Checking In w/ Record Breakers
Checking In with Michelle Williams
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 578 Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode, Michelle reflects on her birthday week and the surprise Destiny's Child reunion in Las Vegas that has the internet in a chokehold. She also opens up about battling self-doubt, the power of community, and how to silence critics—especially the ones in your own head. CHECK IN if you need encouragement to push past fear!
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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, a production of IHeart Radio and The Black Effect. |
| 0:17.9 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:19.8 | Welcome to checking in. I'm so excited to have y'all with me today. Hello to my day ones. And hello to the new people. You just kind of here because you want to know what I have to say about Vegas this past weekend. |
| 0:41.1 | And that's okay because I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:44.0 | And I hope that beyond today, you're encouraged to stay on and check in and be a part of my amazing podcast community. |
| 0:59.4 | I'm here to hopefully make impact my friends that I interview weekly or sometimes it's |
| 1:07.2 | just me doing solo episodes, but I hope that something is said that encourages |
| 1:12.1 | you, that maybe helps you with something that you didn't know or it gives you language |
| 1:19.1 | to what you've been going through or for what a friend has been going through, a loved one |
| 1:23.9 | or a business, a coworker is dealing with. So thank y'all for staying with me and checking |
| 1:31.8 | in in four seasons. We are four seasons in. And initially, this was just going to be a |
| 1:40.6 | birthday episode, right? And we're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about |
| 1:44.8 | what I did for my birthday. I think every season I've done an episode, a solo episode for my |
| 1:52.9 | birthday, maybe speaking about what I've learned or what I've been going through that year. |
| 2:00.2 | And so I know only are we going to talk about my birthday, |
| 2:04.9 | which also included a weekend in Vegas. |
| 2:10.5 | All right. |
| 2:11.2 | So keep it locked. |
| 2:12.5 | We're going to come back. |
| 2:13.2 | We're going to talk all things birthday and all things Vegas. |
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