Triggered AF identifying personal triggers in order to spark healing. Our conversational discussions cultivate deep, loving and safe spaces that facilitate real transformation. Alechia and Dani understand that healing is not a one size fits or fix all. From going against the grain on common issues in our community to open dialogue about different perspectives in relationships, friendships, business, parenting, and overall ADULT-ING. Welcome to our #triggerhappyfam, join us as we own our diff ...
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A lot of us like to point the finger and say that everybody else is the problem, but we very rarely talk about when we're toxic and when we're the villain in someone else's story. So how can we better paint the whole picture, have those uncomfortable conversations, and show up in a way that does not hurt the ones we love? Tune in as Alechia and Dan…
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Do This to Revitalize Your Life Replay - EP 143
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Get your pen and paper out as the “millionaire maker” and one of the best business coaches in the country, Danielle Leslie, joins the Triggered AF fam! Tune in as Danielle and your hosts discuss the importance of curating your circle, why your story is the door to infinite possibilities, and how you can do what you love while also creating the life…
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Overcoming Church Hurt & Trauma Replay - EP 142
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Skirts below the knee. No jewelry, accessories, or makeup. Stockings in bed and no relaxing your hair. Does this sound familiar? For those raised in the church like Alechi, Dani, and their guest - religious trauma healer Pamela Merritt, this conversation is for you. Tune in as Pamela discusses church hurt versus trauma, how the Black community embo…
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Top Ways to Master Manifestation Replay – EP 141
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Distortion patterns keep us feeling stuck and helpless. They prevent us from accessing frequencies that allow us to feel more connected to source, a higher power, God, whatever you call “the Divine.” Grab your scuba gear and put on your wetsuit for this episode because we’re going deep into the realm of frequencies. If you’ve been on this healing j…
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Myths About Men, Communication & Healing Replay – EP 140
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Jay Barnett has been making big waves in the mental health space by transforming the narratives on healing for men. As a family therapist and mental health coach, Jay empowers and inspires others to embark on their own healing journeys. In this episode, Jay clears some misconceptions on how men deal with mental health and brings to light the subtle…
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We’re all familiar with the grief that comes with the end of a romantic relationship. But why is it that we don’t mourn the end of our friendships even in the slightest bit? If you have ever wondered about that or struggled with moving on from a friendship breakup, then this episode is a must-listen. Alechia and Dani will both be looking back at th…
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In this episode, Life and Relationship coach Ludmila Woodruff joins us to chat about the never-ending path of healing and growth. Tune in as Ludmila opens up about the breaking point in her life and how it propelled her to take ownership over her own unhappiness and begin her healing journey. Alechia, Dani, and Ludmila also chat about coping mechan…
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Way too many of us struggle with accountability. It’s something about telling ourselves the truth and being disciplined that makes us run. We get it! But, how often do we say we want these magical lives filled with love, money and success but aren't willing to do what it takes to get it, much less maintain it? According to Investopedia, accountabil…
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Being a mother has got to be the world's most thankless and difficult job. With its share of incredible highs and painstaking lows, motherhood is not to be taken lightly. While we believe in honoring mothers for all the love they give and the sacrifices they make, we also believe in telling the truth about the "mommy issues" so many of us have to t…
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Unleash your untapped power by tapping into the incredible strength of perseverance – even when no one else sees your vision. For many of us, the call to your purpose in life was not a conference call, it was a very private conversation in which only you know the specific details. It can be quite difficult to stick to the plan and stay the course w…
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Top Tools to Overcome a Fear of Judgment & Failure
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The fear of failure is so often confused with the fear of judgment. Many people believe that the reason their life didn’t turn out the way they imagined is due to fear of failure. But what if we told you that it’s actually the fear of judgment that holds countless people back? From the time we are in utero, we are picking up language and behaviors,…
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How to create lasting change for stubborn people
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With all the uncertainty that this life has to offer, the one thing that we can count on is the inevitably of change. There’s something about intentionally changing to a new default that can feel like a mini death to our mind and body. And for stubborn people getting out of our own way is incredibly difficult. While all growth is change, not all ch…
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Tools to make your marriage work after your “Wedding Day”
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Just about every married couple will tell you that marriage is hard work. Nowadays, it seems as though the emphasis is on the wedding and not so much on the subsequent days, months and hopefully years. The perfect dress, the lavish venue and the overpriced food can easily overshadow the real preparation that is needed for a lasting marriage. You kn…
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Becoming the best version of yourself can feel damn near impossible when your childhood trauma still affects you on so many levels. Recognizing how your trauma shows up and working through your triggers is the beginning of reparenting yourself to reframe your childhood. It’s probably safe to assume that most of us have experienced trauma throughout…
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Do This to Reclaim Your Power & Release Unhealthy Attachments
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Reclaiming your power and releasing unhealthy attachments is possible, even when you’re afraid you cannot. Removing toxic energy and making intentional changes and choices starts first with owning the power we all hold inside. Between pandemics, natural disasters and actual wars going on, it’s no wonder so many of us are riddled with feelings of an…
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How to Stop Wasting Your Time & Your Life
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Tap in to learn valuable tools to shift your mindset, adjust your habits, and stop wasting your time and your life. Vera Wang didn’t design her first dress until she was 40. Henry Ford didn’t create the revolutionary Model T car until age 45. Samuel Jackson didn’t land his award-winning role in Spike Lee’s “Jungle Fever”, which catapulted his actin…
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Top Budget-Friendly Travel Hacks to Transform Your Life
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If you're anything like us, you've been bitten by the travel bug. This episode speaks to the wanderlust in us all who seeks to explore the world as they explore themselves. Our guest, world travel expert, speaker and founder of Jelani Travel, Ashley N Company, joins us to discuss the transformative experience that travel can offer. Whether you're i…
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Have you ever been jealous and/or envious of a friend? Never, right?! We are back with Season 9 and we need you to know this is a safe space where we can tell ourselves the truth. We ALL have been jealous or envious of someone at some point in our lives. There's nothing to be ashamed of and maybe if we could talk about these feelings out loud, we c…
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Channeling your inner sex goddess is the key to achieving more orgasms. 50% of women have never experienced an orgasm while 95% of men have. Not only is that unfair, it doesn’t have to be that way and we have the solution. When's the last time you tapped into you to unlock your full orgasmic potential? The goddess in you is always there, watching, …
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Why Being Selfish is Actually a Good Idea
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Being selfish might be just the thing you need to tap into your joy. It’s time to reframe what it means to be intentionally selfish in order to live the life you want. When’s the last time you were selfish? Better yet, when’s the last time you were selfish without feeling guilty about it? It’s high time we rebrand what it means to be selfish and wh…
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The Real Reason You Think Dating Is Trash
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It’s time to learn how to recognize, accept and align yourself with the partner you desire. Are you confused and frustrated out here in these dating streets? With the rise of social media and its impact on who, where and how we date, it’s easy to get caught up in how love should look rather than what it actually is. As much as we all want love, are…
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Cracking the manifestation code is not nearly as difficult as you think! It’s time to learn how to raise your vibration to manifest your dream life. Grab your scuba gear and put on your wetsuit for this episode because the ladies are going deep into the realm of frequencies. If you’ve been on this healing journey with us for some time, then you’ll …
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Navigating ADHD to learn how to work with your ADHD brain and not against it It's estimated that ADHD affects more than 8 million adults (or up to 5% of Americans) and 6.1% of children. Unfortunately, many people don't even know they have it. For decades, people with ADHD have been ignored, dismissed and even derided. As one of the most misundersto…
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Navigating Identity and Race as a Biracial Woman in a Changing World
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How to own the power in your differences What does it mean to grow up as ‘other’? Whether it’s due to being biracial or mixed race and never feeling like you fit in or it’s because you don’t share the same interests as other members in your culture, it’s totally normal to feel like you don’t belong. Triggered AF is joined by the CEO and Founder of …
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How to Keep the Friendship While Building the Business “Friends and business don’t mix.” How many times have you heard that? How many times have you actually tried it? While we agree that mixing business and friendship isn’t for everybody, the right combination of the two can be a game changer. Having been friends for over 15 years and business par…
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Owning Your Power Through Challenges About 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys in the United States experience child sexual abuse and we are almost certain that the number is far higher since many victims don’t ever come forward. Unfortunately, someone known and trusted by the child or child’s family members, perpetrates 91% of child sexual abuse. How do…
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Using psychedelics to heal deep trauma requires surrender. Your healing comes in states of surrender. And surrender is the most powerful position we can possibly put ourselves in. Digging into our healing requires us to feel safe. Exploring this type of healing should not be ventured into without support, proper research, and a trained professional…
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Naming Our Demons: How to Overcome Shame The more stories you collect the more clogged your meaning-making machine can be. Many times, this prevents us from moving through our emotions as quickly. Sitting down with Shaun Derik, affectionately known as, Internet Jesus, we took a deep dive into the things we hide, the shade we throw, and the actions …
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Hoe-tales: The Pros and Cons of Being a Slut We thought that we were done slut-shaming, but apparently we’re back to calling women sluts and whores. The double standard is real. Way too many are pointing the finger at women calling them out of their names, but not enough people are recognizing that they’re not sleeping with themselves. Plus, the as…
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How to Build Your Legacy and Manage Your Assets
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Money and Legacy: Planning for the Final Chapter Over 70% of African Americans don’t have an estate plan. Over the next 25 years the largest wealth transfer will occur in American history, but the majority of Black people aren’t going to participate in that because we don’t have estate plans. You can keep complaining about what’s happening to you o…
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In the “How to Stop Self-Sabotaging When Dating” episode, Triggered AF hosts, Alechia & Dani get honest about all the ways in which we sabotage ourselves when we’re dating. If you want to attract better partners you’ll want to get super clear about what works for you. From there, it’s crucial to work on the parts of you that don’t yet believe you d…
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How to Use Delusion to Create a Dope Life
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May all your delulu come trululu. In the episode of “Using Delusion to Create an Inspired Life,” we focus on the power in transforming your reality through astronomical thinking. Delusion is essential in shifting your mindset. You cannot allow the expectations and opinions of others to dictate your life and the vast opportunities it holds. Everyone…
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How to Improve your Money Mindset with Ashley M. Fox
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In the “How to Improve your Money Mindset” episode, former Wall Street analyst and founder of Empify, Ashley M. Fox, describes how simply putting yourself in certain spaces can create the opportunity to expand your life. You must create an abundant mindset in order to attract abundance. We attract who we are and not what we want; therefore, trainin…
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In the “What Self Love Looks Like in IRL” episode, Triggered AF co-hosts got even more honest about the flaws they’re still working through and the actions they’re taking to work through them. It is absolutely okay to decide exactly what works for you and stand in that. Alechia and Dani got very real and provided a number of practical solutions and…
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Learning How to Move Through Life’s Blockages
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This episode is a little different and was hosted with a studio audience in New York, NY at Brace Life Studio. Conversing with Nikkia McClain, Unique Matthews, and Amber Lee Forrester at Triggered AF’s first live event, The Evolve Experience, was hilariously open, honest, and perspective shifting. Each of these dynamic women provided tools to help …
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Navigating the Road Less Traveled with Caryn Ward Ross
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In “The Road Less Traveled” episode, Caryn Ward Ross, award-winning award-winning actress, producer, and writer emphasized that sometimes you figure out who you are by figuring out who you are not. As the founder of Main Character Energy University and the creator of the transformative (Re) Write Your Life Story Method™️, she encouraged us to allow…
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How to Have a Better Relationship with Robert Brace
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In the “How to Have a Better Relationship” episode, the founder of Brace Life Studios, Robert Brace, gave tools to help us navigate the challenges that come with romantic relationships. No one teaches you how to be a good partner and way too many of us are just winging it. This conversation helps to provide the tools to show up as better people for…
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How to End Your Fight With Food with Jessica Procini
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In the “How to End Your Fight With Food” episode, the founder of Escape from Emotional Eating, Jessica Procini, provides tools to tackle one of America’s most prevalent issues today – our food. Our relationship with food exists on a spectrum – whether we’re using it in a healthy way or abusing it. Taking steps to bridge the gap between your relatio…
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Top Ways to Manage Your Stress and Rage with Dr. Jennifer Mullan
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“In order to experience true joy, it also means that we have to experience this variety of emotions.” This episode is a little different and was hosted with a studio audience in New York, NY at Brace Life Studio. Conversing with Dr. Jennifer Mullan, of Decolonizing Therapy at Triggered AF’s first live event, The Evolve Experience, was life-altering…
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Managing Your Anxiety as an Entrepreneur with Jackie P. Taylor
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In the “Managing Your Anxiety as an Entrepreneur” episode, Jackie P. Taylor gave us the tools to stay in the game while growing your business or advancing professionally. Creating a balance within sets the tone for external relationships. You are the most important asset in your life. Your evolution requires you to prioritize your mental health and…
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Managing the Stress of Being a Stepparent with Jennie Guay
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In the “The Unspoken Stressors of Being a Stepparent” episode, children’s book author, Jennie Guay, helps us break down the complexities of being a step-parent. Being intentional about creating healthy spaces as a step-parent is the basis of the relationship. Every parent and step-parent has their unique set of parenting tactics; however, all tacti…
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How to Overcome the Hurt Experienced by Your Mother
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In the “Things My Mother Did Right” episode, your Triggered AF Podcast hosts explore how to overcome the hurt experienced by your mother. No one is perfect and mommy wounds - much like church hurt - can cut deep! Those childhood experiences can still affect our lives today. Some of us had some really crappy, mean, broken, and downright evil mothers…
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S6 EP12: Adoption Options | Erin Quick
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In this episode, your Triggered hosts discuss another dope topic that doesn’t get talked about enough - adoption. And here to answer some of the questions many want to ask but few have the access or ability to, Alechia and Dani welcome Erin Quick - founder of PairTree and self-described modern adoption advocate. Discussing the realities of adoption…
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“Perfectionism is for basic bitches.” In this episode, recovering perfectionist and founder of Perfectaholic, Crystal Love, wants you to say goodbye to perfectionism and hello to the good life. Sharing how she was forced to let go of perfectionism, tune in as Crystal speaks to what pain can teach us, what it means to be this AND that, and how we ca…
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How to Get Over Your Fears with Tonya Rapley
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Fear is a Friend with Tonya Rapley In this episode, Alechia and Dani talk about the one thing that trips up every single one of us, whether male, female, black, white, orange, or purple - FEAR. At some point, every human has to deal with fear. Fear of failure. Fear of the unknown. Fear of….But how can we reframe our relationship with fear so it can…
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S6 EP9: Business and Bravery | Tori Autumn
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At Triggered AF, we love discussions around business and money, but we don't have enough of them. Especially as women, we get afraid to talk about how we’re showing up and the steps we need to take to create and build lives that feel, look, and nourish us financially. So in this episode, conversion copyrighter Tori Autumn discusses how she helps bu…
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S6 EP8: Overcoming church hurt and trauma with Pamela Merritt
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S6 EP8: Church and Trauma | Pamela Merritt Skirts below the knee. No jewelry, accessories, or makeup. Stockings in bed and no relaxing your hair. Does this sound familiar? For those raised in the church like Alechi, Dani, and their guest - religious trauma healer Pamela Merritt, this conversation is for you. Tune in as Pamela discusses church hurt …
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S6 EP7: Stop Playing Yourself | Koereyelle
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Today’s guest is the epitome of consistency and the sentiment she believes in most? Stop playing yourself and start WERKing for what you want! In this episode, special guest Koereyelle gets triggered as she explains how you can uplevel your life without having to choose between the money and the honey. Listen in as she urges you to admit what you r…
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S6 EP6: It's Never Too Late | Maya Elious
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Once we hit a certain age or phase in life, a lot of us begin to restrict ourselves, believing some things are just off-limits. From motherhood to dating to starting over in our careers, we are counting ourselves out. But why?! In this episode, business coach and CEO of Built To Impact, Maya Elious, discusses why it’s never too late to be exactly w…
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S6 EP5: Waiting for Perfect | L'Oreal Thompson Payton
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For many people, especially those of color, we’re taught never to show our underbelly - never to move forward with anything until it’s perfect. It’s almost ingrained in us to wait for perfection before we make a move, which, in reality, only results in delays and sometimes even forfeitures. So how can we get out of our own way and stop waiting for …
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