HeyJaredShe Chose Joy with Melanie
Where yummy moments organically unfold through heartfelt conversations with my sister-friends.
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Esther Bailey-Bass | One Question That Changes How You Show Up (opens the original)
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Melanie and Esther also explore the impact of perfectionism, fear, self-abandonment, and the pressure to have everything figured out. They remind us that we are all leaders, not because of our titles or achievements, but because of the choices we make and the conversations we shape every day. This episode is for anyone who wants to build healthier relationships, trust themselves more deeply, and lead with greater honesty, courage, and care. As you listen, consider: What’s mine to do in the relat
Maya Davis | Genealogy and the Stories That Bind Us (opens the original)
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Maya Davis has spent her career learning that history is never really about facts on a wall. It's about family, memory, and the stories we choose to carry forward. In this episode, Maya shares her path from a curious student at Howard University into her current role as director of a historic house museum on a former plantation site in Prince George's County, Maryland. She talks about the challenge ofleading in spaces that were never built with her in mind, the small moments of mentorship that s
Tiffanie B. Powell | 50 Never Felt So Free (opens the original)
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There's a moment in this conversation where Tiffanie Powellsays surrender feels like quitting, and then tells you why she chose it anyway.That's the heartbeat of this episode. Tiffanie is an estate planning attorney who has spent 25 years helping families plan for the parts of life no one wants to talk about.This conversation is really about what happens when a woman who built her whole identity on fighting, through law school, through motherhood, through survival, finally lays the armor down. W
Loretta Veney | Finding Her Words Again: A Story of Dementia, Legos, and Love (opens the original)
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Loretta Veney has a story that holds heartbreak and humor in the same hand. In this episode, Loretta walks through a thirteen-year medical journey that started with a doctor telling her to get over it and eventually led to a diagnosis that nearly cost her life. Sheshares what it meant to build a marriage with her husband Tim around hospital rooms and Dairy Queen runs, and how that same resilience carried her through sixteen years of caring for her mother through dementia. She also traces how Leg
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