Checking In: Brave, But Human: Winning, Losing & Showing Up Anyway
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Black Effect Presents... Checking In!
On this heartfelt solo episode of Checking In, Michelle Williams gets real about what it means to be brave in a world that feels heavy.
From celebrating wins while acknowledging global unrest… to processing disappointment after the Grammy Awards… Michelle opens up about the tension of being grateful and grieving at the same time. Two things can be true: you can thrive personally while the world feels chaotic.
She shares behind-the-scenes moments from performing at Campbell Hall, attending an intimate dinner hosted by Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland, and reflecting on loss, legacy, and perseverance. She also speaks candidly about missing a Grammy win to Buena Vista Social Club—and how to handle disappointment without letting it define you.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.2 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey there, I know y'all haven't heard from me personally solo-wise on a solo episode in a minute, but if you |
| 0:23.0 | stay tuned, I'm going to tell you what I was doing. Okay, bye. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello, good people. Welcome to another episode of checking in. It's been an amazing couple of weeks. |
| 0:43.5 | Well, how do I say amazing? |
| 0:46.8 | Well, two things can be true. |
| 0:48.5 | You can still make amazing progress and have some wins while still looking at the world around you and how |
| 0:56.5 | there's been so much chaos, unrest, war, just whatever we want to call it, you know, war, |
| 1:08.9 | unrest, just whatever you want to call it. Heck, it could be war within |
| 1:14.6 | yourself, war in your home, unrest in your home, unrest in yourself, unrest on your job, unrest |
| 1:22.0 | in relationship. So I just want to acknowledge that, you know, yes, you can, you could have gotten a promotion, |
| 1:32.0 | but still acknowledge what you saw on the news that has been scary and absolutely horrific |
| 1:37.9 | and just like confusing and all the things. That's why I like to check in. So making sure that you check in |
| 1:49.8 | with yourself, you check in with others and you check in with God, that you're meditating, |
| 1:56.3 | you're centering yourself. You're breathing. |
| 2:05.2 | You're checking in with yourself, asking yourself, wait a minute. |
| 2:07.0 | How am I doing? |
| 2:11.4 | How many of y'all have not asked that of yourself? |
| 2:15.8 | How am I doing? |
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