Corporate America

Navigating Career Changes: How To Change Industries and Functions

S7: Ep 24
In this episode, Felicia shares her personal journey of wanting to transition her career and offers valuable tips, tricks, and tactics for navigating career changes.

The Workplace Is Counter-Intuitive

S7: Ep 23
In this episode, Felicia discuss overcoming the challenges and frustrations of the workplace by building your confidence, developing relationships, and going to therapy.

Producer’s Cut: You Have To Manage Your Manager!

S5:Ep 19

In this Producer’s Cut, I explain why you must manage your manager. Unfortunately, this task falls on you.  So today  I lay out why managing your manager is very important, how to determine the type of manager you have, and how to build a positive relationship with your manager, even if you don’t like her.

Producer’s Cut: Setting Yourself Up For Success

S5:Ep 16

Producer’s Cut of S2: Ep 9, I meet with one of my mentees who is about a year into her first job post undergrad.  She has not been set up for success in her current organization.  We talk about how to turn this around and set herself up for success, regardless of the road blocks the organization puts in her way.

Producer’s Cut: The Truth About Failure!

S5:Ep 14 Producer’s Cut

In this episode, I speak from my heart about failure and give practical tips to minimize failure in your role.  Many times we agree to be held to a standard of success that we did not define.  Many times we don’t know what the expectations of us are.  How can we exceed goals we don’t know or understand?

The key is in this episode.

Hint: Tap into your inner Claire Huxtable

How NOT To F*** Up The Interview

S4:Ep 27

In this episode, Felicia shares the frustrating tale of how we f*** up interviews, even when other Black women want to hire us!  

We mess up by not being prepared in a number of ways.  Today we talk through it and explain what the hired candidates do differently to set themselves apart.

HOW to Share Your POV

S4:Ep 24

In this episode, Felicia teaches HOW to share your POV at work.  Building off of Tia’s bonus advice about sharing your POV, Felicia breaks down how to prepare to share your POV and how to construct your point of view.  

Mid-Year Reviews: COVID Edition

S4:Ep 22

In this episode, we get focused on how to set ourselves up for the rest of the year, despite the Rona.  We breakdown how to ask for critical feedback, why we need to stay focused on our annual objectives/deliverables, and the need to continue building relationships, even in the midst of a global pandemic.

What Keeps Us From Our Coins?

S4:Ep 21

In this episode, in honor of Black Women’s Equal Pay Day 2020, we discuss why Black Women don’t get paid as they should.

Your Workplace Survival Guide: Ep.4 The Toxic Workplace

S4:Ep 20

In this episode, the last in the Your Workplace Survival Guide series, I break down how to survive a toxic workplace until your exit.  

Your Workplace Survival Guide: Ep.3 The Bad Boss, Part 1

S4:Ep 18

In this episode, I break down how to manage a bad boss.  *TRIGGER WARNING*

Your Workplace Survival Guide: Ep.2 The Undermining Co-worker

S4:Ep 17

In this episode, I break down how you manage an undermining co-worker.  
This episode builds on Ep.1 The Tools You Need.

Your Workplace Survival Guide: Ep.1 The Tools You Need

S4:Ep 16

This is the 1st episode of a 5 episode series.

In this episode, I break down the arsenal of tools you need as a foundation for surviving the workplace. 

To Gain Sponsors, You Must Do This!

S4:Ep 7

In this episode, we continue the sponsorship prep work you started in Episode 5.  Now that you know what you are bringing to the table it’s time to put that knowledge into the action steps in the episode.

Sis, You Gotta Raise Yo Hand

S4:Ep 3

In this episode, we explore why we should raise our hands and tell our organizations that we want to be developed and groomed to become Executive Talent.   Many of us are talking ourselves out of being C-Suite executives.  Today, we explore why we shouldn’t do this and the things we can control on our C-Suite journey.

New Year! New Decade! New Season!

S4:Ep 1

Happy New Year!!!   In this episode, Felicia breaks down what to expect this season.  We have a new FOCUS and framework to create content to help you obtain your best possible outcome, Inside and Outside the Workplace.

Holiday Wine Down With My Mentor, Joanna Reddick (Part 2)

S3: Ep 52

In this episode,  this is the second part of the conversation I had with one of my very accomplished mentors, Joanna Reddick.  Joanna and I were having an impromptu mentoring chat.  I had the great idea of pulling out the microphones to catch all the nuggets that Joanna was dropping.  This conversation was so good, we had to put it in two parts.  This is part 2.

Holiday Wine Down With My Mentor, Joanna Reddick (Part 1)

S3: Ep 51

In this episode, I have the opportunity to sit down with one of my very accomplished mentors, Joanna Reddick.  Joanna and I were having an impromptu mentoring chat.  I had the great idea of pulling out the microphones to catch all the nuggets that Joanna was dropping.  This conversation was so good…we had to put it in two parts.  This is part 1.  

Holiday Rewind: Tips From An MBA Rock Star

Holiday Rewind S3:Ep 50

Regardless if you have listened to S3: Episode 39 or not, you gotta check out all the nuggets my mentee dropped in this episode.  As 2019 is coming to an end, take time out to listen and take notes as you prep for an awesome 2020!  

Season 2 Remix: Likeability, The Bane Of Black Women At Work

S3:Ep 42

In this episode, Tiffany and I discuss the hard reality that likeability/relatability at work is what gets you promoted and how being black and woman makes gaining likeability that much harder in white male-dominated corporate America.

Scroll to top