Thriving while Black in systems designed for whiteness is hard. We must have a strong foundation supporting our sense of self, and we must engage in ongoing calibration, healing, and community care. Liberated Love Notes™ is a starting point for integrating self and community affirmations into your daily practices. Liberated Love Notes center the experiences of Black folks existing in white systems and speak to overcoming imposter syndrome, disrupting injected & internalized forms of oppression, embodying an abundance mindset and building a healthy racial identity. Tune in for a new episode every Monday wherever you listen to podcasts!
Brittany Janay is back this week with a reflection and something like a call to action: When we are gifted with the opportunity to mentor, sponsor and lead others, we must see it as divine stewardship, a love practice. We must unlearn colonial mindsets that impede our capacity to see those we lead as fully…
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Brittany Janay acknowledges the divinity of this past week and month, as some of us reflect on the resurrection of Jesus or participate in Ramadan. She processes and reflects on one of her life transitions and connects it to the spirit of Good Friday, a day of death and mourning but also a portal to…
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Brittany Janay welcomes us back to the second season of the Liberated Love Notes podcast and invites us into what she describes as her own season of transition. Brittany reintroduces herself, and asks us to reflect on the same: Who are you [beyond what you do]? Who are you from? How is that different from…
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Brittany Janay ends this season in a posture of gratitude and love, reminding us that we are somebody’s answered prayer and wildest dream. As the year comes to an end, we might get a bit distracted by all the things we didn’t accomplish or resolutions we might set for the year to come. Brittany reminds…
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Brittany Janay pulls three cards from the Liberated Love Notes deck this week that take her back to the origin story of Liberated Love Notes. She reflects on how her own personal experiences, learnings, unlearnings led her to create ,and she uses this to affirm the divine purpose of our experiences. In other words, whatever…
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Brittany Janay passes the mic this week and Claudia Shivers offers a note of loving accountability to lighter skinned Black women. There’s been a lot of discussion in the “mainstream” about colorism, and the insidious nature of white supremacy’s manifestation within community. In this week’s episode of Liberated Love Notes, Claudia speaks her truth as…
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This week, Brittany Janay offers a loving note of accountability, a remembering of the words of Audre Lorde, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” She encourages us to reflect on the ways in which we have internalized white supremacy and colonialism, and reproduced them in our own spaces and work. Brittany reminds…
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This week, Brittany Janay shares a special liberated love note and affirmation for Black folks working in ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ (DEI) or any change-making role. She revisits a few questions offered to her during a session she facilitated at The Forum on Workplace Inclusion: “Can DEI work truly heal the impact of colonialism and…
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Brittany Janay reminds us this week that our learning, our journey, our growing consciousness is a blessing and a gift. We must resist the urge to weaponize our “wokeness” as a tool to condemn others. In a culture that values perfectionism and getting it “RIGHT,” we must strive to prioritize community, love, growth and accountability. Likewise,…
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Brittany Janay kicks of this week with a loving reminder that we are a gifted people. We have inherited gifts that our people and world need. She reads a passage from a book she has referenced throughout this season on “The Black Helping Tradition,” and shares more on the work of Black scholars, ancestors Alexander…
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