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Hot & Bothered

The Audacity Of Belief: Tasha Smith Tells All

Hot & Bothered

Melyssa Ford

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Alternative Health

4.7612 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Ooooh yes, Tasha Smith is that girl — bold, brilliant, and completely unforgettable. You know her as the no-nonsense Angela in Why Did I Get Married?, Cookie’s wild sister in Empire, and now as a powerhouse director behind the scenes of hits like BMF and P-Valley. But beyond the firecracker roles and fierce energy, Tasha has a story rooted in resilience, reinvention, and radical self-belief. In this episode, she joins Melyssa to talk about what it really takes to bet on yourself — even when the world tells you not to. From growing up in Camden to running sets and starring in Desire: A Temptation Story on Lifetime (airing 4/19), Tasha gets raw about the journey, the doubt, and the faith that fuels her. We also dive into her latest role in Netflix’s Survival of the Thickest and what it means to evolve unapologetically. This one’s about grit, grace, and the audacity to believe you’re built for more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This program is intended for informational purposes only and does not contain medical advice.

0:06.6

As always, please contact your physician or qualified healthcare provider with any questions regarding a medical condition.

0:18.1

Hot and bother podcast.

0:38.3

What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Hot and Bothered with Melissa Ford. Now, I told y'all when I started season two that the guest list was going to be quite impressive. I'm sitting next to an icon. Like, no, for real, okay? We're going to pan over to who's sitting beside me, but she is an actress.

0:42.3

She's an actor's actor.

0:44.3

She is a director.

0:46.3

She is an executive producer.

0:48.3

She is stunning.

0:50.3

I'm sitting with Miss Tasha Smith.

0:52.3

Hi, girl. What's up, girl? How are you? I'm good. I'm so good. Listen, let me tell you something. When you're P.R. Oh, Daisy, of course. My co-host, Daisy, she's got to get some love. When Ernest told me that she wants to jump up. She wants to jump up. Yeah, go ahead. Come on. there we go okay when Ernest told me that she wants to jump up. Yeah, go ahead.

1:10.9

Come on.

1:11.9

There we go.

1:13.6

Okay.

1:14.5

When Ernest told me, hey, Tasha Smith's going to be in town.

1:17.5

She's promoting her new lifetime movie, desire, a temptation story, and the second season of survival of the thickest.

1:24.8

Do you think I said, don't even finish the sentence?

1:27.6

Do I think she can? Yes, I need her to come up on this show. Absolutely.

1:32.6

Well, I was excited to come here because I'm so proud of you.

1:37.1

Thank you. And I'm so proud of everything you're doing.

1:40.2

Thank you. I really am. And I love that we have podcasts, like to give voices like your voice and other voices like yours an opportunity to communicate, talk and just continue to inspire the culture. Right, Daisy?

1:56.4

Thank you so much. Daisy's not cozy. Come on, you want to sit? Yeah, she's going to make a little, you know, nest in your lap.

2:03.2

But you know, it's so interesting, we were talking off camera about the fact that I met your sister

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