Ángela Quijada-Banks
Ángela Quijada-Banks is a Holistic wellness coach for purpose-driven high-performance professional and entrepreneurial-spirited women. She is an NAACP Image Award Nominated, American author of the best-selling book, The Black Foster Youth Handbook, Founder of Soulful Liberation which started as a podcast to support young people with trauma navigate their healing journey during the pandemic and has expanded into a movement where she aims to empower others to channel their hurt through various art forms including book publishing! As a transformational speaker and artist, she has impacted thousands with her message to alchemize your pain to purpose and power. Ángela is a scholar at Legacy Holistic Health Institute studying Holistic Health and healing through medicinal herbs. Through her everyday work with helping young people uncover their divine purpose, performing spoken word events, facilitating workshops, and political advisory to legislators across the nation, she aims to aid in a revolutionary change in the areas of holistic health, economic injustices, child welfare disparities, cultural awareness and identity within low-wealth communities of color both on a micro and macro level.
Born in Anaheim, CA her reach has spanned across the nation and in several countries. And for her, this is only the beginning of her movement to promote generational soulful liberation of self and community. Between her day-to-day adventures, Ángela enjoys traveling the world, exploring various passions such as dancing, singing, martial arts, and adrenaline rushes at amusement parks with her husband, Michael. She is lovingly called a “graceful powerhouse” by all who know her, as she lives by the quote, “ If not me, then who? If not now, then when?”
Check out Ángela’s book, portfolio, and podcast here:
Ángela Quijada-Banks Part I
1:20 Introduction of Angela
16:15 Being Well Enough to Use Our Gifts – Wellness in the Broadest Sense
20:00 50+ Lessons I Learned to Successfully Age Out of Foster Care and Holistically Heal
25:20 Healing
30:45 The Food We Eat
Ángela Quijada-Banks Part II
3:20 Participatory Practice
6:20 Pain Into Power
11:50 Lemn Sissay
19:50 Who Owns the Future?
23:15 Reflection on Who Was There for Me
27:50 The Swimming Pool and Intergenerational Trauma
35:50 The Advocacy Journey
Ángela Quijada-Banks Part III
1:00 Family Legacy
5:30 Gina Samuels Research on Former Foster Youth
14:20 Liberation of Self and Community