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YOU Better!
by Kiesha Garrison
YOU Better! is a weekly conversation with personal development speaker and facilitator Kiesha Garrison. The podcast is all about self-discovery that considers what we are really up against in society. The "love yourself" memes make it sound so easy, but it will actually take a revolution inside yourself given all the systems in place demanding that you ignore and betray YOU every day. The spark for that revolution can be a conversation. By learning from the lives of other people, you grow your perspective and begin to understand your lived experiences in broader context. Via thought-provoking interviews, YOU Better! aims to give you the insight and inspiration for compassionate and productive self-inquiry so you can unlock a deeper, more rooted love for yourself. A love so compassionate that it radiates from within you and pours into the broader human family.
Episodes
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Season Two Reflections
It’s the end of season two of You Better! This episode features a compilation of Kiesha's reflections, questions, and conversations with this season’s guests. If you’ve listened to season two, enjoy returning to the most powerful moments from these episodes. And if you’re tuning in for the first...
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Rise Together with Rhonda Joy McLean
In this inspiring final interview of the season, Kiesha talks with Rhonda Joy McLean, a celebrated attorney, entrepreneur, leadership consultant, and co-author of The Little Black Book of Success. Rhonda shares her family heritage and pivotal life lessons, including her experience of integrating…
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Pay Attention to Your Impact with Dr. Lauri Conner
In this moving and thought-provoking interview, Kiesha talks with poet and educator Dr. Lauri Conner. Together, they explore the value of personal reflection in shaping character and discuss freer, more open-minded ways to think about education. Dr. Conner also reflects on her young life and…
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Question Societal Norms with Dr. Amber Thornton
In this episode, Kiesha is joined by Dr. Amber Thornton, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Default Parenting + Millennial Motherhood Wellness Expert, and the Founder of Balanced Working Mama, where the mission is to support millennial mothers in creating a life of more balance and wellness. It is...
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Learn to Love Your Layers
In this solo episode, Kiesha reflects on why we should love all parts of ourselves and live our layers. She explores a few common ways we lose touch with ourselves. And offers suggestions for returning and reconnecting, time and time again. She also shares an exercise for figuring out when and...
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Find Your Burning Yes with Celine Brozovich
At the height of her career, Celine Brozovich was experiencing severe health issues and fell into a deep depression that pushed her to the edge of her life. After watching her mother battle similar issues with little success, she decided to make matters into her own hands by becoming a Lifestyle...
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Heal Through Sound with Stephanie Ann Ball
Have you ever wondered if music could help you heal? In this episode, Kiesha is joined by Stephanie Ann Ball to discuss just that. Stephanie is a professional classical singer who performs in curated concerts across the country, as well as a sound meditation facilitator who holds space for people...
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Unleash Your Uniqueness with Bernice Ye
In this fun and inspiring episode, Kiesha and Bernice Ye discuss how sometimes we must go against everything we’ve been taught to find the path that fits who we are. Together, they unpack how embracing your unique perspective is a key to a happy life. Bernice is a comedian, first generation...
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Process Feedback With Care
In this solo episode, Kiesha reflects on how we can receive and process feedback while staying true to ourselves. She explains why processing feedback requires knowledge of the self and knowledge of the source. And she shares a story about feedback she received after an internship that shows how...
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Be the Example with Heather Burris
In this heartfelt episode, Kiesha and Heather Burris dig deep into what it means to set an example for those around us. Together, they talk through Heather’s pandemic journey, one that brought a deep grief that taught her the importance of leaning on and receiving God’s love through community.…
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Be a Rebel of Kindness with Aaron Ableman
In this spiritually-rich episode, Kiesha talks with proud father, artist, actor, producer, author, and activist, Aaron Ableman. Aaron shares his unusual life story, from being born in Michael Douglas’s basement to traveling the world for his award-winning work to support children and families....
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Curate Joy with Aramis O. Hamer
Welcome back to YOU Better! We’re so excited for season two of the podcast. Today’s episode is full of vibrance and joy as Kiesha talks with Aramis O. Hamer (AO for short), an exuberant artist and spiritual woman. Together, they follow Aramis’s journey as she decided to pack up her life with her...
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2022 Reflections - Year End Double Episode | Part 2
This episode features a compilation of Kiesha's reflections, questions, and self-discovery advice from the second half of her 2022 interview guests. Let these moments of post-conversation musing inspire your end of year journaling or your beginning of the year intention-setting. Reflections are...
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2022 Reflections - Year End Double Episode | Part 1
This episode features a compilation of Kiesha's reflections, questions, and self-discovery advice from the first half of her 2022 interview guests. Let these moments of post-conversation musing inspire your end of year journaling or your beginning of the year intention-setting. Reflections are…
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Redefining Self with Tomasina Boone
Tomasina Boone is the founder of The Curls and Natural Hair Beauty Place, a unique space that is the only service provider of it’s kind in Sydney to provide a retail shop for great quality products and a beauty space dedicated to the care, maintenance, and styling of naturally curly hair. As a...
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Value Life with Kaska Adoteye
Kaska Adoteye, Ph. D. has held many hats, being a data scientist, author, investor, and entrepreneur. He has taken his skills from Wall Street to Silicon Valley and is known for his technical excellence across domains. He is also the author of the thought-provoking and insightful book Theory of...
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Get Strategic with Tonya Fewell
This episode features Tonya Fewell, J.D., a highly driven woman who is truly powered by purpose. She has made her life’s work the work of walking other people through radical transformation. As the senior strategist at Bridge Every Gap Tonya and her team build optimal systems and strategies for...
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Face Yourself with Coax Marie
Coax Marie is a powerful talent - an artist whose music affirms what is unique and magical about us. She uses her gifts to promote energetic freedom and liberation and creates the type of music that holds your hand throughout the beautiful challenges of being human. She has moved thousands of...
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Recognize the Offering
A conversation about grace in the workplace from one of Kiesha's Culture Conversations with a corporate client group is lingering on her mind along with the memory of the last three minutes of raw vulnerability from Deon Cole's Netflix comedy special Charleen's Boy. In this solo episode, Kiesha...
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Unlock Your Voice with Quinn Conyers
In this episode, Kiesha Garrison interviews Event Emcee and Author Quinn Conyers who shares her story of giving up, finding her way back to her unique gift, and defining success on her own terms. Episode Resources: HOME | Quinn Conyers Quinn's Speak Black Woman Podcast - Episode wit Kiesha!...
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Pursue Your Dreams with Anthony Cole
Growing up Anthony Cole dreamed of being a recording artist, but like many talented creatives who enter the job market, corporate pursuits became his source of stability. But you know that saying, wherever you go, there you are... Well, eventually Anthony’s musical self became a part of his...
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Get in the Game with Chipalo Street
Chipalo Street has worn many hats throughout his life – in addition to being a groundbreaker and mentor in the tech world, he’s had a “nights and weekends” career refereeing international, professional, and collegiate soccer matches. In this episode, Chipalo talks with Kiesha about how his dreams...
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Embrace Your Pain with Joy White
After reaching many of her professional and personal goals, Joy White still found herself unfulfilled and unhappy. Once she allowed herself to acknowledge things that she survived, feel her way through her painful past, and love her inner child better, she was able to move forward boldly towards…
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Honor Your Limits
In this solo episode, Kiesha reflects on one of the areas of personal work that continues to unfold for her - honoring her limits. This commitment to a lifestyle that allows for more reasonable expectations of mind, body, & spirit is not as simple as making the decision. Check out the episode to...
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Come Home to Yourself with Troy Williams
While serving time in San Quentin State Prison Troy Williams was able to step all the way outside the box of one would typically imagine for an inmate and create a media organization inside the walls that confined him. In this episode of YOU Better!, Troy shares with Kiesha about his passion for...
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Master Self-Discipline with Kena Tchiteya
Kena Tchiteya is a skincare entrepreneur who puts nutrition and discipline as top priorities in her message; She rapidly grew an audience of over 1 million followers on TikTok in only 9 months by sharing her vulnerable journey to clear skin after suffering from severe acne, deep hyperpigmentation...
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Break Free From Normal with Prairie Rose Free
Prairie Rose is an author, trained sommelier, wine and spirits educator, and host of the popular podcast Bit by a Fox. She is also a woman who, after a childhood that began in a hippie commune, found herself making bold choices to show up for herself. From saving up to take a life-changing solo...
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Walk Through the Fire with Kim Blue
In this episode Kiesha goes inside the life and lessons of Kim Blue, an HR powerhouse who cherishes her role as a mom first and foremost. She shares her blueprint for self-care and her reflections on a life of big moves and even bigger lessons. She's a woman who is using her voice, practicing her...
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Be More Than Enough with Dr. Shelly Bhowmik
In this interview with Kiesha Garrison, Dr. Shelly Bhowmik discusses her own personal journey of self-discovery and recovery after experiencing burnout so bad it motivated her to launch a platform for helping others not end up in the same place. Her practice is based on the belief that mindset is...
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Reload Yourself with Latorsha Peake
In this interview with Kiesha Garrison, wellness consultant Latorsha Peake shares her lessons of learning to care for herself better. Her experiences led her to write a book titled Iced Coffee and Self Care® in which she aims to help us move ourselves higher on our own to-do lists. Self-care is…
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ICYMI: Healing from Within with Tira Feierstein
In this episode, we talk about what it looks like to go on a healing journey towards self-love. Kiesha is joined by a dear friend who has made her life’s work about helping others understand and get to “the work.” Her name is Tira Feierstein, and she is a writer, artist and spiritual thought…
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ICYMI: Taking the Leap with Sukie Jefferson
So many people have the experience of feeling like they are in the wrong profession. But they stick it out for years even when that work environment is so bad it feels like it’s going to break them. We have gotten so used to sacrificing our selves in the name of survival, that it is hard to even...
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ICYMI: Being Present with Mark Hatcher
Detroit native and Morehouse Man, Mark Hatcher, sits down with Kiesha to share his life story. He talks through his journey from his premature birth to his mother's guidance which provided inspiration for how he moves with purpose and how he fathers his elementary school aged daughter Maris Mays....
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ICYMI: Blooming in Hope and Love with Charles E. Sims. Jr.
What happens when you feel like your environment does not properly reflect love back to you? On this episode of YOU Better! Charles E. Sims Jr. reflects on his melancholy filled childhood and his journey to seeing himself as a “60-year-old late bloomer.” This self-proclaimed prisoner of hope also...
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Take Action: Shine a Light
In this last episode in the YOU Better! Take Action Series, Kiesha highlights the work of storyteller Ava DuVernay whose aunt sparked her interest in the arts when she was a little girl. Kiesha reflects on how she has learned from and taken action based on Ava's work, chiefly the documentary…
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Take Action: Join the Work in Progress
In this fourth in the YOU Better! Take Action Series, Kiesha highlights the work of civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman who dedicated her life to advocating for the rights and welfare of children. Those who have already invested in the work have left so much information and instruction…
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Take Action: Get Creative!
Most Black people, despite our ingenuity, still have to push through a wall of distrust, opposition and financial impediment that was built at the base of our family trees from the beginning. In this episode from the Take Action Series, Kiesha focuses on learning from work of Kerry Coddett, an...
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Take Action: Squad Up!
In this episode from the Take Action Series, Kiesha focuses on learning from the life of women's health advocate and activist Byllye Avery. She shares some stories from the early parts of Byllye's life and how she ended up beginning her work as an activist supporting women who were seeking...
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Take Action: Explore Mutual Aid Work
In this special summer series about taking action to care for community, Kiesha is taking a pause from interviews to share what she is learning about people who have led important movements in their communities along with the actions they are inspiring her to take. This episode features the…
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Brace for Impact with Bobby Morgan
Bobby Morgan is a man committed to education. He is also a husband, father, and founder of Liberation Lab, an educational consulting firm that builds pathways of internal and external accountability. In this interview with Kiesha Garrison, Bobby talks about how he freed himself from the toxicity…
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Get to the Other Side with Allison Zinczenko
Allison Zinczenko is many things - a mom, wife, educator, business leader and so much more. But above all else, she describes herself as a work in progress and shares with Kiesha on YOU Better! how she has taken that work seriously. She recounts her journey of growing up as a young child who felt...
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Spread Truth and Joy with Alliah L. Agostini
Alliah L. Agostini is a proud native of Buffalo, NY and a developing creative. In addition to being a mom, a Harvard grad, and so much more, Alliah is the author of the kids book The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States (released in May 2022). In this interview…
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Overflowing Out of the Box with Shermica Farquhar
Shermica Farquhar is many things including being a multi-faceted Black woman and a Brooklynite proud of her Trinidadian heritage. She is an incredibly strategic problem solver who also runs two companies – Solutions by SF, a business growth strategy firm, and Soka Tribe, a cultural organization...
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Replenishing the Soul with Kev Marcus
Kev Marcus is a Grammy nominated recording artist and co-founder of Black Violin, a band he formed with his longtime friend Wil Baptiste, in which they combine their classical training and hip-hop influences to create a distinctive multi-genre sound. In addition to being a musical groundbreaker,...
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Apply the Lessons
Kiesha Garrison reflects on having to shut her productivity down while being sick and lessons from the one work assignment she allowed herself to still do during that time - a speech for the Stanley Ann Dunham Scholarship Fund which celebrates young women who exhibit excellence in academics,...
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Know That You Can Matter With Shaya Lyon
Some in the classical music scene might know Shaya Lyon as the founder of a nonprofit organization called the Live Music Project. For Kiesha, Shaya is also a very dear friend full of global perspective, earnest curiosity, and sincere compassion. In this episode, Shaya - a descendent of both a...
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Reclaim Your Imagination with Zerandrian Morris
Living a life that doesn't center Whiteness is bold and requires intentionality and imagination. Zerandrian Morris joins Kiesha on this episode to talk about turning points in her life that led her to imagine what's possible and listen to spirit instead of following oppressive social…
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Apply The Right Pressure with Aspen Fitzgerald-Dorsey
Aspen Fitzgerald- Dorsey shares with Kiesha Garrison details from her life story as a young Black woman who dealt with the pressures of attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, one of the country's highest ranked magnet schools, and her experience needing to leave graduate...
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You Are Worthy of Dignity with Nikki Gane-Butler
In this episode, Kiesha is joined by Nikki Gane-Butler, the Founder and Director of Dignity for Divas, who shares her story as well as her perspective on self-leadership, our connectedness as humans, and how own experience with homelessness has led to her finding the personal power she always…
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Choose Joy and Come Alive with Dr. Jun Love Young
Jun Love Young, PhD is many things...CEO of ZUM Communications, founder of Beloved Arise which celebrates and empowers LGBTQ+ youth of faith, a father, a storyteller, and so much more. In this interview with Kiesha Garrison, Jun shares his journey to being a person who has come alive and chooses...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
YOU Better! is a weekly conversation with personal development speaker and facilitator Kiesha Garrison. The podcast is all about self-discovery that considers what we are really up against in society. The "love yourself" memes make it sound so easy, but it will actually take a revolution inside yourself given all the systems in place demanding that you ignore and betray YOU every day. The spark for that revolution can be a conversation. By learning from the lives of other people, you grow your perspective and begin to understand your lived experiences in broader context. Via thought-provoking interviews, YOU Better! aims to give you the insight and inspiration for compassionate and productive self-inquiry so you can unlock a deeper, more rooted love for yourself. A love so compassionate that it radiates from within you and pours into the broader human family.
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