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Ease and Grow

by Sika D.

A modern day holistic wellness podcast that provides inspiration and encouragement for mindful multicultural millennials who want to create their dream life and enjoy the journey along the way! Through solo episodes and interviews with wellness experts, creatives, mystical teachers, and generally cool people, host Sika chats about mindset, spirituality, relationships, creativity, dream chasing, and more. My mission is to share helpful life lessons, tools, and wisdom for self-improvement so that you can gain a fresh perspective and start living your best life. Together, we are growing into our authentic selves, enjoying the journey along the way, and rising above the grind. Join us! Follow along on instagram @EaseandGrowPod and learn more about your host at www.brightlysika.com.

Copyright: © 2023 Ease and Grow

Episodes

9. Exploring the Enneagram with Dayo of The Black Enneagram: Reclaiming her faith as a Type 1 Reformer

55m · Published 17 Mar 05:00

In today’s episode, I chat with Dayo of the immensely popular instagram account @TheBlackEnneagram. We explore her journey with the account and lessons she's learned as a type 1. We also discuss her Christian faith and how learning her enneagram type helped her approach her faith in a way that worked for her. This episode will inspire you to take back agency in whatever life situation you’re facing that’s making you feel boxed in! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/ucivsa

We Discuss:

  • Her process of creating the graphics for @TheBlackEnneagram 
  • Her journey of getting into Berkeley Law with the help of her instagram account
  • What inspired her to start her page and highlight black culture through the lens of the enneagram
  • What the enneagram is and the core motivations and fears of each type
  • Dayo’s experience as a type 1 and her biggest lesson
  • How she’s reclaimed her Christian faith from the limiting box that others created
  • The importance of “chewing the meat and spitting out the bones” in your relationship to faith, spirituality and life!

We Mentioned:

  • The Road Back To You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
  • Truity Enneagram Test – Find out your type!
  • Nine Types co Self Typing Guide
  • Procreate on iPad
  • Brandi Miller from Reclaiming my Theology podcast
  • Arielle Estoria
  •  “Changes That Heal” by Dr. Henry Cloud

Connect with us!

  • @TheBlackEnneagram
  • Ease and Grow Instagram
  • Ease & Grow Suggestion Box - Suggest a topic or give us feedback! 
  • Ease and Grow website


 Thanks for listening! ❤️

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9. Exploring the Enneagram with Dayo of The Black Enneagram: Reclaiming her faith as a Type 1 Reformer

55m · Published 17 Mar 05:00

In today’s episode, I chat with Dayo of the immensely popular instagram account @TheBlackEnneagram. We explore her journey with the account and lessons she's learned as a type 1. We also discuss her Christian faith and how learning her enneagram type helped her approach her faith in a way that worked for her. This episode will inspire you to take back agency in whatever life situation you’re facing that’s making you feel boxed in! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/ucivsa

We Discuss:

  • Her process of creating the graphics for @TheBlackEnneagram 
  • Her journey of getting into Berkeley Law with the help of her instagram account
  • What inspired her to start her page and highlight black culture through the lens of the enneagram
  • What the enneagram is and the core motivations and fears of each type
  • Dayo’s experience as a type 1 and her biggest lesson
  • How she’s reclaimed her Christian faith from the limiting box that others created
  • The importance of “chewing the meat and spitting out the bones” in your relationship to faith, spirituality and life!

We Mentioned:

  • The Road Back To You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
  • Truity Enneagram Test – Find out your type!
  • Nine Types co Self Typing Guide
  • Procreate on iPad
  • Brandi Miller from Reclaiming my Theology podcast
  • Arielle Estoria
  •  “Changes That Heal” by Dr. Henry Cloud

Connect with us!

  • @TheBlackEnneagram
  • Ease and Grow Instagram
  • Ease & Grow Suggestion Box - Suggest a topic or give us feedback! 
  • Ease and Grow website


 Thanks for listening! ❤️

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8. Spotting our Sneaky Self-Sabotage Patterns 🧐: Avoidance, clear communication, and scary conversations

31m · Published 03 Mar 06:00

In this episode, I share a breakthrough I recently had in therapy and realizations around my pattern of avoiding things (super enneagram 9 vibes). I give tips for how to spot your own sneaky patterns that are sabotaging your goals and give encouragement to face things head on in your life and relationships.

Mentioned:

  • Laird Superfood Instafuel
  • My personal ig: @sikadee
  • Ease & Grow Suggestion Box (tell me what you want to see on the show!)
  • The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
  • Episode 6: Love in the time of Quarantine with Kimberly Cabot
  • @HandelGroup Instagram
  • Armchair Expert podcast with Amy Poehler

Connect with us:

  • @Easeandgrowpod Instagram
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast

Thanks for listening! ❤️

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8. Spotting our Sneaky Self-Sabotage Patterns 🧐: Avoidance, clear communication, and scary conversations

31m · Published 03 Mar 06:00

In this episode, I share a breakthrough I recently had in therapy and realizations around my pattern of avoiding things (super enneagram 9 vibes). I give tips for how to spot your own sneaky patterns that are sabotaging your goals and give encouragement to face things head on in your life and relationships.

Mentioned:

  • Laird Superfood Instafuel
  • My personal ig: @sikadee
  • Ease & Grow Suggestion Box (tell me what you want to see on the show!)
  • The Road Back to You by Ian Morgan Cron and Suzanne Stabile
  • Episode 6: Love in the time of Quarantine with Kimberly Cabot
  • @HandelGroup Instagram
  • Armchair Expert podcast with Amy Poehler

Connect with us:

  • @Easeandgrowpod Instagram
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast

Thanks for listening! ❤️

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7. Shame Spiraling 🌪: Perfectionism, over-performing as a trauma response, and how to get to self-acceptance

24m · Published 17 Feb 19:00

In today’s episode, Sika sits at the mic solo to catch up about valentine’s weekend and share about a recent emotional breakdown she experienced. She touches on being an enneagram 1, perfectionism, productivity shame & sadness shame, pandemic fatigue, and some self-care tools that helped her out of it. Hope you’re taking care of yourselves! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/2psyld 


Mentioned:

  • Enneagram 1
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever
  • Episode 6: Love in the Time of Quarantine with Kim Cabot
  • Black Girls Heal podcast - #45 Understanding and Honoring Your Trauma Response
  • Emma Chamberlain “Recovering from a Meltdown” Youtube Video
  • The Nap Ministry Instagram 

Connect with us!

  • Ease & Grow Instagram: @Easeandgrowpod
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast

Thanks for listening! ❤️

7. Shame Spiraling 🌪: Perfectionism, over-performing as a trauma response, and how to get to self-acceptance

24m · Published 17 Feb 19:00

In today’s episode, Sika sits at the mic solo to catch up about valentine’s weekend and share about a recent emotional breakdown she experienced. She touches on being an enneagram 1, perfectionism, productivity shame & sadness shame, pandemic fatigue, and some self-care tools that helped her out of it. Hope you’re taking care of yourselves! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/2psyld 


Mentioned:

  • Enneagram 1
  • To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before: Always and Forever
  • Episode 6: Love in the Time of Quarantine with Kim Cabot
  • Black Girls Heal podcast - #45 Understanding and Honoring Your Trauma Response
  • Emma Chamberlain “Recovering from a Meltdown” Youtube Video
  • The Nap Ministry Instagram 

Connect with us!

  • Ease & Grow Instagram: @Easeandgrowpod
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast

Thanks for listening! ❤️

6. Love in the Time of Quarantine with Kimberly Cabot ❤️: Owning your good and bad traits in love + tips for dating and keeping the romance alive

1h 17m · Published 13 Feb 06:00

In this episode, I chat about love & dating with my Life Coach from the Handel Group, Kimberly Cabot. We of course touch on how to find and keep love during quarantine but we also touch on Kim's recent dating experiences as a divorced, soon-to-be empty-nester. I share my experiences with people pleasing and setting boundaries, we talk about how love is so closely tied to self-worth and the games we all play on dating apps, and Kim gives us ideas for how we can incorporate more love into our lives while hitting pandemic fatigue. Here’s your Valentine’s day love potion! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/vyzlun

//InnerU Love Quiz: How’s your love life? Find out with the Love, Sex & Dating Quiz from Kimberly Cabot at Handel Group. Answer honestly and the “LSD Quiz” will give you a good idea of exactly what kind of trip (fun, colorful, or long strange) you’ve actually been on when it comes to relationships. Get started at: http://bit.ly/easegrow-CRQ

//Social Media Detox: Bring presence to your scroll during my Social Media Detox Week Experience from Feb. 21 to Feb 26. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/d9d36445b872/socialdetoxweek

//Coupon Code: Sign up for buzzsprout with my referral link and get a $20 amazon gift card! - https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1467934

We Discuss:

  • Handel Group’s approach to love & dating during this pandemic 
  • Why we settle for less than we really want in love
  • My “bad trait”: People pleasing and how it’s secretly not so nice
  • The self-sabotage that comes from hitting our upper limit of love and joy
  • Advice for singles and those in committed relationships to find and keep love during quarantine

We Mention:

  • The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
  • Mark Groves Instagram
  • Necklace jewelry pieces from Out of our Mines
  • John Mulaney's Ask A Grown Man Youtube Video
  • Dan Savage Lovecast
  • Grease 
  • Seven Principles of Making a Marriage Work by The Gottmans
  • NorCal Dick Taylor Chocolate – Seasonal raspberry vanilla dark chocolate

Connect with us

  • Kimberly’s Instagram: @Kcabot72
  • Kimberly’s email: [email protected]
  • Ease & Grow Instagram: @Easeandgrowpod
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast
  • Online: www.handelgroup.com/
  • Instagram @handelgroup
  • Facebook: @HGLifeCoaching

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6. Love in the Time of Quarantine with Kimberly Cabot ❤️: Owning your good and bad traits in love + tips for dating and keeping the romance alive

1h 17m · Published 13 Feb 06:00

In this episode, I chat about love & dating with my Life Coach from the Handel Group, Kimberly Cabot. We of course touch on how to find and keep love during quarantine but we also touch on Kim's recent dating experiences as a divorced, soon-to-be empty-nester. I share my experiences with people pleasing and setting boundaries, we talk about how love is so closely tied to self-worth and the games we all play on dating apps, and Kim gives us ideas for how we can incorporate more love into our lives while hitting pandemic fatigue. Here’s your Valentine’s day love potion! Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/vyzlun

//InnerU Love Quiz: How’s your love life? Find out with the Love, Sex & Dating Quiz from Kimberly Cabot at Handel Group. Answer honestly and the “LSD Quiz” will give you a good idea of exactly what kind of trip (fun, colorful, or long strange) you’ve actually been on when it comes to relationships. Get started at: http://bit.ly/easegrow-CRQ

//Social Media Detox: Bring presence to your scroll during my Social Media Detox Week Experience from Feb. 21 to Feb 26. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/d9d36445b872/socialdetoxweek

//Coupon Code: Sign up for buzzsprout with my referral link and get a $20 amazon gift card! - https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1467934

We Discuss:

  • Handel Group’s approach to love & dating during this pandemic 
  • Why we settle for less than we really want in love
  • My “bad trait”: People pleasing and how it’s secretly not so nice
  • The self-sabotage that comes from hitting our upper limit of love and joy
  • Advice for singles and those in committed relationships to find and keep love during quarantine

We Mention:

  • The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
  • Mark Groves Instagram
  • Necklace jewelry pieces from Out of our Mines
  • John Mulaney's Ask A Grown Man Youtube Video
  • Dan Savage Lovecast
  • Grease 
  • Seven Principles of Making a Marriage Work by The Gottmans
  • NorCal Dick Taylor Chocolate – Seasonal raspberry vanilla dark chocolate

Connect with us

  • Kimberly’s Instagram: @Kcabot72
  • Kimberly’s email: [email protected]
  • Ease & Grow Instagram: @Easeandgrowpod
  • Ease & Grow online home: www.brightlysika.com/ease-and-grow-podcast
  • Online: www.handelgroup.com/
  • Instagram @handelgroup
  • Facebook: @HGLifeCoaching


Thanks for listening!

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5. Social Media Sanity Toolkit with Portia Obeng 📱: Tips for digital wellness + leveraging Linkedin for career success

1h 8m · Published 03 Feb 06:00

In this episode, I chat with social media expert, Portia Obeng. She gives us an inside look into a day in the life of a social media manager, tips for keeping our sanity with social media, encouragement to level up our LinkedIn game and "act like a lady and think like a white man," and she entices us all to experience Ghana, her favorite place in the world, with her asap! We cover all of that and so much more.  Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/eimnt3

//Social Media Detox: Bring presence to your scroll during my Social Media Detox Week Experience from Feb. 21 to Feb 26. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/d9d36445b872/socialdetoxweek

//Coupon Code: Sign up for buzzsprout with my referral link and get a $20 amazon gift card! - https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1467934

We mention:

  • Canva Graphics
  • HabitBull app
  • Maya Elious: @mayaelious
  • Myleik: @myleik
  • Tatiana O'Hara: @_tatianaohara 
  • Erin White: @erinondemand
  • Kierra: @missunconventional_
  • Natasha: @shinewithnatsha 
  • Glo Atanmo: @glographics
  • Ghanaian dish: Omo Tuo 
  • Mantras for love albums: Toni Jones, Beautiful Chorus, and Geminelle
  • DC pound cake – from the “Scratch” stand at the RFK Stadium Farmers Market
  • Shine app founders podcast episode
  • Duane Caleb's album 
  • Crowned Affirmations album
  • The Alchemist
  • The Body Keeps the Score
  • Fiction books by Jasmine Guillory
  • Tuesdays with Morrie

Connect with us!

  • Portiaobeng.com
  • Linkedin.com/in/portiaobeng
  • Ease and Grow Instagram
  • Ease and Grow website


Thanks for listening! ❤️ 

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5. Social Media Sanity Toolkit with Portia Obeng 📱: Tips for digital wellness + leveraging Linkedin for career success

1h 8m · Published 03 Feb 06:00

In this episode, I chat with social media expert, Portia Obeng. She gives us an inside look into a day in the life of a social media manager, tips for keeping our sanity with social media, encouragement to level up our LinkedIn game and "act like a lady and think like a white man," and she entices us all to experience Ghana, her favorite place in the world, with her asap! We cover all of that and so much more.  Full shownotes: https://rb.gy/eimnt3

//Social Media Detox: Bring presence to your scroll during my Social Media Detox Week Experience from Feb. 21 to Feb 26. Sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/d9d36445b872/socialdetoxweek

//Coupon Code: Sign up for buzzsprout with my referral link and get a $20 amazon gift card! - https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=1467934

We mention:

  • Canva Graphics
  • HabitBull app
  • Maya Elious: @mayaelious
  • Myleik: @myleik
  • Tatiana O'Hara: @_tatianaohara 
  • Erin White: @erinondemand
  • Kierra: @missunconventional_
  • Natasha: @shinewithnatsha 
  • Glo Atanmo: @glographics
  • Ghanaian dish: Omo Tuo 
  • Mantras for love albums: Toni Jones, Beautiful Chorus, and Geminelle
  • DC pound cake – from the “Scratch” stand at the RFK Stadium Farmers Market
  • Shine app founders podcast episode
  • Duane Caleb's album 
  • Crowned Affirmations album
  • The Alchemist
  • The Body Keeps the Score
  • Fiction books by Jasmine Guillory
  • Tuesdays with Morrie

Connect with us!

  • Portiaobeng.com
  • Linkedin.com/in/portiaobeng
  • Ease and Grow Instagram
  • Ease and Grow website


Thanks for listening! ❤️ 

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Ease and Grow has 40 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 35:05:32. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 22nd 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on February 24th, 2024 08:42.

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