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Brooklyn Savvy
by Toni Williams
Brooklyn Savvy is a talk show hosted by Toni Williams that celebrates the diverse perspectives and life experiences of the women that call Brooklyn home. Each episode features a multi-cultural, multi-generational guest panel who share their candid opinions and sharp insights alongside a featured guest who provides advice for leading a successful and meaningful life. Tune into Brooklyn Savvy Sundays at 10:00AM and Thursdays at 3:00 PM on WNYC-New York City Life Television on channel 25, check with your cable provider as stations vary. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toni-williams6/support
Episodes
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Jordan Carlos
Jordan Carlos Season 21: Ep. 12 Modern Marraige-Partnerships, Perspecitves: Comedian Jordan Carlos joins Brooklyn Savvy to talk marriage, love and societal shifts with Toni Williams and guests in a candid, humorous convo.
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Redefining Masculinity - Part 2
Redefining Masculinity - Part 2 Season 21: Ep. 11 How Men Are Reimagining: In part 2, Brooklyn Savvy's "Redefining Masculinity" continues with Toni Williams and guests, exploring how storytelling shapes men's emotional depth and equity.
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Redefining Masculinity - Part 1
Redefining Masculinity - Part 1 Season 21: Ep. 10 How Men Are Reimagining: Brooklyn Savvy's "Redefining Masculinity" explores how men are rethinking manhood with Toni Williams, Rasu Jilani, Brian Vines and more.
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Health Disparties: Building Resilience
Health Disparties: Building Resilience Season 21: Ep. 9 Brooklyn Savvy dives into health inequities with Toni Williams, Lurie Daniel Favors and Dr. Torian Easterling exploring paths to real change.
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Black Women in AI: Shaping the Future of Technology
Black Women in AI: Shaping the Future of Technology Season 21: Ep. 8 Brooklyn Savvy spotlights Black women leading AI with Toni Williams, Mutale Nkonde and Toni Thai Sterrett driving equity, ethics and innovation.
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A Greener Tomorrow: Ensuring A Just Transition For
A Greener Tomorrow: Ensuring A Just Transition For Season 21: Ep. 7 Brooklyn Savvy talks environmental justice with Toni Williams and guests, exploring how NY builds greener, fairer communities through local action.
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Beyond Inclusion: A Fresh Look at DEI
Beyond Inclusion: A Fresh Look at Dei Season 21: Ep. 6 Brooklyn Savvy talks with Portia Allen-Kyle on turning DEI from buzzwords into real change, led by Toni Williams and the Panelistas.
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Unbanned: Fighting Book Bans In America
Unbanned: Fighting Book Bans In America Season 21: Ep. 5 Brooklyn Savvy dives into the fight against book bans with Toni Williams, Ellen Salpeter and guests, exploring threats to truth and free expression.
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The Complexities of Allyship in a Post-Election America
The Complexities of Allyship in a Post-Election America Season 21: Ep. 4 Brooklyn Savvy talks with Dr. Jonathan Metzl on allyship, race, and moving from performative acts to real solidarity in a divided America.
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Green Jobs: Paving the Path to a Sustainable Future
Green Jobs: Paving the Path to a Sustainable Future Season 21: Ep. 3 Brooklyn Savvy explores green jobs in NYC with Toni Williams and guests, showing how they drive equity, access, and a cleaner future for all.
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Unpacking Project 2025: What's at stake for our Democracy?
Unpacking Project 2025: What's at stake for our Democracy? Season 21: Ep. 2 On Brooklyn Savvy, we unpack Project 2025's threat to civil rights and democracy with L. Joy Williams, Toni Williams and Lurie Daniel Favors.
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White with Fear
White with Fear Season 21: Ep. 1 On Brooklyn Savvy, Toni Williams talks with Diana Robinson about White With Fear and the barriers whites face confronting racism.
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Real Estate in the Black Community
Real Estate in the Black Community Season 20: Ep. 25 Racism and housing discrimination have long shaped the experiences of Black and Brown home buyers and owners in the United States. On this episode we talk to IMPACCT Brooklyn's leader Bernell Grier on closing the wealth gap and long standing...
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Being A Savvy Leader | Malik Yoba
Being A Savvy Leader Season 20: Ep. 24 Malik Yoba, actor, real estate developer and community champion shares details about his recent work, projects, Yoba development and what makes him a savvy leader.
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Health is Wealth
Health is Wealth Season 20: Ep. 23 Toni Williams reshares the story of longtime Savvy Panelista Jennifer Jones Austin who overcame her battle with cancer, guests who are coping with mental health and more.
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Pregnancy
Pregnancy Season 20: Ep. 22 Intimacy has taken on so many forms with advancements with technology and with the popularity of hookup culture. Toni Williams reflects on her conversations with sex experts and intimacy coaches.
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Pushing Through Black Maternal Health
Pushing Through Black Maternal Health Season 20: Ep. 21 One in three childbirth-related deaths in NYC comes from Brooklyn, and data shows those deaths are disproportionately among Black women especially. Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related cause than White women.
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Sex & Intimacy
Sex & Intimacy Season 20: Ep. 20 Intimacy has taken on so many forms with advancements with technology and with the popularity of hookup culture. Toni Williams reflects on her conversations with sex experts and intimacy coaches.
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Love Is in the Air
Love Is in the Air Season 20: Ep. 19 Join Toni Williams as she takes a trip down memory lane, exploring love, relationships and deep connection.
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Education In NYC
Education In NYC Season 20: Ep. 18 Nikole Hannah Jones and Nadia Lopez are two heroines when it comes to education. Overcoming and exposing long standing societal barriers and marginalization, both are committed to impacting the lives of students and their parents. Toni Williams recounts…
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Voting In NYC
Voting In NYC Season 20: Ep. 17 Chief Democracy Officer Kathleen Daniel joins us to discuss the importance of underrepresented people going to the polls and the history of why this is a privilege and right we should exercise.
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Women's Rights
Women's Rights Season 20: Ep. 15 Roe v. Wade has stirred up conversations nation-wide on the government's role in creating policies about women's bodies. Carmen Perez-Jordan, Co-chair of the Women's March, social justice activist & organizer weighs in on it and talks about the modern day feminist...
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Being A Savvy Leader | Lindsay Greene
Lindsay Greene Season 20: Ep. 14 Lindsay Greene is taking the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the next level as its first woman president. What's her point of view, life experiences, and mission and how is it shaping the Brooklyn Navy Yard?
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Mental Health in the Black Community
Mental Health in the Black Community Season 20: Ep. 12 Self-interrogation is never easy, but it's necessary. Host Toni Williams marks 20 seasons with a powerful retrospective episode, where experts delve into the deeply rooted behaviors and traumas within the Black community.
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Hip-Hop & The Church
Hip-Hop & The Church Season 20: Ep. 13 Hip-Hop is celebrating its 50th anniversary. And the nation at large, some for the very first time, are getting to hear untold stories from pioneers of the most lucrative genre in the music business. In this episode we speak to Hip-Hop dance pioneer and now...
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Surveillance & Stigmas of Minorities
Surveillance & Stigmas of Minorities Season 20: Ep. 11 In celebration of 20 seasons, Host Toni Williams reflects on topics that have weighed on marginalized communities for decades. Too often, stigmas and stereotypes have led to unjust surveillance of some - specifically black & brown men and the...
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Race & Policing
Race & Policing Season 20: Ep. 10 Police violence in New York City is not new and has left the families of some lost waiting years for some measure of justice. Targeted policies continue to criminalize Black and Latino communities and perpetuate poor policing. In this episode we speak to author…
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Cannabis in NYC - Part 2
Cannabis in NYC - Part 2 Season 20: Ep. 9 With smoke shops poppoing up on every corner of NYC in the last few years, and legalization of the exotic flower, How do we destigmatize what Cannabis means to the black community? Is it a drug or a commodity? What does legalization mean for those who…
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Cannabis in NYC - Part 1
Cannabis in NYC - Part 1 Season 20: Ep. 8 With smoke shops popping up on every corner of NYC in the last few years, and legalization of the exotic flower, How do we destigmatize what Cannabis means to the black community? Is it a drug or a commodity? What does legalization mean for those who were...
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Transgender
Transgender Season 20: Ep. 7 In our 20th season celebration, Host Toni Williams reflects on the power of compassion and understanding through the inspiring and resilient stories of Jodi Patterson, mother of two trans-identifying children, and Jennifer Long, a transgender veteran.
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Black Women in Entrepreneurship
Black Women in Entrepreneurship Season 20: Ep. 6 Goldman Sachs has a number of impact investment strategies targeted to Black women. This episode explores this initiative and the underlying discrepancies that created it.
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Lurie Daniel Favors
Brooklyn Savvy launches a new sub-series called It's Just Us featuring new co-host Lurie Daniel Favors. We get to dive into Lurie's journey as an author, racial justice attorney, and social justice activist.
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Affirmative Action
Jennifer Jones-Austin joins her fellow Savvy Panelistas to explore intentional systemic economic deprivation and the impact of the repeal of Affirmative Action.
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Building Bridges
Race is a social construct and that's been made more evident in the Savvy conversations over the 20 seasons. "Uncomfortable Book Club" and Coming to the Table are intervention groups that aim to build bridges.
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Genealogy
For decades, slavery created challenges for Black Americans trying to trace their roots. DNA ancestry tests revealed new answers. Race in the new era of human genetics research is proving that we're all unique, but we're not that different. In this episode, we'll help you construct your family...
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Being A Savvy Leader With Lynn Nottage
Pulitzer-prize winner Lynn Nottage talks about overcoming fear, taking risks and new projects with her daughter, John Legend and more.
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Psychological Autonomy - An Anecdote To Racism
Brooklyn Savvy speaks with Dr. Tracy Norris, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst who talks about the unique issues people of color face when confronted with the onslaught of racism. Dr. Norris asserts the need for psychological autonomy as a mindset that can help one frame a perspective that…
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Women Helping Women Through The New York Womens Foundation
Brooklyn Savvy chats with Grainne McNamara the Chair of the New York Women's Foundation, this organization has awarded $77 million over 31 years, including more than $11 million in 2018. This investment is focused on women's issues, and programs that confront economic, gender and racial justice.
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Medical Intuition - Fact or Fiction - Part 2
Brooklyn Savvy talks with Dr. Iris Davis and Collette Ellis in this two-part episode on what it means to be a medical intuitive and psychic healer. We explore trauma and stress and its impact on the body, as well as heart, and mind coherence when it comes to balancing and regulating the body.
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Medical Intuition - Fact or Fiction - Part 1
Brooklyn Savvy talks with Dr. Iris Davis and Collette Ellis in this two-part episode on what it means to be a medical intuitive and psychic healer. We explore trauma and stress and its impact on the body, as well as heart, and mind coherence when it comes to balancing and regulating the body.
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What's Race Got to Do with It - Part 2
Brooklyn Savvy talks to Dr. Helen Neville in a two-part episode on bi-racial and multi-cultural identities and cultural competency and its importance in today's society.
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What's Race Got to Do with It - Part 1
Brooklyn Savvy talks to Dr. Helen Neville in a two-part episode on bi-racial and multi-cultural identities and cultural competency and its importance in today's society.
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Medgar Evers College - A Social Justice Nexus
Brooklyn Savvy mets with President of Medgar Evers College Dr. Patricia Ramsey as she talks about the college's social justice roots and academic orientation, tune into this episode to hear more.
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The Center for Fiction
Brooklyn Savvy introduces Traci Lester new President of the Brooklyn Center for Fiction who shares the programs, member services, and writing programs for Brooklynites and beyond.
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Brooklyn Savvy speaks with the President of LISC Valerie White who shares how this organization connects communities to resources that lift the quality of life.
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Are Jews White
Brooklyn Savvy talk to Dr. Harriette Mims of the Village Family Support Center who founded a Jews of Color network. There are 7m Jews worldwide, of which 8-20% are considered Jews of Color and this is growing. We explore why the jewish faith is appealing to all types of people worldwide.
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Race is on the Agenda
Brooklyn Savvy features Jennifer Jones Austin, President of FPWA, as she shares the work she is doing with the Racial Justice Commission to revise the City Charter. Racial inequity and discrimination are embedded into our institutions and society. The RJC is revising the City Charter to transform...
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Status of the Haitian Border Crisis
Brooklyn Savvy features our own Jennifer Jones Austin as she talks about her experiences as a part of a delegation that visited the Haitian Border Crisis, and its impact on the Haitian population in New York City.
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Roll Up Your Sleeves
Brooklyn Savvy talk to Yolanda Richard of FPWA who talks about Roll Up Your Sleeves the Vaccine hesitancy and outreach to the African American community. We explore what the real underlying issues are that create the distrust.
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Radical Empathy with Terri Givens - Part 2
Political Science Professor and Author Terri Givens talks about her book Radical Empathy with Toni Williams and the Brooklyn Savvy panelistas. The book focuses on the kind of empathy that encourages understanding the feelings of others and to create the change that allows everyone to benefit from...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Brooklyn Savvy is a talk show hosted by Toni Williams that celebrates the diverse perspectives and life experiences of the women that call Brooklyn home. Each episode features a multi-cultural, multi-generational guest panel who share their candid opinions and sharp insights alongside a featured guest who provides advice for leading a successful and meaningful life. Tune into Brooklyn Savvy Sundays at 10:00AM and Thursdays at 3:00 PM on WNYC-New York City Life Television on channel 25, check with your cable provider as stations vary. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/toni-williams6/support
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