#casuallybrilliant

Hi!...a few things: - Y’all ain’t talking about #BlackLivesMatter any more. I knew it would happen because often times the need to contribute to movement making is performative or about personal discomfort. And that is temporary. That’s why I have my “White Urgency Is Violence” lecture coming up in July because the rush to fix a thing will never be sustainable and we need movement work that can last. Register for that lecture at www.thefreepeopleproject.com/lectureseries - Dream Yourself Free Session 1 Cohort 1 was Sunday! My God in Heaven it was soooooo good! I’m so happy to be in community with the brilliant women doing this work and am looking forward to making you all aware of when Cohort 2 applications open. In the meantime visit www.thefreepeopleproject.com/dyf to donate to this important work. We’re still in operation get the #GoFundMe to $50K by July 12th! Sharing is also giving if you don’t have to give! - Casually Brilliant will return in July. When I went to launch the last episode at the top of June everything was just too heavy! But the time of the perculator is upon us so prepare for new goodness there. As always, the video is for my Patrons only at Patreon.com/ebonyjanice but you can listen to last episodes at www.thefreepeopleproject.com/casuallybrilliant #TheFreePeopleProject #CasuallyBrilliant (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCEeMElpBCN/?igshid=1lpw4i4fhuho0

This conversation was such a synchronous healing sermon. A conversation with Elizabeth Gilbert is a Masterclass, even if the podcast subtitle didn’t hold that name. This woman started out by talking about Good Orderly Direction and I was like 👀 So you just gonna give us God right out the gate? Ok! Let’s go! . . . Hey! Every single Wednesday a new episode of #CasuallyBrilliant drops. And every single episode has been EPIC! If you havent been listening, todays a good day to start and then go back to the beginning and let every episode bless and enlarge you! www.thefreepeopleproject.com/casuallybrilliant || My patrons get the unedited video interview and supplemental learning materials along with each episode so also there’s a place to be in community with me as well Patreon.com/ebonyjanice #TheFreePeopleProject #ElizabethGilbert #CityOfGirls #EatPrayLove #EatPrayThug @elizabeth_gilbert_writer #BigMagic (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAafiEiJlps/?igshid=1jykzm3u9he7h

A new episode of my #CasuallyBrilliant podcast is LIVE! Let me tell y’all something about this one right here. @joelakamag is the definition of Casual Brilliance. I started following him YEARS ago on Twitter (where he literally is the MAN) and the constant gems he drops all day long as an easeful stream of consciousness is always timely and healing and shifting. Joel is so important for our culture! We need him! . . . We spent some time via Zoom at around Week 3 of this pandemic having this conversation and (smh) the words we spoke then about the importance of #community is actual and factual. You do NOT want to miss this episode of Casually Brilliant at www.thefreepeopleproject.com/casuallybrilliant || #TheFreePeopleProject . . . My Patrons receive special behind the scenes video access to these discussions and a weekly supplemental material syllabus to go along with the conversation. Become a patron and support this work and these tools at www.patreon.com/ebonyjanice (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAK4YFWlr9l/?igshid=wmkkpk5h4b2g

My day up to this point: meditation, write in my journal, coffee, then look at which day of social distancing this is for me (58), then yoga, shower, food, twist hair, walk the dog, check the mail... Aha! “Conjure Woman” by Afia Atakora has arrived in the mail. Whatever else I had scheduled for this day is no more. I won’t leave my bed for the next day (or two) other than for food and to walk the dog because I’ve been waiting to read this book since I first heard about it! . . . Of course I’m interested in a tale of women journeying pre and post civil war with the gifts and the ability to conjure and heal. There is tension for the daughter, Rue, following in her mother’s footsteps as a midwife/healer and I’m already thinking of the conversation I had with @unearthandbloom on Episode 2 of the #CasuallyBrilliant podcast about the hidden history and stories of ancestral religious identities and power and what they did (and continue to do) to protect us from what folk might think if they knew we had these gifts. Looking forward to diving in and, of course, I’ll share more on this experience soon. But the writing is already irresistible and my heart is already captured! #linkinbio @afiaatakora @RandomHouse #ConjureWomen #AfiaAtakora #Sponsored (at Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_-SF9xpRZc/?igshid=jvw64j58er65

Rachel Cargle giggles through half this conversation but we talked about #Gentrification, Permission to grieve, excitement about black joy now and in the after, everything our grandmothers taught us abt the sacred, and how #Womanism is to #feminism as purple is to lavender! - I can’t wait for you TJ hear. Visit www.thefreepeopleproject.com/casuallybrilliant to listen. - My patrons get unedited video of these discussions 😂🙈 and supplemental material access via Patreon.com/ebonyjanice - @rachel.cargle is always helping us lean further into our learning and our thinking and I’m always so thrilled when y’all get to have access to our #CasuallyBrilliant conversations. #TheFreePeopleProject || P.S. She also is on the #DreamYourselfFree Masterclass Intensive lineup talking about shifting our success and money blue print so 👀👀👀👀 Come Over ... #RachelCargle www.thefreepeopleproject.com/dyf (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2lNkiJnhl/?igshid=1lywb0uju6z41

1. Deacon Paula Welch use to quote theologian Martin Luther (I like her translation of his quote) by saying, "There is more work done in prayer than in work itself. My God I wanted to understand this then. I am an #earthsign and a super #Capricorn and I feel like if you know a Capricorn you understand the rest of that. I don't need to explain. 2. The other day I was recording a #CasuallyBrilliant #podcast episode (that I can't wait to share with y'all) and I told the guest, "During this pandemic, I have been working to understand my work in a new way. It is my JOB to take a bath and lay in the tub every day. That is my JOB!" 3. My daddy gets a kick out of me laying down every time I facetime him. He is always so confused abt why I'm laying down when we talk. Like - what am I supposed to be doing when I call him? My daddy has worked so hard all of his life. For years its the way the women in my family defined him. "He is a hard worker and a provider." What else is he? Who else is my dad outside of his work? I don't want to work so hard that that's the first thing you think of when it's time to compliment me. My dad is more than just his hard work. I want us to know it deeply before he leaves this earth. 4. This morning I took deep breaths for about 5 minutes and sang @jheneaiko "Trigger Protection Mantra" (Calm down. Calm down eventually. Protect your energy). I was in my #meditation thinking, "How did I wake up anxious? Like how?" And then I thought the words, "General #Anxiety" (which is a disorder). I don't want to live in a general state of anxiousness. The earth is groaning. I don't want to groan. The only groaning I wanna do all day long is (redacted). 5. The Dream Yourself Free Mastermind Intensive is for the women who have been saying they want to be cocreators in their destiny. Those who don't want to work hard on anything but themselves. Those that want to enter into the revelation that ease is their work and "#pleasure is your right." - @theamonyee *The lineup is the cheat code! ** You can learn more about #DreamYourselfFree and register for this amazing 6 month #Mastermind Intensive at www.thefreepeopleproject.com/dyf #TheFreePeopleProject (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_2S8NgJLFZ/?igshid=1p39v08vhxb6w

May 1, 2020 “It’s the first of the month. Gotta grind gotta get mine In the hood that I claim When I slang on the double 9. Gotta find them dubs. Can I get a 40? Can a thug get love? Nigga what’s up?” . . . Today’s #PreachEb is brought to you by May Day, @btnhlive & the balance of grinding and self care. Grinding in the lyrics is evident. #SelfCare is there in asking for some love and setting boundaries “Tryna slang on my corner? Nigga you’s a goner.” 🤷🏾‍♀️ You gotta be able to do both! . . . On another note: I’m so excited about sharing more #DreamYourselfFree goodness with y’all. Next week I have incredible #CasuallyBrilliant news AND Dream Yourself Free news! #HipHopBibleStudy #BoneThugsNHarmony #MayDay #Spring #SpringTime #Healthyself (at East Harlem) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_pxWlZJrWA/?igshid=x8lgrbu3aodq