"Take care of your instrument." Joe chats with Phakiso and discusses how wellness evolved from a young age for her. Phakiso discusses her earlier years as a track student-athlete and how that shaped her wellness journey. She then discusses her “Slum Village Years” and what that taught her and how she was able to learn to focus on her mental wellness that was rooted in the body, rooted in art, and rooted in sexuality.

Phakiso's Bio

Phakiso “Kiki” Collins is a producer/movement artist/curator and has provided creative vision, leadership, and content to some of the country’s top production companies and networks in the span of her 17-year career in production, currently Executive Producer at MTV Entertainment Studios.Homegrown in Greensboro, NC and a proud Alumna of Howard University's School of Communications, this now Brooklyn resident has shot, directed, field and post-produced on multiple projects within Bravo, BET, OWN, FYI, TVOne, MSNBC,Revolt, MTV, and Vh1 recently took a turn to scripted tv/film. Phakiso has centered much of her work in unscripted television on expanding the narrative from which we see and advocating for stories that humanize, entertain and uplift. A multi-talented leader, Phakiso has earned a reputation for her stellar work as a storyteller and innovative manager who creates passion, rigor, cohesive flow, and joy within the sets and teams she oversees. As an independent artist and trained dancer, she's created and curated several dance-video films and live performances allowing her to share work at American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, Howard University along with traveling to Senegal and Ghana.

Phakiso is the founder of Breakin' Out!, now co-produced with her sister, Shani Collins (of SNIC Eternalworksdance), which is a movement/ healing initiative that is workshop and performance-based. What started as boisterous, crying, “Oh no they didn’t!” living room “parties” for women of color to come together and break the silence around their sexuality has become a series of multi-media productions and performances aiming to liberate, heal, and empower women and young girls in their bodies. She is also the creator of Live Life Juicy, a radical self-care movement with a vision to liberate, heal, and create next level possibilities in the communities of both content creators and Black people.

Aiming to create wellness in the midst of a chaotic tv journey she's been driven to explore and train in yoga, reiki, meditation, transformational coaching, erotic empowerment, dance, and most recently herbalism. Her vision is to use all her tools, media, and movement to empower people and herself to liberation and to live OUTRAGEOUSLY in their fullest expression.