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Speaking of Phenomenal PodcastWomen’s History Month 2025: Voices That Inspire ChangeIn Season 5, Episode 5 of the Speaking of Phenomenal podcast, host Amy Boyle celebrates Women’s History Month with reflections from past guests Maryam Myika Day, Laura Jordan LeClair, Jeanne Sparrow, and Delores Morton. These powerful voices explore what it truly means to be phenomenal—centered on truth, purpose, and lifting others up. With heartfelt stories and bold perspectives, this episode invites YOU to show up fully and support the women around you. Ready to be inspired? Press play, share it with a friend, and keep the phenomenal ripple going. Because showing up for each other changes everything.M...2025-03-2709 min
Speaking of Phenomenal PodcastMaryam Myika Day: Overcoming Odds and Owning Your StoryBroadway performer turned actor, writer and producer Maryam Myika Day joins host, Amy Boyle on Speaking of Phenomenal to share how storytelling has shaped her journey through grief, motherhood, and reinvention. She opens up about losing her husband, navigating Hollywood, and why amplifying marginalized voices matters. Plus, hear about her initiative North of 40—a space for navigating life’s transitions. If you're looking for inspiration, resilience, and real talk on balancing creativity with business, this episode is for you!MUSIC (used with permission)WOMAN Performed by Tiffany Villarreal - Pod artwork by Amand...2025-02-2731 min
Where Working Actors TalkEps 26: Overcoming Adversity through Art: The Journey of Actor, Writer, and Mentor Maryam Myika DayWhen your world crashes down around you, how do you continue moving on? In 2015, Maryam Myika Day welcomed her daughter Ayodélé Olayinka into the world and said goodbye to her husband. Through that joy and grief came a reckoning and realization of who she wanted to be as an artist going forward in her life, and she reexamined the ways her art could reach others. Maryam shares her inspiring journey from a young dancer in prominent dance companies like the Dance Theatre of Harlem and Broadway's '42nd Street,' to becoming an award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter. Maryam ta...2025-01-2955 min
Press PublishFrom Grief to Growth: A Mother-Daughter Summer Publishing Project on Coping and Connected Through LossIn this episode we dive deep into the emotional and inspiring journey of a mother and daughter who turned their personal challenges into a powerful narrative. Our guest, Maryam Myika Day, shared her intimate experiences of facing and overcoming adversity, and how these struggles led her and her young daughter to co-author their book, "This Is My Story" as a summer project.
Listen as Maryam reflects on the therapeutic aspects of writing together, the unique challenges they faced in the self-publishing process, and how their story has touched the lives of readers, fostering a sense of community a...2024-05-0727 min
NORTH OF 40Be inspired by Maahra HillMaahra Hill, actress and mother, who has made guest appearances in such series as Black-ish, The L Word: Generation, How to Get Away with Murder, Life in Pieces and Speechless now stars on the hit show Irrational for NBC alongside Jessie L. Martin sits down with Maryam Myika Day for North of 40.
On this episode of North of 40 inspirations, the first of its kind, Maahra tells us what it means to her to be pleasing to God.
2024-02-0806 minNORTH OF 40Season 3 - TrailerNorth of 40 is back with hard-hitting topics we want to share with you. New episodes dropping January 10th 2024. Be sure to like, share and subscribe.
Audio clips courtesy of #ViolaDavis for #EssenceMagazine and #TrevorNoah for #TheDailyShow.2024-02-0703 minNORTH OF 40Friendship, Forgiveness, and FacebookCelebrity business coach Bershan Shaw #RHONY confesses to a big secret. She realizes her losing her friendship with Maryam was a real true heartbreak. After the death of Maryam’s husband, Bershan took to social media to announce his passing; an action Maryam took offense with. Now these life-long friends talk about how the have come full circle to forgive each other for this unprecedented mistake and the fallout wrath that affected their relationship forever.2020-12-2956 minNORTH OF 40Keep goingThis is the season two finale of North of 40 and we are honored to welcome Black Women in Media founder Judith Jacques-Laguerre.
The Black Women in Media Conference and Awards powered by Opulence MD Beauty is the embodiment of that resilience. While the pandemic could have completely canceled the event, the Founder of Black Women in Media Judith Jacques-Laguerre made the recent 5th annual conference a virtual one. We talk about the challenges of making the conference work in the midst of a world-wide pandemic in the shadows of losing the most important woman in her life, he...2020-12-1635 minNORTH OF 40ROCAOn this 2020 Thanksgiving day, under normal circumstances, most of us would be watching the Macy's Day parade in the heart of Herald Square. A New York and holiday tradition capped by a stunning performance from the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. With Covid-19 still surging, the look of Thanksgiving Day parade is not too familiar.
In keeping with tradition, Maryam wanted to bring something to the podcast that highlights the parade's special moments and the tradition it holds. Nothing is more quintessential to the parade than the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes. This episode of North of 40 i...2020-11-261h 01NORTH OF 40I know what's for meFaith and friendship is the theme for this bonus episode of North of 40. In a time when intuition and sheer grit can be the only thing that charts our way, finding fortitude and solid friendships certainly lends its benefit. Guest, Susan Pateras, wife, mother, businesswoman, leads by example. She gives two riveting stories of her journey that will leave you in tears. Please open your hearts to her life so you, too, can know what truly is for you!2020-10-1617 minNORTH OF 40Stop the car from rolling downhillWe are gifted with all the tools we need to show up in our lives to win. But sometimes we allow doubt rare up and then we ask ourselves, are we enough? Yes you are! This poignant episode takes a look at what it means to go after life as if your soul depended on it. Are you waking up following your goals because you like them or love them? Are you goals equivalent to your dreams? Are you living on purpose? Do you opt in to you?
On this episode of North of 40, Maryam takes a deep dive on quan...2020-09-1242 minNORTH OF 40Live. Love. Leap.When you have the opportunity to change your life, what do you do? You dig down deep and you Live, Love, Leap. Visualize, manifest and claim your future. Keisha Senter is the prime example of going brave in order to make her life happen. She shares with Maryam tools she used to create the life she wanted and recounts stories of how she continues to level set expectations. Her experiences lead this spirited conversation.
Keisha is the Founder and Chief Impact Officer of The Solution Senter, a boutique public affairs firm dedicated to developing creative solutions to pressing global challenges. Recently...2020-08-0544 minNORTH OF 40LegacyFamily ties bring much responsibilities even as we contemplate legacy. This episode is a look at how we pass on the memory and legacy of our loved ones to our children and keep the memories of those we love alive, even for ourselves. Our heart strings commit us to legacy and my guest Casey Wilson, actress, comedienne — known for her role on Showtime’s BLACK MONDAY, she takes a very intimate look at legacy by sharing her journey of losing her mother, women's rights activist Kathy Higdon. As our mothers do leave indelible marks on our lives, Casey shares how her...2020-07-1027 minNORTH OF 40AgilityVP of Global Policy at Global Citizen, my guest Liz Agbor Tabi talks -- Agility. Having served in the non profit sector, created global policy and built opportunities for some of the world's most impoverished communities, Liz shares her insights on what it means to be flexible in a time of global change. We talk motherhood, relational stewardship, travel, and love. This episode will show you that when the world is changing all around us, we must lean into the things we love.
As we are currently in the COVID-19 pandemic, this episode was recor...2020-06-2332 min
PRIDE: The PodcastPRIDE: The Podcast Episode 15 ft. Maryam Myika DayHey Pride fam! Hope you’re all safe during these crazy times we’re in. Settle in with your box of wine and join us as we kiki with writer, producer and artist Maryam Myika Day about Black Lives Matter, quarantine and other juicy hot topics.2020-06-031h 03NORTH OF 40North of 40 LIVE From HarlemMaryam returns to her roots, Harlem, with the final episode for season one of North Of 40. Her guest and cousin, Danique Day-Loving, Managing Director of Dapper Dan Atelier for Gucci, talks evolution with the unexpected twist in her career no one saw coming. With over 20+ years in education, the former principal of a charter school in New York City, Danique decided it was time for a change so she joined the family business. Recorded at the Dapper Dan Atelier in Harlem, these woman discuss life and career success, highs and lows; evolution and the right to choose yourself above all else...2020-01-0753 minNORTH OF 40The MagicIn journeying through the process of transition, Maryam realized one of the hardest thing she would have to do was to move her husband's body out of the morgue and onto a plane headed to Philadelphia, his final resting place. Joined by guest Maya Stojan -- actress and celebrity activist -- they recount the play-by-play of how she moved her husband's physical body onto the hull of a plane while using gratitude tools to heal her spirit by using THE MAGIC, a book by Rhonda Byrne.2019-12-0344 minNORTH OF 40Discovering the Soul ShiftAn amazing realization that Maryam discovered was that her circle became smaller after the loss of her husband; and there was an epic soul shift. Either friends didn’t know what to say or simply faded into the abyss of life. Some believed that death was a disease they would catch and Maryam was contagious. Discovering a new inner circle was paramount. Guest Destiny Rael, celebrity life coach and healer sits down with Maryam to talk about her own life affirming chance to redirect her inner circle when she confronted loss of her brother.2019-11-1352 minNORTH OF 40The Art Of ReinventionHow are you showing up in life after sudden change? Guest Randi Woods, MS, MBA, RN, takes a leap of love and faith as she talks how she was called to help her best friend transition to the afterlife. With her best friend battling cancer for a second time, Randi tells us how she used her friendship, her practical abilities as a nursing professional and her love vulnerability to help her best friend enter a new stage, death.2019-11-0546 minNORTH OF 40North of 40Host Maryam Myika Day shares her love story with her late husband, how she fell in love with her life, her aspiration and what happened on January 30, 2016. This is a show about soul shifting, leveling up your existence and never shaking your resolve to fight.2019-10-1007 min