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Showing Up as Your True Self: Natural Hair Pride and Podcasting featuring Walter Gainer II - Episode 60

Release Date: 09/08/2022

Cultivating a Money Mindset featuring Isis Love - Episode 72

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Isis Love is a digital nomad, a financial alchemist, Airbnb super host, author, crypto nerd and has been featured in the We empowerment magazine. Her goal is to bring financial literacy to people in the community by helping them learn how to budget and manage money, multiplying it with cryptocurrency and forex trading. Her goal also is to make sure people are taking advantage of business credit. Not forgetting the most important piece of this all is cultivating a money mindset. She helps people deprogram the old ways of thinking about money to make room to become a money magnet. Today,...

Fitness and Health featuring Tyler Jones - Episode 71

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Tyler Jones has 6+ years of Fitness and Health Experience From NJ. He is also a curious learner and humorous. Today, he shares about his difficult childhood, including growing up in a family dealing with domestic violence. He also shares how his mother's encouragement and his partner Victoria's support helped him take the leap of faith and start his own online business. Tyler speaks about the myths around eating late at night, carbs, and cardio, before discussing the importance of attaching memories to food, flexible dieting, and macro counting. He also has inspiring stories of success...

What is Your Speciality : Nutrition & Fitness featuring Victoria Szamreta - Episode 70

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Victoria Szamreta is a wellness coach who shares her unique perspective on health and well-being. Today, she shares about how after suffering from her own eating disorder and unhealthy relationship with food & exercise she made it her mission to help other women overcome what society tells us is “healthy” and form better habits with themselves and their health so they can feel unstoppable! [00:01 – 01:09] Opening Segment I introduce our guest, Victoria Szamreta [01:10 – 03:37] Who is Victoria Szamreta and What Brings Her Joy? She shares where she grew...

Resilience and Podcasting featuring Erin Brown - Episode 69

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Erin Brown is a Resilience coach, podcast host, speaker and author who collects stories, systems and strategies of resilience in action that allow people to have a greater human experience. Today, she shares about why she started doing her podcast Resilience in Action in order to share people’s stories and experiences and teaching new podcasters tips and processes on how to start their own podcast. [00:01 – 00:42] Opening Segment I introduce our guest, Erin Brown [00:43 – 02:23] Who is Erin Brown? How interviewing and listening to people’s stories brings her joy...

Selling and Shifting the World featuring Eli Wilde - Episode 68

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Eli Wilde describes himself as a “dude who sells stuff.” He is formerly the #1 salesperson for Tony Robbins and is now a life and business coach with $100M in coaching sales. He’s the host of The Everything is Influence Podcast, a revolutionary show dedicated to helping you understand why people do what they do. Today, he shares expert secrets to succeed in selling and influencing people in an authentic way. He also reflects on his own journey, the ups and downs in his life, and the people who helped him get to where he is now. Tune in for this powerful conversation! [00:01...

Creating the Life You've Imagined featuring Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey, PsyD - Episode 67

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Dr. Clarissa Castillo-Ramsey is a multi-passion entrepreneur (leadership & life coach, practicing abstract artist, author, and organizational psychologist). She’s been an artist since she was 5. Clarissa's passion for coaching can be traced back to her childhood and young adult days. She was the friend people would go to for advice, counsel, and encouragement. Clarissa is also the author of the book Painting Your Path, 21 Interviews with Extraordinary Women and journal Painting Your Path Writing Journal. She incorporates her Painting Your Path framework with her clients, who seek to define...

Finding Financial Health and Happiness featuring Terry Banks - Episode 66

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Terry Banks specializes in guiding professionals to efficiently manage their finances so that they can shift from being frustrated with living paycheck to paycheck to achieving their definition of financial freedom. Terry started Bank On It Financial Coaching after heeding encouragement from friends who benefited from years of her informally sharing what she learned along her journey to financial freedom. Through trial and error, she pioneered her way from not knowing if she would ever be able to retire to having the option of retiring early. When she’s not helping others conquer their money...

Strengths, Wellbeing, and Ease featuring Kyle Johann-Baker - Episode 65

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Kyle Johann-Baker is an Organization Leadership & WellBeing Consultant who uses CliftonStrengths to bring out the best in others. In a world of endless pathways and options, he encourages the people he coaches to observe what it is that truly makes them come alive, even if that is a different path than the person next to them (hint: if you’re doing it right, it often will be). In this episode, we learn how to harness power from our strengths. By recognizing our strengths, we can have a more holistic approach to our work and wellbeing. Kyle also touches on certification programs for...

Supporting Transgender and Non-Binary Sexual Health and Wellness featuring Miss Jai - Episode 64

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Miss Jai Smith (she/her/hers/he/him/his) is a gender non-binary, queer, poly, kinkster, and educator for gender-affirming care and transgender and non-binary sexual health. She holds a Master of Public with a focus on health and wellness for Transgender and Non-binary communities. He has over a decade of experience working in the fields of HIV prevention and medical care and has developed and facilitated trainings on supporting Transgender and Non-binary people for providers at local, state, regional, and national levels. Additionally, she provides technical assistance in supporting...

Death, Dying, & The Medicine of Life featuring Shivani Narang - Episode 63

BOI MEETS WELLNESS

Shivani Narang (she/they) is a death worker & energy worker, focusing on spiritual & emotional end-of-life support, life reviews, legacy work, death ritual & ceremony creation & facilitation, and meaning-making at the end of life. In this episode, Shiv reflects on death and how it brings to light the sacredness and beauty of what it means to be alive. They talk about embracing the different sides of death and finding the medicine within us. They also share the work they do to help not just the dying but also those dealing with grief in whatever stage of life they’re in. [00:01...

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Walter Gainer III is the host and producer of the Boss Locks podcast, a show where he speaks to Black leaders to learn about their natural hair journey and experiences Working While Black.

In this episode, Walter takes us through his podcasting journey. After experiencing pressure to cut his locks and learning about similar stories from others, he decided to create a podcast and tackle hair bias in corporate settings. He also shares how he found his voice as a podcaster and gives tips on how to start a sustainable and successful podcast.

[00:01 – 0:42] Opening Segment

I introduce our guest, Walter Gainer II

[00:43 – 05:11] Who is Walter Gainer II?

Walter talks about being more intentional in finding things outside of his day-to-day life
What it’s like living in Atlanta and how he’s loving the food and the people there

[05:12 – 08:36] Wellness Check-In

Stop associating happiness with productivity
Enjoy the moment and the time you have with the people around you

[08:37 – 17:08] Normalizing Natural Hair in the Workplace

Walter introduces his podcast, Boss Locks, and why he’s proving that natural hair and professionalism can coexist
There are a lot of people with natural hair who face difficulties in professional environments and it’s important that these stories are told
Some don’t experience hair discrimination but do encounter people who are overly curious about black hair
It’s good that we’re now coming to a point where it is more acceptable to have natural hair

[17:09 – 18:03] The Guided Meditation for Wealth

Move past the negative thoughts and build a better relationship with money and abundance. Watch the guided meditation on YouTube for free!

[18:04 – 25:54] Building Confidence as a Podcaster

Starting a podcast? Keep it simple and do what you can with the tools available to you
Believe in your voice and put yourself out there consistently

People resonate with you more than you think

Walter recommends a couple of ways to prepare yourself before an interview

[26:44 – 31:33] Overcoming Podfade

Podcast at your own pace to avoid burnout
Take breaks, have a support system, and plan out content ahead of time

[31:34 – 36:12] Closing Segment

Walter answers the BOI Talk and Hop questions
Reach out to Walter!

Tweetable Quotes:

“Whatever culture you're from, it's not okay to just go and put your hands on somebody. That's harassment. I think that we don't really associate those two enough, especially in the workplace or school environments.” - Walter Grainer II

“Don't worry if you think your voice sounds weird because everybody's voice sounds weird, but everyone else will tell you, oh, I love your voice. So get that out of your head.” - Walter Grainer II

“They want to be big. They want it to be a part of people's lives. And it's a great goal, but it's just not realistic for everyone at every stage.” - Walter Grainer II

Visit https://www.bosslocksmedia.com to know more about Walter Grainer II. Find him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, and join their Facebook group.

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