Dope Black Dads Podcast: Recent Episodes
Dope Black Dads Podcast
The Dope Black Dads Podcast is an adult-only podcast for all parents or adults preparing for parenthood. Lead by Marvyn Harrison with contributions from the Dope Black Dads leadership as well as a host of special guests from the world of healing, media, parenting, TV/film, music, and beyond. We discuss everything from co-parenting, masculinity, the black experience all the way to our favourite Netflix show. Don't listen if you're expecting conversations about nappies!
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Margz (No Behaviour Podcast, Filthy Fellas) sits in the hot seat for a rapid-fire football quiz — Premier League trivia on Bolton Wanderers, Sunderland, West Brom, Derby County, Portsmouth, Wigan and Blackburn, played under a 10-second clock across two escalating rounds. The episode closes with a wide-ranging World Cup conversation covering predictions, underdog nations, the Argentina/Messi legacy narrative, and watching tournament football from different parts of the world.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Andrew Tate is trending again, but the bigger story isn't him, it's what made him possible. In this episode we break down anti-intellectualism: why comprehension is collapsing, why people trust vibes over evidence, and who actually benefits from keeping populations uncritical. We go back to Hofstadter's three strands of anti-intellectualism, cover South Africa's Bantu education system as intellectualism weaponised as policy, unpack the difference between academia and intellect, and ask whether you can be an intellectual without empathy.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Every generation gets called soft by the one before it. But is this time different? We dig into the case that young people have lost resilience — less unsupervised play, more helicopter parenting, safe-space culture — against the case that the real story is economic: unaffordable housing, insecure work, and a mental health crisis that's more visibility than fragility. No easy verdict. Just the argument, both sides.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
A UK campaign group wants Universal Credit claimants to do four hours of litter picking a month or risk losing their benefit. Supporters call it fair contribution. Critics call it workfare — a policy with a documented history of failure, unpaid labour, and exemption gaps for disabled claimants. We break down the proposal, the precedent, and who gets left out of the conversation.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Your partner isn't ignoring you, isn't cold, isn't careless — they might just be wired differently. This episode breaks down 7 neurodivergent traits (ASD/Asperger's, ADHD, ADD, OCD, NVLD, sensory processing differences, alexithymia) with plain-language explanations, phonetic pronunciations, and what each one actually looks like inside a relationship. Not a diagnosis. Not an excuse. A map.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Michelle Gayle actress, singer, and one of the most recognisable black British faces of the 90s, joins Marvyn for a conversation spanning her Harlesden childhood, her friendship with a young Naomi Campbell, the Jodeci vs Boyz II Men debate that defined 90s R&B fandom, and the real story behind why she walked away from EastEnders at the height of her fame. Along the way: grandmother wisdom, cod liver oil, hygiene rituals, and rebuilding her dream black British TV family.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
He was in your living room every night. He played the first gay character most of us ever saw kiss another man before watershed on Channel 4. Men still message him today saying his character saved their life.
Behind the scenes, he was drinking alone on his kitchen floor on a Tuesday afternoon, waiting for someone to deliver drugs, freshly divorced, trapped in a cycle he thought was freedom.
This is James Sutton. And this conversation went somewhere neither of us expected.
We talk about:
- Growing up in Staffordshire — working class, post-industrial, no investment, no future
- Moving to Liverpool and becoming John Paul McQueen on Hollyoaks
- Playing TV's most iconic LGBT character as a straight man — and the weight of that responsibility
- The guy who watched in secret in his bedroom, and is now married with two adopted children
- "I was sat on the kitchen floor with a bottle of wine. Someone was going to deliver drugs. My wife had left me."
- The gradual collapse — not a rock bottom, just the same bad day on repeat
- Leaving Hollyoaks after 22 years — why autonomy mattered more than safety
- Building Protocol: weekly letters, keynote speaking, a course for men, and a book called How To Become Reliable Again
- The man crush segment that broke us both — Michael B Jordan, Ryan Reynolds, Declan Rice, Xabi Alonso, Paul Brunson, Henry Cavill
- Casting a UK Friends — Alan Carr, Zach Polanski, Paloma Faith, Olivia Dean, Lauren Lo Sung
- Dating at 43: "I like redheads. I'm terrified. I don't know what I'm doing."
- Marvyn offers to matchmake him live on air
- Three tips each for men who feel stuck — gym, talking, service, self-trust, and making peace with your parents
- "Stop making promises to yourself that you're not going to keep"
This is the best podcast I've ever done. His words. Not mine.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In August 2018, Raneem Uday and her mother Khaula Saleem were murdered in the West Midlands despite multiple 999 calls made that night. The system failed them — not through a single act of negligence, but through structural gaps in how those calls were handled and risk was assessed.
What followed is a study in what grief becomes when it meets determination. Raneem's aunt, Nour Norris, campaigned for what is now Raneem's Law — a programme embedding domestic abuse specialists directly inside 999 control rooms, in real time. Not on a phone line. Not available for consultation. In the room.
Phase one launched across five police forces. This week, the government announced phase two: 12 additional forces, bringing the total to 17 of 43, with a full rollout across England and Wales committed by 2029. Early data shows increased handler confidence, earlier identification of high-risk cases, and faster safeguarding deployment.
This episode also covers the government's broader Violence Against Women and Girls strategy — over £1 billion over three years, targeting a halving of VAWG within a decade — and what it will take for that target to hold across political cycles, funding changes, and cultural shifts.
Helpline signposting for show notes:
National Domestic Abuse Helpline (Refuge): 0808 2000 247 — free, confidential, 24/7
Men's Advice Line: 0808 801 0327
Karma Nirvana (honour-based abuse/forced marriage): 0800 599 9247
Galop (LGBT+): galop.org.uk
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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This morning, Keir Starmer walked out of Downing Street and resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. In this solo episode, Marvyn Harrison cuts through the noise and asks the questions the rolling news cycle won't slow down long enough to answer. How does a landslide majority of 172 seats collapse in two years? What does this moment mean for Black and Brown communities who voted Labour in 2024? And should we trust Andy Burnham with what comes next? Honest, data-driven, and unfiltered.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's World Sickle Cell Day, and the NHS Modernisation Bill, which proposes a single patient record bringing together a patient's full medical history in one place, has just reached committee stage in Parliament.
In this episode, we speak with Professor Arlene Wellman MBE: a senior nurse leader and strategic adviser at the Florence Nightingale Foundation with over 27 years' experience across the NHS, and the first internationally educated nurse to serve as a Group Chief Nurse. She's also the mother of a son living with sickle cell disorder.
We talk about what it's like to repeatedly explain a chronic condition mid-crisis, the gaps in NHS information-sharing that can cost real harm, and whether the single patient record will actually reach the people who need it most, the ambulance crew at 2am, the unfamiliar A&E department, the moment when missing information is the difference between fast treatment and dangerous delay.
Guest: Professor Arlene Wellman MBE, Florence Nightingale Foundation
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Two days' notice. One email. "Are you available on the 15th at 7:30am to talk to Liz Kendall about some work she's doing." That's how this started.
What followed was a morning inside Downing Street watching Keir Starmer announce a ban on social media for every child under 16 in the country — backed by a consultation of 116,000 responses, where 83% of parents said the risks outweigh the benefits and 90% backed a minimum age of 16.
In this episode: the announcement itself, the room reaction (the applause said more than the press release did), my exchange with Starmer on Big Tech, Trump, and whether this ban is about his legacy or his leadership week, and then the interview I actually went there for — sitting down with Technology Secretary Liz Kendall to ask about Roblox, parents who are already maxed out, and a question that doesn't get asked enough in rooms like that: what this means for racism online in our community.
I'll tell you straight — one of those answers didn't go far enough for me, and I say so.
Then we get into the FAQs doing the rounds in every parenting group: is this digital ID by the back door, what's happening with VPNs, why doesn't this cover Roblox, what about dumbphones, and what's the actual timeline.
This isn't a press release read back to you. This is what it actually looked like from inside the room.
Timestamps:
00:00 — How this access happened
03:10 — Inside Downing Street: the room, the access, the other journalists
07:40 — Starmer's announcement and the room's reaction
12:20 — Starmer takes questions: Big Tech, Trump, the G7, his leadership week
18:00 — Why this ban, not just regulation
22:15 — Liz Kendall: what success looks like
24:50 — Roblox, gaming platforms, and stranger contact
27:30 — Parents who are already stretched thin
30:00 — The question on race and racism online
33:00 — Marvyn's honest take on that answer
36:00 — FAQs: digital ID, VPNs, dumbphones, timeline
42:00 — Final thoughts
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Marvyn Harrison is joined by Paige Lewin and Brandeis for the most chaotic, most fun, most opinionated food game show in podcast history. No earnest deep dives today, just diaspora food debates, Caribbean heritage on the line, and Marvyn as the sole judge, jury and point-giver. They go in on: the 30-minute meal that will win over your partner's parents, the Nigeria vs Ghana jollof rice war, the most overrated diaspora dish, hangover food rankings, interracial dating gateway foods, the perfect Caribbean Christmas dinner, and the restaurant you need to take a first date. Funny, warm, and deeply Caribbean this one's for anyone who grew up eating Saturday soup, argues about rice and peas vs jollof, and knows exactly what grandma's cooking sounds like.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The crisis: 948,000 young people aged 16–24 in the UK — 1 in 8 — are not in education, employment, or training. In the US, it's worse. Youth labour force participation has been collapsing since 2000. That's 25 years of failure.
The experiment: The UK government is running a £45 million test across 8 regions to find out what actually works. The answer isn't obvious — Switzerland gets 90% of young people certified and employed; Singapore's scholarship model hits 50% participation with strong outcomes. The UK is nowhere near either.
The stakes: This isn't a temporary blip. Labour force participation has structurally failed a generation. The £45 million is a bet that it's not too late.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
BBC investigative reporter Jacqui Wakefield spent a year inside the global manosphere — travelling to Kenya and Mexico to track how Western influencer culture is radicalising young men at scale. She shares what she found in the data when young men handed over their full social media histories, what happened when she confronted influencer Andrew Kibe on camera, and why it's women who ultimately pay the price for content that targets male vulnerability. A necessary conversation for every parent.
Episode Summary Jacqui breaks down how the manosphere has gone from niche forums to mainstream culture, how algorithms pipeline boys from gym content to misogyny within weeks, and what parents need to understand about the financial machinery behind these influencers. She also speaks honestly about what a year embedded in these spaces does to you as a woman — and why female reporters in this space see something male reporters don't.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Gareth Southgate joins Marvyn Harrison for a rare and honest conversation about the crisis facing young men and boys in Britain today — and what we actually do about it. In this episode, Gareth discusses his new BBC One documentary Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men (airing 8th June, 9pm, BBC One & iPlayer), why he felt compelled to make it after his Dimbleby Lecture, what a good man actually looks like in 2025, and how we reach the men already left behind.
They also play a game — building the blueprint of a man using real figures and real traits. Muhammad Ali features. So does a grandfather polishing his shoes.
This is not a manosphere conversation. This is the one underneath it.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this follow-up conversation from South by Southwest, Marvin Harrison sits down with the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, to address the influence of the "manosphere" on young men and boys. Mayor Khan discusses the urgent need to hold big tech companies accountable for algorithms that prioritize engagement through negativity and misogyny. He outlines a dual approach to the issue: calling for stricter regulation via the Online Safety Act and Ofcom, while simultaneously investing in offline support systems, including £30 million for youth clubs and targeted initiatives to guide young men toward positive influences.
Key Discussion Points The "Outrage Economy": An exploration of how social media platforms monetize toxic content and misogyny by incentivizing engagement through outrage. * The Case for Regulation: Mayor Khan compares the current state of social media to the tobacco industry, arguing that if platforms do not voluntarily change their algorithms, regulators must intervene to protect children. * Empowering Offline Alternatives: Discussion of the "Ignore the Noise, Trust the Voice" campaign and the importance of funding youth work as a necessary "proxy" for support systems. * Call to Action:* A reflection on collective responsibility, emphasizing that while policy and funding are vital, individual contributions—whether through local youth groups, sports, or mentorship—are essential to shifting the culture.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan delivered a landmark speech at SXSW London, warning that manosphere influence online risks creating a lost generation of young men. In this solo episode, Marvyn breaks down what the Mayor actually announced, what the research tells us, and why the real intervention isn't a government policy, it's the conversation you have with the boy in front of you.
Covered in this episode: UCL research showing 56% of videos served to teen-resembling accounts within five days were misogynistic. A £1 million VRU package for London's boys. The N.O.I.S.E. guide. Why bans without belonging don't work. And why 85% of Londoners believe boys don't have enough positive role models.
Resources mentioned: GLA Campaign, london.gov.uk/ignore-the-noise Parent Conversation Guide — london.gov.uk/ignore-the-noise/trusted-adults/conversation-guide
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Başak Erten is a creative strategist, radio and brand consultant, and founder of The Art of Audacity — a cultural platform for women in creative industries, as featured in Forbes. She's spent over eight years producing content across the BBC, Sony Music Entertainment, and branded work for Vanity Fair, Bloomberg, and Nike.
In this episode she brings three sharp takes on where culture, media, and consumer behaviour are heading — and why the old rules no longer apply.
She argues that audiences have moved past passive consumption and are demanding participation; that the era of aspirational, polished living is collapsing under its own weight; and that the third space — not the boardroom, not the bar — is now where the most meaningful professional and personal relationships are being built.
Honest, direct, and occasionally incendiary.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Marvyn Harrison and Kojo go back. Two decades of parallel paths, community builders, event makers, fathers, who were never quite in the same room long enough to have the real conversation. Until now.
In this episode, they cover everything. The g:hop era. The Sunday Show years, Ed Sheeran performing there eight times, Drake, Jay Cole, Wretch 32, Nicki Minaj, Omarion, Boys II Men. How the show grew from a Clerkenwell warehouse to Leicester Square to 2,000 at Proud. The unspoken tension between Sunday Show and Kojo's Funhouse that both men address for the first time. The people who tried to put them against each other. And why they wasted years not collaborating because of it.
Then it gets personal.
Marvyn on being in South Africa and genuinely believing his children didn't need him. The phone call from his mum that changed everything. The men in LA who told him being absent was just "the grind." Why he flew home and rebuilt his life around his kids. Why men's happiness is structurally treated as an oxymoron, and what it costs us when we accept that. And what it actually looks like to build a life where your no is powerful and your presence is enough.
This is two brothers. One conversation. Twenty years in the making.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Tyler West opens up about PTSD, witnessing violence at 14 & going back to therapy. Dr Amos explains anxiety conditions. NHS Talking Therapies: https://www.nhs.uk/talk
In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, Marvyn sits down with Dr Amos Ogunkoya and Tyler West for a raw, honest conversation about mental health, masculinity, and what it really takes to ask for help.
62% of people can’t recognise the symptoms of common anxiety conditions. 58% of those affected put off seeking help because they thought it “wasn’t serious enough.” This episode is about closing that gap.
Tyler shares his story of witnessing a murder at 14, the PTSD diagnosis that followed, and how years of unprocessed trauma manifested as social anxiety, OCD behaviours, and suicidal ideation before therapy changed the trajectory of his life. Dr Amos breaks down the difference between stress and clinical anxiety, explains conditions including PTSD, OCD, social anxiety, phobias, body dysmorphic disorder and panic disorder, and makes the case for why talking to a professional matters.
They discuss why men aged 30–50 struggle to seek support, how cultural and generational attitudes in Black communities create additional barriers, and what actually happens inside a therapy session.
NHS Talking Therapies is free, confidential, and available to everyone in England.👉
Self-refer — no GP appointment needed: https://www.nhs.uk/talk👉
Find your local service: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/talking-therapies-medicine-👉treatments/talking-therapies-and-counselling/nhs-talking-therapies/
If you or someone you know is in crisis:
Samaritans: 116 123 (free, 24/7) | https://www.samaritans.org
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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You probably know Marvyn Harrison from Dope Black Dads. Or from Jeremy Vine. Or from Good Morning Britain. But do you know where he started?
In this episode, Marvyn takes the room on the full journey — from g:hop, the lifestyle movement that tried to do for grime what hip hop did for itself, to Sunday Show where Ed Sheeran performed most of his early Black community shows, to building Dope Black Dads out of a moment of personal crisis in fatherhood, to developing BELOVD as a human strategy organisation, to Men's Circle, the free space for men he considers his most important work right now.
Then the conversation goes somewhere else entirely.
What does it mean to be a Black leader without becoming a Black Messiah? Why does Marvyn refuse that role, and why does he think most leaders who accept it get destroyed? What happened when he burned out for three years and stopped feeling safe in football media spaces? What does forgiving an absent father actually look like — and why does it have nothing to do with the father? And what happens when someone in the room defends hitting their children, and Marvyn pushes back — live, on camera, without flinching?
This is a rare full conversation. No filter. No agenda. Just a man who has thought deeply about community, capacity, identity, and what it costs to build something real.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Arsenal Football Club are Premier League champions for the first time in 22 years. A generation of fans who weren't born the last time this happened are now old enough to drink, vote, and cry in the streets of North London. And that's exactly what tens of thousands of them did on the night of May 19th, 2026.
Marvin was one of them.
In this episode, Marvin breaks down everything, the night itself, what he saw at Emirates Stadium, why this title hits different to any trophy, and what it actually took to get here. From Arteta's first press conference ("commitment is essential, there's no way you're going to survive here without giving 100%") to three consecutive runner-up finishes that would have broken a lesser squad, to the nine-point lead that nearly evaporated in eleven days, this is the full story.
He also gets into: the squad rebuild needed this summer, why Zubimendi might be a problem next year, why Saliba and Gabriel need to stay for at least three more years, the Trent Alexander-Arnold question, what David Raya's golden glove means, why the Arsenal fanbase is unlike anything else in London, and why Kroenke, once booed by every fan in the ground, might be the hidden asset nobody's talking about.
Plus: Marvin accidentally ended up on Australian breakfast TV celebrating in the streets. Nobody has the clip. Yet.
If you've been waiting 22 years for this, this episode is for you.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Scary Movie didn't just parody horror it gave a generation permission to laugh at the things that scared them. Then the Wayans left. And we all felt the difference.
Now they're back. Marlon. Shawn. The original crew. And in this conversation, Marlon reveals the moment that made it happen: a promise made to his father, hand to hand, on one of the last times they were together. We talk about what it's like to work with your brother again after 26 years, the difference between bullying and looking out for someone (Marlon claims it's the same thing), how they kept the scenes grounded while giving each other room to go completely off-script, and which films sat at the centre of this one. Marlon also gets into why he thinks laughter is a political act right now — and why audiences are desperate to feel good again.
Scary Movie is in UK cinemas from 5 June.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Julie Adenuga and a South African guest join Marvyn for the most chaotic, unresolved, and genuinely entertaining TV parents debate you'll watch this year.
Aunt Viv. Claire Huxtable. Peggy Mitchell. Moira Rose. Jack Pearson. Uncle Phil. Logan Roy. Walter White as a dad candidate. Nobody agreed. Nobody backed down. This is what happens when three people with completely different cultural references try to build a consensus top five. It doesn't work. It's brilliant.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
He broke Kanye West in the UK before College Dropout dropped. He filmed Drake's first ever UK interview in Hyde Park — paid the cameraman £50 out of his own pocket because the station didn't care. He flew to New York to sign Fatman Scoop and got aired for a week until a 4am diner meeting sealed the deal. Ghostface Killah called his book the Bible of hip hop. Chuck D wrote the foreword in five minutes.
And before any of that, he was an 8-year-old kid in North Manchester who discovered what the N-word meant because there was a game in the playground called "Catch The N****r." This is DJ Semtex. And this is the conversation I've been waiting to have.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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I've known Dane Baptiste for 20 years. I watched him find five minutes at the beginning of my Sunday Show when nobody knew his name. I watched the crowds not get it. I watched him come back anyway. This conversation is the full story, from his first day at Haberdashers, to being the only deadpan Black British comic in a room full of animated performers, to writing a sitcom that got picked up by Fox and Apple, to walking into Paramount and HBO alone because his seven-months-pregnant manager couldn't walk any further.
We talk about:
- Growing up as the first male in a generation of cousins — raised in a matriarchy
- The Sunday show years: following Jay Pharoah, competing with Usain Bolt's world record, going on after a biscuit eating competition
- Why admitting you take the bus was a passion killer in Black British culture
- Finding his deadpan voice when every Black comic was expected to be animated
- Steph McGovern giving him a TV segment when nobody else in the industry would
- Writing Sunny D and pitching it to Lionsgate, Fox, Apple, HBO, Paramount — with no writers, no team
- Keenan Ivory Wayans and Saladin Patterson joining the project
- The actress from Sunny D who passed away from bowel cancer
- Being misrepresented and the crisis of confidence and depression that followed
- Meeting Dave Chappelle on Valentine's Day with David Haye — the full circle moment
- Mo Gilligan: timing, craft, and why his crossover worked
- Why he left his management and what independence looks like now
This is 20 years of friendship in one sitting. If you care about Black British comedy, the entertainment industry, or what it actually takes to build something when nobody's behind you, this one's for you.
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- Dane Baptiste: @danebaptiste on Instagram
- Marvyn: @themarvynharrisonpodcast / @dopeblackdads
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/gy3ZrUnG0RM
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
She trained as a social worker. Spent 15 years watching what happens when relationships destroy people. Built a community of 250,000 women on Instagram. Wrote a Sunday Times bestseller. And then sat across from me and said: "I don't know if this is working. Nothing's changing."
This is Layla, Lalalaletmeexplain and this is not the conversation you're expecting.
We go into:
- Her dad leaving her mum for the woman who lived opposite, and what it did to her at 7 years old
- Why she resented her mother for years and idolised the man who left
- How her self-worth was built entirely on whether men wanted her, and the expensive therapy it took to undo it
- Dating apps losing 600,000 users and why in-person events aren't working either
- The confidence gap: women buying out dating events in 10 minutes, men not showing up
- Why men have stopped approaching women IRL — and why that's a misreading of what women actually asked for
- Family courts: the myth that they favour mothers (she breaks this down with 15 years of evidence)
- The manosphere as a grooming pipeline — and who's actually vulnerable to it
- The question we both carry: how do you keep telling the truth about harm when the people you're trying to reach are getting more defensive, not less?
- Why she thinks her audience radicalised her — and what she's doing about it
- I share my own experience of being in an abusive relationship at 19
This is two people doing the same work from opposite sides of the room, meeting in the middle for the first time. If you care about men, women, relationships, fatherhood, or just trying to figure out how we fix the gap, this one matters.
Layla Instagram: @lalalaletmeexplain TikTok: @lalalaletmeexplain X: @lalalaletmeexp2 Book: Block Delete Move On (Penguin)
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Poppy Jay arrives with no prep. What follows is one of the rawest conversations on this channel.
Director, writer, comedian, and co-host of the cult podcast Brown Girls Do It Too, Poppy walks me through ten photos from her life, and each one opens a door she wasn't planning to open.
We talk about the forced marriage she gave in to as the eldest of six daughters in a strict Bengali Muslim household. The father who once ruled the home and now sends her photos of the prawns he cooks. The nickname "Pitbull Poppy" she earned on set, and the uniform she wears so men stop scrutinising her. The year 2025, when she didn't work for twelve months despite being on billboards and buses, and ended up frying chips at her brother-in-law's Philly cheesesteak shop on the way to award ceremonies she'd been nominated for.
She got her ADHD diagnosis 24 hours before we recorded. She tells me why the NHS questionnaire didn't account for immigrant kids who weren't allowed to be disruptive. We get into the Bangladeshi heroin epidemic of the 1990s nobody covered. The grooming gangs conversation she's been afraid to have on camera. The night in a Leicester Square pub where a friendly white stranger turned the moment she used the word "racist." And the operating theatre where she looked around at every single non-white staff member keeping the NHS alive — and realised she might never support England again.
Honest, funny, sometimes uncomfortable.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sadiq Khan just announced £30 million to put a youth club in every single London borough. They're called Youth Lates — open evenings, open weekends, with food, mentoring, music, mental health support, all under one roof. The biggest investment in youth clubs by any Mayor. Ever.
Marvyn grew up in Hackney at a time when youth clubs still existed. His youth worker was Justin Pickett — the actor who played Sean Ambrose in Desmond's. In this episode, Marvyn tells that story for the first time in full: what it meant to have a Black man show up for him at 15, what was lost when those spaces disappeared, and what this announcement means for a generation of young Londoners who've never had what he had.
This one is personal.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The UK government opened the biggest consultation on children's digital safety ever attempted. Social media age bans. Overnight app curfews. Restrictions on infinite scroll. Controls on AI chatbots. They want to hear from parents directly. So when the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology invited me to the Black Prince Community Trust in Lambeth to sit down with Kanishka Narayan MP, the Minister for AI and Online Safety, I brought a few questions. Not from a journalist. From a dad.
We covered:
- What to say to a parent who feels they've already lost the screen time battle
- What powers the government actually has to force platforms like TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram to change
- Whether parents should be worried about children using AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude unsupervised
- What a safer internet for children realistically looks like in two years
- Whether this consultation will lead to real, enforceable change
The consultation is live now and closes 26 May 2026. It takes minutes. Your response directly shapes what happens next.
Have your say: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation
Practical support for parents right now: https://kidsonlinesafety.campaign.gov.uk/
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This man sent a Myspace message to N-Dubz after seeing them on Channel U. Within a month he was their agent. No business card. No corner office. Just conviction and speed. Billy Wood is one of those names in UK music that if you know, you know. 20 years. Three of the biggest talent agencies in the world — WME, UTA, CAA. Artists like Tinie Tempah, Tinchy Stryder, Wiley, Section Boyz, Run-DMC. Music Week 30 Under 30. Youngest agent in William Morris history at 24.
But the story underneath those headlines is messier. More interesting. It's about losing the act that made you. About being a young man at the biggest talent agency in the world making decisions he wasn't always equipped to make. About managing Wiley for two years and what the unmanageable teaches you about people. About walking away from music entirely to go run a non-league football club in Hastings — and somehow that being the thing that brought him back.
Now he's back with HAUS23, his own agency, five people deep, signing new acts and established names, and building something on his own terms.
We talk about: — Growing up in New Addington and Hastings with no money and no blueprint — Finding N-Dubz on Channel U and signing them from his uni bedroom — Booking 280 shows for N-Dubz and then losing them — and what that did to him — Tinie Tempah, Pass Out, and the fear of losing another act — Getting flown to LA by WME to meet Ari Emanuel, Patrick Whitesell and Cara Lewis — What Wiley taught him about patience, chaos, and genius — The burnout that took him out of music — Running Hastings United FC, breaking attendance records, and losing money doing it — Why he came back with HAUS23 and what he's building now
Billy Wood. Let's go.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Health Secretary sat down with me. And he didn’t hold back.
Wes Streeting the man responsible for the entire NHS talks about surviving cancer at 38, the crisis hiding inside Britain’s maternity wards, why Black women are still dying at catastrophic rates in childbirth, what’s really happening with the National Cancer Plan, and why he believes the silent majority needs to start calling out racism before it’s too late.
This conversation covers:
• His cancer diagnosis at 38 — found by accident, treated by the NHS
• 100,000+ patients now diagnosed within 28 days (a stat you won’t see in the papers)
• The first ever government strategy for men and boys
• Why suicide is the biggest killer of young men — and what’s being done
• The sickle cell ward that nearly closed — and what it signals
• Black maternal mortality: “The excuses have run out”
• “I was told: I assumed you were a strong Black woman” — racism in maternity care
• Valerie Amos’s rapid national investigation into maternity (reporting June)
• Why he’s calling out the rise of open, unashamed racism in Britain
This is not a political interview. This is a human one.
🔗 Full talking points and timestamps in the show notes.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Childcare in this country just changed. Permanently.
New government data shows that the cost of a full-time nursery place for a child under two has DROPPED by 52% in just two years — from £305/week to £149/week. Families are saving an average of £8,000 a year per child. Half a million households are now receiving 30 hours of funded childcare. And nearly a third of parents say they’ve been able to increase their working hours as a direct result.
In this episode, Marvyn breaks down:
• The exact numbers from the 2026 Coram Report
• What “funded hours,” “term-time,” and “SENCO” actually mean for your family
• The 4 structural moves government is making beyond the headline
• Why childcare cost is a gatekeeping mechanism — and who it locks out
• 5 questions every parent (and especially every dad) needs to sit with
Whether you’re paying nursery fees right now, thinking about starting a family, or employing people who are — this one’s for you.
Sources: DfE / Coram Family and Childcare Survey 2026
🔗 Full stats and glossary in the show notes below.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, three guests — Richie Brave, Manga St Hilaire, Nii Odarte and Rehema Muthamia sit down for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had. The BAFTA N-word incident is dissected by someone who was actually in the auditorium when it happened. Richard shares his experience of childhood racism as a seven-year-old child actor, beaten and called the hard-R by his own chaperones. Rehema, the first Black African woman to win Miss England, talks about the racist abuse that followed her title, from doorstep journalists to being called Miss KFC, and how surviving an abusive relationship at 21 led her to reclaim her story publicly. Manga opens up about becoming a father for the first time, his journey from Roll Deep to hosting Red Bull's Mike Flex, and why grime's open-door culture is both its greatest strength and its structural weakness. The conversation moves through code-switching, carnival lineage, boarding school in Kenya, the importance of male friendship circles, meeting Prince William, and why Black men who speak with emotional clarity are constantly underestimated.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode of The Marvyn Harrison Podcast, we unpack one uncomfortable question: is the internet killing love? From religion and existential doubt to seasonal depression, trauma bonding, toxic relationship dynamics, and the rise of online healing culture, this conversation goes deep into how modern life is reshaping intimacy.
We explore:
- Why social media amplifies heartbreak
- The difference between passion and trauma bonding
- Whether peace is the same as silence
- The mental health impact of winter and isolation
- Why so many people feel disconnected despite being constantly online
- Whether faith still offers structure in a chaotic world
- How masculinity and femininity narratives are shifting
This isn’t surface-level relationship advice.
It’s a real conversation about connection, loneliness, identity, healing, and responsibility in modern culture.
TIMESTAMPS00:00 — Do You Actually Believe in God?
05:12 — Leaving Religion Without Losing Meaning
12:40 — The Existential Void After Faith
18:03 — Who Do You Call When You’re Not Okay?
22:45 — Peace vs Quiet: The Big Misunderstanding
27:52 — Is The Internet Designed To Break Relationships?
31:49 — Love Or Emotional Addiction?
35:01 — Trauma Bonding Explained
42:30 — Are We Addicted To Being Broken?
50:18 — The Attention Economy & Pain
58:44 — Therapy, AI & Healing Culture
01:07:11 — Seeing Your Parents As Humans
01:16:20 — Masculinity, Accountability & Modern Love
01:24:55 — Choosing Love Instead Of Needing It
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Most people say they want love, then date like they’re configuring a device: height, income, politics, trauma level, texting cadence, therapy status, “emotional intelligence,” travel appetite—tick, tick, tick. It feels safe. It feels efficient. It feels like control.
But love isn’t mechanical. People aren’t programmable. They have grey areas: prickly parts, warm parts, avoidant parts, tender parts, contradictions, history. A checklist can’t measure inner world alignment, truth-telling, repair ability, or whether two people can actually build safety together.
I unpack how romantic idealism can make you naïve—especially when you grew up in warmth and assume everyone else did too. Then reality hits: people don’t always tell the truth, not always under pressure, and if you don’t interrogate someone’s inner world you end up in cycles that feel “mystical” but are actually predictable scripts.
The shift is simple: keep your values, drop the robot requirements. Choose moment-to-moment evidence. Build the skill of doing things well with people—clarity, repair, accountability, warmth. Then create a vehicle for connection that’s alive, consistent, and real.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode sets the rules of the room.
This podcast is committed to protecting the dignity, safety, and wellbeing of anyone whose stories, experiences, or submissions may be referenced. We don’t publish allegations as fact without appropriate verification, context, or public record. We anonymise, change details, reframe, or decline stories to reduce harm—especially when other people didn’t choose public exposure.
I also explain why listeners sometimes feel “that’s my story”: because many experiences are cyclical and universal—especially when you’re trying to be yourself inside a difficult environment. That doesn’t make the story “about you.” It makes it common.
Then we widen out: Britain’s collapsing care reflex (a post office moment that says everything), why I refuse to “chat people’s business,” why men need to lead with repair when harm exists, and why I’m building a show that’s present and unscripted—without turning vulnerability into entertainment.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
An old workplace game brand went bust—not because people stopped gaming, but because retail changed: downloads replaced discs and the UK high street kept shrinking. The fix isn’t “sell more games.” The fix is rebuilding the purpose.
In this episode I lay out the full turnaround blueprint:
- Accept traditional retail is over.
- Redesign stores around play: arcades, competitive setups, racing simulators, mini-arenas. Experience, not product.
- Build a national grassroots league through every location: after-school and after-work tournaments, city championships, national finals streamed online.
- Wrap it in a membership model: monthly access to play/compete/status, points and perks, predictable recurring revenue.
- Keep retail only where digital can’t compete: controllers, headsets, chairs, collectibles—physical identity, higher margin, real demand.
- Turn flagship locations into creator studios + live event spaces where UK talent is discovered and broadcast.
Outcome: footfall returns for belonging, not shopping. Membership stabilises revenue. A national competitive pathway attracts sponsors and media. GAME becomes Britain’s gaming culture infrastructure—not a struggling retailer from the past.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is the no-padding weekly panel episode: 12 stories, 4 perspectives, rapid-fire pitches, and then we go in. Each contributor gets 30 seconds to make the case, then the table tests it—facts, incentives, hypocrisy, and what it means for real people.
Today’s agenda (12):
- [Topic] — the 30-sec pitch that changes the framing
- [Topic] — why everyone’s missing the real incentive
- [Topic] — the uncomfortable trade-off nobody says out loud
- [Topic] — who wins, who pays, who gets blamed
- [Topic] — the headline vs the truth
- [Topic] — the policy angle in plain English
- [Topic] — the culture angle nobody wants to touch
- [Topic] — the numbers that expose the story
- [Topic] — the moral panic vs the actual risk
- [Topic] — the media game being played in real time
- [Topic] — the “this affects your life tomorrow” segment
- [Topic] — the clip everyone will argue about
If you want one weekly episode that gives you ammo, clarity, and context—this is it.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode is different, and it had to be.
As this podcast grows, so does the responsibility that comes with telling stories about real lives, real harm, and real people. In this episode, I explain why we’ve added a safeguarding and responsibility notice, what it means, and what this podcast will never become.
We talk about:
- Why not every story deserves public exposure
- The difference between truth and spectacle
- How cycles repeat across generations and environments
- Why protecting dignity matters more than outrage
- What it means to challenge power without exploiting pain
This is not an apology.
This is not a retreat.
This is a line in the sand.
Life is nuanced. Harm is real. Accountability matters.
But so does care.
SHOW NOTES⚠️ Why we added a safeguarding notice
🧠 How stories become dangerous when mishandled
🧱 The cycles men inherit — and repeat
🕊️ Dignity, consent, and altered narratives
⚖️ Why this podcast is not a court of law
TAGS / KEYWORDS (DISCOVERABILITY)fatherhood, masculinity, safeguarding, storytelling ethics, responsibility, culture, trauma, power, modern Britain, mental health, community, social systems, lived experience
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode is a forensic breakdown of Sainsbury’s Local as a system, not a shop.
What’s sold as convenience is friction. What’s sold as efficiency is unpaid labour. What’s sold as design is psychological manipulation that fails the moment you’re tired, parenting, or in a hurry.
From hostile layouts and absent staff to self-checkout purgatory and inflated prices, this is a critique of how modern “local” supermarkets quietly disrespect time, dignity, and common sense.
This isn’t nostalgia. It’s not brand hate.
It’s a lived audit of consumer experience from the perspective of a father, a customer, and a human being who just wanted milk and left annoyed.
Includes an explicit comparison with Aldi, and why Aldi consistently wins on clarity, flow, and respect.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Rickie Haywood-Williams sits down with Dope Black Dads to talk honestly about health, fatherhood, lifestyle changes and the NHS Healthy Choices Quiz.
In this episode, Rickie breaks down what life really looks like behind the microphone and the Instagram posts. Late nights, early mornings, family responsibilities, Liverpool stress, and the quiet signals from his body and mind that something had to change.
The NHS Healthy Choices Quiz is a free, five-minute quiz you can take online. It asks simple questions about your eating, movement, smoking or vaping, drinking, mental health and sleep. At the end, you get a score out of 10 and a plan with links to free NHS apps, tools and advice to help you take the first step.
Rickie shares his experience of taking the quiz, his reaction to seeing his results, the changes he has already started making, and why small, realistic shifts matter more than chasing perfection.
Watch if you want a straight conversation about midlife health, energy, mood and dad life.
Healthy Choices Quiz
Take the free five-minute NHS Healthy Choices Quiz here:
https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/healthy-choices-quiz/
Key topics in this episode
– Why Rickie wanted to support the NHS Healthy Choices Quiz campaign
– How work, late nights and stress show up in his body and mood
– The moment he realised he needed a more honest health check
– What it felt like to answer the quiz questions and see his score out of 10
– The plan he received and the first changes he has made
– How fatherhood, age and responsibility shift your motivation to stay healthy
– The version of himself his family sees at the end of the week
– Football, Liverpool and competition as a lens on health and identity
– Why he would recommend the Healthy Choices Quiz to friends and family
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What does a welcome home really feel like? with @MarvynHarrison https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/blackadopters
In this special episode, we sit around the dinner table to talk honestly about adoption, family, culture, and belonging. Over food that reminds us of home, we explore what it means to create stability and love for Black and mixed-heritage children who are waiting the longest to be adopted in the UK.
This conversation is part of the You Can Adopt campaign and features lived experiences from adoptive parents within the Black community. We talk about food, identity, family reactions, myths around adoption, and how a home is built through care, consistency, and culture — not perfection.
This is not about having the perfect house.
It’s about creating a home where a child feels seen, protected, and chosen.
If you’ve ever quietly considered adoption, this conversation is an invitation to learn more.
Find out more at:
https://www.youcanadopt.co.uk/blackadopters
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode takes you inside 10 Downing Street for a rare, direct conversation on power, policy, and dignity at work.
Marvyn Harrison meets Keir Starmer to unpack the Employment Rights Act 2025 (ERA 2025) — described as the biggest upgrade to workers’ rights in a generation.
We break down what ERA 2025 actually delivers:
Fire-and-rehire restrictions.
The end of exploitative zero-hour contracts.
Day-one sick pay.
Day-one paternity, bereavement, and parental leave.
New protections for pregnant women, new mothers, and families experiencing pregnancy loss.
But this episode goes deeper than legislation. It asks who benefits, who is most exposed, and whether Black and working-class families will finally see real protection — or more policy without teeth.
This is not spin.
This is not press-release politics.
This is a frontline conversation about labour, power, enforcement, and dignity.
Key Themes
• Employment Rights Act 2025 explained
• Kier Starmer on workers’ rights
• ERA 2025 impact on Black families
• Working-class job insecurity
• Zero-hour contracts and fire-and-rehire
• Paternity leave, sick pay, and dignity at work
• Policy vs lived experience
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This is a safeguarding episode, not a comfort episode. Children are not collateral damage for adult frustration. They are not background noise. They are not “tiny adults” who should just get over it. And they are not content. This episode pulls apart the most dangerous lie we repeat: “Kids are resilient.” There’s a difference between building strength and forcing a child to survive adult-made chaos, yelling, hitting, humiliation, neglect, manipulation, and constant instability. It also calls out the wider system: under-resourced schools, stripped youth services, safeguarding treated like paperwork, and a culture that frames children as problems to manage instead of humans to protect.
If you’re raising kids, employing parents, building communities, or shaping policy, this is the line: protect children in advance, not after damage is done.
8 things to consider:
Children are not collateral damage for co-parent conflict
Kids are not background noise to adult lives
“Resilience” vs forced survival: stop confusing the two
Discipline and consistency matter more than money
Why yelling/hitting is adult weakness dressed as parenting
System failure: safeguarding isn’t paperwork, it’s vigilance
Children as content: the moral line is collapsing
The downstream cost: harmed kids become what other kids must navigate
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Most New Year goals fail for the same reason: they’re fantasies, not systems.
In this episode, Marvyn Harrison breaks down why “New Year, New Me” thinking collapses every time — and what actually creates change. This is not about motivation, manifestation, or vague intentions. It’s about identity redesign, constraint awareness, and building daily and weekly systems that survive real life.
The conversation covers why outcomes don’t stick without identity, why willpower is overrated, how to design progress around limited time, energy, and money, and why evidence beats affirmation every time. Along the way, real life interrupts — parenting, noise, humour — reinforcing the point: growth has to work inside chaos, not in spite of it.
This episode is a grounded framework for approaching 2026 without self-deception, self-punishment, or false optimism.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Anthony Joshua has survived a serious car crash in Nigeria that killed two close friends and long-standing members of his team. Physio Sina Ghami and personal trainer Latif “Latz” Ayodele were pronounced dead at the scene after a collision on the Lagos–Ibadan expressway.
In this emergency news episode, we break down the confirmed facts, timeline, and reactions from the boxing world, including tributes from Chris Eubank Jr and statements from Matchroom Boxing. We also examine the wider context — Joshua’s recent fight with Jake Paul, his Nigerian heritage, and the deadly reputation of the expressway where the crash occurred.
This episode focuses on clarity, respect, and accountability in reporting, amid widespread misinformation and the circulation of graphic footage online.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode is a quiet audit of Christmas, fatherhood, and attention.
After two uninterrupted weeks with his children, Marvyn reflects on what it feels like when family life fully aligns — no school runs, no fragmented schedules, no performance. Just presence. The result wasn’t productivity or achievement. It was peace.
The episode moves through gift-giving without panic, buying throughout the year, shifting from material presents to experiences, and what it means to fund joy without excess. It explores how children thrive when safety is consistent, how traditions are built deliberately, and why Christmas Eve now belongs to the house — not the shops.
There are reflections on idleness, masculinity, hobbies, strength, and the discomfort of having nothing urgent to fix. Golf enters the picture. So does grief, gratitude, and the reality that joy and loss often sit side by side at the end of a year.
This is not advice. It’s a lived reflection on slowing down, protecting what matters, and carrying the right things forward.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We’ve been trained to treat Christmas like a performance: spend more, buy more, post more, prove more. But the truth is simpler—and harder to defend: Christmas is about family.
In this episode, I’m pulling the focus back to what lasts. The moments your children remember aren’t the receipts—they’re the feeling of the home. The laughter in the kitchen. The safety of being together. The un-rushed hours where nobody’s “doing” anything, but everyone’s okay.
I talk about how easy it is to slip into survival mode at the worst possible time, trying to fund a “perfect Christmas,” carrying the whole season on your back, and turning love into pressure. And I lay out a different standard: protect the atmosphere. Protect the time. Protect the relationships.
There’s also a personal reflection on childhood Christmas memories and what they teach us: the gift might be exciting, but it’s the people, the warmth, and the stories that become the real inheritance.
If you’re a parent feeling the weight of this season, this is your reminder: your kids don’t need a perfect Christmas. They need you. They need peace. They need family.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You were told to chase green flags.
You were never taught how some of them hide the biggest red flags of your life.
In this episode, Marvyn Harrison pulls five “perfect” green flags apart and shows the shadow side underneath: limerence, trauma bonds, emotional shutdown, manipulation and cruelty dressed up as “being real”.
Across romantic relationships, friendships, family and work, Marvyn unpacks:
Intense Chemistry From Day One
- The “we could marry right now” energy that feels like destiny.
- Why you feel deeply connected on almost no information.
- Limerence: the repeat pattern of getting obsessed, acting like it’s real and only understanding it years later.
- How trauma bonds, nervous system chaos and mirroring can feel like soulmate energy while your body is actually in crisis.
- Why neurodivergent people often feel this intensity and believe it’s “how love is supposed to feel.”
People Who Respectfully Hate Everybody But You
- “They’re just honest, they see through everyone” – the seductive packaging.
- The contempt, gossip and dehumanising that’s actually rehearsing how they’ll later talk about you.
- The difference between feedback, sharing and constant judgement.
- Why “it’s us against the world” often means “you’re next when the honeymoon ends.”
Extreme Independence And Having ‘No Needs’
- “I’m low maintenance, I’m drama free” as a brand.
- Emotional shutdown disguised as maturity.
- The triple problem: they can’t ask, can’t receive and can’t repair.
- How fear of abandonment sits behind “I don’t need anything from anyone.”
- You end up doing all the emotional labour, while they quietly protect a chaotic inner world they don’t want you to see.
Total Overlap In Values, Opinions And Tastes
- “We’re literally the same person, we never argue” – why that feels like winning.
- People-pleasing and mirroring as manipulation: pre-written caring responses, no behavioural change.
- Why genuine adults have differences, and why tolerating disagreement is actually intimacy.
- The truth about “peaceful” relationships that never argue: someone gave up bringing their full self.
Brutal Honesty With Zero Empathy
- “I just tell it like it is, I keep it 100” as a personality costume.
- Cruelty cosplaying as truth.
- Why timing is a core part of empathy: the film-premiere example where “honesty” is actually violence.
- How real friends hold their feedback, let the moment pass, then come back with thought, care and context.
- Why brutal honesty is often laziness and emotional illiteracy, not integrity.
Marvyn closes by turning the lens back on you:
- Why you keep choosing intense chemistry, “low maintenance” partners or brutally honest friends.
- Why you might secretly want spontaneity, chaos and “life of the party” energy, then demand they calm down once you’ve got them.
- How to notice the patterns you recreate, instead of taking internet advice “cold” and blowing up relationships that could be repaired with awareness and conversation.
This is not a call to go home and dump everyone.
It’s a call to see what’s really happening underneath your favourite “green flags” and work out whether you’re genuinely safe, genuinely seen – or just addicted to the chaos you were never taught to name.
Content WarningsThis episode includes discussion of:
- Trauma bonds and nervous system dysregulation
- Emotional shutdown and abandonment fears
- Manipulation, people-pleasing and cruelty in relationships
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Did he do it?
In this raw, unplanned monologue, Marvyn Harrison picks up the mic with no notes and processes the new Netflix documentary on Sean “Diddy” Combs in real time. Across almost four decades of alleged abuse, violence, exploitation and terror, he tracks how one man was turned into the “blueprint” for Black male success while victims, communities and even whole events were left in pieces.
Project 1 (5)
Drawing on the documentary executive produced by 50 Cent, Marvyn walks through the timeline of allegations and patterns described on screen:
- A deadly basketball event allegedly over-promoted and under-protected
- Early accusations of drugging, rape and recording assaults
- Financial games with labels, advances and putting companies in other people’s names
- Violence and intimidation of business partners
- Artists like Craig Mack allegedly left broke while their music topped charts
- The jealous orbit around Biggie and Tupac and claims of set-ups, beef and murder-for-hire energy
- Long-running allegations of abuse towards women, including Cassie, and a wider pattern of trafficking-style behaviour
- Robbing artists of publishing and blocking them from their own work
But this episode isn’t gossip. It’s a post-mortem on the culture that let it all slide.
Marvyn goes deeper into:
- How older gatekeepers, executives and media kept co-signing him as a hero
- How young Black men were told to worship men who were dead, in jail or alleged abusers
- How his own leadership style as a young promoter was briefly shaped by “Making The Band”-style bullying before he rejected it
- The cost of building success on coercion, fear and manipulation instead of strategy, wisdom and genuine leadership
- Why he wants no part of a fame, wealth and masculinity model that comes bundled with this level of alleged harm
This is not a polished think piece. It’s a man in his 40s, a father, broadcaster and community builder, processing the grief of realising the “idols” sold to Black boys were either monsters or protected by monsters.
If you’ve ever looked up to industry titans only to later find out about the allegations around them, this episode will feel uncomfortably familiar – and necessary.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Black men are dying of cancer in silence. So we took a room full of dads, sons and survivors and built the most honest conversation they’ve ever had.
This episode was recorded at Macmillan’s Open House, a home built to feel like the houses that raised us: soft light, old portraits, kettle on the stove, carpet holding the memories of every step. Into that house we brought a live conversation on men, fatherhood and grief.
Marvyn Harrison is joined by:
– Ibrahim Kamara, whose dad died of cancer on his birthday while he was locked alone in a Covid hotel
– Paul Campbell, who was denied treatment, diagnosed in the same year as his brother and sister, and watched his father die from prostate cancer
– Host and facilitator Ruben Christian, unpacking identity, masculinity and the cost of being “the strong one”
Inside this episode:
– The Black dad who had to fight his GP just to get tested
– Why three siblings were all diagnosed with cancer in the same year
– How a father hid his diagnosis from ten children and made one son carry the secret alone
– Men explaining what grief actually feels like inside the body
– The quiet ways race, culture and masculinity shape how we ignore symptoms
– What good men actually need from their partners, friends and community
– Why checkups aren’t a verdict, they’re a lifeline and a second chance
The episode closes with “White Smiles”, an original song written about a dream of a father who finally returns smiling, with new teeth and no pain. Listen grounded, eyes closed if you can.
If you love a Black man, live with one, are raising one or are one, this is the episode you send.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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What happens when your father’s shadow is your biggest opponent? Marvyn Harrison breaks down Benn vs Eubank II — the fight that wasn’t just about punches, but parenting, legacy, and identity. From Nigel Benn and Chris Eubank Sr.’s 90s rivalry to their sons’ clash under the lights, this is a story about how fathers shape sons — and how sons fight to become men in their own right. Featuring deep analysis, emotional reflection, and a generational lens only Dope Black Dads could deliver.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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In this episode of the Dope Black Dads podcast, Marvyn breaks down what it really takes to support a good man in 2025, without shrinking yourself or cosplaying a “good little wife.”
He covers:
• The truth about “something happening with men” — and why it’s about to go one of two ways
• The viral Chanté Joseph article about women feeling ashamed to say “I have a boyfriend,” and what that reveals about how men are valued
• Why humiliation content (fake throw-up pranks, mocking your man online) destroys respect and never builds the man you actually want
• Misogyny vs misandry: why they’re not mirror images and why that distinction matters here
• How you speak to your man: nagging vs affirmation, and why rants don’t land but clear, short statements do
• The “tennis vs American football” mistake when men share feelings, and how to catch the emotional ball instead of smashing it back
• What to do when he goes silent or withdrawn and you suspect more than “he’s just fine”
• How to investigate his mood without the dead-end question “You alright?”
• Respecting his pace of change instead of treating him like a broken service provider you ordered from an app
• Why not every mood change is cheating: money, parents, pressure, identity, and all the other stress signals you keep missing
• Turning the home into neutral ground so he doesn’t sit in the car dreading walking through the front door
• The “driveway rule”: negotiating how much decompression time he needs and what you need once he comes in
• Why there’s no serious “transition programme” for men moving from work-only identity into work + family, unlike the decades of systems put around women at work
• How political and economic systems still profit from overworked, emotionally absent men, and what that means for your relationship
• The truth: if your man is genuinely bad for you, you should leave; this episode is for people with a good man who’s struggling
• The tactic almost nobody uses: sitting in silence, breaking the touch barrier, and offering safety instead of demanding it from a depleted man
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Recorded in the middle of the night, Marvyn breaks down how New York elected its first Muslim, South Asian, democratic socialist mayor under Donald Trump, why California quietly rewired Congress with one ballot measure, and how Virginia and New Jersey just told the rest of America where voters actually stand. This is not a vibes recap. It’s a live autopsy on power, maps, money and hope.
Full show note
Tonight’s Dope Black Desk is not from Westminster or City Hall. Emotionally, it’s in New York, California, Virginia and New Jersey at the same time. Marvyn walks through the election results that look “local” on paper but actually redraw the global map of power in a Trump era.
In this episode, he breaks down:
• New York City electing Zoran Mamdani — 34-year-old democratic socialist, first Muslim and South Asian mayor, ex–housing counsellor, in the financial capital of the world
• How Mamdani beat a disgraced former governor and a Republican talk-radio veteran, with Trump backing Cuomo instead of his own party’s candidate
• Mamdani’s four “impossible” promises: free citywide buses, universal childcare, rent freezes, and city-run grocery stores in food deserts
• Why bodegas, Yemeni owners, unions, taxi drivers, immigrants and young voters formed a single coalition and toppled an old political dynasty
• Trump’s threats to punish New York and brand Mamdani a “communist”, and why that bluff could push him into full-blown war-crime territory if he actually follows through
• The donor class, pro-Israel money, Gaza, genocide language and why this mayoral race became a referendum on who really owns American politics
• How the middle class has been swapped out for racial hierarchy and why that model is breaking down in real time
Then Marvyn zooms out:
• California’s Prop 50: a mid-decade redistricting move designed to cancel out Texas’s GOP map and hand Democrats up to five extra House seats
• Why this is an “arms race on maps not manifestos” and how one technical vote can decide who controls Congress in 2026
• Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court, state courts, and why Democrats finally stopped pretending they were “above” playing the same power game
He finishes with the governor races:
• Virginia: Abigail Spanberger, ex-CIA, becomes the state’s first woman governor by running on anti-chaos, cost of living and competence
• New Jersey: Mikie Sherrill, Navy helicopter pilot and former prosecutor, wins on affordability, child tax credits and abortion protection
• Why voters in ex-red states are choosing stability over Trump-style chaos, even when Republicans put forward barrier-breaking candidates
• How all of this connects back to London, food deserts, mini-mart markups, and a UK political class turning every square metre of life into a product
Underneath the US headlines, this is an episode about:
• Who draws the map
• Who pays the price
• And whether any of this can still translate into a city or a country you can afford to raise a family in
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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I opened my ChatGPT vault and read the last five things I asked it: the best loose-leaf tea on earth, a high-leverage sales plan, a global parenting pivot, the truth behind “quotas” in ads, and the Antwone Fisher poem that hits like a freight train. Momentum storytelling. Zero fluff. High signal.
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Show notes (long, with skim-fast formatting)
• Why your teabag tastes mid, and the five loose-leaf brands worth real money
• Designing a killer partnerships engine in public
• Upgrading Dope Black Dads into a global parenting community without changing the name
• Are “quotas” in advertising real or a culture-war decoy? Data and context
• “Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?” and the cost of growing up without a blueprint
• What it takes for Black men to make it to 60 with purpose and health
Referenced from the live ramble captured in this episode.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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This week on the Dope Black Dads podcast, we dive into a powerful and timely story. Victoria Beckham has revealed in her new Netflix documentary that her eating disorder made her “good at lying” A raw admission that sheds light on a condition too often hidden in silence.
Beyond the celebrity headline, this conversation is about what it means for our families, our children, and our communities. Eating disorders are not about vanity; they’re serious medical and mental health conditions that can affect any child, regardless of background.
In this episode, we explore:
- Victoria’s experience of secrecy, shame, and resilience
- How eating disorders impact self-esteem, family life, and identity
- The signs parents and carers should look out for in children and teens
- What to do if you suspect your child is struggling
- Why open, honest conversations at home can break the cycle of silence
For Black families especially, where mental health challenges often go undiscussed, this is an opportunity to create safe spaces for truth and healing. Our children deserve to feel loved, respected, and supported in every part of who they are.
If this episode raises concerns for you, please seek support: in the UK, Beat Eating Disorders offers free, confidential advice at beateatingdisorders.org.uk. And remember no parent is alone in this journey.
Join us as we use Victoria Beckham’s story as a springboard to talk about how we can show up better for our children, our communities, and ourselves.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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For decades, families of the 97 Hillsborough victims were denied honesty and justice. Public officials lied, delayed, and covered up. Now, the long-awaited Hillsborough Law, formally the Public Office Accountability Bill, introduces a legal duty of candour, forcing officials to tell the truth during major disaster investigations, with criminal penalties if they don’t.
In this episode, Marvyn Harrison breaks down why this law matters far beyond football. From Grenfell survivors to Post Office workers, from Black families in police custody cases to maternity wards, cover-ups cost lives, trust, and justice.
This is about:
- Truth as protection for families.
- Ending decades of lies and silence.
- Rebuilding trust in institutions.
- Justice for communities failed by the state.
- Setting a global example of truth as law.
Truth, justice, and accountability aren’t optional. They’re non-negotiable.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Back in the 1930s, love was about survival—one person brought money, the other ran the home. By the 1990s, polarity and attraction became the focus. But in 2025? That’s not enough. Today, real connection needs three things: survival, desire, and alignment.
In this episode, Marvyn Harrison explores how blurred gender roles, economic independence, and new expectations around emotional intelligence have reshaped what it takes to build lasting relationships. He asks the tough questions:
- Can you survive together?
- Do you still desire each other?
- Are you truly aligned in values, money, health, parenting, and vision?
If you’ve managed all three, you’re not just lucky—you’re rare. Listen in to rethink love, dating, and marriage in a modern world where commitment is harder, but also deeper.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Launching this Father’s Day, Not Just a Day, A Legacy is a deeply personal and culturally relevant essay series and visual campaign from Marvyn Harrison — founder of Dope Black Dads. Through intimate letters, storytelling, and healing guidance, the campaign invites fathers, children, and communities to reflect, reconnect, and reimagine legacy beyond absence.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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When my son was born, I thought I had to choose between staying home to give him everything or going back to work and risking missing the moments that matter. But the truth is, you don’t have to choose. From September, eligible working parents of children aged 9 months up to school age could get up to 30 hours of funded childcare a week, over 38 weeks a year — worth up to £7,500 in savings. That’s not just money back; it’s time to work, breathe, build, and still be present for your child. Apply by 31 August.
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Today’s episode is a throwback episode with Kate Ferdinand — mother, entrepreneur, and host of the award-winning podcast Blended. We discussed what began as a WhatsApp group is now a powerful platform supporting Black and mixed-heritage fathers across the world.
In this episode, Kate and Marvyn explore how our own childhoods shape the way we parent, the importance of emotional honesty, and how to have age-appropriate conversations with children about race, identity, and belonging. It’s a powerful discussion about masculinity, legacy, and learning to be the parent you needed.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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From Kool Herc’s Kingston-style block parties to Kendrick’s Grammy sweeps and Carti’s moshpit mayhem, who really ran rap every year since 1979? In this definitive timeline, we break down the Big 3 artists of each year, blending mainstream dominance, cultural impact, and lyrical integrity.
Featuring heavyweights like LL Cool J, OutKast, Missy, Future, Nicki Minaj, and J. Cole, this episode challenges revisionist history and makes room for the artists who actually defined the sound, the streets, and the stats.
Was Drake too dominant to leave off 2019? Should LL have been #1 in ’87? Did we underrate Future’s run? Is Kendrick now the GOAT closer? We’ve got facts, footnotes, and a lot of fire takes.
Whether you’re an old-head, new-school, backpacker or trap loyalist, this episode is your hip-hop history cheat code.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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⚡ THE CHALLENGE
I forced my household to try twenty one penny pinching moves in one week. No edits. No mercy.
WHAT HAPPENED
• Hack 3 sparked a shower time race
• Hack 7 killed takeaway cravings
• Hack 14 slashed our energy bill in thirty seconds
• Hack 21 broke my Netflix habit and the kids survived
FULL LIST
1 Kill phantom power at bedtime
2 Daily smart meter checks
… all the way to 21 Rotate streaming subs like a pro
WHY LISTEN
✔ Zero cost entry
✔ Kid approved fun
✔ Laugh out loud dad banter
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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What does the government’s new health plan actually mean for your community?
In this exclusive, no-holds-barred Q&A, Marvyn Harrison sits down with Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, to ask the questions that matter most to working-class and Black British families.
We dive into:
- The postcode lottery in care
- Why Black men aren’t trusting the NHS
- Where the money’s really going
- And how this plan could actually save lives—or just become another empty promise
This is the conversation the government has to hear. And you need to hear it first.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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What’s it really like being Education Secretary? In this powerful conversation, Bridget Phillipson marks her first year in post by speaking openly with Marvyn Harrison and young voices from Dope Black Dads. She reflects on the teacher who changed her life, discusses her priorities for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and sets out her vision for mental health in every school. This episode goes beyond policy, it’s about care, culture and community.
Topics covered:
- Why representation and personal connection matter in education
- Reforming SEND support for families and schools
- Embedding mental health into the school day
- Creating an inclusive education system that works for all
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Is there still honour in hip-hop? Can rap teach us how to be better men?
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the extraordinary journey of Clipse—brothers Pusha T and No Malice—uncovering what their story reveals about masculinity, loyalty, and principled living. From “Grindin’” lunch tables to Louis Vuitton runways, we walk through their full timeline, pulling out the life lessons embedded in their rhymes, career moves, and public silence.
We explore how No Malice left the rap game for a higher calling, why Pusha T confronted giants like Drake and Kanye, and how the Clipse reunion has become a masterclass in grown-man artistry. Beyond the beefs and bars lies a deeper philosophy: patience, boundaries, spiritual audit, and the refusal to compromise.
This is more than a fan tribute. It’s a roadmap. For fathers, brothers, creatives, and thinkers. For anyone navigating manhood in a world that constantly tests your moral compass.
Featuring critical moments:
- The legacy of Hell Hath No Fury and Daytona
- The Kanye fallout and GOOD Music exit
- The calculated silence in response to Jim Jones
- The rollout of Let God Sort ‘Em Out and what it says about ownership
- Diaspora echoes through minimalist Neptunes beats and patois slang
- Why Drake had him banned from Canada—and why that doesn’t matter
Clipse didn't just make music. They made a code. And it still holds.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this episode, Marvyn Harrison asks a question that shifts the way we show up in our relationships: How can I love you better?
This is a practical, vulnerable reflection on how love evolves over time, and why checking in with our partners, children, and friends matters more than ever.
From the changing landscape of fatherhood to the emotional intelligence needed for deep connection, this is a must-listen for anyone who wants to love with intention and grow while doing it.
🎧 Talking points include:
– Why love must evolve with growth
– How to ask the question without ego
– Common responses and how to receive them
– What to do when the answer challenges you
– Building emotional fluency as Black men and fathers
This episode is your reminder that emotional leadership begins at home.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Imagine Friends… but Black.
Not just a race-swap, but a complete cultural remix.
In this episode, we explore what a modern-day, all-Black reboot of the iconic 90s sitcom could look like, set in Hackney, rooted in today’s Black culture, with characters that reflect our reality.
We break down:
- The reimagined character archetypes
- The new hangout spot (spoiler: it’s not Central Perk)
- The themes that would actually resonate today—gentle parenting, therapy bills, ghosting during Mercury retrograde
- Why this show would shift culture and go viral across every platform
From the trap-jazz café to the Pan-African podcast host, this isn’t Friends.
This is FAM.
🎧 Tap in and tell us: would you watch this show?
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
⏱️ THE CHALLENGE
I put 20 parent-approved hacks to the ultimate test on live Sports Day—no retakes, no mercy.
WHAT HAPPENED
• Tip #3 nearly caused a water-fight 🤣
• Tip #7 saved £50 in 10 seconds
• Tip #14 kept my son’s muscles warm like a pro sprinter
FULL HACK LIST
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Balanced breakfast (slow-release carbs)
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Pre-hydration strategy
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Super-labelled bottle trick
… all the way to 20. Capture memories, not just photos.
WHY LISTEN
✔ Zero-cost fixes
✔ Kid-approved fun
✔ Stress levels: obliterated
CHALLENGE YOU
Try three hacks, tag @DopeBlackDads with #SportsDayBoss, and I’ll shout-out the best video on next week’s show.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What if the key to your peace isn't reconciliation, but release?
In this solo episode, Marvyn Harrison offers a detailed, compassionate guide for anyone navigating unresolved feelings toward an absent, distant, or emotionally unavailable father. You'll learn:
- Why closure matters (even without reconciliation)
- How to know if you're ready for contact
- A safety-first outreach plan
- Word-for-word scripts for conversation
- Aftercare tips for the 72-hour emotional fallout
- Ways to navigate reluctant siblings
- One powerful mantra to carry with you
Whether you're seeking answers or simply looking to lay old pain to rest, this episode gives you the tools, structure, and emotional protection to take your next step with courage.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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Synopsis In this intimate twenty-minute letter, written from the perspective of your grown child twenty years in the future, Marvyn Harrison pays tribute to fathers who stayed. The episode celebrates everyday courage, explores the quiet heroism of presence, and shows how one man’s consistency can echo through generations.
Key Chapters
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Staying Is an Act of Courage (0 – 3 min)
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Presence Builds Identity (3 – 6 min)
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Breaking the Cycle (6 – 9 min)
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Lessons Learned by Watching You (9 – 12 min)
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How Your Presence Changes the World (12 – 14 min)
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The Hidden Cost of Staying (14 – 16 min)
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The Gift of Being Seen (16 – 17 min)
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Your Story Is a Masterclass (17 – 18 min)
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Flowers While You Can Still Smell Them (18 – 19 min)
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The Echo You Created (19 – 20 min)
Listener Takeaways
• Consistency beats grand gestures
• Presence builds a child’s inner voice
• Staying breaks generational patterns
• Everyday dads are quiet revolutionaries
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Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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In this deeply moving episode of DopeBlackDads, we sit down with former world champion boxer Johnny Nelson and NHS GP Dr. Aziza Sesay to talk about something bigger than sport or titles — life, loss, and the power of early cancer detection.
Johnny shares the emotional story of how his father missed the signs of cancer, and how that experience shaped his own approach to health. Dr. Aziza offers vital insights into why Black communities are at higher risk, how fear and stigma delay diagnosis, and the symptoms we should never ignore.
This conversation is more than informative — it’s personal, practical, and potentially life-saving.
👉 Visit nhs.uk/cancersymptoms for more information.
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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In this episode, financial expert Emmanuel Asuquo joins us for a vital conversation on fraud prevention. With fraud affecting millions every year, Emmanuel breaks down the most common scams targeting the community, including online shopping fraud, holiday booking scams, and family fraud. He shares practical tips on how to spot suspicious activity and explains the importance of two-step verification (2SV) to secure online accounts.
Tune in to learn how to protect yourself and your loved ones from fraud, what to do if you've fallen victim, and how to report fraud. This episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to stay safe in an increasingly digital world. Don't forget to share it with your friends and family!
Welcome to The Marvyn Harrison Podcast — a story-driven conversation exploring identity, fatherhood, masculinity, relationships, culture, politics, sport, and modern life.
In each episode, Marvyn Harrison sits down with leading thinkers, creatives, athletes, policymakers, and cultural voices to unpack the defining moments that shaped them. Through image prompts, structured storytelling, and revealing game segments, guests explore pivotal memories, career turning points, personal struggles, and the beliefs that guide their decisions today.
Expect honest discussions on mental health, family dynamics, leadership, equity, ambition, resilience, and the realities of navigating success in Britain and beyond.
This is a podcast about clarity, where lived experience meets sharp cultural insight.
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In this special episode we talk to fathers David Gyasi and Nii Odarte Evans about the various stages of fatherhood - from the moment they found out to their experiences today. Join the conversation and tell us what you think.
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Welcome to this week's episode of Dear Dope Black Dads! In this engaging discussion, Marvyn and Romantha delve into thought-provoking topics circulating on social media. From the impact of childhood trauma on adult experiences of PTSD to the profound experience of loneliness, no stone is left unturned.
Have you ever found yourself reliving moments from your upbringing as an adult? Join us as we explore the complexities of this phenomenon and its implications on mental health.Loneliness, a universal human emotion, is also discussed as the reasons why sharing vulnerable moments online may not always lead to immediate empathy. Discover our personal strategies for coping with loneliness and share yours in the comments below. In a saddening case, we tackle the story of a stepfather who feels sidelined by his stepdaughter, who prioritised her biological father at her wedding. The ethical dilemmas and emotional intricacies of family dynamics unfold as we invite you to weigh in on what you would do in such a situation.
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Discover the pressing issue affecting 1 in 4 children: the alarming lack of measles protection. In this important discussion with experts shedding light on London's measles crisis, especially within the Black community. We ask the experts some vital questions to guide you in making informed choices for your family's health.
Join the conversation and empower yourself with knowledge to safeguard your loved ones. Don't miss out on essential insights – like, subscribe, and stay tuned for more valuable content!
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Tune in to this insightful podcast segment where we delve into the challenges of self-confidence post-mental health setbacks, affecting relationships profoundly. Our discussion explores vital themes surrounding men's health, beauty, fitness, and self-care routines, shedding light on societal acceptance and prioritisation of men's well-being.
Join us for an engaging conversation as we navigate through these important topics and strive for a more inclusive and supportive community. Don't miss out - like, subscribe, and join the conversation for more impactful discussions like this one!
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New Series "Dear Dope Black Dads" Hosted by Marvyn Harrison at Spotify Studios
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Welcome to our YouTube channel! This week, we're thrilled to have influencer marketing expert Charlotte Stavrou and the self-proclaimed "OG Influencer," Franklin Boateng, join us for an insightful discussion. In Part I, we explore the essence of influencer culture and discuss the future trajectory of the industry.
Stay tuned for Part II and Part III, where we address dilemmas from our community. Don't miss out on valuable insights – hit the like button and subscribe for more engaging content like this! #InfluencerCulture #ExpertInsights #PodcastDiscussion
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Join Dope Black Dads as we delve into the topic of mental health in the Black community, and unpack NHS Talking Therapies , and the treatments available, with therapist Sharon Black.
If you are struggling with feelings of depression, or anxiety such as excessive worry, panic attacks, social anxiety, post-traumatic stress, or obsessions and compulsions, you should reach out to NHS Talking Therapies on nhs.uk/talk. They are FREE, effective, and confidential treatments delivered by trained clinicians online, on the phone or in person. You can simply refer yourself at nhs.uk/talk or ask your GP for a referral.
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Join us on this week's episode of the Dear Dope Black Dads podcast as we dive into thought-provoking discussions with acclaimed playwright Ryan Calais Cameron. We explore the powerful themes of his renowned theatre play, "For Black Boys Who Consider Suicide When The Hue Gets Too Heavy," currently captivating audiences at the Garrick Theatre in London's West End until 1 June 2024.
In this insightful conversation, we delve into the complexities of male emotions and the challenges men face in expressing them. Our special guest, Franklin Boateng, candidly shares his personal journey, revealing why he has struggled to verbalise his feelings, particularly the phrase "I love you," and how fatherhood has transformed his perspective.
Tune in as we unpack these topics and more, offering valuable insights into the human experience. Don't miss out—hit play now and join our growing community of listeners. And if you enjoy the content, remember to like, subscribe, and stay connected for future episodes!
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This week we dissect different videos that have caught our attention on the internet, with special guest Kimberly Fagbenle. These include the intriguing saga of TeesaReesa and her gripping 50-part series on her rollercoaster marriage. With the entire internet clamoring for a Netflix special on her life, we unravel the highs and lows of TeesaReesa's journey, offering insightful commentary along the way.
But that's not all – we delve into the concept of marriage as well as the process of divorce offering unique perspectives and thought-provoking insights into the complexities of modern relationships. Whether you're a TikTok enthusiast or simply intrigued by the dynamics of love, this episode promises to be both entertaining and insightful.
Tune in now for an engaging exploration of viral trends and heartfelt stories, only on the Dope Black Dads podcast. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insightful content!
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This week we talk all things community building. We’re joined by two amazing change-makers in their own right - the founder of Mentivity and board member of London policing, Sayce Holmes-Lewis as well as the founder of a platform called Jammi that helps black owned businesses, Khalia Ismain. We dive into our come-up stories and who the people were that saw and rooted for our success in our communities. We also touch on the pitfalls of doing the work in our communities and the toll it takes on us.
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We are back week to continue our segement with special guests Nick Bright and Nii Odartei Evans! We dive into love languages, why women should make the first move, share sibling stories, and explore our hopes for aspiration dating ages for our children. Drop your thoughts in the comments and hit that like button! Subscribe for more engaging conversations.
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Join us this week with special guests Nick Bright and Nii Odartei Evans! We dive into love languages, why women should make the first move, share sibling beat stories, and explore our hopes for aspiration dating ages for our children. Drop your thoughts in the comments and hit that like button! Subscribe for more engaging conversations.
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Join us on the 2nd installment as we welcome two incredible dads to the podcast! Tazer Black, influencer, dad to a 10-year-old, one of the driving forces behind RnB Slowjams and host of the 3 Shots of Tequila podcast. We also chat to Jason Black, a new dad, MC, artist, and entrepreneur. To laugh and share your own experiences with us on our podcast, contact us on hello@dopeblack.org or join our growing community focused on Black parenting, masculinity, and mental health.
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Join us on this week's episode as we welcome two incredible dads to the podcast! Tazer Black, influencer, dad to a 10-year-old, one of the driving forces behind RnB Slowjams and host of the 3 Shots of Tequila podcast. We also chat to Jason Black, a new dad, MC, artist, and entrepreneur.
To laugh and share your own experiences with us on our podcast, contact us on hello@dopeblack.org.
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In another instalment of the Dear Dope Black Dads podcast on neurodivergence, co-hosts Marvyn Harrison and Darwood Grace are back in the Spotify studios with Amie Snow, Shelly Bishton and award-winning podcaster, writer and digital content creator Chanté Joseph. In this segment, they dive into how they view friendships and how that differs for people with ADHD vs neurotypical people. They touch on friendship breakups and their lasting impact.
Join us as we laugh and share our own experiences and we invite you to share your own with us on our podcast by contacting us on hello@dopeblack.org.
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In our second instalment of the Dear Dope Black Dads podcast on neurodivergence and how it shows up for us, co-hosts Marvyn Harrison and Darwood Grace is back in the Spotify studios with creative and culture consultant Amie Snow, Head of DEI at News UK, Shelly Bishton and award-winning podcaster, writer and digital content creator Chanté Joseph talking about their experiences with ADHD. Chanté shares her experience of growing up undiagnosed, finding out about ADHD, getting diagnosed and how it changed her life for the better.
Join us as we laugh and share our own experiences and invite you to share your own with us on our podcast by contacting us on hello@dopeblack.org.
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This week we kick off with a three part series touching on neurodivergence. But before we get there, we get to know our guests. Our co-hosts - Marvyn Harrison and Darwood Grace are joined by award winning podcaster, writer and digital content creator, Chanté Joseph, head of DEI at News UK, Shelly Bishton and creative and cultural consultant Amie Snow.
They touch on nicknames in the black household - do you even have a black card if your nickname is not based on how you look? They talk about the importance of celebrating yourself when you’re single. And the jury is still out about Darwood’s relation to Fela Kuti. Tune in for this and so much more insight and banter from this weeks guests.
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hello@dopeblack.org and we’ll help you figure it out with our guests.
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Join us in another episode of Dear Dope Black Dads where we discuss the often-debated "pull out method," and the importance of informed choices when it comes to conception. We also explore the vital role of family planning. But that's not all! Our conversation goes into the intricacies of choosing the right co-parent. We point out the key factors to consider when embarking on the journey of parenthood with a partner, whether you're navigating this path together or separately. This episode offers valuable insights, candid opinions, and heartfelt stories that will leave you better informed and inspired on your journey toward parenthood. Tune in now!
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Back with another episode of our series Dear Dope Black Dads, tune in as we explore an awkward encounter that challenges the complexities of relationships, secrets, and the unexpected turns life can take as a parent. In this episode, we delve into the intricacies of family dynamics, trust, and acceptance. We'll hear from special guests Patris Gordon, David Gyasi and Nii Odarte who shed light on how they've coped when their perception of their loved ones was shifted dramatically. Is it possible for a family to heal and find a way forward after such a revelation?
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Get to know the whole team at your General Practice. From the friendly receptionists who greet you when you walk in the door to the highly skilled General Practitioners who diagnose and treat your medical concerns, your local GP is a hub of healthcare excellence. But did you know that it's not just doctors and nurses who make this possible? In this candid conversation with Dr. Aziza Sesay, we'll delve into the fascinating world of healthcare professionals who collaborate seamlessly to provide you with top-notch care.
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In this week's episode, our hosts dive deep into the essential topics of finding work-life balance, prioritising your own happiness, and creating a solid financial plan for your future. Life can often feel like a juggling act, especially when you're a parent. Our incredible guests share their personal stories and experiences, offering practical tips and advice on how to strike that delicate balance between your career and family life.
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Dear Dope Black Dads... Are you ready to take control of your financial future? Join us in this exclusive episode as we tackle the world of personal finance and share invaluable advice to help you achieve financial freedom.
Special guests, Kenny and Mary, the dynamic duo behind Humblepenny, bring a wealth of expertise to the table. With years of experience in finance and a passion for empowering others, they'll guide you through the steps to unlock your financial potential. Visit their website for more: https://thehumblepenny.com/
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In this heartwarming and insightful episode of Dope Black Dads, we delve into the delicate art of making love last. Love is a complex and beautiful journey, and in today's fast-paced world, maintaining deep and lasting connections can be a challenge. But fear not, Host Marvyn Harrison, alongside Darwood Grace, Lesley McKenley, and Romantha Botha, engage in a thought-provoking discussion uncovering the secrets of enduring love, the power of communication, and the importance of creating safe spaces.
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Welcome back to Part 2 of our special Dear DBD podcast episode, "Saluting our Sisters." In this captivating continuation, our dynamic speakers, Lesley McKenley, Darwood Grace, Marvyn Harrison, and Romantha Botha, delve even deeper into how to encourage positive change for the Black women who have had a great impact within their communities. Get ready for more laughter, insights, and a heartfelt tribute to the incredible sisters who inspire us all.
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Join us as we wrap up #BlackHistoryMonth with our debut Dear DBD podcast episode at Spotify Studios. In this lighthearted and insightful discussion, our talented speakers Lesley McKenley, Darwood Grace, Marvyn Harrison, and Romantha Botha celebrate the incredible women who’ve shaped our communities. Get ready for a dose of humour and wisdom!
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In this episode, Arnold explores the concept of parenting through generational trauma and how it can be unconsciously transferred from one generation to the next, perpetuating a cycle of emotional distress and behavioural issues.
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In this episode, Louis discusses the influence of social media on modern relationships and how it has reshaped the landscape of communication and connection when maintaining relationships, both positively and negatively.
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In this episode, Louis discusses the importance of economic empowerment for the Black community, emphasising the need to address income inequality and foster the creation of generational wealth. He explores the historical legacies of slavery and discrimination that have created long-lasting economic disadvantages for Black people and the importance of advocating for change in order to dismantle systemic barriers and promote economic equity.
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In this episode, Marvyn is joined by Ibrahim Kamara, one of the co-founders of GUAP, a venture he established in partnership with Jide Adetunji. Together, they were the faces of the media and marketing category in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Europe in 2023, spotlighting all the incredible work they are doing for the creative communities under the GUAP umbrella. Noteworthy highlights in Ibrahim's journey include his recognition as a "Digital Pioneer" by the Mayor of London for his contributions to entrepreneurship in digital media, securing a place among the top 100 most influential BAME leaders in the UK Tech Sector as featured in the Financial Times, among numerous other notable accomplishments. During the conversation, they touch on various things, such as their backgrounds, experiences in fatherhood, and entrepreneurship, discussing how Ibrahim's work is paving the way for a lasting legacy for his son.
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In this episode, Arnold speaks on the role of mentorship in the Black youth, addressing historical Barriers that have disproportionately affected the Black community resulting in limited access to opportunities. He emphasises the importance of nurturing self-confidence in young Black individuals, helping them in acknowledging their values, capabilities, and strengths.
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In this episode, Marvyn candidly shares his journey of living with undiagnosed ADHD. He offers a glimpse into his formative years and the unique way he navigated the challenges of life.
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In this episode, Marvyn is joined by Mist a UK rapper and entrepreneur. Since his “Rollin’” hit with Burna Boy in 2021, the Birmingham rapper has launched a motor show called Gassed Up on BBC Three and featured on countless tracks with everyone from Nathan Dawe to Bugzy Malone to fellow Brummie spitter Mowgs. Now ready with his long-awaited debut album, Redemption, they discuss his newfound faith, his mistakes in his younger years and his ongoing journey to becoming a better man.
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In this episode, Marvyn takes us on a personal journey as a parent, sharing valuable insights and discoveries on how to effectively support his children's academic development. He shares key things to consider when it comes to nurturing a child's learning and intellectual growth, from the perspective of a dedicated dad.
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In this episode, Marvyn is in conversation with Linda, the creator of the "Debate Mate" card game. The game comprises a collection of thought-provoking questions designed for dating scenarios, to help build stronger connections and deeper insights into one another.
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In this episode, Marcus explores the importance of emotional openness and vulnerability within relationships. Drawing from his own experiences, he sheds light on the stereotypes and societal expectations that often pressure young Black men to suppress their emotions and highlights the transformative power of embracing emotional expression and the impact it can have on fostering deeper connections with others.
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In this episode, Marcus explores the complexities of modern masculinity and the journey of self-discovery. From discussing his own experiences with gender stereotypes, toxic masculinity and fatherhood.
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In this episode, Louis is joined by Peter Nicks an Emmy Award-winning cinematographer/producer/director known for his trilogy of cinema vérité films set in Oakland, CA. His critically acclaimed feature documentary “The Waiting Room” won an Independent Spirit Award and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2012, among a multitude of remarkable achievements. They discuss his role and creative direction in the making of "Stephen Curry: Underrated", on Apple TV.
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Marvyn is joined by Amani Simpson, a dedicated servant leader who consistently seeks opportunities to enrich the lives of others through his personal experiences, compassionate demeanour, and influential connections. Amani works with several impactful initiatives including Apprentice Nation and The Commission On Young Lives. In addition to his numerous roles, he serves as a director, producer, and writer, embarking on his cinematic journey in 2018 with the acclaimed film "AMANI,". Their conversation revolves around their journey into fatherhood, Amani's thriving film career, and his latest creation, a short film titled "Save Me."
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In this episode, Arnold explores the power of effective communication within a partnership. Communication lies at the heart of relationships and this episode offers valuable advice to help improve communication dynamics for a more fulfilling and harmonious connection.
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In this episode, Louis explores the importance of finding a community for Black fathers, from the challenges faced to the stereotypes encountered, Black fathers often have a unique set of experiences. He speaks on the power of creating supportive spaces where they can share their stories, seek guidance, and build connections.
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In this episode, Arnold is joined by Barry Brewer Jr, who embarked on his stand-up comedy career in 2002 and transitioned to acting in 2004. He gained recognition through his stand-up comedy special titled "Chicago I'm Home" and his role in Tyler Perry's "Bruh". Recently, he appeared in the BET series "Games People Play" and Kevin Hart's Netflix special, "Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History". Together they discuss Barry's experiences as a father, including a custody battle for his eldest son. They also explore topics such as the stereotype surrounding Black fathers, the challenges within the legal system, and the significance of being an influential presence in his children's lives.
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In this episode, Louis explores the challenges faced by modern fathers and shares his experience and tips to help navigate the juggling act between professional responsibilities and the joys of parenting.
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In this episode, Arnold shares some of the lessons learnt and unlearnt as a first-time dad and how these experiences have led to profound self-reflection and personal development.
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In this episode, Marvyn is joined by Colin McFarlane, a seasoned actor best known for his roles as Commissioner Loeb in ‘Batman Begins’ and ’The Dark Knight; Ulysses in the US hit series ‘Outlander’; and as the voice of Cube on the ITV gameshow ’The Cube’; & also the US version with NBA Superstar Dwayne Wade.
Dope Black Dads has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK to raise awareness about prostate cancer and its risks among Black men and dads. This Men's Health Week and Father's Day, we're focusing on clearing up myths and misconceptions about the disease and providing reliable health information.
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In this episode, Marvyn is joined by Prostate Cancer UK specialist nurse, Susan. Dope Black Dads has joined forces with Prostate Cancer UK to raise awareness about prostate cancer and its risks among Black men and dads. This Men's Health Week and Father's Day, we're focusing on clearing up myths and misconceptions about the disease and providing reliable health information.
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In this episode, Cameron celebrates the incredible victories and moments of triumph in the world of parenting. From the small, everyday wins to the monumental milestones. He shares personal experiences and highlights the joys, challenges, and growth that come with raising children.
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In this episode, Cameron is joined by Dr Mark Anthony Gooden, an expert in education leadership. He is the Christian Johnson Endeavor Professor in Education Leadership and the Director of the Endeavor Antiracist & Restorative Leadership Initiative at Teachers College, Columbia University. They explore strategies to promote educational equity, eliminate marginalisation, and emphasise the significance of addressing intersectionality in education.
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New book: Five Practices for Equity-Focused School Leadership
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In this episode, Marcus delves into the fascinating topic of how romantic relationships undergo transformative shifts after the arrival of the first child. He touches on the various ways in which couples navigate the challenges and joys of raising a child together.
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In this episode, Cameron delves into the significance of being actively engaged as parents and the importance of sharing the responsibilities of raising children equally. Drawing from personal experiences and the challenges faced, Cameron provides insightful tips for other parents to discover approaches that work best for their unique situations.
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In this episode, Marcus speaks on ways to appreciate your partner this Mother's Day, he touches on the importance and purpose of this special day. We take this opportunity to honour the remarkable women and maternal figures who have shaped lives, their hard work and unconditional love is appreciated.
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In this episode, Cameron is joined by JB Gill an English actor, established farmer, presenter and singer-songwriter. Most recently, he became a published author with Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House for the fabulous middle-grade series ‘Ace and the Animal Heroes’. They discuss JB's career, farm life and how his personal experience inspired his first children's book, 'Ace and the Animal Heroes'.
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In this episode, Marcus is joined by Akwasi Brenya-Mensa, Ghanaian-British restaurateur - founder of Tatale restaurant and cultural curator. His professional journey has taken him across the globe, with food at the forefront. They discuss the significance of traditional foods to Black culture and how it is an integral part of cultural preservation in our communities, as well as the concept for Akwasi's restaurant, Tatale.
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In this episode, Louis talks about things to consider before deciding to have children. Although one can never be fully prepared for parenthood, he touches on the importance of reflecting on your own relationship with your parents, amongst many other important factors.
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In this episode, Louis is joined by Dr Nanika Coor, a clinical psychologist and respectful parenting therapist at Brooklyn Parent Therapy. She helps overwhelmed parents hear a kinder inner voice and experience more mutually-respectful interactions with their children. They discuss Dr Coor’s interviews with Black mental health experts on the Project Parenthood Podcast based on raising multiracial Black children and how to raise kids with a healthy racial identity.
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In this episode, Louis talks about the importance of spending quality time with family this Easter holiday, whether you observe this as a religious holiday or a break from work and school, it is a great time to spend with the ones that we love.
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In this episode, Marcus discusses the importance of cultivating good character in children and the influences family/parents may have on what they perceive as positive qualities i.e. culture and religion.
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In this episode, Marcus is joined by Lavinya Stennett a writer, author, and founder/CEO of The Black Curriculum. She has written her first book, "Omitted", due to be published in 2024. They discuss the importance of Black British History, decolonising education and focusing on representation in school curriculums, as well as the role of The Black Curriculum.
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In this episode, Marvyn shares a conversation he had on Times Radio regarding the policing crisis in the UK. He speaks on the challenging relationship that Black people have had with law enforcement for as long as he can remember, sharing his own experiences and thoughts on this human rights issue.
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In this episode, Marcus discusses the important aspects of building a healthy family. He shares his experiences from his own family and the crucial elements for creating a healthy family culture.
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In this episode, Louis is joined by Dr. Tyce Nadrich, an assistant professor and the graduate program director for the Clinical Mental Health Counselling program at Molloy University. He is a Licensed Mental Health Counsellor (NY), Board Certified Counsellor, and Approved Clinical Supervisor. They discuss stigmas around mental health care for men in the Black community and the mental health needs of Black fathers during the perinatal period amongst other important issues.
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In this episode, Cameron speaks on the relevance and importance of celebrating Women's Day/Month and talking to kids about gender bias.
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In this episode, Cameron and Louis join forces to talk about what it means to become better allies for women. They tackle recognising male privilege and the importance of allyship.
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In this episode, Louis speaks on the importance of men acknowledging their privilege, in order to realise the role that they can play in the upliftment of women. He shares his perspective on what we can do as individuals to support gender parity.
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In this episode, Marcus is joined by Josh Odam, a diversity, equity, and inclusion professional, former Program Coordinator at In Our Own Voices and the founder and curator of Healing While Black. They talk about understanding toxic masculinity through the lens of Black men and how this hinders their progression.
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In this episode, Cameron talks about celebrating love as a norm for his family. He speaks about the importance of children seeing parents regularly showing affection to each other and teaching them different forms of love languages.
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In this episode, Cameron questions what it means to be a Black man and to be masculine. He shares his own perspective and challenges our listeners to self-introspect and answer this for themselves.
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In this episode, still in the spirit of love, Marcus shares relationship advice he wishes he was given or had listened to in his earlier years. He touches on how his caregivers spoke to him if at all, about feelings and relationships and what he as a father would like to share with his daughters about dating.
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In this episode, Marcus talks about expressions of love and how to set good examples of what love should look like to our children, which is important now more than ever with media and society constantly fuelling toxicity as well as exposing and normalising cruel/inappropriate behaviour.
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In the episode, Marcus discusses how we can teach children to practise kindness in a cruel world, in light of the "Random Acts Of Kindness Day" observed in the month of February. He addresses the different types of cruelty around us and how it affects kids as they grow older and become more aware of the world.
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In this episode, Umar is in conversation with Ben Hurst, an activist, educator, host, presenter, podcaster, model, public speaker and the Head of Facilitation and Training at Beyond Equality (formerly The Good Lad Initiative). They break down what masculinity and toxic masculinity translate to in real-life and how societal expectations affect Black men in more ways than one.
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In this episode, Umar discusses the challenges that are faced by parents nowadays. He questions whether parenting has become more difficult in this generation, with advancements in technology, social media and changes in society amongst many other things.
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In this episode, Umar discusses "Dry January", what the initiative is all about and how to put it into practice. He shares some tips on how to go about participating in Dry January and the possible benefits it may have on our health and our pockets.
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In this episode, Umar is joined by Brother Nia Imara, founder of The National Association of Black Supplementary Schools (NABSS). His vision was to encourage more parents from the African Heritage community to take advantage of the extra supplementary education facilities around the UK and tackle head-on any issues with the heavily reported achievement of African Heritage children in mainstream education. They discuss the creation of NABSS and the work that they do.
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In this episode, Marcus talks about the importance of date night, whether you are married, in a new relationship or a long-term one. He shares some tips on making date night a priority and reconnecting with your partner.
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Marcus is in conversation with Isaac Ouro-Gnao a Togolese-British dance and writing-based multidisciplinary artist, and freelance journalist. He creates empathetic and thought-provoking work rooted in magical realism and African Futurism with a focus on themes of childhood, memory, and mental health. They speak on mental health and the use of art to create awareness and its use as a form of self-expression and self-care.
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In this episode, Marcus talks about taking care of our mental health. He talks about his personal experience with mental health and looking after his family.
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In this episode, Umar reflects on the year as we come to the end of 2022. As with any other year, we have faced individual challenges and others that affected us as a nation, however in the midst of all that it is necessary to be appreciative of any good that we have experienced, in preparation for the year ahead.
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In this episode, Marcus talks about creating vision boards as a fun family activity as we go into the new year. He touches on the importance of having a physical, visual reminder of your aspirations and goals and guides us through creating vision boards.
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In this episode, Umar talks about incorporating culture into festivities and Christmas celebrations. Particularly how they have managed to combine different elements of Christmas traditions, religion, and culture in his household.
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As we continue to embrace the holiday spirit, Umar talks about discussing Santa Clause and fairytales with your children. Helping them understand Christmas celebrations through fairytales and storytelling.
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In this episode, Umar gives us ideas on fun things to do with the kids during the Christmas holidays and using this as an opportunity to spend quality time with your family.
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In this episode, Marcus shares his take on setting resolutions for the new year and why it's a good time to reflect and set new goals. He conducts a short personal exercise, to help with setting and writing down goals.
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In this episode, Marcus talks about celebrating Christmas traditions with children and how we can introduce and teach them about these traditions. He also touches on the importance of setting the tone and sharing your own values and traditions with your children from a young age.
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In this episode, Marcus discusses recharging and relaxing over the festive season. He gives us tips on switching off and getting ready to do nothing, to be fully engaged in spending quality time with family and friends.
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In this episode, Umar is joined by Patrick Adom the co-founder of Very Puzzled, which he created along with Naima, his 10-year-old daughter. They discuss representation and diversity in toys, particularly how having access to multicultural toys from a young age reduces the chances of children being singled out because of how they look or where they come from.
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In this episode, Umar continues the conversation on inflation, particularly how to use your money this holiday season. He speaks on different things to consider in order to spend wisely and save money but still enjoy the Christmas holidays with the family, without the rising cost of living taking away all the fun.
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In this episode, Umar speaks on our current reality, the rising cost of living specifically; energy, diesel, petrol and food costs that are affecting most of us. He touches on the contributors to the rise in inflation and how ethnic households are the most vulnerable, with some people no longer being able to afford to pay bills completely.
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Marcus is in conversation with Darren Sital-Singh, who is the Managing Director of Studio PI, an award-winning artist management agency that specialises in the promotion of underrepresented talent. He is passionate about building brands with purpose and teams with positive and inclusive cultures. They discuss the importance of using art as a form of documenting change and culture, as well as the significance of diversity and inclusion in the creative sector.
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Marcus is joined by Winston Ashby, who is the executive director of the PARTI Program which provides activities for youth that build racial equity, safety, culture, wellness and gender equality. Leveraging nontraditional forms of leadership development and core programs, they focus on mentorship, leadership and most importantly, civic engagement. They discuss his experiences as a father as well as issues around bullying and trauma that affect children in various ways.
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Cameron is joined by Dr Curtis Jasper, a human behaviour specialist who uses a psycho-emotional, psycho-spiritual, decolonized, non-clinical therapeutic approach to individual therapy, group therapy & couples counselling while specialising in Black Man issues with his own experiences. They discuss his personal experiences and how mental health is addressed in the black community.
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Cameron is joined by Adrian Mack, whose foundational purpose is the liberation, freedom, and strengthening of African Americans. He has committed his life to the development of African American youth and families by serving in multiple community capacities and is the co-founder of Black Family Blueprint. They discuss fatherhood, aggressive parenting styles and how this could possibly affect children in different ways.
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Cameron and other journalists are in conversation with film stars, Tyrese Gibson and Terrence Howard discussing The System movie. They address issues around racism, private prisons and the normalisation of majority of black and brown men being put in the prison system as well as its psychological effects. They speak on the message around the narrative of the film and how it's making affected them individually, as black men.
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Marcus is joined by Kareem Chadly, founder of Dad's Evoking Change, an organisation that raises awareness and supports fathers as they navigate the family court system. They discuss Kareem's personal journey and battles as a father and how D.E.C provides support for low-income fathers who want to positively parent their children.
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Marcus is in conversation with Henri Kusi-Appiah, a father and businessman who immigrated to the UK from Ghana when he was 7 years old. His daughter describes him as selfless and caring, regardless of trouble openly showing emotion due to generational trauma and the cultural stigma around being a black man. They discuss his culture shock upon his move as a child to becoming a carer and provider for his family.
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Marcus is in conversation with Dapz On The Map, a Birmingham musician who aims to inspire and spread positive messages through his music and a proud father of 3. They discuss his upcoming debut album, Landed. His musical journey, personal and artistic growth as well as his children's influence.
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Cameron is in conversation with Cedric Nash aka, “Your Millionaire Mentor,” the founder of The Black Wealth Summit annual event, author and investor who educates, inspires and motivates wealth-building in the African American Community. They discuss getting comfortable talking about money, closing the wealth gap and creating generational wealth in our communities.
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Umar is joined by Emmanuel Asuquo, a qualified Financial Advisor who has worked in Financial Services for over 15 years. He gives financial education talks all over the UK and has been featured on multiple platforms to speak as an expert guest. In this episode, they discuss the current inflation crisis and how to cope when you have a family to look after.
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In this solo episode, Umar discusses the sacking of the first Black Chancellor of the Exchequer who only lasted 38 days in his position and how this affects the black community.
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In this episode, Cameron explores the meaning of the word, sorry. He discusses the importance of parents and children making amends whenever either party may find themselves in the wrong, after reflecting on what would have led to the moment of conflict.
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Marcus is joined by Grammy-nominated musician, author, educator, politician and father Pierce Freelon. They discuss his creative process with his children and how he uses music as a tool to tell stories and teach children various things in a fun and interactive way.
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Cameron is joined by Timi Merriman-Johnson, an award-winning financial expert and content creator, author and founder of a UK-based financial education company, Mr Money Jar. They talk about the rising cost of living, financial education and how to manage money in these trying times.
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As we honour Black History this month in the UK, Umar is in conversation with Decoteau J. Irby, an associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois and author. They discuss racial systems in schools and improving Black children's academic and socio-emotional experiences and outcomes.
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As we honour Black History this month in the UK, Umar is in conversation with Decoteau J. Irby, an associate professor in the department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois and author. They discuss racial systems in schools and improving Black children's academic and socio-emotional experiences and outcomes.
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Umar briefly breaks down the statement delivered by the first-ever black chancellor in the UK. He touches on how the mini-budget delivered in the chancellor's statement could impact us and our community.
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Umar shares his thoughts on a member of parliament calling the newly appointed chancellor superficially black. He explains why this is problematic based on the member of parliament’s views of what the black experience should look like.
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Cameron is joined by Botis Seva, an award-winning dance artist, choreographer, director and father. They discuss how his firstborn influenced the creation of a piece on surviving adulthood as a childlike artist. How his children have challenged his idea of creativity and expressing trauma through art.
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In this episode, Marcus shares useful productivity tips and hacks on how to cope with children going back to school. This one is dedicated to parents and carers to keep them on top of their game.
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In this episode, Umar discusses the recent appointment of Black Secretaries of State in the United Kingdom and how significant this is to the black community, given the country’s history. He highlights what a monumental achievement this is, as it has never happened before.
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In this episode, Umar discusses Queen Elizabeth II's death and how members of the Black community, especially those with roots in countries that were recently ruled by the British empire, felt feelings that were complicated and nuanced. Umar points out that one can recognise and respect that she has passed away but one also doesn't need to minimise what the Queen and the monarchy have stood for in relation to people of colour .
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Cameron speaks about his journey on supporting his partner during pregnancy and how father's can also experience baby blues. He highlights the importance of others providing support for both mothers and fathers during this time.
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Umar talks us through the reality of the newly elected prime minister, Liz Truss. How will she make an impact on the issues we're facing today, like rising energy bills and inflation? He highlights how important it is for us as a community to support one another and continue to raise the concerns that we have to our leaders and those who represent us.
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Marvyn Harrison is joined by Azryah Harvey, anti-racism trainer and consultant. They discuss the Black experience, anti-racism work and how media shapes our view of people of colour.
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Marcus is joined by father and comedian, Babatunde Aléshé. Passionate about the power of imagination, Babatunde returned to host Season 2 of Puffin's award-winning children's podcast 'Mission Imagination' - a podcast that invites young listeners into a different magical world every week. They discuss the power of imagination and the value in young listeners spending time off screens and immersing themselves in a world of creativity.
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In this episode, Marcus is joined by film producer, Will Packer, who has produced big screen features such as Think Like a Man and Ride Along. They discuss the new film, BEAST, starring Idris Elba. In the film. Idris Elba plays a widowed husband who returns to South Africa with his two teenage daughters. They find themselves in a fearsome fight for survival in what should have been a journey of healing. The film explores themes of fatherhood and protection set against a backdrop of a return to home, and a struggle to connect with his daughters whose lives are suddenly in jeopardy.
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Cameron is joined by Jorge Redmond and Ali Kamanda. Jorge wanted a way to help show Black boys their worth in society while Ali wanted to teach Black youth that they can achieve anything they set their minds to. They talk about the beauty and importance of Black fathers as role models and how fatherhood has inspired them to write their new book, Black Boy, Black Boy - a powerful anthem for Black children and an ode to moments in Black history.
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In this episode, Umar talks us through some things we might not have known about lasting power of attorney. What are they? How do they work in operation?
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Marvyn Harrison is joined by writer and performer, Jordan Stephens. His new book, The Missing Piece, is a life affirming story inspired by Stephens’s love for his late grandmothers and is an upbeat reminder to us all to enjoy the journey, open our hearts and make friends. The book is illustrated with stunning images by Beth Suzanna, an advocate for diversity.
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Umar Kankiya reflects on his journey to parenthood, exploring his relationships and seeing his lessons embodied by his children.
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In this episode, Cameron provides us with pros and cons of travelling with your children and tips and lessons he has learnt so far.
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Today we are joined by host, Cameron McMillan. He discusses being proactive in your child's education - in normal schooling or homeschooling- and the benefits for you both.
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Trigger Warning: mention of Domestic Abuse
Marvin Crichlow and Ortis Deley are joined by Michael Forbes, founder of Michael's Mentors - a mentorship scheme that assists in keeping young people out of trouble. Together they discuss reasons as to why so many pupils are on the brink of criminality, how parents and teachers can work together to prevent this and what the future looks like for the company.
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Marvyn Harrison passes the mic to the new Dope Black Dads hosts. Today we are joined by host, Marcus Ramtohul and new author, David George. It's been said that being creative helps people find their mind and body connection and allows for healing. David's new book, 'Black Boy, Create!', is written to help boys of colour unleash their creative superpower. The book introduces readers to 7 unique characters who work in different creative industries. Their stories and personas are inspired by real people and the individual paths they took to success.
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Marlon and Marvyn are joined by the founder of REIE Parliamentary Group and Cambridge graduate, L'myah Sherae, and fellow dope black dad from South Africa, Tebogo. Together they explore what it means for black people to occupy spaces in elite schooling systems, how it can impact you and your future.
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We spend a day at Hollyoaks and talk about representation in the media with guests, Thabo Mhlatshwa, Jayshree Patel, Richard Blackwood and Tomi Ade. Their new SoapBOX explores a knife crime storyline with teen characters. "In this day and age, a black man with a knife, there’s only one answer. There’s only one place you go.” - Tomi Ade
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We are joined by clinical psychologist and mother of two, Dr. Hayley Smith. We discuss the concerning increase in children's mental health difficulties being caused by their experiences in school. The impact of having a curriculum/target driven system that is outdated and doesn't cater for neurodiversity, individual needs or children with SEN has left children feeling distressed and misunderstood.
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The rising cost of living has become a catastrophe with gas, electricity and food items becoming more expensive. This winter's increase in energy bills will be even higher than predicted, according to the head of the regulator Ofgem. A typical household is likely to pay £3,363 a year from January 2023. How do you cope with the rising cost of living?
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Father, bestselling author and historian, Ibram X. Kendi, discusses his new book 'How To Raise an Antiracist'. It shows why we need to tackle the work head-on, and not avoid seemingly difficult conversations with children because of our own discomforts.This book is as much about how to raise an antiracist society for our children as it is about how to raise an individual who embraces antiracism. Because nothing raises an antiracist child more effectively than an antiracist society.
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A Black man, Oladeji Adeyemi Omishore, died after being tasered multiple times by the police and falling into the River Thames. He was not armed and dangerous contrary to initial reports. Black people are still killed by police at a higher rate than other groups, this will not stop until we get to the root cause of policing and police brutality.
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Data relating to children is often overlooked and there are cases where companies have taken advantage of children, harvesting a great deal of data. In this episode, James Walker talks about the risks involved with children using the internet and how we can best protect them online.
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A parent has been criticised for being too harsh after his friends saw his daughter take herself to her time out spot after a 'meltdown'.
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Marvyn Harrison has an open conversation on how to deal with divorce and separation in the best possible ways for both you and your children.
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In this episode we are joined by Aidan from Dope Black Queers, discussing identity, being Black in the LGBTQI+ community and what pride means to us.
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In this episode we provide you with tips that will help you navigate challenges with the kids. We discuss ideas on how to entertain the little ones all the way to dealing with tantrums at the supermarket.
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Growing up in the age of anxiety can be challenging for both parents and children. Anxiety can present quite differently depending on the age group. In this episode, we explore ways parents can support their kids through this.
Source: The Mirror.
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Author, broadcaster and educator, Jeffrey Boakye, discussesissues surrounding education, race, masculinity and popular culture. His new book, ‘ I Heard What You Said’ aims to bring a necessary call to action in order to reform an education system that is biased against non-white conceptions.
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In this episode we are joined by award-winning director, choreographer, and writer, Lanre Malaolu. We talk about his experience as a Black actor, his journey into the acting world and his most recent stage production, SAMSKARA. SAMSKARA is an ode to what it means to be a Black man in Britain today. It received 4 stars from the Guardian (and included in their best theatre of 2021) and was chosen as a Time Out London Top pick.
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In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Bushra Shaikh. The two talk about the ways parenting changes as your child enters teenage years, breaking traditional roles in parenting, marriage and separation as well as the roles that cultures and traditions play in our parenting styles.
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Join Marvyn Harrison as he gives out 6 parenting hacks to help with school runs. From setting up the kids uniforms to easy and healthy breakfast meals. What's one parenting tip you live by?
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In this episode, we talk about naming your child after a woman who picked a name for her little boy has been left questioning her choices after staff at their nursery made a seemingly innocent comment. Has anyone ruined the name of your child?
Source: The Mirror, Written by Zoe Forsey
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We're back for part 2 in South Africa with Khaya, Pule and Sfiso. In this episode they join Marvyn in a conversation about the weight of black masculinity in the modern world. What does masculinity mean to you and how has it changed over the years?
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Today's dilemma is about a parent who sparked outrage online after asking if she can send her 4-year-old son to go to the shops on his own. Do you think children should be given more independence at a young age?
Source: The Mirror, Written by Courtney Pochin
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In this episode we talk about a dad who has been told that he uses the 'time out' method too frequently with his daughter after she gave herself a time out after a meltdown. Do you think he's being too hard on her?
Source: The Mirror. Written by Zahna Eklund.
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Shaun Bailey joins Marvyn to discuss the sense of community that has motivated him. They discuss his views on conservative politics and how they are influenced by the values he gained growing up as part of a strong community.
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Happy Thursday! In this episode, we talk about a father who recently helped his daughter when she started her first period. However, his wife wasn't happy, feeling as though he'd overstepped into her role as a mother.
Source: The Mirror, Written by Julia Banim
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Marvyn sits down with Khaya, Pule and Sfiso. The four fathers speak about their childhood dreams and the dreams they see in their children.
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This week Donald is joined by Umar, Stephen and actor Okezie Morro, who created Tata Storytime which is a platform where Black actors tell black stories for kids. The group discuss how his daughter was the inspiration for Tata Storytime, how his upbringing influences the way he parents and the importance of telling diverse stories.
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Trigger Warning This episode contains discussion about suicide and Baby Loss.
Baby Loss is something that affects so many in the Black Community but so rarely spoken about. In this episode Donald shares his own story of Baby loss and shares the podcast with fellow Dope Black Mums Cerise and Katie. They share what they didn't know about Baby loss, the support (and lack of support) they had from family and friends, how they remember their children that have passed and how this loss has influenced the parents they are today.
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If you have been affected by Baby loss or know someone who has, you can get in touch with Sands Baby Loss charity, who are partnering with Dope Black Dads and Dope Black Mums.
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Former footballers, Troy Townsend, Marcus Gayle and Michael Duberry join Donald this week to reflect on the passing of the young footballer Jeremy Wisten They discuss mental health support within football, dealing with rejection, the pressures parents put on their children to make it as professional footballers and who they think is the top Black British footballer of all time.
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Entrepreneur and CEO of Vitae London William Adoasi joins Donald on this week's podcast to discuss everything from his journey to fatherhood, becoming a successful business owner and the importance of family along the way.
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Marvyn welcomes two new dads to the community - actor Oliver Alvin Wilson and personal trainer Tyrone Williams. They discuss how their work and industries have been impacted by the COVID-19 lockdowns as well as their relationships with their non-black partners and what it's like to be a dad in an interracial relationship.
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Marvyn is joined by Death In Paradise actor Ralf Little to discuss issues of race and allyship. They cover controversial casting, reflect on past experiences and explore the 7 steps of allyship.
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Marvyn is joined by Marvin Crichlow and hip-hop artist Mickey Factz. They discuss the passing of well-known artists in the industry including DMX, the importance of having a life plan and understanding the financial tools necessary for taking care of your family if you pass away.
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Marvin Crichlow and Ortis Deley are joined by voice artist and YouTuber Russell Evans. Together they discuss the topic of mortality; how and when to introduce the concept to your children; what values are important to instil in our children, and what they feel is the most valuable trait they have learned from their children.
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In this episode, Marvin Crichlow and Marvyn Harrison chat about the 10-day meditative retreat that Marvyn recently completed. They explore the events which led to it being booked, what it was like whilst on the retreat and how it changed Marvyn's outlook and sense of peace.
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Following the recent discussion around Naomi Osaka withdrawing from playing, Marvyn Harrison and Marvin Crichlow discuss how essential it is to find the right balance between work and your mental wellbeing.
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Marvyn is joined by regular co-host Marvin Crichlow and fellow DBD member Marlon Bruce. Together they discuss the different key points they took from Will Smith's Redtable Talk with Kevin Hart, issues of discounting your own feelings as part of the fatherhood mission and the controversy surrounding Nick Cannon having multiple children in one year
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Marvyn, Marlon and Marvin are joined by comedian Babatunde Aléshé to explore a list of over 30 dope black dads in TV & Film. Together they narrow it down to their top 10 top and discuss how those dads influence their parenting styles in real life.
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Marvyn is joined by Marlon and Marvin to explore their childhood experiences at home and school, discuss what lessons they learned and how that has shaped the way they raise their children.
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A couple of weeks on from the Euro 2020 final and the racial abuse that Saka, Rasha and Sancho faced - Marvyn, Marlon and Marvin discuss their opinions towards the reactions of England fans and what possible solutions there are for ensuring racism of this kind is tackled.
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Marvyn is joined by fellow dads Marvin and Marlon to discuss the topic of Black Love. What is it? What does it mean when someone says they love you? What is the difference between love, intimacy and respect? Together they explore these questions in-depth and roundtable their thoughts.
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Marvyn is joined by fellow Dope Black Dads Marlon, Marvin and Umar. Together they discuss which Avengers they are, black excellence and pose the question - should there be black billionaires?
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In this episode, Marvyn has joined forces with Dope Black Mums lead Nina Malone to sit down with Dope Black Dad member Erod and his daughter Amahra about the process of and experiences with her adoption.
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Marvyn, Marlon and Marvin come together to discuss black hair. They explore their own journeys with their hair, misconceptions about kinky hair textures and how they aim to navigate the hair journey of their children.
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Marvyn, Marlon and Marvin catch up on what they've been watching, discussing what makes them introverts and exploring the way their children are growing up in comparison to how they grew up.
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Marvyn, Marlon and Marvin chat about current affairs revolving around love and jealousy in relationships, what is impacting their football teams and in the second half of the episode are joined by Ibrahim Mustapha to discuss his new book; No Longer Naive - African Football's Growing Impact At The World Cup.
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In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Anna and Dr. Aziza from Black Female Doctors UK, a non-profit organisation of medics, dentists, surgeons, scientists and PhD holders aimed at empowering and supporting each other and our community. We discuss Child Q and how Black students are over policed, usually less supported and disproportionately sanctioned by the educational system.
Black female Doctors has a goal to raise much needed awareness and funds to help support the educational and legal needs of ethnic minority children who have been unjustly treated by schools and the police. The intention is for the funds raised to be given to a charity called 'Just for Kids Law' who exist to help children and young people overcome all the difficulties they face, from problems at school and issues with immigration status to trouble with the police. They are also the charity representing Child Q, whose appalling treatment from her school and the police, being strip searched, has left us all heartbroken and devastated.
Follow this link to support and learn more about this initiative.
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In this episode, we are joined by Ken Okoroafor, The Humble Penny. Having achieved financial independence at age 34, Ken is now on a mission to help 10,000 stressed professionals, entrepreneurs, and families. We discuss financial literacy and the journey to financial independence. What's your relationship to money and how did it develop?
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#AD This special episode of Dope Black Dads is sponsored by Starling Bank. Today, we are joined by my children, Blake, 6, and Ocean, 4, who embark on a daring mission to learn about money with the help of the Starling Kite card. Starling Kite is a debit card made for 6-16 year olds and linked to your own Starling account, all with the aim of helping kids learn to spend like an adult and understand the value of money.
In the #StarlingKidsTakeover Challenge, Blake and Ocean took over the family budget! We learned so much without it feeling like a lesson, everything went swimmingly, that is until my own kid denied me a haircut! They learned enough to be reticent to splashing cash on their dad! Tune in to hear how our journey went, check out this handy worksheet to help you complete the challenge https://www.starlingbank.com/docs/KidsTakeover.pdf or learn more about the Kite Card here https://www.starlingbank.com/current-account/kite-debit-card-for-kids/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=IGstory&utm_campaign=sm.
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In this special episode, Dope Black Dads dives into anti-abuse initiative, ‘Enough’, which was recently launched by the government as part of their commitment to tackling crimes of violence against women and girls. The initiative differs from other anti-abuse initiatives in the respect that it highlights the responsibility of reporting or taking action against abusive behaviours. Marvyn is joined by Transformational Life Coach, Dilys Sillah, who will be talking us through the different forms of abusive behaviour, how it impacts individuals & society and what to do if you experience or witness abuse. For more information, please visit www.gov.uk/enough.
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Marvyn Harrison is joined by Aisha O'Reilly. The two talk about co-parenting, the roles that mothers and fathers play and the values they establish in their children's lives. The two also discuss topics that many people shy away from, including what to do as a family when things go wrong.
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Marvyn Harrison, is in Johannesburg, South Africa this episode, and is joined by Lebogang Rasethaba, Thabo Ngobeni and Kagiso Legotlo. The four discuss loss and how to deal with it as they honour one of their deceased colleagues, Wandile. They also touch on how COVID restrictions have turned grieving into an even more isolated process, as well as grief in relation to men, who they find for the most part feel unable to express their pain freely.
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Marvyn Harrison and Marvin Crichlow discuss topics ranging from the overt racial biases harboured by the global society, and how they play out in the contrasting treatment on display in the midst of Kurt Zouma's controversy, to the online reactions to the leak of an intimate tape of Isiah Rashad, and the homophobic tone that seemed to characterise a number of them, in contrast to many others that showed a collective care for mental health.
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Marvyn Harrison and Marvin Crichlow discuss topics ranging from the overt racial biases harboured by the global society, and how they play out in the contrasting treatment on display in the midst of Kurt Zouma's controversy, to the online reactions to the leak of an intimate tape of Isiah Rashad, and the homophobic tone that seemed to characterise a number of them, in contrast to many others that showed a collective care for mental health.
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Marvyn Harrison is joined by Umar Kankiya, Marvin Crichlow and Marlon Bruce. The four talk about their new year celebrations and how simple moments such as spending time with family, eating good food and reading a book can be good for one’s state of mind. They also discussed how the pandemic has taught us to slow down, re-evaluate life and be present in the moment, especially when it comes to our children. How can we become better parents? One way is simply by asking your child, ‘what do you need from me?’.
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Marvyn Harrison is joined by Umar Kankiya, Marvin Crichlow and Marlon Bruce. The four talk about their new year celebrations and how simple moments such as spending time with family, eating good food and reading a book can be good for one’s state of mind. They also discussed how the pandemic has taught us to slow down, re-evaluate life and be present in the moment, especially when it comes to our children. How can we become better parents? One way is simply by asking your child, ‘what do you need from me?’.
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In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Marcus Ryder and Colin Grant. They cover Black British Fatherhood and how it has evolved from generation to generation. Marvyn, Marcus and Colin also discuss their experiences navigating the British workplace as a Black man.
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In this episode Marvyn Harrison is joined by Marcus Ryder and Colin Grant. They cover Black British Fatherhood and how it has evolved from generation to generation. Marvyn, Marcus and Colin also discuss their experiences navigating the British workplace as a Black man.
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Marvyn Harrison and Marvin Crichlow are joined by Aurelia Michael, Founder and Lead Coach for Aurelia Michael Living (AML). Through AML, Aurelia focuses on helping people in the entertainment industry gain and sustain confidence to produce continuous results. Together they'll talk about the importance of life coaching and how it can be a powerful tool in the pursuit of personal goals.
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Marvyn Harrison and Marvin Crichlow are joined by Aurelia Michael, Founder and Lead Coach for Aurelia Michael Living (AML). Through AML, Aurelia focuses on helping people in the entertainment industry gain and sustain confidence to produce continuous results. Together they'll talk about the importance of life coaching and how it can be a powerful tool in the pursuit of personal goals.
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In this episode, Marvyn and Adam sit down to discuss the important experiences of Black fatherhood that we shouldn't take for granted. Adam goes on to share how Temple Wellness and self-reflection can help you live a motivated life with your family.
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In this episode, Marvyn and Adam sit down to discuss the important experiences of Black fatherhood that we shouldn't take for granted. Adam goes on to share how Temple Wellness and self-reflection can help you live a motivated life with your family.
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New research found that Black people are less likely to be aware of a range of potential cancer symptoms than the general public. In this episode, Marvyn and Marvin are joined by two Dope Black Dads - consultant urological surgeon Professor Frank Chinegwundoh and Errol McKellar, Prostate Cancer UK ambassador and founder of the Errol McKellar Foundation. Together they shed some more light on the issue and give advice on getting checked for prostate cancer.
To find out more about this topic, visit Prostate Cancer UK and use their risk checker: https://prostatecanceruk.org/risk-checker
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New research found that Black people are less likely to be aware of a range of potential cancer symptoms than the general public. In this episode, Marvyn and Marvin are joined by two Dope Black Dads - consultant urological surgeon Professor Frank Chinegwundoh and Errol McKellar, Prostate Cancer UK ambassador and founder of the Errol McKellar Foundation. Together they shed some more light on the issue and give advice on getting checked for prostate cancer.
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A sick child makes any parent or caregiver anxious, particularly if you are a first time parent or looking after very young children. Barnardo's Boloh helpline will provide free confidential non-medical advice, in multiple languages, to support people caring for children suffering from respiratory infections - particularly from the Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities and live in deprived areas.
Boloh helpline can be contacted on 0800 151 2605 or by visiting https://helpline.barnardos.org.uk/
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A sick child makes any parent or caregiver anxious, particularly if you are a first time parent or looking after very young children. Barnardo's Boloh helpline will provide free confidential non-medical advice, in multiple languages, to support people caring for children suffering from respiratory infections - particularly from the Black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities and live in deprived areas.
Boloh helpline can be contacted on 0800 151 2605 or by visiting https://helpline.barnardos.org.uk/
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Marvyn, Marlon, Umar and Marvin come together to discuss winding down for Christmas, the liberation of Barbados as well as their own experiences with body confidence.
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TW: mention of suicide
The Office for Health Improvement and Disparities is launching a new Better Health - Every Mind Matters campaign, heroing the little things we can all do to look after our mental health and how they can add up to make a big difference; helping us to lead happier, healthier lives and cope with life’s challenges. At the heart of the campaign is the free, NHS-approved Mind Plan. By answering five simple questions online, you get a personalised mental health action plan with practical tips to help deal with stress and anxiety, boost your mood, sleep better and feel more in control. Having good mental health helps us to relax more, achieve more and enjoy our lives more. Search Every Mind Matters to see what works for you.
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Marvyn is joined by critically acclaimed actor, David Harewood, to discuss details within David's book Maybe I Don't Belong, released Sept 2021. Together they discuss the Black British experience and how being Black in the UK can have a significant impact on mental health.
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Marvyn is joined by critically acclaimed actor, David Harewood, to discuss details within David's book Maybe I Don't Belong, released Sept 2021. Together they discuss the Black British experience and how being Black in the UK can have a significant impact on mental health.
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Back to school. It comes at the end of every summer, a hectic cycle of buying uniforms, stationery and sports kits for kids before school starts in September. This time though things are different. After eighteen months of social distancing measures and lockdowns, we are now learning to live with covid but with fewer restrictions in place. This episode gives you a few things to keep in mind as your children return to school.
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Marvyn is joined by Jade and Nakita from the Virtuous Mums podcast to discuss 'dad envy'. Together they debate where dad envy stems from, how co-parenting is navigated in 2021 and the best ways to work together to ensure both parents feel seen and supported in their roles.
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Marlon and Marvyn are joined by the founder of REIE Parliamentary Group and Cambridge graduate, L'myah Sherae and fellow dope black dad from South Africa, Tebogo. Together they explore what it means for black people to occupy spaces in elite schooling systems, how it can impact you and your future, and whether profiting off of your activism prevents you from understanding the cause.
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Marvyn, Marlon, and Marvin are joined by South African member Olivier Tshimbidi. They discuss their childhood celebrity crushes, how they influenced their attraction to women and their ultimate goal for relationships with their partners.
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As Dope Black Dads turns 3 this Fathers Day, Marvyn chats to fellow group members Marvin Crichlow and Marlon Bruce about where they are in their current fatherhood journey's, how they celebrate Fathers Day as well as discussing how difficult the day can be for fathers who are trying to gain access to their children.
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This week Marvyn sits down with Marvin Crichlow, creative activist/spiritual mentor Chia Phoenix and journalist/dope black women lead Romantha. Together they discuss where men and women are in society right now, where they'd like to be and whether it's possible for them to ever be 'just friends'?
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Trigger Warning: mention of Domestic Abuse
Marvin Crichlow and Ortis Deley are joined by Michael Forbes, founder of Michael's Mentors - a mentorship scheme that assists in keeping young people out of trouble. Together they discuss reasons as to why so many pupils are on the brink of criminality, how parents and teachers can work together to prevent this and what the future looks like for the company.
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Marvyn is joined by Marvin Crichlow and spiritual influencer Slaywithslice. They discuss masculinity; what it is, who owns it and how our relationships are impacted by our individual connection to masculine energy.
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Marvyn is joined by contributors Lebogang Rasethaba and Oladele Olafuyi. They discuss how money has been used to keep the peace in their households, exploring the root of nursery rhymes that have been used in racist contexts as well as discussing Odele's journey to creating his own range of children's books called Kunda Kids.
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This episode is the second in a two-part mini-series, in which Chris Becks sits down with members of the black community in Australia to talk about their life and experiences whilst living there. This time, Chris is joined by Mibenge Nsenduluka. They discuss her experiences as a black journalist in Australia, what she learned from her time living in New York and the importance of having an on-screen representation of yourself and your culture.
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Host Marvyn Harrison, Ortis Deley and Marvin Crichlow are joined by MP David Lammy to explore the vision for Britain. They discuss ways the black community can come together for change, how the labour party is addressing issues faced by the community as well as exploring what the future for Britain looks like.
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Marvyn is joined by Ortis Deley, Marvin Crichlow and Chris Becks to explore the different conversations that have arisen since the Sarah Everard case. They discuss what men can do to help women feel safe as well as what men can do as fathers to teach both their sons and daughters about society and the police going forward.
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This episode is the first of 2 in a Dope Black Dads mini-series, in which Chris Becks sits down with members of the black community in Australia to talk about their life and experiences whilst living there. This time, Chris is joined by Kristin originally from Washington DC and Remell originally from South London. Together they discuss what it was like to make the move to Australia, racist and micro-aggressive experiences they've had since living there as well as what advice they would give to a member of the black community thinking about moving out there.
Links to guests:
Remell - https://open.spotify.com/artist/5lSdSzA1zGcwvR4s949DjO?si=83SX5-ggTZOEYI_YXjcGhQ
Kristin - http://instagram.com/kjhicks13
Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host this week is Chris Becks.
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Marvyn is joined by one of the leaders of the organisation UTCAI, Chris Otokito. They discuss the weight and importance of community leadership, how black organisations may be able to work together for change and the controversial responses to the iconic image of Patrick Hutchinson who carried the racist protestor to safety during the BLM protests in June 2020.
Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Actor Richard Blackwood and playwright Ryan Calais Cameron join Marvyn ahead of the release of their new film Typical; based on the real-life of Christopher Alder who died in police custody in 1998. Together they share their personal experiences with the police and how they feel the community can combat the issue still present in today's society.
Typical will be available to watch from 24/02/2021 on Soho Theatre On Demand.
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Marvyn is joined by Umar Kankiya to discuss romance and dating ahead of Valentine's Day. They tell stories about their past dating experiences and have a light-hearted chat about dating apps, traditional gender roles in the dating scene, as well as how to get out of a date that isn't going according to plan.
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This week, the dads from South Africa chat with Marvyn to reflect on the fundamental values of the Dope Black Dads community. They talk about how to approach dads with potentially problematic views, the importance of participation within the community as well as how to avoid becoming an echo chamber.
Dope Black Dads is a place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Donald is joined by Melvyn and Umar to discuss the free school meals debate from their perspective as fathers - they also discuss how they have used Facebook portal during the pandemic to connect with others
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Donald and Chris are joined by Marcus Smith who is a 6-Year NFL Veteran, former 1st Round Draft Pick from the Philadelphia Eagles. They have a real candid conversation about how Marcus overcame anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts and embraced therapy. They also discuss how his children renewed his purpose in his life.
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Love Islander and Basketball Pro Ovie Soko joins the Dads on this week's podcast to discuss everything from his relationship with his Dad and the influence he's had on his career, what it was like for him growing up, the importance of platonic female friendships and his new book, You Are Dope which is out now.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Deon Derrico of TLC's Doubling Down with the Derrico's joins Donald and Kwame all the way from Las Vegas to discuss the secrets to how he and his wife raise 14 children, including quintuplets as well as the legacy he wants to leave as a Black Family on reality TV.
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As part of the Dope Black Dads Fitness challenge, the team are also being challenged to get their diets in order, so Donald and Chris have enlisted Nancy Odogwu of Fit Soul Kitchen, who is a trainee nutritionist and health food blogger to give them some advice on improving their diets to loose weight. Together they discuss what foods have 'secret sugars' the impact of alcohol in your diet and the extend to which white foods are a lot less healthy than we think.
This week, the Dope Black Dads reflect on Chadwick Boseman's legacy after his untimely death. They talk about why celebrity deaths make us more reflective of our own mortality and they also reflect on the relationships within their own lives that they would like to improve.
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It's so easy to fall off the fitness bandwagon but given lock down over the last few months, it's been even easier to fall out of shape, But Dope Black Dads have said enough is enough! So this week they are joined by Malika Faye Fitness talks about her journey into fitness, the common mistakes people make and whether you can 'eat yourself fit.' She also sets the team a fitness challenge for September. Will you be joining them??
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Following on from our conversation last week about sending children back to school, we invited Laura Osei who is the headteacher of the Eden School onto the podcast. The Eden School is an independent faith school specifically for Black Children from Nursery to Sixth form. Together with Laura, Donald and Kwame discuss how Black studies are incorporated into the curriculum, the importance of this; how the school teaches it's children how to love the skin that they're in and develop self esteem. They also discuss whether the current school system is failing Black children and whether we should support more schools like the Eden School.
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Your hosts this week is Donald Mbeutcha.
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As September draws nearer, Donald, Umar and Kwame discuss how they feel about sending their kids back to school in a world that's not only in a pandemic, but a society that is post - BLM. They discuss what sacrifices they would make to give their children a good education, the importance of their children being in multicultural environments and the extent to which it's the responsibility of schools to educate children on anti-racism.
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This week your host is Donald Mbeutcha. (Marvyn will be back on your ears in a couple of weeks).
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After removing a member of the group, Marvyn, Donald, Chris and Marvin discuss the importance of protecting Black Women and what Black Men can do to better support our Mothers, Daughters and Sisters in the Community.
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Trigger Warning - this episode contains discussion of domestic violence
Naomi Donald is a survivor. From a young age she experienced several different types of abuse and now works as a Youth Domestic Abuse Consultant.
Today on the podcast we wanted to share the platform with her to tell her story, educate us on the different types of domestic abuse and discuss, what can we do as Black men, and the Black community to better support women who are survivors of domestic violence and prevent more women from becoming victims.
If you are someone who is seeking support, these are some of the charities that Naomi mentioned in the podcast that you can contact:
National Domestic Abuse Helpline - 0808 2000 247
Samaritans - 116 123
Women's Aid
Child Line - 0800 1111
Respect - Men's Advice Line - 0808 801 0327
Sistah Space - specifically to supports Black Women in London
Waits Action - supports Black Women in Birmingham
Sex. We all love to have it. Do we get enough of it? Do we consider masturbation self care? These are just some of the questions that Marvyn, Donald and Chris dive into this week with the help of podcaster Sherryl Blu, host of the Slumber Party Podcast. They openly discuss journeys of abstinence, how they keep their sex lives active during marriage and the importance of intimacy.
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There are 4 different types of wealth: financial, social, time and physical wealth. Often our jobs demand us to focus on financial and social wealth whilst robbing us of time and physical wealth. This week, Marvyn is joined by Donald, Umar and Marvin to discuss what wealth means to them and whether you can have it all.
They also discuss Kanye West's bid for Presidency and what they think is really going on behind the scenes with the rapper.
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Your hosts are Marvyn Harrison, Donald Mbeutcha, Marvin Crichlow and Umar Kankiya
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As Black people we are taught that we have to work twice as hard to get half the results of our white counterparts. This week on the podcast Marvyn and the crew discuss whether we can ever normalize Black people being mediocre, how we adopted this mentality and whether we will pass this work ethic onto our kids.
They also dive into Will and Jada's revealing Red Table Talk. Did they need to address the situation? Who do we sypathise with? And what the hell is an entanglement??
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison and your co-hosts are Donald Mbeutcha, Chris Becks, Umar Kankiya and Marvin Crichlow.
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The founding members of Dope Black Dads South Africa join Marvyn, Donald and Chris this week and they discuss everything from the potential normalization of polyamorous relationships in the future, the aftermath of Will and Jada's Red Table Talk, Kanye West running for President and their most shocking moments of 2020 so far.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Do you feel appreciated as a father? Can a man be a good Dad if they're not a great partner? Do you push your ambitions onto your kids? These are just some of the points that the Dope Black Dads discuss this week as they break down Will and Jada's first 1 on 1 Red Table Talk Special.
You can watch the full Red Table Talk episode here: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1068231806926090
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The last month has been an extremely traumatic time for Black People and it is so important, now more than ever to take care of your mental health. Dr Roberta Babb joins Marvyn, Donald and Umar this week to discuss the mental health impact of racism. Together they discuss managing triggers, the problem with the over exposure of traumatic images, she explains what empathy fatigue is and why black people experience transgenerational trauma.
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When is the right time to talk to your children about race? What's the right age? How do you have these conversations in a way your kids understand? In light of the death of George Floyd it is clear that we are now bringing our children into a different world. Everyone is talking about race, everyone is talking about Black Lives Matter and as black parents it's always been our responsibility to talk to our kids to understand how they will be perceived in a world that sees their skin colour first and foremostly.
Until the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in recent months, a lot of white people had only just realized that they too need to discuss race with their kids so that they can grow up to be anti-racist and advocate for black people. In this episode, Marvyn, Donald and Marvin are joined by Ashley John Baptiste from the One Show to discuss how they navigate these conversations, how they would like white parents to have these conversations and how they teach their children to love the skin that they're in.
Tune into BBC One at 7pm to see the full Dope Black Dads segment on The One Show.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
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Father's Day also means we're celebrating 2 year of Dope Black Dads! Marvyn is joined by the core members of the Dope Black team, Umar, Donald, Chris Becks and Marvin Crichlow. Together they discuss how they are going to use Father's Day to dedicate themselves to being better Dads and how they can better support the mothers of their children in the process.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
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With Father's Day around the corner, Leanne, Olivia and Roshan get together to discuss their relationships with their fathers. They all take the Attachment Theory test and use their attachment styles to reflect on their and how their relationships with their fathers has impacted how they develop relationships as adults.
Attachment styles are developed during your childhood and can have a major influence on how you develop relationships as an adult. This is mainly driven by the relationship you have with your parents/influential adult figures you have in your life growing up growing up. You can take an attachment style quiz here: https://attachment.personaldevelopmentschool.com/ggl.php?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIufjZtdeD6gIVh6ztCh1-IQK-EAAYASAAEgLbZfD_BwE
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
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What can white people do to better the lives of black families? This is the question that Marvyn poses to his guests this week, Shaha Ni and Michael. Together they discuss that allyship really looks like for them and how we should build new black leaders to move forward in our society.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Fat acceptance advocate, influencer and writer Stephanie Yeboah joins the Dope Black Women this week and spills all the tea on what it's really like working with high street brands as a plus size black influencer and dealing with brands who show performative action when it comes to supporting social justice causes. She also gives the women a history lesson on the body positivity movement, being hyper sexualised by men, the struggle to get her book published, and her journey to self love and acceptance.
Fattily Ever After is release on 3rd September and is available for pre-order now.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
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Following the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and several other black people as well as the impact of Coronavirus over the past couple of months, the Dope Black Dads reflect on the mental strain of the loss of black lives. Marvyn is joined by Stephen, Dexter and Max to discuss the psychological abuse of white supremacy, as well as the things we can do to overcome this and what foundations we need to build to do this.
The book mentioned in this episode was: The History of White People by by Nell Irvin Painter
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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George Floyd was killed by police in Minneapolis on 25th May 2020. This murder sparked anti racism protests in the US and UK, campaigns have been flying around social media, brands are making public statements. There's a lot going on right now. This week the Dope Black Women just talk. They discuss how they have been affected by the death of George Floyd, how they feel about the protests and how they're engaging with their non black friends about the subject.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
This week Marvyn is joined by Samantha Johnson (TRT World), Jordan Jarrett Bryan (Channel 4 and Talk Sport) and Leroy Lita (Former England U21, Swansea and Reading) to discuss the impact of a possible restart to the Premier League in June.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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How often should you go for an STI test? What's the purpose of going for a smear test? Does eating pineapples really make your vagina smell sweet? These are just some of the questions that we asked sexual health specialist Sarah Mulindwa from Channel 4's The Sex Clinic.
Together the Dope Black Women discuss how to find the right contraception for you, their experiences going for smear tests and how lock down has been a great time to get to know their own bodies.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
In light of mental health awareness week Marvyn is joined by a few of the founding fathers of Dope Black Dads: Chris Becks, Umar Kankiya and Donald Mbeutcha to discuss what Dope Black Dads do to support their members with mental health. They also dive into how lockdown and coronavirus has affected their mental health and the coping mechanisms they use, as well as the mental load of masculinity and male parenting.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads."
Before you're a black woman you're a black girl and it's so important that you don't forget the young black girl inside of you and let her come out every now and again. This week in light of mental health awareness week, a very inspiration Dope Black Woman joins the show to discuss mental well-being in black girls.
Ebinehita Iyere is the founder of Milk and Honey which is a female led expressive safe space that allows black girls to feel empowered and heal from their experiences. Together, the group discuss the importance of teaching our black girls how to feel their emotions rather than telling them that they have to be strong, the adultification of black girls, how we deal with grief in the black community and the benefits of therapy and the first steps you can take if you decide that therapy is something that you want to pursue.
You can find out more about Milk and Honey at @milkhoneybees on Twitter and Instagram.
The Ted Talk that was mentioned on the episode was: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime by Nadine Burke Harris. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95ovIJ3dsNk&feature=youtu.be
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
The original trio of Marvyn, Darwood and Lawrence are back together again! As a group they reflect on some of the untold stories from their series run with BBC 1Xtra including what happened between Richard Blackwood and Beyonce! They also reflect on what's happened to them personally over the last year, from Lawrence loosing his father to Darwood having another child 18 years after his last.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
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It is predicted that coronavirus will cause the biggest financial downturn in 100 years. Since we're in such an unprecedented time where people are loosing their jobs and being furloughed and struggling financially, we bought in Financial Wellness Coach Bola Sol to demystify what coronavirus means for the economy as well as talking us through the financial jargon we're supposed to know but are never taught!
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope .
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
It was recently announced that Kanye West is part of Forbe's Billionaires list. Mr West is one of only 7 black billionaires in the world. At a time where 14 million people in the UK live in poverty, we ask the question, is it important to have black billionaires? We also discuss whether we are more critical of black businesses given that AfroNation is yet to cancel the festival in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. At the time of recording Wireless, Creamfields and AfroNation had no announced postponing their festivals.
This week Marvyn is joined by Darwood Grace, Forbes writer Tommy Williams and Amani Simpson, CEO of Aviard Inspires.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Whilst being in lockdown we’re finding that we’re spending more time with family members we may not usually spend time with and less time with partners and friends. This is a real test of our relationships and learning to forgive is a crucial part of maintaining strong connections. This week the Dope Black Women discuss what forgiveness means to them, how they deal with making apologies and how letting go of the past brings them peace in the present.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
Why can't serial cheaters stand being cheated on? Why don't more men take shared parental leave? Why do men remember football fixtures and not birthdays? As a follow on from last week's conversation where we asked the women, we're turning the tables and by asking questions to some of our Dope Black Dads that women from our Dope Black Network have always wanted to be answered.
This week Marvyn is joined by Darwood Grace, Chris Becks, Dare Dario and Carina White.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community. Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Every few months old anti-black, sometimes colourist tweets get exposed from people who we admire in the industry. These tweets tend to be 8+ years old and this week some black women came under fire, whom we really respect. Internet personality Zeze Millz, who has also be subject to backlash through trolling, joins the Dope Black Women to discuss why cancel culture is so rife on Black Twitter, where this stems from, and why black women receive considerably more backlash then black men, and what we can do to move past this.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
What are your expectations of black men? Do you empower your man? How would you deal with having a partner with opposing political/social views? Do you believe in shared fiances? This week Marvyn is joined by a group of Dope Black Women, Leanne Levers, Dominique Samuels, Janelle and Nkechi to continue the conversation around whether women's empowerment is silencing men's voices. They also answer a selection of questions from the Dope Black Dads group.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrion.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Being in self isolation is one thing, but not being able to date AND you have to stay at home. That's a whole different ball game! This week the Dope Black Women discuss how they're dating whilst in isolation, getting to know someone under lockdown and the things they're doing to satisfy their physical needs. Ladies take note there are some real tangible takeaways in this episode.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
This week Dr Leanne Levers and Darwood Grace join Marvyn to discuss whether in the age where women are more empowered than ever, whether this is causing men's voices to be silenced?
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Can your white friends use black emojis? To what extent do you support black businesses? Can you be pro black and date other races? This week the Dope Black Women discuss what it means to be pro black. They also share how they're coping with self isolation and what they're doing to keep themselves entertained and positive in this uncertain time.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
We're coming to you remotely again this week as Marvyn is joined by Chris Becks, Darwood Grace and Stanley Lumax, who joins all the way from the US. Together they discuss how they're coping with lock down and how they're using this time to connect with their kids.
They also discuss Africa being a testing ground for the coronavirus vaccine and Rihanna's recent comment on having children whether or not she has a partner.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
What would it be like to live in a world where white people are oppressed and black people are superior? This is the world that Noughts and Crosses is set in. Malorie Blackman's famous series of books has been turned into a TV series and this week the Dope Black Women are joined by one of the show's directors, Koby Adom.
Koby discusses how he broke into the film industry as well as the main themes of the TV show such as identity, racism and overcoming adversity.
You can watch all episodes of Noughts and Crosses on BBC iPlayer.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
We cover all sorts in this episode - joined by fellow Dope Black Dads Kwame and Nigel, Marvyn discusses the beginning of the Coronavirus outbreak, Trump's black supporters and the manifesto you would put together if you were appointed to be the Black Mayor.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
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Have you ever had my heart broken? What is the biggest lie you've told recently and to who? These are just some of the questions the Dope Black Women answer this week as they play 'We're not really strangers.' We are not really strangers is a purpose given card game created by an American artist called Koreen who has collaborated with Red Table Talk, about empowering meaningful connections. The purpose of the game is to deepen your existing relationships and create new ones.
Fitness influencers mentioned in the podcast: @just_geen @ciaralondon
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
Recently, Solo 45 a member of the Grime group BBK was found guilty of raping four women and holding them against their will. In this week's episode Marvyn is joined by Raye, Stephen and Hayley from the Dope Black Community to unpack this story and discuss whether whether we keep people in the black community accountable for their actions and whether we acknowledge the allegations that are being made.
Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
We may be in lock down here in the UK, but that doesn't stop us from bringing you new episodes each week! In a Corona free episode, the ladies are joined by fellow Dope Black Woman Adaobi Nwachuku to discuss the pressures that women feel (from society and family) to be a mother. Reflecting upon their different life stories and backgrounds the women discuss whether they want kids, whether they would consider adoption and the similarities and differences in expectations for women between African and Caribbean communities.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
Can you fall in love in a matter of days just by talking to someone? Could you be with someone who is bisexual? Would you be open to having an interracial relationship? In this week's episode, Marvyn is joined by Raye, Hayley and Gaia to discuss the Netflix show Love is Blind. Together they review the stand out couples from the series and answer the question: 'is love blind?'
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
There is a huge lack of black organ donators and huge stigmas around the topic, so in this episode the Dope Black Women dispel some of those preconceptions, reflect on their own attitudes towards organ donation, as well as Leanne's story of being an organ donor herself. We also hear from Rachel Rowson, Regional Manager of the London Organ Donation Team, who talks us through some of the facts and statistics, as well as the change in law that is coming into play in May 2020 in regards to organ donation.
For more information you can visit www.organdonation.nhs.uk
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
What do you do when you know your friend is cheating? What do you do if you don't agree with the way your friend treats their children? Do you distance yourselves from friends that have different political and social views? We need to take more accountability for calling out behavior we don't agree with in our friendship groups, and in this episode Marvyn is joined by fellow Dope Black Dads Kwame Nigel and to discuss this, as well as Nigel's experience overcoming adversity as a teenager to becoming the Dope Black Dad he is today.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
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This week we open up the conversation around mental health and are joined by a very special Dope Black Woman, Vic Sanusi. Vic is a writer, podcaster and creative who is a huge advocate for mental health, especially encouraging more black people to talk about mental health. Together they open up to talk about everything from therapy to anti depressants, to taking time away from toxic friendships and the importance of having a partner who understands and supports your mental health. It gets deep in this episode, but more than anything we want to encourage our fellow brothers and sisters to talk to your friends and family about your mental health and how you're really feeling.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
How do you shoot your shot? How do you date with intention? How do you cultivate successful relationships? We have a slightly different episode this week, where producer Leanne joins the Dope Black Dads to discuss all her questions and dilemmas when in comes to dating. Marvyn is joined by fellow Dope Black Dads Kwame and Nigel, who reflect on their personal experiences to advise on how women can get to where they want to be in terms of dating.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Is Theatre for white people? Why are there such few black shows for us to experience on the west end? Up and coming actress Julene Robinson joins the Dope Black Women this week and talks us through a history of black people in theatre. She also discussed her upcoming devised, show which she has also written and stars in, called The Night Woman, which is a show that explores the concept of darkness with beautiful Caribbean sounds and a deep and powerful performance to bring one woman’s journey into the Dark.
You can watch Julene in The Night Woman at The Vaults Festival on 17th and18th March at 6:20pm. All listeners of Dope Black Women get a 10% discount by using the code TNW10.
https://vaultfestival.com/whats-on/the-night-woman/
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
Can we talk about the late legend that was Kobe Bryant without talking about his alleged sexual misconduct case? Why are we only having these conversations after his passing? The bigger question is how do we reflect on celebrities with troubled pasts after their death? Marvyn takes us through his thoughts on this difficult topic with a contribution from journalist Reya El-Salahi.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community. Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
We would love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Have you ever had sex in public? Have you ever made a sex tape? Been kicked out of the club? In this episode we get to know the Dope Black Women even better as they play a game of Never Have I Ever. The stories are absolutely wild! Also in this episode (and by public demand) Leanne shares her seven top tips to securing a permanent sideman. It is cuffing season after all!
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
With porn being so easily accessible to our kids we need to make sure we're having open and honest conversations with our children about sex, consent and contraception and making sure that both girls and boys understand the importance of this. This we we welcome Darwood Grace, Mod Russel, Gavin Johnson and Stephen Ismail Thomas onto the podcast. Together they reflect on their own personal experiences growing up and how they developed their own attitudes towards sex and how they've used their experiences to educate their own children.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
DJ, Creative, influencer and all round Dope Black Woman, Mercedes Benson joins Leanne, Roshan and Liv this week. Mercedes talks about how she broke into the creative sphere, managing expectations of traditional parents with a non traditional career and her take on 'hustle culture.' She dives deep into how she became a self taught DJ, the challenges she faces navigating the music industry as a black woman and her plans to scale her social enterprise SocialFixt. She drops so many gems of knowledge, this is a great listen!
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
We always want to do the upmost to protect our kids and unfortunately sometimes they can find themselves in compromising or dangerous positions. This week we are joined by fellow Dope Black Dads Darwood Grace, Gavin Jonson and Kwame Kwaten who shed a light on how they talk to their kids about peer pressure and how they support their child if they are going through a particularly traumatic time. Note: There is reference to Grenfell tragedy in this episode.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Whether you're in a relationship or riding solo this year, February 13th is officially Galentines Day! A day to celebrate and spend time with your girlfriends! On the podcast this week Leanne, Shan and Liv discuss their take on Galentines as well as Valentines; they best and worst Valentines memories and how to spend Valentines if you're single this year.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
It's inevitable that your child will go through a phase in their teens where they will want to rebel. Whether that be the type of people they hang out with, getting their first taste of alcohol and maybe even experimenting with drugs. As this phase is inevitable it's important that as parents we respond to this instead of react and the Dads today discuss how they have dealt with these difficult times with their own teens. This week we welcome onto the podcast: Darwoood Grace, Kwame Kwaten and Gavin Johnson and Stephen Ismail Thomas.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
No matter what your relationship with God, religion takes on a different role in your day to day lives. Religion is very prominent in the black community, within our culture and is often embedded in the way we grow up, so this week Leanne, Shan and Liv discuss their personal relationships with religion, what spirituality means to them and how this manifests if you have different religious views to your partner.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
This week on the podcast we are joined by a group of Dads who have teenagers. We welcome Darwoood Grace, Kwame Kwaten and Mod Russel and Stephen Ismail Thomas.
We live in a world where our children are digital natives and social media can do more harm then good it can challenging for our children to lack confidence and self esteem within the way that they look especially in their teenage years. In this episodes we get a group of Dope Black Dads together to discuss how they deal with any insecurities that their child has and how to teach them to develop self love.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
This week, the Dope Black Women are joined by fellow DBW - Social Media Consultant and Podcaster, Pilar Nalwimba. Pilar previously ran social media accounts for ITV and Love Island and currently hosts the Reality Tea Podcast. As a group they discuss the representation of black people on reality TV in general, whether reality TV shows stereotype black people and why certain reality shows are so obsessed with the character of the angry black women. They also discuss the most important question about the most popular reality show on at the moment: is the UK ready for a black couple to win Love Island?
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
Having a presence at your child's school is a responsibility that has to be shared between both parents and is not solely the responsibility of the mother. Very often black Dads are given a negative perception in school life and it's very important that as Black Dads we are present, contribute and are active in our child's school life.
Sam, Stephen and Dare are back to discuss the challenges they have faced with their children's schools, how they overcame them and how we can make sure our child is happy and comfortable at school, at the most vital stages of their development.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
There are lower rates of marriage within black women compared to other races and only 23% of dark skinned women are married. This week, Leanne, Roshan and Liv discuss whether marriage is something we strive to achieve as women in 2020, whether we're still influenced by traditional cultural values to get married and what finding a life partner means to them.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
This week on the podcast we are joined by a group of Dads who have teenagers. We welcome Darwoood Grace, Kwame Kwaten and Gavin Johnson.
In what is some of the most formative years in your child’s life, this can also be some of the most challenging, together the Dads discuss how to develop your teenager into a man/woman. What core values do you teach them? How do we teach them to understand their emotions, show compassion and respect authority?
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
We're back for the new year and as you're planning all your trips, holidays and bae-cations for 2020, the Dope Black Women discuss dating on holiday. From Island romances, to whether cheating counts when you're on holiday to asking the question - would you move to a different country to be with someone? There's even a story where a guy ends up throwing a chair across a rave in rage! You'll have to listen to hear the full story!
In this episode the Dope Black Women also discuss Meghan and Harry's announcement of their plans to step down from their positions as senior royals. What will they do now? Where will they live? How will they be financially independent? We discuss it all in this episode.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
This year on the podcast we're bringing in a variety of Dads at different stages of fatherhood to share their stories, experiences and learnings from being a Dad. This week we welcome Stephen Ismail Thomas who teaches mindfulness to primary and secondary school children, Sam Olagbaju who works with young offenders and Dare Dario, who each have children that are aged 5 - 12.
Together they discuss how to develop emotional intelligence in your kids, teaching them how to be their own person and not bow down to peer pressure, as well as teaching our children how to understand their moods and emotions and being socially aware.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
From investment banker to securing a deal with Netflix for his sitcom, Meet the Adebanjos, Andrew Osayemi joins Marvyn and Chris Beck this week to discuss how he made the transition from banker to creative, how he pitched his sitcom all over the world, before securing a deal with Netflix, as well as the power of working with influencers, the changes that we're seeing in the UK entertainment landscape, and why the UK will never be as far ahead as the US in terms of representation in television.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
When They See Us, The Power of Stormzy, Boris Johnson becoming the Prime Minister. What a year is has been! This week Marvyn is joined by some fellow members of the Dope Black collective to discuss some of the biggest moments of 2019, their personal highlights as well as looking forward to 2020 and what is in store for the Dope Black Collective in the near future.
Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison, who is joined by Nina Malone of Dope Black Mums, Leanne Levers of Dope Black Women and Donald Mbeutcha of Dope Black Dads.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads
If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
However you're celebrating this festive season, we hope you've had a great Christmas and Holiday Season! We're just sharing a quick message to say we're taking a break for Christmas this week, but we'll be back in the new year with new episodes, more podcast guests, and more events and link ups! Share your thoughts on the podcast by using the hashtag #DBWPodcast and let us know what topics you want to hear us talk about by sending us a DM on Instagram or Twitter, we are @DopeBlackWomen1.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
A Hard Brexit. Boris Johnson. 5 years of Tory Government. That was the result of the 2019 General Election. In this week's episode, Marvyn is joined by fellow Dope Black Dads, Chris Becks and music producer Mark T to discuss the impact of the election result on black people, but most importantly how we as a community can build our own ideologies and platforms to break down the systems that oppress us in our society. They also look at the opportunities that could be left by Brexit and how we can best foster Pan-Africanism, and what an all black government cabinet could look like.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your host is Marvyn Harrison.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Page: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
Merry Christmas for all of us at Dope Black Women! In this episode Leanne, Liv and Roshan talk about what Christmas means to them, what the holiday season is like in their households, their weird family traditions and British Christmas vs Jamaican Christmas, as we get into the festive spirit. They also look forward to 2020 and discuss whether New Years Resolutions are useful or not.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope.
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
You'll recognise him from Good Morning Britain, Country File and Songs of Praise. This week on the podcast Marvyn is joined by TV presenter Sean Fletcher, and they covered everything in this episode! From his mixed heritage to his experience growing up in New York, Essex and Zimbabwe, to his relationship with his kids and how he manages his son who has OCD. Together they also discuss what it's like to be black in media, navigating white spaces and his take on some of the most controversial news stories of the year.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison.
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In the black community, family is everything and when a relative gets ill, it is expected that the family members care for that person. However the concept of being a young carer is one that is not very familiar within our community. In this episode, the Dope Black Women are joined by their very first guest, Kemi Forbes. Kemi works for a charity that supports young carers and also cared for her Mother for 10 years. Together they discuss the challenges of being a young carer, and the sacrifices they made, how they balance being a carer with their career and personal life and the importance and value of family.
More young black people are carers than ever before, so in this episode we also discuss what resources you can access if you do find that you are a young carer. The best place to start is seeking out support from your local authority.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope
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With the General Election fast approaching, this week Marvyn is joined by 3 fellow members of the Dope Black Dads group to discuss what could be considered the most important election of this generation.
Together the group discuss the political issues affecting the black community, how Brexit has affected each of the Dads with this group, their thoughts on the political parties and how Brexit has influenced their voting choices. They also share their thoughts on celebrities such as Stormzy showing allegiances to political parties.
Remember to go out and vote on Thursday 12th December. It's so important that you exercise your right to vote.
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Your hosts is Marvyn Harrison.
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Colourism is a concept that has affected black women for decades and is an issue that has affected so many of us across generations. In this episode, the Dope Black Women discuss their personal experiences of colourism; from not being able to find the right shade of foundation to being considered 'less desirable' in the dating world. They also explore the rise of skin bleaching and the prominence of this in the western world compared to Asia and Africa. Most importantly, the women discuss how we can move this conversation forward and how we can unite together as black women, not matter what shade your skin is.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope, Laurelle Brown and Victoria Nzeribe .
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook.
Dope Black Dads have been heading up the discussions around the removal of Rapman's Film Blue Story at Vue Cinema, by writing a formal letter to the company and heading up the social media campaign, aiming to get them to explain the reasoning behind banning the film.
In this episode, Marvyn is joined by fellow Dope Black Dad, Chris Becks and Kike Oniwinde, founder of BYP Network. They discuss their thoughts on the film, whether there should be more films with the theme of gang violence and the CEO of Vue's response to removing the film and how they plan to address this issue.
Since the recording of this episode, Blue Story has now been re-screened in Vue and Showcase Cinemas.
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'I'm not looking for a relationship right now.' 'We're just friends.' 'I want to take things slow.' These are just some of the things men and women say but mean something completely different. In this week's episode the Dope Black Women dissect the most common things that men and women say vs what they really mean.
On Dope Black Chat this week the women discuss whether being transracial is a real concept, as well as the Boycott against Vue Cinema for banning Blue Story.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope
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A few months ago at the House of Commons, Dope Black Dads held an event about what does it mean to be a man. This week, Marvyn is bringing some of this conversation to you the podcast. He discusses his own personal journey into manhood, the stages he thinks you have to go through to be a man and the responsibilities a man must take on board to be an active father, son and partner.
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Would you ever date a friend's ex? How do you tell your best friend that she's wrong? Are you your friend's biggest cheerleaders? On this week's episode, Leanne, Liv and Shan discuss the unwritten rules of girl code, what girl code actually means to them and whether there are any times where it is acceptable to cross the line.
In this week's Dope Black Chat, the ladies discuss the recent controversy in the Mummy Blogger community between Clemmie Hooper, Kelechi and Candice Brathwaite. It came out the other week that Clemmie had been trolling fellow Mummy bloggers and leaving racist abuse on Candice's page. As a result of Kelechi calling this out, her Instagram account was taken down. To deal with bullies Clemmie became a bully and silenced black women in the process. Together the Dope Black Women discuss this issue, what consequences they think Clemmie should face and what more platforms like Instagram should be doing instead of silencing black voices.
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope
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Author of Love Thy Fro, Casey Elisha joins Marvyn and Lawrence for a discussion on raising black daughters, embracing black hair as well as discussing the importance of representation in books, TV, film and theatre.
Love Thy Fro is a children's book, about a young girl named Kemi who absolutely loves her beautiful, big, curly afro hair! A simple book with a simple message, the book aims to teach girls the importance of loving themselves and embracing their “non-typical” hair from a young age.
Your hosts are Marvyn Harrison and Lawrence Lartey.
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'Can I touch your hair?' 'Oh sorry, wrong person.' 'Omg, you're so articulate.' We spend so much of our time at work, and unfortunately, it's not always a safe environment, and these are some of the most common microaggressions we, as black women have to face in the working world.
In this week's episode, Leanne, Liv and Shan discuss bringing their whole selves to work, their experiences of microaggressions, and most importantly how they deal with difficult situations with colleagues. If you would like to find out more about how you can deal with microaggressions in the workplace, this is a very informative video put together by BBC Ideas.
https://www.bbc.com/ideas/videos/how-i-deal-with-microaggressions-at-work/p07sc5vb
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Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope.
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'People who have People Survive.' That's the message that Malcolm Phillips shared with us this week.
In today's episode Marvyn and Darwood speak to the Counselling Programming Lead for Hestia. Hestia is a charity that provides support for people and children in crisis. He has done a lot of work to make therapy more accessible to black people by opening counselling centers in London, developing a black therapy training course and he has also been providing mental health support for the Grenfell survivors since the disaster in 2016.
In this episode they discuss whether black people need therapy, the best way to access black therapists and alternative methods to have a healthy relationship with your mental health.
If you would like more information or are seeking a black therapist, the resources in the episode that were mentioned are:
baatn.org.uk (Black, African, Asian Therapy Network)
ukabpsi.co.uk (UK Association of Black Psychologists)
You can contact Malcolm at Hestia.org
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Your hosts are Marvyn Harrison and Darwood Grace.
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Music is so prominent in black culture and brings us all together at the happiest times of our lives, but also the most difficult times. In this episode Leanne, Liv and Shan share their picks for a Dope playlist - from songs that make them feel empowered, to songs that represent a significant moment in their lives, to songs that people would be surprised that they love (there are some real wildcards in there).
They also dive into hip hop feminism. With the rise of black female MC's in hip hop, such as Cardi B, Nicki Minaj and Doja Cat reclaiming the narrative and owning their sexuality, our Dope Black Women ask the question: 'can hip hop ever be feminist?'
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook. And this time check out the playlist -https://open.spotify.com/user/w7p8iuwpcuksxl1m93cvc0sll/playlist/0srL6SkJjDr4WRmtwcqeMR?si=SD4ABHg3T9OSd79-7iOZ1g. And add your own empowering, significant and out of the box choices!
Having children is one of the moments that will change your life forever. For the first time, you’re now responsible for someone else, and your whole world revolves shaping this person to be their best version of themselves.
In this week's episode Marvyn and Darwood discuss everything from their experiences of the births of their children, how the birth of their second child differed from the first, what they look for when selecting school/nurseries and the extent to which the current education system is serving our children. They also dive into how having children has changed them as men and their outlook on life.
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your hosts are Marvyn Harrison and Darwood Grace.
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Have you ever had sex in your car? In the sea? Or even at work? We all have crazy sex stories, ex's that we would rather forget, some that we will never forget and the ladies bare all in this week's episode.
They talk about what sex means to them, their non-negotiables, and why so many women don't orgasm! It’s important to normalise the topic of sex, especially with black women, so we are bringing together three professional women who are here to discuss sex openly and freely. From being a freak in the sheets to being spiritual and reading books - we can do it all!
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts and Olivia Cope
You can follow Dope Black Women online at @DopeBlackWomen1 on Twitter and Instagram and Dope Black Women on Facebook
From a WhatsApp group with 20 friends to a Global network of Dope Black Dads, Mums, Men and Women. A year really does go fast and what a year it has been! In this episode Marvyn and Lawrence take a look back on the year, the most powerful stories and moments that have been shared as well as taking a look forward to what's in next for the Dope Black collective.
They also answer the all important question that has been discussed in their Facebook group this week: who can be apart of the Dope Black Dads group?
Dope Black Dads is place where we are changing the narrative and having progressive conversations about black fathers, as well as creating a safe digital space for the community.
Your hosts are Marvyn Harrison and Lawrence Lartey.
Join the conversation and community online through our social channels: Twitter: @DopeBlackDads Instagram: @DopeBlackDads Facebook Group: @DopeBlackDads If you want to get in touch with us, email us on hello@dopeblackdads.com or follow our conversations in depth in our private Facebook Group by searching “Dope Black Dads”
How do you identify as first? As a women, as black or does your nationality or career define you? On the very first episode of the Dope Black Women podcast, our hosts come together to discuss what blackness means to them, how their different backgrounds have shaped their perception of their blackness and how they have navigated being black in predominately white spaces, and moreover why they love being black.
The conversation is raw, real and unapologetically black!
The Dope Black Women Podcast is all about bringing black women together to discuss the topics that matter to us, connect and support with each other and through our digital sisterhood.
Your hosts are: Leanne Levers, Roshan Roberts, Olivia Cope, Laurelle Brown and Victoria Nzeribe.
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Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, gave a rare glimpse into her personal life when she admitted that she has struggled to deal with the repercussions of being a new mother in the spotlight.
A snippet of her powerful interview with reporter Tom Bradby was released by ITV on Friday. The clip is a part of the British television channel's documentary, "Harry & Meghan: An African Journey," which will be released in the UK on Sunday.
In the video, Meghan talks about the issues she's grappled with as a new wife, mother, and duchess whose life has been judged and dissected by the media and public since she first began dating Prince Harry.
"Any woman, especially when they're pregnant, you're really vulnerable, and so that was made really challenging," Meghan said in the emotional video. "And then when you have a newborn, you know. And especially as a woman, it's a lot. So, you add this on top of just trying to be a new mom or trying to be a newlywed."
R. Kelly is facing prostitution charges by prosecutors in Minnesota, who have alleged he solicited a teenager who asked him for an autograph in 2001.
According to county attorney Mike Freeman, Kelly invited the 17-year-old to his hotel room and offered her $200 (£164) to undress and dance with him.
After money was exchanged they had sexual contact but not intercourse, Freeman claimed.
Kelly's lawyer Steve Greenberg said the charges were "beyond absurd".
His colleague Doug Anton said it was not clear that R. Kelly had ever met his alleged victim and that the charges might be a case of "revisionist history".
The R&B singer is now facing criminal proceedings in three US states.
Deep-seated racial inequality in the UK has been laid bare in a new report exposing "entrenched" disparities between different ethnic communities.
Significant differences in the life outcomes of British ethnic minority and white people revealed in the Government’s racial disparity audit have prompted Theresa May to urge institutions to help ensure race is never a barrier.
A considerably higher unemployment rate among black, Asian and minority ethnic people than white British adults and lower home ownership among Bangladeshis and black people are among the findings to come out of the report.
How do we become victors with so many things seemingly stacked against us
The R&B singer Chris Brown filed a false accusation complaint in Paris on Thursday against a woman who accused him of rape last week.
On Tuesday, Mr. Brown was released without charge following questioning by the Paris police over an allegation that he raped a woman at a hotel in the city.
The one-page complaint, submitted by Raphael Chiche, Mr. Brown’s lawyer, asks the Paris Public Prosecutor’s office to investigate the claim as a criminal matter. The charge carries a penalty of five years in prison and a fine of around $50,000. Mr. Chiche did not respond to a request for further comment.
Mr. Brown, 29, was taken into custody on Monday and questioned about an accusation of aggravated rape. A woman filed the complaint with the Paris police on Jan. 18, accusing him of raping her at his hotel after they met at a nightclub.
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Stakes are high because parenting black children in a culture of white supremacy forces us to place too high a price on making sure our children are disciplined and well-behaved. I know that I personally place an extremely high value on children being respectful, well-behaved and submissive to authority figures. I’m fairly sure this isn’t a good thing.
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So you find out you have a baby on the way, when a question pops into your head - ‘Am I ready?’ Or even sometimes a statement- ‘I’m not ready!’ If you have experienced this, then you are not alone. At some point the majority of expectant dads have had this thought cross their mind, and yet still go on to be great fathers. These kinds of thoughts just mean that you are aware of the enormity of it all – and it could be argued, this awareness means you will make a fantastic dad!
Having a baby is always a huge life change, and it is completely normal to have one of those ‘what have I done?!’ moments! This is just what your brain does before a major life event, and they don’t come much more major than this.
While these feelings and thoughts are normal, it is also important to think about how you react to them, and gaining understanding of them so you can make choices about how you deal with them is crucial.
There are many possible thoughts and fears which can cross the mind of a newly realised expectant dad and make him wonder if he is ready – so here are some of the key ones:
Binna Kandola, a business psychologist who specialises in racism and sexism, argues that offices are prone to a deep-seated racist culture. “There’s a racial hierarchy. It was developed during the course of the slave trade and it’s a hierarchy of human beings. And wherever I looked, whether it was Brazil or north America or Europe – [or] even South Africa where black people are the majority – the hierarchy is always the same. It’s white at the top, black at the bottom, and everybody else in between.
Such prejudices have clear economic consequences. The poverty rate for ethnic minorities is double that of white groups, according to research last year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which also noted that workers who were not white were concentrated in low-paid sectors. And that was despite generally higher standards of academic attainment than most white groups.
Serious youth violence is a social emergency and the government needs to get a grip on the problem or more teenagers will die, MPs have said. A report from the home affairs select committee said there was a “serious mismatch” between the government’s diagnosis of the problem and its solutions, and its serious violence strategy lacked leadership and focus. Boris Johnson has promised to hire 20,000 police officers and has appointed a new home secretary, Priti Patel, to deliver his vision for law and order. The committee welcomed more resources for police officers but said more action was needed urgently to improve prevention and early intervention services.
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John Barnes: ‘What is more harmful for the black community? Pogba being racially abused on Twitter, or the fact young black kids in inner cities can’t get jobs.’
John Barnes: ‘What is more harmful for the black community? Pogba being racially abused on Twitter, or the fact young black kids in inner cities can’t get jobs.’rare we measuring and creating a hierarch around our trauma?
Jay Z has a partnership with the NFL, THE NFL...AND said we are PAST KNEELING? What? we discuss further and would we ever take these guys off our protected list?
Cultural norms about parenting practices typically influence how children are raised. These norms affect what beliefs and values parents teach their children, what behaviors are considered appropriate, and the methods used to teach these values and behaviors.
Host: Lawrence Lartey
Guests: Marvyn Harrison, Darwood 'Black Jesus' Grace and Ortis Deley
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This was the 1980s, when UK black culture was dominated by the Caribbean and, in particular, Jamaican identity. It concerned me that there was such an acceptance of this model of parenting; that somehow the menfolk could impregnate women and then disappear or, at best, play a minor, semi-detached role in their child’s upbringing. My childhood had given me two models of fatherhood and it was clear which was preferable. The security of having two parents in a committed relationship, all of us living under one roof, provided a solid building block for everything I did; be it schoolwork, friendships or any outside activities. I’m not some puritanical tyrant who believes that all parents must be married, or that loveless or, worse, abusive relationships must be tolerated for the sake of the children.
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I believe 'Brexit' will have a negative economic impact on the UK. As for how it will effect us as Black people specifically; let us have a look at Tory austerity as a reaction to the 2008 financial crisis. Black women and children were hit the hardest. Yet, the crisis and subsequent recession were a direct result of the financial sector and collusion with the political class. Every aspect of government assistance and delivery of services was negatively impacted; from underfunding schools in poor ethnic minority areas to the closing of our youth centres or perhaps the lack of appropriate funds. Oversight and regulations and their relation to the Grenfell tower massacre is an even better example.
Females who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self esteem and lower levels of depression. From childhood to adulthood, females who play sportshave a more positive body image and experience higher states of psychological well being than girls and women who do not play sports.
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Guests: Michelle Moore (@Hellomoore) and Billie Graham (@FCoachBillie)
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Until only a few years ago, beginning with the killing of Treyvon Martin, and with the continued press coverage of other highly unfortunate cases, it seemed to many that the issue of racism was a thing of the past. United States society was now in a post-racism era. After all, the civil rights act of the 1960’s was over half a century old. I can remember thinking honestly, in the almost entirely white town that I came from, that the only kind of racism that existed were the “innocent” jokes about blacks and other minorities. I was completely ignorant of the structural violence and racism that blacks had to live with on a daily basis in many other parts of the country, and looking back, how potentially difficult it would be for a black person to feel fully comfortable in a town like mine.
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Black, Asian and ethnic minority employees are losing out on £3.2bn a year in wages compared to white colleagues doing the same work, according to a study that adds to pressure on the government to introduce mandatory reporting of race pay gaps.
Ministers have been urged to press ahead with proposals to force large firms to report their ethnicity pay gap, after the research showed the extent of the salary disparity for Britain’s 1.9 million black, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi and other minority workers.
After taking account of differences in average qualifications and job types, the analysis by the Resolution Foundation found the gap rose to as much as 17%, or £3.90 an hour, for black male graduates’ pay.
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We constantly get caught up on the latest football news so to release the rival tensions we have put our passions into a football podcast. Contributors are:
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Chris Becks
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Darwood Black Jesus
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MOD
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Nigel David
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Hey man, it’s nice to finally meet you and have an open discussion outside of our forced environments. I know, we see each other a lot and it’s weird that we’re only having this conversation now. But I’m glad we’re having it. It stands to reason that we should be more than cordial and, well, downright friendly to one another too.
Now, I’ll admit that our interactions, while limited, have been somewhat awkward and I think I have an idea why. See, I’m black and you’re not and I get the feeling that you don’t really know many black people or, at least, you probably don’t have many if any black friends. That’s cool. I get it. We’re only 13 percent of the population so we may be hard to find in your social circles. But, here I am and there you are and it looks like you’re about to make a black friend so let’s put our cards on the table and answer some honest questions. Cool?
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Violent crimes, such as murders and gun and knife crime, account for around one per cent of all crime. But the impact of them on society is huge in terms of lives and communities destroyed. So it is concerning that in recent years the number of these offences being reported have started to rise in England and Wales.
This trend is at least partly due to the county lines phenomenon in which drug-selling gangs from major urban areas such as London, Birmingham and Liverpool exploit children, young people and vulnerable adults to commit crimes and supply drugs to markets elsewhere.
Councils have had to prioritise protecting the most vulnerable in recent years and are well aware of the growing number of children in care or young people with mental health problems who are particularly susceptible to exploitation by these criminal networks.
As the case studies in this report show, councils are stepping up to the challenge. There are universal interventions that target whole populations, such as Liverpool’s work with secondary schools across the city. Other projects are more targeted, helping those young people who are beginning to fall into a life of crime.
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Conservative leadership frontrunner Boris Johnson has been called a "racist" in the House of Commons and accused of "stoking division".
In a fierce assault on the Tory candidate, who is widely expected to be the next prime minister, the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford listed a series of Mr Johnson's past remarks.
Mr Blackford claimed the former foreign secretary is "not fit" to enter 10 Downing Street and challenged Theresa May to offer her own view on the man who could replace her.
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Can men and women ever be just friends? It is the eternal question that When Harry Met Sally set out to answer in 1989, and endless romcoms have continued to debate in the decades since (Friends with Benefits, 13 Going on 30 and so on).
According to one new survey, the answer is a straight no. Social network MeetMe polled 6,500 of its users and found that more than half of people said they have fantasised about sleeping with their best friend of the opposite gender. What's more, nearly 40 per cent (four out of 10) reported actually having slept with said best friend, while two thirds admitted they would if the opportunity presented itself.
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Playlists are in the process of slaughtering the rap radio star. An artist’s career can be launched into the stratosphere if a buzzing song is placed on a popular playlist. The world’s biggest streaming service has created an ecosystem integral to the future of most musicians, and so far, Dope Black Dads hasn't embraced this new playing field, until now.
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Racial segregation is the systemic separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, riding on a bus, or in the rental or purchase of a home[1] or of hotel rooms. Segregation is defined by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance as "the act by which a (natural or legal) person separates other persons on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds without an objective and reasonable justification, in conformity with the proposed definition of discrimination. As a result, the voluntary act of separating oneself from other people on the basis of one of the enumerated grounds does not constitute segregation".[2] According to the UN Forum on Minority Issues, "The creation and development of classes and schools providing education in minority languages should not be considered impermissible segregation, if the assignment to such classes and schools is of a voluntary nature".
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A committed relationship is an interpersonal relationship based upon a mutually agreed-upon commitment to one another involving love, trust, honesty, openness, or some other behavior. Forms of committed relationships include close friendship, long-term relationships, engagement, marriage, and civil unions.
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Nipsey Hussle was declared dead 35 minutes after being gunned down outside his LA clothing store last weekend, according to his newly released death certificate.
The document lists the rapper’s death as gunshot wounds to the head and torso, according to TMZ.
Hussle, 33, was pronounced dead at 3:55 p.m. March 31 at California Hospital Medical Center. His death was listed as “rapid” despite efforts by paramedics.
Drake used his concert at the O2 Arena to reveal fellow rapper J Hus has been released from prison, as he joined him on stage
Drake used his concert at the O2 Arena to reveal fellow rapper J Hus has been released from prison.
The British rapper was believed to be remaining in jail until this summer after being sentenced for eight months in jail for carrying a knife in public last December, but during Drake's concert at the London venue on Friday (05.04.19) he brought J Hus on stage to reveal he's been released.
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In a very broad sense, cheating involves betraying a partner’s expectations about the type of contact the cheater has with others. When a husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, violates one’s expectations about what is appropriate, people feel betrayed. Keep in mind that relationships are not based on logic, but are influenced by our emotions. As a result, cheating is difficult to define because people differ in the type of contact they feel it is appropriate for a partner to have with someone else. For example, some people believe that it is unacceptable for a partner to: Flirt with others Engage in sexual talk with someone else Exchange personal e-mails or text messages Deny being married or in a relationship Spend time with specific individuals Engage in specific types of contact—sleeping in the same bed with another person Purchase intimate gifts and presents for others Chat online with someone else (online affairs) Have sexual contact with someone else (physical infidelity) Become emotionally involved with someone else (emotional infidelity) Develop a crush or feelings for another individual Share their most private thoughts and feelings with someone else Become best friends with someone of the opposite sex
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While in Jamaica for Carnival we recorded a few podcasts with the people looking after us and our family. We got an update on the issues facing Jamaica and looked deeping into Jamaican becoming a LGBTQ friendly place.
Early one late summer morning, more than 200 people gathered under the lush canopy of Hope Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica, for a breakfast party.
The revellers ate – ackee, saltfish, fried plantain – and swayed to a soundtrack of dancehall and soca.
Same-sex couples danced together. A transgender woman strutted by in a flowing white dress adorned with a sash bearing the words: “Miss Supermodel Intl 2018”. The park was strung with rainbow banners for the fourth annual Pride JA celebrations. At about midday, the party wrapped up. A light rain eased the heat and the dancers went home to sleep.
It was all a far cry from the country that Time magazine called “the most homophobic place on Earth” in 2006. Yet that label has clung to Jamaica ever since, and with good reason. In a 2013 survey of 71 LGBT people conducted by Human Rights Watch, more than half said they had been victims of homophobic violence. Non-violent discrimination is even more pervasive, with bullying and exclusion faced in education, healthcare and within local communities.
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Black Twitter is a cultural identity consisting of "Black" Twitter users from around the world on the Twitter social network focused on issues of interest to the black community, particularly in the United States. Feminista Jones described it in Salon as "a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community ... [and are] proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes."A similar Black Twitter community grew in South Africa in the early 2010s.[6] Although Black Twitter has a strong Black American user base, other people and groups are able to be a part of this social media circle through commonalities in shared experiences and reactions to such online.
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Marriage comes from Middle English which was first seen in 1250-1300 CE. ... The main goal ofmarriage, earlier on, was to act as an alliance between families. Throughout history, and even today, families arranged marriages for couples. Most couples didn't marry because they were in love, but for economic liaisons.
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If your spouse and baby were drowning but could only save one, whom would you save?
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Cardi B has defended herself after a video resurfaced of her saying she drugged and robbed men who wanted to have sex with her while she worked as a stripper before finding fame.
The rapper faced criticism after the three-year-old Instagram live video recirculated on social media.
"Whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to survive," she wrote on Tuesday.
"I never claimed to be perfect or come from a perfect world."
The original video was made as her career was starting to take off and was her response to someone who said she didn't deserve success because she hadn't put in any work.
"Nothing was handed to me. Nothing," she said in the video, before going on to reveal that she would invite men to a hotel before drugging and robbing them.
In response to the furore, she wrote on Instagram that she had been talking "about things in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living".
She added: "I'm a part of a hip-hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are."
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Marvyn Harrison, Ortis Deley and Darwood Grace unpack if there is a war on masculinity
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Marvyn Harrison goes solo and explains racism and his understanding of where Britain is
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James Anderson, Chris Becks, Dare and Kojo discuss what they believe the external perception of black dads is.
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Marvyn and Donald and discuss how he and his wonderful family survived the loss of a child and the experience they had with health professionals, friends and family. This episode comes with a trigger warning. If you have suffered infantal loss, this episode may not be suited to you. Please chose another podcast from the website.
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Marvyn and Donald sit down and unpick some interesting facts around Valentines day.
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Marvyn Harrison and Nii explore how to de-stress and if Marvyn is too needy.
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We discussed the merits and downfall of using the 'N' word, We are joined by:
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This week we spoke with Mum, Actor and Dope Black Mum in a very honest conversation to look at: - The other side of separation - How relationships can breakdown - The mistakes and lessons learned
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This week we had a powerful discussion about: - Being LGBTQ and black - Coming out to your parents - Kevin Harts homophobic comments - LGBTQ and religion - Coming from Nigeria and Dominica and being LGBTQ - LGBTQ Education in schools - Racism in LGBTQ community
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This week on Dope Black Dads we catch up with one of the core members of the group to discuss: - Coping with Separation - Having a support network - True friends and family - Porn consumption
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This week we discuss what it's like to raise kids while black. Are things specific to our experience or a general parenting experience?
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This episode we speak to founding fathers of Dope Black Dads to discuss: - Raising young women in 2018 - Raising kids in South Africa - The worst parenting mistake they've made - How they knew their partner was the one
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We were in New York and we honoured to speak with the wonderful Giles Family on their experience of parenting in New York. We also covered: - Being black parents
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How to survive parenting in New York
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Equality in New York
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Education
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Cost of living
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Umar Kanyika @UmarKanyika Where we discussed Mental Health and how it's affecting the black community
This week we got together with:
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Whats our home setup?
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How do we co-parent?
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Living in Saudi Arabia
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How do we co-parent?
We dug deep with this one after having some technical difficulties we discussed being a male nanny, White Women bring scared of black men, tactics in raising our kids and more
A group of black dads have come together to discuss the highs and lows of the male parenting experience. We have over 53 contributors to the podcast so look out for special guests and contributions. This episode we cover:
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Gang culture and knife crime - Do you agree with Stacy Solomon or David Lammy MP
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How to raise a dope black 17 year old boy in Hackney
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How to work with the mother of your child when you're not together
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Contrary to popular belief, black men are present and loving fathers, and on Fathers day 2018 we brought together all the black dads in my network to celebrate themselves and on that day we built a brotherhood which has grown to 46 members around the world. This podcast is a chance for the world to hear the stories and perspectives of black dads unfiltered.