Fanshen Cox and guest co-host Christabel Nsiah-Buadi welcome writer, director, and producer Felicia Pride to Sista Brunch for the first remote-recorded episode during COVID-19. Pride traces her path from marketing and posting poetry online to freelance journalism, grad school, book publishing, and authoring six books, including The Message, before a seven-year pause from writing while running a marketing consultancy. After burnout and a layoff in film distribution, she recommitted to screenwriting, publicly reclaimed her identity as a writer, and built her career through classes, coaching, and strategic work. Pride discusses marketing as sharing one’s journey, hiring a publicist, impact producing, and using those skills to crowdfund and release her short film Tender, centered on self-love, intimacy, and Gen X Black queer women. She also shares coping with racial trauma through therapy while working as a staff writer on Grey’s Anatomy and highlights Create Daily as a resource for underrepresented creators.
00:00 Pandemic Pivot Intro
00:39 Felicia Pride Snapshot
02:03 Welcome and Guest Bio
05:04 Origins and Early Writing
06:18 Journalism to Publishing
07:57 Six Books and Burnout
08:44 Consulting Years and Reset
09:19 Move to LA and Layoff
11:53 Reclaiming the Gift
14:57 Marketing Yourself Publicly
17:00 Why a Publicist Matters
19:20 Defining Your Career Story
19:49 Impact Campaigns Teaser
20:12 Impact Producing Explained
20:59 Tender as Brand
24:17 Ownership and Community Funding
27:19 COVID Work and Healing
30:47 Tender Themes and Self Love
32:19 Why Gen X Stories
36:03 Where to Watch and Follow
36:37 Create Daily Opportunities
37:26 Final Thanks and Wrap
