Episode 4: Finding Your Voice Through Life’s Journey with L’Oreal Thompson Payton
Oversharing With Rhonda
English - November 16, 2020 05:00 - 33 minutes - 33.9 MBEntrepreneurship Business Education Self-Improvement entrepreneur business mindset publicspeaking speech speechtherapist storytelling womeninbusiness Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this episode, Rhonda interviews L’Oreal Thompson Payton. L’Oreal is a freelance writer, motivational speaker and yoga-teacher-in-training dedicated to celebrating and uplifting Black women and girls.
What started as a journey to self-healing led to a successful career as a freelance writer. Her #blackgirlmagic revolution began with writing for notable black magazines Jet and Ebony. She claimed her voice and built her confidence along the way.
L’Oreal shares her journey as a writer and how she successfully copes with infertility. As a child, L’Oreal knew that writing would be her calling. In middle school, she started journaling as a form of self-expression and healing. After becoming editor-in-chief with a monthly column in high school, she soon realized that her words were not only healing herself but also others who read her work. She found her purpose in helping others through words.
L’Oreal has written her most vulnerable piece to date about her struggles with infertility. In her own search for support, she realized there was little information geared towards black women and their experiences. She again sought to help others, like herself, facing this issue and show the messy middle of infertility for black women. In this episode, she shares what has helped her to cope.
If you want to learn more about L’Oreal and her journey, hit that play button!
Here’s a closer look at what we discussed:
L’Oreal discovers her gift for helping others through words
How writing started L’Oreal’s #Blackgirlmagic revolution
Imposter Syndrome and ways to overcome it
L’Oreal’s fertility journey and her search for support in the black community
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Links and resources mentioned in this episode:
Connect with L’Oreal on her website.
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Find resources, community, support and spread awareness with Fertility For Colored Girls.
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