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SOS085 - How To Reclaim Your Identity Through Language And Stand In Your Power With Chesline Pierre-Paul
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Chesline Pierre-Paul is an award-winning holistic life, creativity, and language coach, media and language activist, and the co-founder of the Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub.
Growing up in Canada and of Haitian, Creole descent, Chesline experienced firsthand the power and politics of language, an experience which led to her anti-colonial resistance work and starting her business which focuses on self-determination and anti-colonial healing through language.
she now works with QTIBPOC+ Queero, S/hero, and ally of multicultural heritage, helping them to reclaim their identity by learning the lost native (Indigenous) languages of their biological ancestral lineage.
Topics discussed:
- The power and politics of language
- Why learning a language can be hard, lesser discussed reasons
- How to learn languages in a way that fits with your identity
- What it means to be a kid of the third culture
- How to overcome mental blocks and free your creativity
- How to be the most powerful person in any room and not be denied
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100 episodes
Manage episode 276902159 series 1319172
Chesline Pierre-Paul is an award-winning holistic life, creativity, and language coach, media and language activist, and the co-founder of the Decolonial Perspectives and Practices Hub.
Growing up in Canada and of Haitian, Creole descent, Chesline experienced firsthand the power and politics of language, an experience which led to her anti-colonial resistance work and starting her business which focuses on self-determination and anti-colonial healing through language.
she now works with QTIBPOC+ Queero, S/hero, and ally of multicultural heritage, helping them to reclaim their identity by learning the lost native (Indigenous) languages of their biological ancestral lineage.
Topics discussed:
- The power and politics of language
- Why learning a language can be hard, lesser discussed reasons
- How to learn languages in a way that fits with your identity
- What it means to be a kid of the third culture
- How to overcome mental blocks and free your creativity
- How to be the most powerful person in any room and not be denied
Go to show notes page: Click for show notes page
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