The Michael Calderin Show: Interview with Nikki Woods!

Nikki Woods is an American radio producer based in Dallas, Texas and best known for her work as the senior producer on the nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. She is also a personal branding coach, social media consultant, author, motivational speaker and voice-over artist.  Woods was born in Rock Hill, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis. She explored many different career options as an adolescent but ultimately decided to study education and subsequently enrolled at Howard University in pursuit of that goal. However, Woods discovered during her time teaching in Missouri and in Jamaica that education was not her true passion and returned home to Rock Hill to weigh other professional options. While back home in Missouri, Nikki began to pay more attention to how people earned their livings and which of those career fields overlapped with her strengths. This period of introspection coincided with Nikki’s increased exposure to Magic 108 in St. Louis and sparked her interest in the world of broadcast journalism; Woods was fascinated by the opportunity Disc Jockeys had to regularly speak to so many people on such an intimate level. This newfound interest sent Nikki back to school, this time at St. Francis University in Joliet, IL where she graduated with a BA in journalism and a concentration in broadcast journalism in 1995.   Separate from her own professional endeavors, Woods is an ambassador for Pretty Brown Girls Inc., a movement that empowers and inspires girls and women to celebrate their shades of brown, as well as for Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network. Woods was named the ME&WE Inc Woman of the Year in 2013. Nikki lives with her two sons, Tyler and Willis, in Dallas, Texas.