Hi, I'm Aisha Mendez and I'm here with Erica Cobb, National TV Personality and producer of the NAACP Image Award nominated podcast, comeback with Erica Cobb. Thank you so much for being with me today.

Aisha, it is my honor to be here with you. Thank you so much for having me.

Of course.

And so, Erica, you've had such a dynamic career from getting your dream job on television

at a young age.

Can you talk me through?

Was there ever a point throughout your career where you felt a tension between building

out an incredible care for yourself and thoughts about

motherhood? I think my journey to become a mother as well as my journey to become a professional,

a successful professional person has always been a little bit at odds since the very beginning of my career. Being in media,

especially starting when I was like really in my teens, early 20s, there was a lot of messaging

that we don't accept currently. I remember one of my first big break opportunities. I was brought in. I was very young.

I was very excited. And there was a woman who had been there before me, not in the same role, but she was pregnant.

And I remember the conversation between the powers that be that I was there now and

maybe there wasn't a need for her to return. And I think in hindsight they probably thought

that was a compliment for me, but I just remember thinking about being in her shoes one day.

And was that a signal that I needed to perhaps put motherhood

on the back burner and not pursue it as vigorously as I was pursuing my career so I could have both.

Yeah. And, you know, I think it's so incredible that that's something that you've heard,

because I feel like for a lot of us, especially young women of color, we hear a lot of times that like women are having kids later

and the fact that like, hey, if you have a cure, will that derail your career?

And the fact that you heard that at such a young age from people in your industry,

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