Checking In w/ Devon Franklin
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Michelle welcomes back friend of the show — producer, author, and actor DeVon Franklin, whose new film Ruth and Boaz hit number one on Netflix. The two dive deep into the power of storytelling rooted in faith, truth, and perseverance.
DeVon opens up about how Ruth and Boaz became a global success, the inspiration behind its modern retelling of love and purpose, and how life imitated art when he found his own “Ruth.” He and Michelle also discuss rejection as redirection, expressing interest in love without fear, and the spiritual lessons that come from staying open to God’s timing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | Welcome to checking in with Michelle Williams, |
| 0:06.6 | a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm excited, you guys. |
| 0:19.1 | I need you guys to stay tuned as I speak with Devon Franklin, producer of the number one movie on Netflix, Ruth and Boas. |
| 0:31.1 | We're going to talk about a few things. |
| 0:33.6 | So just come on, he's a friend of checking in. |
| 0:35.7 | Stay with us. |
| 0:42.0 | Thank you. So just come on, he's a friend of checking in. Stay with us. Hello, good people. |
| 0:43.4 | Welcome to another incredible episode of checking in. |
| 0:46.8 | You guys know weekly, I always say another incredible one |
| 0:49.7 | because I think they get better and better as the week goes on. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm really excited to have someone who has been a friend to my checking in podcast in the past. |
| 1:01.4 | He is currently the producer of the number one movie on Netflix, Ruth and Boaz. |
| 1:08.1 | He's a New York Times bestselling author. |
| 1:10.6 | He's an actor as well on |
| 1:12.0 | Divorce Sisters on BET Plus. Movie Relationship Goals is coming out soon with Amazon, MGM Studios, |
| 1:19.3 | film Soul on Fire. Y'all, he is newly married, newly married. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:25.5 | that, but I'm so excited to have author, producer, |
| 1:30.0 | and a friend, Devon Franklin. |
| 1:33.3 | Yo, what's up, my sister? So glad to be here. It's good seeing you. It's been too long. |
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