Sep 30, 2026 · 1 hr · 13 segments
In the episode, Coach Danni D and her guest, Shaddai Livingston explored how she sustains multifaceted creative, nonprofit, and institutional work through authenticity, boundaries, self-care, and…
I wanted something just... beautiful because I created that magazine just out of rage, out of having a previous incident at a previous job with someone who wanted to demoralize and degrade me.
She didn't like the fact that I came to work wearing heels, but none of these were things that ever came up in conversations.
I work circles around you, around half the people here, and you don't like it.
And you don't like that I still show up rested and showing up as my best self.
Why do people, including Black women, expect us to look beat down? We wear our sicknesses, our illnesses, our addictions as though they're a badge of honor and proof that we're working hard, proof that we're...
constantly producing and in a state of just continuum as if that's where our value is.
Like, why do we demean people who have the audacity to say no or the audacity to draw a boundary? And that's the only way I'm able to do as many things that I do and do them well is because of what I do for myself.
I can only, I pour into myself, which is why I'm able to pour into community the way I, at such a capacity.
I'm going to show up with at least some sort of makeup on, even if it's not a cool face.
I'm making sure my house is clean because I cannot function in a nasty, dirty house.
You have to take care of home and you so that you can take and take care and do for others.
I wanted something just... beautiful because I created that magazine just out of rage, out of having a previous incident at a previous job with someone who wanted to demoralize and degrade me.
She didn't like the fact that I came to work wearing heels, but none of these were things that ever came up in conversations.
I work circles around you, around half the people here, and you don't like it.
And you don't like that I still show up rested and showing up as my best self.
Why do people, including Black women, expect us to look beat down? We wear our sicknesses, our illnesses, our addictions as though they're a badge of honor and proof that we're working hard, proof that we're...
constantly producing and in a state of just continuum as if that's where our value is.
Like, why do we demean people who have the audacity to say no or the audacity to draw a boundary? And that's the only way I'm able to do as many things that I do and do them well is because of what I do for myself.
I can only, I pour into myself, which is why I'm able to pour into community the way I, at such a capacity.
I'm going to show up with at least some sort of makeup on, even if it's not a cool face.
I'm making sure my house is clean because I cannot function in a nasty, dirty house.
You have to take care of home and you so that you can take and take care and do for others.
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