The Black Woman’s Stress Solution Podcast: discover the connection between Black women’s stress in work, love, and health—offering real solutions to help you stress less and thrive more!

I am so excited to share this conversion with four amazing cohorts from January's Deeply Rooted Group Coaching Program, Pamela, Franchelle, Ruth, and Janae.  This is a sneak peek into the transformations you can experience from coaching and how it keeps paying off even after you've left the coaching container.  I invite you to be a fly on the wall and listen in as we talk about all things black wo...

Today we are talking about the invisible enemy that often stops us from completing our assignments, reaching our goals, enjoying our relationships and truly realizing our potential in our journey toward high achievement. It's called panic.  Panic is a sudden, uncontrollable fear or anxiety often causing wildly unthinking behavior. Sometimes it's operating under the surface with a constant gnawing...

Loneliness is a subjective, unwelcome feeling of lack or loss of companionship. It happens when we have a mismatch between the quantity and quality of social relationships we have and those we want. Black women suffer disproportionately from loneliness compared to non-minorities because we are bombarded with the pressure from others to value our strength over the need for self-care to preserve our...

Feeling trapped for us as black women is very common.  Feeling trapped can lead to an increase of stress hormones, and if it continues for a long, it can also lead to completely disengaging with our lives where we will go from fighting it or fleeing it to saying f*@k it. That is the grin and bear it stage or the go through the motion stage.  Is this you– Are you attending the parties showing up at...

Sometimes we become so lost in what’s going on around us that we lose touch with the most important person in our lives, ourselves. Checking in with yourself means making intentional steps to pay attention to how you feel on an emotional, mental, and physical level. So, when was the last time you checked in on yourself? I'm asking because I want to share a powerful story that involves me doing jus...

This episode is a call to embrace discomfort. Most of us embrace comfort and resist anything that may lead to discomfort. This is because we can only embrace what we are not afraid of. Evolutionary wise, we were designed to seek comfort– to seek pleasure and to stay the same. That is our survival mechanism. It's in our DNA, but also, there are specific societal conditioning and cultural factors th...

Today, I want to talk about something that I think is important for us to understand and that is the difference between our objective, our tactics, and understanding the strategy behind them.  As high-achieving women, we are very clear about our objectives. We know exactly what it is that we want to achieve.  What I want to help us gain clarity around is the tactics that we choose to use to accomp...

In this episode, we’re catching up with two of my former clients from a year and a half - two years ago, Ruth and Marcia.  I've brought you several conversations on this podcast with high-achieving women while they're in the coaching container so we know what happens then, but I wanted to talk about the transformation, and how it keeps paying off even after you've left the coaching container.  So...

Apologizing to you for being you is like you have this, “ I'm sorry, I am the way I am” kind of vibe going on.  This may not be something that you do subconsciously or even to other people, but apologizing to you for being you is an internal discourse within you that is keeping you from where you want to be. Even if you're working on improving yourself, you don't do that through apologizing for wh...

Have you ever wanted to quit something? I’m sure you have…most everyone at some point in life feels like throwing in the towel when something gets hard or frustrating.   This is what happened to my client Maïmouna Diop, a  high-power, bada** black woman who almost gave up on pursuing her epic shit. In this conversation, she will share … Why she decided to give coaching a try  The importance of coa...

Continuing our conversation from EP. 121 Bad Things Happen To Good Girls , EP. 122 Redefining GOODT ENUFF , and EP. 123 Suffering and the GOODT Black Women MENTALITY, today we are talking about what to do when you don't get the results you want. So we’ve been focusing on this good girl mentality and how we have labeled negative things that happen as a problem and identifying that problem as being...

Continuing our conversation from episodes, EP. 121 Bad Things Happen To Good Girls and EP. 122 Redefining GOODT ENUFF , today we are talking about  suffering. As we discussed previously, we have certain thought errors that are holding us back from growing and thriving in our epic-ness. When we think that we're not being the “good girl" , problems happen, then we make it a problem that we have a pr...

In this week's conversation, I'm expanding on the discussion started in last week's episode, EP. 121 Bad Things Happen To Good Girls , around the good girl syndrome.  Last week I shared that we think if we are living by the standard of the good girl, then the good girl doesn't have problems, and so we believe having a problem is a problem, but it's not.  The problem is that we think “this” shouldn...

Have you ever asked yourself these questions: Am I a bad girlfriend if I reply to texts late?  Am I a terrible friend for canceling plans?  Am I a bad person if I don't have a certain amount of money? What you're grappling with is the “good girl syndrome”.  From childhood, many women are socialized to please others, at the cost of their own well-being or needs. The world is screaming: If you’re go...

We are celebrating women's month and what better way to celebrate than to highlight some of the amazing high-achieving women I have had the pleasure to work with. At the conclusion of a  weekly call with the April cohort, I just asked a couple of the participants to stay on and talk about what their experience has been like and the impact that Deeply Rooted has provided for them thus far.  For tho...

In this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Zakiya Luna.  Dr. Luna is an Associate Professor of Sociology, a Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar, a great friend of mine, an author, and a participant in Deeply Rooted. Her work focuses on social movements, reproductive issues, and human rights with a particular focus on women's activism and more specifically, women of color activism. In this conversati...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

Hi guys! I just wanted to jump on here informally and share some thoughts about Deeply ROOTED and what it is and answer some of the questions you may be having.  I wanted those of you considering to have the information needed to let your NO be a NO and your YES be a YES. This series consists of 6 short topics, but if you have any further questions, please schedule a "Is This For Me Call" at brigj...

If you missed my live masterclass on stress, failure, and success. You are in for a treat! The training has been made available as a special bonus episode.  This masterclass is your invitation to STRESS FREE-DOM! For high-achieving black women stress is the obstacle and the answer to achieving your dreams. Tune in to learn: How to gain awareness of things holding you back and SEE your body's respo...

Stress has become an unavoidable side effect of life as a high-achieving woman. My goal is not to help you become stress-free but to help you have freedom from stress. The best way to tackle rising stress levels is to prepare ourselves and begin to learn how to recover from these unexpected and increasingly difficult stressors. Meaning we must increase our stress capacity. This will help us to fac...

Stress is everywhere; it impacts everyone and pervades all aspects of our lives. And over time it can negatively impact your health and well-being. How you manage stress is related to your thoughts about yourself, your relationship with yourself, your relationship with others, your relationship with your work, and your relationship with your epic sh*t.  That is why it is important to be more stres...