My Favorite Life Podcast

Did you start the year with "Dry January"?

Ebony K. English has been sober for NINE years and she's here to share how she started her journey and how she's keeping up with it. 

It wasn't pretty or easy, but she kept going. 

Whether you're just going sober for a month, or for however long you want, Ebony reminds us that we are worthy to bet on ourselves. 

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2023 brought us some hard earned and learned lessons that we can take into the new year. 

We don't need to be imprisoned by them, just informed! 

With these experiences, we'll begin to redeem the time and opportunities we may have missed out on because of past. 

In 2024, begin singing your redemption song. 

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Listen in on Rev. Otis Moss III's NYE Sermon here. Sermon begins at 45:00

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Life has been lifiing. 

The moments we need a kind word of encouragement, we should look no further than from ourselves. 

When we offer ourself grace, we give it when we think we don't deserve it. Even when we think we should be be doing something else, being someone else, looking or acting differently, we need grace for where we are today. 

That is how we can be soft with ourselves. 

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October is National Substance Abuse Prevention Month and this episode features Enchelle Morris,  LCPC, CADC, a licensed clinical therapist, certified in substance abuse therapy. 

Oftentimes we use substances- alcohol, weed, narcotics, even shopping-  to knock the edge off of reality. But there is a fine line between use and abuse. 

This conversation is for anyone who may be struggling with the...

September is Suicide Prevention Month and I'm sharing a topic that should get more atention than it does, especially for Black women. 

And as always whether you identify as such, you'll get something from this episode. 

 For more information on suicide prevention, please visit NAMI.org

In this episode, I speak with a woman who attempted to harm herself several times over her lifetime. What she found is that life is a journey, not a...

In November 2016, Black women knew that the impact of the 45th president's decisions would have negative impacts on the entire country. It is why many of us, 96% of us, voted for Hilary Clinton. With our vote, we attempted to sound the alarm to the nation, and the world, that trouble was on the horizon. 

Over the last year, our country has seen how even beyond 45's presidency, destruction finds every aspec...

As hard as life is, we should be choosy about how we spend our days here on Earth. 

We've hit a new season with summer, and made it to the halfway mark of the year. 

Now's a great time to not only assess the progress we've made, but whether the direction we've been moving in is exactly where we want to be. 

As we make life defining decisions to create a life that makes us proud,...

The fathers we have are the fathers we need. The lessons they teach us about our worth, our value, our lovability, our selflessness, are critical to forming our own opinions about us and how we wish to show up in the world. 

During this episode, Dara Munson, the first Black CEO of Family Focus, member of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority, Incorporated, shares the lessons that her daddy taught her. Although her f...

This is a very special episode, as not only do I share what other may refer to as a "coming out" story, but I share how choosing to love who I want to love planted seeds of authenticity, helped me nurture self trust, strengthened my intuition, encouraged me to honor my most sacred asset- myself, and revolutionized my relationship with God. 

Whether you identify as a woman, Black woman, or queer person, t...

This episode, Mama Gotta Have a Life, Too is inspired by the chapter, by the same name, in my book Of All the Lives I've Lived, This is My Favorite: An Inspirational Memoir.

Our guest, Avanii Inarii, youth development professional and clinical social worker (loading) shares how she has become reborn in her identity by changing her name, and has re-defined her relationship with her mother to accommodate he...

In this episode of the My Favorite Life Podcast, we're joined by Ebony Dawn Lucas, CEO, Real Estate Attorney, and Investor of The Closing Firm, LLC,. Ebony shares valuable insights as she's navigated the ups and downs of life to still come out on top and living that life that brings her joy and contentment. 

Ebony lives her life as a practice to explore the things that align with her most authentic self, a...

In this episode, I am joined by Tiff Yvonne, CPA, is the CEO and Head of Strategy at Playmaker Solutions. Her passion work is rooted in her observations that though the women she worked with, and even herself, were committed to family, to community, they were burned out, and not living fulfilled easeful lives that they absolutely love. 

Tiff Yvonne elevates a few points for Black women for whom freedom is ...