The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley

Ashley Edwards
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The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley reclaims mental health as a multidimensional journey that moves beyond diagnosis and clinical language. This podcast centers healing practices that are culturally rooted, spiritually grounded, and historically rich. These traditions have sustained communities for generations, but are often dismissed or misunderstood in mainstream wellness. The show is created for those who want more than surface-level advice and are ready to explore what healing looks like when shaped by ancestry, community, and lived experience. Hosted by Ìyá Ashley, Founder and CEO of the award-winning mental health innovation startup MindRight Health, The Healing Underground bridges ancestral wisdom with modern pathways to emotional support. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpodTikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpodTwitch: @iya_ashleyYouTube: @iya-ashley

Episodes

  1. Episode 5 - Sound, Spirit & Revolution: Healing Through Bob Marley’s Legacy

    2D AGO

    Episode 5 - Sound, Spirit & Revolution: Healing Through Bob Marley’s Legacy

    Bob Marley was more than a musician — he was a healer. Ìyá Ashley is joined by Kathryn Leary, longtime confidante of Bob Marley and founder of One Firelight, to explore music as medicine. Through deeply personal stories, they discuss sound, ancestral frequency, grief, and how spirit moves through song. This conversation reveals how Marley’s music continues to heal across generations — not as nostalgia, but as living medicine. This is an invitation to hear healing, not just think about it. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod Twitch: @iya_ashley YouTube: @iya-ashley

    22 min
  2. Episode 4 - Communal Care: The Heart of Liberation & Collective Healing

    FEB 10

    Episode 4 - Communal Care: The Heart of Liberation & Collective Healing

    We’ve been taught that healing happens alone. Our ancestors knew otherwise. Ìyá Ashley explores communal care as survival, strategy, and liberation work. Tracing movements from mutual aid to the Civil Rights era, she reminds us that healing has always been collective — and that community itself is medicine. This conversation challenges individualism, honors intergenerational wisdom, and asks what becomes possible when joy, care, and responsibility are shared. Healing is resistance. And we were never meant to do it alone. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod Twitch: @iya_ashley YouTube: @iya-ashley

    11 min
  3. Episode 3 - Startups Are a Spiritual Experience: What I Learned from Building MindRight

    FEB 3

    Episode 3 - Startups Are a Spiritual Experience: What I Learned from Building MindRight

    What if entrepreneurship isn’t just business — but a spiritual journey? Ìyá Ashley reframes the startup journey as a spiritual path of creation, self-knowing, and visibility. She shares the unseen lessons she learned while building MindRight Health — from rejection and scarcity to intuition, faith, and audacity. This episode is for founders, dreamers, and builders who reject hustle culture and know that growth does not require self-abandonment. You can build something meaningful without losing your spirit. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod Twitch: @iya_ashley YouTube: @iya-ashley

    12 min
  4. Episode 2 - Behind the Curtain: Returning the Soul to Healthcare

    JAN 27

    Episode 2 - Behind the Curtain: Returning the Soul to Healthcare

    Behind every system are people. Ìyá Ashley is joined by one of the top executive coaches for the US healthcare systems leaders, Micha’le Simmons, to go behind the curtain of the U.S. healthcare system. Together, they explore burnout, grief, leadership, and the emotional cost of sustaining systems that were never designed for wholeness. Through stories of crisis, loss, and embodied leadership, this conversation asks a powerful question: what would healthcare look like if we led with soul instead of productivity? Healing the system begins with healing ourselves. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod Twitch: @iya_ashley YouTube: @iya-ashley

    21 min
  5. Episode 1 - Healing Isn’t Just Clinical: Reclaiming the Spirit in Mental Health

    JAN 20

    Episode 1 - Healing Isn’t Just Clinical: Reclaiming the Spirit in Mental Health

    Before therapy, there were elders. Before diagnoses, there were divinations. Ìyá Ashley invites you to remember what mental health looked like before it became a medical industry — and what it can still look like today if we choose. Drawing from her work as a mental health innovator, founder of MindRight Health, and an initiated Ìyánífá, she reframes healing as remembrance, not fixing. This episode explores why Western clinical models alone often feel incomplete, how ancestral wisdom and community care have always been medicine, and why healing itself has always been an act of resistance. This podcast is not a lecture. It’s a meditation. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpod TikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpod Twitch: @iya_ashley YouTube: @iya-ashley

    7 min
  6. Season 1 Trailer 2: The Healing Underground

    JAN 16

    Season 1 Trailer 2: The Healing Underground

    Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit. The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it became an industry - and what it can still look like today. Hosted by Iyá Ashley, founder of MindRight Health and an initiated Ìyánífá in the African (Yorùbá) spiritual tradition of Ifá, this podcast invites listeners to explore healing beyond fixing and toward remembrance, sovereignty, and liberation. Welcome to The Underground. Join the conversation on Instagram at @healingundergroundpod

    1 min
  7. Season 1 Trailer 1: The Healing Underground

    JAN 16

    Season 1 Trailer 1: The Healing Underground

    Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit.The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it became an industry - and what it can still look like today. Hosted by Iyá Ashley, founder of MindRight Health and an initiated Ìyánífá in the African (Yorùbá) spiritual tradition of Ifá, this podcast invites listeners to explore healing beyond fixing and toward remembrance, sovereignty, and liberation. Welcome to The Underground. Join the conversation on Instagram at @healingundergroundpod

    1 min

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The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley reclaims mental health as a multidimensional journey that moves beyond diagnosis and clinical language. This podcast centers healing practices that are culturally rooted, spiritually grounded, and historically rich. These traditions have sustained communities for generations, but are often dismissed or misunderstood in mainstream wellness. The show is created for those who want more than surface-level advice and are ready to explore what healing looks like when shaped by ancestry, community, and lived experience. Hosted by Ìyá Ashley, Founder and CEO of the award-winning mental health innovation startup MindRight Health, The Healing Underground bridges ancestral wisdom with modern pathways to emotional support. ✨ Looking for everyday mental health support? Text 886-886 or visit www.mindright.io to connect with nonclinical emotional support partners through MindRight Health. 🔗 Connect with Ìyá Ashley + The Healing Underground Community: Instagram: @iya_ashley / @healingundergroundpodTikTok: @iya_ashleyy / @thehealingundergroundpodTwitch: @iya_ashleyYouTube: @iya-ashley

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