Bet on Black: Eboni K. Williams on Freedom, Finances & Finding Joy [WASHDAY WOOSAH]

Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This week on Brown Ambition, Mandi sits down with powerhouse lawyer, author, and TV host Eboni K. Williams for an inspiring and transparent conversation about life, career, and motherhood.

Eboni opens up about her journey to becoming a solo mom by choice, navigating a 45-hour labor, and the support system that helped her through postpartum. She also shares hard truths about the maternal health crisis for Black women, the realities of egg freezing and fertility treatments, and why she named her daughter Liberty.

On the career side, Eboni breaks down how she runs her business like a CEO, why she’ll never take a W-2 job again, and how she leverages visibility from projects like The Real Housewives of New York to fuel her purpose-driven work.

From resilience in dark seasons to practical money lessons about multiple streams of income, this episode is a blueprint for building life — and wealth — on your own terms.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

Why Eboni chose solo motherhood and what her birth and postpartum journey looked like
The realities of fertility treatments and egg freezing that most women don’t hear upfront
How to navigate being a small business owner in media and beyond
Why multiple streams of income are critical (no matter your salary level)
The emotional cost and visibility gain of being the first Black Real Housewife of NYC
How to reclaim cultural identity and patriotism on your own terms

Resources & Links

📖 Grab Eboni’s book: Bet on Black: The Good News About Being Black in America (now in paperback!)
🎧 Listen to Eboni’s podcast: Holding Court with Eboni K. Williams
Follow Eboni on Instagram: @ebonikwilliams

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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.
0:43.8	Hey, hey, VA, fam.
0:46.9	I am so happy to welcome today's guest.
0:51.8	She is the host and executive producer of a show you might have heard of, probably watched,
0:56.1	called Equal Justice with Judge Ebony K. Williams.
1:02.0	Ebony is the host and executive producer of Equal Justice with Judge Ebony K. Williams, which is a nationally syndicated court television show. She hosts and is the EP of the NAACP Image Award
1:08.8	winning holding court with Ebony K. Williams. She's also guest host at
1:13.8	The View, The Breakfast Club, you might have known her from a show called The Real Housewives of New York
1:18.5	City, where she trailblazed, becoming the show's first black cast member ever.
1:23.5	And her bestselling book, Bet on Black, If you haven't, go get it. What are you waiting for? It's been around since 2023. Bet on Black, the good news about being Black in America. The paperback version, we love a paperback for the summer, was just released this past July. And, Ebony, I am just so, so thrilled to have you here. We were doing a little mini-kiki.
1:47.3	I have been on your show before, but this is the first time.
1:52.5	I feel like we're meeting like one-on-one without sort of like, you know, a topic at hand. A good cycle, you know, holding us at bay.
1:54.5	Mandy, so good to see you, my dear.
1:56.8	I love this podcast.
1:58.5	So I was really, really excited when our lovely editor and publisher,
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