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The Pandemic and My Illness

At the beginning of the pandemic, I knew that I had to be extra vigilant because there were so many different ways that I was at risk. ...

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Stop Boxing Yourself In

The only thing that restricts you is thinking you’re restricted. If someone unlocked the formerly locked door to your dreams, would you...

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Life with a Chronic Illness

Usually when people see my oxygen, they have a host of questions. A lot of times the questions are inappropriate but I'm used to it at...

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Open Yourself to Possibility

“I’d love to live in New Orleans. I don’t think it’s possible” 2014,2015, 2016, July 2017 Whitney “I have lived in the greater NOLA area...

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Diverted but not Derailed

One moment you're eating a blueberry muffin and planning an evening with your girls, the next you're in the hospital. Not only did I go...

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My Lived Experience is Worthwhile

I mentioned this on Instagram recently and in one of my accountability groups that it has seem to be a lot more comfortable for me to...

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Crushed Dreams to New Realities

One of the hardest things of my diagnoses was losing one of the things that I had longed for my entire life. Not only did I lose it, I...

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3 Signs You Aren't Living Abundantly

There’s the saying that you only live once. We actually only die once, but we live DAILY. Abundant: existing or available in large...

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I'm Not A La Carte

The parts of me are not a la carte. Im a whole meal deal. If my WOMANHOOD offends you... If my BLACKNESS scares you... If my ILLNESS...

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Is Your Peace Your Priority?

One of the things that I struggled with when I was diagnosed was holding on to things and ways and habits that no longer served me in the...

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My Illness Changed My Life

My illness changed my life and firmly solidified that I’m truly the most monumental and magnificent person that I could ever be at this...

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Would you give up your housing for your purpose?

Nadejiah Town joined me on the podcast to discuss purposeful pivoting and we discussed what lead to her quitting her job in higher...

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Are You Over-functioning? I am.

It took me many years to realize that I had anxiety. Anxiety -The American Psychological Association (APA) defines anxiety as “an emotion...

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My Illness Isn’t Why I go to Therapy

I’ve been going to therapy since I moved to New Orleans and it’s been a great decision. However, I think the assumption has been that I...

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Refusing to Settle

We all like to think that we are making progress in life and that we aren’t settling. Settling seems like a curse word. A word that we...

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How to Overcome Impostor Syndrome

Impostor Syndrome [It] can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that persist even in face of information that indicates...

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Self Sabotage

For the last month, I’ve been dealing with different emotions when it comes to my financial journey. As I mentioned before, I am...

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Sex Glofies God

This week on the podcast, I brought back Amber Booker to discuss sex and the bible. We discussed the different ways the church handles...

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March 2019 Savings Goal

I know you’re like “wait girl…savings?” Aren’t we on this debt pay off I journey? Aren’t you trying to pay off part of your next Credit...

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Please Me, Baby

SEX! Whew child! How open are you talking about sex? I am pretty damn open especially with my friends AND even more so with my partner....

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