#22: Embrace your Narrative, Take Ownership & Remain Patient: A Talk with Lindsey Day of CRWN Mag

Black Girl In Om

Lauren Ash

Women Of Color, Religion & Spirituality, Holistic, Women, Self-care, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Black Women, Manifestation, Health, Yoga, Mental Health, Self-love, Wellness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Black Girl In Om Founder Lauren Ash and Art Director Deun Ivory have a heart-to-heart with their friend Lindsey Day, co-founder of CRWN Magazine. In sharing her journey shaping this beautiful print magazine for black women, Lindsey gets real about the importance of black women’s representation in the editorial field, and shares how this representation contributes to our mental health and self-image. A must-listen for any aspiring or beginning creative entrepreneur, Lindsey offers tips on maintaining perspective, patience, and the urgency of financial sustainability. This conversation is a great prequel to the second issue of CRWN Mag which focuses on Self-Love and features a cover story on Lauren, Deun, and BGIO sisterbrand Lifestyle with Ivory + Ash. Be inspired by all three women’s insights on sisterhood, the creative process, and creating a necessary project or space for marginalized people.

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0:00.0	Black Girl Nome creates space for women of color to breathe easy. We promote holistic wellness and inner beauty for women of color.
0:07.0	We encourage self-care, self-love, and self-empowerment for communities of color.
0:11.0	This is Lauren Ash and Dionne Ivory and thanks so much for listening to our
0:15.6	podcast. Oh, We are so excited about today's guests that we're just gonna skip our little back and forth at the beginning like y'all know how we like to do.
0:45.7	Right, Dion? Yes, that cackle.
0:47.7	It's outrageous. But it's because this person that we're speaking with in the platform that she represents is just so amazing.
0:56.0	Absolutely.
0:57.0	So we're chatting with Lindsay Day of Crown magazine.
0:59.5	If you are unfamiliar, Crown Mag is dope. It is one of the most beautiful print publications.
1:05.4	Oh my God, yes.
1:06.4	We're also on the cover of the next issue.
1:10.4	I know which I'm so excited about and their main you know mission ethos is that
1:16.7	they exist to create a progressive dialogue around natural hair and the women who
1:20.3	wear it they are all about you know beyond what's just trendy and
1:25.1	and popular but they really want to address black women, our issues, our
1:29.6	narratives. Exactly so without it to, Lindsay Day.
1:34.0	Hello, hello, thanks for having me ladies.
1:37.0	Thank you for joining us today.
1:39.0	I feel so happy.
1:41.0	You're so happy.
1:42.0	You're dope. so happy. I should you're so sweet.
1:45.0	I love you guys.
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