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This is a reintroduction to the StoryNoir Podcast. I get to reflect on past guests and a preview of the upcoming episodes to look forward to.

This is the season of harvest and collaboration. Let’s chat about partnerships and sponsorships.

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How Sounds Underground Elevated the 50th Anniversary of Hip Hop: https://tinyurl.com/4yw78e8n

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What do your Q4 plans look like? As we head into the new year, holistically setting ourselves up for success is important, whether it’s in our career, personal life, or all of the above. 

Monet Boyd (@SuccessCoachMo) works to find ways to assure women have access to a purposeful life and wealth building opportunities. Our conversation was full of nostalgia, gems and reflections between two friends.

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Support Monet’s Work:

https://www.successcoachmo.com

@SuccessCoachMo

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Podcast Recommendations:

• Born to Be Seen the Podcast 
• Words With Me Podcast
• Your First Million
• Hello Seven Podcast

Links to Aforementioned Business Owners

• IG: @plantingassets
• IG: @btobseen
• IG: @entrepreneurmembersclub

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Thank you for tuning into the StoryNoir podcast!

Happy Black Breastfeeding Week. I broke down the complex history of body feeding and why that’s important context for the conversations we’re having around reproductive justice today.

Support your local birth workers :) Want to talk more about Eponymous Birth Collective? Head over to https://www.storynoir.com/eponymous to schedule a call

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More information about Black Breastfeeding Week: https://blackbreastfeedingweek.org/

Journal of Southern History: “Mothers’ Milk: Slavery, Wet-Nursing, and Black and White Women in the Antebellum South” (2017) https://muse.jhu.edu/article/647289

Roberts, D. (2000). Killing the Black Body. Vintage Books.

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Welcome to Chapter 8 of the StoryNoir podcast. I’m your host, Opal, and I’ll be facilitating a conversation with Kia Fay, affectionately known as Kia the Curl Consultant. Kia is a textured hair exclusive stylist and marketing expert hailing from the Bay Area. She teaches fold with natural hair texture about care practices through elevated and accessible education.

Today, we struck up a fascinating conversation around being small-business owners, our journeys with our own sense of beauty, grief & loss, and of course, hair care! We’ll revisit some of these topics today, delving into how she came into who she is today.

Connect with Kia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiathecurlconsultant/

Website: https://www.thecurlconsultant.com/

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What does intersectionality look like to you? For Rahul and Opal, growing up, their childhoods on opposite coasts couldn’t have been more different. However, they have something in common; they’re both adopted.

Chapter 7 discusses how they both found the language to solidify their adoptive identities as adults and the ways they want to change the narrative and the ideas surrounding adoption.

They hone in on the importance of having said language to describe their childhood experiences as a way to have deep conversations with loved ones who may not understand the effects of adoption. Today, each of them do what they can in earnest to support all members of the adoption & foster ecosystem to empower the next generation of people with similar experiences.

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Connect with Rahul on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rgupta20/

Adopto Community (closed for folks part of the adoption community): https://adopto.circle.so/home

Advocates mentioned:

Oleg Lougheed: https://www.overcomingodds.today/olegs-story

Simon Benn: https://www.thrivingadoptees.com/
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What does it look like to successfully take a leap of faith and land on your feet? For Kameron, this meant leaving her job at a top law firm and pivoting to become an influencing marketing consultant and licenced attorney (woot woot!). 

Kameron’s combination of beauty, brains and fashion informs how she stays up to date while using social trends to create content and lead others as they build their influencing careers.

Her website states, “I started The Legal Tea to help creatives navigate the legalize of contracts to gain complete understanding, secure higher paid opportunities, and stay up-to-date on the influencer marketing industry!”

Support Kameron’s work:

@KameronMonet

@TheLegalTeaSocial

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What does a friendship look like to you? For Thien Pham and Briana Loewinsohn, their love of art solidifies their bond as a duo of Oakland-based educators who are also published authors. We’ll discuss Thien’s forthcoming book, Family Style: Memories from an American from Vietnam, and Briana’s debut comic book, Ephemera. 

Although both storylines take the reader on separate journeys, we’re able to see the ways their art, food and fighting for what’s right have remained ever present in their friendship.

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Support Thien and Briana:

@Thiendog

@brianabreaks

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Thank you for tuning into Chapter 4 of the StoryNoir podcast!

Today I’m joined by Raven (@RavenHoneyYT) a Los Angeles-based podcaster, YouTuber, creative and most notably - my dear friend of almost 20 years! 

We discuss what it was like being an odd kid and how we’ve leveraged that as our superpower as adults. We also reflect on how we escaped the realities of our difficult childhoods by getting lost in nature and the ways we cultivated a community library in 5th grade called The Book Fairies.

Currently, Raven is showcasing her creativity to the world by way of horror movie reviews, acting and makeup.

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Support Raven’s work on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube

P.S: I spoke with Raven on her podcast, Tea With Honey (episode 6): https://bit.ly/3MMEkX2

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Welcome to episode 2 of the StoryNoir Podcast. I'm your host, Opal, and I was joined by Shelby Barlow.

Shelby is a self-described Mississippi girl based in Miami, sharing her experiences as she's taking the world by storm. Shelby speaks from the heart with honest wisdom about her experiences with identity, speaking up in times of strife and pivoting careers as she sobers her mind, body and soul. Her successes speak for themselves, as she is a Learning & Development professional, freelance content creator, as well as a UPenn alumna.

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Thank you for tuning into the StoryNoir podcast! I had the pleasure of speaking with Shalonda Swanson of Yemoja Speaks. As a former foster youth Ms. Swanson understands the emotional challenges of healing. She reflected on her personal journey and have overcome emotional issues through writing poetry while she was in college. Currently she talks about healing through art, the impact of foster foster, and developing meaningful relationships on her podcast every Thursday. 

She is writing her first book, “Trauma-Free: Thriving After Foster” to guide the younger generation in unpacking their trauma to thrive after leaving foster care. She attributes her success to her wonderful support system of mentors and teachers that pushed her out of her comfortable zone and she is eagerly giving the opportunity others to step out of theirs.

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Support Shalonda's forthcoming  book and work online @YemojaSpeaks and @YemojasMedia

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