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Nonprofit Mastermind PodcastHow To Build Better TeamsIn this episode, I reflect on some enlightening conversations with leaders from my Next Level Nonprofit program. This week, I revisit discussions with Darcy Richie and Toya Lillard, exploring the essential elements of building and sustaining high-impact nonprofit teams. We dive into how to foster trust and respect within teams, the evolving nature of leadership post-COVID, and strategies for achieving sustainable impact. Join me as we uncover actionable insights to strengthen your nonprofit leadership and create meaningful change.What You'll Learn:Strategies for building high-impact teams rooted in trust and respect.The evolving nature...
2024-05-3127 min
The All In ShowThe All In Show -🔥🪵Sam & Avory Edition Part 1💇🏾♀️💈Avory Houston...Owner of Addicted Studios and Addicted Hair Show Samantha Lillard, Creator and owner of Samantha's Annual Bonfire Blessed our show! We discussed everything from the start up of both annual events, life, family, community, children... You just have to watch to find out! Find Avory: https://www.facebook.com/avorylamarr https://www.addictedhairsalon.com/ https://www.instagram.com/uaddicted2avory/?utm_medium=copy_link Samantha: https://www.facebook.com/samantha.lillard.7 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/samanthas-annual-bonfire-tickets-317852895567?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse https://instagram.com/samanthasamantha_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
2022-11-301h 45Nonprofit Mastermind PodcastThemes From The Next Normal: How To Build Teams Rooted In TrustThis is the fourth and final installment of my short series revisiting some of the incredible conversations I’ve had with folks as part of my Next Normal series at the beginning of this year. I’ve been struck, as we head into yet another phase of this pandemic, by just how different so much feels different, and yet oddly familiar. It’s like my favorite book from growing up - 100 years of solitude. The idea of time turning in a circle - returning to the same place that is somehow fundamentally and forever altered. So much of our work i...
2021-09-2826 min
DEEP in the WorkEp 13: Toya LillardIn this episode we’re talking to Toya Lillard, one of our faves over at Black Art Futures Fund, and champion of safe spaces and theater and strong voices for our young Black women and girls. We met when viBe Theater Experience was awarded our inaugural Shay Wafer Legacy Fund, then decided to continue to do good and deep work together through Red Olive. These days we enjoy sisterhood and laughter, and pointing towards the absurdities of what it means to be Black women in this work, in the fields where we find ourselves.
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2021-07-291h 15Nonprofit Mastermind PodcastThe Tactics of Trust & A Reimagining of Performance Evaluation, with Toya LillardI’ve had the pleasure of working with Toya and her organization, viBe Theater Experience, for over a year now. I’ve loved watching Toya in action, as she’s taken her organization to the next level. The tremendous increases in her budget, staff & programming over the past year have been so exciting to see, as has watching her continue to carefully cultivate an internal culture that centers wellness and trust. That’s what I wanted to talk with Toya about - the nuts and bolts of driving for programmatic and organizational excellence while also truly centering the human...
2021-06-0842 min
The Self-Aware MillennialEp. 47 | Dismantle Them All - A Talk with Black Women ft. Jen + FariIn solidarity with museum workers and dismantle organizations around the world, J.Mix (Dismantle National WWII Museum) has an enlightening discussion with Jen + Fari (Dismantle New Orleans Museum of Art) about their paralleled experiences and revelations as black femme museum workers for predominately white institutions. Some topics discussed: Controversial job posting from Indiana MOA at Newfields - Diversity, Equity, and Confusion - What "Dismantle" Means to Them - Mental Health before and after resigning - The Future of Dismantle Organizations - and so much more! To learn more about DismantleNOMA + DismantleNWWIIM, visit
2021-02-281h 13
Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. BoddieEpisode 39: What Is Your Liberation Philosophy?In this episode, we feature a deep discussion, from the video series, "We Can't Go Back", between panelists Toya Lillard, Robyne Walker Murphy and Durell Cooper, around a number of topics including: saviorism in arts education; relinquishing power so that younger Black practitioners can step up; and holding arts organizations accountable so that anti-racist policies don't simply become language in a mission statement, but become integrated into their core practices. Anecdotally, and Courtney states this at the top of the episode, Toya, Robyne and Durell have been influential in the development of Courtney's liberatory practices and philosophy, and it's clear...
2021-02-251h 08
Arts Management and Technology LaboratoryToya Lillard: Using An Abolitionist Framework In The ArtsIn this interview episode, Podcast Producer Angela Johnson speaks with Toya Lillard, Executive Director of viBe Theater Experience. In November 2020, she gave a guest lecture for the College of Fine Arts and Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University on using an abolitionist framework within the arts and cultural sector.
2020-12-1021 min
Teaching Artistry with Courtney J. BoddieEpisode 35: Believe Black WomenThis episode opens with a discussion with our partners at Creative Generation's Jeff Poulin (Managing Director) and André Solomon (Community Engagement Specialist). An introduction to the podcast's video series, "We Can't Go Back," their dynamic discussion is around systemic racism and anti-racist practices within the fields of arts and arts education addresses the need for systemic restructuring, not incremental spotlighting of these very real issues, in order to make true change happen. And this discussion is not just theoretical. No. It's a discussion about intentional steps that both Jeff and Courtney are taking to actually make change an action, not w...
2020-10-2954 min