Speaker 1: Hey y'all, Hey, what's up? And welcome to Let's Red
Speaker 1: Table that the official Red Table Talk fan rewatch podcast.
Speaker 1: We're going to dive deep on all that can't believe
Speaker 1: in moments from the famous Red Table and make it
Speaker 1: a party. I'm Tracy T. Brow and um Karral Pressley,
Speaker 1: and you will know us. You are getting to know us.
Speaker 1: We are your Red Table Talk. O gez. Let's kick
Speaker 1: it off. How have we been, my fellow? O G.
Speaker 1: I'm doing just great, but this has been amazing. I'm
Speaker 1: just claiming springtime exactly. Yeah, I'm spring. I'm super ready
Speaker 1: for spring. You know. I'm ready for the beginning, in
Speaker 1: the beginnings for the season, the beginnings for the flowers
Speaker 1: and the trees and for us. So I'm super excited
Speaker 1: to just be everybody's favorite. O G. Right, we are
Speaker 1: on and Tracy, I'm just excited. Do you guys hear
Speaker 1: my dog barking? I'm sorry, can you guys hear that
Speaker 1: at all? She's outside? I could go get her. Let
Speaker 1: me just go get her. I think she's going to
Speaker 1: continue to bring cold on just a second. Dolla is
Speaker 1: real life Benji. So yesterday she got caught in the
Speaker 1: creek like she just my neighbors ring her back. They're like, oh,
Speaker 1: we saw her up that thing. But I think she
Speaker 1: hasn't an owner. I think she stays over there since
Speaker 1: it does not make sense she will not come back.
Speaker 1: And then at like seven o'clock in the morning, she's
Speaker 1: like Earth like, let me in, and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me get up because because you run my life.
Speaker 1: So now I have to know you told us, we
Speaker 1: know about our sweet fellers, your beloved baby and my
Speaker 1: Mary J. Blige. I got a question for you, so
Speaker 1: I want you to tell us all about yourself. I
Speaker 1: am car Sleep, I am from Richmond, Virginia. I am successful,
Speaker 1: I'm a mom, I'm a daughter, I'm auntie, I'm cousin,
Speaker 1: I'm a niece, I'm a friend, and I am a
Speaker 1: R T T O G. I have one of the
Speaker 1: biggest red table talk communities on Facebook. So that is
Speaker 1: who I am. Girl. Shout out to my friend Dr
Speaker 1: Chantel cham Bliss, who is the executive director Address for Success.
Speaker 1: She is supportive of any woman doing women things in Richmond, Virginia.
Speaker 1: She was my second member and then after the first
Speaker 1: week or so, we had like three hundred people and
Speaker 1: then after that we grew to like thirty thousand people
Speaker 1: and like two months, and it might have been a
Speaker 1: little bit longer than that, but he was still like
Speaker 1: within ninety days. And after we got up to I
Speaker 1: want to stay close to the forty thousand people. That's
Speaker 1: when Jada reached out to us, like Jada Willow and
Speaker 1: gam did a video and they were like, thanks for
Speaker 1: just supporting us, and we want to support you. And
Speaker 1: from thirty fifty sixty past a hundred thousand also we're
Speaker 1: up to a hundred thousand plus and still growing, consistently
Speaker 1: growing millions of views a month. The group like expands
Speaker 1: beyond like Canada, all fifty states like It's it's a
Speaker 1: vibe and we are one of the biggest red Table
Speaker 1: Talk groups. But just because we're big in numbers doesn't
Speaker 1: mean the other groups aren't as well. To shout out
Speaker 1: to the other r T T O G s because
Speaker 1: we are a full own family, especially Yo Memphis group
Speaker 1: Memphis Sister Friends to exist, give it up from Memphis.
Speaker 1: The nine oh one is definitely being represented here. I
Speaker 1: am nine o one. I am on Facebook all the time,
Speaker 1: and when I saw that there was a show coming
Speaker 1: out on Facebook Watch. That included Jada Pinkett Smith Willow,
Speaker 1: who I already adored, and then Gammy, who I had
Speaker 1: known about but had never really known about. I was hooked.
Speaker 1: I couldn't wait for the premiere. So episode one, season one,
Speaker 1: I was glued. My eyeballs were on that screen. And
Speaker 1: I want you to know that they have kept me in.
Speaker 1: I have been locked in and addicted and one connected.
Speaker 1: I think I'm called a super duper fan. I'm calling
Speaker 1: myself a super duper fan. That's how I started watching
Speaker 1: them was because I, you know, love Jada Pinkett Smith
Speaker 1: number one, and I just wanted to connect with her
Speaker 1: and see how she truly has her you know, perspective
Speaker 1: and take on life. Our group was formed, interestingly enough,
Speaker 1: after the model we used the model. There were three
Speaker 1: of us that got together and had in a conversation
Speaker 1: about an article that was written about black a black
Speaker 1: mother and her daughter. It was the daughter and she
Speaker 1: had written it as in a pseudonym because she was
Speaker 1: talking about her mom. And you know, if I'm talking
Speaker 1: about a mama, now you got to be careful. And
Speaker 1: the community was just right. Did you see birtha daughter
Speaker 1: talk about it? Right, we don't. We don't five on that,
Speaker 1: and so she didn't use her real name, but her
Speaker 1: story was real, and the article was was heartfelt and sincere,
Speaker 1: and we connected and said, we're using the platform that
Speaker 1: the Red Table platform is based on with truth and
Speaker 1: talking about hard topics and being able to just share
Speaker 1: and and talking about your mom is a taboo topic
Speaker 1: for us. And so we had a just phenomenal engagement
Speaker 1: where people were able to unburden themselves and the community
Speaker 1: was really developed from the people that we intentionally invited
Speaker 1: because we wanted there to be people that were from
Speaker 1: each of our pasts, and so we were really excited
Speaker 1: about having that conversation. And that was how the Memphisister
Speaker 1: Friends started. I can tell you for me, I started
Speaker 1: watching like you. I started watching Red Table Talk at
Speaker 1: the very beginning, first episode, episode one, season one. I
Speaker 1: was there in eyeballs, loud to the screen. I wanted
Speaker 1: to see what they were talking about because it was
Speaker 1: just never done. You never saw women of color and
Speaker 1: three generations having real conversations with each other, and especially
Speaker 1: not in public, not in public form, and and with
Speaker 1: a certain stature that we all have, just you know,
Speaker 1: like they're putting themselves in a line, very sacrificial. I
Speaker 1: loved it and so transparent, and I just I was
Speaker 1: hooked from the first episode. I was hooked. I loved it.
Speaker 1: We used the platform to have the conversations and have
Speaker 1: the transparency. The group was small, intentional so that we
Speaker 1: could maintain the integrity of that circle of trust and
Speaker 1: established a covenant. I also have to tell you from
Speaker 1: a personal perspective, it's it's really wonderful to be in
Speaker 1: a position where you can see people living their authentic
Speaker 1: truths and they say, and I can tell you it
Speaker 1: took me years, literal years to be able to stand
Speaker 1: firm and say here is who I am as a woman,
Speaker 1: as a black woman, as a um short woman, and
Speaker 1: as a gay woman. And for years I was everything
Speaker 1: that people wanted me to be and happy about it.
Speaker 1: But I wasn't ever really open about being with my wife,
Speaker 1: and so it was difficult and so I had to
Speaker 1: take ownership of that. I'm grateful that being able to
Speaker 1: see people live in their authentic truth, whether it was
Speaker 1: something that was difficult or easy, is what they did.
Speaker 1: So I'm grateful for that. The people in the community
Speaker 1: with Red Table Talk connect at least once per week
Speaker 1: for an episode. Learn something, they share, something, they grow,
Speaker 1: and hopefully what's happening is that they're giving that information
Speaker 1: so that other people have the opportunity to learn and
Speaker 1: grow and share being super transparent. I lost my brother
Speaker 1: in March to cancer and it was super fast. We
Speaker 1: had just gotten through the pandemic and my job was
Speaker 1: doing something I ain't like, and I was like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had to fork in the road and I'm either
Speaker 1: gonna choose me and do this for me for another
Speaker 1: twenty years or I am going to fight it out
Speaker 1: at the job. And I decided to fight for myself.
Speaker 1: So you know, the week I retired from twenty years
Speaker 1: of government service, we went to Jad Pecktsmith's house, so
Speaker 1: we were at the first annual R T T cookout
Speaker 1: and from there, man, we had such a great time
Speaker 1: and won an Emmy and we just had such a
Speaker 1: vibe meeting R O G S R R T T
Speaker 1: O G. Having said all that, as the career cheerleader,
Speaker 1: red table talking has been a part of that because
Speaker 1: it helped me realize how much more I was of
Speaker 1: a woman. So I was I was able to should
Speaker 1: show and be engulfed and and found my place because
Speaker 1: these were more just like me. Jada Pinkett was a
Speaker 1: stony from set it off, like, who does it? Love
Speaker 1: what Jade is doing. She's a woman, seen her acting,
Speaker 1: We've seen her be a mom, like okay, so she
Speaker 1: has another part of her life. Like I just felt
Speaker 1: like she was trying to show the world. I'm just
Speaker 1: like you guys were out here having conversations trying to
Speaker 1: figure things out. So I started watching and tried to engage,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I'm gonna be able to community
Speaker 1: with women in my city because like I want to
Speaker 1: go to brunch, I want to go have drinks, I
Speaker 1: want to go talk with other women like myself in
Speaker 1: the same city and do those things and talk about
Speaker 1: this show or have our own show or own conversations.
Speaker 1: So it really gave me the launch pad to really
Speaker 1: fully stand in the woman that I am today. I
Speaker 1: feel like it did like the same for you because
Speaker 1: you were one of the first groups that Red Table
Speaker 1: Talk visited and and came out to see. So just
Speaker 1: just for one one heartbeat, um, the community is one
Speaker 1: that we align ourselves with what the topics are, which
Speaker 1: I love that. So if the topic is about, you know, gosh,
Speaker 1: pick one because we've had so many great, great episodes,
Speaker 1: we like mental health was one. We then have a
Speaker 1: conversation about mental health. We talk about the things that
Speaker 1: we're on there so we can have some insight and
Speaker 1: just dig a little deeper into them, which I love
Speaker 1: that we have so many different things in our community
Speaker 1: that are unspoken and that are unheard and that need
Speaker 1: to be shared. I'm so excited about hosting less red
Speaker 1: table that because it's going to bring life to all
Speaker 1: of the conversations we were already having. Anyway, I think
Speaker 1: that's something that's exciting because we've already been doing this.
Speaker 1: We've we've thought these things, we felt these feelings. We
Speaker 1: know what love is like, we know what heartbreak is like.
Speaker 1: We all have anxiety since the pandemic. We are trying
Speaker 1: to heal. You're trying to figure it out, and instead
Speaker 1: of thinking you're by yourself, you get to figure it
Speaker 1: out with other people who look like you, feel like you,
Speaker 1: and have gone through the exact same situation. So that's
Speaker 1: why I always love red table talk. That's why I'll
Speaker 1: continue to come back, and that's why I'm glad we
Speaker 1: can continue to build community from a podcast standpoint, So
Speaker 1: this is gonna be exciting. I love that on every
Speaker 1: episode of Let's Red Table That, we are going to
Speaker 1: be sharing messages from all of you. We want to
Speaker 1: know how you're feeling about this new season of Red
Speaker 1: Table Talk, What makes you happy, what are you connecting
Speaker 1: with We want to hear all about it. We are
Speaker 1: open to talk about any and everything with you, So
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