For our first episode of theGrio’s new collection, “Technology Subsequent,” entrepreneur, moderator, and creator extraordinaire Will Toms sat down with the gorgeous abilities Scottie Beam and Sylvia Obell, two of the brightest and most influential voices in media. With no subject off-limits, the duo’s dialog type is racking up streams and provoking the following era of Black voices, particularly ladies.
“We met on the Blackest place we might meet at — ever,” the women laughingly clarify. “Essence Fest.”
Beam is understood for her sturdy advocacy and help of Black ladies, having used her platform to advertise and empower them in varied methods. She’s been a vocal advocate on points together with social justice, equality, and illustration. Beam has additionally been concerned in tasks and initiatives that spotlight the achievements and challenges confronted by Black ladies, aiming to create a extra inclusive and equitable society. Her work typically facilities on selling Black ladies’s voices and experiences within the media and leisure trade.
Obell is a journalist and media character identified for her ardour for storytelling, notably inside the realms of leisure, tradition, and social points. She has a robust dedication to amplifying underrepresented voices and highlighting necessary tales. Obell’s work typically facilities round popular culture, race, and gender, and like Beam, she makes use of her platform to deliver consideration to points and people that may not at all times obtain mainstream recognition.
Upon first assembly, the pair’s chemistry was plain. In an trade with a historically cutthroat ethos, when Beam and Obell lastly met, it was a match made in heaven — and considerably a sigh of aid. For Beam particularly, it was a breath of contemporary air after coming from hip-hop’s male-dominated areas within the music enterprise to transition to female-led arenas that allowed her to make like-minded feminine pals. A friendship blossomed, and with the assistance of a mutual buddy’s artistic imaginative and prescient, Obell, then working at Buzzfeed, was approached about doing a podcast.
“Your friendship organically with Scottie would make you guys such nice co-hosts,” Sylvia remembers being advised.
Growth! “The Scottie & Sylvia Present” was born.
Respectively, Scottie Beam and Sylvia Obell are every main the cost, however collectively, their influence is destined to shift the paradigm of the media trade.
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