Cognac,Cupcakes,and Conversations Podcast

Allow us to reintroduce ourselves! Sometimes you get so wrapped up in your own brand that you forget to remind people what you're all about. So, we decided to share more about what CCC is, what plans we have and play our CCC Card Game!

In Ratchetness and Righteousness, we covered: Fenty.com, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Joe Budden and Cyn, Nicki Minaj, and of course... Drake #SickoMode

Philanthropy Highlight: Facing History and Ourselves.

https://www.facinghistory.org/

Who wants to be a millionaire? We do! We do! This episode we discussed the Forbes list, Rihanna and Jay Z millionaire and billionaire statuses, and how to make your millions then pay it forward. In ratchetness and righteousness, we went from Dick Yelp to debating on how Lena Waithe handled Jason Mitchell. Grab your cupcakes, cognac and cozy up with us on our proverbial couch.

Philanthropy Moment - www.prosperitynow.org

Sometimes it’s hard to move forward in life especially when your still trying to figure out who you are at your core. This week we unload on tips on protecting your energy and letting go of outrageous self expectations. She's Gotta Have It mini spoilers and Ratchet & Righteousness included.

Philanthropy highlight: Compass is a black non-profit that promotes business professionals to engage with their local non profits to transform communities. www.compassprobono.org

When it comes to disagreeing with your parents, who's really the know it all? This week, we discussed whether or not parents just don't understand and gave our take on having disagreements with our parents as adults and as a parent ourselves. We also discussed how much our parents were right about and paid homage to all they've provided, what the generation before them provided, and what we hope to provide to our children.

Community Highlight: www.plannedparenthood.org

Being a freak is a good thing, but being an educated one is even better! We sat down with Sexpert @RebatheDiva to get schooled on our anatomy and sexual activities. We also delved deep into some of the sex worker injustices, extreme markups on toys, new abortion bans and Reba’s experience in being black and polyamorous.

This juicy episode is one for the books! Ratchetness and righteousness are of course included, with Reba’s business Sexpert Consultants LLC as the community highlight of the week.

In this week’s episode, we discuss learning how to know yourself and big up your self. Seems easy enough in theory, but all too often we are easily susceptible to negative thoughts and downplaying our accomplishments. Get into these positive uplifting vibes and also indulge in a little ratchetness and righteousness along the way.

We're fresh back from our trip to the first Something in the Water festival in VA Beach and we're giving all the deets on what happened, and what didn't. We also give the full scope of the festival goer's experience and what we would do differently. In ratcheness and rightousness we discussed celebrities contributing to Nigel Shelby's funeral, Raz B and Remy Ma's arrest, John Singleton's passing and more.

Philanthropy Highlight: The Greater Washington Community Foundation www.thecommunityfoundation.org/

From folding clothes to spending money, you don't truly know your partner until you live with them. On this week's episode, we dished on how much your relationship can change when you move in with your significant other. But during the Rightousness and Ratchetness portion, we also touched on bullying in schools causing death and suicide, whether or not Kanye's "Sunday Service" is cult-like, Cardi's Shaderoom beef and much more.

Philanthropy Moment: www.probonocounseling.org

We’re gonna help you getcho ish together before the summer comes! In this episode we discussed weight loss struggles of our own and for others, building up the nerve to get a trainer and start working out period, and getting your mind right in order to get your health right. And of course we discussed Beychella on Netflix too plus more Righteousness and Ratchetness!

What happens when your pumpum just won't work? That's the question we asked ourselves after both going through that experience and learning that our peers have gone through it too. So on this show, we're hipping our fellow late twenties/early thirties ladies deal with and accept that low libidos do happen from time to time... but there is hope!

We began the show with sharing our thoughts on Nipsey Hussle's upcoming funeral and leaving a legacy behind. Following that, we jumped head first into the talk topic and discussed discovering how NORMAL it actually is to have a low libido in your early 30s and why. Then we finished off covering how to fix it.

Philanthropy Moment: www.hips.org