Underneath the Sunbeams

Let’s clear the air with a loved film. This week, I’m joined by two people I adore, music industry professionals/artists Shadiyah Jai and Morgan Moxie as we return to the world of Disney and 

This mus…

What are side effects and symptoms of Codependency? This Week on UTSB, we're combing through my history with Codependency (to a point) as I identify, openly, some of its roots, with the help of memor…

This week’s episode of UTSB is an entryway into Spring, its complexities, and how it invites change. While appreciating the vibrant blooms, we’re also looking at the turmoil that had to take place in…

This week's episode is a "cross-over" with my web series, A little for the World, which is a series of virtual conversations between myself and fellow bipoc artists. This week, I got to speak to Shad…

How does age, roles, and diflecting prevent us from connecting to our older relatives on a deeper level? Recently, I re-watched "Seventeen Again" starring Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley, and I wa…

This week, I've had the pleasure to sit down with my friend, Jessica Hariprasad (She/her), an incredible visual artist, teacher, reader, and lover of the arts, to discuss our times spent with a reall…

This week, I'm exploring/recalling my times spent with five special books that have served as "lanterns" in my life so far this year; Feelings by Manjit Thapp, Speak by Tunde Oyeneyin, Finding Me by …

What do we do when the world feels like a heavy weight, larger than life, and intrusive? Where do we go to hear our thoughts? Where do we go to quiet them? If you are in a season of your life that fe…

Have you ever felt like you've been put in a box, put yourself in boxes to be understood, or find yourself constantly trying to dismantle other people's ideas of you? If so, sit down with Darrell as …

Underneath the Sunbeams returns for its second Season!!
 Slow down and feel the cleansing breeze on your skin. Better does not always mean more. Moving too quickly may hurt you more than the silence t…

Since the beginning of quarantine, Darrell's been writing, enveloping, and sending letters to himself in the mail. It did feel weird, and perhaps the mail man was confused, but it’s done a great deal…

In 2003, a cultural phenomenon had been introduced to the Disney world, inspiring kids everywhere to let our their inner performer (or rather inner Cheetah), and Darrell happened to be one of them. J…

Open up the box with Darrell, as he reads to you a decade's worth of an evolution of his deepest writing, beginning with an essay written at eleven years old, and ending with a poem from just three n…

What’s the mental & spiritual cost of giving too much of ourselves to work environments? This week, Darrell, Shadiyah Jai, and Morgan Moxie are discussing their experiences as young black creative pe…

The pace is picking up again, but please don't forget about you. Let's take a reflective moment to release.

Who could I be if I stepped out of my own way? What lives on the other side of the door that I've avoided my entire life, assuming that I couldn't possibly be good enough, just waiting for me to say …