Meet Me at the Highland™
by Gabrielle Wyatt
Meet Me at the Highland™ is a podcast and sacred space centering Black women's leadership, imagination, and legacy. Hosted by Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project, it offers intimate, intergenerational conversations with changemakers, artists, and cultural architects reimagining what it means to thrive. It's a rhythm of rest, reflection, and radical dreaming, where we remember who we are, reclaim our joy, and begin again.Season Two, Seeding, is unfolding now, with Highland Leaders like Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Dr. Topeka K. Sam, and Brea Baker. Each episode arrives with a love letter, journaling prompts, and reflections that invite deeper introspection.This is your invitation. To lead. To rest. To imagine forward. To meet us at the Highland. meetmeatthehighland.substack.com
Episodes
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Shawna Wells: Thinking Like a Generationalist
“Because of them, I can take a deep breath. And because of me, I hope, my highest hope is that we and they can play their way into possibility.” Shawna Wells What would it mean to think like a generationalist? Shawna Wells meets us back at the Highland to close Season 2, and she places one word…
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Lola C. West: What It Costs to Be You
"Because of Adele and the women in my family, I can stand in the trenches and be as much steadying balance and the wind beneath people's sails as I can. And because of me, I would hope that my granddaughter will stand to do the same." Lola C. West What does it cost to be you? Lola C. West arrives...
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Brea Baker: What the Land Remembers
"Because of them, I can demand what I'm owed unapologetically. And because of me, my lineage will reap what we have sown." Brea Baker What does the land remember? Brea Baker arrives at the Highland holding her infant son, with an answer as literal as it is ancestral. Brea Baker is a writer and...
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Dr. Topeka K. Sam: Not Just Free From, But Free To
"Because of them, I can. And because of me, I will." —Dr. Topeka K. Sam What happens when freedom stops being a moment of release and becomes a practice? Dr. Topeka K. Sam arrives at the Highland with an answer shaped by a decade of moving from the freedom from to the freedom to. Dr. Topeka K.…
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Dr. Dena Simmons: The Soil We Cannot See
“Because of them, I can dream. Because of me, I can make my dreams come true.” —Dr. Dena Simmons What is the emotional soil the next generation will inherit? Dr. Dena Simmons arrives at the Highland with an answer rooted in lineage, liberation, and the courage to stop calling endurance success.…
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Katara McCarty How to Grow Without Burning the Soil
What does it take to grow something without burning the soil it grows in? Katara McCarty arrives at the Highland in the second episode of Season 2 with an answer shaped by both her flourishing and her depletion. Katara McCarty is the founder and CEO of Exhale, an award-winning, inclusive…
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Brittany Packnett Cunningham: Love, Power, and the Mustard Seed
What does it mean to plant something for people you may never meet? Season 2 of Meet Me at the Highland™ opens with Brittany Packnett Cunningham, who arrives tracing her lineage and offers the season the faith of a mustard seed. With Gabrielle Wyatt, she explores truth as a daily practice, taking...
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A Love Letter to the Future Dr. Gail Parkers
A quiet note of gratitude honoring the lineage, wisdom, and healing presence Dr. Gail Parker brought to Season One. A reflection on love as inheritance and love as practice.In this Love Letter from the Highland, Gabrielle reflects on the tenderness and truth Dr. Gail Parker brought to Season One....
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Love is a Lineage and a Life Practice with Dr. Gail Parker
In this conversation, Gabrielle Wyatt and Dr. Gail Parker explore love as a living inheritance and a life practice. They dive into the ways lineage shapes us, how rest and stillness help us return to ourselves, and why awareness is essential for healing and belonging. Dr. Parker reflects on the...
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A Love Letter to the Future Chelsea Millers
Journal Reflection: Becoming the Bridge Before you write, find a quiet moment. Place one hand over your heart, one hand over your belly. Breathe in slowly for a count of four, hold for two, exhale for six. Whisper to yourself: “I am the bridge. I am the beginning.” Now, reflect: * What stories,...
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Roots & Return: On Being a Daughter of a Journey with Chelsea Miller
In this conversation, Gabrielle Wyatt and Chelsea Miller explore legacy as a living act—claiming authorship of our stories, organizing creatively, and centering rest, stillness, and joy as practices of freedom and sustainability. Chelsea reflects on lessons from the front lines, honoring history...
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A Love Letter to Future Dr. Lakeysha “Key” Hallmons
Journaling Reflection: Returning to the Village This week on Episode 5 of Meet Me at the Highland™, Dr. Key reminds us that freedom is not theory—it is practice. It is the rooms we clear, the tables we extend, the doors we leave open behind us. After you listen to this week’s episode, find a…
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Building the Village with Love and Legacy with Dr. Lakeysha "Key" Hallmon
In this episode, social entrepreneur and visionary founder of The Village Market, Dr. Lakeysha “Key” Hallmon, joins Gabrielle to reflect on the call to gather, dream, and build together. From her beginnings as an educator in Mississippi classrooms to her evolution into an ecosystem builder in...
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A Love Letter to the Octavia Raheems
Journaling Reflection: Returning to Ourselves This week on Episode 4 of Meet Me at the Highland™, Octavia teaches us that rest is not the end of the work—it is the work. That stillness is not absence, but presence. That slowing down is not giving up—it is making space for what is sacred to…
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Rest is Not a Luxury with Octavia Raheem
In Episode 4 of Meet Me at the Highland™, Gabrielle sits down with author, yoga teacher, and rest advocate Octavia Raheem to explore how rest as self-leadership helps leaders move beyond burnout and into sustainable creativity. Together, they discuss why rest vs sleep is more than semantics, how...
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Imagining Forward with Erika Alexander
In this heartfelt episode, Gabrielle sits down with actress and advocate Erika Alexander for an expansive conversation about the power of imagination, legacy, and creative expression. Erika reflects on the significant role Afrofuturism plays in helping reclaim stories and redefine possibilities…
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Our Health is Our Wealth with Monica Simpson
"Because of them, I know I can do the impossible. Because of me, I know that liberation is possible in my lifetime." – Monica Simpson In this episode, Monica Simpson — artist, activist, and leader in the reproductive justice movement — joins Gabrielle for a moving reflection on what it means to...
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Beginning Again with LaTosha Brown
"Because of them, I can live. Because of me, many will live after me." -Latosha Brown In this episode, civil rights organizer and Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown joins Gabrielle for a powerful conversation about beginning again. From her roots in Alabama's Black Belt to her early...
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Introducing Meet Me at the Highland
Meet Me at the Highland is a new podcast from Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project, rooted in the belief that liberatory futures—where everyone, especially Black women leaders, can thrive—are not only possible, but already in the making. Season one—The Breathing Season—invites you to...
About this show
Meet Me at the Highland™ is a podcast and sacred space centering Black women's leadership, imagination, and legacy. Hosted by Gabrielle Wyatt, founder of The Highland Project, it offers intimate, intergenerational conversations with changemakers, artists, and cultural architects reimagining what it means to thrive. It's a rhythm of rest, reflection, and radical dreaming, where we remember who we are, reclaim our joy, and begin again.Season Two, Seeding, is unfolding now, with Highland Leaders like Brittany Packnett Cunningham, Dr. Topeka K. Sam, and Brea Baker. Each episode arrives with a love letter, journaling prompts, and reflections that invite deeper introspection.This is your invitation. To lead. To rest. To imagine forward. To meet us at the Highland.
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