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The Colored Girl
by The Colored Girl
The Colored Girl, hosted by Tori Elizabeth, is a podcast conversation series created to connect women with practical advice on how to be the best version on themselves personally & professionally. Deep diving into conversations that women need, with topics ranging from, self-care, thriving in a 9 to 5, creating that dream job, building wealth, relationships and MORE! Tori brings authenticity, vulnerability all while keeping it fun with a fresh perspective on all things Colored Girl(s). This is a safe space for us to be us...you never know who just might join in on the conversation!
Episodes
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E56: You Are Allowed to Be in The Front with Ronetta Jones
Tori speaks with Ronetta about being a mother of 2 amazing trailblazing children, domestic violence survivor, she overcame being paralyzed on her right side for 1 1/2 yrs after suffering from Lyme's Disease and Guillan Barre Syndrome at 21, Then she served 13 years in the USAF, Single mother and...
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E55: You Are Rare with Melissa Alexander
Tori dives deep with Melissa about being a mama, a lover, a photographer/filmmaker with an empathetic heart. After a years of ups and downs, including homelessness, depression, anxiety, and low self esteem, She's finally at a point in her life where she feels...whole. One night, when her daughter...
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E54: You Are A Survivor with Chiara Hauer
Tori chats with Chiara about her mother and her being survivors of domestic violence. Despite suffering from the same mental illness as her father (the abuser), She's grown (in her opinion) into a compassionate woman who is currently in law school hoping to specialize in human rights and refugee...
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E53: You Are Everything you Need with Tamara Glover
Tori talks with Tamara about being a military kid, awesome upbringing and opportunity for culture and traveling. Watching her Mom as a soldier made her independent and observant. The story she think needs to be shared is managing the pandemic alone. She had recently relocated to a new city for a...
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E52: You Are Visible with Ottavia Lang
Tori chats with Ottavia about her whole life being an open book. She not only shares her successes via social media but her pain and discomfort as well. She's struggled with homelessness and abuse to name a couple but when she was on the brink of a nervous breakdown she turned to meditation. And...
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E51: You Are Not Alone with Nina Charley
Tori chats with Nina about growing up in Canada and being mistreated and bullied because of her skin color and hair. She now uses that as fuel to fight for Black Lives to Matter and human rights.
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E50: You Are Powerful with Kenya Joy Gibson
Tori chats with Kenya about being a graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Master's in Dance Education from the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program in May 2020. As an emerging choreographer, Kenya is committed to cultivating new methods of reclaiming, and retaining, the legacy of the African...
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E49: You Are Resilient with Keisha Carmona-Hurst
Tori dives deep with Keisha about being married to a professional athlete, divorced at 26, single mom, lost EVERYTHING 2 times and she means EVERYTHING, was on public assistance, a product of domestic abuse, made it through! Come from the typical AA family that doesn't talk about their sh$!, so…
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E48: You Are the Sun & the Moon with Janelle Joyce
Tori chats with Janelle about being a 24 years old still in college trying to figure out this adult thing. She admits she needs some more training lmao.
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E47: You Are Beautiful on the Inside and Out with Dr B Lynn
Tori speaks with Dr. B Lynn about being a multifaceted, multiracial woman of color that was raised with divergent religious and cultural beliefs and values, in addition to having to flip flop between both "sides of the tracks" so to speak. So, "code switching" was learned from elementary school....
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E45: You Are Enough with Deepti Sadhwani
Tori dives deep with Deepti about being an Indian born makeup artist raised in Elmhurst, nyc. Growing up in a single mother home in an environment that didn't know or care that she existed. And she's not just speaking about the schools she went to, or the neighborhood she grew up in. It also...
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E44: You Are Safe with Carolyn Wynn
Tori chats with Carolyn about her experiences with suffering from heart surgery, Hasimoto Disease, broken heart, broken bank accounts, miscarriages, dealing with corporate racism, self-doubt and coming through it all . Falling in love with herself , making peace with her past and accepting her...
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E43: You Are Worthy with Breaunna Lijon Duran
Tori speaks with Breaunna about what it was like being married for 13 years to an abusive (narcissistic) man who tried to hold her back from pursuing her dreams. He held finances from her, lead a double life and even got them evicted from their home only so that she could be dependent on him.
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E41: Start where You Are with Tanika Hillocks
Tori speaks with Tanika about being a mother of two but more times than she'd like to admit she's coasting through this journey called motherhood and figuring it out as she go. She is a trained birth and postpartum doula because, after her own personal experience, she is a firm believer that…
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E40: You Are Not Wrong with Shamina Williams
Tori dives deep with Shamina about her experiences with assault at the age of 9 by a family member. She felt ashamed and afraid to tell anyone as she thought it was her fault. It went on for years until he finally penetrated her. She still didn't tell anyone and this is when she discovered she…
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E39: You Are Healthy from the Inside & Out with Oshyn Ashford
Tori speaks with Oshyn about being a young 22 year old black woman that doesn't normally fit in with the cool kids. Through forced isolation , she learned the importance of self love which then turned her "isolation" into putting herself first and learning about the girl that looks back at her…
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E38: You Are Your Ancestors Wildest Dreams with Nyla Moore
Tori talks with Nyla about being a resilient Black woman. But pick one of us from a crowd, aren't we all? Everything she is today is because of every unfortunate situation she lived through. She lost her mother at age 11 to an aneurysm. Was then raised by her hardworking older sister who had four...
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E37: You Are Human, Rest in that Sometimes with Marsha Temple
Tori chats with Marsha about being the middle daughter of deceased parents, the only one to graduate college among her four siblings (to date), a divorcee, single mother, homeowner and burgeoning entrepreneur. It's has taken a lot to overcome the loss of her parents. While dressing to graduate...
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E36: You Are Good Enough with Marqueeta
Tori chats with Marqueeta about what is was like having an alcoholic step father - born out of sexual abuse - experienced physical and verbal abuse throughout her childhood until she eventually ran away from home. She then moved from house to house up until her two timing boyfriend almost got…
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E35: You Are Expansive with Kamisha Morrison
Tori speaks with Kamisha about being a 45 year old, never married no children, feeling as though she's received a huge red F on her assignment of life as it pertains to womanhood and spending the last several years forging her own path and rewriting her narrative and recognizing she never saw...
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E34: You Are Going to be Brilliant Jennifer Phillips
Tori dives in deep with Jennifer about being an author & influencer by passion and purpose. Overcoming verbal, emotional & physical abuse that became a woman by age but a foul mouth & disrespectful little girl by maturity level. She had to fail at personal, family & professional relationships in...
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E33: You Are More than Your Body with Hanae Mauldin
Tori speaks with Hanae about being diagnosed with severe Crohn's disease at 18, then another incurable disease at 19. Now 43 and have had 11 surgeries due to the aforementioned illnesses and more that the medicines she took did to her body.
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E46: You Are Beautiful & Smart with GRACE DIVINE INGABIRE
Tori chats with Grace about being a woman and firstborn in her family. Her father lost his three wives: her mother and her two stepmothers. She grew up in a war country, Burundi. At three, her mother died not from war but during the birth of her young sister. She became her siblings' real mother…
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E32: You Are Beautiful with Elize Ramos
Tori speaks with Elize about being a mixed race individual who always struggled to find her tribe. She continually received shade from both ends of the color spectrum and ended up on a lonely path.
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E31: You Are capable of anything and everything with Dariné Young
Tori dives deep with Dariné about being a 32 year old black woman(Creole) from Southwest Louisiana and a musician/guitarist/writer/singer. She comes from a very colorful and diverse family(maternal and paternal). Her siblings range from very dark skinned to brown, caramel, and she's yellow. She's...
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E30: You Are Divine with Cassandra Spencer
Tori speaks with Cassandra about being a black woman who grew up questioning her blackness. The only brown spot in a sea of white. She wasn't Black enough for Black people and she wasn't Black enough for white people. However, that did not stop her from embracing her people or culture. There is…
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E29: You Are the light that glows in the darkest room with Carman Chatman
Tori learns about what it was like for Carman to grow up shy and the biggest, darkest girl in the room which made her an automatic target to be a butt of a joke.
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E28: You Are Enough with Caitlin Dobbins
Tori discuss with Caitlin what it was like growing up in a small privileged predominately white town and how she found herself conforming to white social norms. She decided to leave her hometown and move to Chicago for school. In Chicago not only has she started her acting career, but have also...
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E27: You are so much more than you can understand with Beata Francis
Tori talks with Beata a 25 year old, currently learning about the magic of boundaries and navigating all of these complexities within the duality as a Black and Dominican woman.
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E26: You Are Going to be great, just take a leap with Ayanda Magagula
Tori dives in to Ayanda story of being a filmmaker from Johannesburg South Africa. Who's been in America for two years now. She came here as a K1 fiancée and it was an extremely difficult process for me. A survivor of a traumatic childhood, and a survivor of sexual assault, which has made her…
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E25: You Are Strongest when you lead with your Innate Talents & Gifts with Wendee Lee Curtis
Wendee shares her Story with Tori about being a Broadway performer who made the leap to broadcasting but not before having a nearly half decade long custody battle for her daughter that left her broke and broken.
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E24: You are Perfect as You Are with Tati Villegas
Tori talks with Tati about what it means to embrace herself and how working in the sex industry has opened her eyes to the incredible affect that sex, and proper sex education can have on a persons wellbeing, and has helped her move towards becoming her Highest Self!
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E23: You Are F#$%ing Enough with Samjah
Tori speaks with Samjah about what it means to be 39 years old, and living life on your own terms - not by society's terms.
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E22: You are MAGIC with Latoya
Tori chats with Latoya about what it means to be a soulful being that is ever expansive and rooted in Divinity.
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E21: You are Deserving of Everything Coming your Way with Finesse Caldwell
Tori speaks with Finesse about her experience with Alcoholism and how sobriety has changed her life, experiences and relationships.
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E20: You are Fiercely & Wonderfully Made with Chelsea Hayes
Tori dives deep with Chelsea Hayes to discuss what it was like never truly feeling accepted by the white people in her community and the Black people in her community.
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E19: You are Perfectly Imperfect with Dionna Carter
Tori dives deep with Dionna regarding being a black, married millennial who spent the previous 2 years of her marriage suffering in silence. She & her husband were hanging on by a thread at home while externally they were the picture of health and success. Her story is one of wounds and hurt but...
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E18: You Are Fearfully and wonderfully made; perfect in every way! with Char Franklin
Tori talks with Char to dissect what it means to be a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter an aunt, a Soror and a friend and a survivor who has overcome sexual abuse, domestic violence, emotional and mental abuse to get where she is today.
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E17: You Are a Sensitive Being and That's 100% Okay with Kayla Jones
Tori talks with Kayla about how body image played a role in her self-esteem and accepting her slim frame in the South as a woman.
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E16: You Are Resilient with Kyra Davenport
Tori dives deep with Kyra and discuss how yoga healed her from the traumas of being raped and unappreciated in relationships.
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E15: You Are Going to be Someone Else's Reason with Shayna Smith
Tori Elizabeth dives deep into Shayna's story surrounding her life threatening labor experiences and the lack of proper care for Black Women by the U.S Health Care System.
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E14: You are Worth it with Keeya Vawar
Tori Elizabeth dives deep into Keeya's story surrounding her sex trafficking experience and how she was over to overcome and heal from the traumas of her past.
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E13: You Are Infinite & Perfect with Nisa Fareeha
Founder Tori Elizabeth deep dives into Nisa's story about growing up in Malaysia versus being an Asian woman in America. Nisa is an anti-racism, anti-patriarchy & anti-white supremacy advocate who is fighting for the rights for the BIWOC community.
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Ep 12: The Melanin Influence ft. Aysha Sow
Victory & Tori talk with influencer and content producer Aysha Sow about her journey from being an accountant to influencing full-time. Aysha talks being raised in Belgium as a black woman and eventually moving to New York and learning to embrace her true self. Stay true to yourself!
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Ep 11: Representation Matters ft. Marjon Carlos
Victory and Tori talk with writer, editor, and creative consultant Marjon Carlos whose work has appeared in publications such as Vogue, Wall Street Journal and Fader to name a few. Hear how Marjon started her journey as a writer and continues to push and represent black culture in the music and...
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Ep 10: The Rose Effect ft. KJ Rose
Victory and Tori talk with Chicago native KJ Rose on her journey as singer in the music industry and becoming a performance development coach founding the Rose Effect. Hear how KJ was able to pursue music as a full-time career, trusting herself and the process. Trust the process and grow!
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Ep 9: The Naturalista ft. Danni Washington
This week Victory and Tori talk with Danni Washington about how she has been able to transform her passion for the ocean and science into exciting, high profile ways. Her love and involvement with STEM initiatives has led her to become the first African American woman to host her own science...
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Ep 8: Wealth Building ft. Ashley M Fox
Victory and Tori talk with financial education specialist Ashley M. Fox about her transition from working as a Wall Street analyst to following her desire to help people develop career, life, and financial success. If you can spend it you can invest it!
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Ep 7: The Coins Convo ft. Dom Brown
Victory and Tori talk with event producer and founder of Coin Convos Dom Brown about how she created a community for young black professional while growing her passion of helping recycle the black dollar. What are you willing to change to have what you want?
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Ep 6: The Beauty Business ft. Monique Rodriguez
Victory & Tori talk with founder and CEO of Mielle Organics Monique Rodriguez about her start and success in the beauty industry after spending time as a registered nurse. Your gifts will make room for you!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The Colored Girl, hosted by Tori Elizabeth, is a podcast conversation series created to connect women with practical advice on how to be the best version on themselves personally & professionally. Deep diving into conversations that women need, with topics ranging from, self-care, thriving in a 9 to 5, creating that dream job, building wealth, relationships and MORE! Tori brings authenticity, vulnerability all while keeping it fun with a fresh perspective on all things Colored Girl(s). This is a safe space for us to be us...you never know who just might join in on the conversation!
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