Checking In: New Year, New Pace
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Michelle kicks off the first episode of 2026 from the sofa—recovering, reflecting, and resetting. From pushing through Broadway shows and a tough bout of illness to easing into the new year with intention, this episode is a real-time check-in on health, momentum, and grace. Michelle talks mental health, comparison, public scrutiny, and why we need to stop policing how others live, dress, and show up. It’s an honest reminder that healing isn’t linear, plans don’t have to be loud, and you’re allowed to move at your own pace as the new year unfolds.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.1 | Welcome to Checking In with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:11.8 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:13.3 | I'm on the couch this week. |
| 0:16.0 | If you want to know why, keep listening and you'll find out on checking in with Michelle Williams. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello, welcome to the first episode of 26. We made it. We are here. Thank y'all for still |
| 0:35.9 | rocking with me in the new year. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to new beginnings, new days, chances to, you know, do things you didn't do in the prior year. And I say this, |
| 1:02.7 | hoping that when you hear me, you know, having said that, that you don't have any shame or regret. |
| 1:09.0 | Just know that while you're still breathing, you've got time to get |
| 1:14.3 | things done. Maybe this year we're going to be more intentional. This year, we are probably going to |
| 1:22.8 | procrastinate less, and we are going to get things done. I'm so excited about that. I'm so excited about |
| 1:33.1 | that. Matter of fact, it's making me, you know, it's making me write things down. As I've been |
| 1:38.2 | talking to you guys, it has made um, made me, like, pull out my notepad and write other thoughts down that, uh, come to, |
| 1:53.9 | that come to me. And so if you hear something, I'm like, okay, I just had a thought. Um, |
| 1:59.7 | but yeah, I'm just hoping that, you know, we are more intentional, more intentional about |
| 2:03.5 | our mental health. |
| 2:05.7 | What do I mean by that? |
| 2:07.5 | Again, everyone has mental health. |
| 2:11.1 | Everyone does not have mental illness. |
| 2:13.6 | Just like we all have cardiovascular health. |
| 2:17.0 | We also have mind health, brain health. |
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