IRL Take Aways: Why Friendships Matter More than Ever
Angie Martinez IRL
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
5 • 939 Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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This week Angie Martinez sits down with her producer Brittany Ortiz to unpack the biggest takeaways from recent episodes featuring Sherri Shepherd and Doja Cat , two women redefining strength, humor, and authenticity.
From Sherri’s lessons on female friendship, womanhood, and the importance of finding your tribe, to Doja Cat’s accountability, and being misunderstood reflects on how every conversation becomes a mirror for growth.
They also get real about what it means to find your voice, ask for help, and trust the process even when the path shifts.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | The murder of an 18-year-old girl in Graves County, Kentucky, went unsolved for years, |
| 0:14.0 | until a local housewife, a journalist, and a handful of girls came forward with a story. |
| 0:20.9 | America, y'all better work the hell up. |
| 0:22.9 | Bad things happens to good people in small towns. |
| 0:32.5 | Listen to Graves County on the IHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:38.9 | And to binge the entire season, ad free, subscribe to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:47.3 | This episode of IRL podcast is powered by Boost Mobile. |
| 0:55.5 | What's up, guys? We are back. This is the Edge Martinez IRL weekly episode. I'm sitting here on my producer, Brittany Ortiz. |
| 1:02.9 | Hi, hi. We are going through some of the things that happened this week on the show. Sherry Shepherd episode just dropped. Sherry was great. right? Yeah, yeah. You know, when she's on the show, she's always like, I don't know, when anybody has to be like the life of the party all the time, I almost feel bad for them. Like, I'm almost like, it's okay. Like, we can just chill. You don't have to, like, make me laugh or you don't have to make me smile. Like I feel like Sherry walks around. |
| 1:29.6 | It's almost like a burden in a wheel. |
| 1:31.8 | Not in a bad way. |
| 1:32.8 | It's a burden she carries proudly and well. |
| 1:36.0 | Like she wants everybody in a room to feel happy, smiling, laughing. |
| 1:40.3 | That would be exhausting to me. |
| 1:42.9 | Even what I did. |
| 1:44.2 | The expectancy. |
| 1:45.2 | I mean, I've been on the radio for mad years. |
| 1:47.6 | I always feel like I want to give people good energy. |
| 1:50.5 | But the idea of having to make people like laugh or I don't know, just. |
| 1:56.3 | Enlighten, joyous. |
| 1:57.4 | All the time every day, that talk show life is different. |
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