Free Black Millennials: The Podcast

Welcome Back to the COOKOUT!!! Happy Black History Month!!! This week we celebrate end of our first season in a dynamic conversation with the stunning Cicely Belle Blain!! Cicely Belle Blain is a Black/mixed, queer non-binary femme from London, UK now living on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people. Their ancestry is a mix of Gambian (Wolof), Jamaican and English. They spent their formative years between London, the Netherlands and a small Catholic village in France - each home presenting a pivotal opportunity for awakening and growth. Cicely Belle is descended from a long line of feminist educators and developed a passion for justice from a young age. Cicely Belle is noted for founding Black Lives Matter Vancouver and subsequently being listed as one of Vancouver's 50 most powerful people by Vancouver Magazine twice, BC Business's 30 under 30 and one of Refinery29's Powerhouses of 2020. Cicely Belle founded Bakau Consulting (formerly Cicely Blain Consulting) in 2018 and has grown the company to serve over 500 clients worldwide. Some of their most notable professional achievements include speaking at the United Nations Summit in Quito, Ecuador, developing an Intersectionality Toolkit for the City of Vancouver and presenting the keynote address for the 2020 graduating ceremony at University of British Columbia, their alma mata. Cicely Belle is also an instructor in Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University, the Editorial Director of Ripple of Change Magazine [https://t.sidekickopen70.com/s2t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7kF8cVQgJW29Q2zy59hl3kW7_k2841CXdp3VP1dkV57kwk3W2dykb97hxtmN101?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW49M95g3ZVd4KW3F7xMK3P0vpcw3NBBqr48S2&si=8000000004583271&pi=bae252ab-9059-46bb-de72-befc53aa695b] and the author of Burning Sugar [https://t.sidekickopen70.com/s2t/c/5/f18dQhb0S7kF8cVQgJW29Q2zy59hl3kW7_k2841CXdp3VP1dkV57kwk3W2dykb97hxtmN101?te=W3R5hFj4cm2zwW3zgF3Q41PFYxW4hJ30v3Fbt5SW2r4rJk4cgw0GW2r6YQn3T1k6Sn32Hcp7263&si=8000000004583271&pi=bae252ab-9059-46bb-de72-befc53aa695b] (Arsenal Pulp Press and VS Books, 2020). FIND BAKAU CONSULTING AND CICELY BELLE BLAIN: Bakauconsulting.com [http://bakauconsulting.com] Cicelybelleblain.com [http://cicelybelleblain.com] Ig & Twitter: @cicelybelle_xo As always follow FBM on ig: @freeblackmillennials or email us at freeblackmillennials@gmail.com #FBMThePodcast

Welcome BLACK to the Cookout!!! Happy Black History Month! • This week on FBM: The Podcast we start out artist to artist series in Episode TISA (9): Artist to Artist with Andrew Montgomery Coleman. Drew is a multi-hyphenated actor that just does not stop working. Based but not limited to New York City, he is currently one of the stars of your new favorite webseries F [https://www.instagram.com/fortheboys.series/]or The Boys . Join us as D [https://www.instagram.com/drewboigenius/]rew walks us through his life and career being black and queer, moving from the south to the north, surviving and thriving in NY and his Covid horror story... you don’t wanna miss this one. Ig|Sc|Twitter : @drewboigenius Website: theandrewcoleman.com As always follow FBM on ig: @freeblackmillennials or email us at freeblackmillennials@gmail.com #FBMThePodcast

Welcome Back to the Cookout!!!! HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH FBM: The Podcast episode NANE (8) This week on Free Black Millennials we hear from the no-nonsense Executive HR “qwane” Heidi Rolston • Heidi is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada based Sr leader (tech) and learner, with a Global focus that creates differentiated employee experiences and inclusive organizations. Active advocate for gender equality. She has played leading roles in extensive organizational changes, including high-growth, M&A’s and reorganizations. Her experience has included but not limited too talent acquisition and development, leadership development, building unique employee experiences and cultures, social and community impact, advising and working with C-suite and Board Members, compensation, internal communications and performance management. She’s passionate about organizations that are committed to continual evolution (and occasional revolution) in the pursuit of excellence. Heidi's handles Ig: @uppitygirl email: heidirolston@gmail.com As always follow FBM on ig: @freeblackmillennials or email us at freeblackmillennials@gmail.com #FBMThePodcas

Welcome Back to the Cookout!!! On this weeks episode of FBM: The Podcast we hear from Ife Michelle Presswood; Ife is a queer black fem dancer/Choreographer/model/educator/student and all around goddess from Charlotte NC. Ife is an MFA student in the Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis in Dance Program (Duke University). Her research, centered at the intersection of Dance, Race and Humanities, aims to investigate the performance of the embodied identities/realities of Black Women Artists and how these embodiments are expressed using art. Through the lens of dance, she analyzes inner and inter corporeality’s of Black Women Artists through choreographic works and curated methodology in order to demonstrate and vivify the need for effective safe spaces (contextualized through misogynoir) and its accompanying attributes: i.e. resources, opportunities, safety/empathy, care and quality training, that allows for valuing, vivification, fluidity and self-autonomy of Black Woman and their artistry. To find more about Ife and Ife Michelle Dance follow her on Ig: @ifemichelledance FB: Ife Michelle As always follow FBM on ig: @freeblackmillennials or email us at freeblackmillennials@gmail.com #FBMThePodcast

Welcome back to the Cookout!!! This week on FREE BLACK MILLENNIALS: THE PODCAST we talk black queerness and your new favorite web series “FOR THE BOYS” with the multifaceted Ellis Dawson and Mekhai Lee. For The Boys follows 3 black friends as they navigate love, life and friendship in NYC. These friends are on their own journey but homogenize to support and process with each other. Ellis and Mekhai share “we never get to see black men be vulnerable... be soft...”, and For The Boys does just that. Follow: Twitter: @FortheboysTv Ig: @fortheboys.series @therealellisdawson [https://www.instagram.com/therealellisdawson/] @mekhai.lee [https://www.instagram.com/mekhai.lee/] Donation Link: gofundme.com/gofundtheboys [http://gofundme.com/gofundtheboys]