Ep 30 | Overcoming Obstacles & Embracing Resilience: My Untold Story feat. Agnes Agyepong

In this episode of Every L Podcast, I meet Agnes, founder of the GloMama Awards. Agnes shares her personal history of battling depression and suicidal thoughts, and the term "Glow Mama" that helped her through her darkest moments. Agnes, a dark-skinned black girl with no roots in the country, discusses how her whole life has been an 'L', with lots of frustration and rejection, but how she has used this as fuel to become successful.

A bit more about Agnes: 

Agnes Agyepong is a mother of three and the founder and CEO of The Global Black Maternal Health Institute. As a maternal health advocate in the UK and former Head of Engagement at a national charity, Agnes has published articles and spoken extensively about the need for maternal health research to become more diverse and inclusive. As a key speaker, her credits include the British Medical Association, The Royal College of Midwifery, the Royal Society of Medicine, the NHS and the Westminster Health Forum. She is also a named author of the Babies in Lockdown Report and supported the UK government on the flagship Early Years Healthy Development Review, a review into improving health and development outcomes for babies in England. Her work has been published by the World Health Organisation and her article “Why bias is key to stopping institutional and structural racism in healthcare and research” made it to the front page of international nursing journal, Nurse Researcher.

In 2018, she founded The GLOMAMA Awards, a prestigious annual awards celebrating the achievements of mums on social media, which encourages mothers to rediscover their “Glow” after pregnancy. She sits on the NIHR ARC Maternity and Perinatal Mental Health PPI strategy committee, is a founding member of the Maternity Mental Health SEL steering group and Service User Voice Representative (Patient and Public Voice PPV Partner)
for the Maternity Transformation Programme in the UK.