Best of Summer 2025: My Top 5 Summer Standouts
Brown Ambition
iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re doing something different, BA Fam! Mandi takes us on a trip down memory lane, looking back at her five favorite moments from the summer of 2025. From thought-provoking conversations to laugh-out-loud guest appearances, these episodes stood out not just while recording, but even more when listening back with fresh ears.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
-Why replaying past episodes feels so different from being in the interviewer’s chair
-The most popular and talked-about episode of the summer—and why it resonated
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Marcus Grant. |
| 0:07.9 | And I'm Michael Florio, and together we host the NFL fantasy football podcast. |
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| 0:37.3 | Hey! Hey! or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:43.6 | Hey, hey, VA fam. |
| 0:47.6 | Welcome to, I think this is the first time I've ever done this. |
| 0:50.5 | This is not your usual brown table. |
| 0:53.1 | This is not your usual episode of Brown Ambition. |
| 0:55.9 | This is a look back at my favorite moments of summer 2025. I actually did the math and I added up the number of episodes we have |
| 1:02.7 | aired since late May through now at the end of August. Y'all, I've aired something like 34 episodes. |
| 1:14.0 | That's insane. That's more episodes than some podcast put out in an entire season. And I'm giving you that in one summer. Okay. I've been working |
| 1:21.0 | hard. And it was difficult to come up with my five favorite moments. but I started from, I started by basically asking |
| 1:30.2 | myself, you know, what were the episodes that when I think about the past summer, the ones that I |
| 1:35.5 | have enjoyed actually going back and listening to, and I try to listen to 99.9% of every episode, |
| 1:42.6 | even after it's aired, even after I experienced it while I was recording |
| 1:46.8 | the show. But I just care that much. I genuinely, I honestly have a different experience when I'm |
| 1:53.0 | listening back to the episodes versus when I'm in it as the interviewer. And this may come as |
| 1:58.8 | no shock to y'all because, hello, Black Woman Syndrome. I am so hard on myself as an interviewer. And this may come as no shock to y'all because, hello, Black Woman Syndrome, |
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