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Why This Toolkit Exists
Why This Toolkit Exists
This toolkit is a curated collection of frameworks, tools, readings, and resources I have personally used to design my career, leadership path, and institutional work over time. None of this is theoretical. These are the materials that helped me move from uncertainty to clarity, from ideas to execution, and from aspiration to impact.
You do not need to use everything at once. Start where you are. Use what speaks to your current season. Come back when your questions evolve. This toolkit is meant to support intentional growth, not overwhelm.
Start Here: A Simple Path
TOOLS AND WORKBOOKS
TOOLS AND WORKBOOKS
Template: Digital Vision Board – “Dream Life Blueprint”
Template: Alexandria Maloney Resume Template
Template: Harvard Resume and Cover Letter Templates
Article: Why You Should Build a Career Portfolio
Article: Build Your Own Board of Directors
Article: 100 Ways to Add Value in Relationships
Article: Graduate School Personal Statement
Guide: A Short Guide for an Aspiring International Affairs Professional
Guide: A Black Girl’s Guide to International Opportunities and Careers
Article: Foreign Policy Magazine – “So You Want a Career in International Affairs?”
Link: Opportunity Board – Jobs, Internships, and More
Link: External Foreign Affairs Fellowships and Scholarships
Website: Design Physical Business Cards on Canva (with instructional video)
Video: HiHello App for Digital Business Cards (note on physical cards preference)
Join: Join BPIA’s Weekahead Newsletter
Videos: All BPIA Leadership Recordings and Trainings
Medium Articles
Medium Articles
My Medium Profile - View Here
January 2026
Article: Preparing for New Altitudes: On pressure, preparation, and the cost of climbing higher.
October 2025
Article: How Philosophers — From Plato to Tupac — Shaped the World as We Know It
Article: Why Philosophers Have Been the World’s Most Powerful Thought Leaders
Article: When Was the Last Time You Helped Someone — Without Being Asked? Yes, I’m Talking to You.
Article: Paying the Ultimate Price: When Ideas Become Dangerous and Why Philosophers Have Been Silenced Through History
Article: How Can You Defeat Something You Don’t Understand
Article: Hope Is a Discipline.
Article: You Have a Brand — Whether You Realize It or Not.
Article: Why You Need to update your personal website ASAP
Article: Evolving From “Alpha” to “Apex”: When Power Grows Quiet
Article: You were on Forbes, so what?
Article: The Real Difference Between a Master’s and a Ph.D
Article: Leading at 29
Article: Why I’m Producing More Written Content — and Why You Should Too
Article: The 10-Minute Rule
Article: Why You're Agitated by Little Things
Article: How Our Team Repels B*llshit
Article: When Your Morals and Emotions Stop Speaking the Same Language
Article: What Happens When We’re Left Alone Too Long
Article: What It Tells Me When You Don’t Follow Up
July-September 2025
Article: “Philosophy at the Edge of Survival”: Learning to Live When Life Itself Is Under Siege
Article: It’s Urgent for You — But Here’s Why I Can’t Make It Urgent for Me
Article: Why I Don’t Refer People I Haven’t Directly Worked With
Article: When Perception and Reality Don’t Match — A Lesson on Bloom’s Taxonomy
Article: Separating the Good from the Great: The “Keys” That Opened Doors for Me: The Inner Work Behind Outer Success
Article: Saying No Never Felt So Good
Article: What Keeping Your Camera Off on Zoom Is Doing to Your Trust Quotient
Article: They Got Your Email — Here Are the Reasons They’re Not Responding
Article: How I Vet New Relationships in My Industry: A Personal Protocol for High-Value Connection
Article: You Think I’m Event Planning, but the Truth is, I’m Power Building.
Motivational Videos (That I actually watch)
Motivational Videos (That I actually watch)
Video: Myles Munroe - Bulletproof Mindset
Video: The Mind - Motivational Video
Video: TD Jakes - Why Did God Chose Me
Video: TD Jakes - Leadership and Conflict
Video: Lone Wolf - Motivational Video for All Those Fighting Battles Alone
Video: Carla Harris - Take the Lead: How to Own Your Power Presentation
Video: Breeny Lee - You were never meant to live like this
Video: Leila Hormozi - Create Systems Not Goals (How to Make Progress so Fast It Feels Illegal
Video: Dr. Thema Sermon on Fighting Giants (Alfred Street Baptist Street)
Recommended Reading
Recommended Reading
If I Could Only Keep 12 Books
If I Could Only Keep 12 Books
If I could only have access to twelve books in this life, these would be the twelve. Each one met me at a different stage of growth and helped me make sense of moments where meaning, clarity, or direction felt out of reach. Some gave language to questions I did not yet know how to ask. Others offered structure when my thoughts were expansive but unanchored, helping me learn how to move through big rooms, complex systems, and high-stakes environments with intention rather than instinct.
Several of these books helped me understand the inner terrain first. Imagination reshaped how I think about possibility and world-building. Man’s Search for Meaning, Jesus and the Disinherited, and The Book of Joy offered grounding frameworks for coping with the hard realities of existence, suffering, and moral responsibility without losing hope or clarity of purpose. The Moon and the Ghetto named uncomfortable truths about why the world is structured the way it is, while From Ideas to Impact points toward how change actually happens when vision is paired with strategy and execution.
On a more practical level, books like Never Eat Alone, Outliers, and 168 Hours sharpened how I think about relationships, time, opportunity, and leverage. Together, these twelve books form the intellectual and strategic foundation I return to again and again. They are not just books I’ve read, they are books I’ve used.
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