#23 - Mindfully Black with Martina Abrahams Ilunga

Mindful & Intentional is brought to you by Idenati   Martina Abrahams is the founder & CEO of You Had Me At Black, a storytelling movement dedicated to reclaiming the black narrative. What started in 2016 as a podcast & event series has grown to become an archive of Black Millennial life, a nation-wide community, and a movement to tell Black stories in an unprecedented way.   Resources: YHMAB website: http://www.youhadmeatblack.com/ Follow Martina on Twitter: https://twitter.com/m__tina   Timestamps: (2:24) Where are you from and how does that relate to your earliest memories of being black? (9:16) When you got to college, it seems you sought out black spaces in a very intentional way. What was going through your mind at that time? (15:35) One of your college extracurriculars was an organization called "Georgetown Aspiring Minority Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs". Was this the point where you started cultivating a desire to build a business of your own? (27:08) Now that you're a few years into your journey of YHMAB, what does success look like, not just for the business, but what does liberation look like for us as a people? (31:40) What are the different parts of the black experience, or perhaps the different parts of the narrative of the black experience, that we still need to unpack as a community? (36:18) Thinking about yourself as an individual as opposed to a CEO, what types of conversations are you having with the people in your life about these issues? (42:20) How do you think about navigating blackness in white spaces?