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In this episode, Dr. Abigail sits down with Dr. Akeia Keith for a powerful conversation on conflict resolution, emotional literacy, youth mentorship, body boundaries, and the role adults play in creating safe space for young people.

Dr. Akeia shares how her own lived experience led her into this work, why anger is often only the visible layer of something deeper, and how unresolved internal conflict can spill into relationships, decision-making, self-advocacy, and even the body itself. Together, they unpack what it means to truly listen beyond words, how to cultivate judgment-free dialogue with youth, and why sexuality and body conversations must begin sooner—and more intentionally—than many adults realize.

They also discuss the upcoming CHOICES Youth and Parent Conference, a one-day live experience centered on conflict resolution, emotional literacy, communication, and mental health in youth and family systems.

About the Guest

Dr. Akeia Keith is a dynamic conflict resolution specialist, speaker, and founder dedicated to helping youth, parents, and communities communicate with clarity and confidence. Through her signature Pause, Breathe, Check-In approach, she equips individuals with practical tools to navigate tough conversations and build stronger relationships. Known for her bold, relatable, and transformative style, Dr. Keith brings real solutions to real-life challenges.

In This Episode

• Dr. Akeia’s favorite song and why “one of one” matters
• Why “lucky charm” became part of the coochie conversation
• How Dr. Akeia’s work with youth and families evolved into conflict resolution
• The real-life difference between inner conflict and outer conflict
• Why active listening requires listening beyond words
• How anger can hide fear, hurt, disappointment, and unmet needs
• How emotional conflict can show up in the body
• Why adults need to normalize conversations about boundaries, sexuality, and safety
• What a real safe space requires: dialogue, no judgment, validation, and intention

Resources Mentioned

• CHOICES Youth and Parent Conference
  May 30, 2026
  9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
  McDonough, Georgia
• Instagram: @Akeia_Keith
• Email: info@akeiakeith.com
• Song: “Bigger Things” by China Styles
• Book: Age of Opportunity by Lawrence Steinberg - video about it

Connect with Dr. Akeia Keith

Instagram: @Akeia_Keith
Email: info@akeiakeith.com

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In this episode, Dr. Abigail is joined by Dr. Sarah Jefferis, a poet, writing coach, yoga teacher, and founder of Write.Now. for a conversation on writing as healing, grounding through the pelvis and breath, the relationship between trauma and embodiment, and the stories carried in coochie, blood, and voice.

Dr. Sarah shares practical wisdom on how writing blocks live in the body, why returning to the body can feel terrifying for survivors, and how yoga, breathwork, mirror work, community, and writing can help us stop speaking violence to ourselves.

The episode also features a reading of “Eastern Seaboard” from her forthcoming poetry collection Lucky to Have You, along with an excerpt from “Closed Mouth Don’t Get Fed,” a published essay reflecting on fibroids, bleeding, care, and what it means to ask for support.

Topics Covered

• Grounding through the pelvis, coochie, and breath
• Writing anxiety and embodied creative practice
• Trauma and returning to the body
• Jaw tension, vocal cords, and vaginal lips
• Yoga and writing as healing modalities
• Self-compassion and body relationship repair
• Fibroids, menstrual blood, and body shame
• Poetry as testimony and transformation

Connect with Dr. Sarah Jefferis + Resources Mentioned in this episode

• Website:
  • https://sarahjefferis.com
• Instagram: @dr.jefferis.write.now
  • https://www.instagram.com/dr.jefferis.write.now/?hl=en
• Pre-Order Lucky to Have You by Dr. Sarah Jefferis
  • https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/lucky-to-have-you-by-dr-sarah-jefferis/
• Poem “Eastern Seaboard” by Dr. Sarah Jefferis
• Essay “Closed Mouth Don’t Get Fed” published in River’s Edge Journal
• Mat to Pen yoga + writing workshop
• Write.Now.
  

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What happens when a woman spends years swallowing her truth, suppressing her emotions, and carrying everyone else?

In this episode of Coochie Business® Podcast, Dr. Abigail sits down with Dee Manuel Cloud for a powerful, layered conversation about authenticity, trauma, stress, and the real cost of self-abandonment.

Dee shares how childhood wounds, people-pleasing, secrecy, and living out of alignment shaped her life and health. Together, she and Dr. Abigail explore the connection between suppressed emotion and disease, the role of chronic stress in Black women’s health, and what it means to stop abandoning yourself in the name of being “strong.”

This conversation moves through family history, breast cancer, intergenerational trauma, epigenetics, spirituality, communication, boundaries, and the healing power of telling the truth.

They also talk about:

• why stress is not just uncomfortable, but potentially deadly
• how authenticity can function like medicine
• why Black women must stop overperforming to their own detriment
• what it looks like to choose peace on purpose
• how pleasure, oxytocin, and self-expression may be part of the healing too

If you have ever felt unseen, unheard, overextended, or afraid to say what you really need, this episode is for you.

Resources mentioned in the episode

These are the cleanest ones to include.

Dee Manuel Cloud (www.deemanuelcloud.com)

• Complimentary POP (Peace on Purpose) Session booking link provided by Dee https://thriveonpurpose.as.me/POPSession
• Social handle: @iamdeemanuelcloud on Instagram, where she describes herself as a two-time breast cancer survivor and empowerment coach.

Books

• When the Body Says No by Dr. Gabor Maté — official book page describes it as an exploration of how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge. https://drgabormate.com/book/when-the-body-says-no/
• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins — official page frames it as a guide to stop managing other people’s opinions, drama, and expectations so you can focus on your own life. https://www.melrobbins.com/book/the-let-them-theory/
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Center of the Clock teaching/video by Sean Smith https://youtu.be/XBS-S2RQuyQ?si=yzuCswDsPTWzpV6K

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What happens when high achievement comes at the expense of your body, your peace, and your sense of self?

In this Women’s History Month conversation, Dr. Abigail sits down with physician, trauma-informed coach, and speaker Dr. Janet Little for an honest, layered discussion about burnout, chronic stress, and the hidden toll of constantly pushing through.

Together, they explore how burnout can show up subtly at first, then loudly through exhaustion, numbing, anxiety, hormone imbalance, and disconnection from the body. Dr. Jan shares her own story of burnout in medicine, what finally forced her to stop, and how that journey transformed the way she now supports others through coaching, resilience work, and deep personal restoration.

This conversation also dives into the science of stress and the nervous system, the ways women are conditioned to ignore their body’s signals, the impact of chronic stress on hormones and reproductive health, and why burnout recovery must address more than symptoms alone. Along the way, Dr. Abigail and Dr. Jan reflect on intuition, stillness, spiritual wisdom, and the kind of dignified conversation that can begin to bring a woman back to herself.

This episode is for the woman who looks capable on the outside but feels depleted on the inside. The one who keeps going, keeps carrying, keeps performing—and knows, somewhere deep down, that something has to change.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Dr. Jan’s personal experience with burnout in medicine
• The hidden cost of stress for high-achieving women
• How chronic stress affects hormones, the nervous system, and reproductive health
• The difference between coaching, therapy, and clinical care
• Why women often ignore or override their body’s signals
• Science, spirituality, and the journey back to wholeness
• Why burnout is not weakness, but information

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Website: drjanetlittle.com
Instagram / LinkedIn / Facebook: Dr. Janet Little
Email: info@drjanetlittle.com

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In this powerful and candid conversation, Randi shares her 8-year journey through fibroids, heavy menstrual bleeding, surgically induced perimenopause, and the emotional aftermath of waking up from a “routine” procedure without her uterus — and without clear consent or explanation.

What followed was a cascade of hormone disruption, weight changes, joint pain, hot flashes, medical gaslighting, and a long search for answers.

We talk about:

• What medical gaslighting actually looks like in real life
• The trauma of losing reproductive organs unexpectedly
• The complexity of the endocrine system
• Testosterone pellet therapy and unintended consequences
• Self-advocacy in practical terms
• How AI became part of her hormone recovery process
• Rebuilding trust in your body after medical harm

This episode is honest. It’s layered. And it raises important questions about agency, consent, and collaboration in women’s healthcare.

If you have ever felt dismissed, unheard, or shuffled out of a doctor’s office without real answers — this conversation is for you.

⚠️ Disclaimer:
This podcast is for educational and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before starting or changing medications, supplements, or hormone therapies.

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In this episode of Coochie Business®, Dr. Abigail sits down with Africana Studies professor Dr. Derrick “Dr. kNOw” Lanois for a layered conversation on womanism, Black history, reproductive narratives, and collective liberation.

What is womanism — and how is it different from feminism or Black feminism?

How have historical stereotypes like the “Hottentot Venus” and Jezebel myth shaped how Black women’s bodies are imagined today?

And what might healing, Sankofa, and imagination have to do with reproductive freedom?

Together, they explore:

• Womanism as a Black women–rooted social change framework
• Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and communal responsibility
• The historical construction of Black sexuality and reproductive stereotypes
• Colorism and respectability politics
• The power of history in shaping liberation
• Black love, heterosexuality as learned behavior, and redefining relationships
• Afrofuturism and the role of imagination in building new traditions

This episode moves beyond statistics and policy into philosophy, history, and embodiment — asking not only how we dismantle systems, but how we build commonweal.

If you’re interested in Black reproductive justice, womanist thought, Black history, embodiment, and decolonizing love, this conversation will stretch you.

Connect with Dr. DL

@DL_PhD (Instagram, X/formerly Twitter, TikTok)

Episode Mentions

Layli Phillips (now Layli Maparyan) – “Womanism: On Its Own” (Introduction)
The foundational framework for today’s conversation. Womanism is presented as a Black women–rooted social change philosophy emphasizing anti-oppression (both named and unnamed), communitarian responsibility, spirituality, and harmonizing difference.

Patricia Hill Collins – Black Sexual Politics
Explores Black sexuality, stereotypes, and power — including discussion of Sarah Baartman and the historical construction of Black women’s bodies.

Ida B. Wells – The Red Record
A historic anti-lynching text that challenged rape myths and exposed racialized violence in the late 19th century.

Deborah Gray White – (Work referenced on stereotypes and Black women’s history)
Dr. Lanois referenced White’s scholarship in connection to the Missouri Press Association president’s “liars, thieves, and whores” claim and the formation of Black women’s club movements.

Sarah Baartman (The “Hottentot Venus”)
A Khoi woman displayed in European “freak shows,” whose exploitation shaped enduring stereotypes about Black women’s bodies.

Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist leader who participated in early women’s rights advocacy but later took positions that created tension around Black women’s suffrage.

Mary Church Terrell & Ida B. Wells
Black women leaders whose activism addressed racism, sexism, and violence.

Carter G. Woodson
Founder of Negro History Week (which became Black History Month), underscoring the importanc

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In this powerful and deeply personal conversation, Dr. Abigail sits down with transformational leader Natalie Demerson-Watkins, founder of Anchored Life Academy and Anchored Life Foundation, to explore the emotional and spiritual impact of miscarriage and infant loss — especially for high-achieving women who feel pressure to “bounce back.”

Natalie shares her living testimony of recurring miscarriage, the premature birth and loss of her daughter Rozlyn at 26 weeks, and the four-year journey of shattered faith, surrender, and rebuilding that followed.

Together, they discuss:

• The silent grief high-achieving women carry
• The myth of bouncing back after reproductive loss
• Shame, guilt, and questioning your body
• Faith after loss — when belief feels broken
• Showing up professionally while privately grieving
• How to support someone experiencing miscarriage
• The difference between grief support and coaching readiness
• Natalie’s 3-part healing process: Shattering, Rebuilding, Reconciliation

This episode expands the conversation beyond physical pregnancy loss to include unspoken reproductive grief — miscarriage, infant loss, infertility, IVF attempts, pregnancy yearning, and identity disruption.

If you’ve ever felt strong in public but shattered in private, this conversation is for you.

You are not broken. You are becoming.

Show Notes:

Guest: Natalie Demerson-Watkins
Founder, Anchored Life Academy
Founder, Anchored Life Foundation

🌐 Website:
https://www.anchoredlifeacademy.com
https://www.anchoredlifefoundation.org

📱 Instagram / Facebook / LinkedIn:
@NatalieDemerson-Watkins

🎁 Free Resource:
The Anchor Reset: https://www.anchoredlifeacademy.com/anchor-reset

Other Mentions:

• Isaiah 61:1-3 NLT
  • The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, for the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted and to proclaim that captives will be released and prisoners will be freed. He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the LORD’s favor has come, and with it, the day of God’s anger against their enemies. To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes, a joyous blessing instead of mourning, festive praise instead of despair. In their righteousness, they will be like great oaks that the LORD has planted for his own glory.
• World Health Organization (WHO) Spotlight on Pregnancy Loss
  • https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/why-we-need-to-talk-about-losing-a-baby

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In this episode of the Coochie Business® Podcast, Dr. Abigail sits down with Dr. Breeze Harper—social scientist, menopause coaching specialist, and creator of “Meno Fantasy.” We talk fibroids, perimenopause, nutritional racism, and why menopause shouldn’t be treated like a personal failure—or a marketing funnel. Dr. Harper shares her own fibroid-healing story, breaks down Afrofantasy/Afrofuturism as health frameworks, and names what it looks like to build hormonal health support that’s collective, decolonial, and real.

Links & resources

• Dr. Harper’s book: The Dragon Comes at Night — https://www.thedragoncomesatnight.com
• Dragon Fire Wellness — https://www.dragonfire.health
• Contact Dr. Harper — breeze@dragonfire.health
  
  

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