Author. Playwright. Professor. Former Essence Magazine editor. Marcia L. McNair has lived a dozen creative lives — and she breaks them all down in this powerful conversation with Dr. Yaya Diamond.https://marciamcnair.com/ https://www.nyanarration.com/From her debut novel E-Males (performed at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture) to her award-winning play Sistas on Fire! A Newsical, Marcia shares what it really takes to write your truth, get produced, and keep going as a Black woman in publishing and theater. A must-watch for aspiring authors, playwrights, and every dream chaser with a story to tell.🎙️ Dream Chasers Success Stories with Yaya Diamond — Real People. Real Dreams. Real Wins.👉 More episodes: www.Youtube.com/dreamchasersradio

Hey Diamonds, 💎 Patsy Toop and Dave join Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio, all the way from Australia.#YayaDiamond #DreamChasersRadio #PatsyAndDave #Interview

Hey Diamonds, 💎 Author Bruce E. Scott joins Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio to talk about his books "The Origin" and "The Five."#YayaDiamond #DreamChasersRadio #BruceEScott #AuthorInterview

Hey Diamonds, 💎 Scott Foster Harris joins Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio.#YayaDiamond #DreamChasersRadio #ScottFosterHarris #Interview

Hey Diamonds, 💎 Sisters J-Elisabeth and Lily Jackson stop by Dream Chasers Radio for a conversation with Yaya Diamond.#YayaDiamond #DreamChasersRadio #SistersJ #Interview

Hey Diamonds, 💎 Career Army infantry officer and VMI graduate Edgar Doleman joins Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio to talk about his debut novel "Arlen's Gun – A Novel of War in Vietnam: A Journey from Alienation to Brotherhood." They dig into his two tours in Vietnam, the move from military history writing (including "The Tools of War" for Time-Life's The Vietnam Experience series) to fiction, and how finishing "The Chimera" — the mystery his late wife Donna conceived — became his tribute to her. More at edgardoleman.com.#YayaDiamond #DreamChasersRadio #EdgarDoleman #ArlensGun #AuthorInterview #VietnamVeteran

Hey Diamonds, 💎On this episode of Dream Chasers Radio, Dr. Yaya Diamond sits down with her longtime friend Anton — a self-described tech guy chasing his dream one upload at a time.Anton has just launched his own YouTube channel, SHOCKVIDEOTV, covering entertainment and tech news — right now in the middle of a court-trial frenzy with two to three videos a day. Yaya tours the channel live on screen and they talk honestly about the struggle of starting from zero: finding ideas, finding a pace, and doing the scary part — just starting.Anton also reveals he's building something bigger: a new invite-only social media platform where creators, influencers, and public figures earn real money through token-powered pay-per-view views, with revenue split between the platform, the poster, and whoever referred them. His goal: launch before year's end, giving actors, musicians, and YouTubers a new way to fund their own projects.Anton's philosophy is simple: don't overthink it. Just start. ✨Subscribe to Dream Chasers Radio and follow Dr. Yaya Diamond @yayadiamondofficial. Dare to be different!

What would you do if doctors told you you'd never walk or talk again? Former British Airways pilot James Heather refused to accept it.In this Dream Chasers Radio interview, Yaya Diamond sits down with James Heather, author of "Above Us Only Sky," to hear the extraordinary true story behind the book. At 26, a single moment — an 18-foot fall onto a hotel marble floor — left him with a catastrophic brain injury and a prognosis no one would envy. James opens up about the emergency surgery that saved his life and the long years spent relearning everything: eating, walking, talking, even clapping. More than two decades later, he is back to skiing, sailing, jogging, and chasing adventure — living proof that with self-determination and grit, you can defy the odds. His message for anyone facing injury, illness, or starting over: don't give up, because there is life after brain injury.Subscribe to Dream Chasers Radio for real people, real dreams, and real wins.

She went from performing Shania Twain's biggest hits in English pubs to writing her own country songs in Nashville — and she is not stopping until she is the Queen of Country. In this Dream Chasers Radio conversation, Dr. Yaya Diamond sits down with UK singer-songwriter Sassy VeZay, who shares her journey from tribute act to original artist, the heartbreaking loss of both of her parents in 2019 that nearly took her out of music, and the unreleased anthem "I Want to Be the Queen of Country" she performed backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. Sassy also talks about her new release "Let's Hold On," her upcoming country-rock-pop single "Can't Break What's Broken," a Christmas collection of songs on the way, and the fifteen songs she has written in Nashville with songwriter John Buckingham, a writer for Whitney Houston and Crystal Gayle. A story of grief, grit, and chasing the dream anyway. Subscribe to Dream Chasers Radio for more real people, real dreams, and real wins — and follow Sassy VeZay's music on Spotify.

What keeps a songwriter going for 55 years when the music industry has paid him "literally hundreds of dollars — before taxes"? Singer-songwriter C. C. Brooks joins Yaya Diamond on Dream Chasers Radio for a candid conversation about the business of music, the high calling of pulling songs out of thin air, and why he'll be writing until the day he dies.Living in northern British Columbia with a house in Nashville, C. C. started piano at six, got his first drum kit at eleven, and worked as a professional drummer before becoming a singer-songwriter. He speaks honestly about the industry's evolution — from taking your money, to taking your masters, to 360 deals — and why he'd rather stay in obscurity than sign one. He also shares his upcoming seven-song EP "Lucky Number Seven," recorded in Franklin, Tennessee, plus the tracks "Burning Moonlight" (written in ninety minutes on an airplane) and "Fool for Me," written for his wife.Find more of C. C.'s music on Spotify and Reverb Nation. Subscribe to Dream Chasers Radio for more real people, real dreams, real wins.