On Call: Connections & Conversations

What happens when the network that helped you get here can no longer help you get where you need to go next?

In this episode of On Call: Connections & Conversations, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price introduces 500 Forward, her goal to bring 500 new people into The Networking Dr. community by October 1.

She also explains why this goal is about more than growing an audience. Drawing from her research on Black women entrepreneurs and her ...

Labor Day asks us to think about work—but not everyone is working from the same starting point.

In this episode of On Call: Connections & Conversations, Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price reflects on the Black Woman Tax™, the hidden labor Black women founders carry alongside the work of running a business, and why rest has to become part of the operating model rather than a reward for burn...

Customer intimacy is the hardest business advantage to copy, and in federal subcontracting, it might be the hardest one to build without breaking a rule. In this episode, Doctor DeJuan Stroman-Price breaks down why customer intimacy runs the whole business, not just the sales pitch, what actually stands in the way of building it, and where the real door is open in a federal market split apart by procurement rules. Whet...

Cambridge's youngest Black professor was found dead days after resigning under a wave of plagiarism allegations. Dr. DeJuan Stroman-Price sits with what Jason Arday's death reveals about race, credibility, and the myths institutions ask scholars of color to perform — drawing on her own experience finding a genuinely safe research environment at Pepperdine, where so many others don't. The full written analysis is on her Substa...

Everyone is asking whether Cheyenne Bryant lied about her credentials. I'm asking a different question: what kind of environment makes that lie work?

This episode sits at the intersection of anti-intellectualism, media literacy collapse, AI, and the brutal paradox Black women face as the most educated demographic in the country who are still systematically undervalued. I bring in Baudrillard, break down the Amanda Seales and Maya A...

I spent years interviewing Black women entrepreneurs for my doctoral research at Pepperdine. I asked them about their networks, their decisions, their wins and losses. I wrote 387 pages about how they build and sustain businesses. And then I left my role as Senior Director at a small business and launched my own consultancy. This episode is about what that transition actually looks like when you stop studying it and start living it...

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.

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. Dra...

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...