Latest Podcast Episode. The Candid Conversations Season 2 Episode 6-Troubadours and Teachers with special guest Rev Ananda Leeke.
In today's episode, I speak with my special guest and wonderful client Rev Ananda Leeke for the International Women's History month special. Throughout the month I will be interviewing some dynamic and centred creative women.
We talk about all things books, creativity, authors, and also:
⭐️What inspired Ananda to create her book, including many writers, such as ntozake shange, Maya Angelou, and bell hooks to Billie Holiday as one of her musical influences.
⭐️How Ananda starts her creative process which led her to creating three books.
⭐️How to show up and work on our 'mind drama' to enable us to create masterpieces.
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Again we go in, and this conversation is full of self-love gems grab your herbal tea and invite the love of energy into your space.
If you have a desire to write your own book this episode is a must!
About Ananda,
Ananda Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke discovered mindfulness, self-care, and wellness when her career as a lawyer, an investment banker, and a digital communications professional stressed her out, caused burnout, and did not produce the level of success she expected. Over the past 30 years, mindfulness, self-care, and wellness have helped Ananda navigate change, become resilient, overcome panic attacks, transform her relationship with technology and social media, and release her career expectations. As a result, she has been able to pursue her calling as an artist-in-residence at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts at Howard University Hospital and Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, an author, a speaker, a trainer, a mindfulness and yoga teacher, a digital wellness educator, a reiki and sound healing practitioner, a Thriving Mindfully Coach, and a Human Design Doula. Today, she coaches and trains high achievers and mission-driven companies, organizations, and communities on how to navigate change, to embrace self-care and digital wellness, to tap into creativity, become resilient, and to thrive mindfully.As the founder and Chief Mindfulness Officer of Ananda Leeke Consulting, she leads a wellness company that specializes in personal and professional development. She oversees the Thriving Mindfully Academy and Resource Network, an online learning platform and membership site. She also serves as a Human Design Doula, a legally ordained interfaith reverend, and hosts and produces the Thriving Mindfully Podcast. In addition, she creates artwork that promotes mindfulness, self-care, wellness, and resiliency. Her mixed media collages, wire sculptures, and paintings have been exhibited in the Washington DC metropolitan area, New York City, North Carolina, and Kentucky. Several of her paintings decorate the covers of her books, Love’s Troubadours, a yoga-inspired novel, and That Which Awakens Me, a mindful creativity memoir. Both books and her mindful technology memoir, Digital Sisterhood are available on Amazon. Currently, she is writing Thriving Mindfully as the REAL ME: A Memoir of Lipstick, Loving Kindness, Joy, and Everything in Between.
Ananadas website
anandaleeke.com/
www.instagram.com/anandaleeke/
Purchase Love's Troubadour on Amazon
www.amazon.com/Loves-Troubadours…One/dp/0595440819
Women we discussed
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ntozake-shange for coloured girls.
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Susan L Taylor
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Lessons in Living
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Iyanla Vanzant
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Tapping the power within
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We also spoke about Billy Holiday the Jazz Artist.
To book a consult to see if the Highly Capable Creative Programme for Creative Women is for you contact me here www.mjfontaine.co.uk
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