Stay A While

"Love does not hurt. Love is something that you cherish. Love is something that you smile to, that brings you joy." - Sabrina Greenlee

Everyone has a story to tell. Some tell their story through their actions. A personal connection to your work in the community gives a deliberate focus highlighting the “WHY”. This week's guest is committed to positively impacting the lives of domestic violence survivors at every stage of their healing journey.

Sabrina Greenlee, CEO + Founder of S.M.O.O.O.T.H, joins host Tommi A. Vincent to discuss:

• NFL Unsung Heroes Celebration of the frontline workers of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.
• S.M.O.O.O.T.H’s work supporting domestic violence survivors.
• Sabrina and her son, Deandre Hophins’s, connection to their community work to be effective.
• Being committed and intentional about your work to generate lasting social impact.
• Sabrina’s thoughts about love.
• The importance of being you.

Host: Tommi A. Vincent / @ChefTommiV / www.TommiV.com
Guest: Sabrina Greenlee / @sabrinagreenlee12 / www.smooothinc.org
Produced by: Tommi A. Vincent, Dimitri Golden, and Tantillo Productions
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music / Roj & Twinkie

"I may fail at a lot of things in my life before it’s over, but if I try, that is my success." - Melanie Few

Perseverance overcomes rejection. Every “no” presents an opportunity to evolve. If you keep going, “yes” will meet you along the way. Today’s guest believes “no” is a blessing.

Melanie Few, Founder & Executive Producer of Super Bowl Gospel Celebration, joins host Tommi A. Vincent to discuss:

• Staying in it to win it. Birthing Super Bowl Gospel.
• When the history of “no” looms in the present, the power of a mother’s words to “keep a going”. How no helps you to evolve.
• The Super Bowl Gospel Choir on America’s Got Talent.
• Special moments of Super Bowl Gospel.
• The Road To 25 – celebrating the 25th year anniversary of Super Bowl Gospel.
• It’s the little things in life that give you so much joy.

Host: Tommi A. Vincent / @ChefTommiV / www.TommiV.comGuest: Melanie Few / @therealmelaniefew Produced by: Tommi A. Vincent, Dimitri Golden, and Tantillo ProductionsMusic By: Stichiz - Big T. Music / Roj & Twinkie

"When you open up the door for one, you open up the door for many." - LaTonya Story

When life knocks you down, get up determined to thrive. Every season of life presents challenges, resulting in opportunities for learning and growth. Today’s guest LaTonya Story knows a thing or two about getting knocked down. Her vulnerability in the conversation opens up the door for our listening community to see it is possible to persevere beyond our circumstances and achieve our dreams.

LaTonya Story, CEO at LPS Consulting PR L.L.C, joins host Tommi A. Vincent to discuss:

• LaTonya’s 23 years of experience in public relations and branding.
• Persevering beyond our challenges and having the courage to shed “what happens in this house, stays in this house”.
• Anchoring in faith, belief in yourself, and becoming a dreamer.
• The Sports Power Brunch: Celebrating The Most Powerful Women In Sports held annually during Super Bowl week.
• Women in sports being architects in the success of the world of sports.
• LaTonya’s ability to continue to live out her purpose after the sudden death of her son, Sterling, from cancer – malignant lymphomas. Support the American Cancer Society in honor of Sterling https://www.cancer.org

Host: Tommi A. Vincent / @ChefTommiV / www.TommiV.com
Guest: LaTonya Story / @Latonya Story / https://lpsconsultingpr.com
Produced by: Tommi A. Vincent, Dimitri Golden, and Tantillo Productions
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music / Roj & Twinkie

"When you walk into a room like you own the room, people have to accept you at face value." - Terri Hines

Owning your greatness is a mental posture that sets the tone for how others receive you. Position yourself to get respect from go. Today's guest provides us with a dose of confidence to standing firm in who we are and commanding respect when we walk into a room.

Terri Hines, Executive Vice President of Communications at Fox Sports, joins host Tommi A. Vincent to discuss:

• Leading communications for Super Bowl LVII.
• Being the first Black person to lead communications for any sports organization.
• Surrounding yourself with the right team to get the job done.
• How walking with confidence garners respect with others.
• Terri’s work with The Rape Foundation. www.therapefoundation.org
• The power of affirmation from a confident grandmother.

Host: Tommi A. Vincent / @ChefTommiV / www.TommiV.com
Guest: Terri Hines
Produced by: Tommi A. Vincent, Dimitri Golden, and Tantillo ProductionsMusic By: Stichiz - Big T. Music / Roj & Twinkie

On this final episode of our second season, we reflect on family. It's been a consistent topic on this show and that's not a coincidence. The work of building a life we love and a life that impacts others starts with the love and support of our village. So, look back with us at these conversations with Tommi and Troy Vincent, intergenerational healers Khadijah and Zakkiyah Abdul-Mateen, businesswoman extraordinaire Diahann Billings-Burford, and negotiation expert Mori Taheripour.

Don't forget to stay connected with us on Instagram at @stayawhileshow. And tune in to IG Live with @cheftommiv every Monday night at 7p ET.

Host: Tommi Vincent (@cheftommiv)
Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

How do you identify healthy love? How do you talk to younger generations about the red flags (and the green flags)? On this episode of Stay A While podcast, Tommi sits down with the 'love is respect' (https://loveisrespect.org) director Angela Lee for a deep and fulfilling conversation about what it means to create safe spaces for young people figuring out how to navigate relationships, and the lessons we should never be silent about.

To learn more about love is respect and to donate, please visit www.loveisrespect.org

Angela Lee has been employed with The National Domestic Violence Hotline for 10 years. She has served on the front lines as a Phone Service advocate as well as a Program Service Manager before serving as Director of love is respect. Angela has an abundance of experience working in the social justice field including substance abuse, behavioral health, sexual assault, and at-risk youth.

Angela feels youth experience severe life stressors including unhealthy relationships, which makes her job purpose-driven. Her great passion is empowering young people to find healthy perceptions of themselves as peaceful, complete, whole, and safe, healthy individuals.

Host: Tommi Vincent (@cheftommiv)
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Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

Real talk is a hallmark of this show so this week we’re digging into all things PETTINESS. Whether we want to admit it or not, we’ve all had our petty moments, our shady thoughts, or jabs at others when they tap dance on our nerves. This week, author and podcast host Demetria L. Lucas (https://instagram.com/demetriallucas) offers her perspective on what makes us do it and how she reins it.

You can learn more about Demetria on her website and keep up with her life and pop culture commentary. You can also catch her podcast Ratchet and Respectable (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ratchet-respectable/id1449001372) anywhere you listen to podcasts.

Dubbed “the Black Carrie Bradshaw” by The Washington Post, Demetria L. Lucas is an award-winning author, journalist, and media personality with an all-consuming obsession with modern relationships and a penchant for cultural commentary. You can find her musing on her favorite topics as a frequent contributor on Good Morning America, MSNBC, and HLN, or listen to her latest thoughts on everything from pop culture to politics on her twice-weekly podcast, Ratchet & Respectable.

Demetria is the author of two books, A Belle in Brooklyn: The Go-to Guide for Living Your Best Single Life, a memoir about dating in her 20s; and Don’t Waste Your Pretty: The Go to-Guide for Making Smarter Decisions in Life & Love, an advice manual based on her insanely popular online advice column, “Ask Demetria”. She is also the Executive Producer of “Don’t Waste Your Pretty”, a TV film based on her second book of the same title (February 2021).

Host: Tommi Vincent (@cheftommiv)
https://instagram.com/cheftommiv

Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

"...Motherhood is one of the most underappreciated jobs in the whole world. Like it is. You're literally raising citizens of the world, the next world leaders, the next engineers, the next great chef, the next author like you're raising these people.”- Desiré Vincent Levy


By now, you all know Tommi is a big advocate of women taking the opportunity to do “whatever the heck we want to do!” in every aspect of our lives. So, it’s no surprise that her eldest daughter Desiré Vincent Levy took a seat at the Stay A While table to share just how she has learned to embody that mindset as a mother, entrepreneur, and activist. Desiré shares what she would tell her younger self, how to overcome the frustrations that form when everyone has an opinion on how you should mother your children, and life lessons about how her relationship has helped her lean into all the different aspects of herself.



About Desiré:
Desiré Vincent Levy is a communications strategist specializing in advocacy and impact litigation, and the co-founder of Detroit Kitchen Terminal. She is currently a Michigan Political Leadership Fellow with the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research at Michigan State University and Executive Producer of a forthcoming Detroit Free Press documentary. She is on the Board of Directors for the Detroit Food & Youth Entrepreneurship Academy and on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Food and Drink.

Connect with Desiré and learn more about her work, follow her on Twitter at @DVincentLevy.

Connect with Me!
You can reach Tommi on Instagram @cheftommiv
Visit https://vincentcountry.com and get connected with us on Vincent Country’s Instagram @vincentcountry

Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media

Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

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This is the first episode in our Liberated Woman series, exploring what it really means to be a free woman, beyond anyone else’s opinions or ideas.

You can’t ever really know freedom until you know who you are and fight to be here, no matter what. No one knows this better than today’s guest, Brittney Oliver, Founder of Lemons 2 Lemonade, a successful networking platform & event series that provides career content and inspiration. Her career path has been anything but straight and the ways in which she has had to fight to be her most authentic self along the way are inspiring. On this first episode of Stay A While’s Liberated Woman Series, Brittney lets us in on the twists and turns that forced her to pivot, the best advice she’s ever gotten, and how her 30s helped her to reevaluate her life and make some important changes.

In this episode you’ll hear about:

- The Art of the Pivot
- How Brittney Learned To Show Up As Her Authentic Self [29:18]
- Shifting From The Wake-Grinding To Living a Full Life [39:53]
- How Turning 30 Shifted Brittney’s Focus

You can follow Brittney on Instagram @bsoliver. And visit www.l2lmixer.com to learn more about their mixers, panel discussions, business support, and live chats.

Brittney Oliver is a career and lifestyle freelance writer and content strategist based in Nashville. Over the past three years, Brittney has built her platform Lemons 2 Lemonade to help young professionals turn career obstacles around. Her platform is known for its networking mixers which have brought over 2,000 professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives together to turn life’s lemons into lemonade in NYC, Nashville, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, and Atlanta.

Her mixers have been supported by PayPal, BuzzFeed, Verizon, Bumble, Dove, CoverGirl, Jack Daniel’s, and Ciroc.

While building Lemons 2 Lemonade, Brittney worked as a senior digital marketing and email marketing manager while contributing as a writer to Fast Company and ESSENCE.


EPISODE CREDITS:
Host: Tommi Vincent (@cheftommiv)
Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media
Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

“How do we transform our society for the better? Because we can't do it in ways that are destructive. Because at the end of the day, we're all connected now and interconnected. And we've got to find a way to coexist in this world and ensure that there is justice and equity, fairness and dignity and respect.” - Dr. Bernice King

Welcome to Stay a While with Tommi Vincent! There is no doubt that we stand on the shoulders of those who’ve come before us. And we reap the benefits of the callings they chose to answer. Dr. Bernice A. King joins the Stay A While Podcast today to discuss not only the beauty of the legacies that have changed entire world systems but also the beauty and importance of placing our own bricks to continue those heritages. Dr. King shares beautiful moments with her mother, the late Coretta Scott King, and how her mother’s perseverance helped her to thrive in not one, but two male-dominated vocations. She also gives a word on what it means to be the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the ways in which her calling and purpose are inextricably bound to what came before her.


Dr. Bernice A. King is a global thought leader, strategist, solutionist, orator, peace advocate, and CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center For Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), which was founded by her mother as the official living memorial to the life, work, and legacy of her father. In this position, Bernice continues to advance her parents’ legacy of nonviolent social change through policy, advocacy, research, as well as education & training through the Kingian philosophy of nonviolence, which she re-branded Nonviolence365® (NV365®). She is a licensed attorney and member of the State Bar of Georgia; a certified Mediator with the State of Georgia; a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, the International Women’s Forum (IWF), the National Council of Negro Women; a Board member of the National Black Bank Foundation as well as Faith and Prejudice.

Dr. King is an innovative, inspirational, and transformational leader. She is dedicated to ensuring that her parents’ legacy and teachings, The King Center, as well as the work of creating the Beloved Community, with Nonviolence365® as the pathway, are introduced to new generations of influencers.

In this episode we cover

[01:00 - 11:19] What It Takes to Leave a Legacy as a Woman
[11:20 - 18:01] Sweet or Sour Moments with Food Bring Unforgettable Memories
[18:02 - 38:49] Living a Purposeful Life Amidst the Weight of the World
[38:50 - 41:25] Closing Segment

Key Quotes
“It's so important for us to keep people in our life that are more seasoned than us. Because there are some things about learning how to be a good human that comes along with being able to glean from the wisdom of people who've lived life longer than you have.” - Tommi Vincent

“If there's somebody who's trying to gain the whole world and yet lose their soul, you know, I try to get them back to center them, understand it's okay to have a healthy self-centered concern, you know, to take care of yourself… Don't be a public success and a private failure.” - Dr. Bernice A. King

“Love is never going to be outdistanced or outwon. In the end, it's going to prevail.” - Dr. Bernice King



Connect with Dr. Bernice King
Instagram: @BerniceAKing
Twitter: @BerniceKing
Website: www.thekingcenter.org



Connect with Me!
You can reach Tommi on Instagram @cheftommiv
Visit https://vincentcountry.com and get connected with us on Vincent Country’s Instagram @vincentcountry

This episode was Produced By: Tommi Vincent, Tanner Vincent, and Skai Blue Media

Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE

LEAVE A REVIEW + and SHARE this episode with someone who wants food for the soul, and the key ingredients to embracing their true, authentic self. Listen to previous episodes on Spotify, Spreaker, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!