MProper Mimi has been MIA but don't you worry! Mimi Jacks has been eating very well. Tune in and catch up with your host of the MProper Mimi show, Mimi Jacks as she chops it up with the multi-talented culinary experts and chefs that make up SPAD Catering. Shyam, Ashley, Stewart and Tionna. It was so much fun to chat with the crew about how they each started their journey and love of cooking, the ins and outs of leadership and flexibility the entrprepreneurship mindset offers a catering business.  Be sure to catch part two of our interview when we move the party to the kitchen! Subscribe to MProper Mimi on YouTube to see Mimi and Chef Stewart preparing arepas, hear Chef Ashley’s advice to those who want to get started in this business plus get the sweet details from Tee on her delicious desserts.   Host - Mimi Jacks https://www.mpropermimi.com/ IG: @MProperMimi https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi MProper Mimi YouTube Channel Produced by Cyren Young IG: @CyrenYoung   Links: https://www.instagram.com/spadcatering/

MProper Mimi host Mimi Jacks is joined by Courtney Williams, founder of The Brown Bike Girl as they talk about the importance of cycling safety and biking advocacy consulting. Whether you cycle or not, we provide a fun glimpse into the concerns of bike safety in the city, how to influence change and train up others as well as the intersectionality of cycling and health and government in our communities. You can find Courtney everywhere as The Brown Bike Girl and especially at https://linktr.ee/thebrownbikegirl there will be listingings of upcoming events, classes and activities. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheBrownBikeGirl/ Instagram @thebrownbikegirl Twitter @thebrownbikegirl Patreon https://www.patreon.com/thebrownbikegirl

"Hey Sis, Are You Ok?" might be a phase you have heard before or even used amongst your friends and family. During this episode of MProper Mimi, our host Mimi Jacks is chopping it up with Kim Moore of Black Woman Be Whole about a new mental health workbook "Hey Sis, Are You Okay?" designed to help prioritize your menatl health. We are out here talking about ways that we want to help women heal and be whole and of course having a good time laughing about our experiences all at the same time. So join us and spread the word! May is Mental Health Awareness month and Sis, we want to make sure you are Okay! See the links below for more information on Black Woman Be Whole and the Hey Sis, Are You Okay mental health workbook.   Host - Mimi Jacks https://www.mpropermimi.com/ IG: @MProperMimi https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi Produced by Cyren Young IG: @CyrenYoung   Links: [email protected]  Website - https://www.blackwomanbewhole.com/ Mental Health Workbook - https://www.blackwomanbewhole.com/store/p/hey-sis-are-you-okay-workbook BWBW Podcast - https://www.blackwomanbewhole.com/podcast Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/blackwomanbewhole/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/BlackWomanBeWhole Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcgsZj7mDOSO24eRgphz9sQ

Usually on MProper Mimi when we talk about knowing your triggers it has to do with dealing with trauma. Not this time! For this episode “knowing your triggers” we are referring to those things that make our allergies and/or asthma flare up. I was able to speak with an allergy specialist, Dr. Lakiea Wright to have an important conversation about her journey to becoming a specialist in the field of allergies. Other topics also include Adult onset allergies the importance of knowing our triggers racial disparities when it comes to allergies & asthma diagnosis and what our families and caregivers can do to help ensure children are safe when it comes to these subjects We hope you enjoy this conversation and find it helpful enough to share with others in your circles.  Send Mimi Jacks a message to tell us your story of how allergies or asthma have impacted your family!   Host - Mimi Jacks https://www.mpropermimi.com/ IG: @MProperMimi https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi Produced by Cyren Young IG: @CyrenYoung   Links: Dr. Lakiea Wright - Allergist specializing in providing the “right” info https://www.instagram.com/dr.wright_allergist/ LEAP - Clinical Allergy Study  ht

Have you ever experienced a setback or learned a valuable lesson through trial and error that you wished you could share with others so that they would never have to go through what you have been through? Or sometimes the stories we decide to share with those around us are to connect with them through similar adversities. Our guest this week on MProper Mimi is Stephanie Smith and she and Mimi Jacks talk alot about why we share our stories and why they are important. You also get your fair share of sisterfriends chatting about how the division of Black and white in the US creates a culture that encourages turmoil. We list a few of our fav books and movies in the MProper Suggestions below. Be sure to subscribe to the MProper Mimi YouTube channel to see or listen to us as well. Produced by Cyren Young IG: @CyrenYoung https://www.mpropermimi.com/ IG: @MProperMimi https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi   MProper Suggestions:   Links PrismWork - Leadership lab for men [email protected] www.Smith-squared.com Read The Vanishing Half - by Britt Bennett Watch Imitation of life -  Sarah Jane - beaten because her mom was black Skin - Based on the true story of a black girl who was born to two white Afrikaner parents in South Africa during the apartheid era.

Have you ever thought about how the software programs or apps we use everyday to make our lives easier take into account diversity and inclusion in who they are made for or even the designers behind the scenes making them for us? Well this has been an MProper thought our host Mimi Jacks thinks about a lot when considering how to increase the number of women of color in Technology on all levels and interactions. Our special guest Shanae Chapman, is the Founder of Nerdy Diva, a small, Black woman-owned business that helps tech start-ups grow and scale into mature businesses with excellent user experience (UX), strategic diversity and inclusion, and investment in their community. You will definitely want to listen and share this conversation as Mimi and Shanae talk about her love for UX design, encountering diverse women in Corporate Technology, how social innovation is integrated with Technology and Diversity, the importance of APIs in sharing information to our communities and so much more. The fact that Nerdy Diva also is involved with angel investing for underrepresented founders blew my mind!  And after you hear this MProper Mimi episode I'm sure you will agree that one month alone i snot enough to recognize all the things that women do or are capable of! To Learn more about Shanae and Nerdy Diva find informative links below and be sure to sign up for the Nerdy Diva Newsletter.  One Love! https://www.mpropermimi.com/ IG: @MProperMimi https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi Produced by Cyren Young IG: @CyrenYoung Nerdy Diva Links Website: https://nerdydiva.com/ Inclusive Design Resources: https://mailchi.mp/nerdydiva.com/lwt2021 97 Things Every UX Practitioner Should Know - Free Chapter: https://mailchi.mp/nerdydiva.com/97things Inclusive UX Article: https://uxpamagazine.org/workplace-culture/ Newsletter Sign up: https://mailchi.mp/0cdc271e78ea/nerdydivanewsletter Newsletter Archives: https://us20.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=dca765364c56e31e0224ff35f&id=12f2289e00 Angel Investing Thesis: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uK-PIUOpc6alW0MObB7M_-hB6hUlbH8e/view   Angel Investing https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-black-girl-bleu-prepare-for-streaming

Welcome to the first MProper Mimi episode of Season Three!! What better way to kick it off than to talk to two podcast mavens about using their platform to empower women. Listen as MProper Mimi host Mimi Jacks and Unique, the host of Becoming Unique interview each other to share with you how they came to a point in their lives of being true to themselves. Join us as we talk about self limiting beliefs and how acknowledging that we are enough helped to lead us to various accomplishments.    Find more information about Unique and the topics we cover in the links below. Becoming Unique Website: https://www.becomingunique.com/ IG: @becoming_unique Facebook: @becominguniquepodcast   MProper Mimi https://www.mpropermimi.com/  https://www.instagram.com/mpropermimi/  https://www.facebook.com/MProperMimi/ https://twitter.com/MproperMimi Produced by Cyren Young   MProper Suggestions: Will by Will Smith Becoming Unique podcast: I Am Enough MProper Mimi S2 Ep4: You Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome

S2 Ep 14: MProper Musings - Catching up with Cyren Young Shout out to MProper Mimi co-producer Cyren Young for joining MProper Musings where we talk about about the thoughts we've had for the previous week. This week you get a little behind the scenes peek at just a few of the items we talk about and opinions we share before during and after working on new MProper Mimi episodes.  I really want to encourage YOU the listeners to share topics, opinions good reads etc. with us to chat about as well. Who knows! We may use your topic of find a guest for the show to talk with as well. Hit me up on MPropermimi.com or any social media handles @MPropermimi Co-Produced by Cyren Young and Mimi Jacks. Brought to you by MProper Mimi of MProper Mimi 0:00 Intro 1:28 Reactions to Dave Chappelle’s Netflix special Closer 18:08 Jon Gruden and infamous emails 31:26 Not Tony Dungy! I would consider him a reputable source. 39:55 What happens when players refuse to play...their jobs go to someone else 41:38 If professional athletes are having these problems, imagine the women in the workplace that are facing similar discrimination issues at work. 42:54 NYC worker vaccination mandate countdown 47:13 Mimi experiencing home, work and play in Portugal 51:50 Mimi always looks up Blacks in the diaspora when she travels to learn about their historical experience. 53:31 MProper Musing Closing - let Mimi know what you want us to chat about next, opinions on current news on mpropermimi.com or IG @Mpropermimi

S2 Ep 13: MProper Musings - Ctaching up with Mimi Jacks. A special thank you to all the listners for checking in on MProper Mimi. I figured I would give you a little update and info on the carrying ons of what our host Mimi Jacks has been up to. From dancing on the edge of circles to jumping on a plane to go to Portugal. 0:00 Welcome 0:30 An Extremely busy Mimi 2:04 My 2nd Job For the culture - Black is Tech 5:20: Clip from Overcoming Post Pandemic Anxiety episode 7:20 Surpise! I won't dance in the middle of a crowd but I'll travel to Puerto Rico, Mexico and Portugal. 9:30  Mimi is learning from the MProper Mimi episodes too! 11:10 Let Mimi know what books you are reading, if you watched Squid Games, what you thought about Dave Chappelle and his closer jokes or even if you think Brian Laundrie’s parents aided and abetted their son who was a suspect in the murder of Gabby Petito. Talk to me! I’m looking forward to hearing from you. MProperMimi.com Co-Produced by Cyren Young and Mimi Jacks. Brought to you by MProper Mimi of MProper Mimi

S2 Ep12 Part 2: Watch her Win, New York - Entrepreneurship Pros, Cons and Everything in Between (Part 2). MProper Mimi partnered with Watch Her Win New York President and Founder Obioma Richardson to do a live podcast recording in Chicago, IL. This event was a wonderful hybrid blend of six (6) powerful panelist speakers each sharing their own stories, tips and tricks to being successful entrepreneurs. The virtual portion of the webinar was managed by Rasheeda Frazier of Empowering Greatness, Inc.  Sometimes it takes a tribe to support each other and Mimi Jacks and Rasheeda enjoyed bring a lil bit of NYC to Chicago to support our sisterfriend Obioma with this event because that's what Queens do! In this second part of the live podcast recording, our panelists (listed below) continued the conversation about the importance of telling your story! They also spoke about their influences and support systems, their best and worst marketing experiences as well as answer questions from the webinar audience. Co-Produced by Cyren Young and Mimi Jacks. Sandi Robinson - Co-Founder of ChiGivesBack, Inc. @sandirobinson13 https://www.chigivesback.com/home Astin Hayes - Co-Founder and CEO of TipOff Games, LLC @astinjustice https://www.tipoffgame.com/ Foram Sheth - Chief Coaching Officer & Co-Founder of Ama La Vida @alvcoaching https://alvcoaching.com/about/ Marcus Lucy - Founder and CEO of the Marcus Lucy Experience and Urban Grind https://www.marcuslucyexperience.com/ Robin Harris - CEO and Creative Director of Model Atelier and Confidence Apparel @rhmodelatelier Norman Scales - Co-Founder of Confidence Apparel and Confidence Foundation @shop.confidence https://www.shop-confidence.com/ @watchherwin @empower_great @mpropermimi @buildbronzeville @la_chi_bk @sbdcbronzeville One Love!