Meet Kovie, culture & identities writer and Deputy Entertainment Editor at @buzzfeednews. Kovie and I luv author Luvvie Ajayi ( AKA @AwesomelyLuvvie) for being lowkey judgemental (for all the right reasons). On today's epi, we share our fave takeaways from Luvvie’s NYT Bestseller (!!!) “I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual.” Kovie wrote about Queen Sugar. Then, Ava DuVernay wrote a thank you Kovie. She totally buried that lede.

 

SHOW NOTES

Luvvie on Side Hustle Pro Podcast (which BANGS)

#BriBooks OPP’s (Other People’s Podcasts) This Week

From Brionna: Tea with Queen and J.

From Kovie: Minorities in Publishing podcast (hi Jenn Baker!), Another Round, The Friend Zone

 

• 1:15- How Kovie and I found Luvvie via #TGIT Scandal Twitter

• 3:30 - Luvvie’s consistency, and taking 10 years to become an “overnight success.”
• 4:45 - Kovie on judgement
• 7:10 - #RelationshipGoals Goals: Are you on the same team?
• 9:45 - Doing the branding v. doing the WORK!
• 11:00 - Being a black woman, using humor and being taken “seriously” as a critic
• 12:15 - Luvvie is an active LISTENER and authentic RESPONDER.
• 12:40 - Kovie on why we are children no longer, how 2016 prepared her for 2017, and why the darkness was never a stranger to us.
• 16:07 -  “Africa is a continent and people have to respect that.”
• 18:45 -  “Do Better Manual” for 2017 - Get disciplined!
• 24:35 - Tired? Get up off your ass, say a prayer, and go to work!
• 25:00 - OOP’s: Minorities in Publishing, Another Round, The Friend Zone, Tea with Queen and J.
• 26: 41 - The ULTIMATE lede burial - Kovie wrote on Queen Sugar. Ava wrote Kovie. Epic.