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She's So Lucky

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She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

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

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

#317: If you’ve ever felt like you were doing everything “right” in your career but still felt stuck, this is your episode. Today I’m joined by Naomi Wright and Krystal Vega, the powerhouse best friends and co-founders of Fortune & Forks — a community and social club built by and for women navigating their careers, connections, and calling.

We talk about they went from meeting as interns at BET to launching and scaling a thriving movement. They share how they grew from curating intimate dinners to building a cross-city network of 500+ women, a foundation, and game-changing partnerships — all without losing the plot (or each other).


This episode is for you if:

  • You’re looking to build genuine relationships in your industry.
  • You’ve been wondering how to actually find your people.
  • You need motivation to help you start something before you’re ready.


We talk about…

  • How to actually network across
  • Why good people still win in business
  • How Naomi and Krystal grew Fortune & Forks in its early stages
  • How to be a real villager in your friendships + community
  • Navigating entrepreneurship during an economic downturn


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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production.

0:11.8

Thank you for tuning into She's So Lucky.

0:13.8

My name is Les.

0:14.6

I am your host.

0:15.5

This is the show all about the ways that we create our own luck.

0:19.0

And I feel like one of the things that has been most

0:21.5

helpful for me in creating my own luck is being connected to really strong community. And I'm

0:27.1

very excited to talk about community and connection with today's special guests. So please join me

0:33.9

in welcoming Naomi Wright and Crystal Vega, co-founders of Fortune and Forks. Welcome, ladies.

0:40.3

Hi, thank you. I am so happy to have you. We're so happy to be here. Oh my gosh. I feel like

0:46.0

what the two of you are creating is so beautiful and the work that you're doing is so important.

0:51.5

Thank you. And we love your podcast. So we were really excited. We've been talking about this for weeks now. We were in the bathroom prepping like, okay, let's the turn of I'm going to say this. Thank you for having us. We love, but also on the back end, it's been a few months of like coordinating and, you know, because I know y'all don't live in New York anymore. And so on the back end, it's been a long time coming. But I also feel like even when episodes take a while to come to fruition, they always happen right on time. Absolutely. It's always like something's happening where it's like, oh, this was actually when we were meant to talk. Exactly. Yes. Agreed. Yep. So for our audience that is just now getting to know you, I would love for them to hear a

1:29.5

little bit more about your story as well as your friendship and career trajectories,

1:34.7

because those two things are closely intertwined.

1:37.8

So can you please tell our community how the two of you met and came together?

1:42.7

Yeah.

1:43.2

Well, I'll jump in.

1:44.6

My name is Chris La Vega, like you said, a media correspondent, co-founder of Fortune

1:49.4

and Forks, but also, I guess, now a philanthropist, right?

1:52.9

Now that we've launched Fortune and Forges Foundation.

1:54.7

The philanthropist, y'all.

1:56.7

But Naomi and I met, who, 2016, 2015, maybe.

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