75 | Wellness Beyond the Physical: Creating Spiritual, Emotional, and Social Change with Maryam Ajayi
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She's So Lucky
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Half healer, half businesswoman Maryam Ajayi is both an Energy Healer who practices the Akashic Records, Breathwork and Reiki, and an Entrepreneur, who is the founder of Dive in Well, which creates space, community, conversations, and change for a more diverse and equitable wellness industry through both on and offline experiences. Based in LA, she is passionate about de-stigmatizing the wellness industry, advocating for inclusive spaces for marginalized communities, and using her voice to empower and uplift others around the world.
In this episode, we talk about …
- Maryam’s backstory and how she came to space she is in
- Spirituality, Spiritual Practices, and Self-Awareness
- Understanding the perspective of others
- Mental, spiritual, physical, and social wellness
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Tweetable Quotes from Maryam Ajayi:
“The bigger you shine your light, the bigger your shadow is.”
“Why do we as Black women have to be more self-aware than others?”
“Being held accountable is an opportunity to evolve as a human.”
“Start learning who your well ancestors are and tap into them.”
“How could you not be changed when people come and speak their truth, you think about the ideas around it, and you know you have the power in the room to affect change?”
“We are going to reach a peak where we can’t ignore the diversity problem in wellness anymore.”
“Slowing down allows spirit to move through me.”
“Support me by supporting yourself.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Balance Black Girl, a podcast dedicated to mental, physical and emotional health from the black woman's perspective. |
| 0:13.9 | Tune in to hear from black woman health and wellness experts |
| 0:17.1 | giving the approachable advice you need |
| 0:19.2 | to help you feel your best. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm your host, Lestrandra Alfred. Let's dive in. |
| 0:25.0 | Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of Balance Black Girl Podcast. |
| 0:31.0 | I am your host, Les, and I am honored to be sharing this space with you. |
| 0:37.0 | So at the time that I'm releasing this episode, we are heading towards the middle of September 2020 and this time of year is |
| 0:48.7 | usually a time of year that actually resonates more with me in terms of goals and intention setting than January of each |
| 0:57.2 | year. I don't know if that is just conditioning around the school system, having been a student for so long, and having that kind of new |
| 1:05.6 | school year energy, if it's the shift to seasons and to fall. |
| 1:09.8 | I'm someone who also has a late summer birthday, so this time of year I'm also thinking about |
| 1:13.9 | kind of the upcoming year around my my solar return that recently passed but this time of |
| 1:21.2 | year is usually when I do my intention setting that tends to |
| 1:24.7 | resonate more with me than the beginning of the year. This year obviously has |
| 1:29.8 | been an experience in and of itself and I've been thinking a lot about the |
| 1:35.7 | intentions that I want to set in this season particularly when we think about |
| 1:40.9 | this season of fall and what normally happens during this |
| 1:44.6 | season is when we usually plant the seeds plant the seeds for what we want to |
| 1:49.2 | harvest right that's what's happening in nature that's what's happening on farms with our food. |
| 1:54.7 | Seeds right now are being planted for what we want to harvest later on. |
| 1:58.5 | And so this year, instead of thinking so much about what goals I want to set or what I want to achieve or what |
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