Finding Your Creative Voice: Storytelling Through Comedy & Spirituality with Diarra Kilpatrick
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5 • 697 Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Today, Michael welcomes Diarra Kilpatrick. Diarra is an Emmy-nominated actress, writer, and producer. She created and stars in the hit mystery dramedy series, “Diarra From Detroit”. The first season landed rave reviews and a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. She also created and starred in “American Koko,” an ABC digital original series executive-produced by Viola Davis. She also appeared as a series regular on HBO's “Perry Mason” as Clara Drake, among other acting and writing credits. Diarra's first love is theater. Her one-woman show, “The Devil is Beating His Wife,” was nominated for an NAACP Theater Award for "Best Playwright," one of several award nods for her various theater roles. Diarra credits her dedicated spiritual life and practices as the foundation for her personal, professional, and creative lives.
Highlights from Diarra and Michael’s insightful conversation include:
-The premise and inspiration for her “Diarra From Detroit” series and how it evolved from an idea to reality
-The impact of Diarra’s transformative experience on her creativity and the ways she integrates her meditation, affirmation, and breathwork practices into her creative process and storytelling
-How growing up in Detroit shaped Diarra’s artistic voice and the role of her mother and grandmother in fostering her love for the arts
-Discussing the power of surrender, ancestral support, and deep knowing
-The grit and resilience needed to navigate the entertainment industry and the business side of Hollywood; the role of artists in shaping consciousness and culture; why Diarra encourages artists to trust their gifts and lean into abundance; and so much more!
Next, Michael leads a guided meditation with the intention of waking us up to our glorious nature.
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| 0:00.0 | there's a real knowing that I can do anything I put my mind to and that God will be right there with me and that my ancestors will be right there with me. It's not, it's not, I think that they'll show up. No, I know. Yeah, no, yeah. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. It's like a deep surrender. Yeah. But you're not just surrending to this void. |
| 0:22.2 | You're actually surrendering to the presence, |
| 0:24.3 | and you're surrendering to all the help that's around you, and it's real. |
| 0:28.9 | Peace and Rich's Blessings. |
| 0:30.2 | I am Michael B. Beck with the host of Take Back Your Mind. Listen, listen. Feel it, easy, easy, |
| 0:39.3 | deal it. |
| 0:40.3 | As we're lifted up, into the spiritual |
| 0:43.3 | Oveen, |
| 0:44.3 | easy, everyone, and welcome to take back your mind. |
| 1:06.3 | I am your host. |
| 1:07.8 | Michael Bebeckwith, the founder of the Agap International Spiritual Center. |
| 1:11.4 | And you know, for those of you who have been coming back on a weekly basis, thank you for doing that. |
| 1:16.3 | I get to talk to wonderful people every week, individuals who are shattering different paradigms, |
| 1:22.4 | extending themselves, becoming more of themselves, inspiring people, taking back their own mind and opening their own |
| 1:28.2 | heart. And I get to be with the Arakil Patrick today. Hey. Hey, Riv. Come on now. What's good? This is |
| 1:35.0 | her. I've been trying to hold it together, but this is like such a huge moment for me. Because I feel |
| 1:41.2 | like, I feel like I was just walking through the doors of Agape being like, oh, dear God, please help me. |
| 1:47.4 | Right. |
| 1:48.1 | And I'm like, it's just one of those moments where you're like, whoa, you've made some progress. |
| 1:52.5 | Like you have to like. |
| 1:53.4 | You've made a lot of progress. |
| 1:54.7 | Yeah. |
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