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🎧 The Melanin Wellness Podcast Created for Black women. Loved by wellness seekers everywhere. Join trauma-informed wellness coach Cori Dunn for honest convos on healing, hormones, and holistic living. Ranked in the Top 25% of podcasts globally, this show delivers real wellness, joy, and nourishment for your mind, body, and spirit — one powerful episode at a time.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A community centered wellness show about food, stress, rest, and family pressure in everyday health decisions.
The Melanin Wellness Podcast belongs in Health & Fitness as a warm, direct wellness show with a clear community lens. Across the sampled episodes, it keeps returning to care under pressure: men's eating habits, dad bod discourse, provider stress, holiday burnout, and grief.
A dad bod stops being a meme once Kori asks how you're sleeping.
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Practical meal prep that keeps consistency, flavor, and care on equal footing.
This episode treats meal prep as plain help for men and busy households, not as a lifestyle performance. It keeps the focus on staying consistent, saving time, and keeping taste and nutrition in balance.
A grounded reminder that safety, rest, and voice are health work.
This episode stays close to Black women’s right to be heard, held, and cared for without being asked to perform pain. Kori’s conversation with Leslie Welch, MPH, MBA, moves through birth equity, community care, and the idea that safety has to mean more than physical protection…
A direct, lived-in health conversation that turns food labels into a question of survival.
This episode follows a health turn with plainspoken force, moving from addiction and incarceration into label reading, food scrutiny, and the slow grind of change.
A holiday reset that treats rest, boundaries, and refusal as acts of care.
The episode presents holiday burnout as more than personal fatigue, linking it to corporate greed, community strain, and the pressure to keep spending and moving.
A warm, plainspoken take on men's health that trades the joke for habits that actually stick.
Kori turns a dad bod joke into a plain talk about health, and the move works. The tone stays warm and direct, with thanks for the men listening and the women and families backing them up, before landing on a simple point: a body is not just something to look at, it is something…
A clear look at the quiet cost of always being the one who has to hold things together.
This episode looks at provider pressure and shows that being the provider reaches far beyond money. It moves from gratitude and family life into the mental, financial, and emotional strain that can come with carrying work, parenting, and partnership at the same time.
A straightforward gut-health check that links digestion to habits, stress, and overall wellness.
This episode treats men's digestive health as part of the whole picture, not a separate problem sitting off to the side. It connects digestion to food, movement, stress, and sleep, while also calling out the usual troublemakers: over-processed food, alcohol, smoking, and…
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
Host Kori interviews public health strategist and poet Leslie Welch about why silence isn't strength for Black women and the urgent need for safe spaces in healthcare and personal wellness.
This episode discusses the challenges and importance of supporting Black boys in sports and wellness, focusing on balancing strength with emotional and physical care.
The host provides practical meal prep strategies for busy individuals and families, emphasizing batch cooking proteins, pre-chopping vegetables, and preparing smart carbs to save time while maintaining nutritional balance.
Host Kori challenges women over 35 to shift from 'aesthetic era' fitness goals focused on looks and weight loss to a 'healing era' approach that prioritizes strength, mobility, nervous system regulation, and sustainable energy.
Host Kori shares how her grandmother's lessons about feeding others with love revealed a pattern of self-neglect passed down through generations of Black women.
This episode explores how fathers pass down generational health habits—both positive and negative—to their sons, covering nutrition, exercise, mental health, and emotional expression.
Kori speaks plainly about taking back the holiday season and pushing back on the pressure to buy, buy, buy.
Coach Kev Ramon joins Kori during Men’s Health Month with a story that starts in survival and lands in healing.
This solo episode explores the multifaceted pressure men face as providers, detailing the emotional, financial, and decision-making burdens that impact their mental and physical health.
This episode of The Melanin Wellness Podcast challenges common misconceptions about meditation, particularly for men, and provides practical, accessible tips for starting and maintaining a meditation practice.
This episode focuses on men's digestive health as part of a Movember series, explaining how gut health affects immunity, energy, and mood through the gut-brain axis.
This Movember episode of The Melanin Wellness Podcast focuses on holistic healing for men, emphasizing the interconnectedness of mind, muscle, and mood.
This episode of The Melanin Wellness Podcast focuses on men's hormonal health, explaining how cortisol, testosterone, insulin, and thyroid hormones affect energy, mood, and overall wellness.
This episode explores the dad bod debate, arguing that health is more than aesthetics by discussing cardiovascular and metabolic markers, strength, and holistic wellness tips.
This episode explores the intersection of faith, masculinity, and wellness, examining how religious and cultural expectations can create barriers to self-care for men.
Host Kori explores the unique experience of burnout among Black men, discussing the systemic pressures, cultural expectations of resilience, and specific signs like chronic exhaustion and emotional detachment.
Host Cori Dunn discusses redefining consistency as sustainable self-care rather than hustle culture, using the habit loop framework.
The host shares her personal autoimmune journey and discusses how fitness and movement can serve as therapy, especially for Black women navigating health challenges.
The host discusses how beauty rituals can support mental health and nervous system regulation for Black women.
Host Cori Dunn shares a personal story about her childhood dream of modeling and how it taught her to stop shrinking and embrace her power, tying it to the show's theme of holistic wellness for Black women.
Host Cori Dunn discusses wellness habits inherited from her grandmother and how she updated them for modern life, emphasizing that health approaches must be personalized.
Trauma-informed wellness coach Cori Dunn interviews Dr.
Host Cori Dunn interviews Dr.
Trauma-informed wellness coach Cori Dunn interviews Dr.
A trauma-informed wellness coach discusses sleep disturbances common among survivors of sexual trauma and shares gentle strategies for improvement.
This episode discusses the hidden toxic chemicals in synthetic braiding hair and their health impacts on Black women.