You are dope! Podcast
Join Sharif, founder of LifeCoachATL and Co-Host Taylor Colbert, to explore personal growth topics in a forum that is designed to have a positive impact on peoples lives and remind everyone: “You are dope.” This podcast will touch on a variety of subjects to have thought provoking conversation, educate and have some fun while doing it. Your host, Sharif, is a gentle giant with a big heart specializing in helping people enhance their lives as a certified Life Coach. Sharif will also welcome guests and highlight people who are doing dope things and who are being of service. This can include, other life coaches, mental health experts, stylists, designers, marketers, singers, dancers, rappers… Any individual that is doing dope things and making a difference in the world. I want to make sure I give people their roses while they can still smell them
You are dope! Podcast
When Shame Starts Young: Faith, Identity & Healing
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Recently, a post from Dallas the Stylist stopped me in my tracks.
It was raw. Honest. And for a lot of us… familiar.
In this episode of the You Are Dope Podcast, Dallas opens up about growing up with shame, feeling like something was wrong with him, and trying to earn acceptance through perfection. What started as survival eventually turned into a deeper journey of healing and learning to love himself.
We’re also joined by Josh Noblitt—an ordained minister, licensed marriage and family therapist, and certified sex therapist—who helps unpack how shame begins in childhood, how it shows up in adulthood, and what it actually takes to heal from it.
This isn’t just Dallas’s story.
It’s a conversation about the many ways people grow up feeling “not enough”… and what it looks like to finally break that pattern.
We talk about:
- childhood shame and emotional wounds
- conditional love and identity
- perfectionism as protection
- faith, religion, and healing
- separating God from harmful messaging
- what it means to truly accept yourself
If you’ve ever felt like you had to perform to be loved… this one is for you.
🎙 You Are Dope Podcast — real conversations about growth, healing, and becoming who you actually are.
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