Life, I Swear
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Life, I Swear
Hosted by Chloe Dulce Louvouezo, Life, I Swear shares reflections from Black women about trials in their lives that have helped them heal, connect and process. A continuation of her published book, Chloe shares conversations and personal prose centered on personal stories that offer insights told th...
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The Aquarian Entrepreneur featuring Jas Moon
Jas Moon is an Aquarian Entrepreneur and champions others to be too—to embed practices that support the holistic wellbeing of themselves & their custo...
The Body, Black Imagination, and Genius featuring Carmen Harris
This week I welcome Carmen Harris into conversation, a visionary, healer, and co-founder of Two Inches Beyond Black. This episode is an offering, a me...
Love, Care, and Intersections featuring DaTiana Guerrero
In this episode, we have DaTiana Guerrero, a doula and care consultant. We talk postpartum and the recurring familiarity that arises in life in differ...
Freedom, Liberation, and Afro-Futurism featuring Imani Samuels and LaTonia Cokely
Imani is the founder of HURU, which creates sacred spaces for vast experiences that foster emotional well-being and wholeness. LaTonia is the founder...
Grief Is Love featuring Marisa Renee Lee, Author, Grief Is Love
In this episode, we have Marisa Renee Lee, author of Grief is Love. We unpack grief, moving away from the limited definition society has of it to the...
Season VI Opening: One Year with Host and Author Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
We are back! After a summer and fall hiatus, we are back with season SIX. Chloe starts this season with lessons on discernment, a gift of community, a...
Season V Closing: The Bonfire, I Deserve, Community Questions
Chloe closes season five with three questions for listeners.
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Sisterhood, Vulnerability and Second Chances featuring Kenda Fields
In this episode, Chloe speaks to Kenda Fields, content strategist, about the power of second changes, her history in sisterhood, and the mysteries, di...
We Are The Ones: Community Care, Excess and Access featuring Hannah Tall, The Loveland Foundation
I chat with Hannah Tall, Director of Programs at The Loveland Foundation. Hannah begins by sharing the excess of love and the access to love that she...
Poetry, Vulnerability, and Levels featuring Lyn Patterson, Poet
I chat with Lyn Patterson, poet and artist, about her life story. We chat about overcoming trauma through poetry, shifting dynamics of family, accepti...
Black Masculinity and Black Girlhood featuring Omó Pastor, Photographer
In this episode, Chloe speaks with Omó Pastor, writer, photographer and filmmaker who uses these artistic mediums to heal, to empower and to express t...
Telling the Story of the Story featuring Adriana Parrish, Healer
Chloe speaks with her best friend Adriana Parrish about the experience of telling her story for the first time. Adriana was a contributor to the Life,...
Loving and Leaving New York, featuring Renae Bluitt, Filmmaker and Creator, She Did That
In this episode, I chat with Renae Bluitt, filmmaker and advocate for Black women entrepreneur’s narratives, and Creator and Executive Producer of the...
The Sex Lives of African Women featuring Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah and Salem Afangideh
Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, Ghanaian feminist activist, award-winning blogger, and author sits down with Salem Afangideh, lawyer, consultant and sexuality...
Truth, Light, and No Blueprints featuring Brandie Freely, founder of Lumin Magazine
In this second episode, I have with me Brandie Freely, founder of LUMIN Magazine and The Escapism Retreat. We talk about light—how we follow it, how t...
Season Opening: Transformation and Perspective
Welcome to season five of the Life, I Swear podcast! In this episode, Chloe starts the season with a few words of her own on this journey, this season...
A More Perfect Union: To Be Black, Woman and American featuring Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Poet
Teri Ellen Cross Davis is a phenomenal poet and author of A More Perfect Union (Ohio State University Press, 2021) and Haint (Gival Press, 2016). She...
Authentic Voices: Because Our Voices Matter featuring Natalie Obando, President, Women’s National Book Association (WNBA)
Natalie Obando, president of the Women’s National Book Association, talks about the organization’s Authentic Voices program, which introduces women wr...
Conditions of a Creative: Stop, Start, Listen featuring Courtney Phillips, Creator, GumboMedia
Courtney Phillips, co-founder of Gumbo Media and Gumbo Fit chats about her journey to creative entrepreneurship, how she’s encouraging Black people to...
Sensuality and Sexuality: Feminism, Religion and Mental Wellness featuring Brianne Patrice, Sensuality Doula
Brianne Patrice breaks down for us how she sees sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality mastering their own lane but also overlapping--and when they d...
A Love Letter to Ancestors: Writing, Motherhood and Burt Bridges featuring Cassandra Lane, Author and Editor
In this episode, Cassandra Lane shares the journey of her book and the truths she’s discovered in the process, including how her intentional parenting...
Resistance in Bloom: Black Bodies, Freedom and Representation featuring Aqueene Wilson, Creator of Nene Creates
In this episode, Aqueene Wilson shares her journey of migrating from the Caribbean to the Netherlands, the transition from Black to white spaces, how...
Self-Healing: Emotions, White Spaces, and No Graduation featuring Yasmine Cheyenne, Teacher and Mental Health Advocate
Yasmine Cheyenne talks about racism in some predominately white healing spaces, her previous work in the military, and how all of that has led her to...
Restorative Healing: Traditional Medicine, Alternatives, and the Diaspora featuring Dr. Leslie Nwoke, CEO, HeartWork EQ
In this episode, Dr. Leslie Nwoke talks about the gap between understanding how to live more intentionally in theory vs in practice and how to close i...
Season IV Begins: Abundance, Wisdom and Worry featuring Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
An intro to the fourth season, on abundance mindset and learning from our shared wisdom while managing our worry.
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Parting Words: Loss and Gain, Podcast Therapy and Book Things with Host Chloe Dulce Louvouezo
Season three finale with finals words from Life, I Swear host, Chloe Dulce Louvouezo {Pre-order a copy of Life, I Swear: Intimate Stories from Black W...
Art Therapy: Autism, Connection, and How Far We Have Come featuring Morgan Harper Nichols, Artist
In this episode, Morgan Harper Nichols shares how for years she used art and writing to cope with her journey of unknowingly living with Autism for mu...
Decolonizing Sexuality: Autonomy, Boundaries and Pleasure featuring Salem Afangideh, Lawyer
Salem Afangideh, a lawyer and sexual anthropologist, shares her experience navigating sexuality as a Nigerian-American and the intersection of spiritu...
Seeing Our Mothers: Expectations, Let Downs and Forgiveness featuring Shakira Hill Taylor, Author
We talk about the connections we have with our mothers, despite the nature of our relationships with them; the decision to love from afar; and what fo...
Redefining Endings: Divorce, Pivots, and Self-Trust featuring Christine Platt, Afrominimalist
In this episode, we talk about our right to tell our stories of love endings, the importance of understanding our intentions and expectations for marr...
Choosing Joy Through Recovery featuring Dr. Kristian Edwards, Founder, BLK + GRN
After a near-fatal car accident, Dr. Kristan Edwards shares how her relationship with self has deepened and how she now thinks about motherhood, sacri...
The Black Woman’s Happiness Project featuring Imani Joye Sanders, founder HURU
Imani Joye Sanders is founder of HURU, a restorative, sacred space in DC that offers a thoughtful experience curated to harvest clarity, discovery and...
Back to My Motherland, Back to My Mother featuring Doriana Diaz and Eniafe Isis
Doriana Diaz, writer and creator of The Diaz Collection, shares a reading from her book, Mami Calls Me Gabriella, and talks about her trip to Puerto R...
Troublemaking: Fearlessness, Orikis and Claiming Our Space featuring Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Author
Luvvie introduces her new book, The Professional Troublemaker. We also talk about fearlessness, the work it takes to get back to ourselves, what it me...
Intimacy: Desirability, Love and Discovery featuring Simi Muhumuza
Simi Muhumuza (of Simi Moonlight) talks about the desirability training we receive as a young girls, what intimacy and discovery can look like in rela...
Partnership in Grief and Radical Gentleness ft. Felicia Gangloff-Bailey, Mother and Ed Psychologist
Felicia and I talk about how partnership supported her grief, how she herself has grown since her daughter’s double transition, and what radical gentl...
Season Three Begins: Love in Our Words, Voices of Listeners
Happy Valentine’s Day! Season 3 kick-off with a compilation of women who share how they define love and show up for it.
2020: Pandemic Resilience, Possibility and a Special Announcement featuring Danasia Fantastic
A 2020 wrap up with takeaways by Danasia Fantastic, creator of The Urban Realist, plus some special news about what’s ahead for Life, I Swear in 2021.
Duality: Bad Girl, Good Human featuring Orixa
Orixa, founder of Bad Girl, Good Human joins me to talk about giving women permission to embrace their dualities, as well as grief, heartbreak and the...
Global Cultural Identity: Marrakech, Ancestors and Aspiration featuring Meryanne Loum-Martin
In this episode Meryanne Loum-Martin, owner of the Marrakech luxury hotel Jnane Tamsna, shares her journey of taking a chance in a land and a dream un...