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Midwest Leak Podcast

Midwest Leak Podcast

By: Le'Deana Brown
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 Welcome to our first official podcast! This marks our official expansion into a new medium after 18 years of being a print publication. We have enjoyed connecting with the culture and community through creating 124 issues, producing thousands of articles, interview and live experiences. We're excited you're here to continue this journey with us. Let's keep the conversation going!Copyright Le'Deana Brown Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Everybody Can’t Come: Choosing Growth and Letting Faith Reveal The Path | PBT Ace - Ep 13

    Everybody Can’t Come: Choosing Growth and Letting Faith Reveal The Path | PBT Ace - Ep 13
    Feb 10 2026
    Everybody can’t come with you. Sometimes growth asks you to walk a new path before others are ready. PBT Ace reflects on how losing a child reshaped his life, his music, and his relationship with faith.

    Through honest conversation, he shares how grief became a turning point, leading to a spiritual awakening that changed the way he thinks, creates, and moves forward.

    In this conversation with ⁨@pbtace⁩ and @LeDeana explores how music became a space for healing, discipline, and clarity. He speaks about choosing growth, trusting faith during uncertainty, and accepting that time reveals who is meant to walk with you as your mindset evolves.

    This episode is about transformation through loss, the quiet work of spiritual growth, and how music can become a bridge between who you were and who you are becoming.
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    29 mins
  • How Entrepreneurs Retire | Tattoo Mastery, Creative Freedom | Ep 12 - Amani Tre Niner

    How Entrepreneurs Retire | Tattoo Mastery, Creative Freedom | Ep 12 - Amani Tre Niner
    Feb 8 2026
    What does retirement look like for entrepreneurs who never stopped building?

    In this episode of the Midwest Leak Podcast, Le’Deana sits down with Amani Tre Niner for a deep conversation on tattoo mastery, creative freedom, and lifelong learning. Amani shares how entrepreneurship has always been central to his work, even during his rise as a top tattoo artist.

    He breaks down mastery as a transferable discipline, one that applies equally to fine art, tattooing, building cars as functional art, music as craft, and now expanding deeper into real estate and preparing a return to fashion.

    Without chasing fame or popularity, Amani’s ideas and voice have traveled organically. His audio has been remixed and circulated across the internet, and even major corporations like T-Mobile have recreated moments from his content. Virality followed authenticity, not strategy.

    Now in a new phase of life, Amani describes retirement as choosing new lanes to master. He builds what interests him, studies what challenges him, and moves with intention rather than demand.
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Entrepreneurship and Endowments, Black Liberation Over Assimilation | Ep 11 - Anthony Murdock, II

    Entrepreneurship and Endowments, Black Liberation Over Assimilation | Ep 11 - Anthony Murdock, II
    Feb 6 2026
    In this episode, Anthony Murdock II challenges how we think about storytelling, philanthropy, and power.

    This conversation with Le'Deana and Murdock reframes Black stories as assets that build generational wealth. They explore what it means to re-imagine philanthropy and legacy. Murdock speaks candidly about why assimilation is not the goal, how strategic planning creates leverage, and why Black communities have always practiced philanthropy even when we were never allowed to name it as such.

    Topics include:
    • Why stories function as assets, not content
    • Re-imagining philanthropy through legacy and responsibility
    • Building Black institutions instead of chasing inclusion
    • Vision, rest, and sustainability as leadership practices
    • Entrepreneurship as a pathway to liberation

    This episode is for builders, educators, creatives, and leaders who are committed to doing work that outlives them.

    Share with someone thinking beyond charity and toward legacy. Learn more at blackliberationecosystem.com
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    39 mins
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