Checking In w/ Cornelius Lindsey
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Michelle sits down with author, entrepreneur, and clarity coach Cornelius Lindsey for an honest and vulnerable conversation about what it truly means to “not care” — in the most freeing way possible. Drawing from his book I Don’t Care: The Freedom of Letting Go, Cornelius opens up about the heavy cost of caring too much about expectations, reputation, and the approval of others, and how that pressure once pushed him to the darkest places in his life. He also shares the pivotal moment that saved him, his journey through burnout and pastoral leadership, and how he continues to heal after discovering life-changing truths about his family. CHECK IN to this episode if you’re battling burnout, struggling with people-pleasing, or learning to choose yourself again.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and the Black Effect. |
| 0:17.7 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:19.3 | Welcome to another amazing episode of Checking checking in where we are checking in with all things mental health, your finances, and just everything. And I'm really excited about today's episode because I've learned a lot in just the sample of this book. |
| 0:39.3 | And it has helped me tremendously. |
| 0:41.9 | I might talk about it a little bit, but it's not about me. |
| 0:45.9 | It is truly about this amazing guest, Cornelius Lindsay, husband, father, entrepreneur, clarity coach. |
| 0:54.0 | We'll ask him what that means as well. |
| 0:56.2 | And author of the book, I Don't Care, the Freedom of Letting Go, Hailing from Mississippi, but living in life. |
| 1:06.3 | Come on, living in the quiet suburbs of Los Angeles, California. |
| 1:11.1 | Y'all come on. |
| 1:12.0 | Come on in and welcome Cornelius Lindsay. |
| 1:14.9 | Yo, I appreciate that. |
| 1:16.7 | I love that. |
| 1:17.6 | You took me all the way back to birthplace. |
| 1:20.7 | Come on, Mississippi. |
| 1:22.3 | Now, how'd you end up? |
| 1:23.8 | Just give us a small taste. |
| 1:25.9 | Just a little blurb. |
| 1:26.7 | You're in Mississippi. was in georgia |
| 1:29.3 | yeah born in mississippi moved to georgia when i was 13 started high school there big culture |
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