Episodes

  • 276 - Ask Minaa Anything: Creating and Navigating Healthy Friendships

    276 - Ask Minaa Anything: Creating and Navigating Healthy Friendships
    Nov 24 2023
    You sent Minaa your most pressing questions, and in today's episode she provides her insight and advice to those questions. You asked about how to handle a friendship you may have outgrown, how to develop healthy two-sided friendships, and when to forgive a friend that betrayed your trust (and how to do it). For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    32 mins
  • 275 – How to Build Your Sisterhood With These Small Steps from Dr. Joy

    275 – How to Build Your Sisterhood With These Small Steps from Dr. Joy
    Nov 17 2023
    Dr. Joy Harden Bradford is a Licensed Psychologist. She’s also a speaker and the Founder & CEO of Therapy for Black Girls, and host of its wildly popular mental health podcast, which received a Webby award in 2023.  In this episode, Dr. Joy sits down with Minaa to discuss her new book, Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community. Her work focuses on making mental health topics more relevant and accessible for Black women and she specializes in creating spaces for them to have fuller and healthier relationships with themselves and others. For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    44 mins
  • 274 - How Black Mental Wealth is Key to Life-long Success and Wellness, with Dr. Raquel Martin

    274 - How Black Mental Wealth is Key to Life-long Success and Wellness, with Dr. Raquel Martin
    Nov 10 2023
    Dr. Raquel Martin is on a mission to radically reimagine Black possibility by promoting Black mental health as key to legacy-building and longevity for generations to come. In this episode, she sits down with Minaa B to discuss black mental wealth -- what it is and what it looks like in practice. Dr. Martin is an experienced licensed clinical psychologist, devoted professor, acclaimed researcher, and scientist. She deeply believes in the power of Black mental wealth – an affirming, lifelong journey, that encourages Black people to center mental health practices as integral and intentionally linked to success and wellbeing. For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    42 mins
  • 273 - Technology and Kids: How to Limit Social Media's Impact on Mental Health in Today's World

    273 - Technology and Kids: How to Limit Social Media's Impact on Mental Health in Today's World
    Nov 3 2023
    Julie Scelfo is the Founder/Executive Director of Get Media Savvy, a nonprofit using pop culture to establish a healthy media environment for kids and families. She is an award-winning journalist, a former New York Times staff writer, a media ecologist, an author, and a parent. Scelfo was moved to start Get Media Savvy after reporting on the youth mental health crisis and seeing suicidality affect children at ever-younger ages, and recognizing how a multitude of factors—including absent regulations and the lack of widespread media literacy—has created an unhealthy, unsafe media environment. In this episode Scelfo talks with Minaa B about how her coalition works to create a widespread cultural shift so everyone recognizes the existence of the media environment and its central role in human affairs. For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B, LMSW -- Host Kristen Altmeyer -- VP/GM, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay -- Podcast Producer/Editor
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    42 mins
  • 272 - No More Suffering in Silence: How to Support and Care for New Parents with Postpartum Depression

    272 - No More Suffering in Silence: How to Support and Care for New Parents with Postpartum Depression
    Oct 27 2023
    Paige Bellenbaum, is a LCSW, and the Founding Director and Chief External Relations Officer at The Motherhood Center of New York. In this episode, Bellenbaum sits down with Minaa B to discuss her experience with severe postpartum depression and how that drove her to fight for education, screening, and treatment for postpartum depression so that no more women would have to suffer silently. For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    41 mins
  • 271 - Building Confidence with Model and Self-love Advocate Achieng Agutu

    271 - Building Confidence with Model and Self-love Advocate Achieng Agutu
    Oct 20 2023
    Achieng Agutu is a Kenyan-born model, and digital content creator, who has made a name for herself through social platforms by serving us a daily bowl of motivation, daily affirmations, self-love and fearlessness.The positivity became a viral sensation, leading Vogue to name her the “Confidence Queen.” Global attention from major brands such as Victoria’s Secret and Away followed and she was also chosen for this year’s Create & Cultivate Top 100 list for creators. In this episode, Agutu sits down with Minaa B to discuss how she developed her confidence, stopped living for other people and what's up next for the "Confidence Queen." For more info visit: verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B., LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - GM/VP, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    33 mins
  • 270 - Ask Minaa Anything: Setting Boundaries and Expectations with Family, Friends and Partners

    270 - Ask Minaa Anything: Setting Boundaries and Expectations with Family, Friends and Partners
    Oct 13 2023
    You sent Minaa your most pressing questions, and in today's episode Minaa provides her insight and advice to those questions. You asked about managing boundaries with an emotionally abusive parent, how to talk about intimacy in a relationship when you and your partner might have different needs, and how to set boundaries with a friend who is consistently late. Want your questions answered in another "Ask Minaa Anything" episode this season? Go to verywellmind.com/podcast and submit your question on the form to be considered. The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B, LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - VP/GM, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    27 mins
  • 269 - How Therapy Has Shaped Grammy-nominated Singer/Songwriter Cassadee Pope

    269 - How Therapy Has Shaped Grammy-nominated Singer/Songwriter Cassadee Pope
    Oct 6 2023
    Over the last 15 years, Cassadee Pope has been a lot of things to a lot of people—leader of seminal pop-punk band Hey Monday, the season 3 winner of The Voice and a platinum-selling, GRAMMY-nominated country singer-songwriter. Pope is also an ally and activist pushing for social change and a brighter future in a backward world. In this episode, Pope sits down with Minaa B. to discuss how therapy has shaped her life and songwriting, she also gives listeners a peek into what inspired her soon-to-be-released single. For more info visit verywellmind.com/podcast The Verywell Mind Podcast is produced by: Minaa B, LMSW - Host Kristen Altmeyer - VP/GM, Verywell Mind Jeremiah McVay - Podcast Producer/Editor
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    35 mins