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Keep it Positive, Sweetie

From Harvard to Fashion Bomb!!!

Keep it Positive, Sweetie

The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Keep it Positive, Sweetie Show, host Chrystal Renee speaks with Claire Sulmers, the visionary behind Fashion Bomb Daily. Claire shares her journey from Atlanta to Harvard and eventually to the heights of fashion journalism. She discusses the challenges she faced in accessing the fashion industry, the importance of resilience, and the critical decision that led her to create Fashion Bomb Daily. The conversation highlights the ongoing struggle for inclusivity in fashion, maintaining personal perseverance, and the significance of ownership and creating one's path. Claire also reflects on the importance of rest, self-care, and her future aspirations, including writing another book and expanding her brand.

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0:00.0

When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own rules.

0:06.6

Segregation and the day integration at night.

0:09.8

It was like stepping on another world.

0:12.2

Was he a businessman? A criminal. A hero.

0:16.3

Charlie was an example of power. They had to crush him.

0:20.9

Charlie's Place from Atlas Obscura and visit Myrtle Beach.

0:24.5

Listen to Charlie's Place on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

0:28.7

podcasts.

0:29.9

Calling all my sweeties to the forefront, I'm your host, Chris Renee Hazett, and this is the

0:35.3

Keep It Posit Sweetie Show.

0:39.6

Welcome to Keep It Posit, Sweetie, the place where we heal, grow, and learn together.

0:44.2

Today's guest is founder, media executive, and the visionary behind Fashion Bomb Daily, Claire Somers.

0:51.7

Claire Somers is the visionary behind Fashion Bomb Daily, a platform she built long before

0:57.0

digital media became mainstream. Today's conversation is about longevity, leadership, and the

1:03.3

quiet discipline required to evolving and staying true to your vision. Kiosceli, please give a very

1:09.4

warm welcome to Claire Somers. Claire, we finally got you here. You're looking fabulous. Thank you. It's giving a bomb, honey. Thank you. You look good. Take off my glasses because I can't. I mean, you really could have kept them on because it was given the whole look. I love it. Oh, I shoes. Yes. Listen. I tried, I oiled up my legs, but I try not to do it too much because I had this

1:36.8

incident on Tamerman Hall show where, because it's like, you don't want to be ashy on national TV.

1:42.6

Yes. I definitely overdid it and I look like a grease ham. And all everybody in my family could talk about was how my legs were so shiny. So I tried to tone it down. Well, they look good. What did you use? I use this Vaseline, like, oil sheen. Yeah. I need to get that because that looks good. Thank you. Yeah. So you got some nice

2:02.4

legs. All right. Get them insured, girl. Get the legs in short. So Claire, you are actually a native

2:09.7

of Atlanta, George. I had no idea. Well, I was born in Brooklyn. Okay. That's how you got back to

2:15.8

New York. I was raised in Atlanta. So I moved here in 1990. I was nine years old and went to high school, junior high, everything here. So raised in old Atlanta.

2:29.0

Because it's new now. It's new now. Everybody who was here back then is always like, man, old Atlanta is way better than this new Atlanta. It was just different, man, like Buckhead and going to Lennox Mall and Freaknick. I mean, have you been, have you, I mean, I was too young for Freaknik. I was too young too, but yes, I heard stories and seen footage. But like we had to drive through Freaknick going home from school and I was just like,

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