Podcast: The Association

S4E3 – A Traditional Education vs a Non-Traditional Education

Navigating the world of getting a traditional versus a non-traditional education

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S4E7 – Trying to Build a Business While Working Full Time

What it looks like to be build a business while working a full time job

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S4E10 – The Joy and Pain of Telling Stories for a Living

Being a writer and filmmaker for a living

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S4E6 – How Being Unemployed Again Humbled Me in my Late 30s

Episode Notes Being unemployed [for a third time] in New York crushed me and this time around, the additional bump in benefits, because of the pandemic, was gone. There were more rules and monitoring than before. I was embarrassed by being unemployed at my “big old age” in my late 30s. But after every storm,…

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S4, E2- Dualities of Black Womanhood

As an Afro-Caribbean woman, I’ve had to navigate multiple worlds beyond my comfort and rarely with enough language. When I fell into a dark space at the end of 2022, I was lost and couldn’t understand why. Coming out of that moment, changed me. It changed how I viewed myself and the people, places, and…

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S4, E3- A Traditional Education vs. a Non-Traditional Education

Having immigrant parents, getting a good education was over emphasized in our household. Lucky for me, I was down for traditional schooling, having gone to a four year college then grad school. But after seeing “battle royale” play out between the Biden-Harris administration and Congress over student loan debt cancellation AND realizing how much I…

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S4, E4- The Path to Your Dreams Isn’t Linear

I thought I had my career path figured out in my early 30s. I was making decent money as a freelance contractor at Viacom in New York and I had never thought about leaving my TV production gig until it exhausted me. I didn’t feel like I maximized pursuing my goals of being a radio…

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S4, E6- How Being Unemployed Again Humbled Me in my Late 30s

Being unemployed [for a third time] in New York crushed me and this time around, the additional bump in benefits, because of the pandemic, was gone. There were more rules and monitoring than before. I was embarrassed by being unemployed at my “big old age” in my late 30s. But after every storm, there’s supposedly…

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S4, E5- Navigating Blackness in White Corporate Spaces

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have lingering PTSD from my past work experiences being the only Black woman or Black person in an all white corporate space. The reality is a lot of Black people do. There are also some that don’t. These experiences marked very transitional moments in my life so…

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S4, E8- Why I Took my Health More Seriously in my Late 30s

And then the music stopped. In a game of musical chairs, I was left without a seat. But the game wasn’t musical chairs, it was my health. I had experienced a bout of debilitating back pains in 2021 that took me down. I had taken walking, standing and sitting up straight, and being active without…

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