Checking In w/ Glo Atanmo
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Glo go deep while still bringing us a little laughter as they discuss the burden of black trauma, explaining your pain to non-black friends, being called to do something you’re not “qualified” to do, and the importance of allowing yourself to feel anger and frustration. CHECK IN to this episode for a reminder to take care of yourself, so you can pour into others from a place of wholeness.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:27.0 | The past few episodes I have been checking in with folks who seem to have been in some interesting transitions. My next guest is no stranger to transition. She's well known as a |
| 0:34.2 | travel blogger who has traveled to 80 countries, six different continents, |
| 0:40.8 | and she was willing to give it all up. |
| 0:44.1 | This episode is going to encourage people to take leaps of faith, to believe in yourself, |
| 0:51.6 | and how to do something in your passion with your passion. |
| 0:55.7 | I'm excited for you guys to check this episode out. |
| 1:07.1 | Listen, you guys, today's episode is so exciting. I didn't want every episode to be of people that I don't know or have relationship with. So I'm excited on this week's episode. This is someone who has come into my life. And when we get together, it is so much fun. And there are a few times when we've gotten together. |
| 1:29.3 | And I've said, we should have recorded this. |
| 1:32.3 | It's horrible that we are now in a world where we're saying, |
| 1:36.0 | oh my gosh, you should have captured this. |
| 1:38.1 | This is tweetable. |
| 1:39.3 | This is IG worthy. |
| 1:40.9 | Except why can't this just be a personal moment between us? |
| 1:45.0 | Everything is now, oh, we should record this. |
| 1:48.4 | I guess because to let people in on our lives and to give people a little bit of us. |
| 1:54.3 | And so I'm excited because my next guest, Glow Attenmo, is someone that is so inspiring to me. I follow her on Instagram at Glow |
| 2:06.2 | Graphics, and she is beyond graphics, honey. She is an educator. She is a traveler, a blogger, |
| 2:15.2 | an influencer, and I don't mean influencer as an, oh my God, look at my new nail |
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