Black Woman Leading
This podcast amplifies the needs and experiences of Black women leaders in the workplace with a holistic focus on three core areas -- leadership development, mental wellness, and relationship management. Our ultimate aim is to help Black women learn, heal, and grow in their leadership capacity.
Episodes
We are celebrating the completion of our fifth season!
In addition to the focused topics we explored this season, the theme for season five was Identity. We explored the questions - “Who are you and who do you want to be?”
The core questions this season were focused on embracing our identity and core values, and amplifying t...
If you desire to advance to senior or executive levels of leadership, this episode is for you!
In this solo episode, Laura provides an overview of strategic leadership competencies that are critical for career advancement, and shares five functions of strategic leaders–aligning, developing strategy, translating, thought partnering, and sensing–to help you conduct ...
In this recap episode, Laura shares her highlights from the Black Woman Leading LIVE! Leadership Conference + Retreat that took place in Virginia Beach, May 13-16, 2024.
Black Woman Leading LIVE! is hosted annually. It is the premier leadership development conference to help Black women professionals learn, heal, and grow in their leadership capacity.
In this episode, we welcome Kara Stevens, CEO & Founder of the Frugal Feminista, to discuss uncovering and rewriting your money story.
Your money story is the narrative you tell yourself about money and your rights and relationship to it based on your values, beliefs, and life experiences. Our money stories are often “borrowed” from the people who raised us. Depe...
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Telesa Hart, Chiropractor and Burnout Coach, to help us to explore self-care strategies we can use to regulate our central nervous system.
Your central nervous system includes your brain and your spinal cord. It plays a role in everything you do, and helps you to move, think, and feel. The central nervous system carries your body th...
In this episode, we welcome Kristen V. Carter, award-winning executive producer, entrepreneur, and speaker to discuss navigating the workplace with power & vulnerability.
While many may view the words “power” and “vulnerability” as diametrically opposed, we do not in the Black Woman Leading world! Acknowledging that some Black women have found it risky to show vu...
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Tiffany Smith, Founder of Aroma Functional Nutrition Psychiatry to discuss optimizing your health.
Dr. Tiffany educates on why it’s critical to take a whole-body, whole-person approach to our mental health, and highlights some particular challenge and resilience areas for Black women regarding our holistic health. Additionally, s...
In this episode, we welcome Latisha Newby to discuss knowing your employment rights. Latisha is the Chief People and Legal Officer at Girl Scouts- North Carolina Coast Pines, as well as the CEO of Cultivate HR Consulting.
Research indicates that Black women experience higher levels of discrimination in the workplace, so it’s important for us to know our rights and...
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Tamara Wilds Lawson, President and CEO of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, to discuss the Foundation’s new research report, “Thrive as They Lead: Advancing the Infrastructure to Support Black Women Leaders in the D.C. Metro Area Nonprofit Sector.”
The report explores and addresses 10 cr...
In this insightful solo episode, Laura shares insights from her own journey and her experience with working with Black women leaders on the topic of separating our identity and worth from our achievements.
She vulnerably shares her story and growth points on doing her heart work in this area. Additionally, Laura provides her perspective on signs that this may be ...
In this intimate discussion, four alumni participants of the Black Woman Leading Mid-Career (Samira Payne, Keira Braxton, Trenity Dobbey) and Early Career (Tiana Bryan-Okeke) programs share their stories of conquering mindset matters and doing their heart work along their professional journeys.
Together, we explore mindset concepts that we navigate as leaders s...
We invited Dr. LaKeischa McMillan for this episode to discuss hormone health, perimenopause, menopause, and everything in between!
Research indicates that perimenopause (the pre-menopause stage) is starting earlier for many women, with Black women transitioning even earlier than other races with symptoms starting as soon as the early 30s. This impacts our ment...
In this episode, we welcome Dr. Adia Harvey Wingfield, sociologist and leading race and labor expert, to discuss her new book, “Gray Areas: How the way we work perpetuates racism and what we can do to fix it.”
Adia breaks down her research findings about “gray areas”--the relationships, networks, and cultural dynamics integral to companies that exist apart from t...
Welcome to Season 5 of Black Woman Leading, the podcast! This podcast is an extension of the Black Woman Leading learning experience.
The theme for season five is “Who are you and who do you want to be?”
In addition to the focused topics we’ll explore this season, the core questions this season will center on embracing our ...
We are celebrating the completion of our fourth season! Our season theme was “Thrive, Sis, Thrive!” In addition to specific topics this season, our core questions always explored what it looks like for Black women to THRIVE and not just survive at work and in life.
And as usual, we uncovered a number of organic themes that c...
In this insightful solo episode, Laura shares insights to help you strengthen your delegation skills.
Delegation is the act of redirecting tasks and initiatives to other team members. If you want to keep advancing as a leader, delegation is a skill you must master. Yet, it’s a skill that many people say is a challenge for them.
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In this episode, we hear lessons from the C-Suite with Toshie Davis, Chief Financial and Administration Officer at OneTen.
Toshie shares her story of pursuing purpose and passion via a career pivot from the corporate sector to nonprofit administration. She gives a behind-the-scenes look at her day-to-day responsibilities as a C-suite leader and how she contributes...
In this episode, we welcome Aiko Bethea, CEO & Founder of RARE Coaching & Consulting, to discuss overcoming toxic productivity.
Our BWL community attracts many high achievers. They are often the “firsts” in their families and communities…the first to graduate college, the first to be on their level of leadership, the first one that people call when they need help...
Often when we think of grief, we think about the loss of a loved one. However, grief is present in all our life transitions….including our career transitions.
Perhaps you spent years of education and training for a particular career path, only to later discover that that path is not what you want to do. Or, perhaps you had to abruptly leave a toxic workplace a...
In this intimate discussion, three alumni participants of the Black Woman Leading THRIVE cohort (Crystal Coats, Brenda Hudson, and Yaphet Bryant) share their stories of navigating both personal and professional transitions.
They share how they leaned into community and other supportive resources during these times, and the self-care strategies they implemented ...
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