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The Ladies First Chit Chat Crew; honouring the voice of the everyday women!
BY SIMONE J. SMITH
What does it mean to have an intense motivation to succeed, while you are also experiencing barriers to achieving that success? Well, I can direct you towards six very powerful, dynamic, and influential women who could answer this question without hesitancy.
La Shell Wooten, Chondra Profit Ardrey, Crystal James Goodwin, Nikki Unbossed, Edmee Cherdieu d’alexis and Nikki Kimbrough, together they make up a band of women who have discovered how deep dialogue can heal, and positively influence the lives of other.
What began as a Saturday of love and support on March 28th, 2020, has turned into a “Sisterhood” of women. The Ladies First Chit-Chat Crew brings together the expertise and “dopeness” of celebrated, and prodigious Black women from all over the world.
With innate abilities to engage in deeper conversations, each week, The Ladies Chit Chat Crew delve in deep dialogue that uncovers the higher good in each other, as well as connecting their viewers and guests with each other on a meaningful level.
I had the honour of speaking with Nikki Kimbrough, the founder of The Ladies First Chit-Chat Crew, and she shared with me more on the show, her dreams and passions, as well as the future of the show. When you get a chance, take a look at our Women Empowered feature this week, and you will get to learn more about this fascinating female powerhouse.
Now, let’s take this time to learn a little more about these fantastic women.
Nikki Unbossed
She has keen business savvy, a vast network and an understanding of marketplace trends that make her an expert in identifying partnerships, packaging opportunities, and helping clients build a roadmap towards success.
She has been featured in: Essence, Fitness and Shape magazines, and she established High Heel Media LLC to leverage her skills and experience in corporate America. She helps strategically coach and advise women focused businesses to reach, cater, respect and represent the influence of the female perspective. She also founded Female Footprints to mark the presence of female excellence.
Her focus and commitment is dedicated to bringing her knowledge and track record of success to women-led businesses.
La Shell Wooten
This blond bombshell is owner and CEO of La Shell Wooten (Healer Helper Human), a premier social-emotional wellness company. Wooten is a licensed mental health therapist, powerful healthy relationships coach, best-selling children’s book author, certified feng shui consultant, and life changing, intuitive speaker.
La Shell’s takes a no-filter approach to helping people live a life that feels as good as it looks. You can learn more with La Shell through her Abandon Ordinary Podcast and her vision board master class Nothing Is In Your Way. Here she guides people to and through releasing harmful habits and clearing up their internal criticisms in order for them to repair spirits, homes, emotions and dysfunctional relationships. Her mission is to coach us all to abandon the ordinary in order to live an extraordinary life.
Crystal James Goodwin
Blessed and unapologetically dope, Crystal has built a global career in television, content management and is now specializing in International Programming, Content & Strategy for BET’s International channels and digital platforms. For over twenty years, Crystal’s experience has allowed for expansion and growth of the ViacomCBS brands internationally in program sales, channel and brand development.
This diva is also a singer, songwriter, producer and director. Crystal enjoys many aspects of entertainment including, but not limited to, writing and producing, designing and teaching dance. As these gifts intersect, Crystal truly considers herself a “Jill of All Trades”!
Chondra Profit Ardrey
Best known for her role as “Queen Sarabi” in Disney’s The Lion King, Chondra Profit Ardrey is the founder and co-producer of Lights Out On Broadway, an interactive soulful musical experience. Passionate about the advancement and development of youth, Chondra is director of operations for teen programs all over the world, such as: Be-YOU-Tiful Foundation, which promotes young ladies to just BE-YOU, Runway Rhythms, which teaches the core fundamentals of modelling, etiquette and public speaking, and Talent Award Association (TAA), which helps youth recognize their talents and how to take them to its highest level.
Two other great passions of Chondra’s are Cali Girl EVENTS, where she produces amazing and unforgettable intimate events and Cali Girl INC, a Black-owned, socially conscious, lifestyle brand that was founded because of the lack of representation in the African-American community.
Edmee Cherdieu D’alexis
This dynamic, dancing diva has over fifteen years of management experience: first as a group fitness manager, then as the co-founder of Z Club NY, and presently as a lifestyle manager for LivUnltd.
Edmée serves as an A&R for Zumba Fitness. She helps identify and select new music and artists to fuel the Zumba movement. She has worked extensively as an event producer on a magnitude of projects with international artists.
Dance remains a part of her, and she encourages women to raise a glass and cheers to new beginnings and re-discovering your purpose and passion.
Saturdays at 11:00 am EST make room to: evaluate where you stand, discover your passion and purpose, say yes to the things that align with your purpose, and be unapologetically “YOU!”
You can watch The Ladies Chit-Chat Crew LIVE on YouTube, and on Facebook.