Hosted by Devi Brown, Dropping Gems is a soft place to land where higher consciousness meets your everyday life. Nourish your spirit, grab new tools for the journey and fall deeply in love with the highest version of who you are.Devi Brown serves as the Chief Impact Officer at Chopra Global and is the voice of daily meditation on the Chopra wellness app. A wellbeing educator, author of Crystal Bliss, founder of Karma Bliss, a founding board member of the Mental Wealth Alliance, host of the Black Effect Podcast Network podcast Dropping Gems, seasoned broadcaster and multi-modality healing practitioner. Devi is devoted to spiritual connection meant to aid in the healing of intergenerational trauma and internal liberation. Her work is rooted in weaving ancient and modern practices into tangible healing tools that are in support of emotional growth and radical self-love.
Devi opens this episode by sharing recommendations from books, documentaries to episodes, as well as some of the projects she’s working on. After the catch up, we transition into a well-being conversation about giving grace and time to yourself. Devi suggests three practices to implement into daily exercises to help support self-care.
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Dr. Shelia Marie Campbell is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, herbologist, and nutritionist who is passionate about helping people unlock their energy. This week, she joins Devi to discuss aligned partnership, spiritually intentional sex, healing from trauma, and her powerful sacred sexuality and energy courses.
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This week Devi is sharing a deep unpacking of 9 ways you can begin to get to know and understand your highest, most authentic self. From the embodiment of our authentic selves comes the opportunity to cultivate our purpose and to connect to the mission of the work we are meant to share in the world. Grab a journal and pen and get ready to kick off a summer of healing and curiosity!!
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Though feelings of deep grief and exhaustion while doing "the work" is a necessary and universal part of the healing journey, it's rarely spoken to within the mainstream community of wellness. This week, Devi explores ways to support yourself and your practice when life gets dark as well as a guided meditation for grief release and soul work to keep going.
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The ways we relate to our work life, purpose, and personal life has dramatically changed for many of us since the pandemic. In this episode, Devi and wellness expert Daniel Sannito explore the often elusive concept of work-life balance from the Chopra lens. Get ready to re-imagine how you get to re-emerge into the world!
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The age of the divine masculine is here and the organization Sacred Sons is leading the charge in men's healing. With the vision of brotherhood as medicine, they have been co-stewarding the return of the father archetype through men's relational and physical training. This week, Devi is joined by Adam Jackson, co-founder of sacred suns and host of the sacred sons' podcast to explore the ways in which men can begin thei...
Ismael Cala, is a force of nature. This week, Devi is joined by the globally celebrated host of CALA on CNN Espanol, founder of the Cala Center in Miami, FL, best-selling author, and life and business strategist, Ismael Cala to dive into the crevices of how one becomes themselves and lives their highest purpose. Ismael's story is one of self-mastery and soulful leadership. From leaving his homeland of Cuba to changing the traje...
Anita Kopacz is a best-selling author, Pleasure Alchemist and Spiritual Psychologist. She shares with us stories from her spiritual journey and the path leading up to her understanding of the medicinal powers of myth and storytelling. How she developed her connection to the Yoruba deity of the sea, Yemaya to give birth to the novel, “Shallow Waters”. Kopacz is currently working on her next novel and expanding Zero F's Given - a...
Today's episode is about accessing our innate gifts and connecting to a deeper understanding of who we are through self-inquiry prompts and guided meditation.
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Dr. Rheeda Walker, the author of “The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health” joins the discussion today as we delve into the ways that structural racism, systemic oppression, and microaggressions affect our journey to healing and mental health and ways to support ourselves in the process of unpacking your experiences.
In closing Devi’s Soul Work offers an affirmation towards honoring how we communicate.
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As we navigate through the construct of white superiority, which has taught us to separate, predetermine and label, we must be cognizant on our spiritual journeys to actively question how we take up and offer space towards creating healthy co-existing environments.
Daniel Sannito (them/they/their) is one of the 7 co-founders of the Trans Yoga Project, a group of wellness educators committed to creating equitable and affirming space...
After a brief hiatus, Devi returns with thoughts regarding her relationship with social media and her new approach to the space. As we officially return with Season Two of Dropping Gems we will be incorporating new themes, different chakras points, affirmations, a card reading from the Karma Bliss Deck, and of course ending with soul work every episode.
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As we come to the close of celebrating Black History Month we revisit a previous gem on how to summon in our ancestors.
Black Indigenous People of Color are a part of this land like the wind and the soil. But in a society that teaches us that we are not valued, we have to search our lineage for the healing we deserve. This week we replay Dr. Rosales-Meza and Devi Brown dropping gems on ancestral healing.
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Dropping Gems Presents a replay of one of its most memorable episodes!
This week we replay Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo) dropping gems about finding home within yourself to create clarity of mind and to support a deeper connection within.
"Through wisdom inner peace flourishes". Follow @Yung_Pueblo for more inspirational quotes and affirmations.
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For the next few weeks, Devi will guide listeners in their meditation practice. Today’s episode is dedicated to meditation for compassionate self-forgiveness, a deeper love of self, and freedom from generational trauma.
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Devi Brown is incorporating Live Q&A’s from her Instagram and she recently went live and answers your questions on meditation. Is there a right or wrong way to meditate? When should you for how long? …Etc. Perhaps some of these answers will help you in your practice.
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After twenty-four years of football and eight seasons with the NFL, Ryan Mundy retired. He could no longer play the game that consumed his life, that filled his entire ecosystem, so much so when he stopped playing, Mundy had to ask himself who he was without it. Who is Ryan Mundy?
After taking stock in his life, Mundy had two paths ahead of him; a career path and a personal path which led him to seek therapy. It was a challenge to f...
For the last thirty years, Resmaa Menakem has studied the effects of trauma on the human body and the relationships in black families/society. Menakem is a healer, New York Times Best Selling Author, Therapist, and trauma specialist and after listening to this episode you will agree he is an unfiltered testimony of truth. The importance of his work aims to heal black bodies from generations of suppression. Between Resmaa and Devi, ...
Money Moves is an in-depth podcast hosted by Tanya Sam and dedicated to empowering black and brown communities to end the wealth gap by providing financial planning tips with guests sharing their successes and how they balance the money moves behind their names and businesses. Today’s episode is an advanced release of Devi’s interview!
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Sacred earth medicines, some of which are often referred to as psychedelics have shown exciting results as powerful healers of trauma and a deepener for self-discovery. This week, Devi is joined by Charlotte James, co-founder of the Ancestor's Project, a collective that facilitates sacred journey's in service to collective liberation. Devi shares some of her personal experiences with earth medicines and Charlotte shares ins...
Will Ferrell reprises his role as Ron Burgundy in the world-famous Ron Burgundy Podcast! Each episode has a different theme in which Ron engages in conversation with another notable person on the topic at hand. In true Ron Burgundy fashion, these conversations have a tendency to go off the rails, and we find out things about people we never knew we wanted to know. Join America’s favorite Anchorman, continuing to delight audiences with the comical musings of Ron Burgundy – and leave them wanting more!
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