Black and Nuanced Podcast

Black and Nuanced Podcast

Black + Nuanced Podcast dispels the idea that Black people are monolithic. In her candid and charismatic way, Georgette Pierre, a producer and voice actor, brings listeners on a personal journey, with friends and collaborators in her creative community, to discuss the nuances, joy, and “funny” of navigating Blackness in various spaces.

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July 27, 2023 • 7 mins
As an Afro-Caribbean woman, I’ve had to navigate multiple worlds beyond my comfort and rarely with enough language. When I fell into a dark space at the end of 2022, I was lost and couldn’t understand why. Coming out of that moment, changed me. It changed how I viewed myself and the people, places, and things I interacted with. This solo episode serves as a preview of the nuanced journey I take my guests on, as they open up about ...
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Having immigrant parents, getting a good education was over emphasized in our household. Lucky for me, I was down for traditional schooling, having gone to a four year college then grad school. But after seeing “battle royale" play out between the Biden-Harris administration and Congress over student loan debt cancellation AND realizing how much I owe, I chatted with my co-producer, Wize Grazette of The Indie Creative Network, abou...
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I thought I had my career path figured out in my early 30s. I was making decent money as a freelance contractor at Viacom in New York and I had never thought about leaving my TV production gig until it exhausted me. I didn’t feel like I maximized pursuing my goals of being a radio personality. I also didn’t imagine jumping careers at 33 but I did. Syndicated radio personality, Lenny Green, became a dear friend and unexpected mento...
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I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have lingering PTSD from my past work experiences being the only Black woman or Black person in an all white corporate space. The reality is a lot of Black people do. There are also some that don’t. These experiences marked very transitional moments in my life so I called up Amadi Pate, a TV and film coordinator, and Stephen Williams, a brand marketer, to share their differing experiences of how they...
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Being unemployed [for a third time] in New York crushed me and this time around, the additional bump in benefits, because of the pandemic, was gone. There were more rules and monitoring than before. I was embarrassed by being unemployed at my “big old age” in my late 30s. But after every storm, there’s supposedly a rainbow. It would take me another year to see that. Tonja Stidhum, a writer, director, and producer, whose work I kne...
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In the words of Jay-Z, “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.” I studied entrepreneurship in undergrad because my natural inclination was to always be in charge of some sh*t. But I still had a lot to learn. They say to be an entrepreneur, you need to find a need that exists and build a business around that. Well that wasn’t my motivation. I didn’t want future million dollar checks being assigned to my social security number, ...
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And then the music stopped. In a game of musical chairs, I was left without a seat. But the game wasn’t musical chairs, it was my health. I had experienced a bout of debilitating back pains in 2021 that took me down. I had taken walking, standing and sitting up straight, and being active without being in pain, for granted. But the story doesn’t actually start there. Let’s just say it did. In my late 30s, I thought I had all the do...
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In my best Biggie rapping voice but remixed, “What’s grief? Grief is when you need any noise to go to sleep, grief is isolating yourself for several weeks.” You get the lyrical point. What I didn’t understand, until I navigated that darkness I mentioned in episode two, was that grief wasn’t limited to losing a loved one. My body was grieving some things that my mind was slow to catch up with. It was a rough few months that I was f...
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In the season finale, I finally figured it out. From forming a second business prematurely, to getting laid off a third time, to grieving some sh*t my body needed to release, I was ready to go full throttle with storytelling as a living. The gag is I had been doing it in my own way for so long. I was just ready to own it more confidently and take it to new heights. Knowing people in real life doing the same thing, I invited friend ...
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July 25, 2023 • 1 min
This season, I did something different. I got a little more personal and vulnerable and decided to share stories about the nuances of being a Black woman still navigating various aspects of my life in ways I didn’t expect to or want to. I invited some guests to join me along the way.
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When you stay ready, you ain't got to get ready. That proved to work in WVZ MFG Publishing Co's favor, when Dave Giles II landed songwriting placement on Beyonce's Renaissance album.  With this interview being recorded back in November, when the Grammy nominations were first announced, Dave and his business partner, Daryl Garrett Jr., shared their insight on how they're empowering Black artists through their boutique music publishi...
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January 30, 2023 • 1 min

Reunited and it feeels so good! 

Been gone for almost 2 years and now I'm back with a new and more intentional season, fully rolling out in March. 

To whet your appetite until then, this Thursday it was only right to drop my interview with WVZ MFG Publishing and Grammy nominated songwriter, Dave Giles II, the weekend before the Grammys. He reveals the album and the song that earned him his first Grammy nomination. I didn'...

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Four scores and two years ago, just kidding. Two years ago (not fully into 2021 yet), I took a leap of faith and moved to South Florida June 2018, taking a $75,000 pay cut. I was making bank in TV production y'all. I believed that strongly in what I was about to do down there. Didn't know that it would rock my world the way it did but so grateful it did and even more grateful for the people that I met.  

During my short stint ...

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*Formerly recorded in October 2020*

When I decided to leave New York and my career in TV production to venture into commercial radio in South Florida, I didn't know what I was in for. I was just excited for a new change of scenery of growing through the trenches in the gritty. I had also hit a crossroad in TV production. I felt like the one career I walked away from was radio. I had done college radio from 2003-2009 and after sever...

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When Orlando Lima decided to leave his corporate position at Def Jam last year to pursue the spirits industry, he didn't fathom the road ahead aka the pandemic. Having both worked at VH1 where we met, navigating challenges in and out of the corporate space wasn't new to us but what does that look like when the world is on a stand still?  

No stranger to the podcast, Orlando shares what entrepreneurial life has looked like beca...

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During the early part of quarantine in 2020, Carl Seaton sat down for my new video series, Black + Nuanced in HD, an extension of my podcast, Black + Nuanced.*    TV director Carl Seaton is no stranger to my podcast and when the pandemic hit, we all had to reimagine what content creation looked like as a whole. When we spoke a few months ago, Hollywood was trying to adjust to a "new normal" that had no blueprint. Having worked in T...
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*During the early part of quarantine, DJ Poizon Ivy sat down for my new video series, Black + Nuanced in HD, an extension of my podcast, Black + Nuanced.*   

Poizon Ivy is more than what meets the eye and is definitely more than a DJ. A sound strategist for the Dallas Mavericks on a short list of women that have DJ'd for an NBA team,  she and I discuss the pressure to succeed growing up in an immigrant family like my...

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*During the early part of quarantine in 2020, Jordan sat down for my new video series, Black + Nuanced in HD, an extension of my podcast, Black + Nuanced.*   

I met Jordan during my time at VH1 and Nickelodeon. A renaissance man in his own right, Jordan's story to working as Nick Cannon's director of photography is not for the faint of heart. He and I chopped it up working with Nick, the Dr. Sebi documentary, and his trau...

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*During the early part of quarantine in 2020, DJ Domo sat down for my new video series, Black + Nuanced in HD, an extension of my podcast, Black + Nuanced.*   

DJ Domo puts on for the DMV area but her journey hasn't always been easy. We met during Power Rising Conference in 2018. Having been featured on her Women in Radio panel in DC for her company, Girlaaa World, it was only right to follow up with her. We waxed poetic ...

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Black women are often forced or expected to self-sacrifice usually to our detriment. It sometimes shows up in motherhood, our careers, and our personal lives. Add a pandemic to the mix and it becomes an entirely different beast.  

My next guest is someone who did as she pleased and lived life as she saw fit. When she became a mother, her instinctual nature to protect and provide naturally changed the course of her path but in ...

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