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Conversations with Cam

296: From Corporate to Content Creation, Evolving Wellness Practices, and Viewing Time as a Resource with Les Alfred

Conversations with Cam

Dear Media

Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I sit down with Les Alfred (@lesalfred) to discuss her journey from corporate life to full-time content creation, the challenges of self-employment, and her experience being a Black creator in the digital space. Les shares her insights on manifesting, building a routine for different eras of life, and the importance of celebrating wins. We dive into the complexities of work-life balance, personal re-branding as a reflection of growth and evolving mindsets, and the need for boundaries in the digital age. 

Key Takeaway / Points:

  • Transitioning from corporate job to full-time content creation
  • Challenges of self-employment and accepting the potential return to corporate work
  • Balancing work and personal life as a content creator
  • Pressures and expectations faced by Black creators
  • Importance of celebrating wins and avoiding constant goal-post moving
  • Manifesting practices and focusing on personal growth
  • Struggles with burnout and boundaries living online
  • Future aspirations including fiction writing and business consulting
  • Importance of diversifying content consumption
  • Balancing gratitude with self-advocacy in professional spaces


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Follow Les Alfred: 

Instagram: @lesalfred and @shessoluckypod

Listen to her podcast: She's So Lucky 

Buy her digital planner: Spacious Rituals


Follow me:

Instagram: @cameronoaksrogers and @conversationswithcam

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Website: cameronoaksrogers.com

TikTok: @cameronoaksrogers and @conversations_with_cam

Youtube: Cameron Rogers

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a dear media production. Hello, my favorite people. I am excited to introduce

0:07.8

you if you do not already know today's guest, Les Alfred. She is amazing. I've been following her

0:14.5

for maybe three, two years now. I'm not sure. But I say this in the very beginning of the

0:20.3

episode. Like, I just feel like she really beginning of the episode. Like, I just feel

0:21.3

like she really has her shit together. Like she just feels organized. She feels on top of her shit.

0:25.9

I am just constantly impressed by her and blown away by all that she's able to do. So I was honored

0:32.2

to have her on the show to talk about some of the ways that she like goes about life, manifesting, journaling, balancing work,

0:41.2

all of the things to get to the success that she has seen today. I also think she has a really

0:45.8

interesting perspective and like lived experience to share in the terms of leaving a corporate

0:53.2

job to be a content creator and then going

0:55.4

back to the corporate world and doing that again. And then now she's been a full-time

1:00.0

self-employed content creator for the past, like, year and a half. But I think we need to

1:03.8

talk about that more that the corporate world is there for you. If you need to return,

1:08.0

it is there. She also is the host of the newly named She's So Lucky Pod. You may

1:13.5

have heard of it as the balanced Black Girl podcast. It's amazing. I listen to it regularly. I love it.

1:20.0

I love less. And I'm excited to share her and all of her knowledge with you all today.

1:25.9

Again, as always, a rate review, subscribe, any of the

1:29.5

things on the show is so helpful. Share it with a friend. Let me know your thoughts. Share it on your

1:34.5

socials, whatever you want to do. And come back for more every Wednesday, Conversations with Cam.

1:39.3

Here we go. Here is less.

1:42.7

Come on it in. Take a seat. Or a drink. Pass one to me. Come here is less. I feel like a conversation. If you've got to get it'll end,

2:03.5

here's conversations with care.

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