Checking In w/ Ashley McGirt-Adair
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:17.3 | I am thrilled today for this episode to have someone who is dedicated and has just been making such great strides in the Washington State area. |
| 0:29.7 | She is a therapist and she is also the founder of the Therapy Fund Foundation. |
| 0:36.7 | So I encourage you just to keep listening for this episode coming up next on Checking |
| 0:43.7 | In with Michelle Williams. |
| 0:47.5 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:48.9 | Welcome to Checking in. |
| 0:51.5 | Okay, I'm excited because y'all know I've been doing lots of solo episodes, |
| 0:55.0 | which are great. But when I bring somebody in in the chat with family, you know they are doing |
| 1:02.6 | something and I believe that they have something incredible to share it. I am so glad, y'all. |
| 1:10.5 | Seattle's own. She is a licensed therapist, a TEDx |
| 1:14.5 | speaker, founder of the Therapy Fund Foundation, which is a nonprofit, dedicated to eliminating |
| 1:20.9 | mental health stigma and being a bridge to getting mental health care in black communities. |
| 1:29.8 | She's also got a new book coming out, The Cost of Healing and Silence, Navigating Racial Trauma, |
| 1:34.6 | and The Call for Culturally Responsive Care. |
| 1:37.9 | Y'all give it up, again, Seattle's own, Ashley McGirt Adair. |
| 1:42.1 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:44.1 | I'm truly, truly, truly, truly humbled and |
| 1:46.0 | honored to be here with you, of all people. Girl, yes, anytime. We have been checking in for five |
| 1:54.3 | years on the Black Effect Podcast Network, and I bring in some of the best of the best in mental health. And we know that you |
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