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HER With Amena Brown Episode 125: HER Favorite Things (featuring Kennedy Ryan)

This week we are back with a NEW episode and I’m excited to welcome bestselling author Kennedy Ryan into the HER living room! Listen in as Kennedy and I discuss favorite snacks, her favorite place to write, favorite cuss words, and Kennedy’s journey to becoming a romance author. For more info about Kennedy’s work visit: https://kennedyryanwrites.com/. 

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 112: HER Favorite Things (featuring Aisha Harris)

So excited to have author and co-host of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, Aisha Harris in the #HERwithAmenaBrown living room this week talking about her NEW BOOK, Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me. Wannabe is out TODAY! Grab a copy from your favorite indie bookseller and listen in as we chat about snacks, TV, how to know when you’ve hit Auntie status, and more of HER faves.

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 103: HER Favorite Things (featuring Arielle Estoria)

This week I’m happy to welcome spoken word poet, writer, model, actor and author of new book The Unfolding: An Invitation to Come Home to Yourself, Arielle Estoria! Listen in as Arielle and I talk about poetry, music, her new book and a few of her favorite things. Check out Arielle’s new book here: https://arielleestoria.com/.

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 99: HER Favorite Things (featuring Faitth Brooks)

Author Faitth Brooks is joining us in the HER living room this week to talk about her new book, Remember Me Now: A Journey Back to Myself and a Love Letter to Black Women! Listen in as Faitth and I talk about her favorite snack, her favorite Black girl hair style, and the ways she learned to care for herself.

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 71: HER Favorite Things (featuring Cole Arthur Riley)

This week New York Times’ Bestselling author of This Here Flesh, Cole Arthur Riley, is in our HER living room sharing a few of her favorite things! Tune in as Cole and I talk about Philly food, the spirituality of Toni Morrison’s work, favorite cuss words and what spiritual practice looks like for Cole today. To learn more about Cole’s work, visit http://colearthurriley.com.

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Show Notes:

Black Liturgies

This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us by Cole Arthur Riley

Flamin’ Hot Doritos

Dim Sum Garden in Philadelphia

Wah-Gi-Wah in Philadelphia

Moonlight

Senegalese twists

Heaux Tales by Jazmine Sullivan

Toni Morrison

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Octavia Butler

Tar Baby by Toni Morrison

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Pleasure Activism edited by adrienne maree brown

Black Joy by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 36: HER Favorite Things featuring Talia Hibbert

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So excited to talk with New York Times’ bestselling romance author, Talia Hibbert, about her favorite things! Talia and I talk about what she absolutely needs when she writes, her favorite celebrity crush, and I tell Talia my favorite cuss word as if my mama doesn’t listen to the podcast. Lol Listen in wherever you get your podcasts and do some giggling with us. 

Check out Talia’s latest book, Act Your Age, Eve Brown at your favorite bookseller. You can also follow Talia’s work on her website https://www.taliahibbert.com and you can follow her on Instagram and Twitter at @taliahibbert.

Show Notes:

Rihanna

Lucy Lawless

Xena: Warrior Princess

André 3000

Smooth by Santanna (featuring Rob Thomas)

Cole McCade

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

America by Gabby Rivera

Juliet Takes A Breath by Gabby Rivera

b.b. free by Gabby Rivera

Give Her A Crown: author Gabby Rivera

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 28: HER Favorite Things (featuring Bunmi Laditan)

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This week’s episode is full of some much needed Black girl joy as I talk with author and award winning, Webby nominated writer Bunmi Laditan. We talked about Black girl hair, her favorite Beyoncé songs, how she keeps it REAL with her kids, and more of her favorite things.

You can follow Bunmi on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at @honesttoddler and you can check out her website Bunmiladitan.com. Make sure you grab a copy of her latest book Dear God: Honest Prayers to a God Who Listens from your favorite bookseller!

Show Notes:

Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan 

Dear God: Honest Prayers to a God Who Listens by Bunmi Laditan 

Poetic Justice

Formation by Beyonce

Listen by Beyonce

Dreamgirls

Bless Roll (Korean cafe owner prepares drinks on YouTube)

Listening For God: A Ministers Journey Through Silence And Doubt by Dr. Renita Weems

Give Her A Crown: Dr. Renita Weems

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 24: HER Favorite Things featuring Rea Ann Silva

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Rea Ann Silva went from entertainment industry makeup artist to creating a makeup and skin product that revolutionized the beauty industry. As CEO, creator and founder of BeautyBlender, Rea Ann Silva is sharing a few of her favorite things with us this week. Rea Ann is dropping gems on the resources that helped her business journey as well as the music that keeps her motivated and the food that reminds her most of home. 

To learn more about BeautyBlender visit BeautyBlender.com and follow BeautyBlender on instagram @beautyblender. To learn more about Rea Ann, follow her on instagram @reaannsilva.

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HER With Amena Brown Episode 21: HER Favorite Things featuring Meeee

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This week we are in the HER living room talking about a few of my favorite things...which was mostly me talking about food. LOL I share with you my favorite food cities, my mojo city, necessary pizza toppings and who wins the Pizza Battle between NYC and Chicago.

Show Notes:

Famous Fat Dave tours in NYC

Gourdough’s in Austin

The Busy Bee in Atlanta

Gino’s East in Chicago

Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria in Chicago

Give Her A Crown: poet, playwright and novelist Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

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