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Episode 4: You're Not Invisible. You're Just Inconsistent.
After the last presidential election, I wrote a post. It was researched, honest, and fair. It was also some of the most personally revealing writing I had done in a professional context. I read it eleven times.
It is still in my drafts.
In this episode, I use that story as the entry point for a conversation about Intentional Visibility — one of the four pillars of my R.I.S.E. Framework, developed through my doctoral research on how Black women entrepreneurs build and leverage professional networks. Intentional Visibility is not about posting more. It is about showing up strategically, consistently, and authentically in the spaces where it counts.
I walk through five specific places professionals quietly lose ground on visibility — from showing up only when you have news, to confusing a full calendar with being known. We also get into the cringe factor: that hesitation between having something genuine to say and actually saying it, and what it is quietly costing you.
If you have ever closed a tab on something you should have published, this one is for you.
In this episode:
Why visibility problems look like waiting, not invisibility
The difference between genuine connection and programmatic outreach
How to maintain your network before you need it
What your outdated bio is actually communicating
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Three legal actions. Six weeks. One pattern. In this episode, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price connects the dots between the EEOC's lawsuit targeting a women's networking event, Edward Blum's challenge to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation scholarship, and Executive Order 14398 — the new federal contracting mandate with False Claims Act teeth. Drawing on her post-doctoral research and the history of Black institution-building in America, she makes the case that these aren't isolated legal disputes. They are a coordinated effort to dismantle the infrastructure that formal identity-based networks produce — and if you are a Black woman in business, the stakes are in your pipeline right now.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Last episode was the diagnosis. This one is the prescription. Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price breaks down the R.I.S.E. Framework™ — the four-pillar networking model that emerged from her doctoral research on Black women entrepreneurs — and applies it directly to the Crisis 600: nearly 600,000 Black women economically sidelined since February 2025. This episode covers Intersectional Network Agility (a new research construct for navigating identity-affirming and structurally advantaged networks), specific action steps for Black women in transition, why rest is a strategy and not a reward, and four non-negotiable commitments for allies and institutions. The full 20-step strategy is on Beyond the Business Card on Substack.

The headlines are calling it ambition. The data tells a different story. In this debut episode, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price unpacks what is actually driving the rise of Black women entrepreneurs — and why resilience alone is not enough. Drawing from her own experience launching The Networking Dr.™ and years of doctoral research, she makes the case for what is actually owed.