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WTOW&EP Lovers & Friends
by Ophelia Childress
WTO Lovers & Friends is a Podcast to highlight Love and Marriage from the perspective of being friends and becoming lovers at a young age. This Podcast is a extension of Ophelia Childress wedding planning business called "What's The O'ccasion Wedding & Event Planning" located in Nashville, TN. Planning a wedding is exciting but then What??? How is being Married? Better yet how did we get to I do? Being married has inspired us to inspire other couples who are married and who seek to be married one day. If you love, LOVE and real transparency pour up a glass relax, unwind, & Enjoy!
Episodes
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When Things Don’t Go As Planned: A Year of Clarity and Reflection
When things don’t go as planned, clarity often meets us in the pause. In this episode, I reflect on a year shaped by interruption, unexpected loss, deepened faith, and quiet growth. This is an honest year-end reflection about trust, endurance, and choosing to end the year softly.
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Why I’m Not a Feminist
The phrase “girl’s girl” is everywhere—but is it real or just trendy? In this episode, I share why I don’t identify as a feminist, what true integrity and accountability between women looks like, and how my own encounters with women have shaped this perspective. It’s not about labels—it’s about...
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Wife Talk: When Love Feels Foreign
What happens when love doesn’t feel safe… or familiar? In this episode, I get real about the struggles of receiving love when your upbringing lacked affection, validation, or emotional safety. We’re unpacking the quiet discomfort, the triggers, the walls—and learning how to heal, soften, and…
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Wife Talk: Home away from Home
In this special episode, "Home Away From Home," I reflect on some of the beautiful souls I’ve met along life’s journey—people who started as strangers but became chosen family. Through intentional connection, shared moments, and honest friendship, these relationships remind us that home isn’t...
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Wife Talk: Faith in Motion: From Fired to Favored
I got fired. But instead of falling apart, I followed faith. In this raw episode, I share how an unexpected job loss pushed me to walk away from my senior healthcare career and finally pursue the dream that’s been in my heart—building my own legacy. This isn’t just a story about losing a job.…
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Wife Talk :More than a Birthday trip: Finding Peace in the pause & Power in Reconnection
This trip was more than just a birthday getaway—it was a much-needed reset. In this episode, I share how stepping away from my daily responsibilities allowed me to truly pause, find peace, and reconnect—with God, myself, and my husband. For the first time in years, I embraced stillness, released...
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Wife Talk: Catch & Release Season
"On this episode of Wife Talk, we dive into the art of 'Catch and Release'—learning to let go of what no longer serves us, from emotions to relationships to old mindsets. As I step into my soft girl era, this is a check-in on growth, soul care, and intentional living."
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Wife Talk: Playing it Safe
In this episode of Wife Talk: Playing It Safe, I share a personal revelation about how my habit of playing it safe went beyond limiting my experiences—it kept me from being good to myself. From neglecting self-care to dismissing the importance of doing kind things for me, I explore how living...
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Wife Talk Self-Care HNY 25
In this episode we get reunited with our goals, plans and all the things. We also recenter our focus on the things we can do to better ourselves! Carve out what that looks like and how to make it happen. We also speak about High Function Depression and what I discovered in my recent therapy…
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Wife Talk # 5 When you Married a Real One
In this episode, we unpack and discover the real work it takes to be vulnerable and to maintain a healthy marriage with a real one.
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The DUTY of Marriage
In this episode, we discussed the duty of marriage and how duty will equip you for a longlasting healthy marriage.
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Wife Talk #5 Discover Me
Who are you beyond wife, mom, sister, & business, etc.? Listen as I journey to discover myself beyond my day to day roles.
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Kickin it w/ Kobe
The life of my oldest son Kobe. Chopping it up with my big Baby and his 8 year old lifestyle lo.
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Wife Talk #4 Adult Friendships
"Friends, how many of us have them?" This episode is solely dedicated to the adult friendships that have helped me personally and within my marriage. It gives insight on how hard friendships can be and how to best navigate to healthy friendships that help you evolve & thrive.
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Sexpectations
In this episode, we unpack our issues ,experiences, and expectations of sex within our marriage. We collected data from our friends and came up with the common issues and a game plan on how to change the narrative. Resources Links https://youtu.be/WSw8aFv-BP8?si=QiWYjTJh9jjMaqwU...
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Wife Talk #3 Grace & Space
You ever needed to pause from your everyday responsibilities as Wife and Mom? Listen up to see how my first solo trip went to Dallas alone! Husband & kid free!
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Wife Talk #2 There is no Guarantee
There is no Guarantee! Trust your spouse to lead! Do you feel yourself having issues with relinquishing responsibilities? This episode is for you.
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Wife Talk #1
A Free style solo check in between episodes from a Mom, Wife, and Business owner POV
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You can't skip this part to Forever
You have heard it before marriage is hard work. This has been the toughest year yet in our marriage. People teach about the glitz and glam of marriage, but how do you stay married when you and your spouse aren't really feeling each other? Check out this episode to how we have overcome a tough...
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Grieving with your Spouse
In this episode we talk about the unexpected loss & journey of grieving Ophelia's father-in-law. We get detailed about grief this time around, and how it has brought on mental health awareness for her entire family.
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Deadbeat Parents
In this episode we talk about the common issues we see in our community as it relates to "deadbeat parenting".
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Childress Party of 4 #BabyNas
We share the journey of how we found out about expecting our second child after being told that we would never be able to have another child! Our journey of infertility and how this became to be a unexpected blessing.
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Becoming a Black Boss
Season Finale! Wrapping up Lovers&Friends first full season! We end this season talking about our beginning journey in becoming Black Bosses/ Entrepreneurs while being married! How we started and how it's going so far and what we look forward to!
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Give your Married Friends Grace
In this episode we talk about the challenges of sometimes maintaining friendships when your life grows from one season to the next.
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Growing Together
In this episode we talk about the beauty of growing up together. From kids to now whole adults we learn to maintain a healthy relationship by allowing one another to grow.
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Principles
This episode we keep it simple and talk about the foundation to any long lasting relationship! Being aligned with principles early on and building any relationship will allow you to grow in the right direction when you start with principles, morals and values.
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Unequally Yoked
This episode we discussed our experience from growing up in two different churches and how we were faced with challenges on how we would survive our relationship and marriage.
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Modern Dating
This Eposide we invited a special guest to keep us on game of the Dating life and how it's changed from 2007 when we first started dating.
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Lovers&Friends BINGO Challenge!
Look forward to some new exciting content next Monday we are working on some great things for our listeners and having special guest appearances. We decided to do a fun challenge for couples to end love month and our WTOW&EP Black love challenge.
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Loving a girl with Daddy Issues
This Eposide we explore my journey on being a "fatherless child". Although my story is quite unique. I later in my adult life understood the constant triggers and patterns of how my interactions with men came from the relationship I had with my father or lack of. With Grace and God's favor…
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Intimacy
This Eposide we share our biggest challenge in our marriage and how we are progressing to overcome it together. There are highs and lows in every relationship and we discover on how getting back to the basics of love for each other on being brutally honest and letting love lead and win.
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Straight off the Dome
This episode is a freestyle. We decided to just talk about different topics in one. Some that we might dig in a little deeper at some point.
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Parenting as Millennials
This episode we discuss how it is to be a parent in this day and age and just how different it is as a Millennial. Bucking the system lol from how we were raised. We are not afraid to be the change and to spark it.
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Opposites Attract
This Eposide we talk about just how things can really work out when you go outside of your norm.
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Leading with your Pockets
Here in this episode we talk about a popular topic in relationships "50/50" and the effects of placing so much value on money vs having a healthy relationships.
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The SAMCRO Loyalty
This episode we talk about the "L" word... Loyalty!!! And we pair it with one of our favorite Shows "Sons of Anarchy" which displays loyalty in so many different ways. From family, friendship, and even marriage.
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"Supporting Your Spouse"
Here in this episode we talk about the importance of support and how ot builds character in a relationship.
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The Beginning of #thatOKlove
The story of how we began. Being together since our senior year of prom we walk down memory lane of how we met, dated for 10 years, and then became Husband and Wife.
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Intro to Lovers & Friends
Hey Y'all... Take a quick listen to what we have been working on to add more content for WTOW&EP! A podcast that is centered around love and marriage and everything in-between!
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
WTO Lovers & Friends is a Podcast to highlight Love and Marriage from the perspective of being friends and becoming lovers at a young age. This Podcast is a extension of Ophelia Childress wedding planning business called "What's The O'ccasion Wedding & Event Planning" located in Nashville, TN. Planning a wedding is exciting but then What??? How is being Married? Better yet how did we get to I do? Being married has inspired us to inspire other couples who are married and who seek to be married one day. If you love, LOVE and real transparency pour up a glass relax, unwind, & Enjoy!
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Ophelia Childress
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WTO Lovers & Friends is a Podcast to highlight Love and Marriage from the perspective of being friends and becoming lovers at a young age. This Podcast is a extension of Ophelia Childress wedding planning business called "What's The O'ccasion Wedding & Event Planning" located in Nashville, TN....
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