A Lesson on Showing Up for Yourself with Trey Anthony
Release Date: 03/08/2021
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info_outlineTOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
- How Trey’s grandmother influenced her creativity, career, and eventually her voice.
- Why Trey started her first piece “Da Kink in My Hair” and what the show represents in regards to issues Black women face in their daily lives.
- How “Da Kink in My Hair” became an overnight sensation.
- Trey is the first Black woman in Canada to ever have a television show on a major prime-time Canadian network.
- Black Culture in Canada vs. the United States.
- How Trey made space for Black women in the self-help market.
- Black Girl in Love (with Herself) addresses the real things that occur to Black women as they move through spaces.
- There's a stigma in the Black community around depression and mental health issues that we do not talk about, and yet it's happening.
- How do we create a safe space for Black women to fall apart if they need to?
- If you look at so many of the movements of social change that are happening, Black women are at the forefront.
- When you are not recognized, you have nothing to lose.
- Many women leaders are viewed as the strong ones and have a hard time admitting when they are struggling, and how Trey navigated this personally.
- By the time Black women actually seek health for mental health issues, their symptoms are 5X more severe than white women.
- As women, we think we can handle more than we actually can and it’s ok to ask for help.
- There is a common misconception among women that receiving comes with strings attached.
- Asking for that support and being carried is part of the modeling of what the new success means.
- How mothering changed Trey and her journey as a solo parent.
- The rules that are written in the culture for the way we do things don’t actually make sense for busy women.
- Feminine leadership looks like in today’s society looks like so many different things, because we are doing it all.