215: From Paradise to Plot Twist
Girl Stop Playin | #1 Podcast for Black Women
KOEREYELLE, Personal Development Coach
4.8 • 584 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Whew! In this episode, I’m spilling ALL the tea on our recent "island life" adventure that had me ready to pack up and peace outta the U.S. — until reality slapped me in the face with $8 spaghetti sauce, random power outages, and dengue fever from mosquitoes?! 😳
After dreaming for years about moving abroad, my hubby got a pharmacy job offer on a Caribbean island — and we thought this was our “expat era.” But babyyyy, from overpriced groceries and trash-hauling DIYs to military showers and trailers-as-hospitals, the island life had me screaming "GIRL, STOP PLAYIN!"
💡 Tune in as I share the laughs, lessons, and God’s not-so-subtle reminder that just because it looks good, doesn’t mean it’s for you.
In this episode:
- Our attempt to live that dreamy "passport princess" life
- What nobody tells you about moving to the Caribbean
- How being grateful for what you already have is the real flex
- Why trusting God’s plan over your Pinterest board is essential!
👑 Whether you’re planning your next escape or just curious about what it’s really like to live abroad — this episode will have you clutching your WiFi and air conditioning, sis.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of the Girl Stop Playing podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's your favorite homegirl Coriol, here to encourage you to stop playing with your potential and start working for what you want in life and in love. |
| 0:13.0 | You already know that I'm bringing you the information and the conversations to help you make the money and get the honey. You can have it all as long as you |
| 0:23.0 | are willing to work. And baby, if you have not heard, Girl Stop Playing has been sitting pretty |
| 0:30.6 | on the top 200 podcast charts on Apple Podcasts. So I wanted to open up this episode by thanking you, showing gratitude |
| 0:41.1 | for all of the love, the growth, the consistency with our amazing listeners. And just thank you |
| 0:49.9 | so much for tuning in and for rocking with me on girls stop playing now if you happen to be a |
| 0:56.7 | business owner you have a product or service that you think would be a good fit for my audience |
| 1:02.6 | which is mostly made up of millennial black women in um in metropolitan cities across the country we do of course have some ladies that are global |
| 1:15.4 | and you want to advertise your business I am offering some pretty amazing advertising |
| 1:22.7 | rates so if you are interested shoot your girl a message You can DM me on Instagram. You can send me an |
| 1:29.8 | email to hi at coriol.com. Let's work. Now y'all, life has been coming at me fast, okay? Not only |
| 1:40.1 | am I, what am I now? 25 weeks pregnant. This little baby is going to be here before we know it. |
| 1:49.2 | One of the things that my husband and I have been talking about for years, I don't know if we started talking about this pre-COVID, but definitely during COVID, we like many other fed up Americans were talking about |
| 2:07.8 | leaving the country, like packing up our ish and becoming expats, finding somewhere new to |
| 2:15.4 | settle and to build our family. And we considered Mexico, of course, |
| 2:22.1 | because that's just a hop skip and a jump away. It's a destination that we're super familiar with. |
| 2:26.8 | We talked about Jamaica because we absolutely love Jamaica, everything Irie in Jamaica. |
| 2:36.0 | And we considered a couple other places places but it ended up being just talk and we ain't go nowhere we are still here in ATL |
| 2:42.0 | although we did really try to move to Miami I don't know if I told y'all this before |
| 2:49.7 | but we literally packed up our townhouse |
| 2:54.0 | that we had here in Atlanta, put all of our stuff in storage, lived in Airbnb's for the summer of |
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