17 Oct E38. Living Out Loud and Embracing Who You Are with Ber-Henda Williams
Welcome back to The Rebel Maker Podcast. I have Ber-Henda Williams with me today and we are talking about going through an important transformation, the importance of self-love, navigating your inner critics, how to know whether your book idea is good enough, and more.
Ber-Henda Williams lives according to her name’s Germanic-Greek origin, “The Bear Hearted Protector” of multiculturalism, art, and womanhood. She focuses her energy as a creative femolutionary empath into being a poet, teacher, soul coach, author, television and film producer, public speaker, youth advocate, and podcast host. Ber-Henda lives her life in color out loud.
In this episode:
- [01:54] Meet Ber-Henda
- [04:08] Ber-Henda’s journey of healing and transitions
- [10:38] Building a community over an audience
- [15:30] Living out loud and having a like heart
- [18:46] Loving yourself and negative self-talk
- [22:38] Your gifts make room for you
- [26:05] Is my book idea good enough?
- [27:26] Writing a book is your medicine
- [31:15] What she would’ve done differently with her book
- [33:11] What’s next for Ber-Henda
Resources from this episode:
Check out Ber-Henda’s book Memoirs of the Human Experience and Everything In Between, Vol. 1.
Learn more about the Managing Happiness Harvard course, which you can audit for free here.
Watch the movie with Jason Momoa that Ber-Henda mentions, Slumberland on Netflix.
Noteworthy quotes from this episode:
“When you give people just a sneak peek into the inner workings of who you are and those makings and the messy and the unpolished version of yourself, we give others permission to do that same thing.” – Ber-Henda Williams