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GirlTREK celebrates the power of Black women walking together for health and healing. Join us for walking meditations, wellness wisdom, and inspiring conversations with trailblazers changing the world one step at a time. From our popular Self-Care School program to stories from our million-strong sisterhood, we blend movement, joy, and ancestral wisdom in every episode. Whether you’re starting your wellness journey or deepening your practice, GirlTREK delivers empowering content that meets you where you are. Walk with us and discover how simple, daily movement can transform your life.

Latest Episodes:

21 PLEASURE PRINCIPLES | Day 1 | bell hooks Jun 02, 2023

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Pleasure Muse: bell hooks

Tantalizing Trivia

She was born Gloria Jean Johnson, but like a longline of Black women who refused to be defined by the narrowness of this world, when she was ready to step on the scene with her talent, she changed her pen name to bell hooks after her great-grandmother.
She published more than 30 books. Her first, “Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism” was inspired by Sojourner Truth.
She identified as queer, but defined it as far more complex than who she was sleeping with. She said it was about “the self that is at odds with everything around it and it has to invent and create and find a place to speak and to thrive and to live."
She was celibate for 17 years.
She practiced Buddhism and counted the monk Thich Nhat Hnah as her teacher.

Mirror Work: Gaze lovingly at yourself with slow admiration for each feature on your face. Imagine that you are meeting yourself for the first time and wrap both arms around your body in a loving embrace. Send the love that you have given out back to yourself with three deep breaths.

Affirmation: “I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” bell hooks

Make Love: A Playlist

Self-Care Shopping List: Something to sleep in at night that makes you feel sexy. We love Amazon for their affordable options that can be ripped, torn, and used with abandon. :-)

Didn’t catch the live recording of today’s episode? We don’t want you to miss out on getting the full experience. Check out the opening and closing songs below.

Opening ⁠Song⁠

Closing ⁠Song

GirlTrek 2023 Season Kickoff: Co-Founder Walk & Talk Apr 03, 2023

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GirlTrek Nation!

Are you ready?

The GirlTrek walking season has officially started!Join GirlTrek Co-Founders, Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison, as they chat about the road ahead on a special season kickoff episode. This season we are getting in the best shape of our lives by putting one foot in front of the other. You don’t want to miss this inspiring conversation with our cofounders as they layout the blueprint for walking in the direction of your healthiest, most fulfilled life this year.

Lace up your sneakers, put in your earbuds and let’s walk!

Special Edition l Harriet Tubman Celebration 2023 Mar 10, 2023

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Join Co-founders Morgan and Vanessa on a Special Edition episode in honor of Harriet Tubman, broadcasting live from the streets of Auburn, NY.

Victory Lap: GirlTrek End of Season Celebration! Nov 29, 2022

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This year we set a goal to take over 1,000 of the Blackest neighborhoods. And we did that! With the help of our entire team. With the help of you! You made the decision to lead women in your neighborhood. You helped them start their own crew. And we want to celebrate every single one of you.

Nominations for the Victory Awards are in!

Come celebrate with us as we announce our Victory Awards, LIVE!

Black Neighborhoods | Day 20 | Have you heard about 16th Street Baptist Church? Nov 01, 2022

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Day 20

The Address: 16th Street Baptist Church

The Story: Their names were Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins. They were on their way to a basement assembly hall for closing prayers on a Sunday morning.

The explosion occurred around 10:20 a.m. It destroyed the rear end of the building. It injured 20 people, and it killed the four little girls.

The attack was meant to disrupt Black community activists who had been demonstrating for weeks for an end to segregation in the city.

The public funeral for three of the girls attracted over eight thousand people, but not one city or state official attended.

The Birmingham Post-Herald reported a month later that in the aftermath of the bombing, no one had been arrested for the incident itself, but 23 Black people had been arrested for charges ranging from disorderly conduct to "being drunk and loitering," mostly in the vicinity of the church. One black youth was gunned down by police after he threw rocks at passing cars with white passengers.

The four men responsible for the murders were not charged until 45 years later.

But as Dr. King said during the eulogy, "They did not die in vain."

They did not die in vain. The hate that took their lives did not triumph.

Today we tell the story of 16th Street Baptist Church and the faithfulness of the Birmingham community.

Black Neighborhoods | Day 19 | Where did the Blues really start? Nov 01, 2022

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Day 19

“The first time I met the blues

The Address: 229 Highway 8, Cleveland, Mississippi.

The Story: It’s called Dockery Farms.

“Farms” is a rebrand.

It was a back-breaking plantation in a small town in Mississippi. It’s walking distance from where Fannie Lou Hamer picked cotton. It's a stone’s throw from “the crossroads,” where a young Robert Johnson was rumored to have sold his soul for an unearthly cool.

There, as the sun kissed the dusty sky goodbye, guitars played, feet stomped, and hips swayed. The long days of work were made magic by the masters of a new American art form called the Blues.

Just one generation after Dockery Farms, hundreds of blues men and women amplified the stories of our people and became the soundtrack of struggle. That real pain was carried in the Great Migration to the blighted streets of the industrial north.

Today, let’s shine a light on the founders of the Blues. Many of them met on this very plantation: Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, and even “Pops” Staples of The Staple Singers worked there.

But this is Black history, and it didn’t just start on this farm. The truth is that the Blues was born in the hearts of the people of Africa. The Blues is their story and rhythms as they were brought to Mississippi. The Blues was therapy for their children on Beale Street in Memphis, and it brought laughter and reprieve to the hike joints of Kansas City, St. Louis, and Chicago. The Blues brought truth to the world.

This episode will be electrifying as we walk and talk about the function of Blues music for Black people.

Black Neighborhoods | Day 18 |Have you heard about Congo Square in New Orleans? Nov 01, 2022

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Day 18

The Address: Congo Square, New Orleans

Come to Congo Square with us.

Come catch the fire.

Come learn of the drums that reverberated through the square, calling for protection from the ancestors and the one’s left back home.

Come learn of the worship that took place here.

Come learn about this place so full of magic - not at all dark.

Come hear about the celebrations, the dance, the music, the food that united Africans from across the continent in this new place called New Orleans.

Black Neighborhoods | Day 16 | Where is the bravest black church in America? Oct 25, 2022

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Day 16

The Address: 110 Calhoun Street, Charleston, South Carolina

The Story: Mother Emanuel AME Church is one of the oldest Black churches in the United States, and for 200 years, it functioned as the center for organizing for civil rights.

Its name says it all.

Emanuel

"God with us."

And God has been constant.

Because there’s never been a church that has withstood the reign of terrorism so bravely.

Today, we will explore The Why.

Why was this church targeted?

Why was it necessary?

What kind of spiritual courage was being borne there?

Well, that courage has a name: Denmark Vesey

Today, we learn his story.

The true story of Mother Emanuel’s bravest son.

Don’t miss this ah-ha of history.

Black Neighborhoods | Day 13 | Can you name Chicago's most historic Black neighborhood? Oct 20, 2022

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Day 13

“We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.”

- Gwendolyn Brooks

The Address: Rosenwald Apartments, 4648 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL, Bronzeville

The Story: They came fleeing the terrors of Jim Crow. They came in search of freedom. Still tethered to their southern roots and values, they brought an electrifying energy that would give rise to Black Arts movements, create gospel, and establish a Black mecca known as Bronzeville, the only neighborhood in the country that could rival Harlem as the cultural center of African America.

Home to the greats - Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Coleman, Ida B. Wells, and many more.

We will start today’s exploration of Bronzeville on S. Michigan Ave at the storied Rosenwald Apartments, once managed by Quincy Jones' mother.

From here, we will take a stroll down “The Stroll”, a section of State Street that was the place to see and be seen, and the heartbeat of Black Chicago.

Along the way we will talk about how the people in this community influenced and changed the world, from politics to social activism.

Black Neighborhoods | Day 10 | Where is the oldest Black town in the West? Oct 17, 2022

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Day 10

Of all the Black towns started in the West during Reconstruction, only one still exists…

Do you know where it is?

Y’all I tried to Google it.

… an address for you.

But ain’t no addresses.

It’s just…

Nicodemus, Kansas 67625

NicoDEMus!!!

I first saw the name in Washington, DC at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

It was a beautiful way sign pointing to the famous township. Somehow, this sign was miraculously recovered through post-Reconstruction terror, the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, AND the Great Depression. There it was - a beautiful relic of Black history (so grateful for archeologists).

You see, I was born in Kansas, plus “Nicodemus” sounded Black as H, so I was pumped to learn more.

I googled the population today.

14 people.

Wait...14?

In 2020, it was 54.

One chart says 5.

Who are these people holding down our history?

What are their names? What are their mama’s names? How many generations have their families lived there? Do they have a post office?

I can’t wait to tell you the story and circumstances of this beautiful town. The history will give you a deeper understanding of the founding of all Black towns in the West.

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