Happy Black Woman Podcast With Rosetta Thurman

Today’s episode of Happy Black Woman features Trea Branch. Trea is a valued member of the Happy Black Woman Tribe and a financial expert on a mission to help women find freedom from financial struggles. She founded Trea’s Two Cents to offer private coaching and fulfill her life’s purpose of helping others create a life of freedom. Trea is the quintessential overachiever, which is evident as she shares her story. When she decided to tackle her own financial goals, she went after it on all cylinders. And that’s how she found her purpose. Rosetta’s chat with Trea is full of tips and strategies you can employ to begin your own journey to financial freedom. Paying off a 6-figure debt in just 3 years. Sharing Trea’s story makes it clear that she truly is an overachiever. Her journey began, as it does for so many of us, with a mountain of debt. Trea realized it was time to tackle that debt and gain the freedom she desired. And so, in true overachiever style, she created a realistic plan that would allow her to pay o

Today’s episode of Happy Black Woman is filled with tips and strategies to help you build your personal brand, connect with your purpose, and package your genius. Rosetta talks with personal branding coach Amanda Miller Littlejohn, who is on a mission to help clients get their message out into the world. She assists clients package their genius and get it out into the world. Amanda chats with Rosetta about the path that led her to her true purpose and how she empowers people to connect with their gifts. Her goal is to help her clients figure out how to share their gifts by demystifying the marketing process and offering tactical guidance. Throughout Amanda’s chat with Rosetta, she shares a wealth of information to help you find your way to your true path. Connecting people with their true gifts through coaching and tactical guidance. Amanda started out in the PR world as an award-winning public relations executive, but found herself drawn to helping the individual versus assisting businesses. Over time, it be

Today on the Happy Black Woman podcast Rosetta chats with a member of the Happy Black Woman tribe, Dr. Christi Monk. She is a Certified Life Coach and founder of the Confidence Suite and the Workplace Survival Institute. Dr. Christi is on a mission to help women tap into their core value systems so they become more effective, influential, and productive contributors in the workplace and in their community. Her goal? To help women become the world changers they were born to be. In this powerful chat with Rosetta, Dr. Christi gives us a glimpse into her own journey, the obstacles she overcame, and how she came to find her true purpose. She is passionate about helping women and offers valuable tips to help you get started in your own journey. Teaching women to be authentic, unapologetically. At the foundation of Dr. Christi’s mission is her own journey from losing confidence and trying to be what she thought others wanted her to be, to being her true self. She shares why women must find a way to be their true se

Today’s guest is Cynthia Crockett, Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified Coach, and founder of Cynthia Empowers. Cynthia chats with Rosetta about her mission of helping Christians improve their relationships with God, themselves, and others. Her goal is to give women the opportunity to be honest with themselves and with God. Cynthia found her mission through her own life experiences and because she saw a need in the community for this type of service. She’s passionate about helping people understand the importance of healthy relationships and how they can truly make or break our own potential happiness. This conversation with Rosetta is enlightening and offers tips we all can use to improve our own lives. Why do we need healthy relationships? All too often, we overlook the value of healthy relationships in our lives and the impact they can make. Cynthia shares how healthy relationships improve our quality of life and how easy it is to get derailed by unhealthy ones. She delves into her belief that in ord

Today’s guest is Richelle Shaw. Richelle is the founder of multi-million dollar businesses and author of the books “Million Dollar Equation”. Richelle is on a mission to help black women change the world by teaching them to build million dollar businesses. She believes that mentoring black women will have a ripple effect and can eventually change the world. Richelle has seen much success on her journey - building several million-dollar businesses of her own. Today, she focuses on inspiring others to overcome fear and take risks as entrepreneurs. In this chat with Rosetta, Richelle shares tips and strategies you can implement to take your business to the next level. If you’re ready to build your million-dollar business, this is an episode you don’t want to miss. Building a million-dollar business in 4 steps.   Richelle has seen success and setbacks on her journey. Because of her own experience, she is able to convey straightforward tips you can put into place in order to set the stage for success. Richelle sha

Today’s guest is Kim Davis. Kim’s mission is helping women walk in their God given purpose. She works with women first to find their purpose and then to live it out. She believes confidence, joy, and fulfillment all increase when women walk in their purpose. For a long time, Kim did not know her purpose. She wandered aimlessly through life, running after anything that might fulfill her. What Kim found was the only way to walk in purpose is through God and developing a relationship with Him. She now supports women in developing and strengthening that relationship. On Kim’s journey, she recognized that often women think they have to be a pastor or an important religious leader to have a powerful relationship with God.  She says you might be called to be a business owner, or perhaps a waitress, but you have a unique calling from God-He made you for a purpose. Kim’s own transformation led to her calling to help women transform their lives. Listen in to this episode as Kim shares how she embraced her purpose and o

Today’s guest is Kandice Shelton. Kandice is a certified health and nutrition coach, and fitness instructor. Kandice is also the CEO and founder of Fitspiration10, a health and fitness lifestyle company. Through her company, Kandice helps women reach and maintain their ideal weight through fitness, nutrition, and accountability programs. Her plan includes ten key elements of healthy living to keep women balanced. She also partners with companies to offer similar programs for their employees, members, and stakeholders. This episode is all about Kandice’s victorious weight loss endeavor and how she turned that into a successful business. Listen in to this great conversation between Happy Black Women.   Value your personal experience enough to realize others can benefit from it.   Kandice lost 60 pounds over the course of her weight loss journey. She was in Corporate America, attempting to balance her career with her personal life. Health took a backseat and she gained more and more weight. One day she stepped o

Today’s guest is Donna Newman-Robinson, who has been a part of the Happy Black Woman tribe for about a year. Donna is a veteran who found her purpose through her own experience after leaving the military. Her mission is to help women veterans discover their passion and purpose through her website. Donna’s motto is simple: The next mission is you. After retiring from the military, Donna felt lost and confused about what to do next. She found her way and discovered her purpose through her own challenges. Today, she coaches fellow veterans through the transition process and helps them find their way in post-military life. In this chat with Rosetta, Donna shares some useful tips to help female veterans transition and understand the psychology of transition. The importance of Donna’s mission and serving an underserved market.   Once Donna found her footing after retiring from the military, she was inspired to build a business around helping other women just like her. She serves her market with passion and purpose,

Today’s guest is Jennifer Kennedy, founder of Teach Good Stuff. Her mission is simple: to help women make the impact they were born to make. Jennifer spent 8 years as a teacher, but knew she wasn’t fulfilling her true potential. She decided to leave teaching and get her Masters in Education. From there, she spent time working in “corporate America”, but found herself feeling uninspired and unfulfilled. Jennifer never spent time dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur, but knew she wanted to build a life of freedom and independence. Over time and after a bit of experimentation, she found her niche in online education. Her purpose was to teach people, which is exactly what she does at Teach Good Stuff. Jennifer shares some amazing insights into how she built a successful business and how you can too. How you can get started with your own online business.   According to Jennifer, step one is pretty straightforward: find an idea. It may sound simple, but it certainly isn’t. Jennifer explains the importance of not on

Today’s guest is Quanisha Smith, founder and chief activator of the Black Women Rise Movement. Her mission is to help black women thrive and live authentically. Her vision is that women would step up to honor the calling on their lives, and fulfil their purpose to be the best leader and CEO they can be. She works with women to strengthen their leadership skills, grow their professional development, and encourage their economic development. Quanisha provides coaching, teaches strategies, and trains women to take charge of their lives and their careers. Her work was birthed out of the lowest point of her life.  After traumas, death of loved ones, divorce, and miscarriages, Quanisha found herself writing a suicide note when she was just 28 years old. She wound up in a psych ward wondering what happened and how she got there. Listen in as Quanisha shares her story of rising up as a Happy Black Woman.   Turn your mess into a movement, your pain into profit.   As Quanisha worked to rise out of her circumstances, sh

Today’s guest is Karla Hampton. She’s a part of the Happy Black Woman tribe and is an inspiring woman on a mission to empower other women. Karla supports women through sex education and sexual wellness mentoring. Her goal is to help women embrace their sensuality and connect with what she believes is our birthright: pleasure. Karla was an attorney who discovered something was missing in her life. And so, she started a personal development journey that led her to the startling realization that she had been ignoring her own body’s needs for many years. It was time to change that. Through her personal journey she realized her mission was to help others to the same, which she does through her website Sensual Black Woman. Her conversation with Rosetta today is one that will inspire women everywhere to connect with their bodies and embrace their sensuality. How Karla connected with her mission and started her own journey.   Like most women, Karla was in the habit of going through the motions. She was focused on her

Leadership expert Carol Sankar joins us today for this episode of Happy Black Woman. Carol developed The Confidence Factor for Women in Leadership. Today she is a business consultant specializing in working with executives and high growth business models. But her story starts at the beginning of her career. Carol was working in the Real Estate world, lonely and wondering where the other women were. She found herself as the only woman in meetings with men, feeling outnumbered, ignored and underestimated.  When she attempted to rally women to take action on opportunities, she was met with excuses, insecurity and a lack of confidence. It wasn’t a lack of opportunities available for women, they simply lacked the confidence to try. How did Carol come to this conclusion and turn an epidemic into a business? Find out on this episode of Happy Black Woman.   The study of 100 women unveiled the underlying problem   Carol went to work collecting data and studying 100 women for four years. These were women in various pos

Today’s guest is Jennifer LaFrance, a Happy Black Woman based out of New Orleans. Jennifer is a life coach and entrepreneur with the mission to encourage, inspire and educate women. Jennifer developed her mission while she journeyed into her best life, and now coaches others on their journeys. The “encourage” aspect of the mission is about offering support to women as they realize their value.  Jennifer “inspires” by being an example herself, and connecting women to others who have traveled similar paths.  The “education” piece teaches women how to tap into their inner strength and increase clarity and focus so they can live their best life.  Sound like a mission you could get onboard with? This conversation paints a picture of how a life coach works with clients to understand the blocks preventing them from seeing their potential. Jennifer uncovers the mental tapes women play over and over in their heads of things they cannot do.  She tackles these thoughts one chunk at a time in line with your goals. Listen

Today’s guest is entrepreneur and fitness coach, Adriene Webster.  Adriene’s transparency from her own fitness journey has birthed a business helping women realize their best body and best life.  Adriene focuses on helping any woman who may have let her own health take a backseat. Are you a woman who has developed some bad habits and do not feel as healthy as you know you could? Adriene’s mission is to coach you back into the driver’s seat of your own health. The first piece of her program is based on nutrition. The second piece is all about exercise. But the key is the accountability and check-ins available through her coaching. If you are stuck thinking there is no time for your own health when you’ve got everyone else to take care of, listen in to Adriene’s journey of transforming her body and her life.  Adriene’s dedication to the process is worth hearing, on this episode of Happy Black Woman.     The best business is born out of your own journey and transformation.   What did Adriene’s life look life pri

Today’s guest is Zenovia Andrews. She’s the founder of The Max Out Group, a company that focuses on connecting with like-minded super heroic female entrepreneurs to encourage them to live a life that’s “maxed out”. Living her life’s passion didn’t come easy for Zenovia and today she dedicates her life to fulfilling her purpose of encouraging women not to settle for mediocrity. After overcoming many obstacles, Zenovia found success with the odds stacked against her. As she shares her inspiring story, it’s clear that success requires sacrifice, determination, and hard work. Zenovia’s conversation with Rosetta is filled with actionable tips that can help you max out your life. The road to success started out bumpy, but Zenovia persevered.   Zenovia Andrews came from humble beginnings. She experienced abandonment and loss, giving her the motivation to pursue the best life. Though she was deeply loved as a child, she had to go without many things others take for granted. Through this, she found the determination t

Today’s guest is Gail Keyes-Allen. She is a tremendously inspiring woman who has overcome huge obstacles to build a life focused on self-care, healing and happiness. After facing serious health issues and several surgeries, including brain surgery, Gail began a journey focused on self-care. Through this journey she found her mission: helping women heal their lives. Through Gail’s focus on health and wellness in all areas of life, she was able to overcome her obstacles and create a happy, fulfilling life. Today, she focuses on maintaining a self-care regimen and teaches other women how to make self-care a priority through her website, GailKAllen.com. Gail’s conversation today is full of honesty, real-life tips you can incorporate today, and true inspiration. [Tweet ""I’m on a mission to help women heal their lives." - @Simplygail05"] The importance of changing your mindset in practicing self-care. As Gail shares her journey with us, she explains the important first steps of beginning a self-care routine. All t

  Today’s conversation with Rosetta brings insight and revelation from Reverend Jenenne Macklin.  She is a licensed clinical therapist with a master’s degree in social work, now working as the Spirit and Riches coach. During her time in the field, Reverend Jenenne helped countless people change their lives, but found a serious lack of self value in women. The Reverend had every reason to not value herself, either.  She journeyed through debt, being fired, and desperately attempting to regain control of her life. Jenenne speaks with authority because she worked her way up from the bottom. She began her life’s work of instilling in women that who you are brings the value to every role you are in. Listen in as Jenenne propels you into making peace with your money by changing your mindset. [Tweet "How to Transform Your Relationship with Money with @JenenneM"] How you think about yourself impacts how you handle your money. Reverend Jenenne’s mission is, “To empower women to know their value, to impact and transfor

  On today’s show Rosetta chats with Patrice Grell Yursik, founder of Afrobella. She’s a passionate entrepreneur and part of the Happy Black Woman tribe. With a flourishing business celebrating its 10th year, Patrice is the perfect person to share tips and inspiration to help you follow your passion and purpose. With a background in creative writing, Patrice spent many years working for large newspapers. While she enjoyed her work, she came face to face with a noticeable void in the media - one shaped like her. Patrice sought positivity in the media and so she decided to pursue her passion and create Afrobella. She’s been featured in Essence, Ebony, Glamour, and many other major media outlets. In her chat with Rosetta, Patrice offers great insight into how she turned her passion into a full time job. [Tweet "How Patrice Grell Yursik Took @Afrobella From a Part-Time Passion to a Full-Time Business"] The evolution of Afrobella from part-time passion pursuit to full-time career. Patrice was working full-time in

Happy February! Here on the Happy Black Woman Podcast we're celebrating Black History Month, a perfect opportunity to acknowledge the incredible achievements of Black women business owners in our community. Today’s episode outlines exactly what you can expect on the podcast this month and YOU can get involved in spreading the good news about our special Black History Month Series: 29 Black Women Entrepreneurs! [Tweet "Join Rosetta Thurman and 29 black women entrepreneurs to celebrate Black History Month"] Thank you for your support and your interest in the Happy Black Woman tribe, and please do what you can to share this great month of interviews from 29 successful black women entrepreneurs Rosetta will be featuring on her show. Outline of this great episode: [0:24] Rosetta’s welcome and introduction to this month’s podcast theme. [0:45] Why a special series for Black History Month? [1:21] What you can expect from this special interview series. [1:58] How you can participate and benefit most. [2:33] Would yo

Today’s guest on The Happy Black Woman podcast is Shana Campbell, a Certified Creative Love Coach. What is that? You’re going to find out on this podcast as Rosetta chats with Shana about how they met, why Shana began a business coaching others on the topic of love, and how she has helped Rosetta with counsel about her own love life. It’s a very intriguing episode that you won’t want to miss, so be sure to set aside the time, grab a hot drink, and get ready to take some notes.   Why loving relationships begin with self love.   Imagine what a relationship would be like if both people in the relationship were insecure, each one always thinking that the other was criticizing them, or thinking badly about them. Some of you don’t have to imagine, it’s the relationship you’re living in right now. Shana Campbell believes that every healthy relationship starts with a healthy dose of self love in both individuals. Nobody is really ready to love another person until they are confident and whole within themselves, accep