What does it take to make history, feel the weight of disappointment, and then rise again with purpose?

In this episode of Bold & Brilliant Life with Bianca Peart we sit down with Nzingha Prescod — an athlete who didn’t just break barriers, she reshaped them.

Nzingha Prescod made history as the first Black woman to medal at the Senior World Fencing Championships — but her story doesn’t stop at the podium. The 2x Olympian, World Champion and 4x Senior World Medalist opens up about setbacks, resilience, and why she founded PISTE to help build future leaders through sport, teamwork, and education.

This is a conversation about legacy, impact, and redefining success beyond medals.

In this conversation, Nzingha gets real about:

* Her journey from Brooklyn to world champion and Olympian

* The influence and impact of her late trilogy figures: Mother - Marva Prescod, Mentor - Peter Westbrook and Coach - Buckie Leach

* How fencing shaped her mindset — on and off the piste

* Why access and representation matter in sport and in life

* And how she’s now pouring into young people with PISTE’s accessible programming across New York City

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Learn more about The Prescod Institute for Sport, Teamwork & Education (PISTE) at pisteacademy.org.

Nzingha is building more than elite fencers — she’s building future leaders. By bringing fencing and life skills to youth in communities that have historically been left out of the conversation, she’s using sport as a tool for confidence, strategy, teamwork, and opportunity.

From Alvin Ailey school, NBA arenas to costume designer and founder and CEO of Capri Swim™ — this is the story of Ashley Capri who turned her art into a business and her passion into purpose.

In this episode of Bold & Brilliant Life with Bianca Peart, we explore Ashely Capri's journey and how an Alvin Ailey dancer, NBA dancer as well as a commercial dancer and model built a successful brand through strategy, creativity, and pure hustle. She shares how she overcame burnout, stayed authentic in an industry of comparison, and built a life by design — not by default.

💡 Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:30 Her journey from Toledo to Alvin Ailey

15:45 Dancing in the NBA

30:10 Building her business

45:00 Lessons in strategy, faith & blooming

This episode will help you gain insights on how to go from a dancer to a business woman, become a creative entrepreneur, how to start a brand, how to build a Black-owned and women-owned business, personal growth, career reinvention, strategy for creatives, self growth and tools to build a business strategy for artists.

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In this inspiring episode of The Bold and Brilliant Life, host Bianca Peart sits down with Nina Finley — Ultimate Frisbee champion and PhD candidate in disease ecology — to explore how sports and science can work together to create lasting change. From competing on the World Junior Ultimate Championships team to leading groundbreaking research in ecological health, Nina shares how teamwork, joy, and radical listening shape her approach to both leadership and life.

Together, Bianca and Nina dive into gender and racial equity in sports, community-driven conservation, and the lessons that connect the field, the lab, and the heart. Tune in for a powerful conversation about purpose, resilience, and redefining what it means to live boldly and brilliantly — on the ultimate frisbee field and in the ecology field.