Raise your hand if you felt personally victimized by 2020? 🙋🏽‍♀️ Well, the good news is that you weren't the only one. As we begin the new year, I know this is a popular time for goal setting, but I wanted to give you 21 lessons to carry with you throughout the coming months. 

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This week's topic is a conversation with one of my best friends, Crystal. We spoke about the history of our friendship, the toughest things we've had to overcome and more. However, the basis of the episode is to encourage you to extend grace to your friends and to also evaluate the depths of your friendships. 

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This week's podcast episode is about the "war on drugs" and how it started in an unlikely manner. Did you know that Billie Holiday was one of the first celebrities jailed behind this movement? Did you know that the Federal Bureau of Narcotics was first the Department of Prohibition? Listen to the episode to learn more! 

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Did you know that the federal government used policies to segregate America back in the 1930's? By building housing projects, redlining neighborhoods, and denying Black and Brown people access to housing, government agencies shaped America's neighborhoods as we know them today. But how can we break the negative stigma surrounding housing projects today? Also, what can be done about improving the living conditions of tenants now? Listen to this episode to learn more.  

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This week, we're talking about respectability politics and how it relates to the word "coon" and "shucking and jiving". We also discuss why subscribing to respectability politics will not save you or make you the exception to the rule. 

Respectability politics: "When minority and/or marginalized groups are told (or teach themselves) that in order to receive better treatment from the group in power, they must behave better or present themselves as being different from the group at large.”

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This week is the kick-off to our Blacktober series. Throughout the month of October, we'll be talking about issues facing the Black community. In this episode, we're talking about the history of the term "ghetto" and who gets to define what that word means. 

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In this episode, I sat down with a best friend to discuss what it means to "protect Black women." We talked about the Breonna Taylor case, Meg thee Stallion, and our own personal experiences living as Black women in America. 

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Welcome to season 5! Missed us? 

This week we're talking about why it's important for you to craft your own idea of success. Inspired by a conversation with Chadwick Boseman, the episode dives into why you shouldn't let others determine what success is to you and what questions you should be asking to begin setting your own standards. 

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In our Season 4 finale, we're talking about grief. Grief isn't something we talk about enough but we really should be. There is a common misconception about the stages of grief and how we should go through the grieving process, but we're here to debunk those myths and offer you some encouraging words for these tough times. 

Season 5 will kick off September 22nd!

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This week's podcast episode is more of a relaxed conversation between me and you. I recently reflected on some opportunities I thought were for me but didn't pan out the way I imagined. The overall message though is the question- What is this season teaching you?

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