What if joy wasn’t a bonus after surviving the grind—but the intentional practice that sustains the work, heals the wounds, and builds community?
In this stripped-down minisode of Highly Visible & A Little Misunderstood, Jonathan Dumas shares powerful highlight moments from two women doing the internal and external work—Melany Del Carpio and Kenisha Coon. They unpack how ritual, self-expression, boundary-setting, and radical commitment to joy become both armor and repair in lives filled with equity work, identity navigation, and creative evolution.
What You’ll Hear:
- Melany’s morning and evening rituals that center her—ceremonial matcha, “rest is resistance” card pulls, and the symbolic cleansing to offload energy from work.
- How self-expression (clothes, tattoos, intention) becomes a practice of alignment, intuition, and reclaiming presence.
- Kenisha’s framing of joy as survival, transformation, and sustainable fuel for justice and equity work.
- The difference between community that drains vs. community that holds you accountable and amplifies belonging.
- Practical boundary language and the real mechanics of choosing joy while showing up in heavy systems.
- The connective thread between identity, purpose, and choosing yourself in seasons of uncertainty.
Guests:
- Melany Del Carpio – Coach-in-training, creative self-expression advocate, and ritual practitioner.
- LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanydelcarpio/
- Kenisha Coon – Equity strategist, author, consultant, and joy-as-repair practitioner.
- Instagram → @kenishacoon (https://www.instagram.com/kcoon9288/?hl=en)
- Website → https://www.kenishacoon.com/
- Kenisha Coon’s Memoir, And Then She Persisted → https://bookshop.org/a/79820/9798888385968
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