Ep 6: Interrupting Shame and Reclaiming Self-Sovereignty with EbonyJanice
Podcast: Interrupting Business As UsualPublished On: Sun Feb 09 2025
Description: In this compelling episode, we sit down with EbonyJanice, a free woman on a love journey and founder of the Free People Project and Emma's Legacy Foundation. EbonyJanice shares a little about her journey of becoming a first-generation interrupter, breaking free from societal norms, religious constraints, and patriarchal ideologies to embrace her true self. Through candid exchanges with Nikki about her personal struggles, radical self-sovereignty, and the importance of intentional community, EbonyJanice offers profound insights and practical tools for anyone in pursuit of a liberated life. Listen to this episode to explore the power of choice, the significance of rituals, and the journey toward love and freedom in a world that often demands self-abandonment and compliance. Thank you Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Everything. Special thanks to the Provocateurs over on Patreon who make this podcast possible by subscribing to support this work. To learn more about how to interrupt oppression, visit interruptseries.com and follow @interrupt series on Instagram. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐆𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭: EbonyJanice is the founder and CEO of The Free People Project and the artistic exemplar of The EbonyJanice Project. She has authored several books, including "All The Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit Of Dreams As Radical Resistance." Her Spiritual Mentorship Program, entitled "Dream Yourself Free," is designed to support Black Women as they do the work to heal personal and intergenerational wounds and prioritize pleasure. Her talks embody a Hip Hop Womanist perspective. She is the visionary and creator of Black Girl Mixtape, a platform and safe think space that showcases the intellectual authority of Black Women. She is the founder of the All The Black Girls Are Bestsellers Campaign, raising over a million dollars to mass purchase Black Femme books with the goal of getting them on The New York Times Best Sellers List. This project endeavored to spend the bulk of these funds in small Black and Indie-owned bookstores and gifted thousands of books to individuals and organizations nationwide. EbonyJanice is an initiated and practicing Ifa Priestess and has earned her Bachelors in Cultural Anthropology and Political Science and a Masters of Arts in Social Change with a concentration in Spiritual Leadership, Womanist Theology, and Racial Justice. Where do we go from here? To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com. TAP HERE to work privately with Nikki TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more exclusive content Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak
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