Black Excellence Burnout
We Talk Back
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
AJ Holiday and Tam Bam open up about personal grief and ongoing health challenges. The conversation explores the weight of political violence, systemic racism, and the pressures of Black excellence in today’s society. They also reflect on generational differences in work ethic, highlighting how cultural expectations around productivity often clash with the need for self-care and they also emphasize the importance of setting boundaries, prioritizing mental health, and redefining success on their own terms.
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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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| 0:55.9 | power of the platform now let's get into it welcome to we talk back podcast the production of iHeart |
| 1:01.9 | radio and the black effect network we're just two unapologetically black women with an opinion |
| 1:10.2 | who talks back. |
| 1:14.3 | What's up y'all? |
| 1:15.4 | It's your girl, AJ Holiday. |
| 1:17.5 | Hey, y'all. |
| 1:18.8 | It's Tim Bam. |
| 1:19.6 | I love y'all so very much. |
| 1:21.9 | How you doing, AJ? |
| 1:23.5 | I'm doing. |
| 1:24.8 | It's been a long short, a long weekend. |
| 1:30.4 | Long short weekend? |
| 1:31.4 | A couple weeks. |
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