"BFFs aren't found they're fostered" with Shasta Nelson

BFFs forevereverver, right? Um... Real deal friendship expert Shasta Nelson comes with all the advice and practical strategy for confronting loneliness the majority of us are feeling right now, navigating friend breakups, making a new crew, and cultivating relationships. Even during a pandemic.    

Go deeper on the Frientimacy Triangle with a copy of Shasta Nelson’s Frientimacy: How to Deepen Friendships for Lifelong Health and Happiness.

Find more resources or work with Shasta on shastanelson.com and join the Girlfriend Circles community.

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on making your relationship with beauty more about you and less about standards. 

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Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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To run a business together. Working to give the beauty industry a major makeover. While engaged. Fempower Beauty founders Alexis and Christina are making it happen. How?! Oh, we go there. Their personal relationships to beauty, identity, and each other will encourage you to put up a mirror to your own routines. 

Join the Fempower community, pick up your own manifestation guide, or experience the lipstick line at fempowerbeauty.com or @fempowerbeauty on the ‘gram.  

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on making your relationship with beauty more about you and less about standards. 

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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Mama or not, turns out your own birth story (and tapping into your ancestors for answers) can tell you a whole lot. We spoke with doula and reproductive justice advocate Latham Thomas about the fight for equity in maternal care, plus advice for advocating for yourself in any medical setting.

Read one of Latham’s books or learn from her directly during a doula training program on MamaGlow.com. And for a daily dose of that calming, inspiring, always educational Lath wisdom, she’s @glowmaven on the ‘gram.  

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on cultivating a healthy environment. 

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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Making money moves should be more than an Instagram caption. After an hour with millennial personal finance expert Dominique Broadway, it'll be your MO. Come for her story — from climbing out of debt, to building an 8-figure business — and leave with tips for taking on your money monsters, go from budgeting to growing wealth, and managing moola for your whole fam.

Show Notes:
On this ep, Dominique mentions NACA for those at different income levels interested in exploring the home buying process.  

Follow @dominiquebroadway and sign up for one of Dominique’s bootcamps or her Wealth Transfer Investing Course on financesdemysitifed.com and check out budgeting guidebooks, her podcast and more.

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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Nitika Chopra ODed on self help and all things wellness so you don’t have to. But one listen to the chronic illness advocate and founder of Chronicon, and you’ll prob want all of her mantras on t-shirts. Tune in for real talk on her own path from surviving to thriving with a chronic illness + what *not* to say to your friend going through it.

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on your own wellness + self love journey (that does NOT suck). 

Follow Nitika on her official site and Instagram @nitikachopra.  

Join the Chronicon community for events, resources, workshops, and new connections in the chronic illness community. 

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

A week in Woman On starts with watching (or listening ;) Learn more about how to move forward with the rest of the Woman On Collective at womanoncollective.com
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Do they like me? Do they not like me? But seriously… do they?! Let’s be real: If likeability was on TikTok, we’d all be following and trying to copy its dances. The Likeability Trap author, Latina to Latina podcaster, and award-winning journalist Alicia Menendez gets meta with us on likeability struggles + pro tips for avoiding their death grip.  

Follow Alicia Menendez on Instagram @aliciamenendezxo and Twitter @AliciaMenendez and buy The Likeability Trap wherever your fave books are sold.

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on finding and avoiding your own likeability traps. 

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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Hi, the world/city/your neighborhood needs you. Take it from two women navigating local politics. Bushra Amiwala, the youngest elected Muslim official in the US, gives us a masterclass on how to pick yourself up after a loss and show up as an authentic leader. Newly-elected LA Councilmember Nithya Raman shares how she navigates the challenges of leading her city and her family through a pandemic and beyond. 

Follow Bushra Amiwala on Instagram and Twitter
Follow Nithya (and her epic Twitter threads) @nithyavraman 

Download the worksheet inspired by this episode to help you put pen to paper on building community and finding mentors. 

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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After drunk dialing her therapist on her 25th bday, Tara Schuster set out to save her life through re-parenting, a reluctant gratitude practice, and writing an hour a day before her crazy stressful job. Think you never could? The “Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies” author and former TV exec will convince you that you can.

Follow Tara online, on Instagram @taraschuster, and buy her book.

Download the worksheet inspired by Tara’s episode to help you put pen to paper on a gratitude practice that’ll stick. Even for skeptics.

Never Been Asked is a production of Woman On LLC
Host: Maxie McCoy
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright

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Wait. Laughing… like, “hahaha” and “lol”? There’s space to do that in the year 2020?! Yes. And super hilarious Danielle Perez is here to prove it. In this episode, the standup star — who found her comedy calling at 30 (so brave, we know) — shares how she’s kept creating in quarantine and how she’s making the entertainment world more inclusive. Yup, Danielle will make you laugh *and* give you the inspo to put pen to paper on your own projects.

Show Notes: Follow Danielle Perez on Instagram @divadelux. While you’re there, check out her bestie + this episode’s Womxn on the Rise, Madison Shepard.

Support Her: Subscribe to Danielle Perez and Madison Shepard’s podcast Wow Rude wherever you listen.

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Technical Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright
Social Media Producer: Betty Jean Bowles

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Cuckoo from quarantine? Same. Maxie’s making the most of it from — where else? — her apartment. Being stuck inside for the holidays is a lil bit of a bummer, but this ep we’ll kinda be together. On Zoom. Promise we’ll make it fun with food writer Sabrina Medora raiding our pantry, Kinfield founder Nichole Powell helping us shop small smarter, Woman On Collective leaders Cherise Goode and Jacqueline Twillie solving all (most?!) of our tough convo and EOY money probs. 

SHOW NOTES
Eat up what food writer Sabrina Medora is cookin’ up on Un-Plated and in her community on Patreon)

Shop Better Together with us this holiday szn (and all year ‘round tbh) and support small businesses owned by women and people of color 

Find our moderating pro Cherise Goode on Instagram and LinkedIn

Really get help with your money probs and visit Jacqueline Twillie at ZeroGap.co

Woman On With Maxie McCoy is a production of Woman On LLC.
Creators + Executive Producers: Maxie McCoy and Lisa Raphael
Technical Producer + Editor: Sharissa Wright
Social Media Producer: Betty Jean Bowles

A week in Woman On starts with watching (or listening ;) Learn more about how to take the next best step with the rest of the Woman On Collective at womanoncollective.com
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