Ep 118| Featuring: Myra Kinds

*Host's Note - if you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.

This episode features our guest, Myra Kinds - a GERI trainer and BIPOC lead, licensed minister to youth, co-author, and a recognized leader in underserved and addiction/trauma communities.

TOPICS COVERED:
- Her path of living through what has now become her passion to help others, bringing all of herself everywhere she goes, walking away from Corporate America to follow her purpose to serve others
- Her work within the urban communities as a church minister
- BIPOC & trauma communities
- How we define and use words matter
- Family trauma and stigmas
- This generation's accessibility
- How we can create safe spaces and world states to those seeking help
- Mentors who have experience - which qualifies them to serve in a unique way
- Be a bridge
- Remembering what is was to be a youth - raw and unmasked
- Working with youth as they are going through their stuff in the present to help them move through the process
- "I don't know how to fix it but I do know what's possible"
- Ministry of Presence and why listening more is vital
- Working with addiction and helping them work their own plan
- A space to just share
- The expectation to fall to the voice of addiction so that resources are already prepared

GUEST RESOURCE RECOMMENDATIONS:
1. Legacy Lives On -  dedicated to supporting loved ones of homicide victims
2. Can We Talk -  community conversations on trauma & healing, grief & loss support
3. Take away victimhood on both sides of the conversation
4. Faith based and community based programs
5. GERI - re-writing the future of gender relations in the human family
6. GERI New Book (co-authored by Myra)

FOR MORE INFO ABOUT OUR GUEST:
1.  Website bio  
2. Email - kindsmyra@msn.com

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