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The Gurls Talk Podcast

Ziwe... on her debut book of essays "Black Friend"

The Gurls Talk Podcast

Gurls Talk

Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health

4.8584 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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We're back! We're kicking off our fourth season with one of my favorite people, Ziwe! Amidst the LOLs we talk about everything from imposter syndrome to some of my favorite essays in Ziwe's debut book Black Friend. Ziwe's book of essays Black Friend is out now. It's one of my favorite books of the year, I know you'll enjoy it too. You can follow @ziwef and you can follow us @gurlstalk. Please send any messages to www.gurlstalk.com and don’t forget to subscribe, so you never...

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0:00.0

Inspired by my own journey with mental health, I founded Girls Talk, our own safe space where we share, listen and support each other. So get cozy and join me. Adjua Boer for some much-needed girls' talk.

0:18.8

Hello, my lovely listeners.

0:23.7

Welcome to season four of the Girls Talk podcast.

0:29.7

I'm so excited to have all sorts of insanely fascinating girls talk this season.

0:34.1

And I'm even more excited to kick it off with my friend, Zeeway.

0:37.0

You always have a call, but my ears have popped. Oh, are you in high altitude?

0:40.2

Yeah, and the mountains. I'm reaching you from the high mountains. Oh, I can't wait to see you in Paris.

0:48.1

I know, literally three days. With Usher.

0:50.6

Yeah, very, very soon. I love that it was then announced that he was going to be headlining the Super Bowl.

0:55.6

It's going to be so fun because I remember, that was the soundtrack to my middle school.

1:00.2

So I'm beyond excited.

1:01.9

I appreciate you.

1:02.9

Thank you so much for coming on the podcast.

1:05.2

I bet you're beyond busy right now.

1:07.8

Thank you for having me.

1:09.0

I'm never too busy for you.

1:12.7

You are our first guests of season four of the Girls Talk podcast, so very, very beyond excited about that.

1:19.1

I try to think where we first met, I think we met through M, not that long ago.

1:24.2

The first Vanity Fair. And we like, at first we were like, wait, who is this woman? And then we were like, wait, I love this woman. And it was a really fun night. And then we did the second P the next year. I know. We did sniff each other out, didn't we? And then I felt like it was a kind of, it blossomed quite quickly after that. Well, because, you know, Ghanaian women,

1:45.6

Nigerian women were supposed to be at war, but we are the bridge between two brilliant nations.

1:53.6

So this, I mean, amongst other things, this podcast could be that branch for many others to start kind of fulfilling that friendship.

2:04.5

I want to go to Ghana for Christmas and then obviously we have to go to Nigeria for Christmas

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