Alysha Yates: Sankofa: Learn from your past to build your future

The Collective Wisdom Podcast with Cat Preston

Hello my wise friends and welcome to Season 3 of The Collective Wisdom Podcast. We're kicking off today with a guest who is just so wise. Alysha Yates is the director of programmes for the charity, You Make It. Alysha’s story of losing her mother when she was only 22 really touched my heart. And I make no apology for the fact that when that happens, my eyes just leak she shares so wisely the idea of how you almost, through grief, lose a sense of yourself. Her journey to come back to herself by finding things that really do bring meaning into her life and light her up. She taught me about the concept of the Sankofa bird, which is a mythical bird from West African culture. The bird has a has an egg on its back. And it teaches us to go back to our roots in order to move forward so that we can achieve our full potential and bring our experience and the wisdom we've learned through those experiences with us. I am so grateful to Alysha for the way she opened up so generously, in a very intentional way to help other people who are maybe suffering in the same way at the moment, going through grief, experiencing that same sense of pain and loss. So with that, I'll hand you over to Alysha and her beautiful stories.

You Make It : Charity supporting young women in SE London to find meaningful work. - https://you-make-it.org/

Find your purpose : Jessica Huie - https://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Find-Truth-Embrace-Calling/dp/1788170563

Wisdom: ‘Sankofa: Go back and fetch it. Taking the wisdom from your past to build your future’

Song: ‘Find your way back’ by Beyonce