Mr. & Mrs. Black Love (Guests: Tommy Oliver & Codie Oliver)

Dear Future Wifey

Laterras R. Whitfield

Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Education, Christianity, Society & Culture

5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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What happens when two visionaries fall in love and decide to champion healthy Black relationships for the world to see? In this unforgettable episode, Tommy & Codie Oliver—the powerhouse couple behind the groundbreaking Black Love docuseries—join Dear Future Wifey to share the behind-the-scenes story of their marriage, mission, and movement.

From navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurship and parenting to preserving intimacy while producing a cultural phenomenon, the Olivers get real about what it takes to build something beautiful—on-screen and off.

🎥 They didn’t just film love stories. They lived one.

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If you’ve ever questioned whether love and legacy can coexist, this episode is your answer.

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0:00.0	I never wanted to date a filmmaker.
0:01.9	How'd they work out for you?
0:03.1	Um, listen, hold on.
0:04.3	It was clear that she was the most amazing woman that I'd ever met, and I couldn't imagine
0:09.8	what better was.
0:11.1	Six months later, I propose to her.
0:12.9	Tommy and Cody.
0:14.1	Oliver is in the building.
0:16.0	Black love for us has always been more than romantic love.
0:18.7	The docu-series is about what it takes to make a marriage work, but blacklove.com is very much a website where we can highlight 360 degrees of black love.
0:26.5	Did you see it being successful? 100%. We knew our community wanted to see it. There was a reason
0:32.6	that we were so intentional about owning the show. We ultimately took a comically low license fee in exchange for being able to own it.
0:41.1	Season two, that the order at that point was four episodes.
0:44.0	And we told them that four wasn't going to work.
0:45.9	The show premieres, and it's the highest rated premiere in the network's history.
0:50.5	And so they're like, yeah, yeah, can we get the other four episodes?
0:52.8	Yeah, but today's price.
0:54.1	And yesterday's price. Everything that came after wouldn't have happened if we didn't own every single
0:59.6	episode i always go back to how y'all met uh-huh toronto film festival i worked on behalf of
1:04.4	canon the camera company and i'm like who was that i said is he interested in the equipment they
1:08.8	said yeah just in the equipment the equipment i said when, yeah. Interested in the equipment. The equipment.
1:19.4	I said, when do you leave? I said, oh, well, we leave on Wednesday night, but we don't work on Wednesday during the day if you wanted to, like, chat.
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