featuring ayesha walker

black

saturn

w/ deen hasaan

my boy deen hasaan invited me into the series, black saturn. his whole premise is rooted in the fact that it takes big daddy saturn about 30 years to return to the position it was in when we were born. it’s called the saturn return. and collectively, we in the saturn return of one of the most influential eras in black culture: 1995–2005.

for the next decade, we’re hitting 30-year anniversaries of the classic albums, films, TV shows, innovations, political moments, fashion, and art that shaped us. so for the first episode of black saturn, the invitation was to break down monica’s “miss thang,” which turned 30 this year, treating the album like a person, reading its birth chart and cards, honoring it as a living entity in our black cultural lineage and legacy. watch the episode below where me and deen go in. 

sustaiability

in our work

w/ casey caroll

this episode features an honest conversation exploring what sustainability really means—not just for organizations, but for ourselves, our families, and our communities.

we talk about how the work asks us to slow down, listen, and build structures that can actually hold us over time. the conversation traces how BE-IMAGINATIVE emerged from a desire to practice a different kind of activism—one rooted in healing, imagination, ancestry, and care, rather than burnout and extraction.

we reflect on the power of counter-narratives: choosing stories of hope, agency, and love without bypassing grief. we speak about why grief, when held collectively, can alchemize into purpose—and how storytelling becomes a practice of responsibility, not spectacle.

in this conversation, we explore:

  • how to care for ourselves while building organizations

  • the practice of asking real questions and trusting what rises in response

  • the power and sustainability of a collective model

  • the edges and expansiveness of bringing your whole self to the work

  • how to let the ancestors guide your leadership and decisions

this episode is an invitation to reimagine sustainability as something relational, ancestral, and alive—not just structural, but spiritual.

creative

mornings

w/ myra jones

healing hearts and building community among survivors of gun violence

this conversation brings together myself and myra jones, a founding mother within BE-IMAGINATIVE and the beloved mother of diante jones, whose life was taken by gun violence.

in this free-flowing dialogue, we speak openly about grief, loss, survival, and connection. we reflect on how grief lives in the body and in community, and what it means to stay present with pain without letting it close us off from life. together, we talk about the slow return to laughter, to joy, and to the possibility of feeling whole again—sometimes for the first time.

this exchange reflects the heart of BE-IMAGINATIVE: creating space for grief to be witnessed, for relationships to hold us, and for healing to unfold in ways that feel honest, human, and alive. 

love is

w/ brittany tanner

love is is a song for remembering what it means to embody love through all seasons, chosing love even when that shit doesn’t feel easy.

on this track, i lead a guided meditation, offering grounding for my people learning to return home to themselves. the invitation is to come to our breath and the practice of loving with some real depth.

the song features me by brittany tanner, whose voice carries the emotional and spiritual weight of the piece. together, the music and meditation create a space for reflection and embodiment, supporting listeners in expanding their capacity for love, even through challenge and change.

love is is something to sit with and move through. it’s an offering for staying open to and rooted in love. because my philosophy is, if it ain’t love, it’s a mf lie.

dream

like a p.r.o.

w/ meres-sia gabriel

healing hearts and building community among survivors of gun violence

this conversation came from a place of mutual support and sisterly love.

i was invited in to offer design and content feedback on the course dream like a p.r.o., and from there we opened up a wider conversation about supporting one another, creative alignment, destiny cards, and what it means to trust the path that’s unfolding.

it’s a reminder that collaboration can be from being in aligned relationship, sharing wisdom, to be able to show up for each other with care.

healing

through grief

w/ linet mira

this conversation was first shared by calico culture strategies (formerly known as the unconscious bias project) and hosted by linet mira. it is an intimate interview between myself and linet, centering my work, my story, and my leadership as co-founder and ceo of BE-IMAGINATIVE, an organization rooted in art, culture, and storytelling, where grief becomes a portal for profound transformation and healing.

in this conversation, we explore how i was called into a larger purpose through lived experience, and how moving into my grief, rather than away from it, can become an opening for guidance and supreme imagination. we also reflect on the power of holding the both/and: honoring pain while cultivating beauty and possibility.

winners

circle

w/ awilda rivera

healing hearts and building community among survivors of gun violence

this conversation holds space for the work that i have been doing through BE-IMAGINATIVE, transforming lived experience into collective healing, and creating space for black and brown communities to remember their agency, imagination, and capacity to heal.

in this episode of inside the winner’s circle with awilda rivera, i reflect on how my journey led me to build healing-centered work rooted in storytelling, grief, and community care and how choosing to face pain can become a pathway to purpose.

this is a conversation about turning survival into service, and remembering that healing is not separate from leadership—it is leadership.