Highly Visible & A Little Misunderstood

This week I am joined by Dr. Lakeya Cherry. Founder, writer, coach, and non-profit executive. We talk about her path to becoming a coach, why entrepreneurship is like hiking, and why validation from others shouldn't be the only reason you step out of your comfort zone.   Stay in Touch with: ↳ Contact Lakeya Cherry   CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURVEY   Ways to support the show:    👉🏾  Have you joi...

When is the last time you’ve done a life assessment? If it's been a while or if you’ve never done one, here are 3 good questions Daryl Mobley, author, speaker, and life & executive coach says you can ask yourself to see if someone or something needs to go: Is this person/thing/job good to me? Is this person/thing/job good for me? Is this person/thing/job good with me? We spend some time talking ab...

Did you know that the largest growing population of vegans and vegetarians in the U.S are Black folks? I did, but I also didn’t. According to a Pew Research Center survey from 2016, 8% of Black Americans are strict vegans or vegetarians, compared to just 3% of the general population. Did you know that a “food desert” is a ​​geographic area where residents’ access to affordable, healthy food option...

This week, I am joined by Shae Chambers One of the most energizing storytellers of our day, Shae Chambers is on a mission to help as many people as possible become their best selves while doing their best work. Speaker, coach, and certified human-behavior research specialist. Shae specializes in helping you with influencing, impacting, and earning a living by understanding yourself and your optima...

This week, I am joined by Lola Adeyemo Lola is the founder and CEO of EQImindset (EQI is from Equity and Inclusion). Her work focuses on building inclusion from within corporate organizations primarily at the individual and people manager/team levels. As a certified diversity, equity & inclusion professional, she leverages her experiences as a Scientist and with different Employee Resource Groups...

This week, I am joined by Dustin Sutton. Dustin is a Business Manager for Meissner CRES, a Commercial Real Estate Services company headquartered in San Diego, California. He also is a budding tech and start-up entrepreneur with his Portal View Inspections app. Dustin has a passion for solving problems, helping others, and giving back to the community through various initiatives. Most recently, Dus...

This week, I am joined by Nicole Gwanzura. Nicole immigrated to the U.S over 16 years ago and has had profound personal and professional experiences that increase her impact in helping others navigate higher education and has become a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion. She has spent the last decade working in MBA admissions, supporting early-career students, and coaching high school st...

This week, I am joined by Marya Wright.   Marya is the founder of Marya Wright Consulting, which provides innovative, high-value, and culturally responsive training content for professionals. Marya offers continuing education training (CEUs) for agencies that service system-involved youth, foster youth, children, and families. Marya is a Registered  Associate Clinical Social Worker with the Board...

This week, I am joined by Brandon Lee. Brandon is a Community Conscious Policing Strategist, author, and co-founder of Training 4 Transformation, LLC. a community-led organization best known for its unprecedented work in Police-Community Integrated Training and Education (P-CITE). An expert in transforming traumatic circumstances into healing opportunities, he developed Community Conscious Policin...

This week I am joined by Crystal Ellington. Crystal is a recently retired military veteran and the current Director of Communications for Minority Veterans of America (MVA), an organization with a mission to create belonging and advance equity for minority veterans. Crystal is passionate about speaking up for those who have historically been disenfranchised, systemically excluded, and institutiona...

This week, I am joined by Jeff Harry.  Jeff is the founder of Discover our Play where he combines positive psychology and play to help teams/organizations create psychologically safe workspaces and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges through embracing a play-oriented approach to work. Some of the topics he covers include how to deal with toxicity in the workplace, how to addr...

This week, I am joined by Dr. Kimya Nuru Dennis.  Dr. Dennis is a community advocate, sociologist, criminologist, educator, researcher, and founder of 365 Diversity. I’m going to share all of her amazing work in the show notes. We spend some time talking about Dr. Dennis’ work and background in the DEI space, the issues with the DEI committees and official statements that have so conveniently been...

This week, I am joined by Iffy Ibekwe.  Iffy is an estate planning attorney evangelist for intergenerational wealth transfer and legacy building with effective wills and trusts. She activates intentional women so they can take agency over their lives and build impactful legacies. Yall we are still in the midst of a pandemic and there are soooo many things that are unknown. That's why Iffy and I ta...

Joel and I had a great conversation about our experiences working in higher education, particularly in predominantly white institutions, transitioning out of higher ed, and his vast higher education experience has influenced his coaching and consulting firm, Apoyo coaching and consulting.    Stay in Touch with: ↳ Joel Perez on LinkedIn ↳ Apoyo Coaching & Consulting   CLICK TO TAKE THE PODCAST SURV...

This week, I am joined by Mariah Poitier. Mariah (She/Her) is a Black Femme, Bay Area native and scholar-activist. She loves dismantling white supremacy almost as much as she loves to dance. She enjoys the norcal and socal dual lifestyle, and procrastinating on her thesis. Mariah currently is a graduate student at San Francisco State University studying Master of Art in Education with a concentrat...

Bonus Ep for yall! I hopped on the Bro Nouveau Podcast a few weeks ago and had a dope time. Make sure to check out the Bro Nouveau Podcast wherever you listen to your pods. Jonathan Dumas  @rtwdpodcast  is the founder and owner of CommonCulture Coaching & Consulting. He is an Organizational Psychologist and Leadership Coach, specializing in organizational and team development. Jonathan works with...

This week, I am joined by Emily McGill, Communications Consultant and Tarot Reader.  Emily McGill is a communications consultant and tarot reader. After nearly a decade and a half working in entertainment in New York City as a storytelling strategist and Broadway publicist, her path of self-exploration led to healing and evolution - and reading tarot cards professionally. Emily’s passions are unlo...

I have the pleasure of chatting it up with my friend, Nereyda Yong. Neddy is a proud Latina and first generation seminarian at San Francisco Theological Seminary who is also a spiritual director and ordination candidate within the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). She was raised in a Pentecostal Christian congregation pastored by her grandparents and her spiritual journey has fueled her pass...

Hey yall! There is an never ending stream of things going on in the world: violation of women's rights, the U.S screwing over the people of Afghanistan...again, Hurricane Ida, the Panaroma V.2, and a stupid recall election in my home state of California. With everything going on, it is still important to pause. So, thats what this episode is. We are going to slow down, be still, and breathe. Find...

This week I am joined by my friend Melany Del Carpio. Melany is Peruvian, a taurus, and is just trying to discover more of her truest self. She is also a llama lover and life long learner who wants to believe there is still good in the world.  Melany and I dive into a taboo topic in the Black and Brown community: colorism. She shares about her own exploration of her racial identity, why she believ...

This week, I have the homie, my friend, my neighbor, and sister, Tania Miron-Perez come through on the pod to chop it up. For her job, Tania is the Training & Strategy Coordinator at Be The Bridge a non-profit org that does some great work in the racial equity space. In her spare time she is putting in work for social justice advocacy, but recharges in nature, with friends, or enjoying a great boo...

If you didn’t know, the 2021 Tokyo Summer Olympics are jumpin off this week and athletes across the world are set to do their thing. There have already been a ton of storylines that have come about leading up to the Olympic games this year, but one in particular surrounds the women’s national soccer team's ongoing lawsuit for equal pay. The guest this week is perfect to go into the finer points of...

In this episode, we talk about how we handled 2020 and how we are doing now, the impact all of the unrest of 2020 had on our relationships, what being a good ally looks like as men and why the #notallmen thing is stupid af, and how we are trying to find ways to support ourselves and our partners. Just a heads up that this episode does contain some mention of shootings and rape. No specific details...

In this conversation, I chop it up with Entrepreneur, writer, speaker, and Founder of Empowered In Color. In our conversation where we talked about the difficulties of being an entrepreneur of color, why you can give back and make a profit, what allyship looks like in business and in life, and a whole lot more. There are a bunch of great tidbits in this episode, so you may need to listen back to t...

In this conversation, War and I talk about identity, Black spirituality, faith deconstruction, what we miss about the church, and why we have no desire to go back and take some time castin’ a whole lotta shade at Chick-fil-a. I really appreciated this conversation and I know you all will too. You can find Saint War's music on IG @saintwarmusic &  Saint War on Spotify Here is the podcast episode Fr...