Episode 204 : What The Mothers Couldn’t Say with Nikesha Elise Williams
In this episode of 'Is My Aura On Straight?', host Aycee Brown opens with reflections on the September 22nd equinox, the shift from Virgo to Libra season’s focus on relationships and lineage, and an upcoming Aries full moon. She highlights clearer relationship communication and a “thin veil” period with ancestors close before introducing her guest.
Aycee interviews two-time Emmy-winning producer, writer, and Black and Published host Nikesha Elise Williams about ancestry, Black women’s survival, and her novel The Seven Daughters of Dupree, which spans seven generations from enslaved ancestors in Alabama to a teen in 1995 seeking her father amid secrecy, grief, and what mothers couldn’t say to daughters. Nikesha discusses Chicago’s lessons on community, her mother’s perseverance, the emotional cost of compartmentalizing as a TV news producer and a pivotal police-shooting video that made her stop watching such footage, leading to a transition from news to self-publishing and building an imprint.
Nikesha also explains how she sees land as memory, her channel-like writing practices, and how her 2023 divorce coincided with rapid career breakthroughs including an agent offer, a grant, and a major book deal.
Purchase Nikesha’s Book The Seven Daughters of Dupree HERE
Connect with Nikesha at newwrites.com or at @nikesha_elise on Instagram, Threads, TikTok and Facebook.
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