Choose Your Creative Path with Erika Alexander and Kim Coles

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Higher Ground

Relationships, Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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On today’s episode, actresses, activists and fellow podcasters Erika Alexander and Kim Coles join the show! They go deep on their childhoods, share what it was like behind the scenes of Living Single, and discuss how Hollywood has (and hasn’t) changed in recent years. Plus, Erika shares a surprising revelation she had with a psychic.

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0:00.0	I got in my car and I pulled, I sobbed like a baby because I realized I had not accepted my fate.
0:07.4	And I cried for 20 minutes straight where I said, you are an actress.
0:11.7	Was it tears of joy?
0:13.3	Were you happy about it?
0:14.5	No.
0:14.9	It was tears of recognition and worthy.
0:18.6	Yeah.
0:19.1	You just maybe suppressed that I couldn't believe. Yeah. You just maybe suppressed that I couldn't believe.
0:24.6	Yeah.
0:25.6	That you were you.
0:26.6	Yeah, and maybe my own expectations were not to be an actress, to be a scientist, or something much more legitimate.
0:34.6	And yet this is my life.
0:36.6	Yes. And I have to say, stop running for it, accept it.
0:40.3	You're here and you're doing well.
0:43.4	I mean, it's not easy, but I was made for it.
0:51.5	This episode is brought to you by Rivian and Colagard.
0:57.1	Hi, Craig Robinson.
0:59.4	I haven't seen you in a second.
1:01.1	I know.
1:01.7	I know.
1:02.2	We had gotten into a good cadence with these, and then all of a sudden, boom.
1:07.2	Yeah, yeah.
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