Elevating Good | For Women of Faith Who Won't Give Up on People

Lisa Y. Jones didn't set out to become a wealth strategist — she set out to survive a decade of financially flying blind as a top Mary Kay sales director, then to dig her way out of $300,000 in debt with her husband, Keith. Today she's a faith-rooted wealth strategist and #1 best-selling author who helps women in the pre-retirement and retirement seasons build clarity, protection, and lega...

Tania P. Brown, CFP® and founder of The Confident Quitter's Collective™, joins the host for a conversation that's as much a testimony as it is a financial masterclass. Tania shares how a childhood memory of her mother's financial despair, an Army-issued credit card, and a "performance review from hell" led her to a corporate exit she resisted for years — and how surrendering her own timeline to Go...

By popular request — and because it's one of the top 5 most-played episodes in our catalog — we're bringing back this conversation with author and speaker Rotimi Iyun, now for the first time on video and available everywhere, including Substack and YouTube. Rotimi is the author of Wait Is Not a Four-Letter Word: The Mature Woman's Guide to Living Single with Grace and Purpose. In this...

Our guest Shell Peterson is a single mom and entrepreneur who built her career from scratch — from a decade in optometry to founding A Courageous Beauty (a top DC blog), and Shell Social and Strategies, now leading marketing for The District Cup. In this episode, she opens up about her “shedding season” — a year of loss that prepared her to receive the exact opportunity she’d prayed for — and the...

Our guest Shell Peterson is a single mom and entrepreneur who built her career from scratch — from a decade in optometry to founding A Courageous Beauty (a top DC blog), and Shell Social and Strategies, now leading marketing for The District Cup. In this episode, she opens up about her “shedding season” — a year of loss that prepared her to receive the exact opportunity she’d prayed for — and the...

In this milestone 50th episode of Elevating Good, the host sits down with her sister, Pastor (Dr.) Manita Fadel — First Lady of RCCG The Americas I and a former pediatrician turned full-time minister. She oversees Children and Youth Ministries, leads Women in Ministry, and founded The Pastors' Wives' Forum. Author of Fifty and Fabulous and Diet and Lifestyle for Kingdom Living, Dr. Fadel c...

In this milestone 50th episode of Elevating Good, the host sits down with her sister, Pastor (Dr.) Manita Fadel — First Lady of RCCG The Americas I and a former pediatrician turned full-time minister. She oversees Children and Youth Ministries, leads Women in Ministry, and founded The Pastors' Wives' Forum. Author of Fifty and Fabulous and Diet and Lifestyle for Kingdom Living, Dr. Fadel c...

What do you do when the very thing you’ve built your whole life around — your voice, your purpose, your identity — is suddenly taken from you? Adassa Candiani knows that question from the inside. You may know her as the voice of Dolores Madrigal in Disney’s Encanto, the powerhouse behind the chart-topping “We Don’t Talk About Bruno.” But before the Oscar stage, before the Grammy, before the Golden...

What if the most powerful thing a photographer could do had nothing to do with the camera? Jimell Greene — D.C.-based photographer, cinematographer, and the man behind the Department of Government Waste — joins Elevating Good to talk about seeing people the way they deserve to be seen. From disposable cameras at Detroit parties to portraits of displaced federal workers against a weathered American...

Content note: This episode includes candid conversation about military sexual trauma, PTSD, substance use, and childhood sexual abuse. Please listen with care and step away if you need to. What does healing actually look like — not as a concept, but as a lived, embodied, decades-long journey? In this powerful episode, Morenike sits down with Simone Swartz: U.S. Army veteran, published author, Reik...

What if the way we grow food could teach us how to build community — and even bridge our deepest divides? In this rich, wide-ranging conversation, Morenike sits down with Ryan Blosser, farmer, educator, mental health professional, and co-founder of Shenandoah Permaculture Institute, to explore the living intersection of land, belonging, and human connection. Ryan is the co-author (with Trevor Pear...

In this episode of Elevating Good, Morenike sits down with Cendrine Hosoda, a trauma-informed life consultant, speaker, and founder of Pursuing Wholesome Health. Cendrine has a gift for meeting people right where they are — especially those who have carried invisible wounds for so long that survival mode has started to feel like home. Cendrine brings a beautifully integrated approach to healing: o...

Some conversations don't expire — they wait for the moment the world is ready to receive them. We're bringing back this powerful episode with Jason Tuttle because the moment is now. In a time when headlines are surfacing painful truths about men's mental health, grief, the silent weight so many men carry alone, and the tragic impacts men who do not get adequate intervention can have on their women...

Host Morenike Ogebe sits down with Vicky Crawford, a recently retired federal employee with 44 years of public service, during Women's History Month. Vicky shares the story of her journey from a North Carolina farm — the youngest of seven children — to helping build landmark EEO and disability employment programs in public service. The conversation weaves together personal history, professional le...

Andrea Putting is a speaker, award-winning author, and the host of Chocolate and Coffee Break: A Compassionate Proposition — a broadcast where strangers sit down together,share their stories and leave seeing each other differently. Her work centers on three convictions: belonging as practice, listening as leadership, and compassion as a courageous daily choice. What began as the simplest of invita...

In this season's launch solo episode, Elevating Good Podcast host Morenike Ogebe dedicates Black History Month to Black women navigating job loss, career uncertainty, and economic transition in the U.S. With honesty, faith, and deep compassion, she reflects on the shifting labor landscape, honors the legacy of Black women who came before us, and offers practical tools for grounding, resilience, an...

In this third and final installation of From the Ground Up: Building Bridges Through the Land , Candise Jordan, AKA “Silk the Farmer,” a health and fitness coach, urban farmer, and owner of Farm, Forage, Feast, discusses her journey into foraging and permaculture and shares her enthusiasm for connecting with creation through growing and gathering real food. This episode invites you to slow down, l...

In this episode, pastor, author, speaker, and Executive Director of Christian Couples Fellowship International, Femi Awodele discusses cultural differences in intercultural marriages, particularly between African and Western traditions. He shares his journey from Nigeria to the U.S, his intercultural marriage, and offers practical advice on ways biblical principles can create bridges over cultural...

Meet Travis Holzem, a Marine Veteran of Desert Storm and owner of Food Forest Design Minnesota, who is revolutionizing local food sustainability in his community through the use of permaculture. Also featuring Dawn Taft, an Environmental Programs Manager, and City Arborist of Hyattsville, Maryland who helped start and oversees two public food forests. Contact Travis Owner/Founder Food Forest Desig...

What if it were in our power to reduce food insecurity, food deserts, and improve the health and well-being of our communities? In this episode, the first in the miniseries From the Ground Up: Building Bridges Through the Land , we interview Lincoln Smith, Founder and Director of Forested, LLC, and explore his passion to improve his community through food forests. Contact Lincoln Smith: Lincoln@fo...

In this mini pod, the host encourages listeners to embrace kindness and goodness in the face of adversity, sharing personal stories of vulnerability, hospitality, and the transformative power of doing good ANYWAY, even when the world is divided and doing good may be considered to be subversive.

Bambi Lynn Makowski, life coach, published author, blogger, storyteller, influencer, mother, grandmother, believer in Christ, and award-winning author of The Journey of Josephine: The Doll That Mended A Broken Heart , shares about her journey to healing from the trauma of domestic violence and sexual abuse and inspires others to find purpose and healing from trauma. Content Warning: This episode d...

Becca Tyvoll of Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign returns to discuss new developments in Israeli-Palestinian relations, religious freedom and racial equity, Western Christianity and views on the Middle East and its people, and resources to partner in your community to work towards peace. Listen to Season 1, Episode 3 for Becca’s first EGP interview, “Multiple Narratives in Tension,” where she gives ba...

Rotimi Iyun, author of “Wait is Not a Four-Letter Word: The Mature Woman’s Guide to Living Single with Grace and Purpose,” discusses being a single Christian woman today, whether never married, divorced, widowed, or separated; she highlights key aspects of her book and her personal journey. More from Rotimi Iyun: Email: timi@rotimiiyun.com Website: https://rotimiiyun.com/ LinkedIN: https://www.lin...

Tamika Mason, CEO of Building For Mission joins us again to talk about change and how to navigate change. We last heard from her last year in Season 1 Episode 4 . You don’t want to miss hearing her again as she offers practical hope for times of turbulent change in our work, lives, nation, and world!  How to connect with Tamika: Website:  https://buildingformission.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linke...