The Miller Time Podcast: People of Color Redefining Success

We continue the People of Color Redefining Success series by interviewing Porsche Kelly, aka The Poetic Activist. Porsche is an author, motivational speaker, and artist of many talents from Oakland, Ca. With a passion for God, black and women empowerment, and mental health, especially among people of color, Porsche aims to bridge the gap between faith & social justice, create atmospheres for conversation on faith, racism, sexism, mental health, and trauma, and inspire others to join in these conversations to find freedom in telling their own stories through poetry, music, motivational speaking, workshops, and dance. Her mantra to live by is a powerful statement of activation: "Erase shame. Tell your story." _ Check her out on IG at @thepoeticactivist and visit her at www.thepoeticactivist.com.

We continue the People of Color Redefining Success series with a discussion with Akeem Allen, founder and CEO of Nile Studio, an innovative, design platform that brings Black-owned businesses together. Akeem shares how he believes POC need to embrace the power of Brace and how it causes a chain effect in creating success not only in your life, but the lives around you.

Do you feel yourself needing to maintain productivity or increase your creativity during the COVID-19? Do you feel like you need to take advantage of being at home to do something AMAZING and innovative? Do you feel pressure to achieve success in some sort of way? In this episode, we discuss how you can redefine success during the time of this pandemic. We wanted to take a moment to extend support to everyone all over the world and let you know that it's okay to have different priorities during this crisis. We love you and are praying for you and your families!

In this week's episode, we continue our conversation with Eugene Johnson in exploring what the path of becoming a successful entrepreneur is. We talk about how the path of success is the same for everyone but where we start is different. Eugene gives us the wisdom that comes from leading a start-up from $0 to $1 Million in revenue.

We continue the series, People of Color Redefining Success, with sitting down with Eugene Johnson, CEO of Zyrl. Eugene founded Zyrl with the mission of building the most dominant force in influencer marketing. This is a 2 part episode with this first episode exploring the early life experiences that led Eugene to become the CEO of a tech company. Part 2 will be uploaded next week as Eugene gives ways POC can redefine success as Entrepreneurs. Be sure to check out Eugene at @eugenekjohnson and @zyrl.us

As we continue the People of Color Redefining Success series, we had the opportunity to sit down with Ben McBride. In this episode, we discuss everything from racism, institutions, purpose, belonging, the failures of the church and more! _ For those of you wondering who Ben McBride is: Ben is a native of San Francisco, spiritual leader and longtime activist for peace and justice in the Bay Area. He is a national leader around police/community trust-building and gun violence prevention work including a background of training over 100 law enforcement departments & executives. _ You can also catch him on his new show, The Belong Circle, where he and other national leaders gather to discuss how to bridge across differences to build unity in our communities.

We continue the People of Color Redefining Success series with our special guests, Taiwo and Kehinde Adewunmi, founders of Chronicles of TK. Taiwo and Kehinde discuss secrets of breaking into tech, how they have traveled 15 countries on a budget, and how to deal with transitions. They are passionate about sharing their experiences to inspire people to get closer to their dreams. If you're interested in learning more about how POC can redefine success in tech and travel, this episode is for you! Follow them on IG @chroniclesoftk and subscribe to their youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbVuxG86d_RoH-83BqdBNwA .

Welcome to Season 2 of The Miller Time Podcast! This is the first episode of our new series, People of Color Redefining Success. During this series, we interview people of color who are redefining success in multiple sectors of our communities! To kick off the new season, we sit down with Ace Johnson, founder of iVisionary Academy, and talk about how he uses purpose as a tool to catapult and develop the youth in our community. We learn how Ace has redefined success for himself and how he is creating spaces and platforms to uplift others to discover their purpose as well. For more information about Ace and his organization, you can visit https://www.ivisionary.academy/ .

Pat and CoCo end the Life Lessons series by discussing the challenge of legitimizing their business in the early stages. They explore whether it's necessary to make your business official first or focus on developing the structure first. This episode concludes the Life Lessons series and they will begin a brand new series called People of Color Redefining Success. Stay tuned for a line-up of special guests starting back on February 24th, 2020!

On this episode of The Miller Time Podcast, Pat and CoCo continue the series of Life Lessons exploring what it means for them to be business owners. They explore 4 lessons they learned the hard way while running their business. They challenge listeners to redefine success in their business while considering their success philosophy of BSPF. Follow us on all streaming platforms or you can also find us on our website at www.cocoplanmylife.com/podcast .

Pat and CoCo explore the importance of delaying independence as it relates to future success. They examine the impending fate of future retirees and how independence can actually lead to our demise as Millennials.

Pat and CoCo discuss what it means to be a Millennial and how Millennials often face the decision of pursuing a degree in order to achieve success. They debate on whether it's truly necessary to have a degree in order to achieve success.

Pat and CoCo continue the Life Lessons series by talking about marriage and specifically talking about the challenges they face in their own marriage. They each spend time sharing individually about obstacles they have faced and discuss how they have overcome their challenges by changing their mindsets and behaviors.

Pat and CoCo continue in the Life Lessons series and begin to focus on Life Lessons in marriage. They interview a special guest, Patrick's grandfather, about how he has found success in his 48 years of marriage. He shares raw details about a huge struggle that could have destroyed his marriage, but actually made it rock-steady.

In this episode, Pat and CoCo continue the conversation regarding their Christian identity. They specifically explore what it means to be a Christian in Millennial society today. They examine the history of Christianity, struggles that today's Christians may face and how you can continue to be true to your faith in today's times.

In this episode, Pat and CoCo explore their Christian identity and talk about the language that Christians speak called Christianese. Christianese is easily detected by the use of sayings heard in Church, but it causes one to wonder, "What does that really mean, though?" or "Is that actually in the Bible?" Some Christians can speak this language effortlessly, but is it actually beneficial to speak Christianese? This is one of our favorite episodes thus far because it challenges us to think about what really makes someone a Christian? Is it based on if you can TALK THE TALK or WALK THE WALK?

Pat and CoCo continue their conversation on what light skin privilege is and where it comes from. They explore how history gives light to the formation of the division between dark skin and light skin individuals. They leave us with a challenge to help us to explore our identities in a new way.

In this episode, Pat interviews CoCo on what it means for her to have light-skin privilege. CoCo divulges into personal stories about her experiences as a light-skin Black woman and how her Black experience was filled with many privileges, but also with being told that she is not "Black enough". Pat and CoCo discuss what it means to be Black and how there is often complexity and intersectionality that influences our racial experiences. Be sure to tune in next week to hear Part 2 of this episode!

This is the first official episode of the Life Lessons series! In this episode, Pat gets vulnerable about the time he realized that White women were more attractive than Black women. CoCo challenges him to think about the effects of internalized racism. It gets deep! You won't want to miss this!

In this episode, Pat and CoCo begin a new series called "Life Lessons" which they get real and vulnerable about life lessons they have learned along the way! This episode lays the foundation of their identities that they will be speaking from including being a Black, Christian, Married, Millennial, Business-Owning Couple!