Bralessness, Beyoncé, and the Power of Homecoming (featuring Candice Benbow)

11/10/20 • 89 min

This week, I’m talking about how working from home has caused me to leave wearing bras in the past and how I intend to live my best sweatsuit life this fall and winter! In celebration of HBCU Homecoming season and Beyoncé’s album and Netflix special Homecoming, I’m talking with Candice Benbow in an interview from the HER archives. Candice is the creator of The Lemonade Syllabus, Red Lip Theology and founder of Zion Hill Media Group. Listen in as Candice and I talk about the inspiration we find in Beyoncé and the power of coming home to yourself. For more information about Candice Benbow, visit https://candicebenbow.com.

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HER With Amena Brown - Bralessness, Beyoncé, and the Power of Homecoming (featuring Candice Benbow)

Transcript

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Hey, y'all, welcome back to this week's episode of Her with Amina Brown. And oh, we are like fully into the fall fault right now. Y'all know, I live in the South, so by the time some of y'all, some of y'all already got snow, like a few weeks ago, and we're just now like, oh, it's chilly outside. But let me tell you a question that's on my mind right now as I am going into this, you know, seasonal transition. Okay, So initially, when the pandemic