Changing Careers and Pursuing Your Passion with Jessica Hylton-Leckie

08/11/20 • 30 min

Ready to change your day to day? Jessica Hylton-Leckie shares how she left a career in law to pursue her passion to become an award-winning photographer, videographer, and home chef. Jessica is the CEO and creator of Jessica in the Kitchen, a food blog that focuses on sharing hundreds of nutritious, whole foods based delicious recipes. Her work has been featured on numerous websites and magazines, including Essence, delish, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Yahoo! We chat about how Jessica changed careers to build a successful brand as a food blogger, advice for women thinking of switching careers, and her suggestions for delicious summer recipes.

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Topics Covered:

How Jessica became involved with food blogging
How Jessica established her authority in the industry
Skills Jessica had to learn in her new career
Jessica’s decision to change careers
Challenges Jessica faced when starting off as a young entrepreneur
Advice for women thinking of changing careers
How Jessica stays motivated and where she draws inspiration
Generating income as a food blogger
How Jessica grew her brand

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Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc020

Topics Covered:

How Jessica became involved with food blogging
How Jessica established her authority in the industry
Skills Jessica had to learn in her new career
Jessica’s decision to change careers
Challenges Jessica faced when starting off as a young entrepreneur
Advice for women thinking of changing careers
How Jessica stays motivated and where she draws inspiration
Generating income as a food blogger
How Jessica grew her brand

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Twitter https://twitter.com/BreakConcrete/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/breakconcrete/

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Protecting Black Girlhood with Ashley Sawyer and Damala Denny, Girls for Gender Equity

How does centering the experiences of Black girls protect their innocence and childhood? In this Bonus Episode, Ashley Sawyer and Damala Denny from Girls for Gender Equity join to discuss GGE’s efforts. GGE is an inter-generational nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening local communities by creating opportunities for young women and girls to live self-determined lives. We explore how GGE works to dismantle systems of oppression in order to empower Black girls and help them #breakconcrete. We also discuss GGE's vision for the 2020 presidential election.

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Topics Covered:

GGE’s empowerment of young women of color
GGE’s National Agenda for Black Girls
How the Black Girl Bill of Rights declares the rights and privileges that Black girls and women deserve
Defining the adultification of Black girls and how it impacts school outcomes
Why Black educators matter
Stereotypes about Black women and girls and how these stereotypes impact relationships
Disproportionate discipline of Black girls in schools
How GGE is centering the experiences of Black girls in the 2020 presidential election
Ashley’s and Damala’s hopes and wishes for the upcoming elections
The importance of safeguarding Black girls’ childhood and innocence

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Embracing Uncomfortable Conversations with Erika Stallings

Erika Stallings is no stranger to uncomfortable conversations. In fact, she invites them as she fearlessly confronts workplace and healthcare inequities and leads the dialogue around hereditary breast cancer for Black women. Erika is a writer, health advocate, and attorney. She has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, O Magazine, and NPR. Her most recent article appears in The Cut, Racism at My Job Literally Gave Me PTSD. We chat about Erika’s advocacy on behalf of Black women both in the workspace and in healthcare, and her article, When Black Women Go From Office Pet to Office Threat.

Find links and show notes at https://breakconcrete.com/bc021

Topics Covered:

Why Erika began writing about race and the workplace
Erika’s article in ZORA, When Black Women Go From Office Pet to Office Threat
Erika’s experience of the office pet to office threat phenomenon in her own career and how she handled it
The importance of having a personal board of directors and the value of peer mentorship
How Erika balances speaking out against workplace injustices and workplace retaliation
Erika’s efforts to increase awareness of hereditary breast cancer among women of color
BRCA2 gene mutation and its risks for developing cancer
Options available for individuals with BRCA gene mutation
Erika’s decision to get a preventative mastectomy
Erika’s courage in talking openly about inheriting BRCA2 gene mutation