Living Strong: The Flip Side of Adversity

The problem for many highly skilled professionals is that you have gotten to a level of success, you may have the title, the position, the corner office, and yet God has MORE for you to do. In this interactive Flip Side Conversation, Nicole walks you through the 3-step system she uses to coach her clients. It will allow you to move past who you are already and say yes to who you have NOT yet becom...

How do you respond to fear, doubt, naysayers, and attempted dream stealers? In “Doctor Dollhouse,” you will meet Dr. Kwandaa Roberts, an OB/GYN and single mom of 2, who left her fulltime practice as a physician to become a dollhouse maker. Our conversation will tell the story of how a hobby turned her world upside down and changed her life forever. We’ll follower her incredible journey from going...

Success is not a destination. It is a life-long strategy of empowerment that builds on strengths, minimizes weaknesses, and focuses on the people and points of life that are most important. To reach our potential, we must be intentional about personal, spiritual, and mental growth. Join me in a conversation with Yvonne Richardson, entrepreneur, master stylist, mentor, content creator, and…. My “ac...

We continue the conversation from last week… the nuggets just keep getting bigger and better. Tune in for Part 2 of The W.E.L.L. In Healthy Marriages : Marriage requires work and commitment. It is a special gift, that includes joy, laughter, tears, understanding, giving, forgiving, partnership, compassion, consideration, and relentless love. Join us for a Flip Side Conversation of the Challenges,...

Marriage requires work and commitment. It is a special gift, that includes joy, laughter, tears, understanding, giving, forgiving, partnership, compassion, consideration, and relentless love. Join us for a Flip Side Conversation of the Challenges, Choices, and Changes needed for a W.E.L.L. (Working Everyday, for Lasting Love) Marriage with Founder and Ministry Leaders from W.O.W. - Wives of Wellne...

“It's possible for anyone to overcome their challenges and it's never too late to live purposefully. My family and I survived civil war; that's shaped the way that I do life professionally and personally. Whether you started out with a great start, or you come from humble beginnings, everyone has a story to tell. Once I discovered what God was calling me to do in my community, it's shaped the busi...

Reconciliation, reconnection, and support from within and from others, while important, can be difficult to achieve on our own. Join Dr. Benjamin Alouf, board certified Pediatrician and Chief Medical Officer at Limbix, on a Flip Side conversation about the role these factors and more play in a young person’s mental health journey. Dr. Alouf and the diverse team of clinicians, product designers, re...

It’s not easy to watch someone perform or do what you’re called to do and get a different response or more opportunities than you get when you do “the same thing”. The process and journey to purpose and promise is different for everyone, and it’s easy to get distracted by someone else’s success when you feel like your success is long overdue. If you’re not careful, your frustration can turn bitter...

Most emerging entrepreneurs are not exposed to business developmental resources. Growing a profitable business can seem unrealistic. Aundra Williams helps cultivate female entrepreneurs into industry disruptors through authentic, heartfelt marketing and creative strategies that will create a lasting brand. Join us for a flip side conversation of faith, finances, and forward movement that help entr...

Maryann Reid is a 7-time award-winning author published by St. Martin’s Press and a Forbes.com contributor. She’s been featured in Glamour, Newsweek, USA Today, The New Yorker, Essence, and more. After challenging times in her life, financially and emotionally, she cofounded Alphanista, a peer mentoring platform for multicultural women in senior management. She works with high-achieving women who...

Have you ever sought to disappear from excruciating pain? Are you tired of questioning how you’ll go on after your loss? Wouldn’t it be nice to be in a crowded room and not feel completely alone? Wouldn’t it be nice to know your life still has meaning and purpose even after your hurt? As a survivor of sexual abuse and loss, Katherine Barner is here to tell you life can be meaningful again in spite...

Many of us have allowed obstacles and adversaries to leave us in a stagnant place of pain. We are haunted by the faces of those who have hurt us in the past, and we wear a mask to conceal our emotional identity. But we cannot allow those faces, even if they are our own, to haunt us forever if we want to move on and grow in our purpose. Instead, we must learn to unveil our truth, acknowledge it, an...

One of the biggest lessons T.W. Suggs has learned has been that there is a correlation between forgiveness, healing, and worthiness. When we fail to forgive, we’re tethered to painful stories and memories which prevent us from growing and learning how amazing we really are. The absolute biggest lesson T.W. learned in his journey is that surrogates are not allowed. That is, you can’t have someone b...

Kizzy Kittrell Dogan transforms and empowers teen girls to discover their purpose, passion, and superpowers as The Teen Girl Mentor. Her book, Thirteen, was written to motivate, inspire, and empower young girls to speak up freely and truthfully, feel free to show up as their authentic selves, and learn how to articulate their feelings without the fear of being misunderstood, ignored, rejected, uns...

Black Women's Educational Alliance, referred to as BWEA, is an organization that was founded in 1976 in response to the expressed concerns about the equity of opportunities for black women in all divisions of the field of education. Tameron Dancy, the current Vice President of the Philadelphia Chapter of BWEA, chairs the Career Mobility Committee and offers women the opportunity to move from manag...

Audacity, Access and Advocacy create the toolkit for polishing an equity lens and moving from F.E.A.R. to intentional action, from isolation to inclusion, and from silos to community. This conversation allows participants to embrace diversity and examine equity with the intentionality of sparking change that celebrates the beauty of difference and creates room for divergent perspectives. On the fl...

Checking boxes that provide affirmation that “I have ARRIVED”, may have felt amazing initially but eventually led to dissatisfaction, discontentment, and discouragement. During Dr. Renai Ellison’s life’s journey, losing herself in her struggle for acceptance, validation, and love, has caused her to not just veer of her life path of self-discovery, it has completely impeded her path to self-discove...

Using her 30 years of experience as a nurse, nurse educator, and entrepreneur, Shannon Jackson, The People’s Nurse, has the mission to motivate, educate, and inspire others to live their lives without limits. Join us as we explore the importance of health in marginalized communities and the power individuals have to take control of their health. We hear the terms health and wellness frequently and...

I've taken my pain and turned it into a big part of my purpose. Learning I was a sickle cell trait carrier came out from the shadows. Honestly, I had never heard the term before. The more I inquired, it felt like something people wanted me to whisper about behind closed doors. However, I refused to whisper. Instead, whenever I receive the chance to discuss sickle cell trait I speak freely about it...

Being served divorce papers as an entrepreneur was a huge setback, especially because Dr. Pamela Ellis works with families and considers her services as a solution that saves marriages. To heal, she started a mindfulness practice that she has incorporated into her work with teens who are anxious about their college process. It’s painful to see students get overwhelmed and lose steam…or not take a...

“Money isn’t everything, but it is a necessary tool for us to use to impact the world! You can not be charitable if you aren’t profitable. You can’t be profitable if you don’t have a plan to profit and knowledge of how to keep more of the profit” - Erica Lane Known to the world as the Money Elevation Strategist. Erica Lane has developed an exceptional profit management approach for entrepreneurs,...

No strategy Copying others Pretending to people please…. Most entrepreneurs need to believe in themselves more. Specifically, showing up how they “think” they should show up leaves them tired and burnt out in their business. If they show up to what is actually true to them and not the mind gremlins, they will not only have ease in their business but they will fulfill what they set out to accomplis...

Mothyna James- Brightful is passionate and inspirational with a personal motto of “community development is a lifetime commitment.” That commitment starts with her drive to work with women and girls. Mothyna believes that healthy and whole women produce healthy and whole communities. She has trained over 100,000 individuals in the field of sexual violence prevention and have spent over 40,000 hour...

Jevon Wooden is a business and mindset coach, speaker, author, and veteran of the US Army and the tech industry. He specializes in empowering motivated people to build the life of their dreams, professionally and personally. Wooden felt called to this line of work after navigating his fair share of adversity and emerging from it stronger, wiser, and committed to uplifting others. Wooden learned th...

Rachelle McCloud, LCSW is a Mental Health Therapist and Emotional Wellness. Through years of successfully helping clients move their anxiety, depression and trauma disorders into remission, she has developed a program that empowers people to skillfully get rid of symptoms and heal. She is also the facilitator of the Facebook group called Releasing the Baggage of Anxiety, Depression and Traumatic S...