"Managing Your Mental: Addressing Self-Sabotage and Negative Thinking:" Up On Game Presents: Stay A While With Tommi Vincent Featuring Topeka K. Sam

Subscribe/Rate/Review to Up On Game Presents on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts! WATCH FULL EPISODES ON THE UP ON GAME NETWORK YOUTUBE CHANNEL JUST SEARCH UP ON GAME NETWORK “In my opinion, there's no such thing as failure. Everything is a blessing. And everything is a learning experience. And if you look at everything in that lens, then whatever blessing and lesson that you can take from that experience, you can utilize it as additional fuel in order to move in the correct path.” - Topeka K. Sam Welcome to Stay a While with Tommi Vincent! Imposter syndrome. Anxiety. Fear of growth. We have all faced opposition, within ourselves, at some point in our lives. Second-guessing yourself is the hallmark of an identity crisis. So how do you overcome self-doubt, and breakthrough to putting it all on the line to bet on yourself? Today's guest, Topeka K. Sam, takes her seat at the table to help us to tap into the queen within all of us. Topeka K. Sam is the Founder and Executive Director of The Ladies of Hope Ministries– The LOHM – whose mission is to help disenfranchised and marginalized women and girls transition back into society through resources and access to high-quality education, entrepreneurship, spiritual empowerment, advocacy and housing. She is also the co-founder of Hope House NYC - a safe housing space for women and girls. Topeka serves on the board of directors for Grassroots Leadership and is now the first formerly incarcerated person on the board of The Marshall Project.  She is a Beyond the Bars 2015 Fellow and a 2016 Justice-In-Education Scholar both from Columbia University, a 2017 Soros Justice Advocacy Fellow working on Probation and Parole Accountability, a 2018 Unlocked Futures Inaugural Cohort Member, 2018 Opportunity Agenda Communications Institute Fellow, Director of #Dignity Campaign for #cut50, Host of “The Topeka K. Sam Show” on SiriusXM UrbanView Channel 126 Sundays 9am est., and has recently signed a development deal as Executive Producer for a scripted and unscripted series inspired by her fight to change the many problems that plague female incarceration with 44 Blue Productions. Topeka has been featured in Vogue, SalonTV, Vice, New York Times. She has been featured in Glamour Magazine and Black Enterprise for being “The Black Woman behind the video that led to the Trump Clemency of Alice Johnson.” She has spoken at the 2018 United States of the Woman Conference, 2018 Women in the World Conference, 2018 White House Prison Reform Summit and is a TedxMidAtlantic Superheros Presenter. She has worked and continues to work selflessly and relentlessly in her fight for the dignity, decriminalization, and decarceration of women and girls. Topeka hasaccomplished this and more since her release from Federal Prison in May 2015. In this episode we cover [00:01 - 04:15] Serving Up Self Care and Mental Wellness[04:16 - 12:08] Getting to Know Topeka K. Sam[12:09 - 25:31] Step Out of Fear and Reject World Worthiness[25:32 - 42:14] Break Away from the Prison of Our Own Minds[42:15 - 49:15] Closing Segment   Key Quotes “When we're little girls who haven't gone through that healing process, we become grown women who are still living in that. And it just hurts, like it breaks my heart.” - Topeka K. Sam “There are times that we just don't know, because we're not exposed. But I also know because we are creatures of God, the Divine, the Creator, that there is something inevitable in our spirit that will tell us what feels good and what does not feel good, what feels right and what feels wrong. And that's when you smoke about fear. It's to decide whether or not you want to continually live in that mess.” - Topeka K. Sam “But if you know leaving with nothing will be better than staying with whatever you have been, that is your strength and you use your point, those obstacles as stepping stones and not barriers.”- Topeka K. Sam  Connect with Topeka K. SamInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/topekaksam Website: https://thelohm.org/  Connect with Me! You can reach Tommi on Instagram @cheftommivVisit https://vincentcountry.com and get connected with us on Vincent Country’s Instagram @vincentcountry  Music By: Stichiz - Big T. Music /Roj&TwinkiE LEAVE A REVIEW + and SHARE this episode with someone who wants food for the soul, and the key ingredients to embracing their true, authentic self. Listen to previous episodes on the iHeartradio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!Support the show: https://www.upongame.network/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.