Brokenhearted
by Althea Branton
Consider this - if you've been oppressed, repressed and suppressed your entire life, how does that affect your interpersonal relationships? How have centuries of colonialism, imperialism and systemic racism affect the way you experience heartbreak?I'm Althea Branton and I'm not afraid to stare centuries of patriarchal nonsense in the face and reclaim the entirety of my hella delicious Self.Season 2 of Brokenhearted features countercultural conversations about heartbreak in all its forms. Start by reclaiming your whole Self and see what happens next.
Episodes
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Why I'm No Longer Brokenhearted (Series Finale)
A year and a half ago, I had a thought to start a podcast about heartbreak. Days later, that thought became an actual reality... minus all the law of attraction/high vibe/manifesting bullshit. In this final episode of Brokenhearted, I reflect on what heartbreak really means, how I'll navigate...
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Finding Love at Work with Mark LeBusque
Mark LeBusque believes that whilst every human is unique, every team is unique and every organization is unique, we have an overarching commonality at each of these levels. Twenty-five years of career and fifty plus years of life experience has resulted in a whole range of stories and learnings...
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Right Relationship with James-Olivia Chu Hillman
James-Olivia Chu Hillman (they/them) facilitates and mediates uncomfortable, necessary, life-changing conversations with people who want more joy and connection and less suffering in their most important relationships—with themselves, their loved ones, their organizations, and the world. In this...
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Sorting Through the Head Trash That is Writing For Money with Caelin Aerin
Caelin Aerin is a writer, editor, coach and non-binary ex-copywriter with story in their blood & astrological chart. Caelin knows that writing isn't easy for everyone and when your basic necessities of life depend on it, it's that much harder to do. In this episode, Caelin breaks down why (air...
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Single & Sassy with Rosa Moniz
Rosa Moniz has been single for more than a decade. Does that mean she's not a great catch? Categorically not. She's decided to embrace being single to the fullest by creating an amazing life for herself. In this episode, Rosa & I get real about what it means to be single - how societal beliefs...
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3 Reasons Why Dating is So Outdated
Heartbreak happens when you follow the so-called dating rules and you still don't end up with the #relationshipgoals you desire. These rules, just like most societal constructs out there today, aren’t designed for women to win. They’re rooted in patriarchal beliefs so that women don’t rise too…
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Breaking up with Yourself with Christy Towns
On the path to reclaiming yourself, you have to break up with old versions of yourself - not just the versions that no longer serve you but the versions that can't be controlled or influenced by dominant patriarchal culture. Christy Towns helps millennial women quit their boring AF jobs, create...
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How is Ghosting Normal?
Halloween is the perfect time to talk about ghosting... all those spirits lurking in the shadows... those of us who have become full-time ghost chasers in order to find out what REALLY happened... ... not anymore. In this episode, I get real about ghosting. Yes, you should ghost if there is an...
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Unlearning Everything
At some point in your life, you come to a crossroads where you start to question everything. It doesn't matter what stage of life you're at; what matters is that you take the time to not only pose the question but seek out truth. In this episode, I break down what it means to unlearn things you...
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My First Heartbreak with Oana York
Oana York first experienced heartbreak at 4 years of age. She didn't know it then but that event sparked a lifelong journey of self-discovery. In this episode, Oana & I break down how heartbreak at an early age can shape your experience and how it relates to the relationship you ultimately have...
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Sprituality and Colour with Letitia Elizabeth
Letitia Elizabeth is an entrepreneur, business accountability coach, and the secret weapon you need to turn your idea into freedom. As a writer, creative director, event producer and motivational thought leader, she is best known for influential print publications, mobile tech products…
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Normalized Dysfunction
A long time ago a bunch of people got scared about their slaves. They thought they were gonna (air quotes) get them. So they decided to keep them in check. They decided that they were less than human; abnormal; inferior. Hundreds of years later this core belief rooted in fear has become a normal...
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How to Reclaim Yourself
What's the most radical act you can think of? Protesting? Writing letters to politicians? Boycotts? While these are valid ways to protest social injustice, there's something else you can do to give the finger (or two depending where you are in the world) to the man - you can begin to reclaim...
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Season 2 Trailer
Social injustice isn't just a trending hashtag. For centuries, millions of people around the planet have been oppressed, repressed and suppressed by colonialism, imperialism & systemic racism. So what happens when these systems that seek to smother all that you are affect how you conduct yourself...
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Here's What You Need to Hear About Heartbreak Right Now
Here it is - the season finale of Brokenhearted's inaugural season. In the 50th episode, I break down what I've learned over the last year about heartbreak. I also share details of Season 2 which drops on September 21, 2020. Brokenhearted will now be on hiatus until the Season 2 trailer drops in...
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Endings Explained with Seema Sodha
Endings. We face them every day. Sometimes we mourn when we get to the end of that bingeworthy TV series. Or the movie's ending wasn't like we thought so we'll just write off the entire series (I'm looking at you, Star Wars fans). Seema Sodha and I break down endings... specifically what happens...
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The Truth about Soul Mates with Katie Kozlowski
Katie Kozlowski is a master energy coach and spiritual trainer dedicated to helping awaken the inner strength, wisdom and creative power for women who are ready to wake up, heal and transform. She adeptly mixes her own stories and experiences with ancient wisdom and sacred teachings and…
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Surviving Abuse with Arien Smith
*TRIGGER WARNING - This episode contains discussions about abuse.* Arien Smith is a survivor of 15 years of abuse, passionate entrepreneur and activist hoping to change the world for marginalized individuals. After having built a life he loves after his trauma, he founded The Prosperity Path...
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Hidden Pain with Laura Buckley
Laura Buckley is a registered dietitian and emotional eating coach. She is passionate about helping coaches and healers improve their energy and prioritize their own well-being so they can end their weight and food struggles once and for all! She utilizes a mind/body/spirit approach that creates...
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Buffering (It's Not What You Think) with Steph Miramontes
Steph Miramontes takes fitness coaching to another level by inspiring deep change that goes beyond the diet. With a passion for helping emotional eaters and yo-yo dieters lose weight for good, she coaches women to radically transform body, mind & soul using a non-diet and pleasure-centered...
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Lessons Learned with Naomi Morgan
Naomi Morgan is a 38 year old ex-teacher with a love of learning, psychology and travel! She's halfway through a Master’s Degree in Positive Psychology and Coaching Psychology specializing in resilience training for improved happiness and wellbeing. She splits her time between helping her…
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Heartbreak 2.0
Feeling heartbroken sucks - there's no doubt about that. But what happens when the heartbreak you feel is impacted by generations of colonialism, imperialism and systemic racism? Your experience as a person of colour in a society that was designed to suppress you and your spirit can impact how…
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So Now What? with Denise Archilla
Denise Archilla is a former Pediatric Clinical Social Worker turned Chronic Illness Coach, Fellow Warrior, and Mom of 2 Young Adult Warriors. She founded the Chronic Warrior Society in 2015. Her passion is coaching teen and young adult warriors and helping them build confidence, shift their…
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The Three-Year Breakup with Nanaco Kawai
Nanaco Kawai teaches yoga classes & hosts retreats for snowboarders and skiers in Myoko, Japan. Her mission is to help people become their most authentic & empowered self. She loves teaching yoga in a real way. It doesn’t matter if you’re not flexible or don’t own the latest leggings it's all…
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Moving From Fear to Trust with Aisling FitzGibbon
Aisling FitzGibbon is a certified Holistic Nutrition Coach. She runs an online Holistic Nutrition Coaching Practice and Aisling’s Health School. She holds a B.A in Early Childhood Studies and a First Class (BSc) degree in Occupational Therapy. Over the past decade, she’s studied holistic health…
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Why I Started a Podcast
I get asked often why I started a podcast... specifically a podcast about heartbreak. Why would I want to talk about something so seemingly painful? Heartbreak is pain. It's grief. It's loss. It's the shadow side that no one wants to face head-on let alone talk about. I'm not afraid to stare…
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Pride Means Life
As a cisgender bisexual demisexual woman of colour, Pride means a lot to me. Pride Month is a time I'll never forget as the time where I arrived at the semicolon of life. It's a story that only a few people on this Earth knew... until now. If you've been affected by my story, please reach out to…
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Same Storm, Different Boat
We are not having the same experience. While I can't fathom how people can be murdered in cold blood in broad daylight and only face repercussions due to excessive public outcry, the fact remains that murderers are only being brought to justice for fear of public condemnation. As a cishet woman…
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Coming Out of the Spritual Closet with Eva Wexler
Eva Wexler is a self-love coach and energy healer. She brings her knowledge of the esoteric to help you to see your limitless potential. By colliding the worlds of love and magic, you'll have the ability to create a symphonic harmony and cultivate a life filled with beauty and meaning. Eva & I...
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Spirituality & Heartbreak with Valentine Lister
Valentine Lister is a former psychotherapist turned Twin Flame Tarot Healer. She uses her training as a tarot card reader, professional counselor, and spiritual teacher to help twin flames reconnect and get back to bliss! She provides one on one Tarot Card Readings and Spiritual Coaching to twin...
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Growing up West Indian with Dr. Simone Kotraba
Dr. Simone Kotraba did exactly what her parents wanted her to do - get an education. So she did. Fast-forward several years and a doctorate later, it's still causing conflict. Dr. Kotraba and I break down what it's like to grow up in the West Indian community. She shares her experiences of...
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Mommyhood (I Can Still Pull an All-Nighter)
Mother's Day is around the corner if you live in the Western Hemisphere. I've been a mum for a few short years but it's definitely been an amazing experience - poo, vomit and other projectiles not withstanding. In this episode, I break down what mommyhood means to me, how it's affected my life…
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The Stages of a Breakup with Stacy Brookman
Stacy Brookman is a Resilience and Life Storytelling Expert who interviews fascinating people on the Real Life Resilience podcast. She helps smart, outwardly confident women who secretly have low self-esteem issues due to an emotionally abusive partner take back control and begin to develop the...
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A Journey Through Heartbreak with Simran Bhatia
Simran Bhatia is the founder of Flowation.com, where spiritual-minded entrepreneurs can find resources to learn how to create more Flow in their lives and businesses. She’s been obsessed with the question ‘how can I make this feel easier?’ since she can remember. As a former Estate Planning and...
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Parenting in the Time of a Pandemic
Parenting is by no means easy. So being a parent in the midst of a global pandemic is categorically not easy either. So why are we expected as parents to have it all magically figured out? In this bonus episode, I'm here to tell it like it actually is. It's hard! There's so many unknowns! But I...
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Is Change Good?
This global pandemic isn't going away anytime soon. It's changed our lives completely. So is change a good thing? In this episode, I ask a few big questions like is change good for us? How do we navigate change? What's going to happen to us now? It's super-important now to take care of yourself -...
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The Blindspots Between Us with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is on a mission to protect people from dangerous judgment errors known as cognitive biases by developing the most effective decision-making strategies. A best-selling author, he wrote Never Go With Your Gut: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business...
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Trusting Intuition with Rhiannon Halley
Rhiannon Halley is an Intuition and Women's Empowerment coach combining the mystical with the grounded and practical. She guides women home to their natural state of empowerment by connecting them back into their intuition and the guidance they have within. Rhiannon & I dig deep into intuition…
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We Will Survive
Humanity, let's be real. We've been through some thangs. Influenza. War. Plague. Locusts. Ebola. Now COVID-19 is a global pandemic. Yes, it's touched all of us. But remember what Jerry Springer said at the end of every episode? "Take care of yourselves... and each other." We need to do more of...
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Feng Shui Revealed with Moni Castaneda
Moni Castaneda is a Feng Shui Consultant, Speaker and Author. Feng Shui is the ancient Asian art that teaches us how to live in harmony with our surroundings. Moni has integrated modern Western architecture (for which she trained) with ancient Feng Shui knowledge to create the Nine Steps to Feng...
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Self-Love is Still Love
Self-love isn't inherently wrong... but I think we're missing the point of self-love. Yes, it's good to love yourself. You can't clearly break up with yourself so you gotta be ok with you. Self-love is an ongoing journey. There's no end point where you say to yourself, Self, I love myself enough…
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Capturing the Soul with Amy Auset Rohn
Amy Auset Rohn is an ordained Priestess of Isis, Intuitive Soul Coach, photographer and creator of the Soul Song. Auset helps people connect to their soul by the written word, a photograph or alchemizing musical notes into the soul's ballad. Auset & I discuss her work with the soul - specifically...
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Breaking All the Dating Rules with Ambila Nath
Ambila Nath guides women who are seeking a long term relationship; the women who are dating a lot of people hoping they will find the right one, but feeling frustrated that it's just not happening. She mentors them to stop the endless dating, find themselves and find their man. Ambila and I have…
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We The Brokenhearted with Harj Thiara
Harj Thiara is a life coach who helps people recover from heartbreak. No, this isn't a typo nor have I lost my everlovin' mind. Harj & I are both Canadian and heartbreak is our jam. We get together to break down romantic heartbreak and the beauty that can happen at the end of a romantic/intimate...
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Attraction vs. Connection
Valentine's Day (formerly known to me as Singles' Awareness Day) is just around the corner. If you're like me, you're excited for all that heart-shaped chocolate to go on sale. In this episode, I break down connection. You can be attracted to someone; you can even find a soul mate (hint: check…
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On Being Intimidating with Erin Stafford
Erin Stafford was (and still is!) the girl with the big, fun personality that no one wanted to date in high school. Her brother was THE hot guy that all the girls loved and she was basically invisible when standing next to her gorgeous BFF. She wasn't exactly pursued by many guys growing up...
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It's Time to Take Branding Back with Lilly Garcia
Lilly Garcia is a flexible brand designer currently putting her skills to good use in the non-profit sector. She believes that design can be a tool for social change when we decide to show up as our full selves in our branding. In this special edition episode, Lilly and I break down branding. She...
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Keep the Wisdom, Heal the Wound with Christi Anne Bela
For the last 12 years, Christi Anne Bela has been there for stressed out executives, seniors with severe health problems, couples struggling with connection, people during pregnancy, weight loss, anxiety, insomnia, loss and with families as they prepare their special needs children for the future...
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Redefining 'Greatness'
It's a perfect time of year to break down greatness. Ever hear terms like "world-class", "personal mastery" or something to that effect? These terms would have you believe that unless you have a bazillion social media followers or a bazillon dollars in the bank (spiritually manifested while you...
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My Dreams Got Turned into Mulch with Amanda Midkiff
Amanda Midkiff is the herbalist and plant witch at Locust Light Farm, an herbal teaching garden and community space in central New Jersey. Through on-farm/online classes and seasonal rituals, she helps people to connect with the magic and medicine of the plant world. She believes that ritual can...
About this show
Consider this - if you've been oppressed, repressed and suppressed your entire life, how does that affect your interpersonal relationships? How have centuries of colonialism, imperialism and systemic racism affect the way you experience heartbreak?I'm Althea Branton and I'm not afraid to stare centuries of patriarchal nonsense in the face and reclaim the entirety of my hella delicious Self.Season 2 of Brokenhearted features countercultural conversations about heartbreak in all its forms. Start by reclaiming your whole Self and see what happens next.
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