• The Deal with Daddy Issues and Dating
    May 9 2023

    The term “daddy issues" is used as a way to describe women's attachment issues in a relationship... but the connotation is oftentimes negative.

    On this week's episode of "The Red Room," Brianna is joined by her friend and former student, Dajah, to discuss their dynamics with their own fathers and how these dysfunctional relationships have impacted their lives — both for the good and for the bad.

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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • The Heart Aching and Breaking of a Friendship Breakup
    May 2 2023

    Let's face it: dealing with a breakup sucks.

    It's not easy grieving the loss of someone you once considered your life partner. And while that person is still physically here, you have to recognize that this person is no longer physically in your life.

    It's this odd dichotomy that you have to just accept... and hope to one day heal and move on from.

    But what no one really talks about is the same pain that you experience when you go through a friendship breakup and that utterly depleting feeling of losing your platonic life partner.

    Your confidant.

    Your right-hand.

    Your everything.

    On this week's episode of "The Red Room," Brianna invites her high school best friend, Kristen, onto the show to dissect the dynamics of their friendship breakup that spanned the course of several years. Together, the two friends explore areas of accountability, faulty communication and warped egos that led to the initial breakup and further discuss how they've now learned to come back together years later and reignite their friendship.

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Divorced and Dating: How one Woman Navigated her New Life
    Apr 25 2023

    Allegedly 50% of all marriages end in divorce… at least that’s what several online blog articles seem to say.

    One of Brianna’s good friends, Jackie, is now part of that statistic.

    Join this week’s episode of “The Red Room” to learn one woman’s perspective on getting married and divorced in her mid-20s and navigating all of those thoughts, stigmas and perspectives in addition to all of the lessons that she’s learned on love ever since.

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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • Penning the Pain Away: The Write Way to Heal
    Apr 18 2023

    Erica Florentine, author of Joey "Coco" Diaz's biography "Tremendous: The Life of a Comedy Savage," joins Brianna on this week's episode of The Red Room. The two creative friends share how their love of writing propelled them through their own respective journeys of healing from their former unhealthy romantic relationships.

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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • May the (Gambling) Odds be Ever in Your Favor
    Mar 21 2023

    The thrill. The dopamine. The rush when you hit big as a gambler.

    It all seems exhilarating, right?

    I guess you could say that. Until it becomes problematic… and until you lose it all—and then some.

    On this week’s episode of “The Red Room,” Brianna chats with one of her long-time friends, Nick, who opens up (for the very first time on a public platform) about his severe sports betting addiction. Nick discusses the signs and behaviors that he exhibited while in active addiction—and then how he ultimately turned his life around after reaching his own rock bottom.

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    Disclaimer: If you or a loved one are dealing with this type of addiction, please call The National Council on Problem Gambling at 1-800-522-4700.


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • The Real Tea About Reality TV
    Mar 14 2023

    Just how real is “reality” tv?

    Kareem Fathalla, a cast member on season six of MTV’s “Are You The One?” joins Brianna on her latest episode of “The Red Room” to discuss the real tea on reality TV. Kareem openly shares what it felt like having every move of his monitored, losing contact from the “real” world for weeks on-end, being “cast” into a particular role and dealing with the backlash of the portrayal of his character once the season finished airing.

    Now, more than five years since that season has aired, Kareem brings a fresh perspective to reality TV and discusses his next moves as he maneuvers into the realms of modeling, acting and fitness.

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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • In the ‘Thicc’ of it: Bullying, Body Shaming and Body Dysmorphia
    Feb 28 2023

    Today, we’re serving body-ody-ody positivity… despite what we may have felt growing up in a fat-shaming culture.

    On this week’s episode of “The Red Room,” Brianna and her guest Jillian, a proud plus-sized model, discuss their lifelong struggles with weight and how that affected their lives as it pertained to bullying, crash dieting, body shaming and self-loathing.

    After decades of abuse, they’ve both still managed to tap into their own senses of confidence and self-love (though it wasn’t easy). Together, they’re now on a mission to continue shattering corrupt body and beauty standards.

    Big bad got ‘em big mad.

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    57 mins
  • The Forbidden Fs: Friends with Benefits and F Buddies
    Feb 7 2023

    Friends with benefits and f*ck buddies. Yeah, we’ve all more than likely been there and done that (quite literally speaking).

    Brianna invites her friend Niko (otherwise known as “Nasty Neeks”) on “The Red Room” to discuss his take on the dynamics of those relationships. Do all of those sexual relations eventually lead to trials and tribulations?

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    59 mins