Wake Your Ask Up

Breonna Baker of Resilient Love Podcast and Streamline Media Agency joins host, Nadia Francois for a conversation on sustaining a business through the pandemic and handling relationships with love!!  

The Co-Authors of What's Your Super Power Anthology host a book discussion on the after effects of becoming a co-author and what's to come.  Nadia Francois, Dr. Treva Brown, Dr. Enola Pillard, Dr. Feleshia Young and Dr. Dionne Smith

Hosted by Dr. Adriene Hobdy and Brandon Bougard, Scratching & Thriving Podcast facilitates discussions to promote personal and professional empowerment, with input from thought-leaders and creatives in various industries.

Brandon is a healthcare executive and lifestyle guru who enjoys exploring people's unique success journeys and strategies. Dr. Adriene (Dr. A) is an educator and entrepreneur who is passionate about helping people to thrive.

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Get Inspired! Listen to Scratching & Thriving Podcast for a delightful mishmash of personal and professional lifestyle topics.

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Exposure Magazine
Entertainment Editor: Kailah Lee
Her Kind of Black Women: Actress Bria S. Henderson

By: Kailah Lee

Despite your preconceived notions, Black women are not monoliths. She’s unique and diverse but most people see her as the media’s archetype. She’s over-sexualized, angry, and unsophisticated, and if her features are too Black, she’s typecast and underappreciated.

Too many sisters have fought the battle to be seen authentically and ABC’s The Good Doctor, and FX’s Mrs. America’s Co-Star Bria S. Henderson knows this fight all too well.

“…As a dark skin black woman, as a woman of size, I’ve always had to fight to be seen in spaces I wanted to be in,” Henderson said in Exposure Magazine Interview.

How often do we see the non-ambiguous Black women shine—the dark-skin Aunt Viv’s, the Issa Rae’s, and the Viola Davis’?  Dark-brown sisters with class, realistic figures, and natural hair exist and the world needs more of this representation.  

Young Black girls need to see themselves properly because perception is reality and “Our perceptions influence how we focus on, process, remember, interpret, understand, synthesize, decide about, and act on reality,” Jim Taylor, Ph.D., wrote in Psychology Today. 

Henderson emphasizes this importance by saying, “I want chunky dark skin girls to watch tv and be proud to see themselves in her,” because she was that little girl searching for diversity and inclusion.  

And through time Henderson bloomed--now bringing nuance to her work. However, her journey was nonlinear and damn hard. She Graduated from HBCU Spellman College and went on to receive her MFA from The University of Washington, but this is where reality set in. Attending a PWI meant her Black was now the elephant in the room. 

“I felt like Dorthey in a sense… I wasn’t home anymore, HBCU’s--they nurture us…we’re being birthed and molded and crafted into free-thinking people…”  so once “you leave a place like that… you have to exercise the tools and the morals they give you,” said Henderson.

It was a slap in the face to leave an environment that emphasized her worth as a Black woman just to enter a place where opportunity was handed to less deserving white counterparts.

Darker Black women are in this constant battle to be treated fairly and exist normally. Thus, the Black women’s fight to get half as what her white counterparts get, shouldn’t be seen with endearment.

“The titles that always get labeled on us as compliments are strong and resilient…and I’m like those aren’t complements, that’s survival…that’s just how we get the bare minimum, Henderson adds “that’s actually an insult-- that’s traumatic--that’s harmful.”

It can only make one wonder “what’s the expiration date for us to fight for the minimum” Henderson laments.  

Nevertheless, women like Henderson—high-value women, who break glass ceilings and carry themselves with conviction are how Black women progress. 

Henderson is strategic, she picks the battles she’s willing to die on the hill for and lives a life of substance outside of her roles.

It’s not easy being in her position, breaking the norms for Black women “it feels like pressure,” Henderson says, but she sets the stage for more women and young girls to uphold their excellence.

The Black Media Movement is it representing ALL BLACK MEDIA outlets or a collective few? This movement seems to isolate BLACK media outlets by not including ALL BLACK media outlets in the process. I have tried on several occasions to contact those individuals supposedly representing BLACK media outlets in the fight to earn the interest of the government and corporate advertisement budgets (including) BLACK media outlets, yet those BLACK  media outlets and BLACK agencies on the forefront are not including ALL BLACK media outlets in the process; this is a problem. 

I am not understanding how in the world is it a disadvantage to BLACK media outlets for the government and corporations do not provide interest when those in BLACK media outlets proposing an address of such disparity are creating (a mirroring) problem within BLACK media by not including all BLACK media outlets in the process and/or conversation. 
As a BLACK MEDIA outlet with over 8yrs of service publishing content; I'm trying to understand why are {BLACK MEDIA OUTLETS}  on the menu of conversation yet not at the table with those who are out her screaming BLACK MEDIA outlets need the support of advertisement dollars from our government and corporations. 

BLACK MEDIA CONFERENCE (Founder) 
BE IN COLOR MEDIA (fights for {all} media outlets operating at a disadvantage. 
Contact [email protected] 

The notice has been severed I have no plans on being silent. We need to ask questions whenever {any} party is being represented yet not given an opportunity to be notified as to 

• What is the agenda?
•  How can we as BLACK media outlets be involved?
•  Where do we sign up to be included in the financial consideration being disbursed?
•  How will BLACK media outlets be informed regarding the procurement process?

Unstructured and unfair representation is worst than having no voice at all. - Tam Lawrence

Some of the What's Your Super Power Anthology authors celebrate the launch of their new Ebook. Features: Erin Porche', Nadia Francois, Dr. Feleshia Young, Dionne Smith, and Dr. Treva Brown   Subscribe at www.whatsuperpower.com

Exposure Podcast Community 
Welcomes What's Your Superpower? To the community as a multicultural media platform, Exposure Podcast Community presents an opportunity to those who seek to have massive exposure to join us as we explore growth building and innovative techniques to share positive voices reflecting real-life experiences. 

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Welcome Cherisa Allen
Cherisa G. Allen, Motivational Speaker, Transformational Life Coach, and CEO of Do You See What I See, LLC, is a Master’s degree Social Worker that has been practicing for approximately 30 years. Cherisa realized that the trauma of her molestation silenced her for many years. She begins to tap into her SuperPowers by empowering other women by telling her story and walking with them as they find their voice and begin to live out loud.  

Cherisa was once the little girl who was afraid to live out loud. She was worried about what others would think of her once she shared her trauma. She lived self-destructing because she did not understand the power of forgiveness. Cherisa made a choice to walk in her calling, to live and not die, and to let LOVE be the answer.  She understands the power of forgiveness, she no longer allows comparison to steal her joy, and she knows her worth. 

Cherisa’s clients describe her as “transparent, life-saver, humorous, a healer, a listener, and women that are determined and skilled at what she does”  

She is Cherisa, The Activator, and is here to take you from Stagnation to Activation...if you don’t know you better ask somebody! She absolutely loves what she does.

During my interview with Cherisa Allen, I saw a woman who is driven by her ability to step out on faith. As we continued the interview I asked Ms. Allen, “What was the one thing that impacted your life?” She answered, “I felt like I didn’t matter.” 

Interview w/Chris J of the legendary Barclays 
Season 1 Episode 3 
Producers/Hosts: Adriene Hobdy Brandon Bougard Editor: Gabriel Birkby
 

The Bar-Kays were formed in Memphis, TN, in 1966, growing out of a local group dubbed the Imperials. Modeled on classic Memphis soul instrumental outfits like the Mar-Keys and Booker T. & the MG's, the Bar-Kays originally included guitarist Jimmy King (not the famed bluesman), trumpeter Ben Cauley, organist Ronnie Caldwell, saxophonist Phalon Jones, bassist James Alexander, and drummer Carl Cunningham. Adopting a mutated version of their favorite brand of rum (Bacardi) as their name, the band started playing heavily around Memphis, and eventually caught the attention of Stax/Volt, which signed the sextet in early 1967. With help from house drummer Al Jackson, Jr., the label began grooming the Bar-Kays as a second studio backing group that would spell Booker T. & the MG's on occasion. That spring, the Bar-Kays cut their first single, "Soul Finger," a playful, party-hearty instrumental punctuated by a group of neighborhood children shouting the title. "Soul Finger" reached the pop Top 20 and went all the way to number three on the R&B chart, establishing the Bar-Kays in the public eye (although the follow-up, "Give Everybody Some," barely scraped the R&B Top 40). Producer Allen Jones began to take an interest in the group and became their manager and mentor; even better, Otis Redding chose them as his regular backing band that summer.

Risha Ferdinand is a Business Growth Strategist with 15 years of work experience in Finance and Accounting of which she has been an Entrepreneur for 11 years.  Risha left the corporate world in 2018 to start her own family legacy. She is the CEO of Strategic Business Management Agency (SBMA), the Co-Founder of an Online Retail Store, a Lecturer, and an International Speaker.  

Risha holds a Business Administration Degree from the University of Hertfordshire. 

Mrs. Ferdinand is known for her outstanding global summit, the Direc-HER Business Summit held back in 2020. That summit had international celebrity entrepreneurs and icons as guest speaks, such as Mrs. Colleen Otero of the CEO Chicks Brand, TEDx Speaker and Singapore’s #1 Influencer Ms. Suria Sparks, Mrs. Monique Davis, the Success Coach, and Mrs. Golda Lee Bruce, an International Development Storyteller, just to name a few. 

Risha has the gift to translate the language of the number into business language so that entrepreneurs would have a greater understanding of their business performance before crafting strategic profit-growth strategies. 

Mrs. Ferdinand sells profit growth strategies to female-led businesses in both Product and Service Industries, which want to generate $30K in profits in the next 90days. 

Biography: Strategic Business Management Agency

Strategic Business Management Agency (SBMA) was incorporated in 2018. This agency provides business consultancy services to small and medium-sized entities across the globe. 

Services being offered are:

Business Coaching for product and services-based businesses

Operations Management Services such as Virtual Assistants Team, Social Media Management, Video Edits, and Copywriting.

Project Management Services for event launch, product launch, and course launch

SBMA hosts a number of workshops and courses to empower entrepreneurs to build successful legacies.