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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS YONI STEAMING… WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IT AIN’T! BLACK WOMAN. BLACK COFFEE. THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR?
ICONIC SUPER MODEL FINDS BEAUTY IN ALL Photography by: Michael Letterlough, Jr.
ISSUE NO. 3 | DECEMBER / JANUARY 2023 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kaye-Ann Sadler
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Dr. Trudy Wright Dr. Trudy Wright is the CEO and Pharmacist in Charge of John’s Creek Pharmacy in Suwanee, Georgia. Dr. Trudy has 17 years of experience, and has worked every position from cashier, to owner-operator. Her journey to become a pharmacist began when her mother was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Dr. Trudy’s mission became seeing her name on her mother’s pill bottles. After undergrad and pharmacy school, Dr. Trudy began her career as a pharmacist at Concord Drugs. In 42 years of business, she became the first Black, male or female, Pharmacist in Charge hired by Concord. After five short months of unprecedented professionalism, she bought the Suwanee location and has added a holistic component to the practice. Her independent pharmacy specializes in compounding, a process by which drugs are combined and or tailored in a way that meets the needs of each individual patient due to allergic and or various other restrictions.
Dr. Michelle Mitcham Dr. Michelle A. Mitcham is thrilled to empower women, teams and individuals with strategies for success in both the workplace and relationships. As CEO of Courageous Conversations, a counseling, coaching, and consulting practice, Dr. Michelle Mitcham executes solution-focused success coaching for relationships, mindfulness, divorce, wellness, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), effective leadership, communication, conflict-resolution, and collaboration. Dr. Mitcham believes that “With taking some risks and having courage, you CAN redefine the possibilities in your life.” She was honored to once be a featured guest on Oprah Winfrey show. She is the President and Publisher of the Tallahassee Woman Magazine.
CONTRIBUTORS
Nicole Paradise
D. Scott D. Scott is an author of six books and counting. She also had a column in the Artvoice called, “Dear Auntie”, where she offered advice on topics from dating to dress codes. Additionally, she has a podcast on iTunes called, “Stay in Your Lane with D. Scott”, that has over 350 episodes and has been on air for almost nine years. D. ghostwrites and edits for local and budding authors, as well as publishes books through her publishing entity. She has ran several businesses throughout the years and sits on several boards in her city of Niagara Falls, New York.
Anatola Araba
The Walk & Talk Life Coach and Author raising awareness for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) commonly known as Seasonal Depression. An honors graduate of Virginia State University with a B.A. in Sociology whose main objectives are helping women improve their mental health habits, crushing their goals in every season and walking boldly into their purpose.
Anatola Araba is a storyteller and futurist from New York City with a focus on building more equitable, sustainable, and inspired futures through film, visual art, emerging technology, and journalism. Her films have screened across the globe including at the MoMA and Lincoln Center in NYC. She has created content for ELLE, Harper’s BAZAAR, Snapchat, and more. Anatola graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Her passion is to innovate, inspire, and reimagine the world as it could be.
Suze Pierre-Francois
I am a forty-four year old mom of boys. I began my fitness journey in 2017 after having two C-Sections within two years, with two large babies resulting in Diastasis Recti. I learned how to heal myself and I now take pride in showing others how to do the same. I teach free group fitness, Zumba, and strength training classes at Precision Athletic Corps in College Park, GA. My goal to get as many women as I can who suffered the same to heal using lots of love of self, healthy food, and exercise.
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Erlinda Denise Erlinda Denise is daughter of the Seven Sisters. Certified Vaginal Steaming Practitioner, Birth Witch (aka Doula) and Dir of Operations at Sovern LA a non profit intersectional community space. She has a deep passion for supporting women and creating a space for vulnerable discussions and honest topics that generate healing and self love. Her steaming journey started over 5 years ago as a personal self love practice. She created Girl Gang Steaming after completing the Certification classes with with Steamy Chick. She has expanded her journey by becoming a Full Spectrum Birthworker with Birthworkers Of Color supporting birthing folks transitioning into Parenthood.
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Shaniqua Matthews Creative, versatile and passionate about style, Shaniqua has been able to successfully establish herself as a Stylist. This Brooklyn born, Trinidadian ‘fly girl’ was able to turn her love of fashion from a hobby into a career.
Leslie Salmon Jones Leslie Salmon Jones, Alvin Ailey trained dancer, yoga teacher, wellness coach, CEO, and co-founder of Afro Flow Yoga®. In 2008, along with her husband, multi-instrumentalist Jeff W. Jones, the couple developed a new integrated embodied practice, combining dances of the African Diaspora, yoga, and live healing music. For 30 years, Leslie has been speaking, writing, coaching, and teaching classes, retreats, and trainings internationally. Leslie has been featured in O Magazine, Essence, Black Enterprise, and a recent New York Times article. “Dark Girls 2,” a documentary produced by Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network, features the healing aspect of Afro Flow Yoga®.
Having both of her parents embody fashion she was well aware of style at a young age. From regularly carried around fashion magazines in her book bag to now working at the world-renowned Fashion institute of Technology (FIT), she has been catapulted in the world she has always adorned. With her unique mix of styles, ruffles, and sass she has been able to create a lane of her own. Shaniqua also known as @niqniqfromcovertst has not only created fashion vision boards, upcycled clothing, directed fashion shows, styled dance videos, taught Sustainable Fashion Stylist classes for NYC Public School students, help run a success non-profit Fashion organization giving out dresses to the NYC Department of Homeless, she is also an author of “Keeping it Cute” a guide to being a fashionista on a budget. Shaniqua currently lives in NYC with her two children and appreciates watching models on the runway, scrolling through fashion magazines, and growing her plant collection.
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Autumn Vassell Autumn Vassell, founder of Fall For Your Travels LLC, is a Verified Travel Consultant from Detroit, Michigan. While working full-time as a process engineer, Autumn also decided to open her own travel agency in 2022 named Fall For Your Travels LLC based on her love of travel. Fall For Your Travels offers clients a variety of different services like travel consultations, itinerary planning, and booking travel to enhance your vacation experience. Trips stemming from affordable solo/group vacations to high-end luxury vacations can be booked through this flexible travel agency. With her experience in structure as an engineer and her avid travel journeys, being a travel agent is Autumn’s entrepreneurial dream come true. 6 | Noire Women’s Wellness
Great-great-granddaughter of museum-recognized mountain medicine woman and herbalist Mary Louisa Stepp, veteran publicist Regina Lynch-Hudson exhales at healing sites and explores wellness experiences including spas, meditative sanctuaries, healthy eateries, soul-reviving resorts, and nature reserves. Wellness is a lifestyle for the world-trekking 64-year-old, formerly licensed esthetician, pescatarian, water aerobics aficionado, and shade-tree-seeker. Contact MadameXhales: thewritepublicist@earthlink.net
Dr. Cree Scott Dr. Cree Scott is the founder and CEO of Serenity Psychological Health & Well-being, a boutique consulting firm specializing in human-centered leadership development and coaching. She has a 15 year career as a consultant, executive coach, and clinician. Her blended approach is grounded in cognitive-behavioral and positive psychology and focuses on strengths-based solutions that empower professionals to reach their full potential. Dr. Scott partners with her clients utilizing evidenced-based practices to help professionals stay fully engaged, discover new perspective and illuminate insights for development and growth. She is known for her ability to connect with her audience and turn complex concepts into digestible, actionable strategies that support behavior change. Her customized workshops are geared toward addressing specific business challenges within the areas of employee well-being; diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB); and effective leadership. She has worked with a number of Fortune 100 companies and across a number of industries. Dr. Scott holds a doctorate in Psychology and an MBA certification from Xavier University. She also holds a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI).
Arianna is a certified health education specialist with a passion for promoting health and wellness within the black community. She graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with both a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Public Health. She has several years of experience Arianna Siler, MPH, CHES® working within the non-profit sector as a health educator. Through her role as a health educator, she learned the importance of helping clients create practical health goals to optimize their overall health and wellness.When working with clients, she leads with compassion, shares evidence-based tools and resources to help them achieve health goals, and encourages her clients to celebrate small changes. In addition to her experience as a health educator, she also has experience leading the patient recruitment and retention strategies for a cancer research study. She currently resides in Atlanta where she serves as a public health program evaluator.
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CONTENTS
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 12. WHO SAID IT'S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR? 13. #NOIREPOWER LIST 14.THIS TIME NEXT YEAR 16. COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS: PRIORITIZING THE "I" IN THRIVE 18. RESOLUTION 20. 5 THINGS YOU CAN DO ON A RAINY VACATION DAY TO RESET, RELAX AND RELEASE 22. WINTERFIT: GET INTO THIS NYC STREET STYLE
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ON THE COVER
ICONIC SUPER MODEL FINDS BEAUTY IN ALL PHOTOGRAPHY BY: MICHAEL LETTERLOUGH, JR. PHOTOGRAPHER ASSISTANT: MICHAEL ALEXANDER WARDROBE STYLIST: JASMINE GIBBS MAKEUP ARTIST: JUANICE REED HAIRSTYLIST: JANNE KELLY
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24. MADAME XHALES
46. DIASTASIS RECTI
IN THE LOFTY PEAKS
HEALING FROM THE
OF PERÚ
INSIDE OUT AND FROM
38. BLACK WOMAN.
THE OUTSIDE IN
BLACK COFFEE.
48. GRAND OPENING
36. ACHIEVING
OF EYE CANDY
PRACTICAL WELLNESS
CREATIONS' 2ND FLAG-
42. YONI STEAMING...
SHIP LOCATION
WHAT IT IS AND
50. THE ON CLOUD
WHAT IT ISN'T
RANDOM WHINE GALA
44. PRIORITIZE YOUR
51. KITCHEN TALK WITH
SELF CARE ACCESS
KIM GARRETT BROWN
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YOUR BIRTHRIGHT!
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SEES BEAUTY IN EVERYTHING The first African-American woman to grace the cover of American Vogue is setting a new standard for health, well-being, and love. By: Anatola Araba | Photography by: Michael Letterlough, Jr. | Photographer Assistant: Michael Alexander Wardrobe Stylist: Jasmine Gibbs | Makeup artist: Juanice Reed | Hairstylist: Janne Kelly
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