Sonequa Martin-Green boldly takes us to the land of Black girl joy

Yes, Girl!

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Cori Murray, Women, Yes, Arts, Music, Podcasts, Essence, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Black Women, Celebrity, #Blackgirlmagic, Girl!, Pop Culture, Charli Penn, 509640, Essence Magazine, Cardi B, Yolanda Sangweni, Entertainment, Blackgirlmagic, Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Podcastsforwomen, Podcast

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Our obsession with Sonequa Martin-Green (@SonequaMG) began when we fell in love with her character Sasha on The Walking Dead. Now we’re cheering her on as she helms Star Trek: Discovery — she’s literally playing captain Michael Burnham on the hit prequel streaming on CBS All Access. Within minutes of our chat, we agree Sonequa is Black girl joy realized. She lets us in on what it’s like being a bomb Black woman in Hollywood, plus confesses all the feels she had saying goodbye to TWD (even though her hubby is still on the show) and relocating to La La Land. Her feel-good vibes are contagious, promise! Also in this episode’s Tea for the Week, Charli (@ManWifeDog) and Cori (@corimurray) debate what’s worth a TV reboot these days. Tell us what you think using #yesgirlpodcast.

Yes, Girl! hosts: Cori Murray @corimurray; Charli Penn @ManWifeDog; and Yolanda Sangweni @yolizama

Producer: Steven Psyllos @stevenpsyllos

Audio engineer: Chiquita Pascal @ChiquitaPaschal

Music: Gold Standard Creative @gscdotnyc

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0:00.0	We're Brooklyn at.
0:02.0	Brooklyn at.
0:03.0	Gory I love you so much.
0:06.0	Yes.
0:07.0	Hello from Brooklyn.
0:09.0	essence has moved.
0:11.0	essence has moved.
0:12.0	Please make note of the address change it says in my signature
0:15.4	if you get an email from me it's there we are in B K but it's real and it's cool
0:21.2	and it's cute I actually real talk're going to do a little housekeeping right now, but I really like this new setup though. I like the like the whitewash walls the the exposed it isn't brick but it's a little supposed brick a little
0:35.0	supposed brick a little woodwork I feel like it's I feel like it's refurbished
0:39.0	yes it's very lost like Williamsburg or something yeah I like it I have to say give me a week or two. Okay. I live in New Jersey.
0:46.5	That's a commute. So my commute just got way longer and it was already long. So I just need a little time. Just but I mean I'm happy that we're all here together and now I have a reason to be in Brooklyn because I have never go to Brooklyn. So hey Brooklyn.
1:02.0	Hey Brooklyn! But we love the rest of you guys.
1:05.0	Thank you so much.
1:06.0	I'm Corey Murray.
1:07.0	I'm Charlie Penn.
1:08.0	And missing is Yolanda Sanguine.
1:10.0	Because Yolanda went to South Africa, y'all, for her brother's wedding.
1:14.4	Which was so cute, I almost about to follow him on Instagram.
1:16.5	Oh my God, they had like a four-day wedding.
1:19.1	Yeah.
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