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The Next Best Thing
This is a podcast about making changes in all areas of your life, even when you don’t know where to start. This is the antidote to your Sunday scaries. It bucks cultural standards that can leave you burned out and broken. It’s not about activating a Plan B or a career pivot; both of those terms indicate abandoning how you started. No, this is about continuing on your path and using all of your experiences to make a shift your future self will thank you for. Each episode includes a different…
Episodes
- The Next Best Thing
How Create Leverage By Building Better Connections
What’s getting in the way of getting closer to your dreams? Are you waiting for more favorable conditions? For someone else to tell you it’s okay? In this…
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How To Stay Focused + Learn From My Mistakes
In this solo episode Aundrea discusses what she wishes she knew before launching into her NEXT. It’s insight she hopes can help get you unstuck and keep you…
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2 Year Anniversary of Quitting My Job
On July 8, 2022 Aundrea walked away from her local news career and started an experiment. After living a life by other people’s rules and checking the boxes…
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The Power of Highly Sensitive People and Embracing Your Emotions At Work with Melody Wilding
Do emails from colleagues or your boss put you in a bad mood? Are you having a hard time shutting off work at the end of the day? Are you ever criticized for…
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Sandra Lindsay on Navigating Hardships and Making History
Are you ready to meet your BIG moment? If the opportunity showed up today could you take all of the attention and pressure that comes with it?Nurse Sandra…
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Kendra Bracken-Ferguson on How To Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals and Why There’s No Such Thing As Failure
What are the pillars you live by and how do they align with your actions? Is your ambition running you or are you managing it to live a life of impact? We’re…
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Accessing, Healing and Reclaiming Black Joy with Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts
How do you access your joy, even in dark times? That’s the central question in this week’s episode. Our guest this week is storyteller, educator, curator of…
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Danielle Mendoza on How To Write A Best Selling Book To Transform Your Business and Personal Brand
In today's episode we're diving deep into the world of book publishing and its powerful impact on business and growing your personal brand. Danielle Mendoza…
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How To Overcome What’s Holding You Back
We’re just about halfway through the year, and it's time for an intentional check-in. In this episode we’re calling out some of the barriers that may have be…
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Arivee Vargas on Pursuing Your Zone of Genius, Leaving Big Law, Navigating Motherhood and Launching into Your NEXT
Arivee Vargas shares her journey from a successful legal career to discovering her true calling in coaching and leadership development. Arivee explains the…
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Amy Shoenthal on Navigating Setbacks: Turning Obstacles to Opportunities
Amy Shoenthal is a journalist and author of “The Setback Cycle: How Defining Moments Can Move Us Forward.” The "Setback Cycle," consists of four…
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While You Wait: Lessons on Discomfort, Anticipation and Consistency to Make Progress
Hi Friends! Each week we bring you a guest who talks about how to navigate your NEXT. This week host Aundrea Cline-Thomas is giving you an update on her…
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Lydia Hamilton on Redefining Success, Transformational Travel, and the Power of Sabbaticals - Part 2
We’re back with Part 2 of our conversation with Lydia Hamilton. Lydia has always been a world traveler, but she embarked on a nearly 50 day solo adventure…
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Lydia Hamilton on Career Breaks, Solo Travel, and How to Find Your Authentic Self
Lydia Hamilton traded her title as a Vice President of Operations to Professional Wanderer. Then she set out on an epic journey that included working on a farm…
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Gemma Toner on Sabbaticals, Executive Coaching, Mentorship and Unleashing Your Potential
Gemma Toner transitioned from the fast-paced executive life to the introspective satisfaction of retirement. But for Gemma, retirement was not an end, but a…
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Kara Stevens on Side Hustling to Wealth, Investing In Freedom and Moving Abroad
Kara Stevens, the force behind The Frugal Feminista , began her journey grappling with hefty student loans and credit card debt. It led her to create a blog…
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A Year of Growth: Celebrating One Year of The Next Best Thing Podcast
Today’s episode is a pause, a time to reflect on not just the achievements, but the bumps and stumbles along the way. We’ve built something incredible here, a…
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Keisha Hickson on Overcoming Complacency, Living With Multiple Myeloma and The Power of Showing Up
Keisha Hickson’s life changed when a diagnosis threatened her life expectancy. Faced with a renewed appreciation for time, Keisha is determined not to waste it…
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How To Turn Your Passion Into Profit: Tricia Taitt on Dancing With Your Numbers
Tricia Taitt was navigating the intensity of Wall Street when she was laid off during the Great Recession. She turned to her lifelong passion for dance to…
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Collective Action and Mobilizing The Power of Community with Katrina Gamble
Katrina Gamble, political strategist and founder of Sojourn Strategies, peels back the curtain on the efforts that drive social movements beyond the ballot…
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How To Get Unstuck: Face Your Fears of Failure, Rejection, and Success with Renee Washington
With more than two decades in TV news, Renee Washington switched gears big time. Imagine managing 150 people, handling the crazy news cycle, then throwing in a…
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Michellene Davis on Advocating for Change, Self Preservation and the Cost of Success
There’s no shortage of bad news right now from the wars abroad to the attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion right here at home. In this episode we explore…
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Overcome a Scarcity Mindset, Embrace Abundance and Loud Budgeting with Financial Therapist Aja Evans
What’s your earliest money memory? We're peeling back the layers on what’s getting in the way of our financial freedom and how the messages received in our…
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How To Go Viral with Value: Social Media Marketing Strategies with Chris Russo
From the allure of short-form video content to the finesse of building not just an audience, but a true community, Chris Russo has the lowdown on what it takes…
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How to Raise Your Prices, Build And Scale Your Business with Deb Boulanger
Deb Boulanger knows the corporate game all too well, after having served in senior roles for decades. But let's be real—the top spots are still a boys' club…
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Knowing When to Quit and Redefining Success Through Faith with Isis Breanna
Isis Breanna is a marketing expert, author, storyteller, and a lighthouse for those who want to make a living pursuing their purpose and passion. She joins us…
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What Do You Want? How To Create An Effective Action Plan with Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore
By February 80% of people would have ditched their New Year’s goals. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Dr. Kerry Ann Rockquemore, a sociologist, created a…
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Lil Nas X, Saweetie and Erica Campbell’s Performance Director on How To Own Your Stage with K.J. Rose
K.J. Rose is the go to performance director for some of your favorite artists including Lil Nas X, Saweetie, The Lumineers and Erica Campbell. In this episode…
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Letting Go, Turning Up + Embracing The Shift with Chanel Adams
HAPPY NEW YEAR! In this episode we’re saying farewell to 2023, reflecting on the highlights and the lessons! We’re also setting our sights on 2024 and…
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ACT UP! Steps for Personal and Professional Growth in 2024
Each week during the ACT Up segments guests share what you can do TODAY to get you from where you are to where you want to be. Here are a few of our favorites…
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4 Steps To Making 2024 Your Best Year Yet
What do you want? Not what you THINK you can have but what do you want? What will it take to pursue that thing? This quick episode outlines the questions you…
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Your Journey to Financial Freedom with Jamila Souffrant
What does financial freedom mean to you? For Jamila Souffrant it meant ditching her 1.5 hour commute to work for a life that gave her far more flexibility. To…
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The Power of Stillness with Aundrea Cline-Thomas
In this episode of The Next Best Thing, host Aundrea Cline-Thomas shares her personal experiences and reflections on stillness and healing. Aundrea explains…
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From The Oprah Show to E-Commerce Executive: Candi Carter On Taking Risks and Navigating Career Transitions
Candi Carter had an award winning television career. She was a Senior producer of The Oprah Show and went on to be the show runner at The View and The Tamron…
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From Survival Mode To Thriving: How to Come Home To Yourself with Dr. Thema Bryant
How are you…. really? Are you in survival mode and don’t even know it? What does wellness even look like? On this episode we’re joined by Dr. Thema Bryant, the…
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From Shark Tank to “Killer Pitch Master:” Precious Williams on Pitching for Success
Today, we welcome “Killer pitchmaster,” author, and entrepreneur Precious Williams. She breaks down the art of the perfect pitch, from teaching us how to…
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Dr. Wayne Frederick on Serving as President of Howard University, Transformational Leadership, and Making Progress in the Black Community
From pulling Howard University and its hospital out of a financial deficit, to increasing graduation rates, and attracting highly sought after faculty…
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4x NBA Champion Andre Iguodala on Retirement, Venture Capital, NIL deals and More
Andre Iguodala joined The Next Best Thing podcast just days after announcing his retirement from the NBA after 19 seasons. Get ready for a deep dive into the…
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How To Make an Impact Through The Power of Non Verbal Communication with Linda Clemons
It’s not what you say, it’s what they hear! Our non verbal communication truly determines how others may perceive us. Yet it’s a skill so many overlook. From…
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Revealing Alopecia, Overcoming Shame and Embracing Authenticity with Aziza Shuler
Are you hiding something? Does the secret keep you from connecting with others? Does the fear about being judged keep you from showing up as your true…
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You Can Quit, But Don’t Give Up
The light is finally shining at the end of what seemed like and endless dark tunnel, but is it here to stay? Learn more about how host Aundrea Cline-Thomas is…
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How To Start A Business: Registration, Trademarks + Contracts with Attorney Natalie Pierre-Louis
Is setting up a business part of your NEXT? Don’t be so excited about going to market with your product and service and not protect yourself legally. In this…
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Key Steps To Finding Your Purpose + 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Today with Amanda Miller Littlejohn
Do you have a nagging feeling that there’s more out there, but you don’t know where to begin? Are you trying to make your job fill all of the needs in your…
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Setting Boundaries, Finding Opportunities and Taking A Leap Of Faith
Why not now for your joy, happiness and peace? What are you waiting for? On this episode of The Next Best Thing it’s just you and me! I want to share how we’re…
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The Lie of Perfection, Overworking and Burnout to Achieve Success wi/ L’Oreal Thompson Payton
Is perfectionism holding you back? Are you trying to be the best parent, partner, friend and worker all at the same time? What if I told you perfection doesn’t…
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Richelle Carey on Becoming a Single Mother By Choice: IVF + Adoption in Your 40’s and Beyond
A growing number of women are choosing single motherhood by choice. Richelle Carey’s journey to motherhood began in her early 40’s. After a failed IVF cycle…
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Stephanie Perry On Career Breaks, Sabbaticals, Moving Abroad and Living with Ease
Burned out? Overwhelmed? Does the idea of Black Excellence need to be redefined?Stephanie Perry is a professional house sitter, the creator of House Sitter…
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Aurora James on Defining Success On Your Own Terms and Living Your Values
Are you using a system that was never designed for your to define your level of success or determine your failure? Are you living your values?In this episode…
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Brandice Daniel on Mastering The Art of a Cliff Jump: Betting on Yourself and Winning Big
They say big risks lead to big rewards. But there has to be a strategy behind taking the leap.Brandice Daniel calls this a cliff jump. As the founder and CEO…
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Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats: Analyzing Your Career and Charting Major Growth with Cate Luzio
You can’t make progress without analyzing where you are, what’s in and out of your control. The SWOT analysis is a framework that’s commonly used to determine…
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Dominique Broadway on Funding Your Dreams and Creating Generational Wealth
Money is often the barrier to people getting to their NEXT. In this episode, personal finance expert and author Dominique Broadway outlines how to literally…
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Making Yourself More Marketable and Finding The Flow in Your NEXT with Don Champion - Part 2
Changing industries? Your resume and mindset may need a makeover!In this episode of The Next Best Thing podcast, learn strategies to best position yourself for…
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Healing Workplace Trauma and Thriving In Your NEXT with Don Champion - Part 1
Are past offenses triggering you in your new season? Don Champion climbed the ranks to become a television network news correspondent before he was let go in…
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In Sickness + Health: Battle Tested Marriage Vows with Neysa Taylor
What happens when life throws you a devastating transition. Your NEXT becomes the worst case scenario but you don’t have another choice but to go through…
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Authentically Climbing the Corporate Ladder with Mandell Crawley
Your NEXT doesn’t always require blowing up your life and starting over. What if the changes you desire are not only in your current industry but within the…
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One Year Of Freedom
It’s been one year since I blew up my life and I’m still standing! In this solo episode I break down how things have REALLY been, what freedom means to me and…
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Getting Your Book Published and Creating Community with Kellye Garrett
Your first draft is never final. Award winning mystery author Kellye Garrett knows that all too well. But there are some things she isn't willing to change…
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Complete Surrender with Mara S. Campo
What if I told you you’re trying too hard? Worrying and white knuckling circumstances may be the thing standing in your way of a transformative opportunity…
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Bozoma Saint John on Grieving To Greatness
How would you move through life if you knew time was running out? Would you stay at that job, in that relationship, or continue delaying pursuing your…
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A Dreamer’s Manifesto with Ariane Hunter
Have you really given yourself space to dream and execute a life that allows you to show up fully, grow and enjoy financial abundance? It’s not just a hope, it…