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Bless Your Heart
Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South.
Episodes
- Bless Your Heart
Respectability and the Price of Nice with Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
In this season finale, Aisha Nyandoro sits down with Reverend Dr. Starsky Wilson, pastor, theologian, and CEO of the Children’s Defense Fund, to ask whether…
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The Smartest People are From the South with Kiese Laymon
What happens when the place that made you is also the place the rest of the country dismisses? MacArthur genius grant recipient and author of Heavy, Kiese…
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The South is America’s Future with Mitch Landrieu
Former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu believes the South holds the keys to the future of American politics. Founder of E Pluribus Unum and host of the new…
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No One is Self-Made with Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon
American’s love to say successful people are self-made, but this can create a dangerous myth that justifies poverty. Dr. Lakeysha Hallmon, founder of The…
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Who Gets to Be Southern with Nini Nguyen
When most people picture a Southerner, they picture someone Black or white. Top Chef finalist and cookbook author Nini Nguyen is here to complicate that…
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You Don’t have to Leave to Succeed with Rita Brent
Comedian Rita Brent built an Emmy-nominated late night show from Jackson, Mississippi. She proves that staying in the South might actually be a competitive…
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Trust and Poverty with Brittney Cooper
Why is trusting poor people so controversial? Dr. Brittney Cooper, author of Eloquent Rage and professor at Rutgers, sits down with Aisha Nyandoro to discuss…
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Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom
What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse…
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Introducing 'Bless Your Heart'
The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the…