Afleveringen
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La La Anthony joins the podcast this week! She talks all about her journey from radio to film and TV, being told she was at the peak of her career as a young adult working for MTV, her favorite character she’s ever played, her book and soon to be TV series, The Love Playbook: Rules for Love, Sex, and Happiness, what makes her feel wealthy (and it’s not money!), her non-profit organization ThreeSixty’s work rehabilitating young men who are incarcerated at Rikers Island, and so much more!
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This week, Gabby Thomas joins the podcast to share her journey—from moving to an all-white town in Massachusetts as a young girl to attending Harvard, where her coach had a game-changing heart-to-heart with her about running track. She talks about being named Ivy League Most Outstanding Track Performer two years in a row, turning Pro with New Balance, winning medals at the 2020 and 2024 Olympics, training in Austin, TX, and so much more!
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Jemele Hill joins the podcast to talk all about her tumultuous childhood growing up in Detroit, the “Why not me?” moment she had becoming the only black female sports columnist at a daily newspaper in North America, getting her own show, her new podcast Spolitics, and so much more!
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D-Nice joins the podcast this week to talk about growing up in New York, encountering fame at a young age and how that shaped him, the support system he had in the entertainment idustry, producing the famous song” Self-Destruction" for the Stop the Violence Movement, what made him start Club Quarantine in 2020, how he continues to evolve as a creative individual and so much more!
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Quincy Isaiah joins the podcast this week to talk about booking the role of Magic Johnson in the HBO series Winning Time, what life was like post-filming, if Magic Johnson signed off on the TV series, understanding the producing process and his interest in directing, valuing therapy and taking care of your mental health, and so much more!
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EMMY-nominated writer, actor, and show runner Diallo Riddle joins the podcast this week. He talks all about the struggle of figuring out how to pay for your life while you’re pursuing your art, the confidence of your 20’s you can use to your advantage, having faith in your dreams, what it’s really like developing a TV show, his excitement for Sherman’s Showcase live in Los Angeles, and so much more!
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ALOK joins the podcast to talk about the challenges they’ve come across as a trans person in the world of comedy, having to constantly prove their work, being disruptive to induce change, the feelings workshops they’ve led across the world, the value in vulnerability, taking inventory of the cost of not being yourself, crushing on Pedro Pascal, and so much more!
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Roy Wood Jr. joins the podcast to talk about growing up watching his dad work in the radio business and the risks he took to get his own start, what he realized he had to do to stand out in the world where sports commentary meets comedy, what he wants his tombstone to read one day, and so much more!
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Michael Ealy joins the podcast to talk about his acting journey from New York to LA, following his gut instincts, how fatherhood changed him, landing his breakout role in Barbershop, what it was like for his peers to see him in a new light after one life-changing role, his true thoughts on winning awards, and so much more!
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Sanaa Lathan joins the podacst to talk about how she found her path into acting, what it was like training for her role in Love and Basketball, how she wants to touch the world with her art, and so much more!
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Jay Ellis joins the podcast to talk about how he went from modeling in NY to acting in LA, what it was like starting out knowing nothing about the entertainment industry, the audition process for his breakout role on the TV show The Game, his experience working with Issa Rae on the TV show Insecure, and so much more!
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Charles D. King joins the podacst to talk about growing up in Georgia, his journey from working as a traveling paper salesman to becoming a junior agent, and later Partner, at WME, starting his company, MACRO, what he thinks it really takes to success in the entertainment industry, and so much more!
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Blake Griffin joins the podcast to talk about what it was like growing up alongside his brother playing basketball, getting drafted in the NBA the same year as his brother, the impact Kobe Bryant had on him, his experience playing for the Clippers, and so much more!
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Adrienne Warren joins the podcast to talk about her journey finding her voice as a young artist, what it felt like to attend a school where she was the minority, her life changing experience playing Tina Turner on Broadway and what she learned from the icon herself, her advocacy work and finally getting recognized for making a difference, and so much more!
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Shanola Hampton joins the podcast to talk about being raised as a pastor's kid, growing up in South Carolina, what it was like hustling as a bartender even after she booked her role on Shameless, how she gave herself financial stability while pursuing a creative career, the impact her mom had on her, and so much more!
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Kelvin Harrison Jr. joins the podcast to talk about the mistakes he made when he first found success as an actor and what he's learned since then, the best advice he got from a co-star, his perspective on continuing to evolve as a person, his role as a producer on future projects, and so much more!
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Jurnee Smollett joins the podcast to talk about the support she received from her mother early on in her acting career, what roles gave her a new perspective, how her mother instilled the importance of advocacy and education, what it was like working with Denzel Washington, and so much more!
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Gabrielle Union joins the podcast to talk about her early days playing soccer and attending college in Nebraska, how modeling transitioned to her acting career, her experience with sexual assault and how that changed the trajectory of her life, the importance of advocacy, her most meaningful acting roles recently, and so much more!
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Candace Parker joins the podcast to talk about her love for basketball finding her at a young age, how being in a family who also played the sport shaped her, what it meant to win her first WNBA championship, having a winner's mentality, and so much more!
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Marlon Wayans joins the podcast to talk about his belief in karma, holding space for our own humanity, how he brings a unique perspective to the projects he works on, forgiving to free yourself from pain, and so much more!
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