Oh yeah, what's good, y'all? And Cadeen Ellis, we have something special for you today. We've got a little peek of a new podcast that just launched with our Stitcher fam It's called The Sugar. It's hosted by Tica Sumter, she plays the mom on ABC's Mixed Dish, and Ty Randolph, she's co president of Kevin Hart's l OL Network. The Sugar is super relatable to me because Tica and Ty are both boss moms just like me. The Sugar is
the Brown mama's guide to the sweet lives. It's a safe place for black moms to talk about the complexities of motherhood and celebrate their sweet sugar babies. I know with our three whole boys, parenting can be so challenging but also so much fun. I love that there's a show where I can hear other women talk about those things too. All right, We've got a little five minute clip of The Sugar for you to hear right now.
If you like what you hear, subscribe to The Sugar on Stitcher, Spotify, Apple Podcast, or wherever you're listening right now so you don't miss an episode. The Sugar is a place for mom's moms to be the undecided aunties
to talk all things motherhood. UM. We get the opportunity to speak about things that a lot of the times we're left out of the conversation, whether it's I vs. Mental health, and also indulge in the joys of motherhood and being where we are and and speaking on that, whether it's you know, potty training to talking back to how we are changing the story of how we raise
our kids. And this is a place where, you know, when I first brought this idea to Tie and cultivated it with her to become a bigger part of another part of what we're doing, which is sugarberry, I was pregnant with Ella, who's now three, but she was in my belly and I was searching for a community. I was searching for products. I was searching for other people who looked like me and had fibroids and that I wanted to talk about and understand and UM struggled with
as well. So this is a place of love, laughter, UM understanding, and also getting a lot of UM resources and advice, practical advice for us. I think as black women, there's so many parts of our journey, and particularly our journey to motherhood that we have to package up put a bow on, and it's about strength and being a superwoman and doing it all. And I really wanted a place where we could actually unpack all of that and
be really real with each other and delicate. Um you know, our broader mission at sugar Berry is to be a brown mama's guide to the sweet life. We think, um you know, we deserve to indulge, to and to be vulnerable and to be lighthearted. Um you know, to find the best resources for ourselves and our little ones. And that's what this is about. And so I'm excited to share, to share in the sugar and the sweetness, um you know,
but also to really be real. I remember, you know, going through IVF myself and thinking this is the loneliest place I've got a broken body. This is so tough to navigate. And what's funny is the minute that I started talking about it, the minute that I talked about it at work or with girlfriends, you find out everyone's going through the same thing or some variation of the experience or have experienced, um you know, some areas of doubt or frustration, but no one is having that exchange.
So I feel like, when we're really honest about what our experiences are, it gives everyone else permission to do so. Nobody's getting a gold medal at the end for saying you did it all by yourself. Right, that's no one even knows. By the way, no one can I say. You don't get a gold medal for having a non epidural pregnancy. Yes, you don't get a gold medal for breastfeeding for two years. You don't get a gold medal for sleep not sleeping and being okay. You don't get
a gold medal for anything, right. There there's no prize. If you want the epidural, get the epidural. If you want to bottle feed, bottle feed. But there's so much mom guilt that other moms give us. I got guilt guilted for having a C section that I could not control. Well, moms need to be careful, we have to do that. There's a thin line between advice and judgment, right, and
so everyone doesn't need our two cents. If you have if you want to know what I did, great if you don't find But whatever you choose, I'm sure your kid's gonna be okay. If you're providing for them, if they're safe, if they're loved. There's a whole spectrum of right answers. Exactly now it's time for our mommy mantra.
Uh So, we're excited to introduce this segment. Every week we will um you know, sign off or leave you with a mommy mantra and it's an affirmation or a bit of assurance just for mom's something sweet to carry you through the week. I'd encouraging quote anything like that. Um So, I have one go ahead. I'm allowed to make a big deal out of things that feel really
big to me. That's from uh. I think it's Amy Carly. Um. I just feel like sometimes people make the things that feel big to us small or that they don't matter. Like you have a good life and you don't need to complain about this, or you don't need to. I don't even like saying it's complaining because you're talking about a situation. And I think sometimes when you have or you don't have, you can start feeling like, well, nobody wants to hear me or hear my little problems, but
your problems are big to you. And I think it's okay to um say them out loud and they they're valid, and people sometimes make them invalid because they're not big to them. So I think it's um I'm allowed to make a big deal out of things that feel really big to me. I love that. It's it's some a little what my mom always says to me. If it's real to you, then it's real, right, So it's okay to acknowledge it. You don't have to qualify it. It's just this is what I'm going through, here's what it is.
I love that, So com Get Sugar. The Sugar is out now. Listen on Stitcher, Apple podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.