Ep. 45: Michele Joseph

On today’s show, I interview Michele Joseph. I met Michele years ago at a networking event in the Washington, D.C. metro area. As the organizer, this striking sistah commandedthe room. Not surprising since she was a high fashion model during the 1980s supermodel era. You’ll want to stick around until the end of the show to hear her spill the tea on her encounter with a young Naomi Campbell and others who graced the pages of some of your favorite magazines. Born in Trinidad and raised just outside of the nation’s capital, Michele also competed in pageants. Today the two-time cancer survivor is the president of Next Generation, Inc., a business she started while fighting the big “C.” She is also the CEO of SGAP Leaders. More on her current jobs and triumph over cancer later in the show. After we met, I didn’t see Michele again. We’ve stayed connected on social media. When the former model recently praised my work on Hair! How I Grew It I thought maybe she’d like to be a guest, so I messaged her an interview request. She said yes, and I was thrilled. Hair and fashion go hand in hand, so I was dying to find out how she managed her Black crown in a white fashion industry. Turns out Michele didn’t just manage; she thrived with ingenuity. More on that later in the show. We started our hair talk talking about why she embraced her natural in two stages.