The Healing Underground with Ìyá Ashley reclaims mental health as a multidimensional journey that moves beyond diagnosis and clinical language. This podcast centers healing practices that are culturally rooted, spiritually grounded, and historically rich. These traditions have sustained communities for generations, but are often dismissed or misunderstood in mainstream wellness. The show is created for those who want more than surface-level advice and are ready to explore what healing looks like when shaped by ancestry, community, and lived experience. Hosted by Ìyá Ashley, Founder and CEO of the award-winning mental health innovation startup MindRight Health, The Healing Underground bridges ancestral wisd...
Latest episodes
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7 min
Episode 12 - What Is Freedom, Really?
Freedom isn’t just political — it’s embodied. In this season finale, Ìyá Ashley reflects on mental health + healing as liberation: the freedom to rest without guilt, love without f…
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7 min
Episode 11 - You Are the Medicine
You were never broken.Ìyá Ashley reminds us of an ancient truth shared across spiritual traditions: the medicine is already within you. Drawing from Ifá and other wisdom systems, s…
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25 min
Episode 10 - Beyond the Spectrum: Honoring Neurodivergent Wisdom
What if neurodivergence isn’t something to fix — but something to honor?Ìyá Ashley is joined by Latrel Dortch, founder of the Holistic Brain Center, to explore autism and neurodive…
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10 min
Episode 9 - Decolonizing Healing: Who Gets to Feel Whole?
Healing has become an industry — but who does it actually serve?Ìyá Ashley interrogates the wellness economy, performative self-care, and systems that decide who is allowed to feel…
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12 min
Episode 8 - The Role of African Spirituality in Healing & Liberation
Why are African spiritual traditions so often erased, feared, or whispered about with shame?In this deeply personal episode, Ìyá Ashley shares her journey into African Traditional…
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8 min
Episode 7 - The Spirit of Revolution: Vodou, Healing & Haiti
Vodou has been misunderstood, feared, and demonized. But what if the fear was never about darkness — only about liberation?Ìyá Ashley reclaims the truth about Vodou as the spiritua…
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11 min
Episode 6 - Plant Medicine Beyond the Hype: Reverence, Resistance & the Spirit
Plant medicine is not a trend — it’s an inheritance. Ìyá Ashley shares her journey as a trained herbalist and explores plant medicine beyond tourism, psychedelics, and commercializ…
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22 min
Episode 5 - Sound, Spirit & Revolution: Healing Through Bob Marley’s Legacy
Bob Marley was more than a musician — he was a healer. Ìyá Ashley is joined by Kathryn Leary, longtime confidante of Bob Marley and founder of One Firelight, to explore music as me…
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11 min
Episode 4 - Communal Care: The Heart of Liberation & Collective Healing
We’ve been taught that healing happens alone. Our ancestors knew otherwise. Ìyá Ashley explores communal care as survival, strategy, and liberation work. Tracing movements from mut…
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12 min
Episode 3 - Startups Are a Spiritual Experience: What I Learned from Building MindRight
What if entrepreneurship isn’t just business — but a spiritual journey? Ìyá Ashley reframes the startup journey as a spiritual path of creation, self-knowing, and visibility. She s…
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21 min
Episode 2 - Behind the Curtain: Returning the Soul to Healthcare
Behind every system are people. Ìyá Ashley is joined by one of the top executive coaches for the US healthcare systems leaders, Micha’le Simmons, to go behind the curtain of the U.…
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7 min
Episode 1 - Healing Isn’t Just Clinical: Reclaiming the Spirit in Mental Health
Before therapy, there were elders. Before diagnoses, there were divinations. Ìyá Ashley invites you to remember what mental health looked like before it became a medical industry —…
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1 min
Season 1 Trailer 2: The Healing Underground
Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit. The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it beca…
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Season 1 Trailer 1: The Healing Underground
Long before diagnoses and clinical language, there was community and spirit.The Healing Underground is a sacred space for remembering what mental health looked like before it becam…