LKE 3.2 ||Ultramarathon Mindset with Manika Gamble: Pain, Purpose & Spiritual Questions
Release Date: 04/30/2025
LKE Special Edition || Out of the Fire Without the Smell of Smoke || Snellville’s City Council Richelle D. Brown
Loving Kindness Everyday
🕊️ In this Loving Kindness Everyday Special, Kindness Calloway sits with Richelle D. Brown, Snellville City Council candidate, for a deeply spiritual and uplifting exchange about faith, endurance, and divine purpose. Richelle opens her heart about overcoming challenges, walking through the fire, and emerging refined but not consumed. Together, they explore how God’s presence and love can guide not only personal healing but also public service — reminding us that even in the trials, grace leaves no trace of smoke. ✨ Don’t forget to make your voice heard — Snellville votes...
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|| Breaking Every Box || LKE 3.12 Season Finale
Loving Kindness Everyday
Breaking Every Box || LKE 3.12 Season 3 of Loving Kindness Everyday wraps with a boundary-breaking final episode you won’t soon forget! 🎙️ Jessica Marshall first stepped into the public eye in the 1990s on The Phil Donahue Show, becoming one of the first trans women to openly share her story on national television. Decades later, she sits down with Kindness Calloway on Loving Kindness Everyday to reflect on that groundbreaking moment and everything that’s come since. In this conversation, Jessica opens up about her personal journey with estrogen, what it feels like...
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LKE 3.10 || Kindness+ BLISS
Loving Kindness Everyday
One night at the skating rink, Kindness Calloway comes across a scene that makes them stop and ask: “Wait—what are you doing?” That’s how this unexpected conversation with Ria (@riabarkr) began. What follows is a raw and inspiring exchange about more than just music. Ria shares how her mom trained her not only in voice but also in spiritual awareness, teaching her to use the reticular activating system (RAS) to focus her thoughts and create the life she wants. We talk about why training your mind is just as important as training your craft. We’re also joined by Tyyla...
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LKE 3.9 || Creating Through the Veil with Lillian Blades: An Audio Mosaic
Loving Kindness Everyday
In this episode of Loving Kindness Everyday, Kindness Calloway sits down with acclaimed Bahamian-born artist Lillian Blades for a calming and detailed conversation that feels like one of her assemblages—layered, reflective, and deeply personal. Born in Nassau, Bahamas in 1973 and now based in Atlanta, GA, Lillian Blades is celebrated for her large-scale mixed media assemblages inspired by her island upbringing, her West African ancestry, and the legacy of her late mother. She holds a BFA from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), an MFA from Georgia State University (GSU), and has...
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LKE 3.8 || Stuck Between the Cross & the Closet: The Coming Out Story of UGA’s Connor Lamb
Loving Kindness Everyday
🎯 Don't Miss This Game-Changing Episode Connor Lamb's story is already sparking important conversations about faith, authenticity, and courage in Christian communities nationwide. His honest account of life at UGA, his role in Athens Church, and the moment he chose truth over comfort is exactly the kind of raw, real conversation our world needs right now. Meet Connor Lamb Connor Lamb lived what many would consider an exemplary college life at the University of Georgia. As a member of the 2022 UGA Homecoming Court, College Outreach Director at Athens Church, Christian fraternity leader,...
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LKE: 3.7|| Life on Wheels: A Conversation with Rob Thompson
Loving Kindness Everyday
Recorded early in the summer of 2025, this episode captures a poolside conversation between Rob Thompson (@simpleempire787, IG) and Kindness Calloway. Rob shares the journey that’s taken him from being a professional skater to working in finance, and ultimately choosing a new life path that reflects who he truly is. Together, Rob and Kindness reflect on the shaping forces of his story—movement, discipline, reflection, and resilience—while exploring what it means to keep rolling forward through life’s unexpected turns. Feel the summer vibes and join us for a good time as we discuss...
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LKE 3.6 || What the Rivian?! with Alan D. Jenkins
Loving Kindness Everyday
Today’s episode of Loving Kindness Everyday was recorded at Rachell Tires & Wheels, right on the corner of Memorial and Boulevard in southeast Atlanta, Georgia. While I was there, I met Alan D. Jenkins, and we ended up talking about Rivian, water, and responsibility. I’m excited to share that conversation with you, and I believe you’ll find it just as thought-provoking as I did. If you missed yesterday’s episode, be sure to go back and listen. It was an exercise in Constructive Thought Redirection, blending music with uplifting audio in both English and Spanish. It’s designed to...
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METTA MUSIC: Strong + Healthy • Afirmaciones de Bondad |Sana y Fuerza
Loving Kindness Everyday
Constructive Thought Direction Tool How to Use This Tool: When your mind is racing, when circumstances feel overwhelming, when you need to stop the mental chatter - press play. Let these declarations wash over you. Don't try to think or analyze, just listen, dance around, speak the words and absorb. Let the repetition do the work of rewiring your thoughts toward what you want to experience. You Must Stop Thinking and Start Declaring It's important not to let situations and circumstances dictate your thoughts and feelings. In order to maintain right thinking and...
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Mindfulness: Strong + Healthy • Afirmaciones de Bondad |Sana y Fuerza
Loving Kindness Everyday
Constructive Thought Direction Tool How to Use This Tool: When your mind is racing, when circumstances feel overwhelming, when you need to stop the mental chatter - press play. Let these declarations wash over you. Don't try to think or analyze, just listen, dance around, speak the words and absorb. Let the repetition do the work of rewiring your thoughts toward what you want to experience. You Must Stop Thinking and Start Declaring It's important not to let situations and circumstances dictate your thoughts and feelings. In order to maintain right thinking and...
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MINDSET: Strong + Healthy • Afirmaciones de Bondad |Sana y Fuerza
Loving Kindness Everyday
Constructive Thought Direction Tool How to Use This Tool: When your mind is racing, when circumstances feel overwhelming, when you need to stop the mental chatter - press play. Let these declarations wash over you. Don't try to think or analyze, just listen, dance around, speak the words and absorb. Let the repetition do the work of rewiring your thoughts toward what you want to experience. You Must Stop Thinking and Start Declaring It's important not to let situations and circumstances dictate your thoughts and feelings. In order to maintain right thinking and...
info_outlineWhat drives someone to run for hours? Through heat, snow, exhaustion, and intense physical pain?
In this powerful episode of Loving Kindness Everyday, host Kindness Calloway sits down with the elite athlete and ultramarathoner Manika Gamble to explore that very question. Manika Gamble is officially a history maker as the first American woman of African orgins to complete the grueling 155-mile (250KM), 7-day, self-supported ultramarathon stage race in Namibia’s Namib Desert which is the oldest desert in the world. Manika's strength, resilience, and determination pushed her through one of the most grueling endurance challenges on the planet and she sat down with Kindness Calloway to discuss it. What begins as a conversation about the reality of endurance running - the mental battles, physical limits, and pushing through pain, quickly unfolds into something deeper and thought provoking.
As Manika reflects on the grueling challenge of her first ultramarathon, the conversation turns toward faith, spirituality, and motivation. The discussion moves into topics of religious identity, scripture, and spiritual struggle. Together, they discuss faith, the meaning of the 144,000 witnesses, and how certain Bible verses have been misused to exclude specific groups of people from faith communities.
This conversation is unfiltered, thought provoking and unique. It invites listeners to sit with discomfort, reflect deeply, and hear from Manika Gamble in her own words as she speaks about endurance, faith, and the search for meaning.
Also meantioned in this episode;
Film 1946 and the spiritual harm caused to humans by mistranslations and bad theology
Kathy Baldock and her work
Kindness Calloway mentions the work of artist and Atlanta based activist Jessica Blinkhorn, a friend of the show and future featured guest.
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🔎 Keywords: Manika Gamble, ultramarathon, Black endurance athlete, Namibia ultramarathon, Jehovah’s Witness faith, 144000 witnesses, Bible mistranslation, scripture misuse, 1946: The Movie, Kathy Baldock, Jessica Blinkhorn, spiritual abuse, Atlanta activism, Kindness Calloway, Loving Kindness Everyday podcast, queer spirituality, Black women in endurance sports, faith and resilience, desert ultramarathon
Be sure to follow Manika’s next adventure and her reflections on endurance, fitness, and mindset on Instagram at @manikaruns.