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Four Day Funk

This week Fran joins Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for a dynamic discussion of fearless self -care and cultivating the practice of joy as acts of restoration and resistance.   You don't want to miss this.

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Radical Joy Featuring Hey Fran Hey

A Barb By Any Other Name

On this week's episode of #TheFriendZone, we're hanging out and shooting the shit. And sad af because we recorded a hilarious episode that was lost this week.

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Episodes Keep Slippin' Away From Me

Jade and Keia broach a deeper conversation about all the lies we believed about adulthood as children/teens. LIES… ALL LIES. 

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This year, Discover is giving $5 million to support black owned restaurants. Learn how you can show your support at Discover.com. 

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A Web of Lies

This week on #TheFriendZone, it’s a shoot the shit episode. No hot button. No segment. In other words, brace yourself.

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Queen of the Northeast

Join Jade and Keia in welcoming special guest, Mary Akpa, Musician and Co-Founder of the Naija Girl Tribe. The conversation is designed to raise more awareness about the movement to #EndSars in Nigeria. Sit with us as we discuss this important issue impacting Black people across the diaspora.

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#EndSARS

This week on #TheFriendZone, it’s the Dustin Ross takeover. We discuss the relationship dynamics (red flags) witnessed on Tamar Braxton’s latest show, “Get Ya Life”. 

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Deity of Education

Join bloggers Kid Fury and Crissle for their weekly podcast covering hip-hop and pop culture's most trying stars. Throwing shade and spilling tea with a flippant and humorous attitude, no star is safe from Fury and Crissle unless their name is Beyoncé. (Or Blue Ivy.)

As transplants to New York City (Kid Fury from Miami and Crissle from Oklahoma City), The Read also serves as an on-air therapy session for two friends trying to adjust to life (and rats) in the big city.

The Read is part of the LoudSpeakers Network and is published every week on iTunes, iHeart Radio Talk, Soundcloud & Stitcher.  