Hope & Hard Pills
Exploring practical insight on racial justice and social change.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 92
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Susanna Barkataki Reveals Yoga's Revolutionary Roots
Susanna Barkataki is a viral TEDx speaker, #1 bestselling author, and is currently pursuing her PhD in yoga philosophy.
She is the founder of Ignite Institute for yogic leadership and social change a…
Shahem Explains Why Mental Health is Holistic
Shahem "5hahem" Mclaurin is a Black, genderqueer, licensed social worker/therapist and influencer born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland who is currently stationed in Brooklyn, New York. With upwards…
Dayna Nuckolls Talks Political Astology & Why Revolution Begins In the Body
Dayna Lynn Nuckolls, The People’s Oracle, provides Divination for Liberation. She skillfully uses oracles with integrity (sidereal astrology, tarot, dream interpretation, and intuitive guidance) in s…
Tanmeet Sethi Talks the Secret Link Between Psychedelics & Liberation
Tanmeet Sethi, MD is a board-certified Integrative Family Medicine physician and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She has spent the past 25 years worki…
Joris Lechêne Talks the Surprising Connections Between Autism & Oppression
Joris Lechêne is a trainer in anti-racism, bias, and decoloniality with lived experience of autism and ADHD. As a Black, Queer, Neurodivergent individual, Joris draws on his unique perspective, pract…
Karen Hayes Reveals the Revolutionary Power of Storytelling
Producer/Director Karen Hayes holds an M.F.A. in Film and Television Production from UCLA. She was selected for the Tribeca All Access and American Film Institute’s (AFI) Directing Workshop for Women…
Dr. Sophia McClennon & Srdja Popovich Reveal the Revolutionary Power of Humor
Sophia A.McClennen is professor of international affairs and comparative literature at the Pennsylvania State University and the founding director of Penn State's Center for Global Studies. She has p…
Dr. Raquel Martin Talks Burnout & Black Mental Health
Dr. Raquel Martin, PhD is a dynamic force in Black Mental Health and Liberation Psychology. Standing confidently at the intersection of clinical psychology and social advocacy, Dr. Martin has earned …
Kalaya'an Mendoza Talks Protest Safety
Kalaya'an Mendoza is a Queer, Hard of Hearing, Filipino American human rights defender, street medic, and community safetyand mutual protection trainer. He is an award-winning facilitator of holistic…
Nikki Blak Talks Interrupting Racism
Nikki Blak is a writer, sociologist, and womanist, whose art interrogates social constructs and affirms Blackness. Her thought leadership and radical education work centers marginalized and oppressed…
Yolo Akili Explores the Liberating Connections Between Black Emotional & Mental Health
Yolo Akili Robinson (he/him/his) is a non binary award-winning writer, healing justice worker, yogi, and the founder and Executive Director of BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective). For…
The One About Mindfulness w/ Ashley & Shabazz Larkin
Ashley Larkin's superpower lies at the intersection of creative expression and healing. A psychotherapist focused on helping people remember their own agency to find healing and restore trust in thei…
The One About the Enneagram & Black Liberation w/ Chichi Agorom
Chichi Agorom is a lifelong student of what it means to be fully human. She is a Certified Enneagram Teacher & Practitioner, Associate Faculty with the Narrative Enneagram, and holds a Master of Arts…
The One About Black Feminism w/ EbonyJanice
EbonyJanice is the founder and CEO of The Free People Project and The EbonyJanice Project. She earned her Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Masters of Arts in Social Chan…
The One About Political Depression
Ann Cvetkovich is currently Professor in the Feminist Institute of Social Transformation at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She has been Ellen Clayton Garwood Centennial Professor of…
The One About Black Joy
As a writer and thought-leader, Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts offers those who read her work and hear her speak an authentic experience; an opportunity to explore the intersection of culture, identi…
The One About Black Mental Health
Dr. Chanda Reynolds recently obtained her doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology. Her areas of interest include the impact of transgenerational trauma on the Black community, the integration of fait…
The One About the Power of Mutual Aid
Dean Spade is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. Dean has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation and racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He’s the…
The One About the Hidden Link Between Black Wellness & Black Liberation
Rebeckah Price is a wellness advocate, yoga instructor (RYT 200), and meditation teacher, and wellness entrepreneur that draws on her wealth of knowledge of working in underserved, marginalized, raci…
The One Where You Start a Renaissance of Your Own
Rachel Cargle is an Akron, Ohio born writer, entrepreneur and philanthropic innovation. Her work and upcoming book with Penguin Random House, centers the reimagining of womanhood, solidarity and self…