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Welcome to Belief Being Beyond with your host, Granddaughter Crow.
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Hi, everybody, Granddaughter Crow here with yet another episode of Belief Being and Beyond.
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But you know what?
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Before we go beyond, let's go back in order to find the foundation of where we came from and how they actually, our ancestors, have framework and models for us today.
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Tonight, we are sitting down with Dr.
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Arletha Lizana for PhD or MPH or MBA from Atlanta, Georgia.
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She is a trailblazer in merging traditional healing with modern health care practices, right?
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Standing as a distinguished figure in health innovations and strategies.
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Her extensive experience spanning over 25 years in health improvement and project management underpins her profound impact on community health and empowerment, especially among women of color.
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Oh.
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Thank you.
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I'm so happy to be here.
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Yay.
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Oh, we are so happy to have you.
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And your book, Ancestral Roots.
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I would love to jump right in to the big picture from what I see.
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There throughout my lifetime, Gen X here, I have seen, you know, oh, now we have internet.
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Now we oh wait, now we have computers.
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Now we have internet.
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Now we have this.
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Now we have that.
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And it's almost as though we have this uh overarching idea that now we are smart.
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Like now we are forging forward on like oh innovation.
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And we almost have this weird thought, oh yeah, the ancestors, they didn't have a computer, they didn't have a smartphone.
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And so I find this book and your work extremely, extremely refreshing because what I'm seeing is that you're like, oh no, we they gave us the framework long ago, and now we just need to interpret it into modern times, especially within the healthcare industry.
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So, my first question for you, my dear, is how does ancestral healing relate to public health?
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Yes, yes.
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Right.
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So thank you so much for that question.
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Thank you for having me.
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Um, so I like to think of it as AI ancestral intelligence.
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So, like you were saying, to go backwards, to go forward.
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We also call that concept Senkofa in the Akon West African tradition.
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And so the idea is that our ancestors had so much information, like you said, they did have their own type of computers, they did have their own type of knowledge and how to be and how to be one with the earth, right?
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And not conquer over the earth, but how to be one with the earth and how to live and how to thrive.
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And so what I was thinking is that as we're moving forward and we're getting so much like technology and you know, artificial intelligence and all of that, and I'm like, you know what, we've already had a solution to a lot of these things.
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Like, why, you know, are people acting like our ancestors didn't know how to do anything all of a sudden?
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So the way that I grew up, my grandmothers were really important, and I talk about them in the book extensively, right?
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Um, but they were so important because they taught me how to live, and various things that they did really just kind of help cement that those grandmothers and grandfathers that they had um tremendous knowledge in the answer to so many things that we're dealing with today, these things aren't totally new.
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But yes, we have some new and modern circumstances, but some of the things, you know, definitely things that have been around for a long time, and there were ways to address them.
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And, you know, as we are thinking about it, I just had an op-ed published um about my grandmother hummed in psychology today.
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And, you know, humming, which we know it really, Susan's really good for the vegas nerve, right?
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My grandmother didn't call it that, so she didn't say, hey, we're gonna hum, you know, you know, we're gonna snerve nerve, but she hummed so much, it was like every day.
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And I grew up in that.
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I'm listening to her hum, I'm learning how to hum in the times, paying attention when she's humming.
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And now I'm realizing, I'm like, that was genius, you know, type of thing, right?
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And so that's how I relate things.
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So as a public health professional and in the healthcare industry, I do a lot of community health and community engagement.
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I'm like, no, we really have the answer to a lot of these things because a lot of the systems that we have now weren't built for us.
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So they didn't have us in mind, you know, and so really we're not being serviced.
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So we have to look to our ancestral traditions in order to be able to survive and thrive and flourish.
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Well said, and I love that AI
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is for ancestral intelligence.
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I absolutely love that, and you're absolutely right with you know the framework and the humming, that's beautiful.
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So a lot of times, you know, as an indigenous being, Navajo Nation, it's difficult for me to translate ancestral wisdom into modern speak.
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I find that just hard as it is.
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Like people are asking me, you know, questions about like, do I need to go to a sweat lodge?
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And I'm like, go to a sauna or be quiet in your own bathroom, you know, and trying to translate it is very, very difficult to the degree that I find that people who actually have the ability to translate that have a gift or a calling.
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And you don't just translate it from, oh, here's the framework.
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You go, oh, that means the vagus nerve.
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Oh, that um, we're talking about thematic experience, oh, trauma resolution and uh historical trauma.
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We're talking about that, these are your genes.
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You literally have the ability to translate the verbiage from um more of like what one would think of as folk or um maybe even holistic, alternative.
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And you're like, no, this is real science.
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That's right.
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And and I am just I saw you at Llewellyncon 2026.
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Thank you.
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I think I was blown away.
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It was great.
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I was blown away.
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I was like, oh, we don't need like a 30-minute thing here, we need like a whole class broken down because it appeals to the scientific mind and everything.
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So public health care services is preventing illness, helping well-being on a community level versus an individual level.
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Although you do work with individuals, you're more out there doing this on a community level.
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Could you talk a little bit about what that looks like?
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Yeah, yeah.
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No, I'd love to, and actually, this makes me something that's you know is close to uh where you are and you know your background inheritance.
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So I do a lot of work with community health workers, right?
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So community health workers are promotors, are frontline health workers.
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They are people that come from the community.
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They may not have a whole bunch of degrees, you know, they're just people who love and know their community, where the resources are, what people need, and really are just about connecting and translating.
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So I developed several community health worker training programs.
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Um, I when I first came to Morehouse School of Medicine, I was training adult community health workers, and we were having really great feedback, but there just wasn't enough to go around, right?
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And the state, our state in Georgia, didn't have any like community health worker certification or anything like that.
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And so I'm like, how can we, you know, like how can we ramp this up?
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How can we scale?
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How can we get more people to be able to go into this field?
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And so I came up with the idea.
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I said, you know what, we should train high school students.
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So I started training high school students as community health workers.
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So I have a high school and young adult community health worker training program that is over 10 years old now.
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Um, but we train high school students to be frontline health workers, and which is so good because what they do is they go into their community.
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So for their family, for their peers, for their community.
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Um, they are helping people get resources, they're giving people um health education and information, um, and they're able to learn how to find out what their community needs and how to bring the resources that maybe their community doesn't have.
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So they develop community health projects on their own.
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They make them up.
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And so they could be like a community health fair that they see that their community needs.
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They could be it could be an exercise program.
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I had one uh group of students develop an exercise for people who had high cholesterol in their community.
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It was a walking program.
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They met every Saturday.
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They um they volunteered, they got donations of pedometers and water and snacks and things like that, and they held it and they gave cholesterol education to their community members because they did the research to find out that that was a problem in their community, right?
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They also monitor their family members.
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So they talk to them each month.
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They have portable scales, they're like, okay, let's see.
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You know, they have blood pressure cuffs.
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And in fact, in Yes Magazine a few years ago, we were featured because one of the students was doing his community monitoring,
noticed that his mother's blood pressure was really high, and was like, Well, I think you should go to the hospital.
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Found out he basically she credits him with saving her life, that she was hypertensive, she didn't know it, and all of that.
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So, you know, just an example of how that works.
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But close to into your neck of the woods in your field, we actually have adapted that curriculum.
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So we have done cultural translations in that curriculum for Haitian American and also Native American communities in Arizona and New Mexico.
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So we have worked with ethics of the Navajo Nation and others, and we did a cultural adaptation.
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And the cool thing about doing that is we work with community members on that adaptation.
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So they told us how this information would be best served for their community and how people would be able to receive it.
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And so, again, working with young people, and since then I've developed, you know, kind of spin-off programs of that.
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So I have a young adult mental health workers training program because we know that mental health is very huge.
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You know, we need help in our communities.
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And so these are young people, you know, who are trained and have the understanding and can help out their peers, their family, community.
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So that's an example of how I translate, you know, like community health work and public health and then also ancestral intelligence, because this comes from in the 60s, like so.
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I'm Generation X too, but I'll have a you know, baby and a kid.
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Um, but we had more like community health units.
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And so there was a whole community health movement, you know, in the 60s to make sure that people had access to health care, you know, they had resources and things like that.
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So growing up in that, I knew this was important, right?
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Community help and incorporating our ancestral wisdom into what we're teaching our young people how to sustain themselves and their community.
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So a long story, but hopefully that answers your question.
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100.
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So basically, you're not just a trailblazer, you are finding other trailblazers to become trailblazers.
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That's right.
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I have so many more directions that I want to go, but I also want to see if Jenny C.
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Bell wants to comment or expand, or where do you want to go, Jenny?
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Yeah, I want to say um thank you for doing that.
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It's something that's like so needed, especially it just becomes more and more needed uh with certain politics going on.
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So I think that's really beautiful and a great service to everybody.
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So I would like to know.
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You have this very expansive career, um, lots of travel.
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You went to some like super famous universities.
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I'm like reading them off to my kids.
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I'm like, guys, should I hear?
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Should I hear?
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Um, what made you go?
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Okay, I want to write this book because you know what I mean?
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Like it's this huge career, and you're like, you know, I feel like there's a book in me.
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I would love to know like that journey.
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Yeah, that journey was just really just is different.
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I didn't set out like, oh, I'm gonna write a book, you know.
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So I didn't actually, that wasn't my favorite thing to write and not necessarily speak about myself or anything.
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I'm like one of those people, like, I just like to do the work, like, you know, so we have to actually talk about it.
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I should write about it.
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And I just got the inspiration, you know.
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So what I started thinking about is something that I think I talk about in the book, um, but I also, you know, teach like African American studies and teach history and things like that.
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So I'm really familiar with a lot of ancestral things, you know, things that have happened throughout time.
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And one of the largest mass movements of black people in America is the women's club movement.
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Everybody always thinks the civil rights movement is the be all end all, you know, like that's the biggest thing that black people have ever done in the U.S.
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And it's not true.
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The largest mass movement of black people in the U.S.
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was actually the Marcus Garvey movement, number one.
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Number two was the women's club movement, and number three was the civil rights movement.
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And so honing in on the women's club movement.
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So this is Ida B.
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Wells, Mary Church Terrell, even Harriet Tubman, right?
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And so this is a movement of black women who started women's clubs all around the country.
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And the reason why they started it is
because they said that black women need to self-actualize.
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They need to figure out who they are.
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It's great to be a mother and a wife, but who are you and what is your gift and why are you here?
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So, really, that's what the heart of this was.
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And I was like, you know, I really need to kind of write about, you know, the things, how I, you know, in a circular fashion, I can say I'm not finished, you know, right?
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But how I self-actualize, you know, how I have become all of the versions of me that I am.
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I always say I've lived like so many lifetimes in this one lifetime, right?
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And so, you know, every time, you know, I'm going through this cycle of becoming.
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So I think it's like a constant process of becoming.
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And so at its heart, like ancestral roots is like this invitation, you know, for us to remember who we are.
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I love this, I love it's named after the sabre tree.
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I also have a company, you know, saber women.
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And so the saber tree is this really important ancestral tree, you know, that people gathered around.
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And it just has so much um, you know, symbology, right?
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And so it's really about a woman who is deeply rooted, right, in ancestral wisdom, but still growing, still reaching, still becoming, still imagining, doing all of the things that are possible for her life.
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And so it's looking, bringing together those public health aspects and spirituality and ancestral intelligence and wisdom and my own lived experience.
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So you'll see in the book, a lot of it, I have stories.
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So I'm talking about my grandmother's dressers, I'm talking about their house coats, you know, things that they wore, and you know, making translations for, you know, what you can do with that information in current day, right?
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And so, like, what does it actually like look like to me to be like free of disease, for example, you know, in our minds, our bodies, you know, what does it look like to utilize our gifts?
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What does it look like if, you know, we are, you know, in a state where we have to begin again?
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So, and you know, uh, what is Octavia Butler says, God is changed, right?
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So, like, people are so scared of change, but what if we need to?
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And the world, you know, the ancestors of the universe are calling on us to change, to become again.
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You can't be stuck and and be scared, you have to move on.
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So, what does that look like?
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So, like in ourselves, in our relationships, our spirits, our communities, like, you know, how do we, you know, connect to those who came before us and help us in this process of, you know, becoming, right?
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So that's kind of like, you know, why I wrote it.
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I did, and I was one of those people, I just like, okay, let me just get it down.
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I'm just gonna write it.
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And I didn't think anybody, you know, you know, would want I'm like, oh, maybe I'll self-publish two knows, right?
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So I send an email to Llewellyn, just I don't I really didn't send pictures.
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No, I was like, hey, I have this idea.
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They're like, yeah, do it.
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I was so shocked.
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I was like, oh, okay, great, here we are.
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So now I've really got to do it.
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Like I have to finish all of the thoughts that I had.
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So it was kind of like that, you know.
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But I'm thankful for it.
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It was just a surprise.
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I didn't set out to write.
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Sounds like it was meant to be.
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Yes.
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It really, really does.
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And so bridging even more, I want to get into a little bit more of what you talk about, like the three doors and things like that.
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Bridging the ancestral wisdom of humming, now we know it's good for the vagus nerve.
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Like these natural things and how it's translating today.
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So you actually, in your book, congratulations, ancestral roots makes a really great gift for people, stalking stuffers, guys.
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Um, you talked to us about the three doors, and you broke it down into a very relatable understanding about the body, the mind, and the spirit, and how move healing happens through moving through these doors and how the body holds, you know, the wound and the mind needs to name it in the spirit, can set it free.
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Can you talk to us a little bit about that process?
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Yes, uh absolutely.
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So, you know, I uh people always talk about to me the mind, body, and spirit.
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So a lot of what, you know, types of information that I read is about, you know, the connection of all of those.
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So when I was beginning to envision the book, I initially envisioned it like as kind of like three separate books, um, but it they became three
sections, you know, within the book.
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And so I was thinking of like how do we connect those?
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What do those look like in an African context or framework?
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So I did go with the Akon um in the TWID language and kind of looking at the TWEE and a con names for body, mind, and spirit.
00:20:49.490 --> 00:20:57.329
And the reason why I went with the TWEE is because years ago, um I had a grant with one of my sisters for the Center for Consciousness Studies.
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So we set out to study consciousness among the Akan.
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So we went there and we did field work and interviews and things like that.
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So I had some of that knowledge and some great stories, and some of them I talk about in the book, right?
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And so I was looking at, you know, so the the body, you know, the physical body, you know, the mind and thought and then spirit, right?
00:21:20.209 --> 00:21:34.369
We also kind of bring in some in the book, I bring in some of the a con termination uh terminology for, you know, the aspects of us beyond just our our mind, body, and spirit.
00:21:34.369 --> 00:21:50.689
But what do, you know, like for example, like our ancestors, our birth order, um, community, environment, you know, so there it's like levels of uh consciousness and who the body, you know, what the body is, like who are we?
00:21:50.689 --> 00:21:57.250
So we think of in you know, Western society, like mind and body, that's literally it, you know, right?
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But we know, you know, that the spirit is there, right?
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And so just doing that research, understanding that there's even levels of the spirit.
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So the acon talk about, for example, the okra and then the sung soon.
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So the occra would be how we are connected to the universal spirit.
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So we are a piece of the universal spirit.
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We're sometimes taught to think that, you know, God is there, you know, and we are here, right?
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And so we don't have any connection to that, you know, divine energy.
00:22:30.769 --> 00:22:33.009
So the occra looks at that.
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And so that is a piece of like who you are.
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And in the Akan um spiritual system, there are rituals and things.
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That you do to connect to that occur.
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And you, if you lose that connection to the universal spirit, it's not good.
00:22:46.609 --> 00:22:49.409
You know, it's not good for your overall well-being, right?
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So they have that.
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And then there's the Sun Sun.
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The Sun Sun is more like a guardian angel, if you want.
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Like it's your own spirit, right?
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And it's the one, you know, that protects you.
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If you ever have a dream where like you're fighting or you're running or something, you know, now you wake up and you're like, oh, I'm tired.
00:23:06.849 --> 00:23:09.009
Like, you know, that's your Sun Tun.
00:23:09.009 --> 00:23:12.689
They're out fighting, they're out exploring the world, they're out doing things, right?
00:23:12.689 --> 00:23:17.250
And so that's just the concept, you know, of spirit and of spirit-ness.
00:23:17.250 --> 00:23:27.169
So I thought it was important to really break down the book, you know, in that body, mind, and spirit, but then inside the depths of what those mean.
00:23:27.169 --> 00:23:28.529
So that's just an example.
00:23:28.529 --> 00:23:37.409
And then I kind of give stories because I have some really funny stories about as we're doing this research, how we're actually encountering these things.
00:23:37.409 --> 00:23:48.609
So just I thought of it as like a great point of departure, you know, from what we know in like Western society, the body, the mind, and introducing spirit.
00:23:48.609 --> 00:23:57.409
Some people, of course, may be familiar with spirit, but spirit as energy, like everything has energy, a rock has energy, trees have energy, everything, right?
00:23:57.409 --> 00:24:01.969
And so, how do we interact with our own energy and the energy of the world?
00:24:01.969 --> 00:24:09.569
And so, you know, kind of begin to kind of look into those things, but also keep it in a basic framework.
00:24:09.569 --> 00:24:10.609
That's what I was thinking.
00:24:10.609 --> 00:24:13.009
Like, how is this accessible to people?
00:24:13.009 --> 00:24:13.250
Yeah.
00:24:13.250 --> 00:24:19.490
So even the op-eds that I write, I have one that's uh weeds as medicine, right?
00:24:19.490 --> 00:24:23.729
And I talk about how I picked dandelion weeds from my grandmother.
00:24:23.729 --> 00:24:30.289
She used to make us go out and pick these weeds and she would put them inside her greens, like collar greens, and we would eat those.
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And I was like, Why are we eating it?
00:24:32.129 --> 00:24:38.609
Come to find out, like dandelion greens are like what tea and all that is some of the best nutrition for you, right?
00:24:38.609 --> 00:24:43.169
And so it's these concepts, like, how do we make these concepts accessible for people?
00:24:43.169 --> 00:24:47.889
So when they pick up my book, I didn't want them to have a whole public health, whole science thing, you know.
00:24:47.889 --> 00:24:51.969
Yes, some connections, but like, how do you make it accessible for people?
00:24:53.409 --> 00:24:54.689
I love that.
00:24:54.689 --> 00:24:59.409
Jenny, what else do you want to based on what she's saying?
00:25:00.289 --> 00:25:09.889
Well, I just want to say I love that because I got into
foraging because of an uh Instagram and TikTok creator called the Black Forager.
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Uh, that's her handle.
00:25:11.089 --> 00:25:18.609
Her name is Alexis, but she inspired me to start foraging because she talked about like how weeds are good for you.
00:25:18.609 --> 00:25:24.289
And she was bringing back like just community knowledge that like nobody was really talking about.
00:25:24.289 --> 00:25:31.169
And she said the reason why she called herself a black forager is because she wanted people to make no mistake who she was.
00:25:31.169 --> 00:25:41.649
But also I learned through her channel about how all these no trespassing signs that are very common in America really come from trying to keep black people away from food.
00:25:41.649 --> 00:25:45.409
And that was like amazing wisdom.
00:25:45.409 --> 00:26:04.129
So I what I want people to know about this book is that ancestral roots is for anyone, and it's this combination of science, of personal history, of African wisdom and practical ways to embody that.
00:26:04.129 --> 00:26:07.490
And that's the part that I love the most is the practicality.
00:26:07.490 --> 00:26:09.809
So I just wanted to say that to everybody.
00:26:09.809 --> 00:26:16.689
Um, but I wanted you mentioned it earlier, and it was one of the things I bookmarked was when you talked about your grandmother's dresser.
00:26:17.250 --> 00:26:17.889
Yeah.
00:26:17.889 --> 00:26:21.729
I want to hear more about my grandmother's dresser.
00:26:21.729 --> 00:26:24.529
So like I have them, they're here in my garage.
00:26:24.529 --> 00:26:27.250
So both sides, which is so funny to me.
00:26:27.250 --> 00:26:32.929
So when I grew up, right, you know, and I don't know if you have a question about it, but this is a story behind it.
00:26:32.929 --> 00:26:35.969
So when I grew up, these dressers were always there.
00:26:35.969 --> 00:26:39.250
You know, when I went to my grandmother's house and I was in love with them.
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To me, they were beautiful, old-timey, and you know, you go in the mirror, you're a little kid, and you put them on the clothes, and you know, and you're there and you're like this being.
00:26:47.809 --> 00:26:57.089
And it always just reminded me of just home and warmth and love and you know, I don't know, but they were just there, right?
00:26:57.089 --> 00:27:02.689
So when my grandmothers, I have one grandmother lived to 105 and the other one lived to 98.
00:27:02.689 --> 00:27:10.529
So both of them, I told them, I'm like, okay, you know, I, you know, if if you pass on, we're talking about that, like I, you know, want your dressers.
00:27:10.529 --> 00:27:12.849
Like, what are you talking about?
00:27:12.849 --> 00:27:13.889
But I don't know.
00:27:13.889 --> 00:27:20.929
I just really, they were a great metaphor for me for just departure, you know, and then, you know, what's that?
00:27:20.929 --> 00:27:25.169
The witch, the lion in the wardrobe, something like that book, you know, you read when you're a kid.
00:27:25.169 --> 00:27:31.809
Like, I always felt like I could go in them and then I can go, you know, to like ancestral world.
00:27:31.809 --> 00:27:37.490
Um, I was always fascinated with like ancient Egypt and history and ancient times.
00:27:37.490 --> 00:27:45.009
So that was like a thing, like I would play in their dressers, like, you know, I'm going back to this ancient time and I'm gonna be a queen there.
00:27:45.009 --> 00:27:47.889
I mean, it probably some of my past lives, who knows, right?
00:27:47.889 --> 00:27:50.129
But, you know, it's just this concept.
00:27:50.129 --> 00:28:03.409
So the dressers were so important to me to be a part of the book to explain the impact that my grandmother, our grandmothers, our grandmothers, and grandfathers and our ancestors have on who we are.
00:28:04.129 --> 00:28:06.129
That's it's totally what I was gonna ask you.
00:28:06.129 --> 00:28:06.689
So yeah.
00:28:06.689 --> 00:28:09.089
I mean, like, I just was too excited about it.
00:28:09.169 --> 00:28:09.250
Yeah.
00:28:09.649 --> 00:28:15.009
My my I have my grandmother's dolls that's they both had a doll that sat on their dresser.
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Yeah.
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And that's what I have.
00:28:16.289 --> 00:28:25.649
And I also have a vintage like dresser, and so like I totally embody this idea of like dresser as sacred space, especially for women.
00:28:25.649 --> 00:28:26.689
So I love that.
00:28:27.169 --> 00:28:27.969
Thank you.
00:28:28.609 --> 00:28:36.289
I love the lion, the witch in the wardrobe, and how the dresser can take you to those ancient places.
00:28:36.289 --> 00:28:38.929
Yeah, I absolutely love it.
00:28:38.929 --> 00:28:47.569
So also I wanted to touch on um there was a statement at Llewellyn Khan 2026.
00:28:47.569 --> 00:28:54.689
You guys go to YouTube, you can watch it, just type in her name or Llewellyncon, you can find it.
00:28:54.689 --> 00:28:59.089
It goes deeper into like these four, these three doors and such.
00:28:59.089 --> 00:29:03.169
But you had said something that I found was so profound, I was like, mic drop.
00:29:03.169 --> 00:29:12.609
I'm gonna screw it up, but it's the concept of we don't need to find a new framework.
00:29:12.609 --> 00:29:15.089
We already had it.
00:29:15.089 --> 00:29:19.729
Our ancestors have the framework that we can utilize now.
00:29:19.729 --> 00:29:28.929
That brought me such yeah we definitely speaks a can you speak a little bit to that?
00:29:28.929 --> 00:29:45.089
And then, of course, I want to go into how the historical trauma and how it can kind of still present itself within the body, depending on, you know, what body, what lineage, and and their pathway.
00:29:45.089 --> 00:29:46.609
So yeah.
00:29:46.929 --> 00:29:48.849
Yeah, so no, thank you for that.
00:29:48.849 --> 00:29:59.729
Um, you know, and then terms like yes, the framework is already here, but I'm
gonna say something that may be a little bit, you know, it's just we're gonna, you know, we're gonna see how we feel about it, right?
00:29:59.729 --> 00:30:07.889
So it's um I was on getting on a call with one of my sisters, long, you know, so we were we always kind of meet and do some work.
00:30:07.889 --> 00:30:21.969
And she as soon as she gets on the line, she says, okay, we already did this before, so we just have to remember what we did last time, what worked and didn't work, and you know, best practices, and then decide what we want to do this time.
00:30:21.969 --> 00:30:26.769
But she wasn't, we didn't do it before in this life, right?
00:30:26.769 --> 00:30:28.449
So we didn't do it before.
00:30:28.449 --> 00:30:30.529
And I was like, you're right.
00:30:30.529 --> 00:30:32.769
And I was like, you're right, you're right, you're right.
00:30:32.769 --> 00:30:39.009
So it was just like how, you know, we are our ancestors reborn, right?
00:30:39.009 --> 00:30:44.289
We can reach back at any time, you know, to understand things.
00:30:44.289 --> 00:30:46.849
We can reach forward and all of the things.
00:30:46.849 --> 00:30:52.129
So when I think about the framework, it's not really new, it's old, it's been there, right?
00:30:52.129 --> 00:31:00.529
It's just the ability and the consciousness that we need to tap into our ancestors and who we are because we were them, right?
00:31:00.529 --> 00:31:16.369
And so, you know, when I think about the framework, it's really just um like just understanding what has happened before, you know, and how did we manage it or take care of it then, right?
00:31:16.369 --> 00:31:20.689
And, you know, move forward, but also say it's a brand new thing.
00:31:20.689 --> 00:31:21.889
It hadn't happened before.
00:31:21.889 --> 00:31:25.649
But what is this like, you know, and how should we think about it?
00:31:25.649 --> 00:31:29.009
So how would our ancestors, you know, think about it and do it?
00:31:29.009 --> 00:31:31.809
I have a friend uh who's at Howard University, Dr.
00:31:31.809 --> 00:31:32.849
Kamathi Carr.
00:31:32.849 --> 00:31:41.490
I'll have to shout him out because he's brilliant, but he talks about all the time, he has a big library behind him, like all his books, like my books are downstairs, all his books.
00:31:41.490 --> 00:31:49.409
And he says he lets the ancestors, the books, talk to him, you know, when he has to do a presentation or when he's talking to people.
00:31:49.409 --> 00:31:51.569
What did Marcus Garvey say?
00:31:51.569 --> 00:31:54.609
What did I vulner say about this situation?
00:31:54.609 --> 00:31:56.449
How can we look at these things?
00:31:56.449 --> 00:32:18.689
And so I think it's just this concept, our idea of drawing on the past, you know, drawing on our ancestral wisdom and then drawing on us, you know, as ancestors returned, you know, and remembering what it is we need to remember in order to affect, you know, uh, you know, our living and how we're doing today.
00:32:20.369 --> 00:32:21.169
I love that.
00:32:21.169 --> 00:32:29.250
I want to um share a little personal story with you and the listeners, as well as my lovely co-host Jenny Seabell.
00:32:29.250 --> 00:32:40.689
So my father, Reverend Jackson Yazzi of the Navajo Nation, was born in New Mexico um in 1932.
00:32:40.689 --> 00:32:47.329
And so hence when he was a young boy, he was born and he lived in a hogon.
00:32:47.329 --> 00:32:52.449
When he was a young boy, he was taken from his Hogan, his home.
00:32:52.449 --> 00:33:03.649
He was put into the boarding schools, his hair was cut, he was not allowed to speak his native tongue, um, and etc.
00:33:03.649 --> 00:33:05.409
He was whitewashed.
00:33:05.409 --> 00:33:09.009
And then I'm his youngest.
00:33:09.009 --> 00:33:12.209
He had me when he was about 39 years old.
00:33:12.209 --> 00:33:23.649
And one day I'm sitting here in my home, I'm running a nonprofit called the Eagle Heart Foundation for, you know, to kind of bridge all of that.
00:33:23.649 --> 00:33:36.049
Nonetheless, um somebody came over to visit, and it was a business consultant that was going to consult me on how to run, you know, the nonprofit.
00:33:36.049 --> 00:33:46.609
And I'm sitting there at my dining room table talking with him, my body just started shaking, and I couldn't hold my water.
00:33:46.609 --> 00:33:50.049
And I was like, what the hell is going on with me?
00:33:50.049 --> 00:33:52.369
Why is this happening to me?
00:33:52.369 --> 00:33:54.849
Why am I afraid of this man?
00:33:55.169 --> 00:33:55.490
Yeah.
00:33:55.490 --> 00:33:56.289
Wow.
00:33:56.609 --> 00:34:09.730
And come to find out after I shared with him the vision of exactly what you said at the beginning of this show, that you go to even just the Navajos and said, What is it that you want?
00:34:09.730 --> 00:34:22.690
That is the key because with the Navajos, they were already already told, hey, you need to go to white man school, you need the white man gods, you need to be an apple, which is red on the outside, white on the inside.
00:34:22.690 --> 00:34:26.769
And my body was shaking, and I was so traumatized.
00:34:26.769 --> 00:34:30.449
I'm like, I'm sorry, I don't know what if I'm cold or what.
00:34:30.449 --> 00:34:35.090
And he basically threw down, and I dismissed him from my house.
00:34:35.090 --> 00:34:39.250
He says, Oh, what you are doing is wrong.
00:34:39.250 --> 00:34:41.409
We are doing this right.
00:34:41.409 --> 00:34:44.530
I serve the only God, the white man God.
00:34:44.530 --> 00:34:47.490
And he said that, and I was like, Okay, thank you.
00:34:47.490 --> 00:34:48.769
And he left.
00:34:48.769 --> 00:34:54.930
And I it took me a long time to realize that it was my DNA that was traumatized.
00:34:54.930 --> 00:34:58.610
My DNA absolutely recognized it.
00:34:58.610 --> 00:35:05.090
And and that's one of the things that I love about what you're doing is because I'm like I said, Gen X.
00:35:05.090 -->
00:35:13.410
But that is a very cle I mean, that was my dad in my body, and right now I'm still kind of shaking.
00:35:13.410 --> 00:35:14.930
I was like, oh, that was so scary.
00:35:14.930 --> 00:35:19.010
I felt like he was gonna seriously, my I was triggered.
00:35:19.010 --> 00:35:29.329
From your perspective and with your work and everything that you do to include your beautiful ancestral roots, what was happening?
00:35:29.329 --> 00:35:32.370
What was happening to me?
00:35:32.370 --> 00:35:34.210
Was it just DNA trauma?
00:35:34.370 --> 00:35:49.570
How do I so what was happening to you was definitely your spirit, you know, having that response and your ancestral spirits, though, you know, and those uh other spirits to be nature spirits and things that walk with you, right?
00:35:49.570 --> 00:35:55.410
All having that trauma response because the DNA doesn't forget it's there, right?
00:35:55.410 --> 00:36:02.849
And so it's like, how do we really reconcile that those parts of ourselves that may have that, you know, DNA, right?
00:36:02.849 --> 00:36:06.450
But you also, when I think about ancestral roots, which is so interesting.
00:36:06.450 --> 00:36:13.809
So, yes, we all have ancestors, and you know, um, ancestors can be positive or negative, right?
00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:24.769
So even ancestors of European-American people, you know, they're perpetuating the same things that their ancestors perpetuated, right?
00:36:24.769 --> 00:36:37.170
And so we had your body was having this response is something that was experienced, you know, by your ancestor, right, before, but it's the same experience, really, for you, right?
00:36:37.170 --> 00:36:44.690
It's the same thing because that person represented their ancestors and what their ancestors did to your ancestors, right?
00:36:44.690 --> 00:36:47.010
And so your ancestors are ready to fight.
00:36:47.010 --> 00:36:53.170
Like, oh, you know, like, hey, this, like, it's not a new contemporary time, like, oh, we forgot about all that.
00:36:53.170 --> 00:36:59.010
No, you know, it's interesting because when you look at time, it's not linear like what people think.
00:36:59.010 --> 00:37:01.809
You know, it's very circular and it collapses.
00:37:01.809 --> 00:37:09.090
And in fact, you know, people believe and some of the research that I do uh that there are seven superimposed worlds on this one, right?
00:37:09.090 --> 00:37:13.410
And so these things are going on like simultaneously, if you will.
00:37:13.410 --> 00:37:19.010
So, like the same place, different time, you know, the same time, you know, in space.
00:37:19.010 --> 00:37:25.730
So it's it's so interesting, like how all of these things, when you look at some of the ancestral wisdom unfold.
00:37:25.730 --> 00:37:29.890
So what you were looking at wasn't like something distinct.
00:37:29.890 --> 00:37:33.970
If you think about that theory, it was going on at the same time.
00:37:33.970 --> 00:37:44.690
So the oppression of your ancestors was going on at the same time that you were understanding this, and so they were in that fight, and you were in that fight, and it's in that fight.
00:37:44.690 --> 00:37:46.690
So it's the same.
00:37:46.690 --> 00:37:51.090
So, yes, trauma responds, but it's also it's still happening.
00:37:51.090 --> 00:37:53.170
It did not stop, you know.
00:37:53.170 --> 00:38:03.570
So there were temporary, uh temporary like um battles that were won, you know, or temporary ways to alleviate that, right?
00:38:03.570 --> 00:38:09.490
Because our ancestors had to alleviate some of that trauma because how could we live and survive, right?
00:38:09.490 --> 00:38:14.130
But it doesn't mean that it was banished totally, or doesn't mean that it went away.
00:38:14.130 --> 00:38:23.010
Hence, you know, all of our cultures have these rituals and things that we need to do when we experience things like that and how to clear land.
00:38:23.010 --> 00:38:26.450
You know, that's one of my biggest things, one of my biggest gifts.
00:38:26.450 --> 00:38:29.170
I'm always put in this place where I gotta clear some land.
00:38:29.170 --> 00:38:29.970
I'm like, what?
00:38:29.970 --> 00:38:33.890
You know, the places that I move, I'm like, oh, here we go, you know.
00:38:33.890 --> 00:38:38.210
But, you know, I think, you know, that was that's just something I've been assigned to do.
00:38:38.210 --> 00:38:40.289
But we do, we have to clear it, you know.
00:38:40.289 --> 00:38:49.570
So even like, you know, places where we live and things that may have been there before, although the physical structure is not there, the thing is still there.
00:38:49.570 --> 00:38:54.930
The energy of what happened in that place is still there and it has to be cleansed, it has to be banished.
00:38:55.890 --> 00:38:56.450
Love that.
00:38:56.450 --> 00:39:09.250
And although my story is, you know, wow, what I the reason why I laid that out to the listeners is because it still happens today.
00:39:09.250 --> 00:39:27.890
And although mine is a big experience around that, you may, whether whatever BIPOC, whatever whatever you know, lineage you come from, you may encounter those types of things, even though mine was fresh and to the surface because of who I am and the direct lineage.
00:39:27.890 --> 00:39:42.289
But even throughout your movement, throughout your day, throughout your I bought this house and what happened here, I've got to clear the land, all of that is what our ancestors knew.
00:39:42.289 --> 00:39:53.730
And and you kind of talk about it, which you're also kind of going a little into the quantum physics, but that's another show because I'm there with you, layers upon layers.
00:39:53.730 --> 00:40:03.170
But I kind of wanted to share my story to help people, even if they on a little scale, just go, oh, I just don't like that place.
00:40:03.170 --> 00:40:04.210
Oh, right.
00:40:04.450 --> 00:40:05.170
Pay attention.
00:40:05.170 --> 00:40:12.930
If you don't
like that place, you don't like that people, don't get in that car, don't do this, don't walk down that road, pay attention to your first line.
00:40:12.930 --> 00:40:18.050
I can't tell you how many times I'm driving down the road and something says, Don't go that way.
00:40:18.050 --> 00:40:20.849
And I'm thinking, like, it's short, it's shorter though.
00:40:20.849 --> 00:40:27.090
But I listen and I'm gonna go around the other way and find out, you know, the 10-car pile-up that way.
00:40:27.090 --> 00:40:32.769
Listen, you know, it's many times the ancestors will get you out of situations.
00:40:32.769 --> 00:40:39.329
You know, you have to listen to your first mind and what they're telling you, and you have to be able to cultivate that healing and listening.
00:40:39.329 --> 00:40:41.490
And so for you, you had already cultivated.
00:40:41.490 --> 00:40:45.490
That's why you had that experience because you're already open, you can see, you can hear it, you can feel it.
00:40:45.490 --> 00:40:49.250
Some people have blocked that off, and we've been trained to block that off.
00:40:49.250 --> 00:40:51.809
We've been trained to forget about our ancestors.
00:40:51.809 --> 00:40:53.010
Oh, that's superstition.
00:40:53.010 --> 00:40:59.809
Oh, you know, you have some type of mental health, you know, problem if you're hearing, you know, voices and things like that.
00:40:59.809 --> 00:41:02.450
So, you know, yeah, but maybe no, right?
00:41:02.450 --> 00:41:13.329
So it's like, how do we and re-incorporate, how do we teach our young people, our children, you know, um, about ancestral healing, ancestral intelligence?
00:41:13.329 --> 00:41:15.890
Because we have to reclaim it or bring it back.
00:41:15.890 --> 00:41:20.610
Because what happens is people are like, no, you know, that's the devil or that's this.
00:41:20.610 --> 00:41:22.690
I'm like, no, it's not the devil, right?
00:41:22.690 --> 00:41:27.329
And so, you know, it's part of our culture and where we come from, you know, in our history.
00:41:27.329 --> 00:41:34.530
You know, Malcolm X famously said, just because we put biscuits in, just because we put cats in the oven that don't make them biscuits.
00:41:34.530 --> 00:41:39.650
So just because you change the location of the people don't mean they stop being the people, right?
00:41:39.650 --> 00:41:49.329
You know, so how do we reclaim this ancestral wisdom and how do we begin to re-fortify ourselves because we're open to a lot of attacks?
00:41:49.329 --> 00:41:52.210
You know, look, we can, you know, go on and on about that.
00:41:52.210 --> 00:41:56.130
You know, we're open to these things because people are ignoring them.
00:41:56.130 --> 00:42:02.530
They're like, oh no, it's a modern society, racism doesn't exist, this doesn't exist, you know, BF, right?
00:42:02.530 --> 00:42:09.250
So we have to reach back and we have to understand, or else it'll just keep it'll keep happening.
00:42:09.490 --> 00:42:10.050
Mm-hmm.
00:42:10.050 --> 00:42:18.849
And we and we can heal that, and a lot of the healing can be through ancestral roots.
00:42:18.849 --> 00:42:22.370
Oh, I absolutely love it.
00:42:22.370 --> 00:42:24.210
So what else, Jenny?
00:42:25.010 --> 00:42:26.610
Uh well, that was pretty heavy.
00:42:26.610 --> 00:42:29.890
So I'm gonna take us to a little, a little lighter topic.
00:42:29.890 --> 00:42:34.849
Um, I do want to say that I think this book would be a really good graduation gift.
00:42:34.849 --> 00:42:37.010
Make a great Christmas gift that's coming up.
00:42:37.010 --> 00:42:43.570
But I was thinking, I worked with like 55 students and got them all into college, and they were my avid students.
00:42:43.570 --> 00:42:50.849
And I'm thinking, man, this would have been so good to give to every single one of them as a way of like, okay, how do I heal?
00:42:50.849 --> 00:42:56.769
And it's and also I want to say, like, if you are in a certain religion, you can still practice this.
00:42:56.930 --> 00:42:57.170
That's right.
00:42:57.410 --> 00:42:59.170
Like, there's and that's what I love about it.
00:42:59.170 --> 00:43:00.610
It's like it's for everybody.
00:43:00.610 --> 00:43:05.730
So um, but one of my favorite sections, it's a little section where you talk about music.
00:43:05.730 --> 00:43:11.730
And we love to talk about Granddaughter Crow and I love talking about music and spirituality.
00:43:11.730 --> 00:43:14.289
So it's called Music Suze the Savage Beast.
00:43:14.289 --> 00:43:22.130
And you talk about like the power of music and then love the story of you and your cousins making up your song.
00:43:22.370 --> 00:43:22.530
Yeah.
00:43:22.849 --> 00:43:24.130
Two when you're little.
00:43:24.130 --> 00:43:32.930
And so, yeah, if we could just talk a little bit, because that's something the listeners could go away right now and go do something with music immediately after this.
00:43:33.250 --> 00:43:33.970
Immediately.
00:43:33.970 --> 00:43:47.730
That's what the power of music, because it's so accessible and it speaks to you and it's fun and you dance and you feel good and all of the things, you know, that's why it makes it so accessible and a great point of like departure, you know.
00:43:47.730 --> 00:43:55.329
So for you know, all of traditions that we're speaking about, music has always been more than entertainment, you know, of course.
00:43:55.329 --> 00:43:58.930
So it's, you know, the rhythm, the dance, the song.
00:43:58.930 --> 00:44:01.329
It's all a sort of prayer, right?
00:44:01.329 --> 00:44:06.849
It's a prayer, it's a communication, it's a remembrance, you know, um, it's a connection.
00:44:06.849 --> 00:44:10.210
So, you know, music just carries information.
00:44:10.210 --> 00:44:14.690
I also look at it as a computer, we talk about it's data.
00:44:14.690 --> 00:44:19.329
Um, it carries information across generations, you know.
00:44:19.329 --> 00:44:24.130
And some sometimes we don't have the language for
what we carry, as we just spoke about.
00:44:24.130 --> 00:44:29.730
Sometimes we don't know about ancestral information, but the music brings us there, right?
00:44:29.730 --> 00:44:32.130
So, how many of you seen centers?
00:44:32.130 --> 00:44:32.930
Right?
00:44:32.930 --> 00:44:34.370
That's what it's talking about.
00:44:34.370 --> 00:44:35.809
Cinners for a movie.
00:44:35.809 --> 00:44:36.050
What?
00:44:36.050 --> 00:44:40.450
It is so great because it's music, it's the blues, it's the point of departure.
00:44:40.450 --> 00:44:42.210
And it brings us together.
00:44:42.210 --> 00:44:43.329
Like we love music.
00:44:43.329 --> 00:44:44.530
We love the blues.
00:44:44.530 --> 00:44:51.730
And even that scene where they're playing music and all the different traditions and the ancestors are in there and they're dancing, right?
00:44:51.730 --> 00:44:54.930
It's communication, it's communion, it's coming together.
00:44:54.930 --> 00:44:56.370
So, yes, music.
00:44:56.370 --> 00:45:06.130
The reason why I named it music soothes the savage beast, because for me, that has always been a big deal, and probably for tons of other people.
00:45:06.130 --> 00:45:15.170
But if I'm upset or angry or sad or need um information and communication, I need answers, I need help.
00:45:15.170 --> 00:45:17.890
It comes from the music for me, right?
00:45:17.890 --> 00:45:20.050
And so I'll put on different songs.
00:45:20.050 --> 00:45:22.289
And sometimes ancestors speak to me that way.
00:45:22.289 --> 00:45:26.849
I'll be in the car and a song will come on, and I'm like, yeah, you know, and it'll have the answer.
00:45:26.849 --> 00:45:32.130
It'll pick me up, it will let me know, you know, my ancestors are there, whatever.
00:45:32.130 --> 00:45:41.970
So it's not just like hearing, but it's using your all of your senses and your sixth sense and you know, all the others, and we feel it, you know.
00:45:41.970 --> 00:45:54.210
So, you know, it's the rhythm that helps us, it really regulates our breathing, it regulates our nervous system, you know, like the movement, the emotion, the memory, you know.
00:45:54.210 --> 00:46:02.610
So it's just this really um beautiful example of like how ancestral intelligence can be embodied, right?
00:46:02.610 --> 00:46:04.450
And not just intellectually understood.
00:46:04.450 --> 00:46:11.730
So most often when we think about music, yes, we have people who study music, but we don't first think like, oh, let me break down this song.
00:46:11.730 --> 00:46:18.370
And it's so how many of us love songs and love the beat, but the lyrics, and you listen to it later, you're like, is that what it said?
00:46:18.370 --> 00:46:23.010
Like so, but you got into it for the beat and the rhythm and all of that, right?
00:46:23.010 --> 00:46:36.530
And so we don't necessarily first intellectually break down the music, we just feel it first and we understand, you know, and that, you know, the body remembers that, you know, the spirit, you know, the mind remembers that.
00:46:36.530 --> 00:46:37.490
Um, yeah.
00:46:37.490 --> 00:46:42.050
So again, this is music is so important, like you said, and it's something we can take away today.
00:46:42.050 --> 00:46:51.890
So pay attention, you know, first of all, to you know, what type of music sues you, you know, what makes you happy, you know, what makes you remember things, what makes you dance.
00:46:51.890 --> 00:46:55.570
And then also what music that may irritate you?
00:46:55.570 --> 00:47:02.289
There are those, you know, some music that may irritate your spirit and may irritate, so maybe you should stop listening to that, right?
00:47:02.289 --> 00:47:04.210
That particular one, right?
00:47:04.210 --> 00:47:06.610
So just pay attention on like how you feel.
00:47:06.610 --> 00:47:09.650
And like you said, that's something that's super accessible.
00:47:09.650 --> 00:47:12.530
We listen to it every day, you know, all day.
00:47:12.530 --> 00:47:15.809
You know, what are your favorites and what are they saying to you?
00:47:15.809 --> 00:47:17.010
What are the lyrics?
00:47:17.010 --> 00:47:19.410
What is the beat, the melody, how does it make you feel?
00:47:19.410 --> 00:47:20.610
Like all of those things.
00:47:20.610 --> 00:47:21.890
And you're right.
00:47:22.050 --> 00:47:27.570
And I want to also add, you know, do you do you currently I just wanted to ask if you had a favorite song currently?
00:47:27.809 --> 00:47:29.250
Oh my God, I have so many.
00:47:29.250 --> 00:47:30.769
It like changes daily.
00:47:30.769 --> 00:47:32.130
I have let me think of something.
00:47:32.130 --> 00:47:36.769
I'm gonna address something you said earlier, too, in terms of the audience for the book.
00:47:36.769 --> 00:47:39.490
Those are that was my thought, you know, as I'm writing.
00:47:39.490 --> 00:47:44.610
I wanted it to be young people, like, you know, high school kind of going into college.
00:47:44.610 --> 00:47:51.090
And so my dream is actually to go to colleges and the students have my book and I talk about it.
00:47:51.090 --> 00:47:52.130
That's what I want to do.
00:47:52.130 --> 00:47:53.970
So maybe that'll come true.
00:47:53.970 --> 00:47:54.930
That's what I want to do.
00:47:54.930 --> 00:47:57.090
So, you know how they have like freshman orientation?
00:47:57.090 --> 00:48:00.450
I want everybody to have my book and like, yeah, let's talk about it.
00:48:00.450 --> 00:48:02.130
And so, you know, it will happen.
00:48:02.130 --> 00:48:03.329
So I'll put it out there.
00:48:03.329 --> 00:48:05.410
So, okay, so like songs.
00:48:05.410 --> 00:48:07.650
I'm trying to think of what I have been.
00:48:07.650 --> 00:48:10.690
I listened to so many different ones.
00:48:10.690 --> 00:48:13.410
Um, I'm like thinking something good.
00:48:13.410 --> 00:48:16.930
I would say, let me go with like a Stevie Wonder right now.
00:48:16.930 --> 00:48:17.329
Yes.
00:48:17.329 --> 00:48:20.210
Yeah, so I was thinking about
as.
00:48:20.210 --> 00:48:27.730
So, you know, he has a uh concert tour coming up, and as he's an elder, you know, people really are interested in going to this concert.
00:48:27.730 --> 00:48:36.050
We all are, but as is like one of the songs for me that just fill my heart and fill my spirit, and you know, all of the things.
00:48:36.050 --> 00:48:37.170
So I'll go with that.
00:48:37.170 --> 00:48:39.329
I'll go with as my Stevie Wonder.
00:48:40.450 --> 00:48:43.010
That's my that's my go-to uplifting.
00:48:43.010 --> 00:48:45.490
I just called, I just called to say I love you.
00:48:45.490 --> 00:48:47.250
I think is one of the best songs ever made.
00:48:47.650 --> 00:48:49.329
Okay, all of the songs, so yeah.
00:48:49.329 --> 00:48:56.769
So again, you know, and this is you know just the genius of Stevie Wonder, you know, not sighted in this site, right?
00:48:56.769 --> 00:49:01.250
So we have to think about other sight and spiritual sight, and you know how that comes into play.
00:49:01.250 --> 00:49:02.530
So interesting.
00:49:03.329 --> 00:49:04.450
I love that.
00:49:04.450 --> 00:49:15.809
And you know, I also love the life hack of listen to music and turn, choose the one that is gonna speak with you right now.
00:49:15.809 --> 00:49:22.930
And I when I'm in like um, you know, crazy, oh my goodness, my mind's running.
00:49:22.930 --> 00:49:24.050
What do I gotta do?
00:49:24.050 --> 00:49:25.809
I'm like, okay, what am I doing?
00:49:25.809 --> 00:49:26.530
Let me breathe.
00:49:26.530 --> 00:49:27.650
Oh, that's not working.
00:49:27.650 --> 00:49:36.370
Oh, let me just turn on music and it regulates my mind, my body, my spirit.
00:49:36.370 --> 00:49:42.930
And if you ever, if you guys ever watch a show, I do a lot of nodding, but really it's like I'm just dancing here.
00:49:42.930 --> 00:49:45.329
I'm just keeping a beat, I'm just doing the rhythm.
00:49:46.370 --> 00:49:47.090
Yeah, that's right.
00:49:47.090 --> 00:49:57.970
It's funny because even like with your children, with my daughters, we listen to some songs in the car, and they still to this day remember them and they'll bring them up and how it made them feel.
00:49:57.970 --> 00:50:01.090
So there's a song that was like on a barbecue CD or something.
00:50:01.090 --> 00:50:02.930
It's called You Are the Universe.
00:50:02.930 --> 00:50:05.730
And they talk about that song today.
00:50:05.730 --> 00:50:10.690
But what it taught them is they are the universe that they can manifest, that they can feel it.
00:50:10.690 --> 00:50:16.289
And it's so funny because, you know, they're all grown and we'll bring it up and we'll put it on and we'll dance.
00:50:16.289 --> 00:50:20.610
But it's also, you know, influencing how they're thinking about themselves.
00:50:20.610 --> 00:50:35.329
So, you know, when you're in the car with them or, you know, when you're growing up, like what music that your parents play on the record player or, you know, whatever, those things also, you
know, kind of influence you who you are and help, you know, think about yourself.
00:50:35.329 --> 00:50:39.730
So, of course, we want you to think about yourself in a positive way, you know.
00:50:41.329 --> 00:50:42.130
I love that.
00:50:42.130 --> 00:50:49.410
And then back to your point about getting this book into the hands of the early learners.
00:50:49.410 --> 00:50:55.570
If you guys are in public education, private education, have any influence?
00:50:55.570 --> 00:51:03.090
How could people maybe get in contact with you if that inspired somebody to do something like, oh, well, gosh, I've got a class coming up.
00:51:03.090 --> 00:51:04.210
Maybe we could do that.
00:51:04.210 --> 00:51:07.329
How can people get in touch with you?
00:51:07.650 --> 00:51:08.210
Okay, yeah.
00:51:08.210 --> 00:51:13.170
I actually have a few websites, but you know, ArlethaLazanna.com is there.
00:51:13.170 --> 00:51:20.930
Um, also has saberwomen.com on Instagram, you know, TikTok, any of those ways at Morehouse School of Medicine.
00:51:20.930 --> 00:51:22.289
You can look me up there.
00:51:22.289 --> 00:51:27.329
Um, but yes, I would love to speak to young people, you know, about this book.
00:51:27.329 --> 00:51:28.370
That's one of my dreams.
00:51:28.370 --> 00:51:35.970
I just want like some schools to purchase like copies, and I just go to freshman orientation and we really just have a workshop and have fun.
00:51:35.970 --> 00:51:38.769
And in those workshops, like the music is included.
00:51:38.769 --> 00:51:41.410
Like, we gotta play a music, like what's our playlist?
00:51:41.410 --> 00:51:45.329
So have them, you know, send in songs if they want and inspire them.
00:51:45.329 --> 00:51:49.890
So, you know, really not just talk, you know, at young people.
00:51:49.890 --> 00:51:51.490
Like, I don't like that, you know.
00:51:51.490 --> 00:51:53.010
Like, how can we talk together?
00:51:53.010 --> 00:51:56.530
And, you know, they can learn some things from me, but I can also learn things from them.
00:51:56.530 --> 00:51:58.370
You know, you're that's the one thing.
00:51:58.370 --> 00:52:03.410
Like, you're never too old to learn, and you should be learning something every day.
00:52:03.410 --> 00:52:07.809
Something, you know, I mean, it doesn't have to be extensive where you read a whole book.
00:52:07.809 --> 00:52:17.010
Well, what is the one thing that you learn today, you know, to better yourself or to encourage, you know, your thinking or encourage your spirit in your life.
00:52:17.010 --> 00:52:18.769
So, you know, I can learn for them too.
00:52:18.769 --> 00:52:19.890
So I'm excited about it.
00:52:20.130 --> 00:52:21.090
I love that.
00:52:21.090 --> 00:52:22.289
I love that.
00:52:22.289 --> 00:52:23.730
So what else, Jenny?
00:52:23.730 --> 00:52:26.690
Are we almost ready to wrap it up?
00:52:26.690 --> 00:52:52.930
Which is so sad because this went so fast and there's so many different ideas that I want to highlight about the
work that you do and what you bring to the world and how you are a trailblazer, but not just with new ideas, but with bringing back and remembering in the body and the mind and the spirit through through music and all of it, you guys have to pick up this book, Ancestral Roots.
00:52:52.930 --> 00:52:56.849
All of the information is down below in the show notes.
00:52:56.849 --> 00:52:59.250
So, Jenny, go ahead.
00:52:59.650 --> 00:53:02.370
Yeah, do you before we ask our last question?
00:53:02.370 --> 00:53:08.769
I would love to know if you have any upcoming events or things that our listeners might want to check out.
00:53:09.170 --> 00:53:24.690
Uh yeah, so what I was thinking about, I do have an upcoming, I'm speaking, I actually just had a speaking engagement yesterday, but I have an upcoming, I'm gonna be speaking at the Morehouse School of Medicine Natural Pot Products and Health Disparities Symposium on Friday, November 6th.
00:53:24.690 --> 00:53:29.090
There's also an online version, so in-person here in Atlanta, but also online.
00:53:29.090 --> 00:53:36.289
And the cool thing about that is I'm incorporating, as we spoke about, like ancestral intelligence and public health.
00:53:36.289 --> 00:53:57.329
So I have an African and African diaspora natural and traditional medicine certificate program that I developed, you know, through Warhouse School of Medicine to really help people learn about ancestral healing and ancestral tradition, herbs, all of the things, right, that come from Africa and African diaspora.
00:53:57.329 --> 00:53:59.170
It's like, you know, we know that it's there.
00:53:59.170 --> 00:54:06.930
We know all about, you know, Chinese medicine, traditional Chinese medicine we know about are Vediv, you know, but what comes out of the African traditions?
00:54:06.930 --> 00:54:15.170
And so I'll be speaking about that at the symposium and weaving in the concept, of course, of ancestral intelligence and public health.
00:54:15.170 --> 00:54:17.410
So that's a big one, you know, coming up.
00:54:17.410 --> 00:54:21.170
If you can tune in online or you can come in person, that would be great.
00:54:22.930 --> 00:54:23.650
Love that.
00:54:23.650 --> 00:54:25.010
So much going on.
00:54:25.010 --> 00:54:28.050
Check out websites, websites.
00:54:28.050 --> 00:54:31.490
So, Jenny, do you want to ask the final question?
00:54:32.210 --> 00:54:40.050
Yeah, I would be honored because I'm excited after all the things we talked about, especially Seven Worlds and Time being circular.
00:54:40.050 --> 00:54:44.930
So we ask our guests at the end what they believe lies beyond.
00:54:44.930 --> 00:54:47.329
So, what do you think lies beyond?
00:54:47.730 --> 00:54:48.370
Oh wow.
00:54:48.370 --> 00:54:50.050
Uh, what lies beyond?
00:54:50.050 --> 00:54:59.410
I would say um it's things that we've already encountered, um, things that we have to remember, you know.
00:54:59.410 --> 00:55:19.570
So there is, you know, as above, so below, you know, so things that have um has always been, you know, the way to put it, you know, in a quantum physics way, you know, I think that's what lies beyond really our understanding of that, right?
00:55:19.570 --> 00:55:27.970
Um, I think sometimes we limit to ourselves, like, okay, just it's now we're here and we live that, you know, but what about our generations before?
00:55:27.970 --> 00:55:32.450
Really, where do we come from as starseed, you know, and how is that incorporated?
00:55:32.450 --> 00:55:46.370
And I think that we will, that's something beyond that we'll learn more about and how time really is circular and how there's been movies such as Interstellar and some of those that kind of talk about it, you know.
00:55:46.370 --> 00:55:54.769
But I'm thinking beyond, we'll really have a conscious understanding of that, and it'll be something that we'll be able to weave into our everyday world.
00:55:54.769 --> 00:55:57.730
You know, how do we communicate with our ancestors?
00:55:57.730 --> 00:56:08.450
How do we learn from our ancestors, you know, and then even when we pass on, like, how do we still become uh remain a part, you know, of this world and other worlds?
00:56:08.450 --> 00:56:12.289
So it's so much, so that's what I think about when I think about beyond.
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How does that become part of our everyday world, such as TikTok?
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You know, like how this, you know, when we're speaking commonly, you know, about ancestral intelligence and healing.
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So when does that become everyday speak?
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I love that.
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So it's it's almost like beyond is it's already here.
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We just need to understand what it is.
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That's kind of it's like this beautiful thing.
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Oh my goodness.
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I am just so happy to be sitting down here with you tonight, you guys.
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Pick up the book, Ancestral Roots, as well as like, subscribe, share, write a review, buy this.
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It makes a wonderful gift stocking stuffer for the people in your life that you're just like, oh, you know what?
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They would like this.
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First, pick it up and read it yourself, and then buy it as gifts and everything.
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So thank you so much, Dr.
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Lisanna, for joining us on the show tonight.
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I just really appreciate it because here at Belief Being and Beyond, we love hosting the children of our ancestors who might have been us long ago in a different body.
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So, anyway, thank you guys.
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Thank you for listening, and we will talk to you on the flippity flip.