Podcasts about a'lelia

Schedulicity and Hairdustry presents Your Day Off podcast- A'Lelia Bundles-is the great great granddaughter of Madam CJ Walker. Madam Cj Walker was Americas first Self Made millionaire. Madam CJ Walker empowered black women to be financially independent and socially responsible. A'Lelia wrote "On her own ground; the life and times of Madam CJ Walker. This was the book that the Netflix series "Self Made" was based! We finished this conversation with some incredible Q&A from our Zoom audience. Be careful you may learn something! https://aleliabundles.com https://essentials.schedulicity.com/hairdustry/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/hairdustry/support

An award-winning journalist and author, A'Lelia founded the Madam Walker Family Archives, is a Columbia University trustee and immediate past chairman of the National Archives Foundation. A former network television news executive and producer, she has appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, C-Span, NPR and BBC and spoken at Harvard Business School, Spelman College and dozens of corporations, book festivals and women’s conferences. Site: https://aleliabundles.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/georges-khalife/support

In this episode, Matt chats to the incredible A'Lelia Bundles author of 'Self Made' a mini-series now available on Netflix starring Octavia Spencer. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Sarah Breedlove—who would become known as Madam C. J. Walker—was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty. She spent the better part of the next two decades laboring as a washerwoman for $1.50 a week. Then—with the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women—everything changed. By her death in 1919, Walker managed to overcome astonishing odds: building a storied beauty empire from the ground up, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women, and devoting her life to philanthropy and social activism. Tune in as A'Lelia gives her thoughts on Hollywood, the power of a story and behind the scenes insights into the making of 'Self Made'.

In this inaugural episode of the podcast, host Rachel Rodgers takes us way back and focuses on the life and times of America's first female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker. This is a story filled with beautiful black history, and great business advice. Which is incredible when you realized that it was a time when slavery had just been eradicated. The story is told by none other than the great-great-grand daughter of Madame C.J. Walker herself, notable NY Times author and journalist, A'Lelia Bundles. With 30 years experience in the television industry, A'Lelia has seen and done it all. She is currently working on an 8-part Netflix series starring Octavia Spencer, produced by Lebron James. This is fantastic story told by an equally inspiring woman, enjoy!

EPISODE 249 In 1867, Sarah Breedlove was born to parents who had once been enslaved on a Louisiana plantation. Less than fifty years later, Breedlove (as the hair care mogul Madam C.J. Walker) would be the richest African-American woman in the United States, a successful business owner and one of black America's great philanthropists. At her side was daughter Lelia (later A'lelia) Walker, guiding her mother's company to great success despite extraordinary obstacles. The Walkers moved to Harlem in the mid 1910s during the neighborhood's transformation from a white immigrant outpost to a thriving mecca for African-American culture. The ground floor of their spacious West 136th Street home was a hair salon for black women, opened during a contentious period when irate white property owners attempted to stem the tide of black settlement in Harlem. The Walkers were at the heart of significant strides on African-American life. Madam used her wealth to support organizations like the NAACP push back against violence and racism. A'lelia, meanwhile, used her influence to corral the great talents of the Harlem Renaissance. The two of them would positively influence the history of Harlem and black America forever. FEATURING: The words of Langston Hughes, describing one of the most fabulous parties of the Jazz Age!   boweryboyshistory.com Support the show.

A'Lelia Bundles is a four time author, public speaker, journalist, and television producer. Her Madam CJ Walker biography On Her Own Ground is being produced for TV by Octavia Spencer and LeBron James. We talk about A'Lelia's dynamic career, her approach to decision making, and the lessons she learned from the first self-made American woman millionaire - her great-great-grandmother, Madam CJ Walker.  Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BTB140