Episodes
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Gun Violence Awareness Day and Wear Orange with Mia Reid
Episode Summary: This one was a hard one. In the wake of the shooting in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, we welcome back Mia Reid to tell us more about how the loss of her son led her to become a psychologist and an advocate that fights for better gun laws. We...
How to Create a More Diverse and Inclusive Workplace with DE&I Champion Wema Hoover
Episode Summary:Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important values in the workplace because they foster a work environment that is fair and inclusive. They also benefit employees by making them feel valued and appreciated. Studies have shown that workplaces with...
Increasing Financial Literacy 101 with Financial Wellness Educator William Cooper
Episode Summary:We live in a world where some of us have been convinced that looking wealthy is more important than actually building wealth. From what I’ve seen and experienced, many of our people lack financial literacy. It is something that I noticed at a very...
Becoming a Better Black Leader with Shayna Hammond
Episode Summary:How do we become better leaders? That is the focus of today's show, figuring out how to deal with the added pressures of being a leader as a minority and also learning how to be a better leader. I talk with Shayna Hammond Founder & CEO of Lead For...
The Truth About College: The Joys and Pitfalls with Dr. Zakiya Akerele
Episode Summary:This episode is all about the pursuit of higher education. I talk to DR. Zakiya, a self-proclaimed former career student and author of the upcoming book, "Dump Your Degree." We talk about our experiences with higher education, the lessons we learned,...
Black Storytelling with Sledge House Media’s Christina & Eddie Sledge
Episode Summary:In this episode, I talk to Christina and Eddie Sledge of Sledge House Media. They not only created a media company from the ground up, but they did it in the middle of a pandemic. Now they are sharing their fiction and non-fiction stories in book form,...