Collective Drift: Celebrating International Women, Culture, and Travel - (ep 10) What is wellness and how do I begin my wellness journey? An interview with wellness coach Nzingah Oniwosan

(ep 10) What is wellness and how do I begin my wellness journey? An interview with wellness coach Nzingah Oniwosan

06/15/20 • 35 min

Collective Drift: Celebrating International Women, Culture, and Travel

What is wellness and how do I begin my wellness journey? An interview with wellness coach Nzingah Oniwosan

What is wellness? How can women start their wellness journey during Covid-19? What is society’s outlook on wellness? Do western medicine and holistic wellness go together? How long will my wellness journey take? How can I remain consistent on my wellness journey?

“Make acceptable goals. Don’t try to climb Mount Kilimanjaro when you barely walk in your neighborhood!”

In this interview, we sat down with Nzingah Oniwosan, my wellness coach, and talked about various topics such as holistic wellness, tips on starting your wellness journey, Nzingah’s wellness journey, how she is learning more about Haitian wellness practices, her travel experiences, and her favorite wellness spots.

Nzingah is a holistic health consultant and alchemist under her brand “Yes Baby I Like it Raw”. She currently lives in South Florida and guides people on their wellness journey. In addition Nzingah also is a visual artist, a poet, and founder of a small business incubator in Haiti.

As a child, Nzingah was always fond of her Haitian culture. Her grandmother and parents did a great job of imbedding their knowledge and ways of her birth culture within her. Nzingah was taught to be unapologetic about who she was and the value of speaking Creole her native tongue. Her father and grandmother are both experts in Haitian herbs and this helped encourage Nzingah’s thirst for knowledge.

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So, what is a question Nzingah would ask other women?

“How are you loving yourself? Are you loving yourself like you’re loving everyone else?”

How does Nzingah define a woman?

“Sweet, sour,

Strong, vulnerable.

Made of stardust

And a little bit of heaven.

…we are complicated, I love it!”

Where to find Nzingah

https://www.yesbabyilikeitraw.com/?aff=7

https://www.instagram.com/yesbabyilikeitraw/

[email protected]

https://youtube.com/user/Nzingah

Where to find Erica and Collective Drift

www.collectivedrift.com

https://www.instagram.com/collectivedrift/

https://www.youtube.com/collectivedrift

Places mentioned in the interview

Ecuador: https://ecuador.travel/en/

Cap-Haitien: https://visithaiti.com/destinations/cap-haitien-city-guide/

Monterrey: https://www.visitmexico.com/en/destino/monterrey/

Florida beaches: https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/florida-beaches.html

Gumbo Limbo: https://www.gumbolimbo.org/

Bassin Bleu waterfall: https://visithaiti.com/things-to-do/bassin-bleu/

Citadelle Laferri: https://visithaiti.com/destinations/citadelle-laferriere/

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What is wellness and how do I begin my wellness journey? An interview with wellness coach Nzingah Oniwosan

“Make acceptable goals. Don’t try to climb Mount Kilimanjaro when you barely walk in your neighborhood!”

Continue reading https://www.collectivedrift.com/post/nzingah

So, what is a question Nzingah would ask other women?

“How are you loving yourself? Are you loving yourself like you’re loving everyone else?”

How does Nzingah define a woman?

“Sweet, sour,

Strong, vulnerable.

Made of stardust

And a little bit of heaven.

…we are complicated, I love it!”

Where to find Nzingah

https://www.yesbabyilikeitraw.com/?aff=7

https://www.instagram.com/yesbabyilikeitraw/

[email protected]

https://youtube.com/user/Nzingah

Where to find Erica and Collective Drift

www.collectivedrift.com

https://www.instagram.com/collectivedrift/

https://www.youtube.com/collectivedrift

Places mentioned in the interview

Ecuador: https://ecuador.travel/en/

Cap-Haitien: https://visithaiti.com/destinations/cap-haitien-city-guide/

Monterrey: https://www.visitmexico.com/en/destino/monterrey/

Florida beaches: https://www.visitflorida.com/en-us/florida-beaches.html

Gumbo Limbo: https://www.gumbolimbo.org/

Bassin Bleu waterfall: https://visithaiti.com/things-to-do/bassin-bleu/

Citadelle Laferri: https://visithaiti.com/destinations/citadelle-laferriere/

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(ep 9) What do girls need? With Thema Campbell, Founder & CEO of Girl Power Miami

What do girls need? With Thema Campbell, Founder & CEO of Girl Power Miami

What do girls need? What do girls need in light of COVID 19? What kind of support do girls need? How can you help girls right now? What type of encouragement do girls need? How can I support my daughter’s mental health? Do girls need male role models?

In this interview with Thema Campbell, Founder & CEO of Girl Power Miami she answers these questions and more. This episode is the second of a series of episodes that is sponsored by the Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA and will highlight the creative women business owners in their community.

Here are a few things that we discussed:

What Thema is passionate about She is passionate about giving the best of her. Praying, meditating, and being mindful of the people in her life. She emphasized that it's important to honor what your body needs, especially during this pandemic. So don’t beat yourself up if you have a lazy on the couch, watching tv all day, kind of day. But going back to mediation is something she goes back to “because it’s steady, it’s reliable, and you can see the benefits of it in your life”.

What the women in her life taught her Thema is from Georgia and had multiple women in her life that brought different things into her life. They taught her the importance of being physically active and how to cook. Most importantly, they taught her the importance of honesty. She learnt about the importance of touch from another friend.

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Mentioned in this episode:

The Little GreenHouse Grill https://www.lilgreenhousegrill.com/
Williams Park
The Black Archives Historic Lyric Theater https://www.bahlt.org/
Driving down 3rd avenue and looking at the trees
Live jazz music: Maryel Epps http://maryelepps.com/ & Nicole Henry http://www.nicolehenry.com/

Her question for women How do you think we as women can change this world to make it better for our children?

Thema’s definition of a woman A woman is the life source of the planet … We are the first teachers of men and women.

Get in contact with Thema and Girl Power Miami

https://www.girlpowerrocks.org/

[email protected]

https://www.instagram.com/girlpowermiami

https://www.facebook.com/girlpowermiami

https://www.girlpowerrocks.org/

Where to find Erica and Collective Drift:

https://www.instagram.com/collectivedrift/

https://www.facebook.com/collectivedrift

https://www.collectivedrift.com

https://www.youtube.com/collectivedrift

Southeast Overtown/Park West CRA
http://experienceovertown.com/
https://instagram.com/miamicra

The Collective Drift platform was created by Erica Knowles to celebrate all women, the beauty of their cultures, and international travel experiences. I believe that women possess magic, that gives them strength and grace to change the world.

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(ep 11) Love, travel and balance with Nicole Gates, owner of Lil Greenhouse Grill

(ep 11) Love, travel and balance with Nicole Gates, owner of Lil Greenhouse Grill

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I had such a fun conversation with Nicole Gates, co-owner of Lil Greenhouse Grill restaurant in the heart of Historic Overtown, Miami, FL. Just this January Oprah Winfrey recently visited Nicole’s restaurant and listed it as one of her favorite restaurants for Weight Watchers, so she must be doing something right.

Nicole is a proud Black woman, she has an amazing soul food restaurant, she is a daughter, a mom, a media executive, and has lived internationally as an army brat. In this conversation Nicole allowed me to get all up in her business. So we talked about everything including her love life, owning a restaurant, and travel.

Nicole talks about the process her and her son's father Karim Bryant went through to become owners of and keep Lil Greenhouse Grill. Yes, I said her father’s son, no they aren’t in a relationship anymore and yes, I did make sure to talk to her about that. So, you’ll hear how she’s managing that in the dating world.

Although marriage wasn’t in the cards for Nicole and Karim she has learned about love from her mother and step-father. Her mother taught her “if it doesn’t feel right then let it go”. But also through watching her parents' marriage she learned that true commitment, and the importance of making good decisions and sacrifices together are key to relationships.

This episode is sponsored by the Southeast Park West Overtown CRA. Lil Greenhouse Grill is a grantee of the CRA more info is available in their 2018 Annual Report: http://www.miamicra.com/seopwcra/pages/annual.html

Stay in touch with Nicole and Lil Greenhouse Grill

Lil Greenhouse Grill

1300 NW 3rd Ave Miami, FL 33136

(786) 277-3582

[email protected]

https://www.lilgreenhousegrill.com/

http://instagram.com/lilgreenhousegrill

https://www.instagram.com/nikkigeewiz/

Where to find Erica and Collective Drift:

https://www.collectivedrift.com

https://www.instagram.com/collectivedrift/

https://www.youtube.com/collectivedrift