Flaunt Your Fire

Erica and India discuss their intentions for the shows Pause on the Play® and Flaunt Your Fire®. After nearly 300 combined episodes, they pause to explore how to use them as continued resources and how to stay in the loop about future projects.Ready to dive deeper?Keep in touch and find out what we’re up to at pauseontheplay.com

It’s increasingly common for people with traditional jobs to be building their own businesses and brands outside of their regular working hours. But when you have a traditional job, it can sometimes be difficult to assess how and where to show up publicly. This can be especially true if you work in a field like government or law enforcement.Officer Kenny Dean joins India to discu

Fashion is part of everyday life.Whether you love it and follow the latest trends, or you’re a minimalist with a capsule wardrobe, or none of the above, we all have to wear clothes.E.K. Powell joined India for a live conversation within The Pause on the Play Community about the lesser-known history of fashion, gender norms, and the role of capitalism in what we think are just pre

Change is inevitable, whether in you, your brand, or the humans who are a part of it.How we meet change is up to us. How do you honor the life and death cycles that come with change?Brionna Ned joins India for a conversation about death, rebirth, growth, and change within life and business.In this discussion:How Brionna helps people navigate death cycles and change Why Brionna beli

Being explicit about your values in your business used to be frowned upon, but it’s vital to how you market your brand, how you build your company culture, and how you relate to your clients. In this replay of a 2020 conversation on Racheal Cook’s Promote Yourself to CEO podcast, Racheal and India discuss infusing your values into all aspects of your business, addressing mindse

Books are powerful tools for learning, connection, evolution, and reconsideration. From storytelling through fiction to learning about the real lives of others in nonfiction works, books help us reshape our thinking, communicate with the people in our lives, and sometimes just get lost in a really good story. Erica Courdae joins India to discuss some of the books that have strongly

Are you more comfortable calling yourself a content creator rather than an influencer? The word “influencer” has developed something of a negative connotation, but at its core, to be an influencer simply means being someone who is influential to others. If we model actions and behaviors that reflect our values, we can have a positive influence on those who witness us. Erica Cou

We might think of trends as things that come and go in the worlds of fashion and style, but trends impact the world of work and entrepreneurship as well. Trends aren’t necessarily negative, but when we follow trends in any capacity without questioning them, it can take us down a path that we didn’t intend to be on. In a replay of a live conversation from within The Pause on the

What role does consent play in your life? How does it affect the way that you show up? Consent plays a major role in visibility, from the use of your image, to the agreements you make–or don’t make–when you appear in venues like podcasts, to how much you’re compensated, and more. Stacie Lampkin interviews India about how consent, or lack thereof, has shown up in her life, f

People often talk about what their visibility goals are, or how they want to get more visible, especially at the beginning of a year or in the first quarter. But oftentimes we don’t discuss what we don’t want our visibility to be, what doesn’t feel aligned with how we show up. And that’s important too. Erica Courdae joins India to discuss feeling invisible, how we judge peo