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 Cario 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:
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<li style="font-weight:400;">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.</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">How self-expression (clothes, tattoos, intention) becomes a practice of alignment, intuition, and reclaiming presence.</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Kenisha’s framing of joy as survival, transformation, and sustainable fuel for justice and equity work.</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">The difference between community that drains vs. community that holds you accountable and amplifies belonging.</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Practical boundary language and the real mechanics of choosing joy while showing up in heavy systems.</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">The connective thread between identity, purpose, and choosing yourself in seasons of uncertainty.</li>
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Guests:
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Melany Del Cario – Coach-in-training, creative self-expression advocate, and ritual practitioner.
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<li style="font-weight:400;">LinkedIn → <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanydelcarpio/'>https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanydelcarpio/</a> </li>
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Kenisha Coon – Equity strategist, author, consultant, and joy-as-repair practitioner. 
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Instagram →  @kenishacoon (<a href='https://www.instagram.com/kcoon9288/?hl=en'>https://www.instagram.com/kcoon9288/?hl=en</a>) </li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Website → <a href='https://www.kenishacoon.com/'>https://www.kenishacoon.com/</a></li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Kenisha Coon’s Memoir, And Then She Persisted → <a href='https://bookshop.org/a/79820/9798888385968'>https://bookshop.org/a/79820/9798888385968</a> </li>
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🎛️ Production Credits
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<li style="font-weight:400;">Produced & Edited by: Jonathan Dumas</li>
<li style="font-weight:400;">Co-Produced & Additional Editing: Reggie Hall</li>
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