Episodes

T begins with comments on Triller’s Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. exhibition, Nate Robinson planking, and gives a half a$$ promise to try Megan Thee Stallion’s “Body Challenge.”  Featured guest is Rebekah Weatherspoon, an award-winning author with over twenty romance and erotica-romance novels. Rebekah specializes in showcasing love stories and happy endings for women of color. In their conversation, we learn how Rebekah started in writing, romance/erotica fan communities, the pain and glory of having a crush, wigology, and the process of finding a Black hairstylist when moving to a new city. 

Guest Links

• http://rebekahweatherspoon.com
• Rebekah on Twitter
• Purchase info for all her books 

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Tunisha begins with a mini-sermon reflecting on the results of the US Presidential Election. This leads to her conversation with featured guest Jay Chaudhry. Jay is the founder of Break Media, a full-service athlete marketing agency with the goal of helping athletes maximize their presence on social media platforms by creating, producing, and distributing premium content.

Having won multiple awards for sports partnerships and content, Jay’s 15+ year career in filmmaking lead him into a new position as Head of Production at PlayersTV – the first-ever athlete-owned media network, with distribution deals with Samsung, Xumo, Sling, and more.

Most notably and recently, Jay produced a new series called ReMaking America hosted by CJ McCollum for PlayersTV, whose premiere episode features CJ sitting down with the now Vice President-Elect of the United States of America, Kamala Harris.

Guest Links:

• Jay on Twitter
• Break Media website  
• PlayersTV on Twitter 
• PlayersTV website 
• ReMaking America premiere episode ft. Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris 

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Together T and Jabari chop it up in a conversation about his podcast “Dunks and Discourse,” putting “fun” back in professionalism and business, the outlets we seek to stay safe, sane, and entertained differences between mainstream and indie sports media, and much more. ALSO, the debut of a game called “My Top 3 with T and Jabari” where the two compare their top 3 cheeses, most underrated characters in The Wire, and most meaningful songs.

Guest Links:

• Jabari on Twitter
• Dunks and Discourse Podcast

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Coming on the heels of appearing on Yasmin Vossoughian’s program on MSNBC, Tunisha speaks about her involvement with #SpeakingOut and the #MeToo movement. In the midst of ligation against her former employer America’s Funniest Home Video (AFV) for racial discrimination, sexual harassment, and retaliation, Tunisha shares her story to provide the context of what the emotional ramifications are like in dealing with trauma. Struggling with eroded confidence and mixed feelings of vulnerability and being exposed, Tunisha endures these mental obstacles to tell her story as a means to be a champion for herself and what is right. Her hope is that in doing so, others are inspired to stand up for themselves, own their voice, and make a difference towards making all workspaces safe for everyone.

GUEST LINKS:

• Hollywood Reporter Article
• Tweet from Tina Chen, President/CEO of Times Up
• MSNBC Article and Full Video

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With regard to World Mental Health Day, this episode centers on normalizing conversations around mental health and the influential role sports can play in disrupting the stigmas attached to it. Tunisha’s special guest is Natalie Pierre – veteran sports reporter, CEO of NP Sports Media, and co-founder of The Mental Game – a non-profit organization focused on starting important conversations about mental health in the sports world. 

Natalie shares with us her history in sports journalism, thoughts on combating stigmas surrounding mental health, the athlete mentality in dealing with pressure, using social media for good, and much more. As a mental health advocate and a compassionate champion for helping others, Natalie also shares deeply personal stories about her own experiences with mental health in college athletics, work perfectionism, and toxic relationships which culminated in a suicide attempt. Through this profoundly honest conversation, these two discuss how individual awareness and personal storytelling can help produce solutions to standardizing mental health as a form of general healthcare, self-work, and love. 

GUEST LINKS:

• Natalie’s Website
• Natalie on Twitter
• Natalie on Instagram
• The Mental Game

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Bravery. Hope. Authenticity. These are a few of the themes in Tunisha’s conversation with Linathi Makanda – South African poet, photographer, and storyteller. In this unfiltered conversation, these two discuss portrayals of Black femininity, personal problems that arise from performative behavior, the importance of self-care through daily affirmations, struggles for Black women to appear vulnerable, and much, much more. Linathi is a genuine champion for raw expression and embracing your true self – in all our unique complexities. She is the author of poetry and prose collection When No One is Watching. Her writings, as well as photographic works, are dedicated to celebrating authentic expression & showing that everything and everyone is art, worthy of being experienced. 

GUEST LINKS:

• Linathi on Instagram
• Linathi on Twitter
• Buy “When No One is Watching”
• Buy “7 Days of Healing Affirmations Calendar”

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T chop’s it up with Josh Rosenblatt – writer, journalist, and author of Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring. This book works as a tailgate for your mind to pre-game in thought, serving you kegs to pump new levels of thinking about experiences within your own skin, and how to determine what you’re actually capable of when forced to face something unique. Topics of conversation include: the irrational fascination with fandom and love, heightened experiences of self-discovery through fighting, being a representative of a larger community and the sometimes dismissal of responsibility for the sake of being an individual, and even how the demise of my Los Angeles Clippers is actually a symbol of personal triggers that stand for things far and beyond an actual game.

GUEST LINKS

• www.joshrosenblatt.com/
• Josh on Twitter
• Buy the Book “Why We Fight: One Man’s Search for Meaning Inside the Ring”

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You can’t support Black Lives Matter w/o sincerely listening to the experiences of Black women. In this episode, Tunisha sits down w/a Commercial Producer with 20 years in the entertainment industry – Jackie Wilson. Jackie gives us vulnerability, perspective, and strength as we discuss Black female resilience, what led her to being cast 63xs as a hooker or homeless person, and her motivation to transform the advertising space to amplify Black beauty.

GUEST LINKS:

• Jackie on Instagram (@ladyjtennis)

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Description: Host Tunisha Singleton welcomes you to the I Have Questions Podcast, where culture and conversation collide. Through story and insight, this debut episode sets the premise on how to explore fandom and the human experience. Inaugural guest is Renee Hess, Founder and Executive Director of the Black Girl Hockey Club – a non-profit organization that focuses on making the hockey community more inclusive for Black women, BIPOC families, friends, and allies.

GUEST LINKS:

• blackgirlhockeyclub.org/
• www.instagram.com/blackgirlhockeyclub/
• twitter.com/BlackGirlHockey
• Donations: blackgirlhockeyclub.org/donations/bghcfam/
• Scholarships: blackgirlhockeyclub.org/bghc-scholarship/

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