Checking In Replay: Sunny Hostin
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
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In one of our favorite throwback episodes, Michelle and Sunny are taking us to a black beachouse! Sunny talks about the inspiration and history behind the concepts of her books. She also shares how journalism impacted her mental health and how the people in her life helped her through those challenges. CHECK IN to this episode for a taste of black luxury!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:27.4 | Okay, everybody, thank y'all for tuning into another episode of checking in. |
| 0:28.5 | I get the privilege. |
| 0:35.0 | I'm truly honored, truly humble to interview one of my favorite humans ever on this planet. |
| 0:40.4 | She is a three-time Emmy Award-winning co-host of ABC's The View, |
| 0:46.7 | New York Times bestselling author. I fell in love with her, first of all, because she is an attorney, |
| 0:54.1 | a legal analyst, as well as a sought-after speaker. Y'all already know. Y'all know who it is. |
| 0:56.6 | Please welcome, Sunny Hostin. |
| 0:59.2 | Oh, thank you for having me. You know, I remember the first time we met, I mean, I had watched you perform, of course, |
| 1:05.3 | but I remember the first time we met, you were walking out of a Japanese restaurant |
| 1:09.5 | when I was walking into a Japanese |
| 1:11.2 | restaurant and you were like Sonny Hosten and I was like I know Michelle Williams does not know |
| 1:15.6 | who I am. |
| 1:19.5 | So it was it was great and it's been great to keep in touch since then. |
| 1:24.0 | Yes ma'am. |
| 1:24.6 | It has been great. |
| 1:26.0 | It has just been awesome over the years because, you know, I am a bootleg attorney. My mainstream college was criminal justice. So I would stay tuned and peeled into cases that made like mainstream television. And what inspired me so much was to see women of color |
| 1:47.9 | bringing it as it related to the legal parts of all these cases that were going on. I mean, |
| 1:55.9 | killing it, sure, confident. There are times where you had to set people in their place, |
| 2:01.0 | or there are times you had to be like, |
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