This week we take a peak into the minds of America's black folks as we watched the attempted "Coup on Capitol Hill" unfold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we ctrl-alt-delete for a new year.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2020 has been a doozy, but it wasn’t a full wash. And we’re wrapping up this year letting you know why, in Part 2 of our Keep and Dump list! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2020 has been a doozy, but it wasn’t a full wash. And we’re wrapping up this year letting you know why. Come back next week for part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we commiserate on what it means to cohabitate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to writer Jesse Mechanic about the road to impactful allyship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we explore the art appreciation and why it’s a masterpiece. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we get realistic about what we want from everybody, including ourselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of the election, this week we celebrate what possibility looks like from sea to shining sea. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the wake of this momentous election, we revisit an episode from the archives where we got into the nitty gritty of the 1st Amendment. My friend Natasha Korgaonkar, former lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, gets on the mic to clear up choice, freedom, and the difference in consequences when folks are exercising their rights vs. folks just runnin their mouths!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we seek to spark the inner flame that gives each of us the momentum to keep on moving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we come together to identify what makes community and why it’s so important to preserve it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I talk getting your mind and body right after going under the knife. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we take another look at toxic relationships and how we can be a compassionate co-pilot to navigating out of them! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we revisit why now, more than ever, being outspoken is so imperative and how to find your voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we identify 5 ways to fight that funk that we’re all in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk to author Layla Saad about how talking to white people about racism can be exhausting AF. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we drop a pin on where we’re at in the world right now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we get honest about apologizing with author Sonya Renee Taylor, founder of The Body Is Not An Apology. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we talk to organizer and political strategist LaTosha Brown about why Black votes and voters matter, and what it means to take the power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we run it back to that one time I hosted the 2020 BET Awards to give you the behind the scenes and drama and tea on how the innovative ground breaking show came to life! With guests: Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, Renee Sanganoo, Bryon Javar, and Nicky B! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we re-introduce and revisit the conversation about how we have conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sunny Hostin, lawyer and host of The View, let's us in on the fun and the fails of raising Gen Z kids! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we talk to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., author of Begin Again, about the depth, value, and necessity for James Baldwin and his work in our current time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we delve into the deep canon of Black cinema with Desmond Thorne, film expert and host of Adventures in Black Cinema, the debut show on the Smart Funny and Black podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In true Cancer season fashion, it’s only right that we not only get in our feelings, but get real about why so many of us are scared of them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we connect with Errin Haines, journalist at The 19th (https://www.19thnews.org/), to assess where journalism as a medium exists in the current media landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are joined by author and journalist Tiffany D. Cross, and uncover a bunch of ways we affect voting and voting affects us that we never considered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we talk to iconic actor Blair Underwood about what it means to be brotha in showbiz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, actress Tika Sumpter joins us to speak on creating a much-needed sweet space for Black mamas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of our first Small Doses Forum, where we discuss the multiple ways in which the nation's eruption of consciousness can effect change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In part 1 of our first Small Doses Forum we discuss the multiple ways in which the nation's eruption of consciousness can effect change. Come back next week for part 2. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, author, professor, and pundit Marc Lamont Hill joins us to illuminate the realities and sometimes contradictions of being smart, funny, and Black. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I take a solo look at livin’ solo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, CNN correspondent Angela Rye schools us on the necessities of being politically engaged and why your vote matters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Joy-Anne Reid, journalist and host of AM Joy, let’s us in on the unspoken conversations around how Corona is indiscriminately impacting Black America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we bounce down to the Big Easy with musician and community leader PJ Morton to learn about all things NoLa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I get down in the dirt with what makes up the soil that you grow from as a person, and how it affects the way we interact with the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we get awkward with writer, producer, actress Issa Rae about how confidence and being insecure make a leader. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I take y'all on a ride of the do's, don'ts, and dopeness of hittin the road solo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, writer, director, and Blackspert, Prentice Penny joins us to decant the process of making his new hit Netflix film, Uncorked. Warning: spoilers ahead! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we talk about what everybody is talking about, BEING STUCK INSIDE THE GOT DANG HOUSE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week’s show, we connect with writer extraordinaire Kenya Barris on creating your favorite -ishes and the nuance of nuance. Kenya's new show #blackaf debuts on April 17th on Netflix! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we sit with Brandon McEachern, creator of Broccoli City Festival, and talk all the reasons why safe spaces for black celebration are necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we get down to Town Biz with Oakland MC and entrepreneur, Mistah F.A.B. to talk Bay Area things and the Hyphy Movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're joined by my The Real cohost Adrienne Houghton to talk leaving the mean streets of NY for La La Land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we sit down with Dickey, texture guru, author, founder, and creator of Hair Rules to dive into the texture paradigm of black girl tresses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Valentine's Day, we have an episode from the archives! We go in on the whos, whats, and whys of Fuckbois - in an effort to rid the world of them - with James Bland, star/creator/producer of the digital series “Giants”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we explore the tortured soul of being a hypersensitive person and how to find peace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In continuation of last week's episode, we're answering any questions you have about anything! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In celebration of our 100th episode, we're answering any questions you have about anything! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week go behind the scenes and in the mind of my first week as the new cohost on daytime talkshow The Real. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we talk about how to clear out our proverbial closets of the real-life baggage we’re leaving in the last decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we close out the year with part 2 of our top 10 things Amanda learned in this decade! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we close out the year with part 1 of our top 10 things Amanda learned in this decade! Come back next week for 5-10! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we go Live! and get honest about the sources, repercussions, and realities of men who lack confidence. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss how we contribute to and drown out the noise that’s guiding our path.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we have a re-release from last year, where we get festive for that special time of year full of funny style family members, exes resurfacing, and of course, holiday cheer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by comedian Sasheer Zamata (SNL, “The Weekend” film) to talk getting real with the real ways you can get re-focused. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we enter into virgin territory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we attempt to understand how to be a paradox without becoming a pariah. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, comedian/writer Sam Jay (SNL) graciously shares her personal experience to give us some insight into a nuanced space of sexual identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I do a deep dive into the how-to of bringing an idea to fruition. Pick up your copy of my book Small Doses: Potent Truths for Every Day Use at a bookstore near you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Amanda guests on LeVar Burton's podcast, LeVar Burton Reads: Stories With Friends! In Stories with Friends, LeVar invites one of his friends to sit down for a conversation inspired by a short story or another piece of literature, giving them an excuse to talk about art, life philosophies, politics, and so much more. In this episode, LeVar talks with Amanda about Scholastic book fairs, Dorothy West's story "Mammy", and making space for intellectual conversation. This episode, along with all of the Stories With Friends episodes, is available on Stitcher Premium! You can get a free month of Stitcher Premium if you sign up with the code 'LEVAR' at stitcherpremium.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we continue our conversation and answer your questions about working in the work place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we write the handbook on how to work in the workplace. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, in honor of the iconic Cree Summer (“A Different World”) being an incredible guest on the most recent Smart Funny & Black, we're rereleasing the episode of Small Doses that we did together, where Cree drops ALL THE GEMs about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of being a sista in Hollywood! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by bass player, Music Director for, “Smart Funny & Black”, and father of two boys, Dwayne “DW” Wright to get a millennial parenting POV on how to be the world’s greatest Dad.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some people got to have it.Some people really need it.This week we talk why we, do things, good things, do bad things with it; the almighty dollar! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we examine why we’re so quick to Diddy crop people these days and ways we can change to create change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I’m joined by a fellow namesake, and friend, Amanda de Cadenet (host of, “The Conversation”) to discuss how and why being an overachiever can get under everyone’s skin! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we delve into the tough part of being labelled a tough cookie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, music icon and legend Raphael Saadiq sits down to talk addiction, a reoccurring theme on his new album Jimmy Lee, available August 23.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week I give the sweet (and not so sweet) and low down of the Smart Funny & Black: U Kno the Vibeonics 101 tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we sit down with the legend himself Fab 5 Freddy to talk about his Netflix film “The Grass is Greener” and get lifted on all things Mary Jane! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we look down the barrel of those pesky occurrences that remind us of traumas and explore how to manage our own and others’! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jameela Jamil, comedian and star of NBC's The Good Place cuts through the fat on shame, shaming, and how to shame shaming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, in honor of my birthday, we're bringing back an episode from last year for the uber sensitive, oh so loyal, consummate homebodies, THE CANCERS! It's all about the crybaby creatives of the zodiac, and what’s it’s like to be us, know us, and love us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, coming at you from Clusterfest for the first ever live episode of Small Doses, Chris Redd joins us to talk about being a workaholic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we continue our conversation with comedian Yamaneika Saunders about what it means to value yourself and not be shortchanged.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, comedian Yamaneika Saunders joins us to discuss what it means to value yourself and not be shortchanged. Come back next week for the rest of our conversation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

First it was an Instagram post, now it’s a hit song. Behold, the story behind, N****s Got Me F'd Up. https://music.apple.com/us/album/n-s-got-me-fd-up/1466138222?i=1466138234 Want to listen to Small Doses without the Ads? subscribe to https://glow.fm/smalldoses/ and get access to listen to every episode of Small Doses, Ad Free. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Winter has come and gone, but there’s still so much left to say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A continuation of our conversation with the man, the myth, the legend LeVar Burton, about literature, life and Geordi La Forge.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the man, the myth, the legend LeVar Burton joins us to talk about literature, life and Geordi La Forge. Come back next week for Part 2! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Sal Masakela, host/modern-day Black renaissancer, joins us to discuss the nuances attached to the unique position of being in a unique position.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we begin a conversation about conversations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I swore by the old Gods, and the new, that when Winter came we would dedicate an episode to the most epic television show of all time. As a Lannister always pays its debts, I too keep my word! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we keep the good vibes rolling with our guest, Christina Rice founder of OmNoire, a social wellness community for women of color, as we explore the ways and hows of what it truly means to take care of you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of the tragic passing of Nipsey Hussle, we pay tribute with a re-airing of this episode featuring Lauren London, actress and wife of the slain rapper/entrepreneur/visionary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we explore how to lighten the mood, bring out the sun, and smell the flowers while still maintaining a realist view on this real-ass life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Tongo Eisen-Martin gets on the mic to wax poetic about what it really means to be a creative change agent.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, I visit Van Lathan’s (TMZ) The Red Pill podcast to address the false headline spread by BlackSportsOnline.com and discuss the bigger conversation around women challenging toxic masculinity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by comedian Candice Thompson to discover the truth behind the mystery of your friendly neighborhood egomaniac. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we take the glam out of the glamorous life in exchange for kicking the actual facts of celebrity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, designer Sharufa Rashied-Walker (JINAKI.net) sits down with us and relates on what makes your relatives more than just blood and your friends more than just homies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Amanda continues the conversation going with DMTs on where to find the funny and how to let it find you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, one of Amanda’s favorite comedians, Roy Wood Jr. (Daily Show), stops by to dig into where to find the funny, and how to let it found you. Come back next week for Gem Droppin’ and DMTs! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Part 2 of our episode with Noma Dumezweni (Hermione “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”) and Michaela Coel (“Chewing Gum”) on what it means to be a part of and a believer in the black diaspora. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we bring Noma Dumezweni (Hermione “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”) and Michaela Coel (“Chewing Gum”) together for a three sided convo on what it means to be a part of and a believer in the black diaspora. Part 2 coming next week! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is for the undercover lovers who are in long distance likes with the people sitting next to them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by my publicist, Tess Finkle of Metro PR to explore how likes, hashtags, retweets and more have come to rule our analog lives in this digital world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Jordan Carlos (Guy Code, The Nightly Show) joins us and keeps it really fucking honest about questioning your own worth and how to not let it stop you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week is for all my folks who know that even tho they get a bad rap for being sketchy, and clawing you if you scratch em wrong, our feline friends make awesome companions! Meow! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we get festive for that special time of year full of funny style family members, exes resurfacing, and of course, holiday cheer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I did a standup special, muhfuckas! January 26th on HBO. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we are joined by actress Lauren London to unpack the complex intricacies of dating a creative, aka a weirdo. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we discuss what life is like in the no kids lane, and the unique exchanges, lifestyle, and expectations that come along with choosing not to procreate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week your other favorite source for self help from the hip and travel maven, Demetria Lucas talks the fun of jet setting and the value of getting out of your comfort zone and broadening your perspective!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Broadway star Michael James Scott joins us to talk what it is to be a black person but not embraced by the black community because of a difference in vernacular and class status. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we continue the conversation on toxic masculinity (without Dondre), and touch on what makes a man-basher, dealing with mansplainers, and cleansing society's waters of toxic masculinity.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, “Queen Sugar,” and “The Cosby Show’s” Dondré Whitfield joins us to go head to head in a 2pt extravaganza episode identifying, challenging, and dismantling, the beast of patriarchy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re getting scholarly on y’all!! “Dear White People’s” Ashley Blaine Featherson joins us to talk all things collegiate and the pros/cons of heading off to got a higher learning!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s no secret that this country is submerging into trying times. This week we discuss how the dysfunctional state of the union is affecting the state of our mental health and ways to manage it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In honor of Amanda upgrading from her apartment to a house this week’s episode is all about the stress, the excitement, and necessity of moving! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we take it to your closets and the runway, talking all things fashion and flavaful with our guest, stylist to the stars, Bryon Javar! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If ya think you’re lonely now...then you need to listen to this episode. We cozy up to the realities of feeling like an island and how to manage the vulnerability without letting it influence poor decision making! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aww sookie sookie now, this episode we smack it up flip it rub it down and get into the ins and outs (and ins and outs) of experiencing Sexcellence at its highest degree! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re joined by CBS “Seal Team’s”, Toni Trucks as we get into the sad reality of handling the hows, whats, and timing of when a friendship has run its course.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re back! A lot can happen in a month, especially when you’ve been touring the country, and Amanda has got all the good, the bad, and the funny on taking her show, Smart Funny & Black, to the masses! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On our last episode of the season, we pay homage to the decade of your 30s! If you’re wondering if you’re where you should be, how you’ll get where you going, or simply if 30 really is the new 20, we speak on it and hopefully help you get closer to figuring it out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we welcome actor/activist, Kendrick Sampson (HTGAWM; Vampire Diaries) and discuss self care, hoteps, idealism, and the many things that come with being alert to the (side)ways of the world! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’ve all been there and know what it’s like. The tears, the drunk texts, the sad music. Yup! This episode will hit home for a lot of folks as we dig into the dark dank place of the end of a relationship and how to get back to the light! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an effort to address the topic without genralizing it since, it shows up different for everyone who suffers from it, this week, is a super personal episode all about specifically Amanda's anxiety, how it impacts her life, how she manages it, and what she's learning about it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week’s, “Side Effects of Being Outspoken” keeps it 100 about the professional and personal repercussions of speaking your truth with best selling author, blogger, Luvvie Ajayi, in a mash up episode!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for the uber sensitive, oh so loyal, consummate homebodies, THE CANCERS! In honor of my birthday, I’m doing an entire episode dedicated to the crybaby creatives of the zodiac, and what’s it’s like to be us, know us, and love us! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we take the more serious route to get to the nitty gritty of the 1st Amendment. My friend, Natasha Korgaonkar former lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund gets on the mic to clear up choice, freedom, and the difference in consequences when folks are exercising their rights vs. folks just runnin their mouths!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for the ladies, doin the damn thang, handlin’ their own biz, and making moves! We’re diving in to the ups, downs, and every where in between of being a woman who can carry her own weight in a world that is waiting for her to get back in... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This one’s for all my fellow brainiacs out there who want to know everything! Comedian Ron Funches joins and we give you full geek life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is an episode that may touch some nerves but is about elevation. In a world where it seems like daily, many white women are exercising their privilege in potentially harmful ways to others it’s time to have a real convo about the past, present, an... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 In this part 2 of our platonic friends episode, Brandon Victor Dixon joins us to talk all about the facts and fiction of our own platonic friendship (WE NEVER KISSED WITH TONGUE!), Starbucks fuckery, and of course, hella random moments of breaking out into song.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 This is a special 2 pt episode! In part one we get into the nitty gritty from the friend zone to those homie/lover/friendships. In part two my true platonic friend, Brandon Victor Dixon, of “Power” & Judas in the NBC live production of “Jesus Christ Superstar”, sits down with us to talk to truth behind can men and women of the same sexual preference truly ever be, “JUST FRIENDS”!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is dedicated to all my people of Caribbean descent! WAVE YA FLAG! We talk all tings from cultural differences, growing up with West Indian parents, why we have 10 jobs and more! Plus, our Guest, Grenada born Publicist to Beyonce & more, Yv... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we’re dealing with the ups and downs of Being you’re own CEO! With guest, designer Melody Ehsani, we get to the nitty gritty on runnin your own biz, how to check folks who don’t respect your come up, when to check out, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For anyone with hella passions or trying to figure out their passion this episode is for you. We take a look at the life of the Jack of all Trades, advise on how not to be a master of none, and put you on to finding your skeleton key. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we wade into the murky triflin’ shady waters of them folks that bring you nothing but trouble! R&B artist and producer, J Winans stops thru to share how he’s used music and turned those negatives into positives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode tackles the wackness of lacking funds. Retta, Star of NBCs “Good Girls” and “Parks and Recreation” stops thru and we get down to the nitty gritty of being the broke friend, dating while broke, and not letting being broke, break you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode we get into the solo dolo world of the only child. Dispelling the myth of an ability to share, breaking down what alone time really means, how annoying “I could tell you were” really is, and what folks like us miss out on and gain by havin... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Y’all been waiting for this one! In an effort to rid the world of them. We go in on the whos, whats, and whys of F***bois! Chiming in is, James Bland star/creator/producer of digital series “Giants”. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This mini episode is all about over uses phrases that I can’t stand! From “Can I Pick Your Brain?” to “Do You date regular guys?” and more I explain why they get under my skin and drive me up the wall! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week we talk all about the pros and cons of working with the homies! Actor and comedian King Bach slides through to talk about internet vs. IRL peeps, figuring out which family members are cool to work with, and DM'ing Beyoncé! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is for all the folks who’ve been told they’re “too much” “extra” or “doing the most”! We shed light on why makes a show off, speak on how to handle folks who think your personality is too big and answer the question when do extroverts ever... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are you a pessimist? Or are you simply objective? This week we go to a whole new level of real and get in the mindset of folks who see through the lens of logic, explore how to be the “truth teller friend”, and how to awaken the inner realist in you!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of Small Doses is a special one. Iconic actress and voice over artist, Cree Summer (“A Different World”) drops ALL THE GEMs about the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of being a sista in Hollywood! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 This week we talk sexual freedom and how that phase impacts women’s bodies, relationships, and perspectives! DeWanda Wise, star of Netflix & Spike Lee’s, “She’s Gotta Have It,” spills the tea on how playing the risqué role of Nola Darling impacted her marriage and more!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This show is dedicated to the high functioning folks! We’ll gem drop on perfectionists vs. overachievers, give insight on dealing with these kinds of persons, and laugh it up with Search Party’s John Early! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode is all about folks taking a leap into the creative unknown! We talk how to stay motivated and keep your ideas fresh and get some insight on moving to the beat of your from Jazz/Hip Hop virtuoso, Grammy Award winner, Robert Glasper! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 This episode speaks to the where, whys, and whats of the current household topic of Sexual Harassment. We also, gem drop on when a Holla becomes Cat Call, and Guests Corrine and Krystyna of the famed, “Guys We F@#ked” podcast, come thru to share their thoughts & experiences on the topic!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Small Doses, it's all about giving and receiving Rejection. Find out how to know if you've been curved or dissed, how to perfect using the curve with people you're doing business with, and actress/comedian Bresha Webb (Marlon) shares her s... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Small Doses with Amanda Seales! In our first episode, we're talking all about insecurity, covering everything from arrogance vs. confidence, feeling insecure in relationships, body image, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices