How does being Black and a woman intersect with your sense of purpose or spiritual identity?
Do you resonate with the idea that Black women embody “a deliberate act of love for the world”? Why or why not?
What does “responding with clarity and care” look like in the face of racial trauma?
What do we risk or gain when we see Black womanhood as sacred instead of struggling?
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In this thought-provoking episode, Kate Pearl takes us on a journey where healing is not just personal—it's political. Healing from racial trauma isn't just about survival; it’s an act of resistance and revolution. Kate discusses how resting, raging, and resisting are all part of the same process that allows us to reclaim our joy, creativity, and collective care in the fight for freedom.
Kate delves into why healing, both individually and within our communities, matters in the fight against systemic oppression. She breaks down how healing makes space for the future, helps us reconnect to our roots, and empowers us to continue the work of resistance in ways that uplift us.
✨ You’ll hear about:
🔹 How healing creates space for joy and creativity in activism
🔹 Why rest is essential to sustainable resistance work
🔹 Rage as a catalyst for change and a form of self-preservation
🔹 How collective healing strengthens community bonds
🔹 The power of healing rituals in shaping resistance movements
🔹 Connecting with ancestors to fuel the revolution
🔹 How rage and rest are two sides of the same coin in our fight for justice
🔹 The role of radical self-care in decolonising our minds and bodies
🔹 Why Black joy is revolutionary and critical in healing
Plus, our founder, Adrianne, shares a mindfulness practice designed to help you reconnect with your power and energy, restoring your balance as you continue the fight for justice.
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – How Black Culture, Ancestry, and Rituals Heal and Ground Us 🌍✨
Co-Hosts: Adrianne, Black Women in Europe, and Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate takes us on a deep dive into how Black culture, ancestry, and rituals are not just vital for survival but integral to healing. From our roots to our rituals, our music to our meals, Kate explores how these powerful elements are the foundation of resilience, healing, and strength—especially for Black women.
Kate opens up about what it really means to heal from racial trauma: It’s not linear, it’s messy, it’s layered—and it's absolutely vital to ground ourselves in our culture and ancestry. In this episode, Kate discusses how reclaiming ancestral wisdom, leaning into rituals, and holding onto cultural practices helps us not only survive but thrive through the pain.
✨ You’ll hear about:
🔹 The power of cultural coping in overcoming racial trauma
🔹 How ancestral memory keeps us connected, even through hardship
🔹 The grounding rituals that help us stay rooted
🔹 Music as the soundtrack of survival and healing
🔹 Food, faith, and memory as anchors in tough times
🔹 What we pass down to future generations to preserve culture
🔹 White supremacy may have tried to take everything, but it couldn’t steal our spirit
🔹 Mindfulness and ancestral grounding as practices to reconnect with our roots
Plus, our founder Adrianne shares a powerful mindfulness practice that will help you reconnect, ground, and realign your energy with your ancestors.
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – Why Black Women Shouldn’t Have to Educate Everyone 💥
Co-Hosts: Adrianne, Mindfulness Activist | wellnessontheweekly.com & Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Truth-telling by: Kate PearlMindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate dismantles the exhausting and deeply ingrained expectation that Black women must always educate, explain, and endure. From content creation to day-to-day conversations, we’re too often expected to be unpaid educators, emotional fixers, and tireless listeners—and it’s time we call that out. 🛑
Drawing from lived experience and collective wisdom, Kate walks us through the emotional and spiritual cost of this burden—and how we reclaim our peace, power, and softness.
🔹 Why the myth of the “Strong Black Woman” is harmful
🔹 The toll this expectation takes on mental and physical health
🔹 How to lovingly set boundaries
🔹 What it means to rest, soften, and say “no more”
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne to help you breathe deep, reconnect, and reclaim your emotional energy.
“We don’t need to hold the world on our backs to prove our worth. Rest is resistance. Boundaries are love. And your softness is sacred.”#racialtrauma #mindfulness
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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In this powerful episode of Season of Healing Racial Trauma, we’re joined by Bree the Champagne Gal—media critic, cultural commentator, and truth-teller. Bree unpacks the British media’s long-standing treatment of Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, and how it reflects deeper issues of race, power, and protection in the UK press.
She breaks down:
Why the media’s "defense" of Meghan was never what it seemed
The patterns of coded language and dog whistles
How systemic racism operates even in so-called progressive outlets
What this all means for Black women navigating public life in Britain.
🎧 Whether you watched the royal interviews or just want to understand media bias in a new light, Bree brings the receipts—and the Champagne energy.
▶️ Watch Bree on TikTok
Bree on Meghan & the Media @breethechampagnegal
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#SeasonOfHealing #BlackWomenInEurope #BreeTheChampagneGal #MeghanMarkle #BritishMediaBias #RacialTraumaHealing #RepresentationMatters
TikTok Live Replay: Meghan Markle, the British Media & Why We’re Still Talking About It
📅 AFull Podcast epidose Air Date: August 7, 2025
👥 Guests
Bree the Champagne Gal (Guest)
Kate Pearl (cohost)
Adrianne (host, mindfulness activist + author)
🔊 Episode Summary
This episode is the replay of our powerful TikTok Live featuring Bree the Champagne Gal and Kate Pearl, where we took the conversation even deeper ahead of the August 7 episode drop.
Together, we unpacked:
The media’s complicated history with Meghan Markle
What “support” looked like — and why it wasn’t real
How British headlines weaponize language against Black women
The personal and public cost of stepping into the spotlight
Why we need to keep calling it what it is: racialized bias, not royal drama
🔥 This Live was so real, raw, and necessary, we’re sharing it here in full.
🎧 Tune in and decide for yourself: Did Meghan ever really stand a chance?
🔗 Related Links
Watch Bree on TikTok
Follow Bree the Champagne Gal on TikTok and Instagram
Subscribe to the podcast for more conversations centering Black women’s truths
💬 Join the conversation
#SeasonOfHealing #BlackWomenInEurope #BreeTheChampagneGal #KatePearl #MeghanMarkle #BritishMedia #HealingRacialTrauma #RoyalCoverageExposed
Two opportunities to Release Tension When Stress Builds Up:
🎙️ Season Of Healing Racial Trauma – Why Black Women Shouldn’t Have to Educate Everyone 💥Co-Hosts: Adrianne - Black Women in Europe @bwietoday
Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Host and Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast
In this powerful episode, Kate dismantles the exhausting and deeply ingrained expectation that Black women must always educate, explain, and endure. From content creation to day-to-day conversations, we’re too often expected to be unpaid educators, emotional fixers, and tireless listeners—and it’s time we call that out.
🛑Drawing from lived experience and collective wisdom, Kate walks us through the emotional and spiritual cost of this burden—and how we reclaim our peace, power, and softness.
🔹 Why the myth of the “Strong Black Woman” is harmful🔹 The toll this expectation takes on mental and physical health
🔹 How to lovingly set boundaries🔹 What it means to rest, soften, and say “no more”
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne to help you breathe deep, reconnect, and reclaim your emotional energy.
“We don’t need to hold the world on our backs to prove our worth. Rest is resistance. Boundaries are love. And your softness is sacred.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com and Adrianne's wellness books here.
Remember to subscribe to the Black Women In Europe podcast 🎙
Available everywhere you get your podcasts!
Two opportunities to Release Tension When Stress Builds Up:
🎙️ Season of Healing Racial Trauma: Breaking the Silence That Broke Us
Co-Host: Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Founder of the Black Women in Europe Podcast | blackwomenineurope.com
In this powerful follow-up episode, Kate explores the silence we’ve been taught to keep—and what it costs us.
Drawing from her own experiences of growing up in small-town Britain to navigating workplaces and family dynamics, this conversation peels back the layers of racial gaslighting, internal conflict, and the emotional weight of “keeping quiet to stay safe.”
🔹 Why silence became a survival strategy
🔹 The generational impact of “don’t talk about race”
🔹 How racial gaslighting chips away at your reality
🔹 What shifts when you finally name the truth
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Host and Founder, Adrianne, to help you ground and reclaim your voice.
“We can’t heal what we don’t name. But once we do? That’s where the healing starts.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
👩🏾💻 Learn more about starting a mindfulness practice with Adrianne at Linktr.eeRemember to subscribe to the Black Women In Europe podcast 🎙
Available everywhere you get your podcasts!
Two opportunities to Release Tension When Stress Builds Up:
🎙️ Season of Healing Racial Trauma: This Isn't Burnout; It's Racial Battle Fatigue
Co-Host: Kate Pearl @katepearlspearls | katepearl.com
Mindfulness by: Adrianne, Author of Wellness on the Weekly: 52 Fun Prompts for Mindfulness, Movement, and a Whole Lot Less Stress!
In this opening episode of the Black Women In Europe podcasts Season of Healing Racial Trauma, Kate dives deep into the reality of racial trauma—what racial trauma is, how it shows up in our bodies, our behaviours, and across generations.
From hypervigilance and code-switching to the myth of the "strong Black woman," this is about naming the pain so we can start healing it.
🔹 What racial trauma really is
🔹 How it affects the nervous system
🔹 The emotional cost of survival
🔹 Why naming it matters
✨ Plus, a short mindfulness practice from our Founder and Host, Adrianne, to support your healing journey.
“You are not broken. You are responding to a broken system.”
👩🏾💻 Learn more about Kate’s work at katepearl.com
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What better way to launch SEASON FIVE! than with the amazing Nkonye Oyewusi in England? Not only is she a mother, wife, systems engineer, and skincare formulator, but she is also a skincare formulator.
Listen in!
Tall Chic Naturals https://www.tallchichnaturals.com
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In light of the current post US election situation, it's time for Black expats to get their finances in order.
It's always a good idea, but now that people are feeling some kind of way, and for good reason, Lisa R. Mitchell is here with sound advice, as usual. Updated for 2025.
She loves to receive personal finance questions from expats via email!
#expatfinances #money2025
Find us where you are https://linktr.ee/blackwomenineurope
Sometimes to you have to walk away from organizations that don't serve you and make you sick. Listen to this conversation with Tonya from The Angry Black Women in Germany.
WARNING: This is a L.O.N.G. conversation.
Maybe take a pause when we take a pause. Be sure to check out The Angry Black Women website:
https://theangryblackwoman.de/
Be well.
#seasonofhealing #walkingaway #walkaway
When We All Vote Volunteer-Hosted Zoom Event
Americans living outside of the United States can vote in Federal elections back home.
Register, request your ballot, and download and submit a FWAB.
The Federal Emergency Write-in Absentee Ballot (FWAB) can be used if your ballot doesn't arrive on time.
You can submit an FAWB now and if your ballot does come in time to get it back to your State by their deadline (pay attention to deadlines) submit it and that will be counted instead of the FWAB.
Only use the postal service to submit your ballot if your State insists on it. Otherwise, use digital means.
NEWSWORTHY: Astronauts have been voting from space since 1997, the year the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing NASA employees to vote from space. David Wolf was the first American to vote from space while aboard the Mir Space station in 1997, the agency said, while NASA astronaut Kate Rubins voted from the International Space Station in the 2020 election. Read more. More tips in the podcast.
#Vote2024 #overseasvoters
Love TaShia Asanti podcast is a US-National Speaker on Race & Racism, Success Planner, Retreat Host, Author of 9 Books, Celebrated Journalist & Filmmaker, Award-winning Poet & Performing Artist, Book Doctor, and Priestess & Spiritual Teacher.
Pick up your copy of The Seer.
Pick up your copy of Any Heart Open.
Visit her website to learn how you can partake of her magic: http://www.officialtashiaasanti.com/
We're super excited to welcome former co-host, and Black Women in Europe Power Lister, Angela Fobbs to the podcast! She's here for our Season of Healing to talk about voting in the US elections from overseas.
Why is this part of our Season of Healing? Because we're broken, we American abroad, looking at the state of politics back home. And we can vote and make our voices heard.
Prep now, because it's election season, baby!
get your overseas ballot and registration done via Vote From Abroad.
Want to be a guest on the podcast? Complete the intake form and let's talk.
Find us where you are.
#bwie #uselections #votefromabroad #overseasvoters
Huntsville, AL-based Renee Lucas is a Life Coach, Yoga teacher, online Yoga studio owner, herbalist, and nutritionist. She's also written a book of poetry.
Find her online. @Tranquilyogastudio Inner Exploration, Outer Expression, and Holistic Expansion
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Liz Okoh is a Women Empowerment and Self-love Advocate through Art. She's London-based and if you can get there, she'll show you who you really are through her boudoir photography.
Visit her Women on The Frontlines exhibition: https://elizabethokoh.com/gallery/women-on-the-frontlines/
Visit Liz's social media: Instagram
Teejay, the person who inspired the reason for Liz's book.
Pick up Liz's novel, The Returnees.
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Janet M. Taylor is an organizing and project management expert with over 25 years of experience. Her experience ranges from managing multiple government contracts to helping a corporate client downsize from 10,000 square feet to less than 3,000. Janet has provided organizational transition recommendations and developed procedures for growth, eliminated wasteful expenditures, and increased workflow. This resulted in one firm’s recovery of over $55,000 of what would have been lost revenue. Clients praise Janet as they successfully pass yearly audits.
Janet has conducted corporate training (onsite and virtually) for Fortune 500 firms on topics that help employees be more organized and efficient on the job and in life. As a presenter, Janet has designed and facilitated workshops for IKEA, Teachers, and Administrators. She delivered presentations to groups of over 200 and achieved a 93% rating by all participants for content, delivery, and the ability to hold participants' attention. In 2021 Janet conducted over 100 virtual trainings with some over 200 in attendance and was a keynote at a Summit held in the United Kingdom.
At the suggestion of a mentor, Janet launched a podcast Got Clutter? Get Organized! with Janet. She has produced and hosted over 400 episodes with listeners in 36 countries. In 2021 the podcast ranked #1 in the Top 100 Indie Home & Garden Chart and ranked #1 in the Top 100 Home & Garden Chart. The podcast is also ranked the #2 organizing podcast and is streamed on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Google Podcasts to name a few. Visit her website:
janetmtaylor.com/
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#seasonofhealing #getorganized #reducestress #lowerstress #lifecoach
OK, yes, it's time for black Americans living in Europe to prepare to vote in the US elections.
In this episode, we take a look a voting in 2020, what's happening for black politicians aiming for high office, why we should vote from abroad, look at black Trump and Biden supporters, and Robert Kennedy Jr's Super Bowl ad.
Request your overseas ballot from https://fvap.gov or https://votefromabroad.org
Excerpts: Jon Stewart Tackles The Biden-Trump Rematch That Nobody Wants | The Daily Showhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ
Overseas voting in U.S. election could double as anxious Americans mail in their ballots October 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQym8PHSvH4
2024: Message from former US Ambassador to Canada, Bruce Heyman https://www.facebook.com/reel/3144839885647740
2024: African American participation in American politicshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eUheCgopoo
2024: Blacks for Trump' Rallying Against Indictmenthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30xJGwBY2s4
2024: What Black voters in South Carolina are saying about President Bidenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KttH5spKRn0 Robert Kennedy Jr Super Bowl commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXJJRjGVT4
Find us where you are. Keep up to date with our community via our newsletter. #vote2024 #overseasvoter #blackvoter
Twanna Hines helps us heal our intimate relationships and take stock of our sexual health. She keeps it real the entire time.
We tour her home and get practical tips for making moves abroad.
Visit Twanna's website to find out how to work with her on your relationships, or grow your business.
#sexpert #relationships #portugal #sexualhealth
🌿✨ "The Season of Healing" Podcast Series! ✨🌿 It's so fun to announce our theme for 2024: HEAL. We'll explore many aspects of wellness. They contribute to a harmonious life. We call the journey "The Season of Healing" podcast series.
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