Navigating Career Pivots To Telling Love Stories (with a little advice from Oprah) with Codie Elaine Oliver- CEO and Co-Founder of Black Love Inc.
Codie Elaine Oliver has had many meaningful pivots within her impressive career journey.
One in particular where Oprah Winfrey, HERSELF told her what to pivot to next in her career…and when Oprah tells you to do something, you do it!
Today, Codie is the CEO and co-founder of Black Love, Inc., a fast-growing media company comprised of the Black Love+ app, BlackLove.com, Black Love’s social and digital platforms, and live and virtual events, including the annual Black Love Summit.
Codie is also the director and co-creator of the ground-breaking, four-time NAACP Image Awards-nominated docuseries, Black Love, which premiered as the most-viewed unscripted series in OWN’s history and is set to return for its fifth season in 2021.
Her other projects include being a partner at Confluential Content, a company she shares with her husband Tommy Oliver, and the production company behind the recent HBO Documentary 40 Years A Prisoners and the upcoming Netflix film, The Perfect Find, starring Gabrielle Union. Prior to Black Love, Codie had stints at Film Independent, Fox Searchlight, and Creative Artists Agency.
In this episode we discuss:
How to TRULY find your path when it comes to your career (hint, it’s by doing MANY jobs)
Releasing the opinions of others so you can move forward with your life
What love looks like and the challenges we all face to keep a relationship together
Why she brought Black Love to life (and the stories being told of everyday people)
For additional ways to engage, you can find Codie hosting a bi-weekly podcast where she holds candid conversations with celebrities and influencers centered around who they are beyond the public persona called My New BFF (she also has a Real-Talk all things mom and kids related with her 2 friends called Mama’s Den podcast)!
Listen to Codie's podcast My New BFF with Codie Elaine Oliver: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-new-bff-with-codie-elaine-oliver/id1556161112
Mama’s Den Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mamas-den/id1616159115
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