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Checking In with Michelle Williams

Checking In w/ Dr. RaQuel Hopkins

Checking In with Michelle Williams

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Education, Health & Fitness

4.8578 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Michelle and Dr. RaQuel Hopkins (aka the Capacity Expert) dive into what it's like to manage her own capacity for things. They also discuss the incorrect usage of the term "narcissist". CHECK IN to this episode to avoid misdiagnosing yourself and others!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.4

Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams,

0:06.6

a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect.

0:17.4

My next guest is very challenging.

0:22.1

She challenges the words like trigger, gaslighting, and even the word narcissists.

0:30.3

If you want to know what I'm talking about, stay a lot.

0:33.6

We've got an amazing episode with Raquel Hopkins, also known as the capacity expert.

0:42.3

Y'all, we have Raquel Hopkins, capacity expert, certified coach, licensed therapist.

0:50.6

We have to say license because everybody with an opinion ain't licensed, including me,

0:55.7

but I do filter them through a licensed therapist. I am so happy to have Raquel Hopkins,

1:04.0

also known as Raquel underscore, the underscore, capacity underscore expert. And you were just dropping something about the word capacity and how you followed through on something

1:17.6

where I might be shocked that you were walking through.

1:24.6

Was it fear?

1:26.6

Because we might think a therapist cannot have fear.

1:30.3

You're trained to teach us how to navigate through fear. And once you got through the fear,

1:37.5

five months later, we're here, knowing your name. Yeah. But that's how capacity works, right? Like, it's this process of you

1:47.9

continuously stretching and expanding and finding ways to strengthen yourself. And that process

1:53.8

doesn't stop. So I'm just like in all, like today, I'm actually having a really emotional day.

2:00.1

And all of that represents capacity

2:03.1

right because you know for me it's like all of god's glory and um like i mean i'm educated right

2:11.4

like i have several degrees a lot of letters behind my name but i know it's not i see him MBA

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