In this episode, Fulbright-National Geographic Storytelling Fellow Alyea Pierce joins Kimberly to talk about her journey and experience as a writer, poet, and storyteller.

Alyea uses poetry, spoken word performance, audio, and photography to examine oral storytelling & folklore traditions across the African diaspora. She has recently contributed to National Geographic’s “Into The Depths” podcast and The Soul of Music—Overheard’s four-part series focusing on music, exploration, and Black history. Currently, she works at the English department at Rutgers University as a creative writing instructor.

Journalist, author, financial expert, and host of the Money Confidential podcast, Stefanie O’Connell, joins this episode to talk about unapologetically ambitious women going for what they want, no matter what else is happening in the world. And more broadly speaking, what it means to want to build wealth, lead, have power and a lot of ambition, and to do so as someone who isn’t a straight white, heterosexual male.

In this episode, your host welcomes business bestie Tara Paton – a marketing strategy queen who works with beauty and wellness entrepreneurs to increase revenue, build customer traffic, and expand their product line. Launching a business in the middle of the pandemic, Tara reveals the trauma and emotions of breaking away from corporate America. Listen in as Kimberly and Tara discuss how to recover from corporate PTSD, shed the corporate mindset, and learn to do what feels good rather than what we’ve been told to do. In this episode, your host welcomes business bestie Tara Paton – a marketing strategy queen who works with beauty and wellness entrepreneurs to increase revenue, build customer traffic, and expand their product line. Launching a business in the middle of the pandemic, Tara reveals the trauma and emotions of breaking away from corporate America. Listen in as Kimberly and Tara discuss how to recover from corporate PTSD, shed the corporate mindset, and learn to do what feels good rather than what we’ve been told to do. 

With so much intersection between mastering your mind and mastering your body, Your Next Move welcomes fitness professional and development coach Adrien Odate. Tune in as Adrien shares his journey to coaching as well as the tools and strategies you need to set and achieve your personal, wellness, and professional goals.

“When you have a friend that you can make money with, that’s a different tier of friend.”

Meet Your Next Move’s good friend and special guest, Latesha Byrd. CEO of Perfeqta and “Career Chasers” club founder, Latesha helps corporations build high-performing teams and put equity back into talent.

In this episode, we invite value-driven entrepreneur and creator of digital community Memconnect, Netta Dobbins, to share her personal career transition journey with us and drop some knowledge on navigating and thriving in the workplace as a person of color. Find out more about how she made her career transition, and how she organically turned a digital community into a full-blown business. Kimberly and Netta also chat about dealing with imposter syndrome, handling racism in the workplace, as well as future projects and opportunities at Memconnect!