Get Smarter with Blair Imani...The creator of Smarter in Seconds on Finding Love, Surviving Pregnancy Loss, and the Power of Social Media for Black Maternal Health.

The Mama's Den

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5 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Mamas are joined by Blair Imani, creator of Smarter in Seconds, to talk about everything from working at Planned Parenthood to going viral in 2020 with her powerful, bite-sized videos. She also opens up about her experience with pregnancy loss and how she's currently trying to conceive (complete with a hot pregnancy tip from her auntie!). In honor of Black Maternal Health Week, Blair schools us on reproductive justice, and how to better support Black women and mothers for stronger maternal health outcomes. Get ready to take notes — Blair drops gems and resources you won’t want to miss!

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0:00.0	What's up y'all?
0:04.9	I'm Fee.
0:06.5	It's Belity.
0:07.3	And Cody here.
0:08.2	And you've tapped into the Mamas Dan.
0:11.3	We're all Mamas and we've got 11 kids between the four of us.
0:16.0	And let's just say we are tired.
0:18.7	But we're also friends who are going through this journey of motherhood together.
0:22.6	Each week, we are giving you some laughs, maybe some tears, sharing our personal stories,
0:27.3	and of course, giving advice what we hope is helpful.
0:30.7	This is the show we wish we had before becoming mammas.
0:33.6	So grandmas, aunties, sisters, uncles, daddy, brothers, everybody who's in the village of raising children, we got you.
0:40.6	Shall we get into it, ladies?
0:42.1	Let's do it.
0:45.0	All right, y'all, it's Mama's Den Monday.
0:48.1	Woo!
0:48.3	We did, de, de, de, de, we made this beat up because his mama's in Monday.
0:55.2	Girl, you got to work on a note.
0:58.1	Thanks, Ashley.
0:59.1	I just love coming here so Ashley can troll me.
1:01.5	No, that wasn't trolling.
1:02.8	That was real criticism.
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