Black and BIPOC Stories and Insights

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Aug 29

This is a curated collection of recent stories, interviews, and insights from the Black and BIPOC guests featured on Human Amplified. From social justice advice to expertise and everyday life advice, there’s so much here to explore.

Psst… there are more interviews from than we can share here! Only the latest appear here, but if you want more to binge, watch the entire Black and BIPOC playlist here.

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Personal Development, Society & Culture

When Assimilation Isn’t the Goal: Finding Your Own Identity

Personal Development, Society & Culture

What if belonging doesn’t require becoming someone else? Delanyo Mensah explores growing up between cultures, the pressure to meet expectations, and the difference between adapting to the world and losing yourself in it.

Personal Development, Society & Culture

Personal Development

How to Live With Purpose Every Day

Personal Development

What if the life you want starts with changing the story you tell yourself? Brandi Hawthorne shares practical wisdom on purpose, resilience, and living with intention.

Personal Development

Society & Culture

How Everyday Racism Changes the Way We Live

Society & Culture

A workplace interaction resurfaced memories Marcus Barker hadn't thought about in years. He reflects on race, confidence, belonging, and why meaningful conversations about bias matter.

Society & Culture

Growing Up Black in America

Society & Culture

What does it mean to grow up Black in America? Belinda Harvey shares her story of resilience, family, activism, and hope.

Society & Culture

Health & Wellness

Juicing Benefits for Gut Health and Weight Loss: Ashley Garth’s Story

Health & Wellness

After a high blood pressure wake-up call, Ashley Garth changed her diet, lost 50 pounds, and built Glow Up Juice Co. She shares what she learned about juicing, gut health, food habits, and the social side of transforming your health.

Health & Wellness

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

What Self-Care Looks Like During Collective Trauma

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

After the Ferguson protests, Coco Kennell turned natural soap making into a form of healing, self-care, and community conversation. She shares how skincare, racial healing, sustainability, and self-acceptance became unexpectedly connected.

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Finding Purpose Again in Life After Military Service

Society & Culture

Marine veteran Oscar La Madrid says many veterans don’t just lose a job after deployment. They lose identity, purpose, and community. He opens up about PTSD, reintegration, and what actually helps people rebuild life after military service.

Society & Culture

Black Philanthropy and the Racial Wealth Gap

Society & Culture

Kia Jarmon discusses Black philanthropy, the racial wealth gap, collective trauma, systemic inequality, and why healing requires truth, discomfort, and rebellious joy.

Society & Culture

Relationships

Life Beyond the Emotional Walls We Build

Relationships

Why do people disconnect from themselves while trying to feel safe or understood? Kass Thomas explores emotional walls, authentic communication, intuition, emotional awareness, and the hidden ways people disconnect from themselves and others.

Relationships

Personal Development

Healing Abandonment Wounds and Finding Personal Power

Personal Development

Why do the same emotional patterns keep showing up in our lives? Psych-K facilitator Ty Briggs joins Brandi Fleck to explore subconscious beliefs, childhood trauma, personal power, spirituality, and the hidden ways our minds shape reality.

Personal Development

Society & Culture

Healing Trauma: The Answer to Human Sustainability

Society & Culture

What if trauma isn’t the event, but what happens after?

Yemi Penn shares how trauma shapes identity, relationships, and the way we show up in the world. From dissociation to healing, this episode explores what it really means to move forward without ignoring what’s happened.

Society & Culture

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

How to Reconnect With Your Body After Trauma

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

Disconnection doesn’t always look obvious. Sometimes it shows up as tension, reactivity, or ignoring what your body is trying to say.

Renee Watkins breaks down how that happens and what it means to reconnect in a way that actually holds up in real life.

Health & Wellness, Society & Culture

Society & Culture

Feeling Seen in a World That Wasn’t Built for You

Society & Culture

What does it mean to feel seen in a world that wasn’t built for you? We explore identity, belonging, and why feeling seen can feel complicated, risky, and deeply personal.

Society & Culture

Personal Development, Relationships

How Solo Dating Changes Your Relationship With Yourself

Personal Development, Relationships

When your life has always been built around other people, being alone can feel unfamiliar, if not uncomfortable. After a series of major life changes, Christy Pruitt-Haynes started solo dating as a way to reconnect with herself.

Personal Development, Relationships

Society & Culture

Social Justice Movements and How We Can Show Up

Society & Culture

Social justice movements aren’t separate from everyday life. They’re shaped by it. Timothy Hughes explores how history, empathy, and daily choices influence real change and what it actually means to show up.

Society & Culture

Personal Development, Health & Wellness

Who You Become After Pain and What You Allow

Personal Development, Health & Wellness

Healing doesn’t just change what you feel. it changes who you are. But there comes a point where it’s not just about processing the past. it’s about what you allow moving forward.

Lawrence C. Harris shares how resilience shapes identity and why boundaries are part of becoming who you are.

Personal Development, Health & Wellness

Society & Culture

DeEbony’s Light: How One Mother Turned Grief Into a Healing Movement

Society & Culture

After losing her daughter DeEbony Groves in the 2018 Waffle House shooting, Shirl Baker turned unimaginable grief into purpose. In this moving conversation, she shares how faith, community, and the DeEbony Groves Foundation are bringing healing to grieving mothers across the U.S.

Society & Culture

Health & Wellness

Grace Found Me in My Darkest Hour: How Monica Moody Faced Cancer

Health & Wellness

In this deeply moving story, Brandi Fleck welcomes spiritual teacher, leadership development consultant, and trauma-informed coach Monica Moody to share her powerful journey of healing after a multiple myeloma diagnosis. What started as a divine calling to build a sacred space for Black women turned into a spiritual unraveling that led Monica to a new path of rest, surrender, and grace.

Health & Wellness

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Black and BIPOC Stories and Insights

Collection

Personal Development, Society & Culture

Understanding Your Emotional Patterns with the Enneagram

Personal Development, Society & Culture

If you’re familiar with the Enneagram through pop culture, you might be using it as a personality test to gain more insight into what makes you tick and how you act. However, guest Micky ScottBey Jones shares that it’s not just a personality test. We're talking what Enneagram really is, it's impact, rise in popularity, how it helps you feel seen, and how to practically apply it to your life.

Personal Development, Society & Culture

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