Exposing the #1 Threat to Black Families (Guests: Lamar & Ronnie Tyler)

Dear Future Wifey

Laterras R. Whitfield

Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Education, Christianity, Society & Culture

5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 94 minutes

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In this deeply moving and empowering episode, we sit down with Lamar and Ronnie Tyler, the trailblazing founders of Black and Married with Kids. What started as a blog became a national movement—and this conversation shows you why.

We cover:

💡 How their #1 priority is educating Black families on financial literacy

📈 How they launched their business and built an empire that centers Black love

🤝 How to earn trust in marriage—not just with words, but with results

💬 Lamar’s powerful perspective on never pre-judging his wife for bringing children into the marriage, shaped by being raised by a single mom himself

👩🏾‍🎓 Ronnie’s brave journey of hiding her pregnancy while at Spelman, only to discover her parents’ unexpected love and support

🎓 Her academic success—graduating with honors from Spelman and pursuing engineering in grad school

🎤 A preview of their impactful marriage and family conference

🚨 And finally—their bold take on the #1 enemy threatening Black marriages and families today

This episode is a masterclass in love, legacy, and building something that lasts.

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0:00.0	We got some powerhouses on the Yellow Couse today.
0:02.5	As a single man when I was thinking, I always would have thought I wanted somebody like me.
0:06.0	The real blessing is in us being opposites.
0:08.0	I'm the risk taker, but Ronnie keeps us safe.
0:10.0	It's always benefited not just the family, but then also as we became business partners, the business.
0:15.0	Lamar and Roddy Tyler is in the building.
0:17.0	How y'all doing?
0:18.0	Good. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Black married was a blessing to us.
0:21.6	We just want to start to show positive examples of marriage in the black community.
0:24.6	Had lady after screening come out, say, that movie's good.
0:26.6	How long y'all been married?
0:27.6	At the time, we'd only been married for two years.
0:29.6	She said, I've been divorced long than y'all been married. whatever you want to say and get on why is finance is so important as a family we can't make ends
0:38.5	meat it adds another layer of stress to us as a family it's even more important because we're playing
0:43.0	so far behind thank god he's not one of those guys to say i don't want a woman with kids
0:47.2	because they would have blocked his blessing i grew up in a single parent household to me if i project that
0:51.6	on ronnie i'm projecting that on my mother I know a lot of people may be intimidated by successful women, but my thing is, I'm going to
0:56.9	get mine. So you connect me with somebody who's going to get dead. We're going to be on. Since she
1:00.8	had kids, I loved how she was with her kids. I had assumptions about how it would be as a dad.
1:05.4	Like, when you actually get kids, everything you thought goes out of the window. You be the perfect parent until you get a kid. And then you really be the perfect parent until you get two.
1:12.6	When I hit my son, I was still at school at Spelman.
1:15.6	I didn't tell my parents I was pregnant until I was forced out of the dorm at Christmas break.
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