Episode Summary

Learn about the host of your favorite podcast as Candice Davis of Little Miss Entertainment turns the microphone on Kevin, in this crossover episode of the Create Your Life Series.  Kevin shares how his experiences in the California foster system gave him the determination to succeed and, ultimately, the ability to create his life.  Kevin and Candice reminisce about his experiences at Clark Atlanta University and how the friends you make can influence your life in the best of ways.  Listen in to find out what’s next for Kevin and what he’s looking forward to in the future.

Kevin Y. Brown

Kevin Y. Brown is a National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center For Public Trust (CPT) “Being A Difference” award recipient, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author.  The former MTV Networks host and NYC fashion marketer has created an international following as a speaker on personal excellence, effective communication, and leadership.  Kevin has been featured by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Modern Man of Distinction” and highlighted in various publications for his self-help speaking work and helping students graduate college debt-free.  Recognized for his commitment to empowering foster care youth and as a foster care system alumnus, he has also delivered the keynote address at the International Foster Care Organizations Conference in Sydney, Australia, and Osaka, Japan.  Kevin is currently the creator/host of Sirius XM’s “Create Your Life” series, a fellow in the New York Chapter of the Startup Leadership Program, and an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. 

Candice Davis

Candice graduated from Wilkes University with honors in the prestigious Lambda Pi Eta communications studies National Honor Society.  She is in the Who's Who of College & University Students and has achieved numerous other awards. 

Now, Candice is Director of Marketing at Live! Casino and Hotel in Hanover, Maryland, but after college Candice took what she calls a “survival job” before finding what would be the best opportunity of her life at a casino as an entertainment coordinator.  What began as a fun title on a name tag turned into the Little Miss Entertainment brand.  

Little Miss Entertainment is any person that loves to go to concerts, loves throwing dinner parties, loves finding a bargain on great designer clothes, loves traveling the world.  Candice took that brand and turned it into an interview-style podcast, The Little Miss Entertainment Show, where she interviews amazing people with amazing stories. They talk about funny things, serious things, and love things and they are the types of stories that everyone can relate to.

Insights from this episode:

• Details on how Kevin’s childhood cultivated and shaped his path for the future.
• The benefits of going to Clark Atlanta University, how it provided a history and a basis for Kevin to learn and build from, and how he emerged as a completely different person.
• Secrets to graduating from college debt-free taken from Kevin’s book 10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate From College Debt-Free: A Guide to Post-College Freedom.
• Strategies Kevin used to survive foster care and how that experience made him who he is today.
• Difficulties faced by men of color to express themselves in a meaningful way.
• How to find and face your flaws.
• Details on the launch of Podcast Laundry, how it has grown, and what’s next for Kevin.

Quotes from the show:

• On being in foster care: “It’s one of those situations where you either decide that you’re going to take control of your life or that the circumstances that you were born into, that you have no control over, will then define who you are.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “Going to Clark Atlanta was a great experience.  I feel like, for me, it definitely taught me about the responsibilities that I had to the community as a black male.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “College is about having fun and it’s about finding yourself and your independence, but it’s more so what you need to leave with; college is a network of people that will support you.” – Candice Davis, Episode #177
• “Foster care just always has that connotation that that person didn’t want the child or the child is in the system, but it’s so much more than that.” – Candice Davis, Episode #177
• On surviving foster care: “You have people that have different levels of resiliency.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “My thing with Create Your Life is that we want to make sure that people walk away with tangible takeaways and that our guests are very, very open, and that we ask the questions, the life hacks, that people can really walk away with.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “You can’t duplicate the ‘what’ somebody does or the ‘why’ they do it but you can duplicate the ‘how’ and that’s what’s really important.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “You invest in other people to see them win.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “We all have areas to improve … change is constant but growth is optional.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Episode #177
• “Sometimes we are our biggest critics and we have to know we aren’t perfect and … that there is room to improve and grow and if we all accept that we will become better human beings and better communicators and better partners.” – Candice Davis, Episode #177
• “[Kevin] is one of those people that you will not just want to work with because of the quality of work, you’ll enjoy working with him because he is professional and personable.” – Candice Davis, Episode #177

Resources Mentioned:

10 Ways Anyone Can Graduate From College Debt-Free: A Guide to Post-College Freedom by Kevin Y. Brown

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