Episode 11: Helping Moms of Color Make Their Own Health A Priority and The Importance for Communities of Color
Funding Your Healthcare Vision
English - October 20, 2019 10:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSelf-Improvement Education Kids & Family Parenting health equity physician nurse entrepreneurship healthcare funding nonprofit medical practice private practice Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
This week's episode is all about how moms of color need to make their own health a priority and how they can do it effectively. We also talk about the implications for communities of color. I get to speak to Dr. Kameelah is a Board Certified Obstetrician/Gynecologist and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) practicing in New York City. Dr. Phillips is a life long educator and aims to empower women with knowledge to help them make the best health decisions for their life. She’s a graduate of Stanford University, completed medical school at the University of Southern California and attended New York University for her OB/Gyn residency.
I have been following Dr. Kameelah on her very active Instagram, drkameelahsays, for a while now and was immediately drawn to how she provides amazing women’s health info in a way that is approachable, down-to-earth.
It’s a really important episode with a lot of amazing advice from someone who has dedicated her career to women's health.
Some of the things we spoke about included:
1:18- How we as women of color are embracing the duality and complexity of our lives - the professional and the homegirl- and the importance of vulnerability
3:35- How our health can be significantly shaped by whether we look at our childhood adversity a source of shame vs something to be celebrated
7:10- Why the health of women of color in our families are so integral and has such broad ramifications for the family and the community, but also would allow for women to be able to do so much more.
9:45- The pressure to show up as a mom who has it all together, especially when you are a working professional, and try to “keep up with the joneses”, even if it means putting our health to the side.
11:20- The role of unconscious fear of being perceived as selfish and denial, as major contributors of delaying our own health needs
15:20- The state of how the healthcare system has been difficult for women of color
17:50- The need for more doctors of color (and the bias that exists to potentially weed out students of color from the medical career pathway)f includes trial and error
19:50- The exhaustion and frustration for women of color to have to continuously have to go through trial and error to find the right doctor who respects them and shares they value.
22:40- Dr. Kameelah’s ideas on practices that help to keep the Superwoman tendencies away
25:00- The no more big annual birthdays that she is starting with her family (must listen!)
27:10- The relationship between minimizing Supermom tendencies and the beneficial impact on mood disorders, including anxiety and depression