Maybe I'm Not the Problem: Minaa B. @minaa_b

I Have ADHD Podcast

Kristen Carder

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Minaa B. is a licensed social worker, writer, and author of Owning Our Struggles. She is also the founder of Minaa B. Consulting, a mental health consulting practice that helps organizations develop psychological safety and promote mental health inclusivity.

In this heartfelt episode, Kristen and Minaa discuss:

Psychological safety in the workplace
Bullying
Systematic traumas that we face daily
The nuance of boundaries in relationships
Recognizing when you ARE the problem
Healing through community

Minaa is an expert in her field, serving on the Mental Health Advisory Committee for Wondermind, a mental fitness company co-founded by Selena Gomez. She has been featured in various media outlets, such as Red Table Talk, Peace of Mind With Taraji, BBC, and Essence. Minaa resides in New York City, and you can learn more about her by visiting www.minaab.com.

Minaa's book Owning Our Struggles can be Pre-Ordered HERE.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, what's up? This is Kristen Carter, and you're listening to a new biweekly series
0:13.3	on the I have ADHD podcast called Maybe I'm Not The Problem. This is a different type
0:19.0	of podcast where I have deep conversations with therapists, psychologists, and trauma-informed
0:24.8	coaches about how our pasts are upbringing, our parents, our teachers, our traumas, our
0:29.5	neurodivergencies, all of that have impacted us and how maybe, just maybe, we are not the
0:36.0	problem. Now, this is not ADHD-specific content, so if that's what you're looking for, just
0:41.6	click on one of the over 200 episodes of the I have ADHD podcast and enjoy. You can
0:48.4	expect this biweekly series of maybe I'm not the problem to be a casual, long form and
0:55.2	really vulnerable conversation with someone that I deeply respect. For detailed information
1:01.4	about today's guest, check out the episode show notes for their bio and links, and now let's
1:07.0	get started. Welcome, Mina. So glad that you're here with me. I just really appreciate
1:20.6	the time, the energy, the effort. I can't wait to do a deep dive. Tell me a little bit
1:26.6	about who you are. Okay, I am a licensed social worker and a mental health educator. I studied
1:34.6	social work at NYU. I received my master's in social work from May. I studied the clinical
1:39.9	track. So right after graduate school, I worked as a therapist for about nine years, and
1:46.6	then in 2020, I actually pivoted to doing more of the educating. So now I have my own mental
1:53.8	consulting practice where I work with organizations to help them develop psychological safety
1:59.0	and become mental health inclusive. So that is a big bulk of the work that I do. I'll
2:04.5	side of that. I'm also a writer. I have my first book debuting this summer, owning our
2:12.1	struggles, a class to healing and finding community in a broken world. And the core concept
2:18.2	of the book is teaching people how to heal from trauma through collective care and community
2:23.2	care. So that pretty much is my background. That's amazing. I am so interested in all of it.
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