The Next Best Thing
By Aundrea Cline-Thomas
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Episodes: 122
Description
This is a podcast about making changes in all areas of your life, even when you don’t know where to start. This is the antidote to your Sunday scaries. It bucks cultural standards that can leave you burned out and broken. It’s not about activating a Plan B or a career pivot; both of those terms indicate abandoning how you started. No, this is about continuing on your path and using all of your experiences to make a shift your future self will thank you for. Each episode includes a different example of what navigating your NEXT could look like. So get comfy…we’re on this journey together!
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Overqualified and Overlooked? You're Playing the Wrong Game
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Voice Note: We've Played Enough Defense
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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Voice Note: The Season of No
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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Voice Note: Choosing Presence Over Permission
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Mar 09, 2026 |
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Stop Answering Questions: The Secret to Winning Every Job Interview
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Mar 04, 2026 |
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Voice Note: Summer Is Coming
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Mar 02, 2026 |
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Why Your Job is Costing You Your Health: Healing from Burnout and Career Grief
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Voice Note: Why You Aren't For Everyone (And That’s Your Superpower)
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Stop Making Rich People Richer: How To Work LESS and Live MORE Abroad
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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Voice Note: From Employee to Asset
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Feb 16, 2026 |
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Voice Note: The Job Market Shift You Cannot Ignore Right Now
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Feb 09, 2026 |
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Stop Living Paycheck to Paycheck: How to Multiply Your Money in 2026
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Feb 04, 2026 |
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Voice Note: The Gap Between the Work and the Win
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Feb 02, 2026 |
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Why Your Boundaries Aren't Working (And What To Do Instead)
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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Voice Note: Meet Them With the Same Energy
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Jan 26, 2026 |
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New Year, New Leverage: How to Create Career Clarity Without Reinventing Yourself
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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Voice Note: Let Go And Reclaim Your Power
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Jan 19, 2026 |
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Introducing NEXT Nuggets Voicenotes
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Jan 12, 2026 |
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One Hello That Changed My Career | Lessons from Natasha Cornstein, Blushington’s CEO
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Why Are You Still Playing By The Rules
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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I'm BACK and Nothing Is The Same!
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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What Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Taught Me About Clarity, Risk, and Reinvention
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May 30, 2025 |
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Is Your Job Safe? How to Survive Layoffs & Uncertainty
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May 25, 2025 |
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Power Play: Mastering Career Relationships That Matter with Melody Wilding
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May 16, 2025 |
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From Overwhelm to Liberation: How To Let Go Of What No Longer Serves You with Christine Platt
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May 09, 2025 |
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The Truth About Getting a Book Deal: Tips from Legacy Lit Publisher Krishan Trotman
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May 02, 2025 |
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The Hidden Cost of Pushing Through: Signs You're Disconnected from Your Own Emotions with Therapist Kalisha Crone
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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Building Community and Finding My Voice | Two Years of The NEXT Best Thing Podcast
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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You’re Learning. You’re NOT Failing: Tips for a Tough Job Market
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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Ready, Set, NEXT: 7 Steps to Unlocking New Possibilities
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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You’re Fired! Navigating Grief After Career Loss with Laverne McKinnon
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Curl Cap Founder Britney Crowell on Owning and Protecting Your Creativity
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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The Truth About Being Single in 2025: Dr. Kris Marsh Breaks Down 'The Love Jones Cohort'
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Fight or Flight: Finding Safety in Today’s Chaotic World with Lidia Bonilla
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Stop Doubting Yourself: 4 Steps to Unlocking Your Full Potential
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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How To Actually Achieve Your Goals In 2025 with NBA Performance Coach Ben Kenyon
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Break Free from Money Shame: How to Build Wealth with Aja Evans
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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2024 Year In Review: Either You Win or You Learn
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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Dreaming on Purpose: Ariane Hunter's Blueprint for Personal and Professional Freedom
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Fully Surrender Without Giving Up with Octavia Raheem
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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To the 91 Percent…
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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Redefining Ambition, Trusting Yourself & Small Steps to Big Wins with Kibi Anderson
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Strategies for Success in Uncertain Times
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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Media Layoffs, Tips for Jobseekers, Lessons on Rewriting Your Story
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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Cheers to the Late Bloomers: Deesha Dyer’s “Undiplomatic” Journey to the White House
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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How Do You Want Your Life To Feel: Amber Cabral on How to Speak Up and Get What You Need
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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LaShasta Bell on 3 Tips For Better Sleep, Achieve More by Doing Less and How To Mind Your Business
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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REWIND Episode 23: The lie of perfection, overworking and burnout to achieve success with L’Oreal Thompson Payton
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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Daisy Auger-Dominguez on Overcoming Burnout, Finding Your Spark and Why You Should Take a Sabbatical
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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REWIND Episode 33 From Survival Mode To Thriving: How to Come Home To Yourself with Dr. Thema Bryant
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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REWIND: Episode 32 From Shark Tank to “Killer Pitch Master” Precious Williams on Pitching for Success
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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REWIND: Episode 48 How To Get Unstuck: Face Your Fears of Failure, Rejection, and Success with Renee Washington
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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REWIND: Episode 46 How To Overcome a Scarcity Mindset, Embrace Abundance + Loud Budgeting with Financial Therapist Aja Evans
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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REWIND- KJ Rose on How To Stand Out From The Crowd, Own Your Stage and Collect Your Wins
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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Political Strategist Katrina Gamble on Kamala Harris’ Path Forward, Project 2025 and Understanding the Assignment
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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How Create Leverage By Building Better Connections
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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How To Stay Focused + Learn From My Mistakes
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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2 Year Anniversary of Quitting My Job
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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The Power of Highly Sensitive People and Embracing Your Emotions At Work with Melody Wilding
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Sandra Lindsay on Navigating Hardships and Making History
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Kendra Bracken-Ferguson on How To Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals and Why There’s No Such Thing As Failure
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Accessing, Healing and Reclaiming Black Joy with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Danielle Mendoza on How To Write A Best Selling Book To Transform Your Business and Personal Brand
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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How To Overcome What’s Holding You Back
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May 26, 2024 |
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Arivee Vargas on Pursuing Your Zone of Genius, Leaving Big Law, Navigating Motherhood and Launching into Your NEXT
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May 19, 2024 |
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Amy Shoenthal on Navigating Setbacks: Turning Obstacles to Opportunities
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May 12, 2024 |
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While You Wait: Lessons on Discomfort, Anticipation and Consistency to Make Progress
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May 05, 2024 |
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Lydia Hamilton on Redefining Success, Transformational Travel, and the Power of Sabbaticals - Part 2
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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Lydia Hamilton on Career Breaks, Solo Travel, and How to Find Your Authentic Self
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Gemma Toner on Sabbaticals, Executive Coaching, Mentorship and Unleashing Your Potential
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Kara Stevens on Side Hustling to Wealth, Investing In Freedom and Moving Abroad
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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A Year of Growth: Celebrating One Year of The Next Best Thing Podcast
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Keisha Hickson on Overcoming Complacency, Living With Multiple Myeloma and The Power of Showing Up
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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How To Turn Your Passion Into Profit: Tricia Taitt on Dancing With Your Numbers
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Collective Action and Mobilizing The Power of Community with Katrina Gamble
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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How To Get Unstuck: Face Your Fears of Failure, Rejection, and Success with Renee Washington
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Michellene Davis on Advocating for Change, Self Preservation and the Cost of Success
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Overcome a Scarcity Mindset, Embrace Abundance and Loud Budgeting with Financial Therapist Aja Evans
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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How To Go Viral with Value: Social Media Marketing Strategies with Chris Russo
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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How to Raise Your Prices, Build And Scale Your Business with Deb Boulanger
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Knowing When to Quit and Redefining Success Through Faith with Isis Breanna
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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What Do You Want? How To Create An Effective Action Plan with Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Lil Nas X, Saweetie and Erica Campbell’s Performance Director on How To Own Your Stage with K.J. Rose
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Letting Go, Turning Up + Embracing The Shift with Chanel Adams
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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ACT UP! Steps for Personal and Professional Growth in 2024
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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4 Steps To Making 2024 Your Best Year Yet
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Your Journey to Financial Freedom with Jamila Souffrant
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The Power of Stillness with Aundrea Cline-Thomas
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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From The Oprah Show to E-Commerce Executive: Candi Carter On Taking Risks and Navigating Career Transitions
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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From Survival Mode To Thriving: How to Come Home To Yourself with Dr. Thema Bryant
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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From Shark Tank to “Killer Pitch Master:” Precious Williams on Pitching for Success
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Dr. Wayne Frederick on Serving as President of Howard University, Transformational Leadership, and Making Progress in the Black Community
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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4x NBA Champion Andre Iguodala on Retirement, Venture Capital, NIL deals and More
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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How To Make an Impact Through The Power of Non Verbal Communication with Linda Clemons
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Revealing Alopecia, Overcoming Shame and Embracing Authenticity with Aziza Shuler
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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You Can Quit, But Don’t Give Up
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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How To Start A Business: Registration, Trademarks + Contracts with Attorney Natalie Pierre-Louis
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Key Steps To Finding Your Purpose + 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Today with Amanda Miller Littlejohn
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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Setting Boundaries, Finding Opportunities and Taking A Leap Of Faith
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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The Lie of Perfection, Overworking and Burnout to Achieve Success wi/ L’Oreal Thompson Payton
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Richelle Carey on Becoming a Single Mother By Choice: IVF + Adoption in Your 40’s and Beyond
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Stephanie Perry On Career Breaks, Sabbaticals, Moving Abroad and Living with Ease
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Aurora James on Defining Success On Your Own Terms and Living Your Values
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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Brandice Daniel on Mastering The Art of a Cliff Jump: Betting on Yourself and Winning Big
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats: Analyzing Your Career and Charting Major Growth with Cate Luzio
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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Dominique Broadway on Funding Your Dreams and Creating Generational Wealth
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Making Yourself More Marketable and Finding The Flow in Your NEXT with Don Champion - Part 2
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Healing Workplace Trauma and Thriving In Your NEXT with Don Champion - Part 1
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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In Sickness + Health: Battle Tested Marriage Vows with Neysa Taylor
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Authentically Climbing the Corporate Ladder with Mandell Crawley
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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One Year Of Freedom
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Getting Your Book Published and Creating Community with Kellye Garrett
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Complete Surrender with Mara S. Campo
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Bozoma Saint John on Grieving To Greatness
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May 28, 2023 |
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A Dreamer’s Manifesto with Ariane Hunter
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May 21, 2023 |
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Blessings Blossom In The Dark with Dawn Kelly
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May 14, 2023 |
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Rudy Cline-Thomas On Making Money Moves (Part 2)
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May 07, 2023 |
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On My Own Terms with Rudy Cline-Thomas
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Creating Authentic Art with Jenna Hanchard
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Raising The Bar with Janet Kim
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Finding Your Voice with Nia Watenza
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself!
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Mar 31, 2023 |