book, and a memory that had an impact on her life.
It was an honour to have this conversation with Nani on Salt.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#systemicjustice #transparentrecruitmentprocesses #equity #inclusion #belonging #access #Justice #amsterdam #dogs #elitecapture #audrelorde #intersectionality #feminist #podcasters #collective #communitydriven #sisteroutsider #memories #saltthepodcast #appropriation #compassion #care #decolonize #stories #personalnarratives #socialjustice #europe #communitydrivenlitigation #activism #feministknowledgeproduction #love #marginalizedcommunities #racialjustice #economicjustice
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Olena Gyrenko is a very proud Ukrainian soul. A dedicated, and happy but also often tired mama of Sophia and Lev. She is a caring daughter, not the worst friend and a loving but often whining wife to an amazing Dutch man called Leon.
This episode is probably one of the rawest and most honest Salt conversations I have ever had. Olena tells us about her life in Ukraine, of what it means to claim the streets and how her diasporic journey brought her to the Netherlands. How it feels to be far from the place you call home, to experience post-partum depression, witnessing an invasion, a war, an injustice from afar.
Our conversation is framed by poems read in Ukrainian and English giving Olena the space to structure the talk and giving her the room to speak about the topics as much and as little as she likes because at Salt we never record our guests' stories just for the sake of those, we do not expose our guests, have no interest in ‘selling’ their testimonies for sensational purposes, in the perpetuation of stereotypes and invasion of personal lives.
Through telling our stories here on Salt we react to the injustices of the world, we claim our testimonials as part of feminist knowledge production, as a form of resistance aiming at forging solidarity among us, positioning us a agents. We document these stories against predominant discourses, fascist regimes, one-sided knowledge production, colonialism, oppression, in moments of history where narratives are either not known, manipulated or erased. We remember to resist, to disturb people’s comfort zones, to withstand being told we are too much.
Olena's opening up to us all reminds me of the importance of speaking collectively about our most intimate issues as one of feminism's most beautiful beliefs. By Olena allowing us to enter into what is considered by our society as one of its most private spaces: your marriage and your home she shows us how the personal is political. And I thank Olena for that.
Trigger Warning: This episode contains topics of a highly sensitive nature including violence, war, rape and postpartum depression.
Host: Stella Saliari
#ukraine #thenetherlands #war #violence #poems #immigrant #postpartumdepression #motherhood #revolution #thestreets #kryla #wings #podcasters #diasporicjourneys #diaspora #saltthepodcast #rupikaur #breastfeeding #transnationalsolidarity #stories #personalnarratives #testimonials #rape #linakostenko #feministknowledgeproduction #activism #LesyaUkrainka #nayyirahwaheed #resistance
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What characterizes our path in becoming diversity workers who strive towards achieving diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and intersectional justice in our societies?
It usually starts with a memory, with witnessing an injustice that stays with us forever, and becomes ingrained into who we are.
For Kaumudi Goda it began with a memory about her grandmother who could not step out of the house because she was a widow and people believed encountering a widow first thing in the morning would bring them bad luck.
The memory stayed with her and as a result Kaumudi never stopped to reflect on the world, realizing early on that dichotomies and pigeonholes representing power relations follow us everywhere we go. After studying, moving across countries and continents, and working in various fields, she decided to become a DEI consultant to be at the forefront of dismantling oppressive structures.
Accordingly, our conversation centers around the beauty of diversity, on the importance of feeling that we belong and on what we can unlock collectively through systemic changes that are long overdue. Kaumudi introduces us to the topic through a bike ride in Amsterdam, through her very own reflections on privilege and on how marginalized communities due to systemic disadvantages do not have the luxury to stop thinking about who they are, to not worry, to not struggle, to ultimately rest.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#diversity #equity #inclusion #belonging #access #Justice #amsterdam #india #grandmother #widow #intersectionality #feminist #podcasters #DEIB #workplace #saltthepodcast #privilege #compassion #visbility #stories #personalnarratives #diversitywork #genderidentity #nonbinary #activism
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Mohamed Triki is a 22 year-old Tunisian podcaster working on Borjouliya podcast, the first and so far the only podcast focusing on toxic masculinity in Tunisia.
Mohamed grew up in Tunis, in a middle-class family, went to public school and has very nostalgic memories about his childhood, his large community of friends and the neighborhood he has been living in. He studied business administration and his passion for feminism and storytelling led him to the world of podcasting.
His keen interest in economics, and Development Studies and his diverse and multifaceted being motivate him to contribute to something new in those disciplines. Mohamed says: "I want to see what I can bring as someone who comes from North Africa, the Arab region, the Mediterranean. I have this idea of how I can belong to different spheres and different circles and identities, Arab, Muslim, feminism, economics, maths and arts, my own definition of religion and so on."
Talking to Mohamed was a joy: We talked about toxic masculinity and what it means, about men’s mental health, their bodies, unwanted dick pics, the penis, smashing the patriarchy and fatherhood. And I thank Mohamed from my heart for his openness and wonderful vibes.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#tunis #toxicmasculinity #borjouliya #thepenis #intersectionality #feminist #podcasters #dickpics #fatherhood #men #thegym #saltthepodcast #thevitruvianman #smashingthepatriarchy #mentalhealth #northafrica #openingup #noshame #collective #community #visbility #stories #personalnarratives
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Nicolette Lazarus describes herself as a mid-life woman, with a 100% record of getting through bad days. This is something she thinks we all should remind ourselves of when facing those challenges we all experience that we never think we'll get through. Originally from the UK, she has lived in Amsterdam with her partner for over 16 years and now considers it to be her home. As a people person, she’s passionate about genuine human connection and exploring the things that we often collectively experience as women, and yet don’t talk about.
This has led to her leaving her previous career and comfort zone, the world of advertising and communications, to focus on her passion, bringing women together in allyship, and positive support of each other, regardless of race, religion, or other forms of diversity. She created a community and platform which is called Womanship , based in her belief that women hold the key to making the world a better place for all.
In this episode Nicolette tells us her very own story by taking us on a journey through her life, emphasizing that we are many things, and that pigeonholes do not define us. Her story leads us towards the founding of Womanship and what happened before it, in between and now.
I hope you enjoy listening to Nicolette and her story because stories are what binds us together.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#amsterdam #london #blackhair #womanship #intersectionality #authenticity #invisiblewomen #databias #perimenopause #menopause #soundtracks #saltthepodcast #traveling #healing #impostersyndrome #carolinecriadoperez #miscarriages #openingup #noshame #collective #community #visbility #women #stories #personalnarratives #testimonials #oralhistories
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On a Monday evening in March I met with Sofi Antonellini in a safe brave space of vulnerability and radical honesty. We had a deep, emotional, and essential conversation.
Sofi is a very special person, and was one of my guests in season 1 episode 15. Many of you wonderful people wanted to hear more of Sofi. I received many messages asking me to bring them back. In March I felt the time was right to have another conversation. I met a different Sofi, a person who is embracing the rebirth of a new being, one that presents itself as a human in transition, and a beautiful mess.
Our conversation was guided by vulnerability, a journey through nature and our interconnectedness with the soil, rain, the stars, bacteria. We met the Cruz del Sur and the Tres Marias in Venedo, a special woman named Cristina who shared her home and an Argentinian football match with Sofi. We spoke about joy as resistance in places that are characterized by precarity. And everything we talked about was embedded in the importance of breaking the binary and the vastness and endless posibilities that come with it. It was a conversation of love and liberation.
I encourage you to take the time to sit down, to take notes and to truly listen.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#argentina #nonbinary #amsterdam #vulnerability #ptsd #climatechange #paulpreciado #theythem #donnaharaway #anthropocene #argentinianfootball #saltthepodcast #borderlands #rain #tresmarias #gloriaanzaldua #cruzdelsur #whereishome #breakingthebinary #mothers #nostalgia #translivesmatter #transwomenarewomen #indigenousknowledge #crying #cristina #therapy #breakup #precarity #water
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Eva is a psychologist and art therapist who runs her private practice in Amsterdam and online globally. She has worked in the private and public sector, in psychiatric clinics, educational settings, with survivors of sexual violence and in refugee camps.
During her work in refugee camps across Greece she encountered art therapy and saw the positive effects it has on people first-hand. How it can offer a safe space for exploration, play, healing and change. As a result she decided to become an art therapist herself.
There is a large amount of research which has shown that art therapy has a range of physical and mental health benefits. In this episode Eva talks about exactly this and shares her journey with us towards becoming a psychologist and art therapist. We also speak about trauma, emotional eating and what happened to me when I encountered the term.
Today’s episode shows what hides behind labels that we use to describe ourselves or that others use for us … there is always a story, a wish, a journey behind them.
Enjoy the episode wonderful people and as always we love to hear from you.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast
my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#arttherapy #greece #amsterdam #thenetherlands #refugeecamp #refugees #emotionaleating #mentalhealth #eatingdisorder #pschotherapy #saltthepodcast #boundaries #artpsychotherapy #anxietymanagement #injustice #untoldstories #nonverbalcommunication #healyourlife #trauma
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Lieke Boot is the head of student welfare at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Lieke and I met a few years ago at the daycare our kids attended. After getting to know each other we met many times in the park, for long walks and long talks. A while ago I asked her if she wanted to speak on SALT and Lieke's answer was an immediate yes. However, it took two years until we set up the actual recording and when speaking with Lieke I realized why. Because now was the right time to speak.
This episode is about many things, it is raw and extremely honest. It addresses post-partum depression, intergenerational trauma, and the different forms of love. Lieke shares with us her journey of becoming a mama through sperm donation, and what single motherhood means to her. Against this background, we contest the notion that the romantic heterosexual couple is the highest form of love and that a woman’s life will be fulfilled if she gets married to a man and has children with him.
In doing so, we encounter unexpected openings, the meaning of boat journeys and unravel the impact of memories. Enjoy it wonderful people.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#memories #chemist #burnout #thenetherlands #amsterdam #mothers #postpartum #mentalhealth #spermdonor #selflove #singlemother #saltthepodcast #forgiveness #love #boats #journeys #depression #eatingdisorder #untoldstories #emiliaroig #lessonsinchemistry #healyourlife
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What is a memory that you have that had an impact on your life? is a question I was asked in episode 37 by Ina from indieslittlecrafts . Her question triggered something unexpected and as a result, I have been asking all my guests about their memory ever since. Because something happens when we unleash our untold stories, when we remember them, and share them. They lead to unexpected openings and gatherings, connections and breaking of silences.
This is both Salt's 50th episode and its 2nd anniversary episode. I am dedicating it to our memories, to those unexpected openings and to Audre Lorde who said: "I was going to die. Sooner or later. Whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me and your silences will not protect you. What are the words you do not yet have?
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#memories #astronomer #burnout #thenetherlands #amsterdam #mothers #unexpected #spiderweb #leaves #founderstories #memory #saltthepodcast #forgiveness #love #migrantstories #diasporic #Suriname #antisuperwoman #untoldstories #audrelorde #mayaangelou #indieslittlecrafts
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After 7.5 years as an innovation and concept designer, Mérida Miller decided to leave the corporate world to follow her passion: learning and working hands-on with people to create a ripple effect impact. Driven by human-centric design and a love for empowering solutions Project Fearless was born. A non-for-profit organization that offers after school courses for girls and genderfluid youth between the ages 9 and 14 to get hands-on, break stereotypes and find their voice. To be part of an organization that inspires bravery and leadership and focuses on shaping and amplifying a new generation. Since it founding in 2019, Project Fearless has welcomed over 895 kids across 72 one-of-a-kind programs.
In this episode we speak about Project Fearless, the anti-perfectionist reminder, artivism. We learn about the draft mode journey, create space for Mérida to relive a memory that impacted her life. But above all we share joy and life together.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast
my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#problemsolver #activism #afterschoolprograms #skateboarding #thenetherlands #amsterdam #snowboarding #mentorship #buildmakebe #hypegirl #girls #founderstories #nonprofit #girlsgarage #mentalhealth #projectfearless #memories #anonymousnotes #antiperfectionism #saltthepodcast #teenagers #nonbinary #youth #doer #nonprofitleadership #artivism #nieuwwest #depijp
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This is part 2 of 'Activism Works - Black Pete is Racism' where Lieke Koningen, Simone de Bies and I discuss why Black Pete is racism, and how it is connected to the Dutch colonial legacy and linked to institutional racism. We focus on the importance of recognizing power relationships and being antiracist. An we discuss how an inclusive Sinterklaas festivity can look like and how kids are ready to be educated on racism.
Above all though, we recognize the long-lasting resistance struggle around Black Pete is Racism, the people who have been speaking out in the streets, in schools, in nurseries, workplaces, at family dinners and so forth.
We honour activism as a creative endeavour and are inviting you all to be worthy of our times, to step up and say not in my name to racism, oppression, intimidation and injustice! Choose your model of activism, what speaks best to you, be artistic and creative about it and let's continue making positive changes together.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast
my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#blackpeteisracism #activism #resistance #stopblackface #thenetherlands #amsterdam #thetimeisup #socialjustice #decolonizing #antiracist #gloriawekker #representation #representationmatters #equitymatters #saltthepodcast #intersectionality #antiracism #personalnarratives #kickoutblackpete
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This episode (which consists of two parts) is about the Dutch Sinterklaas festivity and specifically the figure of Black Pete. It firmly states that activism works and that Black Pete is Racism.
To discuss this important and challenging topic I gathered with two fabulous people: Lieke Koningen and Simone de Bies.
Lieke is a mother, a life coach, community builder and event producer. An award winning teacher, dancer and workshop developer who lives with her family in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. From a very young age she felt the need to stand up against injustices and her passion for social justice has been part of her life ever since.
Simone was born in Suriname, in South America and moved to Amsterdam, the Netherlands at the age of 9. This is where she lives together with her daughter Zoe. Simone works for the Dutch government and is passionate about making our society more equal and inclusive.
In this first part of the episode we introduce the topic, listen to statements from people on the topic, outline parts of the resistance struggle and provide some analysis on why Black Pete is racist.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast
my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#blackpeteisracism #KOZP #nederlandwordtbeter #gloriawekker #racism #killjoy #stopblackface #nederlandkanhet #blacklivesmatter #sinterklaas #decolonize #coloniallegacy #colonialism #activism #ZwartePietIsZwartVerdriet #representation #luluhelder #saraahmed #representationmatters #resistance #equitymatters #intersectionality #antiracism #blackpeteisblacksadness #amsterdam
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J.A.D.E full name Joanna is a 23 year old multifunctional artist from Amsterdam. She makes music, creates beats, sings, creates drawings, works as a model and studies at the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht in the Netherlands to be a music industry professional.
Regarding her music Joanna feels mostly at home in NEO soul. She started her music career in 2018 and her songs talk about trauma, heartbreaks, and things we experience as people, things that are part of our journeys. Joanna finds it important to share feelings, talk about our challenges, stories and connect through those with each other.
In this beautiful conversation on a Friday evening, that felt like a gathering and very intimate chat with a wonderful soul, we speak about music and beats as a faithful companion in Joanna's life, music and modeling as a means towards healing Joanna's inner child, we speak about our bodies and how they remember trauma and injustices. Joanna shares her spiritual practices with us. We discuss art as healing, the importance of creating, community, love languages, our mothers, pictures as a means of representation and listen to one of Joanna's songs. Enjoy hanging out with us beautiful people😍
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast
my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#healingjourney #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversitymatters #innerchild #amsterdam #artist #beats #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #blackwomen #multifunctional #creating #spirituality #representation #representationmatters #equitymatters #saltthepodcast #intersectionality #antiracism
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Melanie Jacob (she/her/hers) is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Consultant (DEI&B). She holds a BA (Hons.) in French & Spanish from the University of the West Indies and an MA in Communications, Media & Public Relations from the University of Leicester.
Originally from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, she has lived in Barbados, Martinique, Lyon and now, Paris. As a result of her diverse personal and professional experiences, she became intent on exploring matters surrounding intersectional feminism, discrimination and media representation. This is what led her to launch Melanie Jacob Consulting.
As an experienced DEI&B specialist, she advises multinational companies – through webinars, workshops and one-on-one coaching – on how to create and implement best practice strategies that focus on amplifying and respecting the uniqueness of each individual’s background.
In this episode we speak about Melanie's work as a DEI&B consultant, the story behind choosing this path in her professional life which is linked to her personal life, because we all know that the personal is political. We speak about racism, sexism, feminism, diversity washing, and misogynoir, about Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie and her book Americanah and we speak about black hair - a topic that is inextricably linked to historical, structural and racial discrimination. A subject that is part of the long-lasting intention to control black and brown bodies and further reflects the predominance of Eurocentric beauty standards. Thank you Melanie.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#diversitytraining #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversitymatters #blackhairispolitical #saintlucia #unconsciousbias #misogynoir #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #blackwomen #femmesnoires #femmes #leadership #diversityequityandinclusion #diversityintheworkplace #womenleaders #genderequality #women #culture #equitymatters #saltthepodcast #intersectionality #antiracism #blackfeminist #paris
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Maryanne O’Hara is the author of the memoir LITTLE MATCHES, FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARK, published by HarperCollins. LITTLE MATCHES was inspired by a blog that Maryanne kept while her daughter Caitlin, who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at the age of 2, was waiting for a lung transplant. Caitlin got her transplant, finally, but it was too late. She’d had to wait too long. Her family lost her in December of 2016. She was 33. The book LITTLE MATCHES was Maryanne's way of making sense in order to live.
Maryanne family's story has been featured in The New York Times, TIME Magazine, The Boston Globe, Psychology Today, and LITTLE MATCHES is also a People Magazine Book of the Week.
Moreover, Maryanne is the author of CASCADE, a novel, and many short stories and articles. She holds an MFA in creative writing, has taught creative writing at the college level, and was a longtime fiction editor at the Boston literary journal, PLOUGHSHARES.
After many years of volunteering with the sick, in 2019 she trained as a certified end-of-life doula at the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine so she could better speak to the state of end-of-life care in our culture. She lectures on topics including chronic illness, bereavement, and secular spirituality; and with two other medical memoirists, speaks to “why medicine needs memoir” at Medical Grand Rounds programs at hospitals around the country.
In this episode we speak about motherhood, grief, death, Caitlin's legacy, synchronicities, learn about the work of an end-of-life doula and the importance of legacy work, we speak about Maryanne, the relationship with her husband and of course much more. Thank you Maryanne for everything.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
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Djanifa da Conceicao is a a midwife with her own practice in South Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Through her work Djanifa realized that important information that can be extremely helpful before, during and after childbirth does not reach everyone. It is either hard to find or you have to have to pay for it.
Therefore, Djanifa started the Youtube channel Verlosmoeder to offer education, motivation and advocacy for (almost) moms, parents and birthing people. It is where she shares her experiences as a mother but also her expertise as a midwife. The YouTube channel has grown rapidly with more than 30,000 subscribers. In April 2021 Djanifa launched VerlosMoeder the Podcast.
Djanifa believes that everyone should have access to this information as it provides many health benefits and is a step towards achieving birth equity. Through her channel she shares her knowledge (for free) in a way that is easy to understand and fun to watch or listen to.
In this podcast episode we speak about compassion and kindness in birth, how important it is to feel listened to when giving birth, institutionalized racism in and around birth, the importance of midwives and doulas, the importance of holding the government, and the health system responsible when it comes to changing the narrative around birth and not putting it all on the shoulders of the individual and birthworkers. Djanifa also shares some glimpses of her strong and loving relationship with her husband Edson, and why she became a midwife which is inextrricably linked to her own childhood.
Thank you Djanifa for this wonderful conversation, your spirit and important work.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#saltthepodcast #motherhood #birth #parenthood #memories #racism #midwives #doulas #kindness #Verlosmoeder #babies #birthingpeople #intersectionalfeminism #birthequity #compassion
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Charissa Promes is a journalist, podcast host, coach, writer and mother of three. After more than ten years of experience as a performing dancer and six years in the media, she changed her life. Because when motherhood came to her she experienced uncertainty, mental challenges and social isolation. Therefore, she decided that she wanted to support and connect with others to experience a more beautiful beginning of motherhood. So Charissa founded mommy conversations where she brings together mothers to support each other. She also launched the podcast Top Mothers to go on a quest and look into the different forms of motherhood, discuss topics such as motherhood and career, love after having kids, selfcare and guilt. The podcast has become part of her own healing journey and has allowed her to reflect on her own motherhood journey.
In this episode we talk openly about our own motherhood journeys, the complexities that come with it, love after kids, being a mother in a capitalist society. Talking to Charissa was wonderful, raw, honest. We vented, laughed and cherished each other and I want to thank Charissa for being so open.
This episode also underlines that reproductive work which includes raising kids, cleaning, cooking, caring for the elderly and sick is work!! Unfortunately though it is most of the time unpaid, or poorly paid, it is gendered and racialized, not acknowledged enough, given little value, exploited. However, reproductive work is labour, that comprises of life making activities and without those our society would not exist, would not flourish. Reproductive work is not women's work, it is not something that we do naturally, it is not something we are born with. It is unwaged work that is undervalued while provided society with the next generation of workers. So let that sink in and enjoy the episode wonderful people :)
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#saltthepodcast #motherhood #reproductivework #parenthood #memories #racism #selfcare #topmoeders #loveafterkids #childrearing #labouroflove #intersectionalfeminism #domesticwork
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Rochelda Kemper is a 19-year old girl who is following her dreams. Everything in her life is about rest and relaxation. Rochelda grew up in a loving family with three younger sisters and is very close to her family and relatives. At a young age she was very quiet, felt things around her, captured energies, situations but she did not do anything with that. She thought it was nothing when you feel something that is not right.
In recent years, Rochelda has focused on her self-development, increased her self-awareness, and her life revolves around rest and self-care. Now she knows who she wants in her circle, how important relaxed energies are for her and has found a way to live in peace. In this podcast episode she shares her story from having several panic attacks a day and being a very passionate kickboxer to healing herself and opening her own massage business called refreshment.
It has been a pleasure meeting Rochelda who is from a younger generation than mine, one that demands and does not negotiate that much. Talking to her made me happy, gave me hope because for me it has been a painful process to find rest, however, I have embraced the journey and understood that my achievements are not my worth and that by resting I revolt against the system that measures us on our productiveness. Thank you Rochelda.
This is also the last episode before the summer break. Salt will be back in September.
Host: Stella Saliari
At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.
#saltthepodcast #rest #relaxation #peace #massage #kickboxing #selfcare #selflove #boundaries
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