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Honoring D’Angelo: What Brown Sugar Meant to Me Growing Up #472 Part1

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Send us a Voice Message - https://www.speakpipe.com/docsoutsidethebox Have a question for the podcast? Text us at 833-230-2860 In this episode, we paid a tribute to D’Angelo whose albums like Brown Sugar and Voodoo shaped our teenage years. We also talked about how slow jams are no longer there, and the split between what people say online and how we actually treat each other off screen. FREE DOWNLOAD...

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0:00.0

If you want to create wealth for yourself, I'll be honest with y'all.

0:03.1

I think we talk about real estate way too much.

0:05.5

I think we talk about other types of like alternative type of investing way too much,

0:09.6

like the low hanging fruit of just getting out of debt, saving money, putting money into a

0:14.9

brokerage account, putting money into your individual retirement account, putting money into

0:19.0

your HSA if you can afford to, you know,

0:21.7

make sure you choose the right spouse, right there. Those are the most important. It's like the movie Hitch. And he's doing the things with his Q-tips and throwing it away and doing all this stuff. It's like, and what does Hitch say? He's like, listen, just a two-step, simple. And that's what it is with your finances, y'all. You know what I'm saying? I got my 401K.

0:37.5

Ooh, you could do that sometimes.

0:39.3

Ooh.

0:40.3

Uh-huh.

0:41.3

Right? The two-step. Simple. And that's what it is with your finances, y'all. You know what I'm saying? I got my 401k. Ooh, you can do that sometimes. Ooh, what, what move is that? That's the HSA. You got a good spouse, you know what you can trust? You know what they do at night? You know what I'm saying? You know where they be at? People try to make it too complicated, yo. Yo, yo, yo, welcome back to another episode of Docs Outside the Box. It's

0:55.7

your boy, Dr. Ney. I'm joined by. Dr. Renee, my voice is who works? Oh, well, we didn't ask

1:02.9

for an explanation. Was up with your voice, but I think people would like to know. I wanted to tell

1:07.9

people that we know that it's been a minute. It's been close to two months since we put out an episode.

1:14.1

And I just want everybody to know that life has been lifing.

1:18.2

And for me, I'll be really honest with you all between surgery, my schedule, the travel between Ghana, and then trying to get back into a normal schedule

1:31.7

of work and family and just honestly, I'll be honest with you guys, I just needed some space

1:39.1

to breathe, some space to kind of refill the tank creatively.

1:43.9

And I found myself watching a lot of videos

1:46.5

and watching a lot of content on YouTube and listening to a lot of other podcasts and just,

1:51.5

I don't know, I just didn't feel like creating. And I just wanted to consume. And I think that,

1:58.1

you know, next year, Renee, next year, 2026 will be our 10 years of putting out the show.

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