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Everyone is asking whether Cheyenne Bryant lied about her credentials. I'm asking a different question: what kind of environment makes that lie work? This episode sits at the intersection of anti-intellectualism, media literacy collapse, AI, and the brutal paradox Black women face as the most educated demographic in the country who are still systematically undervalued. I bring in Baudrillard, brea...

People ask me all the time — what exactly do you do? In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain. I break down the "networking first" model that defines every engagement at The Networking Dr.™, the doctoral research behind it, and the four service areas where I help founders, professionals, and organizations grow through relationships. I share a client testimonial, get specific about who I work...

I spent years interviewing Black women entrepreneurs for my doctoral research at Pepperdine. I asked them about their networks, their decisions, their wins and losses. I wrote 387 pages about how they build and sustain businesses. And then I left my role as Senior Director at a small business and launched my own consultancy. This episode is about what that transition actually looks like when you s...

Episode 4: You're Not Invisible. You're Just Inconsistent. After the last presidential election, I wrote a post. It was researched, honest, and fair. It was also some of the most personally revealing writing I had done in a professional context. I read it eleven times. It is still in my drafts. In this episode, I use that story as the entry point for a conversation about Intentional Visibility — o...

Three legal actions. Six weeks. One pattern. In this episode, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price connects the dots between the EEOC's lawsuit targeting a women's networking event, Edward Blum's challenge to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarship, and Executive Order 14398 — the new federal contracting mandate with False Claims Act teeth. Drawing on her post-doctoral research and the history o...

Last episode was the diagnosis. This one is the prescription. Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price breaks down the R.I.S.E. Framework™ — the four-pillar networking model that emerged from her doctoral research on Black women entrepreneurs — and applies it directly to the Crisis 600: nearly 600,000 Black women economically sidelined since February 2025. This episode covers Intersectional Network Agility (a new...

The headlines are calling it ambition. The data tells a different story. In this debut episode, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price unpacks what is actually driving the rise of Black women entrepreneurs — and why resilience alone is not enough. Drawing from her own experience launching The Networking Dr.™ and years of doctoral research, she makes the case for what is actually owed.