Today, we have a deeply personal and important conversation with Janice Tappin-Miller, a mother who carries both warmth and unimaginable grief. Janice joins us to share the story of her beloved daughter, Arlana Miller—a bright, compassionate, and driven young woman who tragically passed away at just 19 years old.

Arlana was a dedicated student at Southern University in Baton Rouge, a talented cheerleader, and a young woman who uplifted those around her. She dreamed of becoming a psychiatrist, wanting to help others navigate their life struggles. But behind her encouraging spirit, Arlana faced her own demons as she battled to maintain mental health—struggles that she openly shared in a heartbreaking farewell message before her passing in spring of 2022.

Today, Janice invites us into her world—the love she holds for her daughter, the pain of losing her, and the message she hopes to share in Arlana’s honor. This is a conversation about grief, but also about the importance of mental health awareness and the ways we can support one another.

Janice, thank you for being here with us and for having the continuous courage to share Arlana's life with the world!

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

Dr. Kelly Page is a public speaker and social design ethnographer who works at the intersection of social learning and digital participation. She works with individuals and organizations interested in learning how they can be more truly social. She is passionate about working with people to develop their vision, voice and social ways to live, work and learn.

She is a motivational speaker on social leadership, women, and social change and being your most confident self by being a stand for others.

Kelly is founder and curator of the social design studio, Live What You Love, and the storytelling initiative focused on amplifying the work and impact of women, Grateful4Her. She has a Ph.D. in Web Knowledge from UNSW (Sydney, Australia), is a Research Fellow in Social Leadership at the prestigious Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA). Her work has been published in peer-review business, technology and education journals, and featured in Fast Company, The New York Times, WSJ, The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Women.

Her work is published in Studies in Higher Education, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Psychology & Marketing, Behavior & Information Technology, International Journal of Retailing & Distribution Management, Marketing Review, Strategic Change, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Consumer Behaviour. She won best AM Paper for The Web Makes Me Feel project (2010), a BIMA award in Data Category for Karen (2015) and opened TedxCardiff 2011 speaking on Rediscovering Friendship.

Kelly is a BVA consultant for the Arts and Business Council of Chicago and a mentor for GirlsIN2STEM.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

My guest in this episode of the Everything Matters Podcast features Founder & CEO of Red Banyon Evan Nierman possesses 20 years of high-level experience in public relations, marketing, crisis management, online media, international relations and public affairs. Throughout his career, he has provided strategic communications counsel to top business leaders, government officials and presidential candidates, and private individuals.

Prior to forming Red Banyan, Evan Nierman served as Director of Communications for a fast-growing, highly scrutinized start-up where he represented the company and steered the CEO through interviews with top-tier media including dozens of international, national and local print, TV and online outlets.

Previously, as the founder of the Washington office for a boutique PR agency specializing in crisis management and foreign affairs, Nierman guided international and corporate clients through high-stakes, complex situations. Nierman was responsible for the agency’s largest and most complex account, the Government of Ethiopia. Working mostly from the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, Nierman conceptualized and executed communications and public affairs strategies. He overhauled the Ethiopian Embassy’s website, developed its marketing and communications collateral, wrote speeches and op-eds for the Ambassador, wrote and distributed press releases and fact sheets and helped coordinate interviews, events and public appearances that improved the Embassy’s reach and reputation.

Please help me welcome Evan Nierman to the Everything Matters Podcast.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

This episode of the Everything Matters Podcast is a special one that is intended to help promote a very special event that will be taking place in my community. Some of you may know that I am a committee member of a service organization called A Few Good Fellaz of Gwinnett, and we will be hosting a 7 on 7 Football Camp & Tournament for boys and girls ages 6-13, this coming Saturday, April 20, 2024.

Chase Middleton, former NFL player, is my guest today, and he'll be sharing with us his journey from being a young kid learning the game of football, and how he worked to make his dreams into a reality! He'll talk with us about his involvement with the 7x7 Camp, and what it means to him to give back to the kids and to build in his own community.

Please welcome Chase to the Everything Matters Podcast! Let's get it poppin'!

Click here to register your young football enthusiast for the AFGF 7 on 7 Football Camp. See you there!

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

My guest on this episode of the Everything Matters Podcast is Julie Thomas. Julie works with revenue leaders across many industries to help them realize results they never thought possible. She is passionate about guiding revenue organizations through uncertainty and helping them build resilient, engaged teams that drive predictable, sustainable revenue results and create customers for life.

As President and CEO of ValueSelling Associates, Inc., Julie is responsible for the company’s global expansion and its position as a market leader in on-demand, instructor-led, virtual instructor-led and hybrid (blended) learning solutions delivered throughout the world in more than 17 languages. In a career spanning more than 24 years, she credits her mastery of the ValueSelling Framework® for her own meteoric rise through the ranks of sales, sales management, and corporate leadership positions.

Julie began her sales career at Gartner Group (now Gartner, Inc.) In 1999, she was promoted to Vice President of Gartner’s Sales Training for the Americas. Her role included successfully onboarding new sales hires and driving the adoption of the ValueSelling Framework. She has extensive experience applying, coaching, and reinforcing the ValueSelling Framework, ValueSelling Essentials®, and their application to all customer-facing roles across the revenue engine.

In 2003, Julie joined ValueSelling Associates as Chief Executive Officer and President. She has led the company to become an industry leader in competency- and process-based training for escalating sales performance in business-to-business sales organizations worldwide.

In addition to her role at ValueSelling Associates, she is a noted speaker, consultant, and author of “ValueSelling: Driving Sales Up One Conversation at a Time” and “The Power of Value Selling: The Gold Standard to Drive Revenue and Create Customers for Life,” as well as a contributor to Forbes.com, the Forbes Business Development Council and the LinkedIn Sales Blog.

Julie also serves on the advisory board of the eWomenNetwork Foundation and is heavily involved in local charities in the San Diego region.

Please help me welcome Julie Thomas to the Everything Matters Podcast.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

He calls himself an "irrepressible optimist". Coach Michael Taylor is an entrepreneur, author, coach, motivational speaker and radio show host who has dedicated his life to empowering men to reach their full potential. He knows first hand how to overcome adversity and build a rewarding and fulfilling life.

No stranger to diversity, Coach Michael was born in the inner city projects of Corpus Christi, Texas to a single mother with six children. Although he dropped out of high school in the 11th grade, his commitment to living an extraordinary life supported him in defying the odds.

Persistence, patience, and perseverance are what has driven his success and undergirds his drive to share his life lessons to heal and inspire others. At the behest of a terribly painful divorce, Michael faced the humiliation of bankruptcy and foreclosure. Alone and homeless, he contemplated suicide, but ultimately chose life.

Today he will talk to us about his latest mission and book, which are intended to Shatter The Stereotypes that surround black men in America. Michael Taylor’s book, Shattering Black Male Stereotypes: Eradicating the Ten Most Destructive Media-Generated Illusions About Black Men is a non-fiction work that opens up dialogue about ten of the most common myths of black men that the media portrays.

Join me in welcoming Coach Michael to the Everything Matters Podcast for an insightful, thought-provoking and invigorating conversation!

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB

My special guest on this episode of the Everything Matters Podcast is another dear friend of mine, Dr. Maiysha Clairborne. Dr. Maiysha is an Integrative Family Physician, Master Practitioner & Trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy®, & founder of the Mind Re-Mapping Academy. Through her live trainings, Dr. Clairborne teaches individuals and organizations thought and communication mastery helping leader eliminate negative thinking, faulty beliefs, and emotional trauma, while also teaching them to be trauma responsive in their own communication.

Dr. Maiysha specializes in trauma informed communication teaching her clients the power of word, and how our unconscious thoughts and beliefs have an impact on the reality we create. Her trainings combine the mastery of emotional and communication intelligence, teaching leaders that by mastering their language (both internal and external) they can not only be conscious but also responsible for the impact of their words, actions, and behaviors. This ultimately helps them to communicate in a way that transforms creating new connections and outcomes that positively impact the people, community & organizations around them. She focuses her work on C-Suite Executives, Clinical Leaders, and K-12 and Higher Education Professionals and Administrators to create a trauma informed, trauma responsive, and growth mindset culture in this spaces.

Dr. Maiysha is a graduate of Emory University, completing her medical degree at Morehouse School of Medicine, and her Family Medicine Residency at Florida Hospital. In addition to gracing the TEDx Asheville Stage in 2022, she has delivered trainings in arenas such as the International Conference on Physician Health, WELLMED Physician Conference in Greece, and Women in Medicine, and serves as faculty facilitator for the ACGME’s Equity Matters Project. She is the author of the Wellness Blueprint and the co-author of Conscious Anti-Racism, the host The Black Mind Garden Podcast, and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Incorporated.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness & Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. Affectionately known as "Coach B", Bradford is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach.

If you are a rising Middle or Senior level manager or Executive level leader who is looking to elevate your performance and become the most effective leader you can be, take action now and schedule your Free Performance Analysis with Coach B. We address areas such as Imposter Syndrome, Communication Skills, Team Building, and several other areas that will show the value you provide for the organization's success.

Our CIA Performance Effectiveness Coaching Model is designed to drive performance results significantly faster than other methods. Be an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

Remember, performance is the best way to shut people up! -CoachB