What's Next? with The Chief Librarian

What is your next move, and do you have the tools to make it?

What’s Next? with The Chief Librarian is a podcast for Black women ready to step boldly into their next chapter.

Hosted by executive leader, strategist, and founder of Excellence Established, Tiffany Alston, this show explores the real strategies behind powerful life and career transitions.

Each episode features candid conversations with entrepreneurs, healers, creatives, coaches, and community builders who are redefining success on their own terms.

From career pivots and leadership growth to entrepreneurship, healing, identity, and financial empowerment, every conversation is designed to leave listeners with insight they can immediately apply to their own journey.

If you’re navigating change, building something new, reclaiming your power, or asking yourself “What’s next?” — this podcast is for you.

Bold guests. Real talk. No fluff.

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What's Next? with The Chief Librarian

Investing in Your Future Self

May 23, 2026 • The Chief Librarian • Season 2 • Episode 3

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What’s Next for you? This podcast exists to help you move forward with clarity, courage, and strategy. If something in today’s episode resonated with you, I would love to hear from you. Send me a message, share your thoughts, or tell me the question you are wrestling with right now. Your insight or story might even shape a future episode. Because the truth is… The next move is always yours to make. Tiffany Alston Host, What’s Next? with The Chief Librarian

Some investments do not show up in your bank account immediately - but they shape your entire future.
In this episode of What’s Next? With The Chief Librarian, Tiffany Alston sits down with retired library powerhouse Ellen Riordan for an honest conversation about personal investment, retirement, career decisions, financial wisdom, identity beyond work, and building a life with intention.
Together, they unpack:
Why retirement is about more than money
The hidden cost of staying too long in draining environments
How women often invest in everyone except themselves
What it means to prepare emotionally, financially, and personally for your next chapter
The importance of investing in joy, peace, purpose, and freedom
This is not just a conversation about retirement.
It is a conversation about designing a life you do not need to escape from.
Because your future self is shaped by the choices you make today.

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