Erika Alexander Schools Us On Rising From Rejection + New Hulu Series: ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’
Yes, Girl!
ESSENCE PODCAST NETWORK
4.6 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
So, listen… Sadly, our Hot Girl Summer is on its way out. But we’re determined to hold onto every single ray of sunshine we soaked up for as LONG as we can! Speaking of sunshine --- THE Erika Alexander (@erikaalexanderthegreat) aka Maxine Shaw Attorney-At-Law (Living Single) aka Cousin Pam (The Cosby Show) graced the Yes, Girl! Podcast this week! Do y’all know how many Black women went to law school because of her?! Erika had us laughing, crying and nodding in agreement as she gave us the real-real about bouncing back from rejection in the entertainment industry, becoming an internationally-renowned creator, and her newest role playing The RZA’s mother on the new Hulu series ‘Wu-Tang: An American Saga’ (Go watch now! It’s incredible!). If you don’t already consider her a friend-in-your-head, you will once you hear her absolute humility, honesty, and hilarity on this episode. Follow us: Cori Murray (@corimurray), Charli Penn (IG: @charlipenn, Twitter: @ManWifeDog) and hit us up on social media using #YesGirlPodcast and tell us what you think of the episode!
- Yes, Girl! Hosts: Cori Murray (@corimurray) Charli Penn (IG = @charlipenn / Twitter = @manwifedog)
- Executive Producer: Tiffany Ashitey (@misstiffsays)
- Producers: Ashley Hobbs (@ashleylatruly) + Shantel Holder (@shadesofshan_)
- Bookings: Cori Murray, Charli Penn, and Tiffany Ashitey
- Audio: Josh Gwynn (@regardingjosh) + Anthony Frasier (@anthonyfrasier)
- Music: Gold Standard Creative (@gscdotnyc)
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| 0:00.0 | Happy morning, although this morning, this week, |
| 0:14.8 | is trying me a little bit. |
| 0:16.0 | Is it because we're closing another issue? |
| 0:17.6 | There's that, but then it's also back to school for me. |
| 0:23.0 | Ooh, okay, I have a lot of questions about |
| 0:26.0 | fourth grader ready for school. |
| 0:28.0 | I got questions, okay. |
| 0:29.0 | But before we do it, I'm Charlie Penn, I'm Cori Murray. |
| 0:31.0 | And this is, yes girl yes girl welcome back you guys we miss you every |
| 0:36.2 | week. Kory I know you've been so busy my darling we've been busy closing another |
| 0:41.6 | fabulous issue of us. |
| 0:43.0 | Closing another fabulous issue. |
| 0:45.0 | We still have our vacation clothes. |
| 0:48.0 | We do. |
| 0:49.0 | And as much as I can. |
| 0:50.0 | It's hard though to come back from vacation and get back to the busy even though the work we do is so amazing and fun and exciting |
| 0:56.2 | It's a lot of it so we can get a little stress post vacation and because you know you got catch up on your emails |
| 1:01.8 | Oh my God. Oh my God can I tell you the first day I was back in the office I had at least 10,000, |
| 1:06.6 | I'm not even lying, and I posted that on Twitter and so many people have responded to me |
| 1:10.9 | and one person told me I should just select read all and |
| 1:14.7 | start fresh and I was like oh my god I think I might do that but you know who |
| 1:18.3 | noticed me being stressed? Julie Bean. Jelly Bean. So she was at camp and she, they went to the library and she came back and said, mommy, I checked |
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