Christine Dean
Christine is a former family lawyer working in HR for the Civil Service. Christine has always been passionate about fighting for women's equality and improving women's ability to be heard. Christine became politically active when she joined the Women's Equality Party in 2018. Christine has held various voluntary roles within the Party, culminating with her appointment as Deputy Leader responsible for Community and Connectedness in November 2020.
Christine’s term as Deputy Leader expired at the end of 2022, but her work on campaigns to improve black women's health and participation in the Black Women's Reproductive Health Project has inspired her to start a new project, the 'Black Women's Wellness Podcast'. Christine is excited to join the Black Lives Natter Podcast family, which is supporting her in launching her show.
Episode 3
Chronic Stress - Black Women, Burnout & its Impact on their Mental Health
Black Womens Wellness host and creator Christine Dean tackles the little-discussed issue of Black Women and their propensity to suffer from Chronic Stress. This week's episode focuses on ‘Black Women, Burnout and its impact on their mental health’. The episodes special guest is Lillian Lartey, a De-stress & Wellness Coach. Lillian helps overworked black women business owners and workplace professionals live and work from a position of calm, rest, peace, balance and spaciousness.
Lillian Lartey is a De-stress & Wellness Coach. She helps overworked business owners and workplace professionals live and work from a position of calm, rest, peace, balance and spaciousness so that they can successfully fulfil their purpose without feeling exhausted, chronically stressed or burnt out.
As a qualified Coach and Health and Wellness Professional, Lillian’s passion is hugely influenced by her own personal health experiences with stress-related burnout and a health crisis, which admitted her to hospital. Thankfully she recovered from these events and now commits her attention to helping others avoid going down this same path.
Menopause Part 1
Managing Menopause in the Workplace
Black Women’s Wellness Host and Creator Christine Dean has a robust roundtable conversation about ‘Managing Menopause in the Workplace’.
BWW guests are Pamela Parkes and Eileen Bellot.
Pamela is an award-winning Executive Director at Essex CC, specialising in People & Transformation, including menopause policy and workplace initiatives. Eileen is a writer, director, public speaker, Artistic Director of QuestLife, and the pioneer of a GLA-funded project exploring menopause as a rite of passage.
LINKS & RESOURCES
There is a vast array of, sometimes overwhelming, information about menopause on all forms of social media. Some are more helpful than others. Below are the links to useful Websites, Podcasts, and Instagram accounts that helped me research this episode and understand my and most women’s menopause journey.
