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Exploring Your Unique Interests + Why Rejection Can Be Protection with Sequoia Holmes

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This week in our Black Women Doing Cool Shit series, I’m joined by my dear friend Sequoia Holmes.

Sequoia is the host of Black People Love Paramore, a podcast that focuses on topics that are loved by the Black community but not often associated with them in mainstream media. Sequoia covers niche subjects such as astrology, Tony Hawk, anime, Ariana Grande, and ginger ale in an effort to break stereotypes and help Black people feel seen.

Together, we talk about everything from cultural expectations for Black women in the workplace to the benefits of being vulnerable and open and the importance of nuance in content creation.

We Also Talk About…

  • How rejection can be a form of protection
  • The drama that was the Tarte influencer trip fiasco
  • The challenge of being a reserved Black woman in the workplace
  • Saturn returns — the good and the bad
  • Some of our music guilty pleasures


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Balance Black Girl Podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is

0:10.3

Les. I am your host, and this podcast is all about conversations that help us feel

0:15.4

healthy, happy, thriving, and every month we have a central theme that we focus on each

0:21.2

week from a different angle. This month's theme is getting close to summer. We're keeping

0:25.2

it kind of cute for the summer time. We're lightening up a little bit, and our theme

0:28.9

is Black women doing cool shit. So I'm sitting down with some of my favorite Black women

0:32.4

content creators to talk more about who they are, how they create what they're up to.

0:37.0

And I'm very excited to be joined by a special guest today, Ms. Sequoia Holmes, who is a writer,

0:41.7

creator, host of the Black People Love Paramore podcast. I'm also lucky enough to call

0:46.2

her a friend. Welcome. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me, Les.

0:51.3

I'm so excited to have you. I've wanted to have you on the podcast for a really long time.

0:54.9

So happy. Obviously, I've been listening to your podcast before we were friends even.

0:58.9

And so I've always wanted to be on the podcast. I'm so excited to finally be here. It's

1:02.4

time for us. The podcast is also like kind of how we met. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I deemed

1:07.6

less to try to be friends. I shot my shot and that worked out. That's helping out here.

1:13.0

I listened to the podcast. Obviously, I was a fan of like, oh, yeah, let me see what she's

1:17.1

about. Honestly, I feel like most of my friends now come from social media. Like I use social

1:22.4

media like a dating app. Exactly. Exactly. They always say it's a dating app. I'm like,

1:27.1

bumble BFF, watch your back a little bit. I've had I tried to use bumble BFF a couple

1:32.1

of times and I never was able to like actually solidify plans with people. It doesn't go

1:36.7

anywhere. Same. It's like, oh, we shouldn't meet up at a bar. It's like, yeah. And then

1:41.8

it never happens. When do we do it? Yeah. Instagram, DMs, I make legitimate. It's legitimately

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