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Salt The Podcast
by Salt The Podcast
Salt is love, community, solidarity, healing, creating. It is feminist, intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a gathering against all types of violence that affect our bodies, minds, bodies, communities & the environment. It is a commitment.
Episodes
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S03 E60 Smash The Labels And The Guilt
Odyl Rozendaal is a psychologist and walking coach, who loves the summers in Amsterdam, getting lost in beautiful and old villages in France and there is something about beachlife, about the sea, the ocean that makes her feel humble. She started with rollerskating to feel more connected to her...
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S03 E59 Safer and Braver Spaces
Abbiola Ballah (she/her) is the founder and CEO of Phern Education Studios, an organisation that is a catalyst for change in the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging space. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, Abbiola has spent the past 20 plus years living, studying and working in Japan, the...
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S03 E58 Building Systemic Justice
Nani Jansen Reventlow is an award winning human rights lawyer specialised in strategic litigation at the intersection of human rights, social justice and technology. Nani is also the founder of Systemic Justice , a new organisation that seeks to radically transform how the law works for…
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S03 E57 'Kryla' Means Wings
Olena Gyrenko is a very proud Ukrainian soul. A dedicated, and happy but also often tired mama of Sophia and Lev. She is a caring daughter, not the worst friend and a loving but often whining wife to an amazing Dutch man called Leon. This episode is probably one of the rawest and most honest Salt...
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S03 E56 Diversity Work Starts With A Memory
What characterizes our path in becoming diversity workers who strive towards achieving diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and intersectional justice in our societies? It usually starts with a memory, with witnessing an injustice that stays with us forever, and becomes ingrained into who we...
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S03 E55 Borjouliya
Mohamed Triki is a 22 year-old Tunisian podcaster working on Borjouliya podcast, the first and so far the only podcast focusing on toxic masculinity in Tunisia. Mohamed grew up in Tunis, in a middle-class family, went to public school and has very nostalgic memories about his childhood, his large...
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S03 E54 The Soundtrack of Womanship
Nicolette Lazarus describes herself as a mid-life woman, with a 100% record of getting through bad days. This is something she thinks we all should remind ourselves of when facing those challenges we all experience that we never think we'll get through. Originally from the UK, she has lived in...
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S03 E53 A Night in Venado Tuerto
On a Monday evening in March I met with Sofi Antonellini in a safe brave space of vulnerability and radical honesty. We had a deep, emotional, and essential conversation. Sofi is a very special person, and was one of my guests in season 1 episode 15. Many of you wonderful people wanted to hear…
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S03 E52 The Silent Power of Healing Through Art
Eva is a psychologist and art therapist who runs her private practice in Amsterdam and online globally. She has worked in the private and public sector, in psychiatric clinics, educational settings, with survivors of sexual violence and in refugee camps. During her work in refugee camps across...
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S03 E51 Mothers come in many forms and so does Love
Lieke Boot is the head of student welfare at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Lieke and I met a few years ago at the daycare our kids attended. After getting to know each other we met many times in the park, for long walks and long talks. A while ago I asked her…
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S02 E50 Unexpected openings, memories and leaves - Salt's 2nd anniversary episode
What is a memory that you have that had an impact on your life? is a question I was asked in episode 37 by Ina from indieslittlecrafts . Her question triggered something unexpected and as a result, I have been asking all my guests about their memory ever since. Because something happens when we...
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S02 E49 Build. Make. Be. Project Fearless
After 7.5 years as an innovation and concept designer, Mérida Miller decided to leave the corporate world to follow her passion: learning and working hands-on with people to create a ripple effect impact. Driven by human-centric design and a love for empowering solutions Project Fearless was…
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S02 E48 (part 2) Activism Works - Black Pete Is Racism: The Discussion
This is part 2 of 'Activism Works - Black Pete is Racism' where Lieke Koningen, Simone de Bies and I discuss why Black Pete is racism, and how it is connected to the Dutch colonial legacy and linked to institutional racism. We focus on the importance of recognizing power relationships and being...
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S02 E48 (part 1) Activism Works - Black Pete Is Racism: The Introduction
This episode (which consists of two parts) is about the Dutch Sinterklaas festivity and specifically the figure of Black Pete. It firmly states that activism works and that Black Pete is Racism. To discuss this important and challenging topic I gathered with two fabulous people: Lieke Koningen…
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S02 E47 Disrupting the Mainstream
J.A.D.E full name Joanna is a 23 year old multifunctional artist from Amsterdam. She makes music, creates beats, sings, creates drawings, works as a model and studies at the Herman Brood Academie in Utrecht in the Netherlands to be a music industry professional. Regarding her music Joanna feels...
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S02 E46 Silence Does Not Change The World
Melanie Jacob (she/her/hers) is a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Consultant (DEI&B). She holds a BA (Hons.) in French & Spanish from the University of the West Indies and an MA in Communications, Media & Public Relations from the University of Leicester. Originally from the Caribbean...
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S02 E45 Little Daily Miracles
Maryanne O’Hara is the author of the memoir LITTLE MATCHES, FINDING LIGHT IN THE DARK, published by HarperCollins. LITTLE MATCHES was inspired by a blog that Maryanne kept while her daughter Caitlin, who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis at the age of 2, was waiting for a lung transplant.…
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S02 E44 Kindness, Equity and Solidarity in Birth Matters
Djanifa da Conceicao is a a midwife with her own practice in South Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Through her work Djanifa realized that important information that can be extremely helpful before, during and after childbirth does not reach everyone. It is either hard to find or you have to have to…
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S02 E43 Unapologetically Mothers
Charissa Promes is a journalist, podcast host, coach, writer and mother of three. After more than ten years of experience as a performing dancer and six years in the media, she changed her life. Because when motherhood came to her she experienced uncertainty, mental challenges and social…
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S02 E42 I Give Myself Peace
Rochelda Kemper is a 19-year old girl who is following her dreams. Everything in her life is about rest and relaxation. Rochelda grew up in a loving family with three younger sisters and is very close to her family and relatives. At a young age she was very quiet, felt things around her, captured...
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S02 E41 I broke my chain, I am free
One day I got a call from my neighbor and friend Maria Smirnioti telling me that she would like to share her mental health journey that is centered around her experiences of living with depression on Salt. We came together and started talking openly. The result is a very honest, raw and...
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S02 E40 Time is Up: Breaking the Stigma around Mental Illness
Laurie Nash is a single mum to her beautiful son and the founder of Askr Creative , a content marketing and copywriting business for creative entrepreneurs and coaches. In 2020 Laurie began her journey towards a diagnosis for bipolar after 10 years of trying to face mental health alone. In this...
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S02 E39 Let's talk sexuality
Zina Malas is a Sexual Health educator based in Amman, Jordan. Zina is a single mom to two lively girls and an intersectional feminist, who uses a shame free, body positive approach to her teachings and is an ally to the LGBTQI+ community. Zina is also an avid reader who is always happy to strike...
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S02 E38 I live every day to make you proud. A holistic HIV AIDS response
Keren Dunaway is an activist and researcher from Honduras who was born with HIV. Keren comes from an activist household and her parents were one of the first in the country to speak openly about their and Keren’s HIV diagnosis. Together they set up Llaves, one of the first organizations in…
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S02 E37 Untold Stories
Ina Agalliou is an embroidery artist, a creative soul and the founder of Indies Little Crafts . Ina is self-taught and uses embroidery as a way to express her feelings and mind. She has a thoughtful approach to her art and is based in Amsterdam where she lives with her husband and dog April. In...
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S02 E36 Feminism is where I belong (Part II)
Paola Salwan Daher is the Senior Global Advocacy Adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a Marxist feminist from the Lebanese diaspora. She is interested in feminist movement building, embodying transnational solidarity, rethinking love and relationships, poetry, writing, tattoos…
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S02 E35 Feminism is where I belong (Part I)
Paola Salwan Daher is the Senior Global Advocacy Adviser at the Center for Reproductive Rights and a Marxist feminist from the Lebanese diaspora. She is interested in feminist movement building, embodying transnational solidarity, rethinking love and relationships, poetry, writing, tattoos…
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S02 E34 The most beautiful you can become is yourself
Miriam Timas is both an HR professional and Walking Coach at Meerjezelfzijn, a true people’s person, who values honesty and bringing healing to others. She is comforting and warm, genuine, connected to nature and keen on learning and evolving. Miriam had learnt from a very young age that love was...
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S02 E33 Keep pushing for change, keep pushing for a better future
Eva Kotta is based in Athens, Greece and during the first lockdown she created The Abstract Girl , a blog and Instagram account to share her thoughts and all the things that inspire her daily. Her favorite topics revolve around gender equality, feminism and women empowerment and through her blog...
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S02 E32 Educate, Advocate and Empower because we come from a lineage of strong people
Merette Khalil is a multilingual health systems researcher, gender and sexual reproductive health and rights advocate, feminist, doula, and birth educator, who is passionate about ensuring the right to health for all. She is based in Cairo, Egypt and the founder and CEO of YourEgyptianDoula , the...
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S02 E31 We will keep pasting, we won't be silent
Red, Ayelle and Margot are three members of the feminist collective “Feminist Collages Amsterdam ” an intersectional feminist movement fighting systemic domination by reclaiming the streets through pasted slogans. They practice horizontal and decentralized civil disobedience to denounce…
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S02 E30 Let Ourselves Bloom
Esther Molenaar is a haptotherapist in Amsterdam where she lives with her partner and her 7-year-old daughter Charlie. Her favorite pastime is dancing on roller-skates and she even runs a small roller-skate business next to her haptotherapy practice. Her star sign is Aries and her Chinese zodiac...
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S02 E29 Let's never lower our Arms for our Dreams
Nicole Newman , is the creator of Pėcora Craft , a brand that makes Afro-Latina women visible through embroidered illustrations, highlighting expressions, textures and empowerment of black women. Nicole is the daughter of an Afro-Chilean mother and an American father, who grew up in Concepción, a...
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S01 E28 First Anniversary Episode: We are Love, Community and Struggle
Maya Angelou says: "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Salt is my untold story and with everyone I am inviting to speak on Salt I am showing you my own trauma and healing path, creating a space that is for ALL of us because we are love, community and struggle.…
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S01 E27 There is a Way and I will find it
Kaelin Vu is a life coach, podcaster, and life enthusiast. Her journey to helping others began with her own challenges. She experienced a lot of pain and challenges, overcame abandonment, sexual abuse, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression. Her turning point was when she decided to look…
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S01 E26 These Beautiful Bodies of Ours
Zina Malas is a third culture kid, who was born in the UK and raised in the UAE. She further lived in Beirut, London, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Zina has a degree in political science and a Masters in anthropology of media. She worked in government, research and radio and helped to set up numerous...
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S01 E25 Catcalls of Nimma Chalk Back
Judith Holzmann is the co-founder of Cat Calls of Nimma an Instagram account against gender-based street harassment, where Judith and her friend and co-founder Roos write stories of harassment word-for-word in the spots where they happened alongside the hashtag #stopstreetharassment using…
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S01 E24 Feel For Your Life
Jessica Baladad is the founder and chief advocate of Feel For Your Life , an online resource for breast health advocacy. When Jessica was 33 years old, she was diagnosed with stage 2B invasive ductal carcinoma after discovering a lump while doing a self breast exam in the shower. She underwent 16...
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S01 E23 Don't fear your potential
Lieke Koningen is a mother, a moderator, a lifecoach, community builder and event producer. She is further an award winning teacher, a dancer and workshop developer who lives with her family in Amsterdam. From a very young age she felt the need to stand up against injustice and her passion for...
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S01 E22 Join the work and dismantle oppressive systems
Pamela Huk is from Cochabamba, Bolivia where she studied industrial engineering. 10 years ago, she came to the Netherlands as the recipient of a scholarship and obtained a Masters in management, economics and consumer behavior at Wageningen University. After her studies she moved to Amsterdam…
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S01 E21 Reimagining Syria
Rula Asad is from Damascus and holds a degree in journalism from the University of Damascus. She also holds a Masters in Gender Studies from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Rula is a feminist journalist, researcher and the co-founder and Executive Director of the Syrian Female Journalists...
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S01 E20 Period Poverty
Nicole Römer is a coordinator at Neighborhood Feminists . As coordinator, she is in charge of the Dignity Kits project, volunteer coordination and logistics. Nicole is also a public speaker and writer. In this episode we talk first and foremost about period poverty, the amazing neighbourhood...
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S01 E19 Personal Narratives and the Syrian Revolution
Hayma Alyousfi is a Syrian feminist, human rights defender and political activist. She is part of the Syrian revolution but had to leave the country in 2014. However, she continues to fight for radical justice in Syria from abroad and is an active member of the civil society since 2012. In this...
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S01 E18 Fashion Revolution: Long live my clothes
Katerina Michaloutsou was born and raised in Greece. She has two beautiful daughters, loves spending time in thrift stores and flea markets, enjoys biking and nature. She is also a vintage enthusiast and plant collector. After working for several years as a business analytics consultant she moved...
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S01 E17 Palestine, I am from There
Kristel Letschert was born and raised in the Netherlands where she studied tour guiding. Then she fell in love with a Palestinian and moved to Palestine. She lives in Beit Safafa, a town between Jerusalem and Bethlehem. Her home is between the green line, the demarcation line between Israel and…
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S01 E16 Collective Care Matters
Ninna Gutierrez is a young adult full of empathy, who loves spending time with friends, working out, writing, journaling and traveling. In this episode Ninna tells us her story about her 'invisible illness'. She is speaking her truth, which was not always easy for her, but now it has become…
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S01 E15 Our Love Letter to Feminism
Sofi Antonellini is a passionate feminist activist from Argentina currently living in Amsterdam. She works as a program manager for a Syrian feminist organization and is part of different feminist collectives involved in decolonial practice and intersectional feminism. Sofi says: “As a Latina...
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S01 E14 Planting the Seeds Together
Cordelia Gaffar is an emotions transformation coach, an award winning podcast host, an author of several books such as detached love , part of the unlearning labels project, a mother of 6, and above all a wonderful soul. In this episode we talk about replenish me: Cordelia's coaching program;...
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S01 E13 Breaking Borders
Yuli Kim is from Tokyo and has been living in the Netherlands since 2010. Her wife is American and they have two little children and a third one on the way. Yuli started Inclusion Sensei in 2020, promoting workplace inclusion. She is also a Learning and Development Program Manager at Workplace...
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S01 E12 I am purposeful and afraid of nothing
Olga Ditibane is a former professional dancer and dance teacher from South Africa. She was born and raised in Pretoria and moved to Germany as an au-pair to work and learn the language. She likes the country so much that she has decided to stay in Germany to pursue her studies in Education. In…
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Salt is love, community, solidarity, healing, creating. It is feminist, intersectional, full of stories, movement and change. It insists, evolves and transforms. It is a gathering against all types of violence that affect our bodies, minds, bodies, communities & the environment. It is a commitment.
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