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The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

Ep 194 ft. Ayana Gabrielle Lage: Fashion Blogging, Pregnancy, How to Stop Virtue Signaling, & How to Show Up for Black Lives Matter

The Balanced Blonde // Soul On Fire

Dear Media

Health & Fitness, Balancedblondespiritualitywellness

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Ayana Lage is a fashion, health, + lifestyle blogger out of Tampa, Florida — and you should absolutely read her fab XO, Ayana blog at ayanalage.com! She’s a phenomenal writer and she covers so many interesting and important topics, including why the hustle mentality is BS, how to talk to your children about race, issues with racism in the Christian church, and more. She’s an expecting mom and recently had a drive-through baby shower, her socially-distanced approach to staying safe while celebrating during these strange times.

Ayana is very open on her social media about everything from marriage to mental health to her experiences living with racism—she is deeply courageous + vulnerable, and thankfully we can all benefit from that! In this interview, she talks about virtue signaling, dealing with explosive exposure and social media growth, struggles with pregnancy, and so much more!

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0:00.0

Hello my friends, welcome back to the Balanced Fond podcast, Soul on Fire.

0:18.2

Today is a very special episode where we talk to Iona Lodge.

0:23.3

She is a fashion blogger, health and lifestyle blogger.

0:27.9

You may know her from Instagram at Iona Gabrielle Lodge.

0:33.0

She also has a blog called Exo Iona.

0:36.2

She's a writer.

0:37.5

She writes about tons of important topics and I found her not too long ago but have become

0:45.3

such a quick fan and friend and it's so fun to follow each other and chat with her now.

0:52.3

She is a mom to be.

0:55.1

In fact, when this episode comes out, she will be due with her baby so soon, so soon she's

1:01.5

due in August.

1:03.0

So follow her on Instagram for all the cute pregnancy content and soon to be mom content.

1:12.0

She writes about so many important topics such as why the hustle mentality is VS which I'm

1:19.5

such a fan of and totally agree with.

1:22.0

She also writes about how to talk to your children about race which is such an important topic.

1:27.4

She also did an IGTV on the same topic.

1:30.6

She has a lot of great IGTVs actually which is how I discovered her and now I'm just so

1:37.4

happy to be following along with her and everything that she shares.

1:41.0

She also had an amazing IGTV about racism in the Christian church which I found so interesting.

1:48.5

So I highly recommend watching that.

1:50.5

She's very open on her social media about everything from marriage to mental health to

1:57.4

experiencing racism to fashion and living in Tampa and so many other things.

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