Jas Moon is an Aquarian Entrepreneur and champions others to be too—to embed practices that support the holistic wellbeing of themselves & their customers into their mission driven businesses.  Links:  Connect with Jas Moon on Instagram @jasofmoon Follow The Aquarian Entrepreneur on Instagram @theaquarianentrepreneur Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work ...

This week I welcome Carmen Harris into conversation, a visionary, healer, and co-founder of Two Inches Beyond Black. This episode is an offering, a meditation, a call to come back into yourself an invitation to breathe.   Links:  Connect with Carmen Harris on Instagram @carmendharris Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast...

In this episode, we have DaTiana Guerrero, a doula and care consultant. We talk postpartum and the recurring familiarity that arises in life in different seasons between birthing and grieving. Links: Connect with DaTiana Guerrero on Instagram @datianaguerrero Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit the Life, I Swear Podcast website Connect on Instagram...

Imani is the founder of HURU, which creates sacred spaces for vast experiences that foster emotional well-being and wholeness. LaTonia is the founder of Adjourn Teahouse, which is the product that brings the practice of rest into our daily rituals. Imani Samuels and LaTonya Cokeley, both visionaries who truly understand and I believe embody the power and the gift of sisterhood, rest, grace, and authenticity, share the mic to be in conversation, as the friends who they are to talk about rest,...

In this episode, we have Marisa Renee Lee, author of Grief is Love. We unpack grief, moving away from the limited definition society has of it to the expansive journey it can be.  Links:  Connect with Marisa Renee Lee on Instagram @marisareneelee Visit the Maria Renee Lee’s website Purchase the book: Grief is Love Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, and her work Visit...

We are back! After a summer and fall hiatus, we are back with season SIX. Chloe starts this season with lessons on discernment, a gift of community, and an invitation to join the conversations.

Chloe closes season five with three questions for listeners. — Fitbeads is a self-love platform centered around waist beads and their ability to uplift, enrich, and encourage self-care. They cultivate conversations around culture, history, and meaning, while also creating spaces for personal connection and self-discovery. Follow Fitbeads on Instagram @fitbeads.co Visit Fitbead’s website (use code LIFEISWEAR20 to get 20% off your first purchas) Explore ways to give to The Loveland...

In this episode, Chloe speaks to Kenda Fields, content strategist, about the power of second changes, her history in sisterhood, and the mysteries, divisions, and unity that decorate our family experiences. She speaks about the vulnerability required to move past her fear and through her own healing.  Links: Connect with Kenda Fields on Instagram @kendaelisefields Visit Kenda’s website Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories...

I chat with Hannah Tall, Director of Programs at The Loveland Foundation. Hannah begins by sharing the excess of love and the access to love that she learned was possible through her mother. We also go on to talk about what and who got her here as a village child. Follow The Loveland Foundation's work on social channels because the community care they offer, like mothering, is the nurturing we all need.  Links: Follow The Loveland Foundation on Instagram @thelovelandfoundation Explore...

I chat with Lyn Patterson, poet and artist, about her life story. We chat about overcoming trauma through poetry, shifting dynamics of family, accepting your wild, and awareness of "how we consume life, or how it consumes us if we aren't careful."  Links:  Connect with Lyn Patterson on Instagram @poetryntings Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more about host,...

In this episode, Chloe speaks with Omó Pastor, writer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these artistic mediums to heal, to empower and to express the reality of African people across the globe. In this conversation, Omó Pastor shares her recent work around Black male masculinity. Links: Connect with Omó Pastor on Instagram @omopastorr Visit Omó Pastor’s website Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on...

Chloe speaks with her best friend Adriana Parrish about the experience of telling her story for the first time. Adriana was a contributor to the Life, I Swear book, where she chronicled her experience of losing her mother and navigating life without her. Links: Connect with Adriana Parrish on Instagram @adrianamparrish Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book (Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust) Learn more...

In this episode, I chat with Renae Bluitt, filmmaker and advocate for Black women entrepreneur’s narratives, and Creator and Executive Producer of the Netflix documentary “She Did That.” We talk about what calls us to be passionate about telling other Black womens' stories, negotiating balance in our lives, and the invitation of new seasons and locations as she talks of loving and leaving New York. Links: Connect with Renae Bluitt on Instagram @iamrenaebluitt Visit Renae’s website ...

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Ghanaian feminist activist, award-winning blogger, and author sits down with Salem Afangideh, lawyer, consultant and sexuality anthropologist. They talk about Nana’s book “The Sex Lives of African Women”, self-agency, the ideologies that influence our assumptions or judgements around sex, and the perspectives of anthropology and feminism respectively. (Note: FGM mentioned in this episode is an acronym for female genital mutilation)  Links:   Purchase The Sex Lives...

In this second episode, I have with me Brandie Freely, founder of LUMIN Magazine and The Escapism Retreat. We talk about light—how we follow it, how truth helps us keep it going, and how the path to it looks different for each of us. Plus, the power of breaking rules. Links: Connect with Brandie Freely on Instagram @brandiefreely Follow Lumin Magazine on Instagram @luminmagazine Visit the LUMIN Magazine website Explore ways to give to The Loveland Foundation Purchase the book...

Welcome to season five of the Life, I Swear podcast! In this episode, Chloe starts the season with a few words of her own on this journey, this season, and the reflections she's been having lately, answering the question: what do we do with that freedom from our pasts? How do we leverage our new perspectives? How can we share these new versions of ourselves? How can we expand, evolve, and seize our newest revelations of self to carry us into new levels? Links: Purchase the book (Life, I...

Teri Ellen Cross Davis is a phenomenal poet and author of A More Perfect Union (Ohio State University Press, 2021) and Haint (Gival Press, 2016). She is also the Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. In this season four finale, Teri talks about the desire she has for the country to create a more perfect union for Black women. ------------------------------ Since 1968, the Folger's poetry reading series has brought hundreds of distinguished poets to read...

Natalie Obando, president of the Women’s National Book Association, talks about the organization’s Authentic Voices program, which introduces women writers to publishing through four weeks of writing, editing, marketing, and publication. She also covers the resources writers need to do share their stories as published works, and the affirmation women of color need to believe that their stories matter and deserve to be shared more broadly. Visit www.wnba-book.org. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I...

Courtney Phillips, co-founder of Gumbo Media and Gumbo Fit chats about her journey to creative entrepreneurship, how she’s encouraging Black people to define success differently, and what she needs to stay creatively inspired and focused. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

Brianne Patrice breaks down for us how she sees sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality mastering their own lane but also overlapping--and when they do, this is the wholeness we speak of. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

In this episode, Cassandra Lane shares the journey of her book and the truths she’s discovered in the process, including how her intentional parenting has focused with the ancestral blueprint she’s unearthed. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

In this episode, Aqueene Wilson shares her journey of migrating from the Caribbean to the Netherlands, the transition from Black to white spaces, how the lack of representation impacted her as an artist, and what freedom of the Black body means to her. Credits: Interlude poem from Where are the black bodies dancing? Title: An ode to black bodies in bloom. Episode: Resistance in bloom Written and performed by Aqueene Wilson {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black...

Yasmine Cheyenne talks about racism in some predominately white healing spaces, her previous work in the military, and how all of that has led her to create her own community focused on self-healing, plus how the practice is both distinctive and necessary, particularly for Black people. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}

In this episode, Dr. Leslie Nwoke talks about the gap between understanding how to live more intentionally in theory vs in practice and how to close it, the gap in traditional medicine vs. holistic approaches to healing, and bringing restorative healing back to the continent of Africa. {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing and Self-Trust. Visit www.chloelouvouezo.com}