I Am Black Success®
Stephen A. Hart
Tired of chasing someone else's dream? Ignite your own path to success with "I Am Black Success®," the podcast fueled by 230+ stories of #BlackExcellence.
Host Stephen A. Hart leads you on a deep dive into the journeys of bold Black trailblazers - founders, authors, creatives, and leaders who blazed their own trails.
Every episode is your free blueprint for success, packed with actionable strategies, insights, and tools you can use TODAY.
✅ Learn from icons like Dr. Dennis Kimbro, Janice Bryant Howroyd, John W. Rogers Jr., Minda Harts, Patrice Washington, and many many others.
✅ Discover cutting-edge tactics in entrepreneurship, leadership, wealth, and more.
✅ Join the thriving "Blazer Nation" community for support, inspiration, and connection.
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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best I Am Black Success® episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to I Am Black Success® for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite I Am Black Success® episode by adding your comments to the episode page.
This Black Dermatologist Migrated To The U.S. and Lived Out Her Impossible Dream | Dr Rosemarie Ingleton
I Am Black Success®
05/29/17 • 48 min
Dr Rosemarie Ingleton is often referred to as the dermatologist to the stars. She's the go-to authority on all-things dermatology in the media, as well as in New York City social circles and industries such as fashion, beauty, music, and the arts. She is featured regularly on television shows such as Good Morning America, Dr. Oz, The Today Show and The Doctors, and in magazines such as Glamour, Vogue, People Style Watch, InStyle, Elle, Essence, Town and Country and Real Simple.
In today's interview, we discussed her journey from her early years growing up in Jamaica, through her migration to the United States and how she lived out an impossible dream of becoming a dermatologist and business owner in Manhattan.
A few of the questions I asked Dr. Ingleton:
- Let's talk about the challenges you had starting your business... as I understood it, you had no money, no formal business plan and no business training?
- What were the necessary foundation pieces for your success back then?
- I'd love to understand your day to day and what you're doing today that helps to set you apart and continues to fuel this success you're experiencing?
- Could you talk about some good processes or practices for us to follow while we navigate our 'rough' years?
- Why living a healthy lifestyle and taking care of your skin is so important to you?
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Stop Pretending You’re Okay | Desiree S Coleman
I Am Black Success®
10/05/20 • 37 min
Desiree joins Stephen to discuss how to take care of yourself... know your limits... give yourself permission to not be ok... and seek the resources you need to be the best you.
OUR GUEST: DESIREE S COLEMAN
Desiree S. Coleman works to create equitable and empowering conditions for women & organizations. She is a consultant who has helped numerous groups redefine their diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) practices. Likewise, she has mentored and coached countless women to rediscover the Queen Within. Inspired by her daughters, Desiree speaks, writes, and curates events to empower women to be their best selves. She holds a Master of Public Administration from Syracuse University, is a Loyola Academy trustee and is the recipient of the 2019 Rising Star Award from Investment News.
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And connect with host Stephen A. Hart at Twitter and LinkedIn
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The Power of Showing Up and Being Relentless | Dre Baldwin
I Am Black Success®
01/23/17 • 39 min
Dre Baldwin teaches Mental Toughness, Self-Confidence and Self-Discipline to athletes, entrepreneurs and business professionals. On YouTube since 2006, Dre's content has been viewed overover 39 million times by 120,000 subscribers.
A Penn State alum, Dre coaches, speaks, blogs has a daily podcast, is writing several new books and programs, and still published to YouTube. Dre has appeared on 3 TED stages and written 11 top-selling books.
Dre's Episode Outline:
- What are you most grateful for in your life right now?
- What ignited this path for you and why that niche?
- Is there anything you wish you knew before you began this journey you're on?
- Tell us about a time when you fell short of a goal or objective of yours?
- Tell us what you're most passionate about doing in your day to day?
- How are you using social media today to empower others?
- How can we get started to share what we know?
- What advice would you give to the aspiring trailblazer wanting to rise above?
- How do you make decisions to separate the essential from the non-essentials?
- Five books that inspired Dre most?
- What is your why, what's pushing you?
- What's one action we should commit to this week to blaze our trail?
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All Black stories on this podcast are made available for free. Our ask - please listen, subscribe, rate and review our show, as it helps improve our ranking in the various podcast directories and helps other Black entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals find us more easily.
Please help us by SHARING this podcast with others. We believe that listening to these inspiring stories are going to move other aspiring Black trailblazers to make significant changes that have generational impact for many others, both now and well into the future.
Blazer Nation, go out today and find a way to rise above, go way beyond and keep blazing your trail.
Join our community at TBPod.com
And connect with Stephen A. Hart: Twitter | LinkedIn
#BlackExcellence #BlackSuccess #BlackMen #BlackWomen #BlackEntrepreneur #BlackLeader #BlackPodcast
From $23/hr contractor to $300k business owner | Indigo Ocean
I Am Black Success®
06/20/16 • 49 min
Indigo Ocean Dutton is the founder of Aspiratech, Awaken Business Consulting, and Phone Buddies Peer Counseling Community. She is the author of Being Bliss and Micro Habits for Major Happiness.
Indigo and I discussed:
- Any significance or meaning to the name Indigo Ocean?
- Her life's story leading up to her time spent in Bali
- What provided the winning mindset to achieve so much after leaving Bali
- How she went from being a 1099 business consulting contractor making $23/hr, moved up to $75/hr and then jumped ship to running her own show and getting a $300k contract inside of 2 years
- What gets her out of her comfort zone and reaching for new and higher heights
- She shares two (2) effective foundation steps every new entrepreneurs must get right
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All our stories on this podcast are made available for free. Please listen, subscribe, rate and review our show, as it helps improve our ranking in the various podcast directories and helps others find us more easily.
Please help us by SHARING this podcast with others. We believe that listening to these inspiring stories are going to move other aspiring Black trailblazers to make significant changes that have generational impact for many others, both now and well into the future.
Blazer Nation, go out today and find a way to rise above, go way beyond and keep blazing your trail.
Join our community at TBPod.com
This Black Founder is Disrupting the Warranty Business | Clarence Bethea
I Am Black Success®
03/28/16 • 33 min
Clarence is the Founder & CEO of Upsie, which is a free mobile app that now gives us the power of making warranty decisions directly to the consumer. Clarence has worked with several startups and Fortune 500 companies & previously helped launch other ventures.
He had this frustrating laptop warranty experience, and realized there was a significant opportunity to reinvent the warranty industry. And so using his wealth of business knowledge and new found passion for improving the warranty experience, he worked to make warranty purchasing simple, fun and educational for consumers.
In this episode, we discussed:
- What inspired Clarence to get into entrepreneurship
- What he was doing prior to Upsie and how his prior failure helped his start with Upsie
- His process to go about raising funds to get Upsie started
- Talked about a fear he had getting Upsie going and how Clarence overcame it
- How he's been able to bring brand awareness to Upsie
- The effect of family on his life and business
- How Clarence keeps motivated and out of comfort zones
- Why it's important to volunteer & give back
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All Black stories on this podcast are made available for free. Our ask - please listen, subscribe, rate and review our show, as it helps improve our ranking in the various podcast directories and helps other Black entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals find us more easily.
Please help us by SHARING this podcast with others. We believe that listening to these inspiring stories are going to move other aspiring Black trailblazers to make significant changes that have generational impact for many others, both now and well into the future.
Blazer Nation, go out today and find a way to rise above, go way beyond and keep blazing your trail.
Join our community at TBPod.com
And connect with Stephen A. Hart: Twitter | LinkedIn
#BlackExcellence #BlackSuccess #BlackMen #BlackWomen #BlackEntrepreneur #BlackLeader #BlackPodcast
How Bold Actions and Awkward positions Helped Him Grow | Pat Flynn
I Am Black Success®
02/22/16 • 21 min
So I won a raffle at Traffic & Conversion Summit, and my prize:
15 minutes in an open booth conversation with Pat Flynn of The Smart Passive Income. Freak out moment for sure! I was only podcasting for 3 weeks at this point and totally went fan boy.
Hear my voice crackle and my nerves come through in this excited moment to have a conversation with someone I truly admire and respect as a dad, husband, business man and podcast godfather.
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All Black stories on this podcast are made available for free. Our ask - please listen, subscribe, rate and review our show, as it helps improve our ranking in the various podcast directories and helps other Black entrepreneurs, leaders and professionals find us more easily.
Please help us by SHARING this podcast with others. We believe that listening to these inspiring stories are going to move other aspiring Black trailblazers to make significant changes that have generational impact for many others, both now and well into the future.
Blazer Nation, go out today and find a way to rise above, go way beyond and keep blazing your trail.
Join our community at TBPod.com
And connect with Stephen A. Hart: Twitter | LinkedIn
#BlackExcellence #BlackSuccess #BlackMen #BlackWomen #BlackEntrepreneur #BlackLeader #BlackPodcast
From Success to Significance | Stephen A. Hart
I Am Black Success®
12/02/19 • 56 min
Today, I lift my head and I see this seed that I planted over 200 weeks ago. And I didn’t just plant it and leave it. No, I watered, nurtured and cared for this podcast (my baby) each and every week. Not a Monday morning at 5am went by that I didn’t have an episode going live for you in nearly 4 years. And today, we celebrate yet another amazing milestone in episode 200.
There are so many of you who over the years have shared a DM or a WhatsApp, a text, a post or a tweet or a 5 star review and in whatever way you did that and given me a big ups, you’ve let me know you care and that you’re listening. And I can’t tell you just how much I value and appreciate every last one of those notes and messages.
My call to action today is to move from a pursuit of success to that of significance because what we are leaving, matters! What we leave will impact others ... for good or bad.
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Why Your Brand Identity is So Valuable | Maurice Cherry
I Am Black Success®
08/08/16 • 50 min
Maurice Cherry is the founder and principal at Lunch, a multidisciplinary studio in Atlanta, GA that helps creative brands craft messages and tell stories for their targeted audiences, including fostering relationships with underrepresented communities. Past clients and collaborators include Vox Media, NIKE, Mediabistro, Site5, SitePoint, and The City of Atlanta.
In this episode, we discussed a lot and I asked Maurice several questions, including:
- What are you hoping to create through your brands?
- What are you most passionate about when building these platforms?
- What have been some of the biggest lessons you've learned?
- Are you able to monetize the podcast?
- What have you been doing in your business in the past 6 months to 1 year that have brought you to the success you're experiencing today?
- Is it still important that we establish a solid brand identity? Why??
- Share a road block, challenge or fear you had and how you overcame it to move forward
- Share a couple lessons that someone listening who is wanting to pivot needs to know to grow and succeed on their journey?
- What can we look forward to with you in 10 years and beyond?
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All our stories on this podcast are made available for free. Please listen, subscribe, rate and review our show, as it helps improve our ranking in the various podcast directories and helps others find us more easily.
Please help us by SHARING this podcast with others. We believe that listening to these inspiring stories are going to move other aspiring Black trailblazers to make significant changes that have generational impact for many others, both now and well into the future.
Blazer Nation, go out today and find a way to rise above, go way beyond and keep blazing your trail.
Join our community at TBPod.com
Black Women: Health Justice | Part 4 of 4
I Am Black Success®
03/27/23 • 38 min
We are not short on horror stories of racial disparities in medicine. We saw this most recently during the early days of the pandemic, when Black and brown communities were absolutely devastated by Covid-19. And even beyond the pandemic, health disparities and inequity for people of color persist.
Our guest today is Dr. Oni Blackstock. Dr. Oni Blackstock is recognized as a thought leader and influencer in the areas of HIV and health equity. She is a primary care and HIV physician and the founder and Executive Director of Health Justice, a racial and health equity consulting firm, that helps health care and public health organizations to center anti-racism in the workplace and to reduce health inequities in the communities they service.
She previously served as Assistant Commissioner at the New York City Health Department where she led the City’s response to the HIV epidemic. Prior to that, she was Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center where she led and conducted research to develop and test interventions to promote HIV prevention and treatment. She holds degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and Yale School of Medicine.
Dr. Blackstock is passionate about ensuring that all individuals and communities have the resources and support they need to thrive and achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
Join our host for this #WomensHistoryMonth special series, Jennefer Witter, Founder and CEO of The Boreland Group, for this conversation with Dr. Blackstock.
PLEASE SHARE this episode with 5 Black women (or tag them in the comments). Let them know they need this motivational #MissionFuel TAH-dayyy.
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Finding Balance in Your Passion | Craig The Barber®
I Am Black Success®
07/29/19 • 29 min
Know your why! Why are you passionate about what you're passionate about? And why do you want to make that a career?
Our guest is one of those people who inspired me to launch Trailblazers.FM and was one of our very first conversations on the podcast back on on episode 7, Craig The Barber®.
Craig the Barber is Hollywood’s top source for men’s grooming needs, a role he has held for more than 10 years. But the true story is that Craig unknowingly began his journey toward becoming a master barber all the way back at the age of 14 years-old. Craig’s belief that being a well-groomed man does not mean going overboard and that any guy can take charge of his style and appearance with the right guidance.
Craig is a true example of how following one’s passion will lead you to never “work” a day in your life because you will always love what you do. As he says himself, “Life is meant to be lived, not worked!”
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Blazer Nation, join our community at iamblacksuccess.com
And connect with host Stephen A. Hart on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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FAQ
How many episodes does I Am Black Success® have?
I Am Black Success® currently has 239 episodes available.
What topics does I Am Black Success® cover?
The podcast is about Black Men, Black Women, Entrepreneurship, Podcasts, Black History, Black Business, Business and Careers.
What is the most popular episode on I Am Black Success®?
The episode title '10 Actions To Blaze Your Trail in 2020' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on I Am Black Success®?
The average episode length on I Am Black Success® is 37 minutes.
How often are episodes of I Am Black Success® released?
Episodes of I Am Black Success® are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of I Am Black Success®?
The first episode of I Am Black Success® was released on Feb 1, 2016.
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