Sistah Girls, it's the end of the year and I wanted to end it with someone who could help us say goodbye to 2024 and embrace the new year ahead. Author and Well-Being Educator Nakeia Homer was the perfect woman for the job.

Nakeia Homer is a Well-Being educator, author, and the founder of Heal and Grow Daily, a well-being community and private membership. She’s a sought-after well-being expert and trauma-informed educator who facilitates powerful workshops and keynotes on the power of story, self-love/self-care, and purpose.

I got the chance to speak with Homer to have a deeper discussion on what it takes to change our lives using habits. And how healing from our past traumas gives us space to create the life we desire.

Sistah Girls Book Club, I'm so happy to have author, producer, and all-around dope artist, Diamonde Williamson on the podcast. 

Diamonde Williamson is the Head Creative at Deep Feelers Club, a creative arts company specializing in publishing, art, and community gatherings. In her previous role, she led Third & Wonder Production House, a video production company with notable clientele like: The Oprah Winfrey Network, Google, Warner Bros., Essence, and more. 

We dived into a heavy conversation about her new book, Deeply Personal: Notes from Facing My Mother Wound. 

Sistah Girls, I'm happy to have New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Shawntelle Madison on the podcast. 

Madison has penned books that span the romance and speculative fiction genres. She is charting a new path with her latest book The Fallen Fruit a historical fiction that includes time travel, love, family secrets, and plot twists you won't see coming. Shawntelle and I got the chance to dive deep into her latest book and it was a great conversation.  

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Most people know Beverly Mahone on social media as Auntie Bev, it's that familiar moniker that has made over 1 million people fall in love with her radiant personality and well-developed lexicon.

Auntie Bev splashed onto social media by giving us her word for the day. Inspired by her then 14-year-old grandson to get on TikTok she listened, since then she’s gained over 1 million followers on Instagram, created a community of word lovers, authored several books, given history lessons, and some motivation. And now she has a new vocabulary dictionary, WordUp! Vocabulary Dictionary.

Sistah Girls, I'm so happy to have mental wellness advocate, self-healing educator, and author of The Sugar Jar, Yasmine Cheyenne with us on the podcast! Yasmine is here to discuss her new book Wisdom of the Path: The Beautiful and Bumpy Ride to Healing and Trusting Our Inner Guide.

While reading Wisdom of the Path, I had so many aha moments and highlights, my book is all tabbed up. One of my favorite quotes from the book is, “You’re not wrong about you just because your dreams aren’t here yet.” 

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Sistah Girls, I’m so excited to have living legend Alice Randall on the podcast!

Alice Randall is the author of My Black Country: A Journey Through Country Music’s Black Past, Present, and Future. https://amzn.to/4eKEWIz

Randall is the first Black woman to write a number-one country hit. The single “XXX’s and OOO’s (An American Girl)” was released in 1994 by country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Over the years she has penned several Top 10 and Top 40 country songs, in addition to that, Randall is a New York Times best-selling novelist, educator, and food activist.

A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an honorary doctorate from Fisk University, is on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, and credits Detroit’s Ziggy Johnson School of the Theater with being the most influential educational institution in her life. She is widely recognized as being one of the most significant voices in 21st-century African-American fiction.

Sistah Girls, I'm so excited to bring y'all celebrity ghostwriter Ardre Orie! 

Ardre Orie attended Florida State University, earning her undergraduate and Master’s Degrees in Special Education. After teaching for 4 years, she earned an Ed.S in Educational Leadership. Orie served as an Assistant Principal before rediscovering her first love of composing stories as a way of life.

Orie's three decades of writing include a host of clients, including the WNBA, NBA, NFL, MTV, WETV, BRAVO, BET, CENTRIC, OWN, VH1, and YouTube, Grammy Award-winning artists, political activists, and politicians, as well as a bevy of entrepreneurs and everyday heroes.

She has also written and produced stage plays and is working on turning books into films. 

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Sistah Girls, I’m so excited to have Shenequa Golding on the podcast! 

Golding is a writer and an editor whose work focuses on race, gender, popular culture, and entertainment. After earning a degree in print journalism from Hampton University, Golding began her career as general-assignment reporter for a small newspaper owned by the Chicago Sun-Times.

There, she covered everything from town-hall meetings to teen murders. A native New Yorker, Golding returned to her roots as an entertainment writer. Her work, both on-camera and in print, has appeared in prominent Black publications such as Vibe and Essence, as well as mainstream outlets, including Complex, the Associated Press, BBC, and Vanity Fair. Her essay, “Maintaining Professionalism in The Age of Black Death is . . . A Lot,” published on Medium in May 2020, has received 990K views to date.

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Sistah Girls, I'm so excited that we have author, activist, and entrepreneur Rachel E. Cargle on the podcast! 

Rachel Cargle is an Akron, Ohio born writer, entrepreneur and philanthropic innovation. Her work and upcoming book with Penguin Random House, centers the reimagining of womanhood, solidarity and self and how we are in relationship with ourselves and one another. In 2018 she founded The Loveland Foundation, Inc., a non-profit offering free therapy to Black women and girls.  

Her umbrella company, The Loveland Group houses a collection of Rachel’s social ventures including The Great Unlearn, a self-paced, donation-based learning community, The Great Unlearn for Young Learners – an online learning space for young folks launching in 2022, and Elizabeth’s Bookshop & Writing Centre – an innovative literacy space designed to amplify, celebrate and honor the work of writers who are often excluded from traditional cultural, social and academic canons.

Rachel is a regular contributor to Cultured magazine, Atmos magazine and The Cut, and has been featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar and The New Yorker. Rachel lives & loves in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sistah Girls, I'm so excited to have Deesha Dyer on the podcast!

Without credentials, connections, or a college degree, a hip-hop journalist and community leader conquered her imposter syndrome while landing one of the most exclusive, sought-after, and fun positions in the White House.

From, 2015 to 2017 Dyer served as the White House Social Secretary for the Obama administration. While at the White House, Dyer followed Obama's wishes and opened up the most popular house in the world to everyday people.

She infused Black culture and created some of the most memorable events in U.S. history.

Now, with a new company and a new outlook on work and life, Deesha has added author to her name. Her memoir Undiplomatic: How My Attitude Created the Best Kind of Trouble is a story that reminds everyone that it's not where you start but how you finish.