Helicopter Moms? We’re Fine with That (Insert Jordan Shrug): A Conversation with Niambi Lewis

Hey Village! Happy May! Happy pre-Mothers Day for y'all who celebrate yourself as mamas or you celebrate others as mamas. 

One of my favorite people stops by and we ask ourselves, is being a helicopter mom such a bad thing? Or is it the epitome of loving your kids? My guest, Niambi Lewis, and I talk about raising our sons, the relationship we have with them, and becoming the mothers that we are proud of. We also share about relationships changing and rediscovering self. She also beat me in Black Trivia but it was close. We both put up a fight (the game went multiple rounds). 

Niambi Lewis leads the Perinatal Equity Section at which houses the Black Infant Health Program, Perinatal Equity Initiative, two programs designed to support Black women and birthing people in having healthy pregnancies.   For over 20 years, she has been employed by the State of California with over a decade of that service working within departments in the Health and Human Services Agency, supporting her desire to work for programs that serve communities most impacted by the effects of structural racism.  She is the mother, wife, sister and daughter to some of the most AMAZING people in the world.  A self-sorted Ravenclaw, she loves all things Harry Potter, concerts and traveling.  An ideal day would include reading a good book while taking a bubble bath.

Niambi is reading a book that has 59 parts to it and it is an almost Harry Potter themed book. 

I am reading "We Should All Be Millionaires" by Rachel Rodgers

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