Bring Your Own Chair

There are a lot of podcasts. But so many existing podcasts lack the voices and stories of Black women and other women of color. Each episode of Bring Your Own Chair features a conversation with a woman of color where she will share her background, interests, goals, and expertise.Young women of color are habitually not offered a seat at the table and this space will allow us to bring our own chair, create a space where we are the experts on our own stories, and share our voices with the world.

Bring Your Own Chair is a society podcast hosted by Khayriyyah MuhammadSmith, with 28 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Khayriyyah MuhammadSmith hosts Bring Your Own Chair, a society show with 28 episodes published.

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  Bring Your Own Chair

  BYOC x Black Women Give Back Season Trailer

  Aug 11, 20262 minS5

  Welcome to the Bring Your Own Chair x Black Women Give Back season. This special collaboration between the podcast and Voice. Vision. Value. brings together candid conversations with honorees of the Black Women Give Back Award who are shaping the future of philanthropy—as grantmakers, advisors, foundation leaders, and changemakers. In each episode, we move beyond titles and resumes to explore the experiences, questions, and perspectives that define this work. Together, we'll examine leadership, power, generosity, career journeys, and what it means to build a more equitable philanthropic sector. In this introductory episode, host and 2025 honoree Khayriyyah MuhammadSmith shares the inspiration behind the partnership with Black Women Give Back and offers a preview of the conversations to come. Whether you're part of philanthropy or simply curious about the people and ideas driving social change, we're glad you're here. Pull up a chair.

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  Episode #4

  Aimee Maaka: Woman of the World

  Nov 19, 202451 minS4

  <p>Aimee is a wāhine Māori (female Māori person), with whakapapa to Ngāti Porou, Ngāpuhi and Ngāti Kahungunu currently residing in Te Whanganui a tara (Wellington) Aotearoa (New Zealand).</p> <p>Her background is in Social Work, and she has spent many years working in prisons, courts, and in the community with young people and adults subject to the criminal justice system in Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and the UK. Aimee has also spent time working for Government organizations in the Policy space and in more recent years in the tertiary education sector doing crisis...

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  Azanique Rawl: Pivoting and Trying New Things

  Nov 12, 20241h 1mS4

  <p>Azanique is a professional multi-hat wearer who thrives in building community, both online and offline. Sitting in between corporate philanthropy and social impact, she has recently finished her master's degree in digital communication analytics and sits on the Young Feminist Leaders Council at Feminist Press. As a creative and connector, Azanique runs a monthly book club dedicated to amplifying Black authors and is a Southern lifestyle content creator at lotsofsass.com. At the end of the day, you can find Azanique planning her next dinner party tablescape, cuddling with her dog Max or snuggling on the couch with a...

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  Episode #3

  Thoughts on Women's History Month

  Mar 30, 202324 minS4

  <p>Tune into our first solo episode with host Khayriyyah MuhammadSmith as she shares some background on Women's History Month here in the US. As a passionate girl's and women's rights advocate, the month of March brings up a lot of conversation around the contributions of women to society and their ability to move through the world in the current day. Khayriyyah also chats through some of her personal background and connection to gender equity and what it looks like to apply an intersectional lens to how we view the world.</p> <p><br></p> <p>Resources Referenced:</p> <p>...

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  Jasmine Mceachnie: Radiating Care Across the World

  Mar 14, 202348 minS4

  <p>Jasmine was born and raised by Egyptian parents in sunny Australia. She moved to London at 24, where she continued her career in Radiation Therapy. It was in London that she met her husband and had her first child. Jasmine’s family then relocated to NYC, where she landed an exciting role training radiotherapists and physicists on a treatment monitoring system. While her work can get quite emotional working with patients going through the most difficult times in their lives, Jasmine finds it truly rewarding to laugh, cry, and feel with her patients. Since being in NYC, Jasmine has recently we...

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