Hello, and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jermina Jamil. I hope you're well.

I'm alright, other than the fact that humanity continues to be a big smelly dumpster fire.

I am somehow managing to find some of the light. Speaking of light, I think my guess this week

is definitely one of the people who illuminates and lightens up the internet for me.

I've been following her for years and I really admire her. She's definitely one of the

more divisive people on the internet. I think she's a woman and she's a black woman at that.

So it is no surprise that she would be someone that everyone has a lot of opinions about because

she dares herself to have a very strong opinion. Many, many strong opinions and she does not hold back.

Her name is Amanda Seals and you should definitely follow her on Instagram and you should definitely

listen to her podcast. It's called Small Doses with Amanda Seals. I've been following her for years.

I met her at an audition I think and just instantly was like, who the fuck are you?

She's just a very, very powerful and self assured and immediately so fun to play with.

And since then I've mostly just been a kind of a fan watching her on the internet.

And I've watched her go through a lot in particular in the last year and a half and wanted to

talk to her about those things. She's similarly to me, someone who is very, very open about the way

that she feels about everything but also about what she's going through in her life and she did

not hold back in this episode. We talked together about how critical the internet is of her and of

women in particular, women of color in particular, black women and now having her own committee

in her own interpersonal life really helps her because she has, she doesn't listen to the internet.

She listens to the people who know who actually know her and who actually care about her and that's

who she takes her guidance from as to when she needs to, you know, change course or when she needs

to keep going. She talks about her experience as a light skinned black woman and the difference

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