Diverse Network Podcast

🎙️ Finding Purpose After NFL Dream Ends | Doug Worthington

What happens when the dream you've spent your entire life chasing comes to an end?

In this episode of the Diverse Network Podcast, Jordan sits down with former Ohio State and NFL defensive lineman Doug Worthington for a powerful conversation about navigating life after football and discovering that your purpose is bigger than the position you play.

Doug opens up about tearing his ACL and MCL, battling self-doubt, being cut 12 times in the NFL, and continuing to get back up. Through every setback, he learned that resilience wasn't about avoiding the valleys. It was about who he became because of them. 

But one of Doug's biggest challenges came when football was over.

After years of being identified as an athlete, he had to figure out who he was without the game. That journey ultimately led him toward faith, entrepreneurship, mentoring young people, serving his community, and discovering an entirely new sense of purpose. 

Doug also gets vulnerable about something he still faces today: imposter syndrome. Rather than claiming he's overcome it, Doug shares how he continues to fight it by showing up, staying consistent, asking for help, surrounding himself with the right people, and using what he's been given to make others better. 

This conversation is bigger than football. It's for anyone who has reached the end of one chapter and wondered:

What's next?

Because sometimes losing the dream you thought defined you is the beginning of discovering what you were really called to do.

🎙️ Diverse Network Podcast | Season 4

What does it really take to reach the next level as a leader?

For Phillip Moore, the answer starts with humility.

In this episode of the Diverse Network Podcast, Jordan sits down with Phillip for a powerful conversation about leadership, faith, failure, perseverance, and the people you need around you to keep climbing.

Phillip shares his journey from hitting rock bottom and creating his own opportunities to becoming a sales leader, all while learning that success isn't about having all the answers or being the most important person in the room.

It's about understanding your strengths and weaknesses, owning your role, accepting feedback, serving others, and having the humility to ask:

“What do you need? What's in the way? How can I help?”

They also dive into overcoming self-doubt, learning from failure, surrounding yourself with the right people, and why reaching the next level requires bringing others with you.

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, professional, or anyone trying to grow into the next version of yourself, this conversation is for you.

🎙️ Diverse Network Podcast | Season 4

Discovering and supporting multicultural leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs through the stories that shaped who they are today.

You can make it to the top.

But you won't get to the next level alone.

🎙️ This week on the Diverse Network Podcast, we sit down with Phillip Moore for a powerful conversation about humility, leadership, faith, failure, and what it really takes to keep growing.

Phillip challenges the traditional idea of leadership.

Leadership isn't:“What can my team do for me?”

It's:

“What do you need?”

“What's in the way?”

“How can I help you get where you're trying to go?”

Because sometimes the thing keeping us from reaching the next level isn't our talent.

It's our willingness to stay humble enough to learn, serve, accept feedback, and let other people help us climb.

🔥 How Humility in Leadership Gets You to the Next Level

Featuring Phillip Moore

🎙️ Diverse Network Podcast | Season 4

Watch the full episode Wednesday on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram.

What does it really take to stop playing it safe and go all in on yourself?

In this episode of the Diverse Network Podcast, Grant Burks shares how a passion for filmmaking turned into a side hustle, then into a full-time creative career.

Grant talks about the moment his videography income began outgrowing his 9-to-5, the fear and uncertainty that come with leaving a stable paycheck, and why betting on yourself requires more than passion. It takes preparation, consistency, risk, and the willingness to build something before you feel completely ready. 

The conversation also dives into the business side of being a creative, from finding clients and building a portfolio to learning through trial and error, doing strategic free work, and developing the skills necessary to turn creativity into a sustainable career. 

If you’ve ever felt caught between the security of where you are and the possibility of where you could be, this episode is about what it looks like to finally bet on yourself and go all in.

🎙️ The Power of Taking Responsibility for Your Life | Edriss

At some point, we all have to decide whether life is simply happening to us or whether we’re willing to take ownership of where we’re going.

In this episode of the Diverse Network Podcast, Edriss opens up about the experiences that taught him responsibility, discipline, ambition, and the importance of learning from your mistakes.

From being challenged at a young age to becoming a collegiate fencer, entrepreneur, and emerging professional, Edriss shares how he learned that every action has a reaction and that growth begins when you stop blaming circumstances and start taking responsibility for your decisions. 

The conversation also dives into overcoming comparison, refusing to settle for an average life, taking risks, building meaningful relationships, and using adversity as fuel to become better.

Edriss makes it clear that success is not about having everything figured out. It is about owning your choices, learning from failure, staying focused on the person you want to become, and continuing to get back up when life knocks you down.

If you’re in a season of transition, chasing something bigger, or trying to take greater ownership of your future, this conversation is for you.

🎙️ Diverse Network Podcast | Season 4

The Power of Taking Responsibility for Your Life

Featuring Edriss

What does it really take to reach the next level as a leader?

For Phillip Moore, the answer starts with humility.

In this episode of the Diverse Network Podcast, Jordan sits down with Phillip for a powerful conversation about leadership, faith, failure, perseverance, and the people you need around you to keep climbing.

Phillip shares his journey from hitting rock bottom and creating his own opportunities to becoming a sales leader, all while learning that success isn't about having all the answers or being the most important person in the room.

It's about understanding your strengths and weaknesses, owning your role, accepting feedback, serving others, and having the humility to ask:

“What do you need? What's in the way? How can I help?”

They also dive into overcoming self-doubt, learning from failure, surrounding yourself with the right people, and why reaching the next level requires bringing others with you.

If you're a leader, entrepreneur, professional, or anyone trying to grow into the next version of yourself, this conversation is for you.

🎙️ Diverse Network Podcast | Season 4

Discovering and supporting multicultural leaders, executives, and entrepreneurs through the stories that shaped who they are today.

As Jocelyn Armstrong shared on the DN Podcast - Inclusion matters. It's essential that we give voice to groups across a range of viewpoints because it makes our organizations stronger. They become better positioned for success because they are enriched in ways they might not have even known they needed.

An expanded group of contributors means expanded possibilities, which is why her mission as the Ohio State Bar Association's Director of Inclusion and Outreach is to weave diversity and inclusion into the fabric of the bar and our association's cultures.

In an ideal world, diversity and full representation won’t be managed as a separate function—it should simply be part of the decision-making DNA. Outreach is key to getting there. Exposure to many points of view translates to:

• access to more original ideas and innovation
• reduced groupthink
• people feeling valued as their authentic selves

Representation matters. As a child, Jocelyn was fascinated by watching actors like Phylicia Rashad and Blair Underwood star as lawyers on TV. Seeing famous black legal professionals, both fictional and real, allowed her to see herself in the same roles. It inspired her to pursue a career in the law.

Jocelyn draws energy from being around people. She loves to make connections with folks, take in their perspectives and observe their growth. She has also learned the importance of listening to what people don't say out loud. This helps her encourage everyone to feel more at ease. She aims to be respectful and open to what they need to say, not what I want to hear.

Jocelyn's creative writing allows her to address representation in another form. She enjoys bringing characters into existence—as she writes, she feels like she gets to know them. Giving a voice to all is her way of celebrating the differences that enrich life.

As Jocelyn Armstrong shared on the DN Podcast - Inclusion matters. It's essential that we give voice to groups across a range of viewpoints because it makes our organizations stronger. They become better positioned for success because they are enriched in ways they might not have even known they needed.

An expanded group of contributors means expanded possibilities, which is why her mission as the Ohio State Bar Association's Director of Inclusion and Outreach is to weave diversity and inclusion into the fabric of the bar and our association's cultures.

In an ideal world, diversity and full representation won’t be managed as a separate function—it should simply be part of the decision-making DNA. Outreach is key to getting there. Exposure to many points of view translates to:

• access to more original ideas and innovation
• reduced groupthink
• people feeling valued as their authentic selves

Representation matters. As a child, Jocelyn was fascinated by watching actors like Phylicia Rashad and Blair Underwood star as lawyers on TV. Seeing famous black legal professionals, both fictional and real, allowed her to see herself in the same roles. It inspired her to pursue a career in the law.

Jocelyn draws energy from being around people. She loves to make connections with folks, take in their perspectives and observe their growth. She has also learned the importance of listening to what people don't say out loud. This helps her encourage everyone to feel more at ease. She aims to be respectful and open to what they need to say, not what I want to hear.

Jocelyn's creative writing allows her to address representation in another form. She enjoys bringing characters into existence—as she writes, she feels like she gets to know them. Giving a voice to all is her way of celebrating the differences that enrich life.

Paul Rankin, Chick-Fil-A Easton Owner Operator - on the Diverse Network Podcast talks about how to be a Christian Entrepreneur in a Savage Business World.

From being almost paralyzed at 5yrs old by getting hit by a truck to becoming a Chick-Fil-A Owner Operator at Easton Town Center and being on the brink of opening up his 2nd location in Columbus, OH, Paul walks us through his amazing entrepreneur journey led by faith.

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Through the Diverse Network Podcast, we help our listeners discover and support Multicultural Leaders, Executives, and Entrepreneurs.

Learn how to use a mindset of growth to overcome adversity in the midst of change.

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