Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson

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Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson.

This week we are all about good vibes, living with vitality and purpose with a side of a we listen and we judge and reddit hot take, so stay tuned for a jam packed episode.

We are joined by Red Young, who is a journalist and founder of Down To Earth, a health and wellness platform.

Follow the host on social media @_alimcpherson and our guest @redisdowntoearth and make sure you foll...

Welcome to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson.

Millennials are going to really love this one. This week we are doing a rewind. Lately, there's this trend going around called 2026 is the new 2016 but we are taking it back even further. This week we are giving our take on what we were loving twenty years ago, as well as the whole ANTM/ Tyra Banks debacle. We also get into relationship dynamics and trust issues.

We will be joined ...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. It is a new year and we are here to get into what everyone is talking about with our own unique nuance and our saucy but sweet decorum.

And what better way to reflect on how we are settling into 2026 and the season of love than with friend to the podcast, Isha Vargas. Valentines Day is upon us, so this episode explores the lovey dovey hot takes, (and some toxic ones) , being a wor...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are taking our Saucy but Sweet Artist of the Week segment to a whole new level. For the first time ever, the host is dedicating an entire episode to spotlighting artist DJ Val Fleury.

The host sits down with DJ Val Fleury to discuss her new single, her illustrious career and what it takes to be a successful DJ in this industry. Her music catalog includes co-writes, re...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. It is officially summer and things are heating up. This week we are going to highlight a well-known place in New York that gets a lot of slack and not enough love despite being a place of abundance in terms of food, culture and authenticity: The Bronx.

Some of you may know, the host is a former Bronx baddie. The host sits down with Amaurys Grullon to discuss how he is transforming...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are feeling all of the feels. The weather is getting warmer and the skirts are getting shorter. The host is in her element. She is in her soft girl era, and reminiscing over her hot girl summer. But what she wants to know is can a girl in her soft girl era have a hot girl summer? Can those two things co-exist? Or should we call it a soft girl summer?

This episode i...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be once again getting into the neverending case of Tory Lanez and Meg the Stallion. Tory Lanez was convicted in December for assaulting Meg and is currently serving a 10 year sentence.

But in the midst of his prison sentence, Tory has released an album, and has had support coming from artists like Chris Brown, Drake, Kodak Black and even media personality Amber R...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. For the first time in our Saucy but Sweet podcast history, we are dedicating an entire episode to a segment we have every so often, Saucy but Sweet, Review of the Week.

The host was lucky enough to see one of the freshest, most inspiring broadshow shows out there: Hells Kitchen, and left speechless (which as you know the host typically has quite to say about everything. The Tony a...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are discussing something many of us, if not all of us can relate to, the evolution of male and female friendships and the misconceptions that come along with that.

Growing up, some of us may be more geared towards folks of our own gender, but as we mature we realized the value of friendships with folks of the opposite gender, and some of us have been valuing those fri...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week is all about women empowerment. But not just women empowerment, we are going to get real about competition in the workplace as it relates to women, and some of our own inherent competitive ways that not only sabotage ourselves but others as well.

Growing up, little girls are socialized to be likeable, friendly and be chosen. And as we grow up we continue to want to be ch...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are talking about the price of fame, and what it really means to be famous in a world where being famous and infamous are two sides of the same coin. Growing up, many of us wanted to be the next IT girl or guy, the one who becomes a household name from our favorite tv shows. But despite the glitz and glamour and being the most sought out individuals, theres a price fo...

Welcome to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are bringing you our first ever flashback episode and it just so happens to be the first episode of the podcast. We are taking it waaaay back. In this episode we are joined by the hosts former Grad school cohort and friends to the podcast Kirk Cohall, Nolle Lilley, and Brooke Henderson to discuss first loves. Are our first loves worth reflecting on, or would we rather keep...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing the fall of two of the most well-known men in entertainment: Sean Diddy Combs and Ye who is formerly known as Kanye West.

In 2024, after allegations from singer Cassie that her ex Sean Diddy Combs abused her, a video was released showing footage of the abuse, and after that Diddy received various other allegations of abuse and sex trafficking and m...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are back with a special episode just in time for Valentine's Day.

Love is in the air, some of us are back with our exes, some of us may have just met the love of our life on the MTA (new yorkers im talking to you) some of us are still keeping our options open and others may just be enjoying the casual dating phase or the single life.

But either way, Valentine's Day is...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. We are back with an episode about a topic we have not really focused on in quite a while, mental health.

This week we will be discussing the anxiety of it all with the fabulous podcaster, journalist and coach Leah Smart.

We recorded this episode in December 2024. Our girl Leah hosts the LinkedIn News podcast, Everyday Better an essential podcast for leveling up in personal develop...

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. We are back with one of our favorite guests, and friends to the podcast: Freelancer and Author Keturah Kendrick.

She is known to the host as Auntie Keturah but to the world as the brilliant mind behind No Thanks, Black Female, and Living in the Martyr-Free Zone, and her latest book, And You Know This: Lessons on Living From Young Folx

We recorded this podcast back in October 2024....

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson! This is our last episode of 2023, and to celebrate the end of an eventful year and beginning of another, we will discuss some of the highlights and downfalls of the past year. We will be diving into what created some of the highest of the highs and lowest of the lows. If you had the year of your life, cheers! If this is a year that proved to be incredibly difficult for you, then w...