She's Atlanta born and bred. She comes from a family of entrepreneurs and thrives as a successful business owner. Dr. Felicia Philips is founder of MogulCon, a 2 day workshop for Black female entrepreneurs. She teaches would-be successful business owners how to build a sustainable strategy to accelerate their businesses. Additionally she's a wife and mother and shares with us how she manages the life-work balance.
Nov 15, 2021•25 min
Moving in The Spirit is an award-winning creative youth development organization that has worked to transform the lives of young people in Atlanta for 35 years through the art of dance. Last month Moving in the Spirit opened a new facility near the Candler/Edgewood MARTA station making the organization’s programs available to many. My guest is one of the organization’s three founders and its CEO, Dana Lupton.
Nov 01, 2021•20 min
Black professionals hold only 3.2 percent of all executive or senior leadership roles in corporate America. When you drill down to the fortune 500 companies, it’s less than one percent. Why is that? A study from the consulting group McKinsey says Black employees are 23-percent less likely to say they receive a lot or quite a bit of support to advance in the workplace. Joining me to discuss is Dennis Kimbro – the best-selling author of Think and Grow Rich and Jerome Hutchinson, Jr., Founder and C...
Nov 01, 2021•25 min
After a harrowing interaction with police a a local D.C. park, Malcolm, 16, is angry and despondent and feels like nothing good ever happens for teens like him. The growing violence in his neighborhood leads his mother to send him to their family farm in Mississippi. What happens next is a fantastical journey through time to Reconstruction America. Black Was the Ink is the debut novel by Michelle Jones Coles, a civil rights attorney and mother of four sons. As a 9th generation Louisianan, she is...
Oct 26, 2021•24 min
In The Black President, the first interpretative, grand-narrative history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context. He captures the America that made Obama's White House years possible, while insightfully rendering the America that resolutely resisted the idea of a Black chief executive, thus making conceivable the ascent of the most unlikely of his successors. In elucidating t...
Oct 20, 2021•25 min
When a loved one is diagnosed with cancer – it’s scary, you feel overwhelmed, isolated and at times just alone in your feelings. Author Mike Murphy shares his spiritual love story of meeting, marrying, and losing the love of his life, Margot, to cancer. His book, LIVING IN COLOR: A Story of Love in Sickness and in Health, Murphy shares a story of a loving, bonded, couple who teamed up as a force to fight Margot’s cancer for nine years. Margot was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at age 29 an...
Oct 20, 2021•25 min
Dr. Angella Banks aka Dr. A is leading a celebration of the late comedian Tommy Ford with a gala October 10 at the Buckhead Art Company. The Tommy Ford Legacy-a-Thon supports the Xcellence Leadership. This organization focuses on strategic areas of community leadership to develop and train future leaders.
Oct 20, 2021•19 min
Paula Chase has been wielding inclusion like a light saber against inequality in literature for more than 13 years. She has often been referred to as a Literary Warrior saving readers through her books that are making the transition from picture book to tween and middle grade literature. With nine children’s book to her credit, Chase is a long-time advocate for both readers’ choice and diversifying the type of fiction featuring Black characters to go beyond the Black pain narrative that publishi...
Oct 08, 2021•25 min
According to a nationwide CDC survey conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, experiences of distress such as depressive and anxiety symptoms were 3-4 times greater than pre-pandemic periods. Additionally, more than 10 percent of respondents said they had seriously considered suicide in the past 30 days compared to just over 4% in 2018. A a CDC study published in June, suspected suicide attempt emergency department visits were higher in both girls (50.6%) and boys (3.7%) ages 12-17 during Februar...
Oct 08, 2021•24 min
We saw them together – co-authors the late civil rights icon John Lewis and his congressional aide Andrew Ayden. Andrew is now an artist in residence at the creative media industries institute at Georgia State University. He continues the fight in his mentor’s name for voting rights and the other issues Lewis was passionate about. Before his death last year, Andrew and Congressman Lewis wrote a new graphic novel, RUN. It is available to everyone now.
Sep 22, 2021•24 min
Music brings people together. Individually a song can evoke a memory, a moment a feeling. It's one of the reasons why we gather at concerts to relive a moment of youth or to remember how music makes us feel. On this show, we talk with William King, one of the original members of the Commodores. You know - that group from Tuskegee led by Lionel Richie? Well King sits with me to talk about the old school days, when RIchie left the group and how the band knew it would survive without him.
Sep 13, 2021•25 min
The journey from a dark and traumatic girlhood beneath the shadows of the Hollywood sign to that of an enlightened spiritual leader is shared in an emotional, honest and compelling memoir by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati in Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.
Sep 09, 2021•25 min
The journey from a dark and traumatic girlhood beneath the shadows of the Hollywood sign to that of an enlightened spiritual leader is shared in an emotional, honest and compelling memoir by Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswati in Hollywood to the Himalayas: A Journey of Healing and Transformation.
Sep 09, 2021•24 min
Brenda Myers-Powell’s Leaving Breezy Street is a stunning debut; a heartfelt memoir about turning her life around, from a street hustling prostitute and self-described “messed up crackhead” to an advocate for victims of sex trafficking with her foundation Dreamcatcher, subject of a Sundance Award-winning documentary of the same name, and through the United States Advisory Council on Human Trafficking.
Aug 23, 2021•25 min
His childhood was traumatic. Abducted by his father and told that his mother was dead, Ed Hajim could have blamed society for his life challenges. Instead he decided life's adversity would make him stronger. He won a scholarship to go to college and turned a business degree into millions. Millions of dollars Ed Hajim has chosen to give away to educate other disadvantaged young people. His wife of 55 years encouraged him to put his story on a page and he does so in the book, "On the Road Less Tra...
Aug 17, 2021•36 min
Fibroids are benign tumors in a woman's uterus. They can cause unbearable pain and lengthy menstrual cycles. Many doctors recommend surgery, either a myomectomy or a total abdominal hysterectomy to correct the problem. Dr. John Lipman, an interventional radiologist and founder of the Atlanta Fibroid Center argues surgery is not necessary. He treats women via a non-surgical procedure called uterine fibroid embolization. Legislation is pending in Congress that will bring attention to this and othe...
Aug 11, 2021•24 min
During the summer of 2020, Cyntellia Abrams children began to ask questions about the death of George Floyd and the protests that followed. She decided to take her kids to a protest. Then they wrote a book for children to help kids understand racial and social justice. The book is Small and Mighty: The Next Generation of Leaders.
Aug 04, 2021•24 min
If you are looking for a great summer read, pick up Karin Slaughter's new novel, False Witness. Slaughter is one of the world's most popular and acclaimed storytellers. She's written 21 novels including the Grant County and Will Trent books. She's a Georgia native and Atlanta resident. Her stand-alone novel Pieces of Her is currently in production with Netflix. False Witness introduces us to attorney Leigh Collier summoned to defend a a wealthy man charged with multiple counts of rape. Trial hap...
Aug 04, 2021•25 min
In this edition, we continue a conversation with entrepreneur, author and career coach L. Michelle Smith about her new book, and she teases ahead to what next for both her and her young daughter.
Jul 19, 2021•26 min
Many people will agree these are challenging times. Between the pandemic, politics and the calls for racial justice, how we carry ourselves in the workplace can be a minefield to navigate, especially if the employee is a woman of color. Research indicates Black female workers are not only double minorities, but also doubly disadvantaged. In the second edition of her book, "No Thanks: 7 Ways to Say I'll Just Include Myself: A guide to Rockstar Leadership for Women of Color in the Workplace, L. Mi...
Jul 19, 2021•24 min
One month of summer vacation is in the books. Yet there are students who miss meals when they are not in school. The nonprofit Hosea Helps works to make sure no student is hungry over the summer break with its "No Summer Hunger" effort to deliver meals to families with students who are eligible for free breakfast and lunch. In addition, on Saturday, July 17 Hosea Helps will host its annual Back to School Jamboree at the Georgia International Convention Center. Families in need will receive neces...
Jul 12, 2021•19 min
Whether or not you have been impacted by COVID, you've certainly felt the stress of the past 15 months and that may have caused you neck or back pain. It is the number one reason people make an appointment to see their primary care physician. Dr. Mohamed Bydon is a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon and author of Back and Neck Health: Mayo Clinic Guide to Preventing and Correcting Back and Neck Pain. Dr. Bydon outlines different ways to treat back and neck pain, including self-care at home, non surgical i...
Jun 28, 2021•25 min
Be the Voice is a student driven movement to make being a youth a better experience. This movement for kindness, compassion and inclusion seeks to improve the school environment. Our guest Debbie Cwalina shares details about a program built on proven techniques that help young people develop their interpersonal skills.
Jun 28, 2021•25 min
The Knowledge House is a New York based nonprofit whose goal is to erase the digital divide by providing free technology training. The organization is currently accepting applications for candidates. Upon completion of the 12-month program and internship, candidates often go to work for companies earning almost four times as much as they earned prior to enrolling in the FREE program. We talk with CEO and co-founder Jerelyn Rodriguez.
Jun 22, 2021•25 min
Bonnie Addario lost three family members to lung cancer. When she received the same diagnosis, she refused to be the fourth to die. She's a 16 year survivor and founder of an organization committed to finding a cure. She believes not only should lung cancer patients survive, they also should thrive. Her book, "The Living Room" profiles more than a dozen lung cancer patients whose stories will comfort and inspire readers.
Jun 22, 2021•25 min
One way improve a child's mental health is to encourage him or her to go outside and play. It is an activity that has been restricted because of the pandemic. With many of those restrictions being relaxed or lifted altogether, kids are being encouraged to return to camp. We are talking with Chris Witt, senior director of WinShape Camps. He believes young people need camp this summer more than ever to shore up their mental health.
Jun 01, 2021•20 min
The pandemic forced kids to make just as many life adjustments as their parents, yet they are not likely to speak up and out about the issues that may be bothering them. Dr. Sharnell Myles is a licensed psychotherapist and certified clinical trauma professional who specializes in the treatment of complex trauma. Her focus is young people.
Jun 01, 2021•25 min
Mariko Bennett took her passion for creating vision boards for herself next level by introducing it to her consulting clients. The success they are having encouraged Bennett to share her tips for success. Her book is The Blueprint to Manifesting Your Dreams.
May 24, 2021•25 min
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms had two opponents going into her November race for re-election: City Council President Felecia Moore and Atlanta Attorney Sharon Gay. Then Bottoms stunned the city with the announcement that she would not seek a second term. Now the race is wide open with two new faces qualifying: City Councilmembers Antonio Brown and today's guest Andre Dickens. Each candidate is invited to share their vision for the city and how each will tackle Atlanta's growing crime proble...
May 17, 2021•24 min
For years no one talked about what happened May 31-June 1 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Then the incident leaving hundreds dead and thousands homeless was branded as the Tulsa Race Riots when in fact it was the Tulsa Massacre. An alleged incident in an elevator of led the white community to torch what was known as Black Wall Street. What happened was not taught in schools and only now, authors like Carole Boston Weatherford are telling the story using words and images that children and adults can understa...
May 10, 2021•25 min
