Checking In w/ Candice Marie Benbow
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Michelle and Candice are challenging the norm! Candice shares how her life’s experiences took her out of the church and set her on her own spiritual journey. She also opens up about dealing with grief and the value of embracing other religions.
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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. |
| 0:25.8 | Okay, y'all, I feel like I know her. |
| 0:30.2 | She probably gets this all the time, as do I, and I actually love it. |
| 0:37.3 | I think the pandemic helps us to get some new siblings, aunties, cousins, you know. And so I feel like Candice would be a fun cousin |
| 0:43.7 | like girl I can't wait for her to come by she's my favorite cousin at Thanksgiving New |
| 0:49.6 | Year's Christmas 4th of July this is my cut up buddy. All right. I admire her so much. She's a theologian. |
| 0:58.4 | Essay is columnist. Baker, y'all. Yes, she can bake. She can cook. And an educator who |
| 1:04.7 | has written for essence, glamour, the griot, the root, vice, Shonda Love Network. |
| 1:16.6 | And about black women shared experiences of faith, healing, empowerment. |
| 1:18.3 | Please welcome. |
| 1:20.1 | I'm going to say the full name. |
| 1:22.7 | Candice Marie Benbow. |
| 1:24.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:26.8 | I'm so excited to be here. |
| 1:31.1 | Listen, there's so much to talk about. |
| 1:31.5 | Yes. |
| 1:38.5 | And I look at a lot of things that you share. |
| 1:43.8 | I have to go to columns that you've written because so much of what you say, |
| 1:46.6 | challenge me in a good way. It makes me go to my own bible and look things up and i know you have probably shaken a few tables of even people that |
| 1:53.6 | we admire and esteem in various sectors of secular religion and you have no fear of challenging, not that you're trying |
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