Flourish: Recent Episodes
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Learn how I overcame being stuck, losing myself and becoming overwhelmed with distractions during the pandemic. Journey with me as I share how I reclaimed my passions, discovered my "no", dedicated to holding space for myself relaunched my dreams and started making *ish happen again. Learn how you, too, can reclaim your space, dreams, and passions, pour into yourself, while pouring into others, and learn to operate in your power.
Have you ever worked in an envrionment where you felt you were a specimen to your colleagues, constantly under a microscope being judged about your ADS (Attitude, Dress, and Speech), even your hair?!
These are microagressions that we often experience in the workplace, and sometimes they don't always come from our white counterparts though, sometimes, "it be your own people."
In this interview with author Rahkal Shelton Roberson, we get down to the white meat about discrimination, wage gaps, biases, toxic environments, self-worth, boundary setting, and community building.
About Rahkal:
Rahkal C. D. Shelton is a certified professional life coach, author, speaker, and CEO of Be The Inspired You, a motivational personal and professional development lifestyle brand. Her passion is inspiring young women.
Rahkal's corporate experience includes stints at major companies, CNN, Warner Media, and iHeartMedia among them.
She earned a Master’s degree in Media Communications and a Bachelor’s degree in Radio/TV/Film. Her expertise has been highlighted in Forbes, HuffPost, and VoyageATL.
She is the author of Woosah: A Survival Guide for Women of Color Working In Corporate and Blackbird: The Story of a SistaMom.
Rahkal lives with her husband in Atlanta, Georgia.
It's Time to Level Up! Are you tired of living a life of mediocrity and invisibility and feeling like you're stuck and can't get to the next level in your life?
Well, mentor, philanthropist, and founder of The Miss Black USA Pagent, Karen Arrington, spells out in detail how to redefine what success means to you and how to upgrade your life.
In this pre-recorded interview, Karen gives us the recipe for setting ambitous goals, reach for bigger opportunities, and helps us know that we're brave enough to get whatt you deserve!
With her seven simple rules for success, at the end of this interview, you will know how to:
- create all the money you need
- position yourself like a start
- connect with other powerful women
- leverage your own Black Girl Magic
This is an episode you don't want to miss, so make sure you tune in now!!!!
About Karen:
Karen Arrington is an award-winning author, women’s empowerment expert + global philanthropist + winner of a NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.
Karen’s coaching, mentoring + philanthropic work spans over 100,000 hours of service — including her position as a Goodwill Ambassador to Sierra Leone, her work as the co- founder of the first Diabetes Awareness Day in West Africa, and her role as the founder of The Miss Black USA Pageant.
She won a 2020 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work for her book, Your Next Level Life: 7 Rules of Power, Confidence and Opportunity for Black Women In America.
She has also been honored by The Lifetime Network, Jones New York + other major media outlets for her tireless advocacy for women’s health, success +empowerment -- including a Red Dress Award from Woman’s Day Magazine for herefforts in the fight against heart disease, the #1 killer of women.
Over the past 20 years, Karen has helped over 1,000 women step into powerful careers in media, business, medicine + law — transcending hardship, abuse + financial limitations, and transforming their lives + communities.
Today, Karen offers private coaching + global service retreats around the world for ambitious women who want to live their best lives -- only better
It's Q4 and it's time to evolutionize your resume with certified resume writer extrodinaire, Melanie L. Denny. Now is the best time ever to take inventory of your resume and identify new skills you've acquired, new responsibilites you've taken on since the pandemic, and any updates you haven't made in the last year or so.
If you're looking to take your career to the next level, transition to a new industry, or apply for the promotion you both desire and deserve, then you don't want to miss out on this podcast.
In this pre-recorded interview, we discuss the Great Resgination, the state of remote work,and how to negotiate salary, and much more!
Come flourish with us!
About Melanie:
As a trusted resource for all things job search, aspiring executives seek out her services to differentiate themselves in today's highly competitive job market. Her “never settle for less” attitude inspires her clients to realize their true value and exude the confidence they need to secure the high-paying salaries they deserve.
Her clients have seen remarkable job-search success and salary increases to the tune of $15K to $50K as a result of her ability to not only concisely articulate their value on paper, but her empowering approach to self-marketing.
Melanie has been featured in countless radio shows, media outlets, television and books. She’s been invited to speak to organizations and nonprofits across the world on career topics from résumés, LinkedIn, interviewing, personal branding, networking and career empowerment.
She holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor of Science in Business with a minor in English.
For more about Melanie, visit resume-evolution.com
With the Great Resignation at an all time high, now is the time to take invetory of your skills, dreams, and desires to create the work-life balance you want! Hear how working with Kelli can take you from Stuck to Fulfilled with her proven system and 1:1 coaching services.
Tune in for another Flourish Podcast with guest, Kelli Anderson, MEd where we discuss her business Get the Job! Shop (formerly, Mindset Mamas). Kelli gets candid about today's job market and how women, especially mamas can create the dream job environment they desire. Whether it's working for someone else, starting, or expanding a business, Kelli can help you live the life your desire.
About Kelli:
Kelli Anderson, MEd is a Career & Mindset Coach currently helping women build a work life they love. As the founder of Get the Job! Shop, formerly Mindset Mamas she’s created numerous resources, including her signature invite-only 1:1 coaching experience, From Stuck to Fulfilled: Building a Work Life You Love.
Kelli has led dozens of women to leave unsatisfying work situations and start careers and businesses that make them feel fulfilled, while building their confidence along the way.
Kelli’s former zig zag of a career in sales, education, recruiting, and copywriting had her struggling to figure out what she really wanted to do for work. After putting the time, energy, and effort into finding clarity Kelli knew she couldn’t be the only woman who felt stuck. She was inspired to fulfill her true life’s work and created Mindset Mamas, bringing a human element into the traditionally sterile career transition process.
Today she uses her platform and knowledge to take women from feeling stuck to fulfilled in their work situations. Whether it’s someone looking to get back into the workforce, make a pivotal career change or a woman who is considering starting (or is already running) a business, Kelli’s programs will help.
Kelli has been featured in Woman’s Day, Ladders, Fairygodboss, 30seconds.com, and TODAY Parents, among other publications and media outlets.
Dr. Holden has an amazing story of triumph that is the perfect inspiration this holiday season. A true reason why we should all be grateful and thankful for all we do have.
In this emotionally filled interview, Dr. Holden shares her story of homelessness to PhD graduate, and 2017 political candidate.
Listen to this powerful story and glean some true inspiration from a woman who did not let her circumstances dictate her outcome. Learn how she fell down, but continued to get up fighting for her life in order to save herself and children, overcoming odds to become the God-fearing, successful woman she is today.
Dr. Holden has overcome the odds as she’s gone from being homeless with six children in the streets of Atlanta to a political candidate in the 2017 election, from a GED to a doctorate degree in Leadership Studies and became a 14x published author. She was named Georgia and National Mother of the Year 2020.
We have been talking about maternal health and maternal mental health all month long at Flourish!
Get some tips from "DMV's best kept secret", Ashley T. Corbett from Conquering You, LLC, as she talks about her Mommy Mental Makeover Bootcamp for moms who are experiencing overwhelm, stress, burnout, and depression in this lively discussion about motherhood and the crises women, especially Black women are facing in this country as it relates to giving birth and rearing children. Learn more about how you can begin conquering you and finding balance in your motherhood journey.
Ashley Corbett is the CEO & Founder of Conquering You, LLC. She is a Maternal Mental Health Coach, licensed therapist, motivational speaker, and champion for moms. Ashley has contributed to the maternal mental health space for 15 years and has helped 160 mothers overcome mental and emotional struggles within the past 21 months. Ashley equips mothers with effective tools to conquer depression, tackle anxiety and overcome the overwhelm of motherhood in her 6-week live group coaching course called the Mommy Mental Makeover™.
Her coaching practice is the first-class alternative to therapy where resilience strategies and techniques are taught to last a lifetime. With a mission of helping 20,000 mothers conquer their barriers to improved mental and emotional health; Ashley Corbett is the DMV’s best kept secret.
Ashley has been featured as a speaker at the DC Mayor’s 2020 Maternal and Infant Health Summit, the Success Women’s 2021 Woman on Fire Conference, Shepowerment TV’s Ultimate Makeover Experience, and a host of podcasts related to women empowerment.
Follow her on Instagram @conquering_you or visit her website at www.conqueringyou.com. For more information on the Mommy Mental Makeover™ course, go to www.mommymentalmakeover.com. You may also reach Ashley at 301. 818.1308
Join me as I discuss healing from soul to soles with Brandi Williams, founder of SoulMed Holistic Health Collaborative, a health coaching program for Black women. Brandi discusses the benefits of using a plant-based diet to heal our bodies from the inside out. She discusses her journey to living a healthier lifestyle after her struggles with diabetes, depression and anxiety. And she wants Black women across the nation to find healing through a healthy plant diet too. Brandi helps us understand the powerful benefits of using plants to aid our body's natural healing properties to help us heal from everything ranging from body rashes to high blood pressure. This coupled with proper exercise and focusing on mental clarity helps us heal from soul to sole. Brandi Williams is the founder of SoulMed Holistic Health Collaborative, a health coaching program exclusively for Black women. As a healthy habit coach, Brandi teaches Black women how to integrate small, healthy habits into their current lifestyle to improve their mental health and reduce their stress. This is done through habit-forming challenges, educational workshops and programs that help Black women build new habits and learn the WHY behind the changes so they can see long-term benefits that can be passed down from generation to generation. All virtual programs come with individual health coaching. SoulMed's signature program, the Total Body Challenge, is a 28-day challenge that sets the foundation for the program and offers both individual and group coaching. Health coaching is typically reserved for those who have the discretionary income to afford a 6-month program priced at $1000 or more. SoulMed’s advantage is that it offers the program affordably; no program is more than $50. The core philosophy behind the cost is that health coaching should be affordable and available to everyone. SoulMed wants to reach those who need it most and have limited access to healthcare and this type of information and programming. Soon, SoulMed will offer a membershipSoulMed Interview w/Brandi Williams program so Black women can access services on demand, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Flourish is celebrating mamas all month long. As you know, May is not just for Mother's Day, but it also a month of awareness for Mental Health, Maternal Health and Maternal Mental Health Month.
Learn how Mom’s Advocate & Maternal Advisor (M.A.M.A.) Owner & CEO, Dominique Jones is working -for birth justice and helping mamas all over become educated about maternal health and the importance of reducing the maternal and child mortality and morbidity rates for women, especially Black women in this country through her virtual birth doula services.
This M.A.M.A. started her journey during the pandemic while on maternity leave and being laid off from her job of thirteen years in the education arena. She turned her first love as an aspiring pediatrician and being a mother of two girls into her life’s work of helping other mamas on their journey to motherhood, both pre and postpartum.
Dominique explains how maternal mortality in this country is leading cause of death of birthing mothers, from everything to pain management to preeclampsia/eclampsia during and after the birthing process.
She also shares information about the postpartum stages including baby blues, postpartum depression and maternal psychosis. Most importantly, she teaches us what it means to be KIND to ourselves and how to partners and family members can be supportive M.A.M.A. advocates too.
Learn more about Dominique’s services at www.mamabirthservices.com
You can reach Dominique at mamabirthservices@gmail.com and on IG at @mamabirthservices
Listen as I share my journey of creating my own security, after I decided to submit my resignation and embark on a new path, liberating myself from the stress and anxiety of the hampster wheel. Step Out the Boat is a reference to Peter walk on water to Jesus. This faith-based story is a call to every woman who hs a dream, but may be afriad to step out the boat and walk on new waters. Learn how to make fearless decisions and begin living the full life you dream of.
Listen in now on all major platforms.
No. Nope. Nah. Naw.” How you choose to say NO can mean the difference between New Opportunities or No Opportunities and can quite frankly save your life. No is a short, yet powerful word. And, it often doesn't require explanation, even when others desire us to give them one. No is a complete sentence (Periodt!). You reserve the right to tell others “No, Nope, Nah or Naw” when you need to. Want to learn more about the power of no and how to exercise it in your personal and professional life to set boundaries, maximize your peace, time, and money? Check out this week’s podcast episode, where I discuss the power of no, the benefits of becoming comfortable saying it, and tactful ways to incorporate it to improve your life.
Learn how I overcame being stuck, losing myself and becoming overwhelemed with distractions, disappointments and burnout during the pandemic.
Journey with me as I share how I reclaimed my passions, discovered my "no", dedicated to holding space for myself and relaunched my dreams and starting making "ish" happen again.
Glean insights on how you, too, can reclaim your space, launch or relaunch your passions and pour into yourself, while pouring into others and operate in your true power.