Episode 200: You Don't Wait for Permission — You Become It | Kaila James

Women of Color An Intimate Conversation · Apr 24, 2026 · 58m

Two hundred episodes. And we're just getting started.

Episode 200 of Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is here — and it arrives exactly the way it should: with a conversation that goes straight to the heart of what this podcast has always been about. Identity. Legacy. Leading as your full self.

Deneen L. Garrett sits down with Kaila James — senior strategic global leader, cultural architect, and recording artist — for a milestone episode that doesn't celebrate by slowing down. It celebrates by going deeper.

Kaila opens up about the dream role that nearly cost her everything, what she…