Apr 28, 2020
As an upwardly mobile professional, you may face unique challenges ranging from survivor's guilt to maintaining healthy relationships with loved ones from the past to creating support networks with people in your present. In Episode 5, Dr. Akua Boateng, a licensed professional counselor, discusses how therapy can help...
Apr 21, 2020
A positive experience of beauty should be accessible to every woman. In this episode, Kelli Joy Richardson Lawson, Founder and CEO of JOY Collective, and Orlena Nwokah Blanchard, President and COO of JOY Collective, join me to chat about how they are mobilizing across the country to end hair discrimination based on hair...
Apr 21, 2020
Ever heard that you don't look like the professional that you are? In Episode 3, Dr. Tsedale Melaku discusses the labor and cost of being included in white institutional spaces and how we can redefine diversity to improve the experiences of Black women in corporate workspaces. She is also the author of the fantastic...
Apr 21, 2020
Feeling like you leave your true Self at the door when arriving at the office? In Episode 2, Shifting as a Black Woman in America, Dr. Kumea Shorter-Gooden describes how Black women shift to respond to and cope with racial and gender bias in the workplace. She is also the author of the captivating book, Shifting: The...
Apr 12, 2020
Welcome to Break Concrete! We all recognize "the glass ceiling" the invisible barrier impeding women's professional advancement. For Black women, sexism shaped by racism creates additional hurdles many have regarded as a concrete wall. In Season 1, listen to incredibly brilliant and talented women share their...