What if your birthday wasn’t just a celebration—but a call to go?This week on We Ain’t Dying For This, we’re talking about Wandering as Liberation with my good Sis, Natasha Wade. And babyyyy, it’s not just a cute little travel story. Sis packed up her car and hit the road—solo. No set plan, just a deep need to feel free. She wandered to places where Black stories live, where liberation was fought for, where healing could meet her.And somewhere along the highways and history, she met herself again.And you know what?She didn’t need permission from anyone but herself.This week's episode is a mirror for anyone who’s ever felt stuck, stifled, or like freedom is on the other side of a map they haven’t drawn yet.Stay Connected with Natasha D. Wade:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/natashawade/See What She’s Building: http://natashawade.com____About We Ain't Dying For This:

We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thecrystlejohnsonWe Ain't Dying For This Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weaintdyingforthisCrystle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecrystlejohnsonCrystle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystlejohnsonCrystle's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamcrystlejohnson

If you’re anything like I used to be, you’ve probably disqualified yourself as a creative again and again.

You believe that creativity looks a certain way–pretty, polished, and perfect.

But guess what? Those aren’t the qualifiers of what being creative means. This week’s episode with Shellsy Malveaux is all about her journey of liberation through creativity.

Stay Connected with Shellsy Malveaux:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shellsy-malveaux-49041a57/

See What She’s Building: https://www.instagram.com/unconventional_shell

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About We Ain't Dying For This:

We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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Sometimes rock bottom looks like the end.

But often, it’s the beginning.

When COVID hit, everything shifted, the businesses, the plans, the certainty of what life would look like. And when entrepreneurship suddenly wasn’t enough to stand on, what was left was shame, grief, and the quiet question: Who am I now?

This week’s episode with Kimberly Pack is about sitting in that collapse, letting yourself feel the loss, and learning that being held in love can be the most radical form of survival.

Stay Connected with Kimberly Pack:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-pack/

See What She’s Building: ⁠http://www.togetherascend.com/

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About We Ain't Dying For This:

We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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I’ve burned myself out a couple of times, and to be honest, each time I was stuck in this place of believing I wasn’t enough, that I should be doing more, and that I had zero power to change anything. It took a few months of resting, clearing my mind, and getting in my body to arrive at a place of knowing: none of those things were true.I have always been enough.I did not need to do more.I am the only one with the power to change my life.In this week’s episode, I sat down with Patrice Webb to talk about her journey of moving from a space of believing to a space of knowing, and how it transformed her life.Stay Connected with Patrice Webb:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/patricewebb/See What She’s Building: https://www.indwellingconsulting.com/

____About We Ain't Dying For This:

We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thecrystlejohnsonWe Ain't Dying For This Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weaintdyingforthisCrystle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecrystlejohnsonCrystle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystlejohnsonCrystle's TikTok:

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Whether you want to hear it or not, healing starts with you.

And the faster you push what someone else did to the side, the quicker you can move on to understanding who you want to be and what it will take to get there.

And while I’m a strong advocate for community, this part of the journey is all about self—self awareness, self compassion, self love.

This week’s episode with Melinda King, she/her is all about her journey of introspection and how it was the first step to liberation for her.

Stay Connected with Melinda King:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melinda-k-23836913/

See What She’s Building: https://www.melinda-king.com/

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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Crystle sits down with Brittany Janay to discuss creating and passing on legacy. 

Growing up, when I thought about legacy, it was always tied to tangible things that could be handed to the next generation. But it’s so much more than that, isn’t it?

Our legacies are connected to who we are, how we show up in community, and the things we create that reverberate through the world while we’re here and when we’re gone.

Stay Connected with Brittany Janay:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harrisbrittanyj/

See What She’s Building: https://www.lovingaccountability.com/

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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Folks who have taken our love, dedication, empathy, and presence for granted are now in the find out phase. And while they are over there trying to figure it out, I hope you’re finding the joy that lives within.

I’m over the moon to drop this week’s episode featuring Joy Donnell—Joy As Liberation. I’ve always felt her through what she shares here on LinkedIn, but to meet her in person healed me a little more.

Stay Connected with Joy Donnell:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doitinpublic/

See What She’s Building: https://linktr.ee/doitinpublic

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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In this episode of the We Ain't Dying For This podcast, Crystle sits down with Eren Cooper to discuss how she romanticizes her life as a form of liberation.

You are the main character in your own story and it’s time to start acting like it. 

We are all spinning together on this rock in the middle of the universe with many things we’re juggling, but we can’t let that keep us from experiencing joy. And to be clear, we don't need anyone else to experience it—pause, breathe, and acknowledge the beauty around you.

Stay Connected with Eren Cooper:

Eren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ewrite.the.script

Eren's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@eren.cooper

Hire Eren: https://linktr.ee/ErenCooper

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

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Crystle sits down with Jasmine Fluker to talk about vulnerability and what we lose when we choose not to lean into it.

What I find most powerful about elevating the stories of Black women, is that sharing affirms the truth—we are not alone. It is through our vulnerability about our experiences that we heal parts of ourselves and parts of those who’ve been waiting for us.

Stay Connected with Jasmine Fluker:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasminefluker/

Instagram: @curatedbyj_

Book A Call: https://calendly.com/jasmine-fluker/consultation-pivotal-paradigm-project

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thecrystlejohnson

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Crystle's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamcrystlejohnson

Crystle sits down with Brittany King to discuss hope's role in her own liberation, her daughters', and the lives of Black women she's in community with.

“Hopelessness has a high price tag. You put your head down and your hope goes down, too.” — Brittany King

Listen, I had to challenge every single thing I thought I knew to get free from the prison I built for myself. There is always an option to do something different, but will you answer when your future self starts calling?

Stay Connected with Brittany King:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hopedealerbk/

Instagram: @hopedealerbk

See What She’s Building: https://www.amplifyallyship.com/book-brittany

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About We Ain't Dying For This: We are a community of Black women committed to our collective liberation through radically soft living. Tune in each Thursday at 7 PM CST, to hear from Black women who are choosing to live their lives on their own terms.

Stay Connected with Crystle Johnson & We Ain't Dying For This:

Subscribe to our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thecrystlejohnson

We Ain't Dying For This Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weaintdyingforthis

Crystle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thecrystlejohnson

Crystle's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystlejohnson

Crystle's TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@iamcrystlejohnson