This week Julia sits down with Rahkiya Brown to talk about her journey with starting her own business: Plugged In Media.  Rahkiya is the founder and CEO of Plugged In Media. Based out of Binghamton, NY she works with local artists and entrepreneurs to help them market and brand themselves and achieve success. Rahkiya studied communications and broadcastign at Onondaga Community College and SUNY Oswego.  Keep up with Plugged In Media: @_pluggedinmedia Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow Julia on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave us a rating and review and be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode!

This week, Julia brings you a solo episode. Inspired by Tyler Perry's acceptance speech for the People's Champion award at the E! People's Choice Awards, Julia talks all about losing faith in yourself, doubting yourself, and why it's so important to push through that and keep working. She also gives you her recap of this week's episode of The Bachelorette!  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow Julia on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts and Subscribe to the show so you never miss it!

This week Julia talks with a dear friend of hers from college, Matt Peters. They talk all about the transition from his time as a Graphic Design major at Pratt to his full-time job as a Graphic Designer for Abercrombie & Fitch. They also talk about why they both love New York City so much, and reminisce on some of their favorite memories from college.  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Follow Matt on Instagram: @matthew.t.peters Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

This week Julia chats with Krissy Hudy all about her post-grad experience! They talk all about trusting your gut to figure out what you want, having room to grow and being patient in finding what's right for you. Krissy studied communications at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, NY and now works at an advertising agency in her hometown. Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

This week, Julia sits down with another amazing cousin of hers Sydney Stewart. Sydney is now a student pursuing a nursing degree, but it's taken her lots of trial and error to buckle down and decide that this is what she wanted to do.  Julia and Sydney discuss all of the obstacles Sydney faced after high school, how she dealt with them and what ultimately led her to want to become a nurse.  Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

Julia is going solo this week to talk about the anxiety she has been feeling recently and show she handles it. She talks about prioritizing the things that make you happy, understanding what you can control and defeating the negative feelings. She also chats about some tv shows, music and youtube news that she has been loving and excited about! Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts to let me know what you think of the show!

This week Julia sits down with her cousin Maya Haykal and talks about her transition into medical school. They talk about how different med school is from undergrad, balancing your time and the importance of being present in the moment. Maya studied Biology at Binghamton University, where she also played Division I tennis. After graduating in the midst of the pandemic, she started Medical School at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY.  Follow the podcast Instagram: @afterpartypodcast  Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Follow Maya's yoga Instagram: @mayaroseyogi

This week, Julia sits down with Katie Kane, an established business woman and entrepreneur that she both works for and looks up to a lot. Katie shares her post-grad experience in retrospect, and talks about how she had to keep pushing to get her foot in the door in the beginning of her career. She gives incredible advice on getting through the first few years after college, because she's been through it herself and knows how tough it can be. She also talks about starting her own business and balancing both that and her career. Katie graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City in 2006. From there, she worked in retail at Ralph Lauren, and eventually found herself on the project management team at Tory Burch in the early years of the company. She stayed at Tory Burch until she had her son Lincoln, and then moved back to her hometown to be close to family and raise her son. There, she worked for SaveAround, Inc. as a project manager where she is still working today. In 2017, she started her own business called Simply Tan, a custom, mobile spray-tanning business. This came from numerous personal skin cancer scares, along with her father's melanoma diagnosis. There are now two locations for Simply Tan, Binghamton, NY and Naperville, IL, and she works to donate money from sales to Melanoma research. Follow Simply Tan on Instagram: @hellosimplytan Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow your host on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

Introducing Happy Hour! Every Friday, Julia will be uploading a solo episode where you get to just catch up on life with her! The topics will vary each week depending on what's happening in Julia's life, things she's loving or interesting pop culture stories she wants to talk about!  This week Julia is discussing one of her new favorite books, the way she's been boosting her productivity and the heartbreaking news about Chrissy Teigen's miscarriage.  Follow Julia on Instagram: @juliarstanton Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts!

This week Julia sits down with her good friend Jamie Childs to talk all about life in New York City and working a corporate job! They reminisce on some funny memories, chat about how Jamie went from college internship to a full time job and discuss what it's like working in the beauty industry during COVID times!  Jamie went to St. Johns University in Queens where she studied Marketing and PR. She did several internships during her time at school and now is working full time for a Beauty PR agency in New York City.  Follow Jamie on Instagram: @jamie.childz Follow the podcast on Instagram: @afterpartypodcast Follow Julia on Instagram: @juliarstanton Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts if you enjoyed the show!! Thank you ALWAYS for listening 😊