It's Your Voice
Join Bahia Yackzan, Core Alignment Coach, Emotional Wisdom Trainer, and Diversity Educator for topical interviews that reflect the importance of knowing your heart's truth and aligning it with your mind. A variety of guests will share how focusing on their vision motivates them to stay in-tune with their values and reach out to connect with others. Bahia hosts by asking empowering, challenging, uplifting and timely questions, when clarity, direction and alignment could not matter more. It's Your Voice is broadcast live Wednesdays at 8PM ET. It's Your Voice TV Show is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com). It's Your Voice Radio Show is broadcast on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). It's Your Voice Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com).
Episodes
February 28, 2024 • 54 mins
02/28/24 Systems Changer, Sandy Holman, & Hip Hop conscious rapper, M’ster Lewis, have just released an album: Sankofa Life, honoring the history of African Diasporic people. She directs The Culture C.O.-O.P., United in Unity & authored: We All Have a Heritage; Grandma Says Our Hair Has Flair; Grandpa, Is Everything Black Bad? Her Cost of Darkness film traces racial disparities back to colonial times. His motivational work ...
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February 21, 2024 • 50 mins
02/21/24 Amanda Eke, a Nigerian American Artist, Spoken Word Poet, Filmmaker, Educator and podcaster, “has forged a career as an artist in many mediums and has helped so many discover their own voice through her work.” (amandaeke.com) She's won numerous awards including a Fulbright Fellowship and a UN award. Tune in to hear some of Eke’s powerful spoken word poetry; untold stories that she's showcased as an anchor, her The Poet Spe...
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February 14, 2024 • 51 mins
4 award-winning artists-musicians Pat Humphries & Sandy O, Reggie Harris & documentarian Tom Weidlinger talk art in these times, the documentary “Keep on Moving Forward” Tom is making on Emma’s Revolution & the 02/21/24 concert w/ them, Holly Near, et al in Berkeley. Available livestream & replay. Art is a survival mechanism, especially in dire times, it's the oxygen we crave, the lifeline we reach for & sometim...
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February 7, 2024 • 51 mins
02/07/21 Naomi Davis grew up in Davis, CA attended primarily white schools & endured mistreatment no one should ever experience as one of only four Black students in elementary; one of seven in JH, one of 15 in HS. For 21 years Ms Davis has volunteered to lead students in Black Student Unions, creating a home base for many to cultivate confidence, support families & help build lasting friendships between Black, Brown and Wh...
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January 24, 2024 • 50 mins
1/22/24 Andy Jones, poet, teacher, & 24 year radio host speaks on truth-telling on air. He’s taught classes at UC Davis since 1990, e.g. TS Eliot, Literature & Jazz, the Advanced Poetry Writing Workshop, on personal essay, fine arts writing & journalism. Author of 4 books & a weekly column for The Davis Enterprise, Andy hosts a KDVS show Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour & a Poetry Night Series. Named “Educa...
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January 18, 2024 • 52 mins
1/17/24 Key to achieving social justice in the face of harsh realities: hope & unity. Gloria Partida, former mayor of Davis & the ED of Davis Phoenix Coalition; Sandy Holman, ED of Culture C.O.- O.P & of United in Unity, author & filmmaker; Dr. Sara Ruebelt, a Multicultural Family Therapist who’s worked w/refugees & immigrants from Iran, Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia, Vietnam and Pat Humphries & Sandy O., the...
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January 3, 2024 • 50 mins
Susie Herrick, a licensed psychotherapist, Enneagram teacher, mediator, consultant & also author of Aphrodite Emerges, describes her 2nd book, Your Story Is Your Power, Free Your Feminine Voice. Co-authored with colleague/illustrator/writer Elle Luna, Your Story is gorgeously illustrated, very accessible & fiercely encouraging. Susie relates the insidious nature of misogyny and that “this book is designed to help you spiral...
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October 3, 2023 • 51 mins
9/27/23 Susie Herrick talks about the impact that studying research & near death stories has had on her practice as a psychotherapist.“Hearing Experiencers describe what they saw & felt is consciousness expanding, love being the constant.One can only conclude that love is at the core of existence.” She outlines features of near death experiences, how elements of them can help with interventions & underscores the importa...
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May 22, 2023 • 52 mins
5/10/23 In Part 1 of Healing Davis, Sandy L. Holman, a Systems Change Agent, Author & Documentarian, & Mayor Will Arnold help a community begin to heal by honoring the lives of two brilliant, beloved souls, David Breaux, AKA “The Compassion Guy,” and Karim Abou Najm, a 20 y/o student also known for his kind heart. Both lives were taken by separate brutal attacks. A third victim survived. Together we share grief & ways D...
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March 27, 2023 • 49 mins
3/22/23 Emma’s Revolution, live from studio, sing & share their vibrant, legendary perspectives, now being captured in a documentary by accomplished filmmaker Tom Weidlinger. Known for fearless, truth-telling lyrics & harmonies, this award-winning activist duo, Pat Humphries & Sandy O, have sung for the Dalai Lama & shared stages with Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Joan Baez, Amy Goodman, Indigo Girls, Jane Fonda, Rev Jes...
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March 26, 2023 • 49 mins
3/15/23 The Fourth Trimester is a unique, vastly needed program for women & families. Lisa Herrington, Emma Shandy Anway & Abbie Harper, 3 mothers, created the pilot project by combining their individual skill sets. Emma is a licensed therapist; Abbie a licensed pelvic floor P.T. & Lisa a certified personal trainer/group fitness coach. They were inspired to create the program due to the lack of professional resources de...
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March 25, 2023 • 49 mins
3/1/23 Minquan & Liliana Sapiel share a beautiful, frank, enlightening mother-daughter talk on challenges Young Indigenous Women face, from their Passamaquoddy, Penobscot Wabanaki Nations & beyond. Liliana, a pre-law political science student, expertly answers questions on women’s history, current conditions, life on & off reservation, Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, water rights, generational trauma, healing, ...
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March 22, 2023 • 53 mins
The Sacramento Observer is the #1 Black American newspaper, a powerful multimedia voice for the African American consumer. Est. in 1962 to call truth to power & to highlight leaders & warriors of the African American community not shown elsewhere, it was named the nation’s best Black newspaper by ‘73. During covid over 300 newspapers folded but S.O. tripled its newsroom. By shining light on disparities & opportunities, ...
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March 20, 2023 • 43 mins
2/1/23 Cassandra Flipper, retired lawyer, is the great grand niece of Second Lt Colonel Henry Ossian Flipper, the first Black graduate of West Point, not the first Black man to attend, but first to overcome hazing. No other students spoke to him while he was there. He graduated in 1877 & was posted at Fort Sill as commanding officer of the 10th Cavalry, aka Buffalo Soldiers. Falsely accused/dishonorably discharged, he continued...
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March 16, 2023 • 50 mins
3/8/23 Honor International Women’s Day w/Dr. Sara Ruebelt, Family Therapist/Multicultural Specialist & Heidi Randall, ED of Maine Boys to Maine. Sara, an Iranian American, describes how women in Iran have no freedom of expression & wants to be a voice for all women to be free. Heidi works to end male violence, self harm & to change the dominant story in our cultures. She trains students & new fathers a different, fr...
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February 22, 2023 • 51 mins
2/22/23 Camica Edwards, educator/leader hosts Dr. Kwabena Asante, climate engineer as he shares his journey of growing up in Africa to living & working in many areas of Africa & the US. He highlights gratitude for the role African Americans play in advancing Africa's self-identity & growth, e.g. W.E.B. Du Bois catalyzed Pan-African conferences for African independence; Ron Dellums’ led a 14-year campaign against aparthe...
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February 8, 2023 • 50 mins
Larry Lee Jr, Publisher/President of the Sacramento Observer, an African American owned newspaper, discusses public safety w/Calvin Handy, President of Calvin Handy Public Safety Consultants. Acknowledging the tragic loss of Tyre Nichols, another Black man killed by police, Larry shares,“Violence is in America’s DNA.” Atonement for its roots is needed to help re-imagine, redirect funds to heal communities. Calvin: police depts must...
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January 25, 2023 • 50 mins
1/25/23
Leslie Crenna is the Communications Manager of Cool Davis, a group of community volunteers & university students committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.They facilitate collaborations between individuals, organizations, & agencies to adapt & thrive in the face of climate change. Leslie manages their Household Engagement Campaign & develops workshops for apartment locations to engage residents in sustai...
Leslie Crenna is the Communications Manager of Cool Davis, a group of community volunteers & university students committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.They facilitate collaborations between individuals, organizations, & agencies to adapt & thrive in the face of climate change. Leslie manages their Household Engagement Campaign & develops workshops for apartment locations to engage residents in sustai...
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December 30, 2022 • 49 mins
Gloria Partida & Camica Edwards engage in Kwanzaa principles. Camica provides practical applications of the 7 principles to be lived year round.They highlight the importance of celebrating Kwanzaa in a predominantly white, affluent city where resources & opportunities for people of color are rare. Gloria is ED of Davis Phoenix Coalition; Camica is a counselor, Black Student Unions co-advisor & creator of Sankofa Saturda...
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December 23, 2022 • 50 mins
Lisa Herrington is the Founder and Co-Owner of FIT House Davis & an author. After losing her first-born son (a twin) she realized how important exercise was not just for the physical body, but for the mind. She often refers to her line of work as movement therapy; an act that strengthens the body, mind, and soul.
Lisa is a best-selling author on Grief and manages the Brady Randolph Herrington Community Foundation. She stays busy...
Lisa is a best-selling author on Grief and manages the Brady Randolph Herrington Community Foundation. She stays busy...
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