Sabrina Espere Carrington is a life coach, writer for numerous magazine publications- including FabuPlus Magazine, and was recently crowned Ms. Pennsylvania in the Miss Black America Pageant. In this interview, she shares with us tips for dealing with stress during the pandemic, step one? Admitting you're overwhelmed. She talks about what steps to take if you've hurt someone you love, as well as her experience in the pageant world! It's probably a lot different than you imagined it would be.

Effa Manley co-owned the baseball team, The Newark Eagles of the Negro League, with her husband, Abe. She was quickly recognized as an excellent business woman and dedicated her life to baseball and the Civil Rights movement, hosting various benefits at the stadium to raise money and awareness to local causes. Effa lobbied for the inclusion of Negro League players in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and ended up being inducted herself!

Susannah Davda is the CEO and founder of The Shoe Consultant. Her unusual upbringing brought her into the world of custom shoes, in a way your probably wouldn't have guessed. After studying shoe design in college, then making her way into the corporate shoe world, she thought she had fallen out of love with shoes. Then she made a plan, and The Shoe Consultant was born. In this interview she shares with us why she's passionate about owning her own business, what The Shoe Consultant is all about, and how YOU can start your own shoe brand!

Here we have yet another instance of a woman who must've had 25 hours in a day and 8 days a week. Mary McLeod Bethune was the 15th child of former slaves that was given the rare opportunity of a formal education at the age of 10. From that moment on, she was in motion. She worked alongside numerous Presidents of the United States, founded and was the President of Bethune-Cookman College, and during all of this, still found the time to be active in every possible outlet available. Her "Black Cabinet" under FDR laid the political groundwork for the modern day Civil Rights Movement. 

The creators of New York City based Party Claw Productions sit and chat with us about making theatre during the pandemic, why they're determined to match, and exceed industry standards, their love of the board game Dream Phone, and so much more. Laura Kay and  Ashley Kristeen Vega give us tips on how to get in to production, and are candid and honest in sharing their struggles to form their company.

Agnes Mary Clerke was a prolific scientific author, penning biographies of astronomers, mathematicians, and the history of astronomy. Her work is in many encyclopedias, as well as various books that offered critical thinking in the developing scientific world. She grew up in a family that encouraged exploration, education, and a love for music and literature. While she was never a practicing astronomer, she was widely recognized as an authority on the subject. 

Shola Kaye has been featured in Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, as well as The BBC. She is a Distinguished Toast Master, consults companies about empathy, diversity, and inclusion in the work place, and so much more. In this interview she shares with us how her background in IT, and a pivot to entertainment, helped her to shape her own voice in the consulting world. 

Hilma af Klint was a Swedish born artist who delved into theology and spiritualism to allow her art to expand in a direction no one had seen before. Her art was considered improper for women at the time, so she kept it hidden from her contemporaries, with a stipulation in her will for it not to be shown for 20 years after her death. Where does she belong in the art world, and why is she not recognized as the pioneer of abstract art?