Speak Life Shine Bright (podcast)

I almost gave up doing podcasting once my headphones w/ my SD cards that contained all my podcast episodes, photography work, etc was stolen by someone very close to me as I was trying to helpout during the second quarter of 2023. Towards the end of the year my mentor told me stop making excuses and get back to it. Then my cousin was brutally beaten to death and I had to be strong for the family (...

This beautiful married couple Alfred & Arica Miller came on to SLSB podcast and shared how they met, got engaged and married within 1 year after meeting each other at the gym on a cruise ship. They shared their love for family, passion for God and the real estate business. If your into family, marriage, real estate or God this episode will inspire you in so many different ways in your daily walk,...

During an award acceptance speech Denzel Washington said, “Never give up! Without commitment you’ll never start, but most importantly without consistency you’ll never finish”. I desire to be more consistent. I motivate all to be more consistent to finish that great work that you started and make everything you put your mind/hands to a success!

Speak Life Shine Bright got a chance to sit down with Janise to talk about her finding her true self. Janise shared that in her youth she had a balance between both sides of her family even tho her parents wasn’t together. Janise was keeping it real when she said it wasn’t easy some days could be rough and going through a bad break up right before her 30th birthday made her remind herself who she...

I finally got back in the podcast studio to record a ground breaking episode to honor plus congratulate a great group of guys I had the pleasure of being teammates w/ during our HS basketball career at Brownsville Area HS We are Champions class of 2000-2001, but now we have been Intro-ducted into the Hall of Fame of Fayette County in 2022 for being the only basketball team in Brownsville AHS histo...

My guest Andre who grew up in Trinidad (born in BROOKLYN) joined us in this discussion to give his point of view/experiences about defending your woman’s honor in public.

Nikki came on to SLSB podcast to tell her story about living In Lemonwood Projects (Uniontown, PA) dealing drugs, getting shot in the head, abusive relationships, having her first child while being incarcerated, being shot in the head, overcoming drug addiction and much more. Thank you Nikki for sharing and being strong through all the trails and tribulation.

“Carl’s Hot Doubles” (The Original Doubles Man) came on to SLSB to let the world know that it was all about “Carls Hot Doubles” the journey before he became Chef Carl. All the way from Trinidad & Tobago in the late 70s to Manhattan in the early 80s to Brooklyn in the late 80s through the 90s to Michigan post 9/11 to Every Arena/Theater in the Untied States in the 2000s to 40acres post pandemic whe...

Buck sat down with SLSB at his smoke shop Bucktown Smoke Emporium in Grand Rapids MI and did a live interview as customers came in to support. Buck broke down the American system, being incarcerated and transitioning to being an entrepreneur doing it all for his 7 children.

Season 2 was so fulfilling, liberating and encouraging that it’s a must I do a recap before going into season 3. I would like to thank all of our guest that came on to the platform to speak life and shine bright. It meant the world to me and it increased my confidence going into season 3. Special thanks to all the listeners/followers on the SLSB podcast platform without y’all this can’t exists, Th...

In PT 2 Aneasa talks about the cause and effects of her pain plus being verbally abused by her mom most of her life. Aneasa noticed how she didn’t know how to love because she was never loved by her own parents, this affected her relationship. Aneasa didn’t want to hurt people because she was hurt growing up so she began to heal and forgive that’s when she got her power back! Then she opened up to...

In Part 1 of 2 Aneasa talks about growing up in the Bronx; having sex with girls at 7, being molested by the next door neighbor sons to being molested by her mom best friend who was a man with children and when she told her mother plus the mother of the boys who molested her next door nobody believed her! Aneasa said her own dad was the first person to ever steal from her because he was addicted t...

For the past couple of months I’ve been seeing all over social media and hearing people talk about protecting their energy. I’ve also seen people post saying they not giving out their energy for free. It’s nothing wrong with protecting your energy, the real question is what are you giving your energy to? So, it dwelled on me like what if The Most High protected His energy from us? Would you still...

SLSB podcast got the chance to sit down with William James Peterson a living legend, a wolverine, a giant in the land, an on hands philanthropist in his hometown and soon to the four corners of the earth! So much knowledge, strength, perseverance, jewels, wisdom and much more put out into a 2hr 43min episode that we had to split into a 4 part series. In Part 3 of 4 Mr. William James Peterson gives...

SLSB podcast got the chance to sit down with William James Peterson a living legend, a wolverine, a giant in the land, an on hands philanthropist in his hometown and soon to the four corners of the earth! So much knowledge, strength, perseverance, jewels, wisdom and much more put out into a 2hr 43min episode that we had to split into a 4 part series. In Part 4 (final segment) SLSB podcast thank Mr...

SLSB podcast got the chance to sit down with William James Peterson a living legend, a wolverine, a giant in the land, an on hands philanthropist in his hometown and soon to the four corners of the earth! So much knowledge, strength, perseverance, jewels, wisdom and much more put out into a 2hr 43min episode that we had to split into a 4 part series. In Part 2/4 Mr. Peterson talks about perseverin...

SLSB podcast got the chance to sit down with William James Peterson a living legend, a wolverine, a giant in the land, an on hands philanthropist in his hometown and soon to the four corners of the earth! So much knowledge, strength, perseverance, jewels, wisdom and much more put out into a 2hr 43min episode that we had to split into a 4 part series. In Part 1/4 Mr. Peterson talks about early chil...

On January 1st, 2022 Shequita Murray sat down with SLSB podcast to share her story of overcoming an unstable childhood and drug addiction! She quoted in the interview, “I went from existing to living”! The relationship with her daughter grew stronger and she was able to reestablish the relationship with her dad in her early thirties. That gave her the strength to enter rehab and overcome drug addi...

Rodlena Sales, Esq. on SLSBP sharing her journey of becoming a lawyer and opening her own law firm. Early childhood days, public school experiences, college challenges/networking , law school, the bar exam, opening her own law firm, inspirations and much more.

I got a chance to sit down with Ivane an Architect Photographer from Eastern Europe. He shared his journey from his childhood to photographing/befriending buildings of the world famous architect David Adjaye. It was a pleasure to have this conversation and to even be inspired to take a trip to the museum in a few weeks to view the architect work and artifacts/history collected in the Museum. Thank...

Brownsville Safety Alliance event SEG 5/5: On our final segment from this wonderful community event Hailey came through and educated us on the Rise Project, working with other organizations and domestic violence that could possibly lead to gun violence in the home or on the streets. Hailey also shared her personal journey through gang culture, building up self and traveling outside of your city/ho...

Brownsville Safety Alliance event SEG 4/5: Ms. Shelly w/ Elite Learners sat down with us and shared her perseverance to do good works through her trauma, pain and keeping things bottled in for decades. On August 21st, 2021 she finally got the release that she’s been longing for for years! These 15min is so golden to us (Speak Life Shine Bright podcast) and so golden to me by showing me that God go...

Brownsville Safety Alliance event SEG 3/5: Vanessa Johnson w/ Elite Learners gives us an insight on her journey in public service combating against gun violence. Her heart for the community and family is very passionate and it was a pleasure to have her on the Speak Life Shine Bright podcast platform. Thank you Vanessa for inviting me to this wonderful event and your literally the 4th person to ev...

Brownsville Safety Alliance Event SEG 2/5: I wanna thank @Eyteinc for giving coach CC the opportunity to sit down with us during this event to tell us about her work with Ms K Dance and Double Dutch academy, how she personally feel about the rise in Gun Violence and much more. Thanks again Coach CC your like the 3 person to ever speak thus far on the Speak Life Shine Bright Podcast platform and we...

The Brownsville Safety Alliance Event: Marco Perez from Young Men’s Initiative sat down with us to breakdown/inform us on exactly what Young Men’s Initiative is about, his personal thoughts on gun violence domestically and much more. This is actually my 2 podcast episode with a guest and I wanna Thank you Marco for joining Me on Speak Life Shine Bright Podcast!