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I'm Jocelyn K. Gly, and this is Hurry Slowly.

Today I'm in conversation with Enchem Ndefo.

We have a chance to remake culture in every interaction.

Every conversation, every email, every text.

Every time we talk to ourselves, every like how we cook for ourselves.

I mean, everything you do has a chance to remake, every, like, how we cook for ourselves. I mean, everything you do has a chance

to remake, right? Enchem Endefo is the founder and president of Lumos Transforms and the

creator of the Resilience Toolkit, a model that promotes embodied self-awareness and self-regulation

in an ecologically sensitive framework and a social

justice context. Licensed as a nurse midwife, Nkem also has extensive postgraduate training

in complementary health modalities and emotional therapies. She brings an abundance of experience

as a clinician, an educator, a consultant, and a community

strategist to innovative programs that address stress and trauma and build resilience for

individuals, organizations, and communities.

Enkem is particularly interested in working alongside the people most impacted by violence and marginalization.

She's currently leading and embodied diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism initiative

for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.

In this conversation, we explore all of the wisdom she has to share from this fascinating well of experience.

We talk about the traumas and behavioral patterns that we carry in our bodies,

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