Black Ballad Presents: The Survival Guide Podcast
1) Bonus: How Well Do You Know Your Child? (with Chioma Fanawopo)
In this bonus bite-size edition of The Survival Guide, Chioma Fanawopo, mum, youth worker and wellness practitioner, tells us how we can communicate better with our older children, creating a bond tha...Show More
2) Bonus: Imperfect Women, Imperfect Mothers (with Naima Coster)
Often, mothers are put a pedestal that it is way too easy to fall off. In this bonus episode, bestselling author Naima Coster discusses her book, 'What's Mine and Yours', messy mother characters as we...Show More
3) Mum Guilt, The Importance Of Community & SO MUCH MORE! (with Laura Henry-Allain MBE, creator of JoJo & Gran Gran)
In this wide-ranging conversation with Laura Henry-Allain MBE, Black Ballad's CEO and co-founder Tobi Oredein discusses Laura's groundbreaking work, JoJo & Gran Gran and they get real about working mo...Show More
4) The Realities of the Adoption Process & How We Can Better Centre Adoptees (with Shania Ives, Didi & Priscilla Akutu-Carter, Henrietta & Patricia)
Adoption is not a foreign concept for many black communities. Even if we don't officially name it, there are many of us who have been brought up by grandmothers, aunties and other relatives. And yet, ...Show More
5) Baggage, Blended Families & Stepmothers (with Priscilla Appeaning)
According to statistics, "blended families" are on the rise, but the idea of a happily ever after that involves children from previous relationships, is often written off by many people dating.We get ...Show More
6) Let's Talk About SEX...Again! (with Angella, Uche & Jemilea)
***Content warning***This episode discusses sexual assault and the physical trauma of childbirth.We dive back into the conversation about sex after childbirth because it's necessary!This time we have ...Show More
7) Free Black Mothers Raising Free Black Children (with Nehanda Truscott-Reid aka The Soul Mama)
How often in your day to day life as a parent do you get time to just stop, take stock and address how you are feeling?It sounds like a luxury, but in order to be our best selves and create the best e...Show More
8) ...Teenagers?! (with Jamelia)
At some point, you have to accept that you're going to become the parent or caregiver you complained about when you were a teenager.But the challenges facing upcoming generations of teens are very dif...Show More
9) When To Tell Your Kids They're Black (with Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum)
No black parent looks forward to having that conversation – the one where you explain to your sweet child what it means to be racialised as 'black'.But how do we prepare our children for the realities...Show More
10) Dual Heritage Dilemmas (with Ibianga and Abigail)
Raising black children in an interracial or intercultural household doesn't have to be complicated...does it?But with different cultures having different traditions, expectations and approaches to par...Show More