What if joy wasn’t a bonus after surviving the grind—but the intentional practice that sustains the work, heals the wounds, and builds community?

In this stripped-down minisode of Highly Visible & A Little Misunderstood, Jonathan Dumas shares powerful highlight moments from two women doing the internal and external work—Melany Del Carpio and Kenisha Coon. They unpack how ritual, self-expression, boundary-setting, and radical commitment to joy become both armor and repair in lives filled with equity work, identity navigation, and creative evolution.

What You’ll Hear:

• Melany’s morning and evening rituals that center her—ceremonial matcha, “rest is resistance” card pulls, and the symbolic cleansing to offload energy from work.
• How self-expression (clothes, tattoos, intention) becomes a practice of alignment, intuition, and reclaiming presence.
• Kenisha’s framing of joy as survival, transformation, and sustainable fuel for justice and equity work.
• The difference between community that drains vs. community that holds you accountable and amplifies belonging.
• Practical boundary language and the real mechanics of choosing joy while showing up in heavy systems.
• The connective thread between identity, purpose, and choosing yourself in seasons of uncertainty.

Guests:

• Melany Del Carpio – Coach-in-training, creative self-expression advocate, and ritual practitioner.
  • LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanydelcarpio/

• Kenisha Coon – Equity strategist, author, consultant, and joy-as-repair practitioner.
  • Instagram → @kenishacoon (https://www.instagram.com/kcoon9288/?hl=en)
  • Website → https://www.kenishacoon.com/
  • Kenisha Coon’s Memoir, And Then She Persisted → https://bookshop.org/a/79820/9798888385968

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• Produced & Edited by: Jonathan Dumas
• Co-Produced & Additional Editing: Reggie Hall
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