The Eddie Francis Podcast Show featuring Halima Leak Francis: Recent Episodes
Eddie Francis
It’s a new direction for the podcast! The Eddie Francis Podcast Show wants to empower you more by focusing on identity and value. I thought of this when I realized that August of 2017 was the 20th anniversary of Tom Peters’ pivotal career article “The Brand Called You”. That piece launched the great practice of personal branding but many of us have focused on the external elements of building personal brands. To me, personal branding is more about identity and value.
Going forward, we are dedicating this podcast to how people articulate who they are (identity) and their worth to the people around them (value). Consider this episode an invitation to let me and Halima know wha [...]
Sara Taney Humphreys felt the urge to write…so she did. That led her to becoming an award-winning novelist who is known for her paranormal romance and urban fantasy series of books including the Amoveo Legend novels which have been nominated for the National Readers Choice Award. Not only that, she has enjoyed time as a speaker and professional actress whose television credits include “A&E Biography”, “Guiding Light”, “Another World”, “As the World Turns”, and “Rescue Me”.
A very cool friend, Sara took the time to talk about how she finally got her ideas out of her head and onto paper. She gives great insights not only for budding writers but anyone who has that dream wai [...]
WRITE TO BEAR ALMS
In part two of this Black Philanthropy Month edition of the podcast, Halima covers a lot of ground in only 29 minutes. She talks about how to establish a philanthropic identity, why you should educate yourself on a cause (instead of giving blindly), and even what happens when a donor feels their philanthropic identity has been betrayed. Just add li’l sum’n, sum’n, she even comments about giving and church.
Black Philanthropy Month 2016 Episodes
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We are upon yet another Black Philanthropy Month so that can only mean it’s time for Halima to do her thang! Over the past year, I have thought carefully about my identity and value, and part of that has been establishing my identity as a giver. Having learned from this careful thought, I asked Halima to offer insights about having a philanthropic identity.
She has some good stuff! Halima gave insight about what it means to have a philanthropic identity, how anyone can have said identity, and the impact of clearly understanding your philanthropic identity to the people who surround you. [...]
Leslie Brown, who joined us for episodes 2 and 4, returns to the podcast. This time, our resident mental health professional takes on a topic about which she is very passionate–self-care. Leslie helps kick off the new sound of the Eddie Francis Podcast Show which now focuses more on the impact of identity and value. The counseling professional talks about what self-care is, what threatens self-care, a prominent figure’s self-care victory, and the importance of bal [...]
Black Greek Success
Roland and Bethany Criswell share “Coleman Love.” The bond between Omega Psi Phi fraternity and Delta Sigma Theta sorority is named for Prof. Frank Coleman, an Omega founder who married, Edna Brown Coleman, one of the founders of Delta. Not only are they life partners but the Criswells are founders of the Coston Criswell Group.
Because I celebrate the role that Black Greek life has played in my life, I invited the Criswells to join me to talk about how their organizations are part of their success journey.
There is no getting around the negative mood of America these days and I am really concerned about my folks–Black America. This edition of the podcast is an appeal to my fellow African Americans to think carefully about how we publicly engage one another in the age of Trump.
In 2011, I was fortunate enough to win an award from the Press Club of New Orleans because of an amazing woman. I had the privilege of interviewing Rwandan genocide survivor Immaculee Ilibagizawho talked about hiding for 91 days in a cramped bathroom with seven other women to avoid being murdered. It’s an interview that I will treasure the rest of my days because of Immaculee’s grace in describing what was easily the biggest nightmare of her life.
This powerful interview, which won Best Radio Entertainment Feature, was recorded when I was the co-producer of the award-winning “Sunday Journal” radio show on WYLD-FM in New Orleans. At the time [...]
I was pleased to have author, speaker, life coach, and podcaster extraordinaire Joel Boggess on the Eddie Francis Podcast Show. The host of the “ReLaunch” podcast shared the remarkable story of his recovery after a 30-foot fall from a bridge at five-years-old to becoming a fitness instructor and martial artist. The man is a legit inspiration.
Check out these credentials. He is the number one best-selling author of “Finding Your Voice”. Joel has also been a contributor to Success.com, The Huffington Post, and Inc. “ReLaunch” has been recognized as:
- The 2014 and 2015 [...]
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Halima and I had to have Bivian “Sonny” Lee, III on the podcast. He is the founder of Son of a Saint, a mentoring organization named as a tribute to Sonny’s dad, late New Orleans Saints player Bivian “Sonny” Lee, Jr. Having lost his father when he was only three-years-old, Sonny saw the need to create an organization that provides guidance to young black males between the ages of ni [...]
Two radio interviews from back in the day that I remember fondly are conversations I had with David West, then of the New Orleans Hornets, and Soledad O’Brien. Both are from my days as the co-producer and contributor to WYLD-FM’s “Sunday Journal”.
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Mildred “The Money Doctor” Dillon, C.P.A. is a friend who I interviewed many times during my radio days so I figured I would invite her to join me on the podcast. Changing lives one money envelope at a time, Mildred talks about simple ways we can stretch our dollars and her book Take This Job and Love It! Start Living the Life of Your Dreams with Just a Paycheck!.
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In the spirit of Black Philanthropy Month, Halima and I continue our conversation about giving in the black community. Here, she gives her thoughts on how black organizations and institutions can be great stewards of donations and volunteering. Halima also talks about the advice she would give philanthropists as we revisit the spirit of Michael Jordan’s donations.
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August is Black Philanthropy Month so we thought about a philanthropist whose donations made waves in July and August 2016–Michael Jordan. Some folks seem pretty vocal about the merits of his $1 million donations each to the International Association of the Chiefs of Police’s Institute for Community-Police Relations and the NAACP Legal Def [...]
For most of my adult life, I was a hater. Hate to admit it but I was. This is my confession.
It’s one of the coolest interviews I have ever had the pleasure of conducting. In 2010, I interviewed artist Voice Monet for the “Sunday Journal” Success Series segment. The smooth MC is the daughter of actor Lance Nichols whose throwback interview I featured for Episode 5 of the podcast. By the way, her new EP “Black Maria” will drop September 2016.
I can’t take it anymore and I have to speak out:
The week of July 4, 2016 is a week that will live in infamy for this decade with the deaths of Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, and five Dallas police officers on consecutive days. Out of sheer frustration, I posted my wish for good people of all cultures to unite on my Facebook page but nothing beats saying the words.
It is my hope that you will join me in being a solution to our problem. Check out some of these events that brought people in the community together with law enforcement:
African American fraternities and sororities, particularly the Divine Nine, played a major role in diversifying leadership in America in the early 20th Century. Since that time, thousands of African Americans have benefited from this powerful network by providing social capital that would boost communities of color. In my Black Greek Success segment, I invited a social capital expert to join the podcast. Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D. is a very cool friend of Halima’s and mine. She has done research on social capital in communities of color as well as research on relationship based on Robert Kegan and [...]
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In 2016, the A-WOW World Summit returns to the U.S. Halima, being the fantastic giving professional she is, was a guest workshop presenter at the 2015 summit. She shared her experience with her “Write to Bear Alms” radio audience in August 2015 on Radio Azad. This edition features Halima’s inspirational commentary about how these dynamic young women seek to be catalysts of change in health, education, and legal justice. She talks about seeing the light bulbs go off in the participants a [...]
As a recruiter, one of my favorite things is to call someone to make him or her a job offer. Unfortunately, many people have to wait weeks and months to get those calls because they are victims of racial employment discrimination. Research shows that many employers have no qualms with passing over the resumes of people with “black” names.
Based on a blog I wrote, I talk about the utter ridiculousness of this practice while inspiring uniquely named folks with suggestions to strengthen their resumes during the j [...]