Conjuring Up Courage

After participating in an amazing motivational interview training with Dana Sturtevant, the co-founder of Be Nourished and co-creator of Body Trust, I invited her on the podcast to share her wisdom. We talked about what qualities make for a good listener, what actually leads people to change, and why trying to fix people's problems is usually ineffective. You can find the show notes and a full transcript of this episode at https://shohrehdavoodi.com/64.

As a mixed-race woman myself, I loved chatting with the co-founders of Mixed in America, Meagan Kimberly Smith and Jazmine Jarvis. Mixed in America is an organization dedicated to empowering the mixed community and healing the mixed identity. We discussed belonging, code-switching, objectification, colorism, and more. You can find the show notes and a full transcript of this episode at https://shohrehdavoodi.com/63.