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Brown Ambition

Cowboy Carter Brilliance, Billionaire Bros, and the Burden of Grace

Brown Ambition

iHeartPodcasts

Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 β€’ 2.5K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Whew… this week’s Brown Table is packed, y’all.

Mandi is joined by not one, not two, but three first-time Brown Table guests: Alexa Claire from The Financial Diet, JQ (aka Jonquilyn Hill) from Vox’s "Explain It To Me" podcast, and Yvie Saint-Louis from Blavity. We dive into the news, the nonsense, and everything in between from pop culture and politics to the real-life messiness of being Black, brilliant, and bold in America.

 

This week, we get into:

-Beyoncé in London: the rain, the glow, and yes, ugly tears were shed.

-Trump and Elon’s billionaire beef… is it all just a stunt?

-ICE raids, National Guard in LA, and why peaceful protests keep being met with force.

-Why Black women are *still* expected to be the mature ones and what happens when we just want to clap back.

-From Coco Gauff to Simone Biles to a teenage track star with flaming feet (literally): why the world can’t handle confident Black girls.

Plus: The Tonys, the audacity of Patti LuPone, and whether Hamilton still goes hard (spoiler: it does).

 

New here?

BA fam, don’t forget—we’ve got three shows a week now:

πŸ’Ό Monday Motivation (interviews and deep dives)

πŸͺ‘ Brown Table Wednesdays (group chat energy, always)

🎀 BA Q\&A Fridays (your money + career questions answered)

And yes, we launched a Patreon! Join to get early access, video recordings of the Brown Table, and exclusive book club perks: [patreon.com/brownambition]

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Let’s keep rising, building, and showing out. πŸ’ΌπŸ’°βœŠπŸΎ

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0:00.0

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0:04.2

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0:06.9

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0:07.5

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0:15.7

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0:17.4

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0:21.3

What do a flirtatious gambling double agent in World War II,

0:25.8

an opera singer who burned down a nunnery to kidnap her lover,

0:29.3

and a pirate queen who walked free with all of her spoils have in common.

0:35.4

They're all real women who were left out of your history books.

0:39.4

You can hear these stories and more on the Womanica podcast.

0:43.9

Check it out on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.

0:50.2

Did it occur to you that he'd charmed you in any way?

0:54.0

Yes, it did, but he was a charming man.

0:58.5

It looks like the ingredients of a really grand spy story.

1:02.7

Because this ties together the Cold War with the new one.

1:06.0

I often ask myself, now, did I know the true Yan at all?

1:12.3

Listen to Hot Money, Agent of Chaos on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:20.2

Are there any pictures of you online?

1:22.0

Then you could already be in a massive police database without even knowing it.

1:25.9

Clearview scrapes together images from Facebook, from LinkedIn, from Venmo accounts.

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