Family, Healing & The Life We Didn’t Expect
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Keep It Positive, Sweetie, Jess Hilarious opens up about motherhood, co-parenting, healing, faith, and the emotional journey behind her memoir ’Til Death Do We Parent.
From becoming a mother at 19 to navigating survival mode marriage, and redefining family, this conversation is honest, funny, emotional, and deeply relatable.
This episode is about healing, softness, and learning how to move forward even when life doesn’t look the way you imagined.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.6 | Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Chris Renair Hazlett, and this is the Keep It Posit Sweetie Show. |
| 0:14.5 | Welcome to Keep It Positive, Sweetie, the place where we heal, grow, and learn together. |
| 0:19.0 | Today's guest is someone who has built an entire career off of honesty. |
| 0:22.6 | Whether through comedy, radio, television, or social media, she's always found a way to make |
| 0:27.6 | people laugh while still keeping it real. |
| 0:31.6 | But in this conversation, we get to meet a different side of her. |
| 0:34.6 | Through her new memoir, till death-dewy parents, she opens up about motherhood, co-parenting, |
| 0:40.3 | survival, healing, faith, and redefining what family can look like after the life doesn't |
| 0:46.5 | go the way you planned. |
| 0:48.3 | I am so excited to be sitting down with Jess Hilarious. |
| 0:53.2 | Jess Hilarious first captured people's attention through her viral comedy and unforgettable |
| 0:57.3 | personality. |
| 0:58.6 | But over the years, she's evolved into so much more than Just Funny. |
| 1:02.5 | From stand-up and television to voice acting and now co-hosting The Breakfast Club, Jess |
| 1:07.9 | has built a career rooted in honesty, relatability, and saying the things that people are usually too afraid to say out loud. |
| 1:14.6 | In her memoir, till death do we parent, she brings that same honesty to motherhood, relationships, co-parenting, shame, growth, and the complicated process of learning how to soften after survival mode. Sweetie, please give a very warm welcome to Jess hilarious. Jess. Hey, Crystal. What's up, boo? Listen, I'm so happy to be sitting down with you. No, I'm happy. Yes, listen, I've been on your show, The Breakfast Club, and we've gotten to talking, just thank you thank you like the breakfast club can be daunting |
| 1:45.0 | if you've never been because you never know what's going to come up what you're going to ask |
| 1:48.3 | and it has always been a pleasant experience and I always love the questions you ask you always |
| 1:52.3 | make me feel safe you in I mean everybody yeah um does but um I just there's something about your |
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