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The Color Shift
by Nikita Burks-Hale
What color are you craving? The Color Shift is a podcast where transformation meets creativity and where color becomes a doorway to deeper conversations about identity, leadership, creativity, healing, and transformation. This conversation-driven podcast explores the colors, stories, and experiences that shape who we are and who we're becoming. Through reflective conversations and creative practices, entrepreneurs, authors, leaders, and changemakers share the pivotal moments that challenged them, changed them, and inspired their next chapter. Each episode begins with a simple question: What color are you craving? From there, conversations unfold about purpose, identity, courage, belonging, healing, ambition, creativity, and the many ways we navigate life's transitions. Through stories, reflection, and the unique practice of coloring during conversation, guests explore the colors that d
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Introducing The Color Shift Podcast
What if every story you heard... Every conversation you joined... Every moment you slowed down to color... Could shift the way you see the world?" Welcome to The Color Shift Podcast, where Black and Brown change-makers, entrepreneurs, and leaders come together to share real stories, bold ideas…
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Unleashed: Embracing Your Self-Evolution with Nicole Walker
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along with us! Every situation or occurrence has a purpose, a purpose that allows you to honor yourself. Take each moment as an opportunity to make the most of your life. - Nicole Walker Experience the inspiring journey of Nicole Walker, a woman…
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Rediscovering Play: A Journey of Balance and Authenticity with Nina Everflow
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along with us! Join host Nikita Burks-Hale as she welcomes the vibrant and playful Nina Everflow, an instructional designer and trainer facilitator, on a journey to rediscover the transformative power of play in adult life, challenging societal...
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Be A Badass: Embracing Your Power, Your Growth, and Your Expertise with Danielle Desir Corbett
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along with us! Danielle Desir, a badass podcaster and entrepreneur, embarks on a journey of self-discovery and growth, challenging herself to take risks, step out of her comfort zone, and color outside the lines to achieve success. Danielle Desir…
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Trusting the Process and the Journey to Self-Fulfillment with Martha Cristina Garza
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along with us! In this podcast, Martha Cristina Garza, a Mexican immigrant, jewelry designer, and powerful brand strategist, must navigate trusting herself and others through a transformational year of self-discovery and growth to build magnetic…
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Vulnerability, Faith, and Living the Impossible Dream with Anna DeShawn
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along with us! Join me on today’s episode of Headphones and Crayons as I explore how to build trust and create an atmosphere of safety and vulnerability for authentic conversations with Anna DeShawn, a streaming platform creator who centers and...
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The Power of Primary Colors: Unpacking Our Core Foundation Through Color Theory
Download your free coloring sheet HERE and color along! We are back! In this episode, we use color as a comparison for life, for the journeys we take and how we make sense of them. I invite you to color along with me as we explore primary colors and how they represent the three questions we…
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A Year of Color
Well 2022, the time has come to say farewell. But wow, what a beautiful year of life, lessons, and COLOR! Tune in to today's episode, the last of the year 2022 to hear: My journey of creating Headphones and Crayons the podcast and what I learned along the way, My reflections on the year's guests...
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Discovery and The Journey of Uncovering with Mai-kee Tsang
To uncover is to unfold. To be in alignment and be vulnerable. Life is all about Discovery. Discovering who we are, what matters to us, and how we exist in the world. Today I am honored to welcome our last guest of the season: Mai-kee Tsang. Mai-kee Tsang is a creative entrepreneur and podcaster...
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Amplifying Your Authentic Self with Hannah Pillow
Confidence is one of those things that can be hard to navigate, sticky even. We live in a society that is constantly asking us to “show up as our best selves” while simultaneously making us feel like we are not enough. So how can we as business owners, as people find the strength and courage to...
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Surrender, Ease, and Sustainability with Carly Jo Bell
We’ve had so many conversations about the journey, about what it takes to live a whole, fulfilling and aligned life. As many of you folks have found, the journey often includes a lot of “work”. It’s easy to get caught up in what we think the “work” should look like, in how the journey should...
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Your Truth is Your Source of Power with Alexia Vernon
As travelers on this journey, there comes a time when we are called to step into our power. But what does this look like when we find that society already has a notion of what power and leadership are? This "friction" results in us finding ourselves embodying power in a way that feels…
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Justice Requires Love and Joy with Kelly Diels
What does justice mean to you? What does it look like for us to harness the power we have to shift our culture? The great Dr. Cornel West once said, “Justice is what love looks like in public”. As a black woman, as a person of color, the pursuit of justice and a more fair and equitable world is...
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Learning to Stand in Your Power with Jessica Kupferman
It can be easy to forget that your voice is powerful. Sometimes, we are afraid to stand up for ourselves, for other folks, or even for the things we believe in. Learning to tap into your voice and the power that it yields can take time but what matters most is that you try. It's important that we...
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Release and Make Space with Britany Felix
Toni Morrison once wrote: “ freeing yourself is one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self is another.” Sometimes, it can feel like the safest option to hold on to ideas, beliefs and identities that no longer serve us. But what happens when the path we thought would free us leaves us…
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Intentionality and the Value of Slowing Down with Carrie Caulfield Arick
Often, we as women feel the need to have it all together. Whether in our personal lives or our careers, this pressure never really seems to end. As marginalized folks, we know the importance of using our voices, the responsibility we have to our communities, and just how much representation...
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Surrender and the Power of Trust with Kate Nash
Trust is a fundamental part of the journey, whether it’s learning to trust ourselves or the ones we love. It can however be difficult for folks to make space for the vulnerability and openness that trust requires. But like everything else trust is learned and earned over time. The trust we have…
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The Power of Release with Helen King
Releasing is a powerful thing to do. Many of us hold on to a lot of things whether they serve us or not. It can be quite difficult to experience shifts in who we are and downright grief inducing to realize the lives we are living no longer serve us or align with our highest good. Giving ourselves...
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Making Space for Imperfection with Stacy Kellogg
I often speak about the importance of using your voice and how your message can make a difference. For me, this platform has not only been a way to bring folks together but has also been a great source of personal healing. However, sometimes it is easy to get swayed into thinking about “right” or...
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Discovery as a Catalyst and an Awakening with Julie Neale
As we go through life, we often find questions in our hearts that we hope the journey can answer. Sometimes, adhering too much to our idea of the answer can make us miss the point completely. What if we were to give ourselves the space to pause, reflect, process and then discover possibilities...
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Taking the Time and Space to Just Be with Laura Cathcart Robbins
In a world that wants folks to constantly be "doing", it can be hard to give ourselves space to exist. To just be. Sometimes dropping all the tasks that make us “go go go” can make us feel anxious. As Black women, being "strong" and “resilient” is so deeply embedded in how others see and describe...
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The Journey, The Message, and The Difference with Ronni Hill
Sharing your message, your unique contribution to the world, can be a powerful thing. It can also be a grey and vulnerable unfolding that often asks us to sit with the parts of us that are hurting, to take our time. This is the part of the journey we call LIFE. Whether you're shouting it from the...
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Learning to Trust the Journey with Sasha Huff
It can be hard to trust that every step you take in your journey has a purpose. It can be even harder to believe everything you release along the way is taking you closer and closer towards alignment. That it is all a part of the process. The flexibility, the honesty, the ability to surrender and...
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The Evolution of Our Voice with Shaunda Head
As we grow and step into our most aligned selves and navigate life’s obstacles, our voice evolve to reflect who and where we are. This can be a scary thing as times of change and transition are often gray, but we must learn to sit in the silence and find comfort and trust in the unknown. This...
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Amplifying the Power of Living Your Truth with Mia Francis-Poulin
What does it mean to amplify your voice and message? To stand in what you believe in unapologetically, whole,and aligned. To give yourself permission to question what you are doing and to resist moving through the world passively. To ask yourself why and be open to hearing and receiving the…
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Taking up Space and Aligning My Message with Bethany Hawkins
I often speak about alignment and about the flow that comes with embodying your purpose, but the journey to alignment can be long and confusing with all sorts of unexpected twists and turns. How do you know when you are truly aligned? What do you look for? What does it feel like? A common...
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Our Voices are Power with Elsie Escobar
Being able to use our voices can sometimes come with a lot of obstacles. Finding the ability within us to wield and embody our voice requires practice and uncomfortability. It is hard but not impossible. Our voices are powerful and through them we can create new ways of being that truly awaken…
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Welcome to the Colorful Journey
Welcome to the first episode of the Headphones and Crayons podcast. A space to journey with creatives, podcasters, and entrepreneurs. Tune in to listen to amazing human beings have heartfelt, vulnerable, and sometimes hilarious conversations all while they color! Join us every other week as we...
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New Journey, New Name: Introducing Headphones and Crayons
Welcome to headphones and crayons, a colorful journey for the everyday human. I'm your host and Chief Coloring Officer Nikita Burks-Hale. Join me as I journey through life with creatives, entrepreneurs, and podcasters from around the world while coloring. Coloring is a powerful and important tool...
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Episode 43 - Who Are You?
In order to do the work, it is necessary for you to first know who you are. On today's episode, we journey through questions to consider and things to think about as you figure out who you are. Past Episodes Mentioned: Episode 14 - The Journey To Your Inner Voice Episode 28 - Who Are You…
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Episode 42 - The Necessary Journey for White America
Today's episode is for all of my white friends and journeyers. Listen to it with an open heart, with an open mind. White friends, you have work to do. Are you ready? Welcome to your journey...
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JourneyStories - Life is a Journey with Zaakirah Muhammad
Today we will be journeying with Zaakirah Muhammad. Zaakirah Muhammad is a cancer survivor, Sagittarius, World Traveler, and Brand Cultivating Strategist. She has a quiet yet colorful personality. She has traveled to ten countries and 20+ states. She is also a small businesswoman and has been a...
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Episode 40 - JourneyStories: Journeying Through Life's Realizations with Roxanne Derhodge
Today’s Podcast Episode 40 "JourneyStories: Journeying Through Life's Realizations with Roxanne Derhodge" is now available! This month is dedicated to your Journey. Each week we will delve into the imperfect journeys of everyday people. This week's journey is with Roxanne Derhodge. Roxanne is a...
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JourneyStories - From Single Mother to Wife with Melissa DeClue
This month is dedicated to your Journey. Each week we will delve into the imperfect journeys of everyday people. This week's journey is with Melissa DeClue. Melissa was born and raised in Summerville, S.C. She is married to the love of her life Chris DeClue, and they have 3 children and 1 on the...
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Re-Release: YOU are Important, YOU Matter
Hey hey Journeyers. Today's episode is an oldie but goodie. This re-release of Episode 10 titled YOU are important, YOU matter. I chose to reshare this episode today because I believe that this is a much needed reminder. Yes, our days may be busier than ever. Yes, we may have an entirely new...
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Re-Release - From Trying to Being
Hey hey Journeyers. Today's episode is a rerelease. Episode 5 titled From Trying to Being is sure to resonate. Now if you happen to be sheltering in place at home right now with littles then you may be having nightmares about all the nursery rhymes that you hear each day. But in this episode, I...
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Episode 37 - Journeying Through My Emotions
Let's talk about today's episode. I literally recorded it late last night. I have been going through a lot of emotions these past weeks. And I am just starting to truly acknowledge them and begin to work through them. So this episode is dedicated to that.
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JourneyStories - Introducing Adonis Josiah
I am really excited to bring you today's episode. Today's guest is a true character. He brights joy and light to my life. He is the reason I do not get NEARLY enough sleep. He is my world. Introducing Adonis Josiah
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Episode 35 - Create Your New Normal
This is our time for us to truly step into power and design our lives. It is time for us to take the world that has been turned upside down and create a beautiful imperfect new normal. Also, don't forget to join our free private FB group JourneyGurl Magic to keep this conversation going. Join by...
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Re-Release: The Power of P.A.U.S.E.
With all that is going on in our current world today, I decided to do an episode re-release. The Power of P.A.U.S.E. Don't forget to PAUSE and check-in with yourself
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Episode 34 - Journeying in Action - COVID 19
While not originally planned, this episode is a much-needed one. We have spoken for months about the 5 Steps for starting your imperfect journey and now its time for implementation. With COVID 19 playing a major role in all of our lives we will recall and implement our 5 Steps for starting any...
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Episode 33 - The Journey to Saying NO
This episode highlights our continued journey to setting boundaries through the age-old art of saying NO. While many find saying NO to be one of their most difficult struggles, in this episode, we focus on the idea and concept of saying YES to yourself FIRST.
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Episode 32 - Own Your T.I.M.E.
This episode is all your time and energy and using it accordingly. Conducting a time audit (not your typical audit) and becoming aware of the things that fuel and drain you are vital on your journey to finding your voice and becoming the best version of yourself. Journey Work Complete a time…
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Episode 31 - JourneyStories: The Journey to Being Your Best Self with Loreal Moss
Journey with me and special guest Loreal Moss as we talk about life, love, and the journey to becoming your best self. Loreal Moss Bio Loreal is a clarity catalyst with a passion for helping entrepreneurial moms create their purpose. She is a facilitator of transformation and prides herself on…
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Episode 30 - Who Are You Traveling With? (Part 3): Who Are You Passing By?
Today's episode is all about living your MAGIC. Focus on being the best version of yourself. If you don't you miss out. You miss out on getting uncomfortable, you miss out on making mistake, and you miss out on truly harnessing your magic. Links: Gay Hendricks - The Big Leap Zone of Genius Diagram
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Episode 29 - Who Are You Traveling With (Part 2): Who Is In Your Back Seat?
Today's episode is Part 2 in our 3 Part Who Are You Traveling With Series. This week we are looking at our backseat. The people who look up to us the most. This episode highlights the importance of modeling imperfection for those closest to us. Ask yourself: In what ways are you imperfect? How…
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Episode 28 - Who Are You Traveling With? (Part 1): Who is in Your Passenger Seat?
Today's episode begins a new series centered around the people we interact with the most. Our community. From the people around us to the people we influence, to the people we may be overlooking, this series will cover it all. So tune in this week as we journey through the people in our inner...
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Bonus Episode - JourneyStories: Where It All Began
Hey hey Journeyer! This is a BONUS episode! Get excited! This bonus episode is an introduction to a new series I am trying out called JourneyStories. These will be interviews with everyday people. With you, the journeyer. So tune in and listen to your story. Now, this first one is extra special.…
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Episode 27 - Laying Out Your Road Map (Part 3) - How Are You Getting There?
Today's episode is the culmination of our 3-part series on Laying Out Your Road Map. Today will we discuss your plan and things to keep in mind to ensure that you know how you are getting through your journey and getting what you need. Tune in. It's a good one!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What color are you craving?
The Color Shift is a podcast where transformation meets creativity and where color becomes a doorway to deeper conversations about identity, leadership, creativity, healing, and transformation.
This conversation-driven podcast explores the colors, stories, and experiences that shape who we are and who we're becoming. Through reflective conversations and creative practices, entrepreneurs, authors, leaders, and changemakers share the pivotal moments that challenged them, changed them, and inspired their next chapter.
Each episode begins with a simple question:
What color are you craving?
From there, conversations unfold about purpose, identity, courage, belonging, healing, ambition, creativity, and the many ways we navigate life's transitions. Through stories, reflection, and the unique practice of coloring during conversation, guests explore the colors that d
HOSTED BY
Nikita Burks-Hale
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