Minding My BLACK Business

Business building is an exhaustive journey. For some of us the journey can even be traumatic or tap into some of other traumatic experiences. Essence teaches us how to better understand trauma and how we can address these issues as they come up in Entrepreneurship.

Essence Cohen Fields is a trusted Licensed Professional Counselor with over 10 years of experience providing attainable goal-based therapy. She is a Spelman College graduate and holds a master's degree in counseling from Boston University School of Medicine. Essence has been featured as a mental health expert on media outlets such as NBC News and is the author of "A Lesson on How to FLY: Understanding the Correlation between Self-Love, Healing, and Personal Success". She specializes in trauma processing and boundary setting and is the Owner and Executive Director of First Love Yourself Counseling where she provides counseling in Pennsylvania.

Special Guest:

Essence Cohen Fields

Website: https://www.flycounseling.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/First-Love-Yourself-Counseling-1162037160601099/

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Self-care is not a trend. Self-care is necessary maintenance for Black Entrepreneurs. Delaney shares her experience and perspective on why self-care is mandatory and how she helps Black Entrepreneurs attend to their mind, body, and soul.

Delaney Outlaw is and has always been an educator. Her career started 10 years ago as a public-school teacher and found its way into the service industry as an owner of a full-service spa. At VSB Spa & Wellness, Delaney uses her extensive degrees and certifications to provide self-care services to adults throughout the Hampton Roads area. These services include massage therapy, vaginal steaming, detox services and spa treatments such as facials, body wraps and waxing. Delaney's own personal journey lead her to holistic practices and entrepreneurship to spread knowledge and healing to her community.

Special Guest:

Delaney Outlaw

Website: https://www.visionspiritbalance.com/

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Black Entrepreneurs are some of the most tenacious, brilliant, and creative people. On this episode Dr. Richards shares her experiences in working with Black Entrepreneurs. We both reflect and brag on the Black Entrepreneurship community. Take a listen.

Dr. Frances Richards is a Strategic Life Coach and personal Chief Encouraging Officer and host of the Black Entrepreneur Experience podcast. Her mission is to invoke and provoke YOU to pursue a passionate extraordinary life and not settle for anything less! In life you should do what you love and love what you do! Over the years she has helped hundreds of individuals unlock their passion and discover their authentic voice.

Special Guest:

Dr. Francis Richards

Website: https://www.drfrancesrichards.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drfrancesrichards

Twitter: https://twitter.com/drfrichards

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beepodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ytliVRD_g8YIOvCRmqKGQ/videos

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As Black Entrepreneurs we all have experienced weeks were nothing went as planned. It's during these times that we resort to our Plan B, C, and maybe even plan G. In most cases our flexibility and resourcefulness pays off and we are able to accomplish our original tasks and then some. I tackle my most recent humbling moment of Black Entrepreneurship in this episode.

Shoutouts:

Smart Giraffe Computer Services https://www.smartgiraffecs.com/

Black Brand: http://blackbrand.biz/

Black Diamond Weekend: http://blackdiamondweekend.com/

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Healthy boundaries are an Entrepreneur's best friend. Boundaries provide us with protection, guidance, and predictability as we business build. Take a listen as Marline shares her journey and how she benefits with stronger boundaries.

Marline Francois-Madden is the founder and CEO of Hearts Empowerment Counseling Center, a therapy practice based for millennial women and teen girls. With over 13 years of clinical experience, she has become a sought-after expert in mental health, trauma, self-care, and girls leadership. Marline has shared her expertise at dozens of universities, colleges, community organizations, churches and conferences— including the Congressional Black Caucus for Women and Girls. Her organization, Far More Precious, has awarded $2,500 in scholarships to minority girls since 2013 and continues to educate young women ages 14 - 19 to dream beyond the barriers they face to reach their fullest potential. She was named by the White House as a Nominated Changemaker at the State of the Women summit during the Obama administration.

She is the founder of The Therapist Planner which is the first planner designed for mental health professionals. Marline has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Penn State University and Masters of Social Work degree from Rutgers University - Newark. She is a member of the National Association of Social Worker and Chair of the Legislative and Social Action committee. She is currently licensed as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of New Jersey. Marline's work has been featured in Bustle, HuffPost, Fox 5, Hot 97 radio, and various media platforms.

Music: Blasian Beats

Special Guest: Marline Francois-Madden

Website: http://www.marlinefrancois.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marlinefrancoismadden/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marlinefrancois/

Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/marlinefrancois

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MMBB fall updates. Does your business make you happy? Have you checked in to see if it's your major source of happiness? What happens when you to live to work? Listen in on my journey, words of caution, insights, and plans of action.

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Website: www.mindingmyblackbusiness.com

Merchandise: https://www.teepublic.com/user/mmbbstore

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Our consumers relate to us most when we are being transparent. As Entrepreneurs do we know how to do that in ways that are productive and healthy? Evelyn shares with her InternetCousins on how to strike the perfect balance.

Evelyn from the Internets is an Austin, TX-based video producer and Internet personality. From not-so-serious beauty tutorials and cultural critiques to humorous takes on somber current events, she strives to inspire and entertain viewers, including Beyoncé who featured her Lemonade review on the Formation World Tour. Yes, that really happened.

Special Guest: Evelyn from the Internets

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/spicyeve/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/evelynfromtheinternets

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evelynfromtheinternets/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EVEEEEEZY

Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Evelynfromtheinternets

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Imagine building a business all while parenting. The potential hardships are numerous. Keisha teaches us on what to look out for, how to address those issues, and how to support fellow Parentpreneurs.

Keisha Reaves is a licensed professional counselor with a specialty in maternal health owns a private practice in Dunwoody, Georgia. Serving women with life transition issues, postpartum depression, infertility issues, and women who have experienced recent miscarriages has become her specialty and passion. She likes empowering women of all sorts and encouraging women through holistic practices, physical health and talk therapy. Being a new mom herself and hearing from clients and friends about the difficult transition into motherhood, she felt like there was a need for support. Often when people come to the hospital after a baby is born they go straight to the baby and ignore the lethargic, worn mother that just gave birth to the bundle of joy. She found that there were so many items and resources for women who were pregnant, but not much for women after they have the baby during those crucial months of transition. Keisha obtained her bachelor's degree in Psychology and Human Services from Clayton State University. She then completed her master's degree in counseling and Psychology at University of West Alabama. She is a wife and mother to almost two-year-old, Ezra.

Special Guest: Keisha Reaves, LPC

Website: https://www.pushthrubox.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pushthrubox/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pushthrubox/

Email: [email protected]

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In our business building journeys, we will all experience moments of failure and disappointment. How do you bounce back from that? What strategies are helpful? Take a listen as Chantay helps us recover.

Special Guest: Chantay Golson, MS, LPC, CAMS

Website: https://www.chantaygolson.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoachChantay

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoachChantay

Email: [email protected]

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/Mindingmyblkbiz

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Y'all there was a whole hurricane headed this way. On this episode we talk about storm preparedness and how that impacts business maintenance. Specifically, we learn how to manage our negative thoughts as we celebrate and acknowledge our accomplishments. Where to find us

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