Black Mums Upfront

Woman stays at home + Man goes to work = One successful income stream for the family. Or, is that sum an outdated view of family life, living costs and who, in reality, is bringing home the bread.

As we endeavour to be financially savvy for ourselves and our kids, Black Mums Upfront invited Financial Expert and "financially free", Mary Okoroafor (who has manyyy income streams) to answer your question and share her wealth of knowledge.

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Hosts:⁣
https://instagram.com/_carinawh
https://instagram.com/natsduv
https://instagram.com/nanaadwoambeutcha

Guest
https://instagram.com/thehumblepenny

The mums are back from an extended break and feel no shame about the extra "me" time. They're entering into 2022 with the same witty banter, the same witty kids and the same Chris Whitty advising us on you-know-what! 

Grab a cupper...or a bottle, as announcements are made and resolutions are laid.

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Welcome to Black Mums Upfront Christmas Office Party.

Yes, you are invited to our festive frolics of fun! This episode ALL SIX of us get together for gossip, games and sexually explicit Ginuwine “Pony” singing. Standard.

In true office party style it gets messy... truths are uncovered, tea is spilled and we all get to know each other a whole lot more. Did one mum really meet R Kelly (eek)? Did another sleep with their partner on the first date? And did another say no to a marriage proposal from bae?

Join us if you dare... but remember, what goes on at the party, stays at the party. Mince pie, anyone?🎄

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https://instagram.com/natsduv
https://instagram.com/nanaadwoambeutcha
https://instagram.com/from_the_endz
https://instagram.com/vanessahaye
https://instagram.com/laurenthomasjohnson

Ask and you shall receive! We gave you the control this week - You asked us questions about 'special' massages, losing non-mummy friends, raising allies and more. We gave you our answers, we didn't always agree, but we do believe that mums know best!

“Black people are disproportionately affected by climate change" - Some may say we're 'playing the race card', but could it actually be possible that racism means that the air our children breath is worst and the harvest back home in the Motherland is dying? 

With the help of Afua Adom, journalist and climate change 'geek', the BMU ladies learn a valuable lesson in white history, what it has done to our people in the global south and why, as a community, we need to wake up.

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Would you know how to save your child's life, should the unthinkable happen? We would be outraged if teachers and staff didn't know basic First Aid, but many of us parents don't either. Thankfully, in the story you'll hear today, Auntie and Uncle rushed to the rescue with CPR, literally saving the life of Sade Palmer's young son. Listen, learn and repeat as you compress "ah ah ah ah staying alive, staying alive".

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Breastfeeding your husband, publically pulling up your mother-in-law,  and sharing your man's 'ding-a-ling'...Have we shared too much already?! 

In this world of click baits and over sharing, the BMU ladies have a right old laugh and gossip,  ploughing through the stories that have also had you talking.

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Hosts:⁣
https://instagram.com/_carinawh
https://instagram.com/natsduv
https://instagram.com/nanaadwoambeutcha
https://instagram.com/laurenthomasjohnson

Picture the scene: You've just found out you're pregnant, you tell the father, he's not interested and so he leaves you in "peace"! Is your blood boiling yet?! This week's guest, award-winning entrepreneur Abdul Bangura, confesses to doing just that! But before you judge him, listen to his story. His honest, his heart and his humour will move you, when you hear of his dramatic u-turn as he raises his daughter singlehandedly following the death of her mother.

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Guest: 
www.instagram.com/theselfmasteryguide
www.abdulbangura.co.uk 

School is in session - For the parents! Whilst the kids relax into half term, we felt the parents, and we (!), needed some education on racial terms flying around. Is blackfishing a tasty native dish? Is it appropriate to indulge in cultural appropriation? And is it ever possible for a Black person to be racist towards another race?

This is an episode where the mums firmly disagreed on many things, firmly agree on the need for education and firmly question whether past outfit choices offended other races.

And if that’s not enough..... we introduce our newest sultry voiced member of the Black Mums Upfront team. 😍

Now let’s go fishing 🎣

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Hosts:⁣
https://instagram.com/_carinawh
https://instagram.com/natsduv
https://instagram.com/nanaadwoambeutcha
https://instagram.com/vanessahaye

Does wearing an Afro make you an activist? Are plaits political? And is straight hair _so_ last year? This episode we are super excited to welcome academic, activist and author of the powerful book “Don’t Touch My Hair”, Emma Dabiri! Join us as we delve deep into Emma’s upbringing in Ireland as a mixed-race woman, and the roots and reasons why she went on this fascinating hair journey. We comb through the history of Black hair and the choices we, as Black women of the diaspora, have made over the decades. And we ask now, in 2021, are we limiting our right to expression by making hair too political? Or are we just starting to uncover what our hair choices really say about us?

This episode is proudly part of Dove’s Crown campaign, visit www.dove.com to learn more about the CROWN My Hair, My Crown toolkit–  this tool has been designed to build hair confidence and help end hair discrimination.

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Hosts:⁣
https://instagram.com/_carinawh
https://instagram.com/natsduv
https://instagram.com/nanaadwoambeutcha
https://instagram.com/from_the_endz

Guest
https://instagram.com/emmadabiri