My guest is the principal of a management consulting firm, a member of the faculty of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a practicing attorney, who now adds author to his impressive credentials. His first novel The Pride, published by Kensington Books, is an intriguing look at the unique lives, adventures,mishaps and loves of elite business men and women, who happen to be African American. He gives us an inside track to the wheeling's and dealing's of Wall Street's Elite.

Joining me this week is Johnnie Walker, a 20 year entertainment industry veteran. She served as Senior Vice President of R and B Promotion for both DreamWorks Records and Island Def Jam Music Group. Walker talks to us about an extraordinary organization she founded called the National Association of Black Female Executives in Music and Entertainment, NABFEME.

My guest this week is from the world of beauty. She is Chiquita White, Manager of Pantene Research and Product Development in North America and she shares information with us about Pantene's Relaxed and Natural's Academy of Science and Style, Pantene's partnership with The North American Hair Research Society to study Central Centrifugal Cicatricial Alopecia, the most common type of Alopecia found in African American women and the Hair Topia tour.

Meet Audrey Adams; she tells listeners a little about herself and what they can expect to hear on the show each week.