32 episodes

Kume: Turning Point Diaries is a bi-weekly podcast where we have honest and vulnerable conversations about personal journeys and lessons learned along the way. These are the truths that we never dare to say out loud, the fears we bury deep, but something miraculous happens when we are allowed the space to tell our stories. Join Yelka Kamara and her fascinating guests as they journey through topics such as identity, health, relationships, purpose, spirituality, loss, and transformation. Be inspired and empowered along the way. Please rate and review the show. Share the story!

Kume: Turning Point Diaries Yelka Kamara

    • Society & Culture
    • 5.0 • 42 Ratings

Kume: Turning Point Diaries is a bi-weekly podcast where we have honest and vulnerable conversations about personal journeys and lessons learned along the way. These are the truths that we never dare to say out loud, the fears we bury deep, but something miraculous happens when we are allowed the space to tell our stories. Join Yelka Kamara and her fascinating guests as they journey through topics such as identity, health, relationships, purpose, spirituality, loss, and transformation. Be inspired and empowered along the way. Please rate and review the show. Share the story!

    How to Practice Self with the MyKume Journal | S3 EP8

    How to Practice Self with the MyKume Journal | S3 EP8

    Navigating life transitions with clarity and self-awareness. In this special edition of the Kume: Turning Point Diaries podcast, we explore the practice of self and the power of journaling. We introduce the MyKume Journal, a new tool designed to provide a consistent and introspective practice in your life through its many phases and transitions.Throughout the episode, we discuss the inspiration behind the journal, demonstrate how it works in real-time, and share testimonials from individuals ...

    • 38 min
    From DM to Brick-and-Mortar with Abou Sow | S3 EP7

    From DM to Brick-and-Mortar with Abou Sow | S3 EP7

    Today, we are privileged to have Abou Sow, the owner of Prince Abou's Butchery—one of the few Black-owned butcher shops in New York. Abou descends from a line of pastoral people from West Africa and learned the craft from his uncle's business at the young age of 11.While he was initially reluctant to work in his uncle's shop, he now operates a successful butchery, which started from Instagram DM. Along the way, he learned to respect and honor all life and embrace his role in the cycle of life...

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Following Curiosity with Jenneh Kaikai | S3 EP6

    Following Curiosity with Jenneh Kaikai | S3 EP6

    We start 2023 with a spirited conversation with Jenneh Kaikai, a self-taught baker, cake designer, and owner of Pelah Kitchen. In our conversation, Jenneh speaks candidly about her journey of building a business and brand rooted in her African heritage and investing in the communities there. We explore our identities and responsibilities as people of the African diaspora. Jenneh shares the principle of humility which guides her in all she does. This is a story of following your curiosity and ...

    • 1 hr 6 min
    Creating a Life of Freedom and Choice with Kewulay Kamara | S3 EP5

    Creating a Life of Freedom and Choice with Kewulay Kamara | S3 EP5

    We are excited and grateful to welcome back Kewulay Kamara, a fan favorite, master storyteller, and worldly scholar.Today's conversation is about freedom as a guiding principle in creating the life you want. We often talk about our hopes, dreams, goals, and the life we want, but we often don't connect these aspirations to freedom. However, living the life you wish usually means knowing and creating the freedom(s) you desire. Join us as we dive into Kamara's Finah journey and discover his key ...

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Living Generously with Tyler Weston | Season 3 Episode 4

    Living Generously with Tyler Weston | Season 3 Episode 4

    'Take freely, give cheerfully' These are the words that welcome visitors to the Love Stand, a community pantry in Ypsilanti, Michigan.In this week's episode, we speak with Tyler Weston, steward of the pantry. Tyler shares a message you received from God one morning in March of 2020 that led him to turn the front porch of a neighborhood home into a food pantry. But this is not just any food pantry. The Love Stand is a space for love, hope, and inspiration. In our conversation, Tyler opens up a...

    • 1 hr 16 min
    Pursuing Your Highest Calling with Victoria Rutledge | Season 3 Episode 3

    Pursuing Your Highest Calling with Victoria Rutledge | Season 3 Episode 3

    This week we are getting on the mat with yoga teacher Victoria Rutledge. In our conversation, Victoria moves us through her yoga practice, from the moment she stepped into a studio to now guiding others through breath, body, and soul. For Victoria, yoga is a physical, intellectual, and creative endeavor. She talks about being a Black woman in a predominantly white wellness space, challenging the status quo in the yoga community, and developing the discernment to ask for and get what she wants...

    • 1 hr 5 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
42 Ratings

42 Ratings

GCG Brooklyn ,

MyKume Journal—It’s Awesome

I received valuable, life-enriching information, reminders and practices from Yelka’s MyKume journal. For example, I was reminded about the importance of stillness—being present with myself and my emotions, noticing my own mind-body and emotion-body connections and connectedness—each with their vast and intricate interplays and influences on the other. What I read in MyKume journal also has me reflecting on the importance of self soothing. I now take stock to recognize when I need to self soothe and to notice what works best for me. I find not only peace in such moments, but I’m more deeply aware of and grateful for all the gifts and beauty we receive/experience time and time again in present moments. Thank you Yelka for creating and sharing with all of us such a special guide and journal.

TBerkBrew ,

Like Chicken Soup for The Soul, but BETTER!

I really enjoy listening to Yelka’s podcast! The stories are deeply intriguing, relatable, and heartfelt. Yelka is very gifted in connecting with her guests and inspiring her listeners. She is deeply empathetic and each episode feels like Chicken. Soup for the Soul but BETTER! I highly recommend this podcast, which by the way, was just featured in The New York Times!

srathe ,

Story Sculpting

When I listen to your podcast, it seems to me that part of your storytelling gift is to approach a person and their story a bit like Michelangelo approached the rock from which he carved The David. Your curiosity leads you to ask questions whose answers reveal the contours of the story being told by people's lives. As those contours are revealed, a new beauty hidden in the rock is revealed. A new expression of the pattern emerging from the heart of everything comes into view for us to see and cooperate joyfully with, each in our own way. What a gift! When I think about offering myself to your curiosity in this way, it makes me curious to see what beauty might emerge and what might come from the emergence of that beauty. When I think about that - the prospect of the experience, and the prospect of what might grow from its soil in me, in you, in all of us - something quickens in me. Something that sounds like "yes!" and "oh, what fun!" and "if this isn't what joy looks like when it's naked, then at the very least I'll be disillusioned sooner so I can get on to filling my eyes with the real thing!"

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