A Word: Yvette Nicole Brown: Caring and Community

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Yvette Nicole Brown spent years working in Hollywood before she got her big break. Then she rose to fame with her comedic turns in Community and Drake & Josh. But her latest –and perhaps most important– role is as caregiver to her father. That experience is at the heart of her storytelling as host of the new podcast Squeezed, focused on the millions of Americans who find themselves balancing caregiving with careers. On today’s episode of A Word, Yvette Nicole Brown speaks with Jason Johnson about the caregivers who shared their stories on Squeezed, and what the rest of the nation –from neighbors, to friends, to political leaders– can do to support caregiving. Guest: Yvette Nicole Brown, actress and podcast host of Squeezed. Podcast production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Want more A Word? Subscribe to Slate Plus to immediately access ad-free listening across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Or, visit slate.com/awordplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Award, a podcast from Slate.
0:02.7	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:04.2	Millions of Americans struggle with caregiving responsibilities in mid life,
0:08.8	managing care for elders, raising children,
0:11.2	and sometimes both.
0:12.8	That includes actress Yvette Nicole Brown,
0:14.9	whose life changed completely
0:16.9	when she began taking care of her father
0:18.8	who suffers from Alzheimer's.
0:20.1	Brown shares that experience
0:21.5	and those of other caregivers in her new podcast
0:24.4	squeezed. I think the most important thing is that most caregivers are so selfless
0:29.2	they don't know to ask for help and they also feel like well nobody told me to do this.
0:34.0	Yvette Nicole Brown on her new podcast squeezed coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.
0:39.4	Stay with us.
0:43.0	Welcome to a word of podcast about race and politics and everything else.
0:46.0	I'm your host, Jason Johnson.
0:48.0	Actress and comedian Yvette Nicole Brown is a multi-hythnet Hollywood talent whose career has spanned almost three decades.
0:55.3	She's voiced over 30 different cartoon characters and millions of Americans grew up
0:59.7	with her as Helen Dubois on Drake and Josh or Shirley Bennett on community.
1:04.0	Star Burns, I'm told, was a drug dealer, which of course is not good behavior.
1:10.0	But he, it was a business.
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