IMO Live: Give Your Parents Grace with Quinta Brunson

IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson

Higher Ground

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Education

4.3 • 13.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Emmy-award winning actress, producer and writer Quinta Brunson joins Michelle and Craig for a conversation during the opening of the Obama Presidential Center. Quinta talks about her early days in comedy, how she broached the topic of her career with her parents, and reveals the one surprising situation that gives her imposter syndrome.

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0:00.0	I worked on Key & P.
0:01.0	Oh, yeah.
0:02.0	It's a PA.
0:03.0	I miss that in your book.
0:04.0	I don't know if I was in there. I don't know. I did. It was their first episode actually. Wow. And I was a PA. And through that, met a producer. A is a production assistant. And she does a podcast now. She's in the business. Yeah. I'm just, you know, all this lingo, PA.
0:22.5	It's like, you know.
0:23.8	Production assistant. now she's in the business. Yeah. I'm just, you know, all this lingo, PA.
0:22.5	I was a PA.
0:23.0	You know, production assistant.
0:25.2	And then I, that producer.
0:28.3	Shut up.
0:34.7	This episode of IMO is brought to you by United Airlines and Chase Home Lending.
0:41.3	Oh, wow.
0:42.6	It's everybody we know.
0:44.0	Can we go back out and come in again?
0:47.4	I know.
0:48.4	It's like, I'm going to be like, hey, what?
0:50.2	Oh, what?
0:50.8	You're here, Sandy.
0:51.8	What's going on?
0:54.2	Well, you guys, welcome to IMO, but this is the very first event that we're holding here in this amazing auditorium.
1:05.1	Isn't it beautiful?
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