The Fragmented Whole
By Amarachi Anakaraonye
The Fragmented Whole, a bi-monthly podcast, explores how the brokenness we see in ourselves is reflected in the world around us. Host and researcher, Amarachi Anakaraonye, investigates how the fragments of intergenerational and systemic trauma can be utilized to manifest individual and collective wholeness.
The Fragmented WholeOct 28, 2019
Courageous Conversations
This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on May 1, 2019.
Bethann James, Founder & CEO of Gemstone Professional Services Consultants, and public health professional and podcaster, Amarachi Anakaraonye, discuss the importance and challenges of presenting your authentic self.
Somewhere in the Grey
This episode was originally distributed through NC State University's Philanthropy Journal podcast, The Nonprofit Experience, on April 24, 2019.
Digital storyteller, Amarachi Anakaraonye, and public health professional, Lydia Moges, discuss the ups and downs of nonprofit work; a life spent somewhere in the grey area.
What Happens When a Fragmented Whole Comes Undone?
The process of unlearning problematic behaviors and learning affirming ones, is a sojourn. In this series finale episode, I share my fragmented journey to wholeness through virtual therapy sessions with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson.To learn more about Shanequa's services, you can visit her website, https://www.shanequaanderson.com/.
Whether you are a seasoned subscriber or a first time listener, it has been my honor producing content for you. To stay tuned to my journey of fragmented wholeness, please visit my website, www.amarachia.com.
Thank you for your support and happy listening!
The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast.
Choose You, Sis. Choose YOU.
In this episode I speak with two Black Women of Durham organizers, Rachel Singley and Brianna Hargrove-Kennedy, about their 10 tips for self and communal care:
1. Say no
2.Take a mental health day
3.Check-in with yourself
4. Five minutes of yoga or meditation
5. Have an organism
6. Aromatherapy
7. Breathe
8. Journal
9. Listen to your fav music or podcast
10. Get a massage
Founded in 2018, Black Women of Durham is an organization that facilitates spaces for Black Women to promote, discuss and expand upon all topics affecting Black women and the Black community in Durham, NC and beyond. Happy listening!
The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast.
Sometimes You Need a Space to Breathe
Founded in 2016, Blackspace is a digital makerspace based in Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It offers Black and Brown youth a breathing space to manifest their dreams by any medium necessary.
In January 2019, I spoke with Mariah M., the Program Director and Slam Master for Blackspace Poetry, and Miranda Stephens, a BlackSpace Youth Artist. In this episode, I speak with Mariah and Miranda about the significance of black and brown centric spaces for POCs and strategies of self care for artists of color. Happy listening!
The Fragmented Whole is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, and where ever else podcasts are available. For updates on the show, be sure to follow The Fragmented Whole on Instagram and Twitter @fragmentpodcast.
Home is Where the Healing Begins Out Lao'd
In this episode, I speak with Rita Phetmixay, the creator and host of the virtual healing space and podcast, Healing Out Lao'd. Healing Out Lao'd explores Lao diaspora storytelling, healing, and tools for sustainability. For my POCs, reframing intergenerational narratives of trauma begins with dismantling and rebuilding how we see our individual and collective purpose and value today and everyday. Choose joy! Happy listening!
Love, Light, Melanin, & Toxic Resilience
I began 2019, wrestling with one question: how do you manifest joy and heal from trauma when you're overburdened with societal expectations of resiliency? In this episode, I speak with activists, Desmera Gatewood and Marion Johnson, about the price of toxic resiliency and strategies for transcending and reshaping oversimplified stereotypes. Happy listening!
What Does Financial Stability Look Like?
According to LearnVest's 2014 Financial Confidence study, even though women's average income increases by more than 50% after age 25, their financial confidence decreases conversely around age 25. In this episode, I speak with financial planner and public health professional, Ashley Stewart, about strategies for gaining financial confidence at any-age by dismantling debt head-on. To learn more about Ms. Stewart's financial independence services, you can contact her at goodriddancedebt@gmail.com. Happy listening!
A Guide to Decolonizing a Crone
Crone (n.): an old woman who is thin and ugly. What happens when that 'old' woman is Black, beautiful, bold, and outspoken? What happens when she's above the age of 40 and still wants bodily, sexual, and professional autonomy? In this episode, I speak with activist and storyteller, Omisade Burney-Scott, about all of this and more. Happy listening!
Be Responsible & Response-able
In this episode, I process what it means to be an adult by putting it into practice. I speak with Dr. Asani Seawell of Pacific University about how forgiveness positively impacts one's health outcomes. If you get nothing else from this episode, forgive for you. You don't need permission from anyone to forgive. Happy listening.
Dismantling and Building at the Frontline of Equity
In this episode, I speak with Marcus Littles, the Founder and a Senior Partner of Frontline Solutions. Marcus provides strategies organizations can utilize to center equity not just in word, but in action. Happy listening to the entrepreneurs, dreamers, and doers striving to facilitate spaces of production that are equitable and innovative.
What's the Splinter Under Your Nail?: Black Mamas Dyin'
Why are Black people not extinct based on everything we've been through? What factors are contributing to Black women continuing to have full-term births despite experiencing racism across their lives? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Monica McLemore, a reproductive justice nurse, scholar, and activist at the University of California-San Francisco, about potential strategies for reducing the disproportionate rates of Black maternal mortality rates in the United States.
The Final Step: Have Many Thoughts, Keep Your Intentions
In this season three finale episode, I discuss with my therapist, Shanequa Anderson, LMSW, four present and future intentions for manifesting personal and relational joy and authenticity. Joyful listening and see you next season!
Step 6: I Go Forth Alone, and Stand as Ten Thousand
Step 5: There's Privilege in Experiencing Joy
Step 4: Be Willing to Move
Step 3: I Will Live Free
balance and community in self-care and female empowerment. Joyful listening!
Step 2: Re-Member, You Are Worthy
Step 1:No Longer at Ease but Resilient
Counternarrative #5: Not All Gorillas are Friends: Resistance & Resilience Under the 45th
With the 2018 midterm elections on the horizon, this discussion addressed the following ideals and tactics:
1. Intra- vs. inter-partisan unity and reconciliation, and
2. The facilitation of conversations between individuals and organizations from opposing ideological backgrounds.
Until season 3 of The Fragmented Whole returns on June 25th, 2018, remain resistant and resilient.
Counternarrative #4: Wakanda Forever: Normalcy is Excellence
Counternarrative #3: Net Neutrality: Has it Really Been Repealed?
Counternarrative #2: Liberia: Cracking the Crab Syndrome
Counternarrative #1: Zimbabwe: Finally 'Free & Fair?'
2017 in Review: Films are the Window to my Soul
We Built This, Part 2: A Seat at the Table
We Built This, Part 1: Confederate Spaces & Black Faces
Next week’s episode will explore the commentary of UNC-CH students and faculty involved in mobilization efforts to have the Confederate statue, Silent Sam, removed.
Clap Back: When you Look Different, People Like to Talk Different
Beyond Hashtags: Of Mules & Men
To Boycott or to Affirm: #WOC Affirmation
In the Aftermath of Maria: Continental Privilege
Pre-Season Introduction: The Fragmented Whole
1. See and treat ourselves
2. See and treat others, and
3. Act as social agents of change