Black Woman Leading

Season 4, Episode 006 -Healing Hurt Caused by Other Black Women at Work with Dr. Carey Yazeed

As Black women, we may be familiar with experiencing unsupportive or toxic experiences in the workplace at the hands of others.  But what about when the toxic behavior directed towards us is from someone that looks like us – another Black woman.

In this episode, Laura talks to Dr. Carey about this sensitive “family” discussion. Dr. Carey shares her insights on some of the root causes of why Black women hurt each other in the workplace, and how we can begin to acknowledge and heal these hurtful interactions.

About Dr. Yazeed 

Dr. Yazeed is a Behavioral Scientist who specializes in the study of human behavior as it relates to work culture and trauma in the workplace. Certified in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace with a background in mental health and academia, she is the founder of iThink Change, a behavioral research agency. Dr. Yazeed is also a bestselling author of several books including, Unbreak My Soul: How Black Women Can Begin to Heal From Workplace Trauma.

Connect with Dr. Yazeed

• Website: www.drcareyyazeed.com
• Twitter & IG: @drcareyyazeed
• LinkedIn: Dr. Carey Yazeed

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

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Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

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In this episode, we turn our attention to thriving in our bodies and physical health.  Laura welcomes our special guest, Bridgette Duncan, Founder of Slam Duncan Wellness.

Bridgette shares her body movement journey and how her work in Pilates, stretch therapy, and breathwork has been a life-giving force not only for herself but for the Black women she works with in her practice.  She exposes us to other physical self-care options through her work, and   encourages us to move beyond being hyper focused on what our bodies look like to adopt a deeper understanding– moving your body is ultimately about deeper awareness and connection with yourself.  

Bridgette affirms us to integrate pleasure into our physical self-care practice, and encourages us to listen to our needs, give grace, and be gentle with ourselves.  Tune into this affirming episode and then get up and MOVE!

About Bridgette

Bridgette is the Founder of Slam Duncan Wellness. ​​Slam Duncan Wellness is dedicated to promoting health and wellness through stretch therapy, breathwork facilitation, Pilates, and low-impact fitness. Bridgette possesses a wealth of knowledge, a diverse client background, and a skill set that is suitable for many walks of life. . Your health and fitness is much larger than just your daily workouts. It ripples out into every aspect of your life. Your wellness routine informs your mental and physical worlds. As well as, your spiritual and emotional capacities. Her ultimate goal is to provide care and teach practices that transform your mind, body, and soul, one breath at a time.

Connect with  Bridgette

• Website: www.slamduncanwellness.com
• IG: @slamduncanwellness
• Upcoming event: Pilates in the Park (New York, May 13, 2023)

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat, May 18-21 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

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Here at Black Woman Leading, we are all about asking for help and building your support team in your personal and professional life.  You may have a self-care team that includes a doctor, therapist, and other providers.  Or, a professional development team that includes your manager, colleagues, executive coach, or others.  You might even have personal care time like a house cleaner, babysitter, or grocery delivery service. We are here for all of it!  But, what about a team to help you increase, maintain, and invest your financial resources? It 's critical!

In this episode, Nikki Tucker, a 20-year financial professional and the Founder of The FIIRM Approach, educates us on the importance of having a financial squad.  She uncovers OPTIONS for Black women to consider to effectively manage their money.

She talks about the heart work of our financial stewardship and shares that we have to get intimate with our money when posing the question, “Would your money marry you?” Whew!  She takes us all the way there! 

Tune in as Nikki debunks some misconceptions about wealth building, shares advice for planning financially for major life milestones, and educates us on key players that should be on our money team. Her insights empower us to be in a better position to  protect, maintain, grow, and ultimately transfer our assets to build  generational wealth.

About Nikki

Nikki is known as a problem solver since her experience and most of her time involves helping women strategically exiting their marriage and work on their new financial life post-divorce, as a Divorce Financial Strategist. As a 20-year financial professional, she enjoys teaching new ideas about money and connecting her clients to great resources to help them gain clarity, confidence and control of their finances and looking at stuff they might hate.

Her two programs Silent Preparation Series & Bring Home the Bacon provide strategic education, modern resources and tools without having to share your business with strangers. She helps women learn how to keep the cost of their divorce down and make it less complicated. Her strategies teach women how to handle their finances with intention when they’re dating, married, divorcing and post-divorce.

When she is not working with clients, she is eating amazing food and drinking an oat milk latte or a French 75. Her friends and those close to her describe her as reliable, honest and resourceful which comes in handy when she's working with women going through major transitions. 

Connect with  Nikki

• Website:www.thefiirmapproach.com
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/thefiirmapproach/

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat, May 18-21 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

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In this episode, we hear lessons from the C-Suite with Sandy Clark, CEO of StoryCorps.

Sandy shares about her experience being an “accidental manager” and how this professional journey spurred  her to come from behind the curtain and step into full visibility as a leader. She shares a personal story about the consequences of staying too long in a role, and the heart work and head work she’s had to do to support her growth as a leader.

Overall, Sandy shares insight into building relationships on your professional journey and leading with purpose.  Her story aligns with pursuing purpose as she shares that most of her career was spent amplifying the voices of others, and now she leads an organization that creates space for people all over the country to tell their stories, share wisdom, and leave a legacy for the future.

Listen in and absorb this goodness as Sandy shares timely wisdom for those in both the early and more established phases of their careers. 

Guest Bio:

Sandra Clark is a leading voice in journalism and beyond, challenging norms and practices that create barriers to building trust and meaningful, sustainable connections with communities. In 2022, Clark took the helm at StoryCorps as CEO, advancing the award-winning organization’s mission: to create a more just and compassionate world by sharing and preserving stories of everyday people that illuminate our humanity and inspire us to believe in each other. Prior to joining StoryCorps in 2022, Clark was Vice President for News and Civic Dialogue at WHYY in Philadelphia, where she served on the executive committee and led the station's news operation across all platforms. Her innovative approaches to collaborating with grassroots information providers garnered national recognition. Previously, Clark served as Managing Editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, leading the paper to a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. 

Connect with Sandy

• Website: storycorps.org
• Twitter: @SandraSWClark
• Linkedin

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat, May 18-21 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

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In this enlightening episode, Dr. Maiysha states that 100% of people have been impacted by trauma. She takes us on a journey into the mind to uncover how our past experiences impact our trauma responses and communication defaults in our personal and professional lives.

Dr. Maiysha provides a mini master class and shares the difference between positive stress, toxic stress, and trauma.  She teaches ways we can prevent stress from turning into trauma, and how to recognize and interrupt default trauma responses to have more productive communication with others. She also shares what it looks like to take a trauma-informed to people development and culture building in organizations. 

Finally, Dr. Maiysha sheds light into her own professional journey and her trailblazing leadership trajectory that lead to her current space where her work is aligned with her purpose.

Bring your pen and notepad and an open mind to this insightful episode. Dr. Maiysha’s insights confirm that we are empowered to activate our own healing through our internal processing and intentional communication. And when we do this, we can truly step into a build on thriving and not just surviving!

About Dr. Maiysha

Dr. Maiysha Clairborne is an Integrative Physician, Thought Leader, Trainer and Consultant of Trauma Informed Communication, & Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy®, & founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Co. She helps individuals achieve mindset & communication mastery by teaching them how to eliminate negative thinking, faulty beliefs, and ineffective behaviors so they can put themselves in the driver’s seat of truly creating a life they design.

Dr. Maiysha’s specialty is teaching people the power of words, and how our unconscious thoughts and beliefs have an impact on the reality we create.  She teaches the leaders she trains that by mastering our language (both internal and external) we ultimately put ourselves in the driver’s seat of our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, therefore creating new impact for our lives and the lives of people around us. 

A graduate of Emory University, Dr. Maiysha completed her MD at Morehouse School of Medicine, and her Family Medicine Residency at Florida Hospital.  In addition to speaking at TEDx Asheville in 2022, she is the author of the Wellness Blueprint, the co-author of Conscious Anti-Racism, the host of The Black Mind Garden podcast, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Inc.

Connect with  Dr. Maiysha

• Website: https://www.mindremappingacademy.com
• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/drmaiysha
• Youtube: www.youtube.com/drmaiysha
• IG: www.instagram.com/drmaiysha
• Twitter: www.twitter.com/drmaiysha
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/drmaiysha

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat, May 18-21 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

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Welcome to Season 4 of Black Woman Leading, the podcast!  We are so excited to be back!  This podcast is an extension of the Black Woman Leading learning experience.  

The theme for season four is “Thrive, Sis, Thrive!”

Through our episodes this season, we will be reflecting on questions like - “What does it look like for Black women to thrive in every of their lives?   And for this thriving to be the expectation and the standard for how experience our personal and professional lives.”

In keeping with our core pillars, the episodes will continue to have a holistic focus on three core areas--leadership development, self-care and mental wellness, and relationship management. We’ll explore these areas through the lens of our theme for season four in both solo and guest episodes.

Laura also shares about new Black Woman Leading® programming that is launching this year, and how initiative is expanding to support Black women throughout the lifecycle of their careers.

Tune in to get some quick insights into what we’ll cover this season!  Prepare to be inspired.

About Laura
Laura Knights is the Creator of Black Woman Leading® and host of the podcast. She is an executive coach, speaker, facilitator, and licensed clinical social worker with 18+ years of experience creating personal and professional development programs that have touched leaders worldwide.

Her expertise and background in business, human resources, adult education, and social work uniquely equip her to teach others how to deal with both the "head work" and "heart work" required to succeed at work and in life.  She is the Founder and CEO of Knights Consulting LLC,  a leadership development consultancy that provides customized training and coaching programs to create more confident leaders and high-performing teams.

Black Woman Leading® is a research-backed initiative which offers leadership development programming, a podcast, and an annual conference for Black women professionals. Black Woman Leading® is an initiative of Knights Consulting LLC. Learn more at blackwomanleading.com.

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat, May 18-21 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Te’a Campbell

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

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• Spotify
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We are celebrating the completion of our third season! Our season theme was “Own Your Story, Amplify Your Voice.” Additionally, we uncovered a number of organic themes that consistently resurfaced across multiple episodes– leading from the inside-out, exploring new paradigms, self-advocacy, and taking care of our bodies.

Tune in to this episode to get a high-level summary of all the wisdom shared, as Laura provides a recap and shares her personal highlights and takeaways from the season. 

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat in May 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com.

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Olayinka Ajibola

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

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• Spotify
• Audible
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We are celebrating the completion of our third season! Our season theme was “Own Your Story, Amplify Your Voice.” Additionally, we uncovered a number of organic themes that consistently resurfaced across multiple episodes– leading from the inside-out, exploring new paradigms, self-advocacy, and taking care of our bodies.

Tune in to this episode to get a high-level summary of all the wisdom shared, as Laura provides a recap and shares her personal highlights and takeaways from the season. 

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat in May 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com.

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Olayinka Ajibola

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

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• Spotify
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In this first episode of the new year, Laura invites you to revisit your “rules.”  Your rules are your personal codes, spoken and unspoken,  that govern how you live your life. Rules help to give us order, provide safety, provide ways of knowing as we navigate the world, and help us to feel in control of our lives. Although many of our rules are helpful and support us to be our best selves, some of our rules may actually be harmful or outdated for the current season of life. 

Laura shares insights on how your rules might have been formed and gives you a moment to pause, reflect, assess, and (if needed) rewrite your rules to support your vision for the new year and beyond.  Tune in to this insightful episode and embrace “New Year, New Rules!”

Resources:

• Event: Join us for the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Conference +Retreat in May 2023! Learn more at bwlretreat.com.
• Book: Believe Bigger by Marshawn Evans

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Olayinka Ajibola

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

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• Spotify
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In this intimate discussion, three alumni participants of the Black Woman Leading ELEVATE  cohort (Latoya Butler, Kendra Thomas, and Meghen Demons) share their stories of growth throughout their leadership journey. They share the “growing pains” they endured and resources that helped them to overcome as they navigate their careers as Black women leaders working in both corporate and non-profit spaces.  Additionally, our brilliant alums share their experience in the Black Woman Leading program.

In our rich discussion, we talk about the importance of finding (and using) your voice, acknowledging your growth areas and making plans to improve them, setting and maintaining boundaries, pruning our relationships to get to our next level, and so much more.

Join us, reflect, and celebrate your own growth as a Black Woman Leading!

Guest Bios:

Latoya Butler, Energy Services Program Director, CEDA

Latoya Butler is the Director of the Energy Services Department at the Community Economic Development Association of Cook County, Inc. (CEDA). She has served as Director for 7 years of her 14 year tenure at CEDA. As the Director of the largest federally and state funded utility assistance programs in Illinois, she has proven to be a solutions-driven leader dedicated to working on behalf of the low income residents of Cook County. Latoya has an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Master's in Human Resources from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  

Connect with Latoya on LinkedIn.

Meghen Demons, Senior Program Manager, Learning & Development, Remitly

Meghen is a proud wife and mother of  two. She is a SHRM Certified Professional with 10 years of experience developing and implementing strategies and programs to support the strategic human capital business goals of attracting, retaining, and developing the best talent. In her spare time she enjoys sewing, reading, and reviving her plants.  

Connect with Meghen on LinkedIn

Kendra Thomas, Chief of Administration and Finance, Office of the City Clerk, City of Chicago

Kendra Thomas is a trusted business resource and community outreach expert with vast experience developing community strategies, serving as a small business liaison to state initiatives, offering mentorship to at-risk youth within the Chicagoland area, and managing diverse workforces. She is known for delivering excellent and transformational service in fast-paced environments with the skillset to develop programs, oversee projects, orchestrate development and training, and maintain clear stakeholder communications. 

Currently, Kendra serves as the Chief Administration and Finance Officer at the Office of the City Clerk. In this role, Kendra guides the financial planning, hiring and workplace culture initiatives for the office.   

Connect with Kendra on LinkedIn

Resources:

We are now enrolling for the next Black Woman Leading® progra that starts on January 30, 2023. Learn more at http://blackwomanleading.com/program/

Credits:

Learn more about our consulting work with organizations at https://knightsconsultinggroup.com/

Email Laura: [email protected]

Connect with Laura on LinkedIn

Follow BWL on LinkedIn

Instagram: @blackwomanleading

Facebook: @blackwomanleading

Podcast Music & Production: Marshall Knights 

Graphics: Olayinka Ajibola

Listen and follow the podcast on all major platforms:

• Apple Podcasts
• Spotify
• Stitcher
• iHeartRadio
• Podbay