That Social Work Lady
That SOCIAL WORK Lady, Season 2 is dedicated to providing a platform for Black women to share stories from their lived experience. If mediocre white men are given platforms to spew whatever whenever about nothing at all, shouldn't Black women be given the opportunity to talk about their lives, dispel myths about the stereotypes, and laugh? Of course they should. Listen to the THAT SOCIAL WORK LADY Podcast. We're building community. Here is where you belong.
Episodes
Episode 45 is the season finale for Season 2 for That Social Work Lady Podcast. Recorded on November 12, 2022, this episode pays homage to my sorority Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. I am so grateful to the two women who joined me to celebrate our sorority's centennial celebration: Dr. Araba Afenyi-Annan and Educator Leola Banks. We pledged together at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Iota Psi Chapter) and have each don...
Comediennes are community griots. They make spaces for the stories that we all need to know and tell them with flare and honesty while making us laugh.
enoje (EN-oh-jay) is a community griot. In episode 44, she graces me with her brilliance, and goals for creating space for women to explore comedy for our mental health and well being. She takes her cue from her own mother's laughter. Remembering stories from her chil...
Abortion is a medical procedure that ends a pregnancy. Why then is something so basic at the heart of so many toxic conversations?
Episode 43 brings a topic that is very dear to my heart - bodily autonomy. It’s time we reframe the abortion conversation as a discussion about right to privacy and bodily autonomy. Any other approach to this conversation is problematic and grounded in patriarchal toxicity. American citizens ...
Jacqueline M. Baker is a speaker, author, leadership consultant and advisor known for her unique approach to modern etiquette and leadership. As the author of The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You and Leader by Mistake: Becoming A Leader One Mistake At A Time, she frequently speaks and writes on the leadership-for-all concept.
In Episode 42, I got to speak with leadership consultant and entrepreneur Jacqueline M. ...
Episode 41 brings another Black woman's story and this time we're getting advice from a leadership expert.
Jacqueline M. Baker is a speaker, author, leadership consultant and advisor known for her unique approach to modern etiquette and leadership. As the author of The Unexpected Leader: Discovering the Leader Within You and Leader by Mistake: Becoming A Leader One Mistake At A Time, she frequently speaks and wr...
The world has shifted. It has changed. So how do you are a parent of black or brown child pivot to be responsive to the times we live in now?
...parents fear being viewed as inconsistent or worst undermining our own authority by changing our minds. The paradox of that is that there is no better expression of authority to making a change due to changing circumstances or the realization that you didn't do enough due dil...
Whew! I'm tired (please read as tiiiii'ed). But I know I'm not the only one out here feeling the multiple levels of tired that I feel.
Episode 39 in this Season 2 is all about rest. Michale Bernard Beckwith once said, "Authentic Rest is power." I read that quote when my son was an infant after my body had been stressed and strained beyond my previously recognized limitations. I thought then that I...
Special Needs Advocate and Educator Vertongie Kendrix-Bailey shares in Episode 38, that was stressful to see her toddler cry a lot, act as if he was lost at times and throw tantrums. When he was 4 years old, her son Hezekiah was diagnosed with autism after a comprehensive evaluation by his medical team. The medical team that evaluated Hezekiah included a pediatrician, a psychiatrist, an occupational therapist, a speech and languag...
In Episode 37, Vertongie Kendrix-Bailey shares her journey as a mother and advocate for her two sons: Zechariah and Hezekiah. Her parenting philosophy guides how she has crafted community to support her values and goals for her family.
As a highly educated professional, Vertongie is the kind of mother who uses all her resources and skills to provide for and advocate for her children and herself. Vertongie also serves as a...
Episode 36 continues our conversation with Detroit's very own #communitycounselor Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC.
Patrece specializes in providing culturally specific counseling and creating safe healing spaces for African, Black, and other indigenous and BIPOC communities. She has committed her life's work to advocating for communities of color to not only survive but to dismantle broken systems and create new ones t...
Episode 35 invites Detroit's very own #communitycounselor Patrece M. Lucas, MS, LPC.
Patrece is a licensed Mental Health Counselor and serves as a community counselor in Detroit and its surrounding communities. She is in private practice as a counselor, wellness partner and mediator at her agency called indigo transitions.
indigo transitions is about assisting the INDIGO (person) transition and adjusts to f...
That Social Work Lady welcomes both Jasmine Logan and Jada Williams back to the studio for Episode 34.
Both Jasmine Logan and Jada Williams are master level divinity students at Wake Forest University. In Episode 34 they offer me a crash course on womanist theology. The concepts they share about womanist theology are mind-blowing. Especially the idea that womanist theology takes many of the iconic bible stories and views t...
Episode 33 is a Millennial Theologian Takeover!
I am so grateful to welcome theologian Jasmine Logan back on That Social Work Lady along with her colleague Jada Williams.
Jada Williams is in her fourth year of the dual JD/MDiv program at Wake Forest University. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Young Harris College, where she was a Division II NCAA basketball player and heavily involved in other campus...
Millennial Theologian Jasmine (Jazz) Logan is back in the studio for Episode 32.
During this conversation, Jazz candidly shares her experience as #churchgirl who grew up in the evangelical Christian church. From her perspective the #colorblind ideals of the church actually negated her experience as an African American girl growing up Christian. There were times when she felt that the church not only did not recognize the ...
That Social Work Lady welcomes Jasmine (Jazz) Logan to the studio for Episode 31.
In Episode 31, millennial theologian Jasmine Logan and I delve into how the contemporary church has outed itself as a the white supremacist christian church of America. Logan holds no punches in her description of the ways the religion of a 'color blind' Jesus does harm to children and youth in the church who do not happen to be wh...
Episode 30 welcomes Pastors Sharon and Rodney Logan , co-founders of ACTS Christian Center in Maricopa, AZ to the studio.
For over 20 years they have done the work to expand the idea of community and service. "By the way we love" is their mantra which is given meaning by their work as community organizers and builders.
In Episode 30, Pastors Sharon and Rodney invite a candid conversation about 'chur...
As a seasoned social worker, Carrie has worked with children and their families at every important developmental stage in their life. Together we've been in the trenches for 54 years!
In this episode, Bushell shares her passion for social work and rights several myths about social workers. For the first of many times, Bushell and I combat...
Author B. Angela Redd returns to the studio for Episode 28. Avid reader Tameka Kelsey also graced us in the studio to discuss Redd’s debut novel: Willfully Blind.
B. Angela Redd is a writer hell-bent on dragging readers, occasionally kicking and screaming, into the psyche of her characters. Her latest novel achieves that and more. A literary fiction writer to her core, she masterfully seizes and conveys the depths of her c...
For Episode 27, That Social Work Lady welcomes author B. Angela Redd to the studio to discuss community, family, and her writing process.
Since the age of twelve years old Redd has believed she was destined to be a writer after completing her first play and corralling neighborhood kids to read for parts, study their lines, and show up on time daily for rehearsal. Her passion for writing never ceased throughout the years. ...
Social Activist Yvonne Jones returns for the final installation of our mini series #mamaknowscommunity. This time she again welcomes three generations of women from her family to talk community, family, and legacy. Welcome back to the studio Mrs. Emma Steward, Mrs. Shirley Roberson-Presley, and Dr. Penny Logan.
Our guests hold no punches in this open and honest conversation about the struggle for liberation for the Black ...
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