Niecy Nash-Betts on Confidence, Career Hustle & Unexpected Love
Baby, this is Keke Palmer
Wondery
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Emmy winner Niecy Nash-Betts joins Keke for a candid conversation about believing in yourself before anyone else does. From boldly pushing her way into auditions for Reno 911! to speaking up on set with Whoopi Goldberg, Niecy shares the mindset that built her career and the unexpected love story with her wife Jessica Betts.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, today's guest is an Emmy Award-winning actress who has always known exactly who she is. |
| 0:05.4 | From Reno 911 to Claws, from Ava Duvenais when they see us, to Ryan Murphy's monster, and now all's fair. |
| 0:13.4 | Her resume is long, and her range is undeniable. |
| 0:17.0 | But beyond the credits, she chose love in 2020 in a way that felt like a plot twist written just for her, |
| 0:22.9 | showing us that bold, authentic joy looks good on a grown woman. |
| 0:26.6 | There is no stopping Niecy Nash bets, and today we're getting into how she built this life, |
| 0:32.0 | how she stands in it and how she keeps it real. |
| 0:34.8 | And what better place to do that than right here? |
| 0:37.4 | Because baby, this is Kiki Palmer. No matter what we're doing in the car, just chilling, pop-o Amazon music, sit back and listen. Life, love, sex, science, covering it all, especially the bad because money always involved. No matter what it is, we gonna make it make sense. Nothing else will do but kick it with the homies and key. |
| 0:54.6 | So grab you a drink and a snack you enjoy and get into the vibe that only one is to. |
| 0:58.6 | You know it's your girls. |
| 0:59.3 | Baby, this, this is Kiki. |
| 1:03.6 | Baby, this is Kiki Poma, yeah. |
| 1:10.5 | Please welcome to the show, one of my favorite people, Nisi Nash. |
| 1:17.1 | My God! |
| 1:18.6 | And I knew you was going to come upstage me on my own show. |
| 1:21.5 | What are you talking about? |
| 1:22.7 | You look so amazing. |
| 1:24.3 | Body is bad. |
| 1:25.9 | My girl! |
| 1:27.7 | I'm happy to see you, boo. Hi, Toots. Okay. So wait a minute. You were just in Mexico with the cartel stuff, girl. They had you locked up in the room. Yeah. Zoinks. Zoinks. Yeah. It's definitely giving zoinks. Were you scared or were you kind of like, I'm going to be? You know what made me nervous was I was there with my family, all my children. |
| 1:49.6 | My mom was there. And the thing that gave me the most pause was their reaction. |
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