The Courageous Personal Leadership Podcast

Corey Graham brings the Courageous Personal Leadership® principles together with a powerful call to action at the individual, organizational, and collective levels to help you identify your concrete next steps in your leadership development journey. This episode is a reminder of what’s possible when more leaders choose to grow. 

Join an intimate fireside chat with Sharma Graham and Stephanie Morimoto, Owner & CEO of Asutra. This conversation will explore the practical challenges of staying authentic while meeting professional demands, building credibility through consistent values-driven action, and creating alignment between personal purpose and professional impact. Stephanie will also share real examples of how valu...

Join an inspiring conversation with Corey Graham and Tim Scott, Jr., CEO of TiMar Entertainment, as they explore the power of taking bold action in their careers. This session will explore how successful leaders approach calculated risk-taking, learn from failure, and make decisions when facing uncertainty. You'll walk away with tips on how to address fear of failure, build confidence in ambi...

Join a fireside chat with Sharma Graham, M.A.D.E. To Lead Co-Founder, and Shalisa Humphrey, Principal at Ernst & Young LLP, focused on the critical leadership skills of self-advocacy and building influence. This conversation will explore how to normalize asking for help as a leadership strength, reduce guilt around receiving support, and practice transparent communication that builds trust. Sh...

Join Sharma Graham in conversation with Dr. Nyasha M. GuramatunhuCooper, Founder of Girton Road Leadership Learning & Consulting, for an engaging fireside chat exploring a foundational skill for all leaders: self-awareness. The conversation examines how mindfulness practices and emotional intelligence create the groundwork for effective leadership impact. Dr. Cooper shares practical insights a...

In this episode, Corey & Sharma talk with Kelly Little, coach, motivational speaker, and community advocate. Little, a proud, brave, and fearless military veteran, walks us through his journey, where critical moments grounded him mentally and spiritually. These moments grounded him and offered him a chance to establish clear values that drive his work today. This conversation will challenge yo...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma speak with entrepreneur Jody Yearwood. Jody is the wife to her 6th grade classmate, mother of two sons, caregiver to her elderly father, ADHD/Autism advocate, creative entrepreneur, and a Business Execution Consultant in Commercial Banking. She is the Founder of J.Yearwood Marketing, LLC and ‘the melanADHD woman,’ where she shares her personal journey living as a...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Grammy Nominated and Telly Award-winning artist David “Dae-Lee” Arrington, Founder and CEO of Bridge Builder Consulting. After a career in music for 20 years, he had a vision to build leaders through cultivating authentic relationships across differences and has done just that through Bridge Builder. During this conversation, he teaches us how honoring o...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Dr. Terika L. Haynes. Dr.  Haynes is the owner and CEO of two businesses, Dynamite Travel and DT Scooters. She has over 15 years of experience as an entrepreneur and leader and has over 20 years of experience in consulting and sales. As the leader of two businesses, each day Dr. Haynes' is able to walk in her purpose and share her passions which are...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma speak with Dr. Raquel Dailey. Dr. Dailey is the founder of Growth Compass and Best Life Abroad. As an accomplished executive coach (and certified Gallup Strengths coach), she specializes in elevating organizational culture and leadership capabilities for her corporate clients. With a keen understanding of the intricacies of professional dynamics, she brings a uniq...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Divinne Betty Smith, who is the managing attorney for Smith and Williams Trial Group. Attorney Smith is a Florida based attorney whose current passions include raising her family, uplifting her community and ensuring that generational wealth is preserved in perpetuity. Her professional background consists of helping families in all matters of probate, wi...

In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with an accomplished comics illustrator Sanford Greene. Sanford has worked professionally in comic illustration and related industries for over 15 years, including work for mainline publishers such as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image Comics. Recent work includes the hit Marvel series Power Man and Iron Fist as well as covers for Black Panther and Luke Cage ....

"There are going to be things that come up. You can't predict everything. The test is being able to persevere through those things." - Attorney Nicole Theodore In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Attorney Nicole Theodore, founding and managing partner of The Theodore Firm (founded in 2018), with offices in Atlanta and Nashville. She is a 2004 graduate of The Florida State Un...

"If you don't have equal opportunity to be at the table, and access to all the things that are at the table, there is no way you are going to be able to navigate anything." - Dr. Antonio Boyd In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Dr. Antonio Boyd, President and CEO of the Think Tank Consulting Group, LLC, which is a national management, development, and public affairs company...

"Even if it's not present doesn't mean it's not possible." - Jada Grandy-Mock In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Jada Grandy-Mock, a senior executive in the financial services industry. Jada has over 20 years of banking experience, including commercial and small business lending, credit risk management, client relationship management, regulatory compliance risk ma...

"If you can find your purpose, your passion will follow." - Dr. Sharica Brookins To kick off season four, Corey and Sharma talk with Dr. Sharica Brookins, who is a double board-certified Nephrologist & Internist licensed in Georgia. Dr. Brookins is the Founder & CEO of Remote Renal Care, a telehealth kidney practice and the first of its kind providing care all over Georgia. She i...

Corey and Sharma are back to continue to the Courageous Personal Leadership conversation! In season four, they will continue bringing the Four Principles of Courageous Personal Leadership to life through the very real and vulnerable stories of their guests. The Four Principles are: Manage your internal environment, Ask for what you need, Decide to take risks, and Embody your personal mission, visi...

"Giving up is never an option. I will always be persistent. I will always find the opportunity in any obstacle. This movement is so beyond me that I have choice but to keep going." - Jeanine Suah Jeanine Suah is a go-giving entrepreneur who uses the world as inspiration for community innovation and is an avid believer in the Experience Economy. With her life’s mission being to help black...

"If you're not managing your brand, someone else is. And I will not have someone else manage my brand. I understand that my brand precedes me before I get in the room." - James M. Davis, Jr. After graduating from Florida State University, James moved to Los Angeles in 2005 to begin working for Enterprise in Southern California. He's held multiple roles including Talent Developm...

"Sometimes I'm just so happy with getting anything, that I don't realize there is more. Learning the art of saying 'no, pause,' has been so monumental in my career." - Vanessa Baden Kelly In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with actress, writer, author, and producer, Vanessa Baden Kelly. Vanessa is an Emmy-winning actress (Giants) and an Emmy-nominated screenwriter...

"I always want to be toggling between authenticity and joy. To me, that means being this homegrown person from Gastonia, that got a PhD from U of Chicago, who is now an Ivy League professor, that wants to work in and support Black communities, who likes fried chicken and also eats sushi. I want to be all those things all the time, and that is who I am. And I want to bring that to work. "...

"Be true to who you are, lead in a way that you can be proud of, and take care of yourself along the way." - Dr. Chanel Hampton To kick off season three, Corey and Sharma talk with Dr. Chanel Hampton, Founder and CEO of Strategic Community Partners (SCP).  Founded in 2015, SCP is a national firm that works with organizations and leads initiatives that advance equity with and for communit...

Corey and Sharma are back to continue to the Courageous Personal Leadership conversation! In season three, they will continue bringing the Four Principles of Courageous Personal Leadership to life through the very real and vulnerable stories of their guests. The Four Principles are: Manage your internal environment, Ask for what you need, Decide to take risks, and Embody your personal mission, vis...

"You can't fake confidence and you can't fake courage. You only have it when you know you have put in the time. You cannot run with the giants if you are not conditioned." - Ty McMath In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Ty McMath, co-founder of Torch Fitness LLC, which was acquired by Valet Living in 2018. Torch Fitness provides local businesses, corporations, and resid...

"I knew I was talented enough to do anything, but never was ready to do any of it. I felt like I wasted my 20s and the early part of my 30s with this mindset. I realized there was an absence of confidence, purpose, and direction." - Jason Lampton In this episode, Corey and Sharma talk with Jason Lampton, a marketer and entrepreneur who currently works in marketing for a large financial i...