You Need to Learn to Say No (Even to an Inauguration) with Taraji P. Henson

Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast

Higher Ground

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Actress, businesswoman, and mental health advocate Taraji P. Henson joins to talk about setting boundaries, why Michelle didn't attend the inauguration, post-White House therapy, and the glories of the Real Housewives franchise. Plus Craig gets a birthday surprise!

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0:00.0	What happened that eight years that we were in the White House?
0:04.5	What did that do to me?
0:05.9	Yes.
0:06.5	Internally, my soul, we made it through.
0:08.9	We got out alive.
0:10.0	I hope we made the country proud.
0:12.2	My girls, thank God, are whole.
0:14.4	But what happened to me?
0:15.9	Right.
0:16.4	Right.
0:26.8	This episode is brought to you by Pinesol and TheraFlu.
0:30.2	Craig Malcolm Robinson.
0:31.6	Michelle LeVon Robinson.
0:33.4	Not Robinson.
0:34.5	Obama.
0:43.8	What, what, what, what, what, 30 years? How's it going? It's going well. How you doing?
0:51.2	Doing, doing well. Yeah. Yeah, happy to be here with you. We've got a great show coming out. I'm so excited. But we are here in L.A. And you doing your thing?
0:54.5	I'm doing my thing.
0:55.9	I'm staying in an Airbnb again.
0:58.3	And I tell you, every time I stay in one, it makes me want to stay in one wherever I go.
1:03.8	You know, we're going, we're, the boys have a tournament coming up in a month or so.
1:09.0	And rather than staying in a hotel, we're going to get an
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