Ash & Bloom

Listen to the podcast or the summary below... A couple weeks ago, Fertile Ground continued its Relating & Dating: Beyond the Hookup series with the second installment, The Readiness Reset: The Mindset Makeover, featuring author, speaker, pastor, and BET producer Kevin E. Taylor. What unfolded was a warm, candid, and deeply engaging evening of conversation about dating, guardedness, hope, and what it really takes to become ready for love. If the first salon named the landscape

Listen to the podcast below, or scroll down to read the full transcript. On March 28, Fertile Ground opened our new Relating & Dating series with The Dating Dilemma: Apps. Traps. Truths. Wins. The original concept of upstart comedian, Dana Fonville , it was a guided community conversation inviting us—Black gay, queer, and same-gender-loving (SGL) men—to slow down and tell the truth about what is really shaping our dating lives and relationships right now. This was a little