Cognac,Cupcakes,and Conversations Podcast

After a long hot girl/boy summer, It's officially September; which means there's a shift in the air. Prepare your mind and goals as Kel and Ana share an overall horoscope for the month and encourage listeners (and themselves) to look forward to the good things to come.

Philanthropy Moment:

The Bahamas Embassy Counsular Annex

https://www.bahamasembdc.org/contact/locations-consulate-information/

Where would we be, without our ambition? We're not sure, but we know it took that tenacity and hustle gene in us to get us through to new heights. Kel and Ana share their stories on how they went from girls with ambition to ambitious women. We also touched on our weekly ratchetness and rightousness.

On this week's episode we kicked it with local wonder woman and mompreneur Tiara of The Tiara J Brand. Tiara shared so many gems with us on not only entrepreneurship, but also self-care, spirituality, and how to go for your goals! You know we had to chat about Nicki Minaj vs. Joe Budden in ratchetness and rightousness; and our philanthropy highlight is Starting With Today/The Shape Up.

WWW.StartingWithToday.ORG

On this week's episode we kicked it with local wonder woman and mompreneur Tiara of The Tiara J Brand. Tiara shared so many gems with us on not only entrepreneurship, but also self-care, spirituality, and how to go for your goals! You know we had to chat about Nicki Minaj vs. Joe Budden in ratchetness and rightousness; and our philanthropy highlight is Starting With Today/The Shape Up.

WWW.StartingWithToday.ORG

We shooting the shit on this episode y'all. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If it happened this week, we covered it. We also discussed moving pass negativity in our talk topic and highlighted The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence as our philanthropy moment.

https://www.csgv.org/

There's nothing like finally feeling free. After a much needed happy hour, we discussed what freedom means to us. We also had a lengthy tea session in ratchetness and righteousness. Lastly, we covered 5 black owned Bonnet businesses in our philanthropy to counteract that "The Cleopatra" silk wrap nonsense.

It may be a Hot Girl/Hot Boy Summer, but where do we draw the line in the sand? Are we clear on what our roles are? We had 2 special guests, BT and David, to get more perspectives on the topic. We attempted to define what a "hot girl" and a "hot boy" is and well as dished on Righteousness and Ratchetness news. This episode was hilarious!

Chillleeeee it's mercury retrograde and we're all struggling to get through it. Between all the earthquakes and floods, we're not sure if its mercury, cosmic energy or the end of days! Today we discussed what the infamous retrograde actually is, chakras, being spiritually aligned and of course... Ratchetness and Rightousness topics. (ASAP Rocky, Jay-Z Caliva, Big Freedia, Joe Budden and Crissle beef + More!)

Community Highlight: Embrace DC Yoga https://www.embracedc.com/

On the eve of 4th of July, we sat down and did an entire episode of ratchetness and righteousness! Topics covered included Chris Brown, cucumber gate, LGBTQ+ glitter mail to straight pride parade organizers, Lala and Carmelo Anthony, Tia Mowry and ass whoopings, Blueface, Halle Bailey as the Little Mermaid, Nicki Minaj, new music from Daniel Caesar and more. We also recapped the Entrepreneurs Rock awards and highlighted the Hustler's Guild as our philanthropy moment.

https://www.hustlersguild.org/

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Is it really possible to balance love and career? We chopped it up with our beaus Dennis and David to get the male perspective on being an entrepreneur and being in love with one. We discussed our tips on how to make it through the rough patches.

In Ratchetness and Righteousness, we highlighted the BET Awards, more Kardashian/Jordyn drama, Cam’Ron and more.

Sponsored Treat: The Brownie Bar (IG: @YumTheBrownieBar)

Philanthropy highlight: Couples Who Give