Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
By Angella Fraser & Leslie Osei-Tutu
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This is what the world needs now: two free-thinking “seasoned” Black women speaking their truth and inspiring others to do the same. Shaped by 45 years of friendship that began at the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School through the Ivy League, medical school, marriages, divorces, triumphs, parenting queer children, life-threatening illness and many many amazing adventures. Each week, besties Leslie Osei-Tutu and Angella Fraser will push against boundaries in love, culture, careers, faith, politics and out-dated assumptions about women of a certain age. Remember, you’re never too old to change your mind…or your hair! (but more on that later :-)All views are our own and do not reflect the views of our institution/company. Information provided is not intended to serve as medical advice.
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Ep182 She Flip Flopped Again?
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Ep181 The One More Thing Trap
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Ep180 Shipping A Life To Panama
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May 26, 2026 |
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E179 No, not everyone thinks like you!
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May 19, 2026 |
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E178 Buying Black With Intention (Rebroadcast)
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May 12, 2026 |
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Ep177 Why Handwritten Letters Still Feel Like Love
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May 05, 2026 |
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Ep176 Write our story? We said yes!
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Ep175 Who Are You Without That Job Title?
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Ep174 5 Ways to See The Legacy You’ve Already Started Building
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Ep173 Is Your Ex Still Your Power of Attorney?
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Ep172 Downsizing The Things of Life For an International Move
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Ep171 Saying “NO” to alcohol and rice: the power of everyday choices
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Ep170 How Everyday Judgment Steals Your Joy
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Ep169 A Single “Black Experience” is Crazy Talk
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Ep168 Kindness over comfort: What would you do?
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Ep167 Shedding white supremacist ideals before our move abroad
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Ep166 Getting Older and Loving It!
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Ep165 How Exploring Your Sexuality Transforms Every Part Of Life
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Ep164 Can one partner be everything? Part 2 with Ethical Non-Monogamy Coach Taylor K. Sparks
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Ep163 Let’s Talk About Ethical Non‑Monogamy, Sexual Wellness, And Dismantling Shame
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ep162 What’s Really In The Way Of Our Retirement
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Ep161 A candid conversation about self-care and burnout
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Ep160 The Flu, Friendship, And Fresh Starts in 2026
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Ep159 When Family Hurts: Going No Contact And Healing
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Ep158 Rethinking Celebration: Acts Of Care As Resistance
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Ep157 How do you make peace last when life moves on fast?
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Ep156 The African Hair Braiding Salon: Examining This Messy Nexus of The Diaspora
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Ep155 A Praise Report to celebrate with us
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Ep154 She Left A Safe Career To Build Joyful Work On Stage
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Ep153 A Mother-Physician Navigates Her Child's Crisis, Care, And Community
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Ep152 Bones, Estrogen, And Aging Strong
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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Ep151 Am I trippin? Facing the truth about over shopping
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Ep150 Navigating midlife love: Get smaller or get clearer
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Ep149 She said yes at 63: A second proposal 40 yrs later
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Ep148 Wildcard Questions : Do we really know each other after 50 years?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Ep147 Boomers Doing AI
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Ep146 Joy Over Fear: What Scares Us Most About Leaving
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Ep145 Joy Over Fear: Your Body Deserves More Than You're Giving It
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Ep144 Joy Over Fear: Why we left the trappings of our marriages
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Ep143 Joy Over Fear: Conquering Money Shame
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Ep142 Legacy Work: Guiding girls into STEM/STEAM with global travel experiences
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Ep 141 Freedom Dreams: How Black Women Shaped American Education
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Ep140: A fabulous future starts today
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Ep139: Your money or your weed? How I got both! With Dr. Hermé Damas
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Zig When Life Zags: Dr Hervé Damas’ Journey from the NFL to Cannabis Physician
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Our internal pressure to achieve more: Is this a generational thing?
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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How Rushing Past Pain Sabotages True Joy
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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What’s Behind Friendships That Last?
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Hot Flashes and Heart Attacks: The Menopause Conversation Women Aren’t Having
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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10 surprising discoveries from our first trip to Panama
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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We're getting real about love, faith, and those moments that changed everything
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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The Joy of Motorcycle Life: Black Women Who Bike
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Slaying Dragons: How Negative Words Became Fuel for Success
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Beyond the Tip: Discovering the Full Anatomy of Female Pleasure in Our 60s
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May 27, 2025 |
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Extraordinary Female Friendships with Kim Coles
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May 20, 2025 |
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Your Job Shouldn't Cost You Your Health
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May 13, 2025 |
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A Reunion Story: High School Bonds Beyond Differences
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May 06, 2025 |
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Our 45th High School Reunion Countdown
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Currency of Friendship: How Two Black Boomer Besties View Money
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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The Only One in the Room: Navigating Predominantly White Spaces
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Boots on the Ground: How These Black Boomers Navigate Political Anxiety
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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The Year of Menopause Session 2: Cultural Manifestations of Menopause
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Trust your gifts: When a bold decision saved a life
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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“I could never do that!” The bold-face lies we stopped telling ourselves
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Join Us in Real Life in Raleigh
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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We’re “a lot”! How to embrace being “extra”
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Self-care with Tools for Troubled Times
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Pop the Balloon: Do New Ways of Dating Work for Older Women?
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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The Full Body Impact of Menopause (and why you should care at any age)
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is a Balm
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Downsizing with Heart and Humor
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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The Surprising Benefits of Starting a Podcast or YouTube channel in Your 60s
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Why I Took a Break from a Job I Love
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The LA House & Pet Sitting Update: Is It Worth It?
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Why & How to Financially Plan your Escape from a Toxic Job
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Why Malcolm Gladwell’s apology for stop & frisk isn't enough
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Angie Swipes Right to Date a City: LA
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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Can Afrominimalism be the answer to living with less?
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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The Emotional Toll of Emptying Your Storage Unit
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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America: Should we stay or go?
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Girl, You’re Doing Way Too Much!
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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Live: The Day After 2024 US Presidential Election
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Smh! If you can’t beat her, call her a tramp?!?
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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Dating Cities Before Moving Abroad
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Dissecting Interviews: Coleman Hughes v. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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New Beginnings: Not All Rainbows & Unicorns So Find Anchors
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Listener Comments on our Colorism Conversation
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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New Book-We’re Too Old for This Shit: The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Y’all Ain’t Black Enough to Talk About Colorism!
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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What’s Your Legacy?
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Get Ready and Get Registered: This Election Won’t Be Regular Degular
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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I’m Fallen in Love with My Heavier Body
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Why I Transitioned from Corporate at 54
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Art, Appropriation or Ridicule: Did Raygun Break Breakdancing?
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Are Your Quirks Pointing You to Your Joy?
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Black Excellence Explored: NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green's Literary Journey
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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A Time of Truth Telling with NC Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Inching Closer to Choosing Life Abroad
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Analyzing Christian Values in a Troubled World
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Jul 16, 2024 |
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Preserving Black History in Raleigh with Carmen Wimberley Cauthen
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Organizing and Decluttering: A Prescription for a More Joyful Life with Gayle L. Walker
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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Happy Pride: Attracted to Love
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Debate: Do people generally do their best?
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Scouting Out Costa Rica
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Planning High School Reunion Year 45
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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Celebrating Family Milestones and the Gift of Life Through Organ Donation
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May 28, 2024 |
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A Journey to Self-Acceptance in the Differently Abled Community
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May 21, 2024 |
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Toxic Job Liberation For Black Women with Dr. Kimani Norrington-Sands
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May 14, 2024 |
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Embracing Your Evolving Identity Through Hair
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May 07, 2024 |
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What You Never Knew You Needed: A Death Doula
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Live Long & Live Well
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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To Bucket List or Not to Bucket List
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Getting Out of the ‘Stuff’ Phase of Life
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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What To Do Between 60 and Death
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Who's to Blame When Friendships Go Wrong
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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Done With the Suburbs: Rethinking Community as an Empty Nester
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Radical Self Care for Women Who Change the Planet with Jennifer Campbell
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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Why Don’t We Know More About The Legacies of Pauli Murray & Bayard Rustin?
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Don't Wait to Retire to Rest with Stephanie Perry-Part 2
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Fani Willis and That Black Excellence Thing
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Don't Wait to Retire to Rest with Stephanie Perry-Part 1
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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You're Meant to Move with DK Ciccone
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Daily Writing (Not Journaling) Changed My Life
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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We Ain’t Mad at Katt Williams
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Are You Trippin?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Copay Blues
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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Not Everyone's Cup of Tea
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Ho Ho Humbug
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Why Older Black Women Need a Boudoir Photoshoot
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Hit & Run
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Leaving A Financial Legacy Part 2
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Leaving A Financial Legacy Part 1
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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From the Besties Vault
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Reimagining Black Hair Culture
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Perspectives on Local Elections & Bloodshed in Israel
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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It's Our Anniversary
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Ep 46 S4/10 Why Do We Hide Our Light?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Ep 45 S4/9 Too Many Options
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Ep 44 S4/8 A Life Pivot to Combat Oral Health Inequities One Mouth at a Time
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Ep 43 S4/7 Clitoris 101
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Ep 42 S4/6 Evening Wind Down
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Ep 41 S4/5 Meet Muralist Delia Miller
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ep 40 S4/4 The Meaning of Bestieship
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Ep 39 S4/3 Grieving Andy
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Ep38 S4/2 Beholding Beauty: Stretch Marks, Wrinkles and All
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Ep37 S4/1 Satin Bonnets & Respectability Politics
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Supporting Black-Owned Businesses from Jump
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Back Together Thrifting & Thriving
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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More Stories on Caribbean Ancestry
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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An Intimate Exploration of Jamaican Ancestry
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Allow Us To Reintroduce Ourselves
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Black Legacies Matter: The Ordinary & Extraordinary Stories
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Back to White Affirmative Action in American Universities
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Ageism & Othering in the Spotlight
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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F*ck Mr. Reiner
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Accountability: Confrontation & Confessions
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Rethinking Love & Marriage
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Best of Season 2
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May 30, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode - Accountability Partner
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May 23, 2023 |
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Bonus Episode - Car Talk
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May 16, 2023 |
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Stereotypes & Prejudices from a Single Story
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May 09, 2023 |
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Embrace Healthier Nutritional Choices
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May 02, 2023 |
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Busy Besties Catch-up
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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An Anthropologist’s Search for Home Abroad
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Retiring Without All Ducks in a Row
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Our Deep Dive on Hair Stuff
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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The Nitty Gritty on Hair Loss
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Take That Sabbatical: Inspiration from an Introvert
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Season 2 is in the Building
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Season 2 - Leslie’s Got a Date!
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Season 2 - Coming Soon with Guests!
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Coach Kim Coles is in the Building
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Kidney Swap
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Some Questions Change Everything
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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When You Know, You Just Know: Transition from Corporate to Entrepreneurship
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Gratitude: We Get To Do This!
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Contemplations on Another Tragedy
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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You Gotta Have Faith-Part 1
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Mental Health Morning
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Pivoting to Bigger & Better
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Our Bestie Beginning: But Can She Sew?
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Introducing Black Boomer Besties From Brooklyn
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Oct 15, 2022 |