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Brown Ambition

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Careers, Education, Self-improvement, Investing, Business

4.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Summary

Whew… this week’s Brown Table is packed, y’all.

Mandi is joined by not one, not two, but three first-time Brown Table guests: Alexa Claire from The Financial Diet, JQ (aka Jonquilyn Hill) from Vox’s "Explain It To Me" podcast, and Yvie Saint-Louis from Blavity. We dive into the news, the nonsense, and everything in between from pop culture and politics to the real-life messiness of being Black, brilliant, and bold in America.

This week, we get into:

-Beyoncé in London: the rain, the glow, and yes, ugly tears were shed.

-Trump and Elon’s billionaire beef… is it all just a stunt?

-ICE raids, National Guard in LA, and why peaceful protests keep being met with force.

-Why Black women are *still* expected to be the mature ones and what happens when we just want to clap back.

-From Coco Gauff to Simone Biles to a teenage track star with flaming feet (literally): why the world can’t handle confident Black girls.

Plus: The Tonys, the audacity of Patti LuPone, and whether Hamilton still goes hard (spoiler: it does).

New here?

BA fam, don’t forget—we’ve got three shows a week now:

💼 Monday Motivation (interviews and deep dives)

🪑 Brown Table Wednesdays (group chat energy, always)

🎤 BA Q\&A Fridays (your money + career questions answered)

And yes, we launched a Patreon! Join to get early access, video recordings of the Brown Table, and exclusive book club perks: [patreon.com/brownambition]

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Let’s keep rising, building, and showing out. 💼💰✊🏾

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0:19.6	On the latest episode of Next Question with me, Katie Couric, I sat down with Jasmine Crockett,
0:25.5	Democratic Representative of Texas.
0:28.0	She's holding out the fork for her party in one of the most conservative states in the
0:32.2	Union.
0:32.5	I think that ultimately, who will become the Democratic nominee for president will be someone that has been out there and has shown that they won't allow themselves to be punched and just say thank you.
0:44.4	Like, they will punch back.
0:46.5	Listen to next question with me, Katie Couric on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:54.1	Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we're going to do. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.3	Show me how good it can get today, God, and show the rest of the world what we already know.
1:03.9	It can't get no better than being hella Black, Hella Queer, and Hella Christian.
1:06.0	My name is Joseph Rees.
1:10.2	I am the creator and host of Hella Black, Hella Queer, Hella Christian.
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1:24.5	Did it occur to you that he'd charmed you in any way?
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