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Lieke Boot is the head of student welfare at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Lieke and I met a few years ago at the daycare our kids attended. After getting to know each other we met many times in the park, for long walks and long talks. A while ago I asked her if she wanted to speak on SALT and Lieke's answer was an immediate yes. However, it took two years until we set up the actual recording and when speaking with Lieke I realized why. Because now was the right time to speak.

This episode is about many things, it is raw and extremely honest. It addresses post-partum depression, intergenerational trauma, and the different forms of love. Lieke shares with us her journey of becoming a mama through sperm donation, and what single motherhood means to her. Against this background, we contest the notion that the romantic heterosexual couple is the highest form of love and that a woman’s life will be fulfilled if she gets married to a man and has children with him.

In doing so, we encounter unexpected openings, the meaning of boat journeys and unravel the impact of memories. Enjoy it wonderful people.

Host: Stella Saliari

At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

#memories #chemist #burnout #thenetherlands #amsterdam #mothers #postpartum #mentalhealth #spermdonor #selflove #singlemother #saltthepodcast #forgiveness #love #boats #journeys #depression #eatingdisorder #untoldstories #emiliaroig #lessonsinchemistry #healyourlife

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Rochelda Kemper is a 19-year old girl who is following her dreams. Everything in her life is about rest and relaxation. Rochelda grew up in a loving family with three younger sisters and is very close to her family and relatives. At a young age she was very quiet, felt things around her, captured energies, situations but she did not do anything with that. She thought it was nothing when you feel something that is not right.

In recent years, Rochelda has focused on her self-development, increased her self-awareness, and her life revolves around rest and self-care. Now she knows who she wants in her circle, how important relaxed energies are for her and has found a way to live in peace. In this podcast episode she shares her story from having several panic attacks a day and being a very passionate kickboxer to healing herself and opening her own massage business called refreshment.

It has been a pleasure meeting Rochelda who is from a younger generation than mine, one that demands and does not negotiate that much. Talking to her made me happy, gave me hope because for me it has been a painful process to find rest, however, I have embraced the journey and understood that my achievements are not my worth and that by resting I revolt against the system that measures us on our productiveness. Thank you Rochelda.

This is also the last episode before the summer break. Salt will be back in September.

Host: Stella Saliari

At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

#saltthepodcast #rest #relaxation #peace #massage #kickboxing #selfcare #selflove #boundaries

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J.A.D.E full name Joanna is a 23 year old multifunctional artist from Amsterdam. She makes music, creates beats, sings, creates drawings, works as a model and studies at the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht in the Netherlands to be a music industry professional.

Regarding her music Joanna feels mostly at home in NEO soul. She started her music career in 2018 and her songs talk about trauma, heartbreaks, and things we experience as people, things that are part of our journeys. Joanna finds it important to share feelings, talk about our challenges, stories and connect through those with each other.

In this beautiful conversation on a Friday evening, that felt like a gathering and very intimate chat with a wonderful soul, we speak about music and beats as a faithful companion in Joanna's life, music and modeling as a means towards healing Joanna's inner child, we speak about our bodies and how they remember trauma and injustices. Joanna shares her spiritual practices with us. We discuss art as healing, the importance of creating, community, love languages, our mothers, pictures as a means of representation and listen to one of Joanna's songs. Enjoy hanging out with us beautiful people😍

Host: Stella Saliari

At Salt the Podcast

my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

#healingjourney #diversity #diversityandinclusion #diversitymatters #innerchild #amsterdam #artist #beats #blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic #blackwomen #multifunctional #creating #spirituality #representation #representationmatters #equitymatters #saltthepodcast #intersectionality #antiracism

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Nicolette Lazarus describes herself as a mid-life woman, with a 100% record of getting through bad days. This is something she thinks we all should remind ourselves of when facing those challenges we all experience that we never think we'll get through. Originally from the UK, she has lived in Amsterdam with her partner for over 16 years and now considers it to be her home. As a people person, she’s passionate about genuine human connection and exploring the things that we often collectively experience as women, and yet don’t talk about.

This has led to her leaving her previous career and comfort zone, the world of advertising and communications, to focus on her passion, bringing women together in allyship, and positive support of each other, regardless of race, religion, or other forms of diversity. She created a community and platform which is called Womanship , based in her belief that women hold the key to making the world a better place for all.

In this episode Nicolette tells us her very own story by taking us on a journey through her life, emphasizing that we are many things, and that pigeonholes do not define us. Her story leads us towards the founding of Womanship and what happened before it, in between and now.

I hope you enjoy listening to Nicolette and her story because stories are what binds us together.

Host: Stella Saliari

At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

#amsterdam #london #blackhair #womanship #intersectionality #authenticity #invisiblewomen #databias #perimenopause #menopause #soundtracks #saltthepodcast #traveling #healing #impostersyndrome #carolinecriadoperez #miscarriages #openingup #noshame #collective #community #visbility #women #stories #personalnarratives #testimonials #oralhistories

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What is a memory that you have that had an impact on your life? is a question I was asked in episode 37 by Ina from indieslittlecrafts . Her question triggered something unexpected and as a result, I have been asking all my guests about their memory ever since. Because something happens when we unleash our untold stories, when we remember them, and share them. They lead to unexpected openings and gatherings, connections and breaking of silences.

This is both Salt's 50th episode and its 2nd anniversary episode. I am dedicating it to our memories, to those unexpected openings and to Audre Lorde who said: "I was going to die. Sooner or later. Whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me and your silences will not protect you. What are the words you do not yet have?

Host: Stella Saliari

At Salt the Podcast my guests and I contest and deconstruct narratives, and passionately recreate with the aim to change systems and perceptions. We want to elevate a generation that is feminist, antiracist and empathetic. Our conversations flow into each other and leave room for the unexpected. Salt is love, community, solidarity, a collective, healing, creating. It is intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a commitment.

#memories #astronomer #burnout #thenetherlands #amsterdam #mothers #unexpected #spiderweb #leaves #founderstories #memory #saltthepodcast #forgiveness #love #migrantstories #diasporic #Suriname #antisuperwoman #untoldstories #audrelorde #mayaangelou #indieslittlecrafts

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