Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are discussing something many of us, if not all of us can relate to, the evolution of male and female friendships and the misconceptions that come along with that. Growing up, some of us may be more geared towards folks of our own gender, but as we mature we realized the value of frie…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week is all about women empowerment. But not just women empowerment, we are going to get real about competition in the workplace as it relates to women, and some of our own inherent competitive ways that not only sabotage ourselves but others as well. Growing up, little girls are socialized t…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are talking about the price of fame, and what it really means to be famous in a world where being famous and infamous are two sides of the same coin. Growing up, many of us wanted to be the next “IT” girl or guy, the one who becomes a household name from our favorite tv shows. But des…

Welcome to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are bringing you our first ever flashback episode and it just so happens to be the first episode of the podcast. We are taking it waaaay back. In this episode we are joined by the host’s former Grad school cohort and friends to the podcast Kirk Cohall, Noëlle Lilley, and Brooke Henderson t…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing the fall of two of the most well-known men in entertainment: Sean Diddy Combs and Ye who is formerly known as Kanye West. In 2024, after allegations from singer Cassie that her ex Sean Diddy Combs abused her, a video was released showing footage of the abuse, and af…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are back with a special episode just in time for Valentine's Day. Love is in the air, some of us are back with our exes, some of us may have just met the love of our life on the MTA (new yorkers im talking to you) some of us are still keeping our options open and others may just be en…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. We are back with an episode about a topic we have not really focused on in quite a while, mental health. All of our day 1s remember our episode seasons ago on Transparent Black Girl , a collective that focuses on healing trauma founded by the amazing wellness advocate and journalist Yasmine Jameel…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Saucy but Sweet fam, we know we have been away for far too long, but trust us, the wait was worth it because this season we got some great gems cooked up for you. The host Ali has been doing what she does best: living her best multi-hyphenate life which unfortunately keeps her away from the podcas…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson! This is our last episode of 2023, and to celebrate the end of an eventful year and beginning of another, we will discuss some of the highlights and downfalls of the past year. We will be diving into what created some of the highest of the highs and lowest of the lows. If you had the year of your l…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson! We are back for a bonus episode. While the podcast has been on season break our host has had her ear to the pavement, not just as a journalist but a woman who just can’t pass away good tea. Unless you have been living under a rock, you have heard about the whole Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith d…

Saucy but Sweet fam we are back with our season finale and Part II of our conversation about all things Pride, whether it be, some of our favorite moments at Pride and what makes this month one of the most significant months of the year. For Part I, the host spoke to Terrence Fraser about businesses taking a hit for supporting pride, and this week …

We are back, and just in time for one of the most significant and important months of the year. This is the month that marks the beginning of summer, where we celebrate Juneteenth and of course the month where we celebrate and applaud the LGBTQ+ community for standing up for what is right. This month all over the world Pride parades take place, not…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week you all are in for quite a treat once again. As you know festival season is in full flux! During our most recent episode, the host spoke with Yasmine Jameelah about the beauty of festival season and talked about making the exciting trek to the world's most popular festivals. The trip was…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week you all are in for quite a treat. It is Coachella season! I’m sure most of our listeners know all about the impactful and booming California music festival that has basically become a household name but for those of who do not know, it is a music festival, where artists who are the best …

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Here is something I’m sure every listener will be able to relate to: being a fan. Now there are various ways of being a fan; it could be simply keeping tabs on when you’re favorite artist drops a new album and immediately downloading every song, and going to every concert that artist performs, or …

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve heard about the Will Smith/Chris Rock fiasco. Over a year ago after a poorly made joke by comedian Chris Rock, Will Smith slapped him across the face for the world to see at the Oscars in 2022. The host spoke with Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson po…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Happy Valentine's or Galentine's to those who celebrate. This week is quite a treat. Typically the show dives into sex, love, and relationships from the perspective of a 20-something in search of a relationship and possibly marriage and wanting children etc. We talk about the lessons we learn on t…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. For many Kanye West stans (if there are any left) there were no more excuses or defenses left in the jar titled “Stupid Things Kanye says.” That jar is empty, and now lives rent free in the host’s mind. Last year, the host spoke about Kanye’s bizarre behavior and how his actions impacted those aro…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. So much has happened over the last year, but as usual the host has been in the know about everything and never goes a day without forming an opinion on whatever is going on in the entertainment and culture space. Last time we spoke about Megan the stallion and the incident that left her traumatize…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson! To celebrate the start of the new year and all that we have accomplished in the last year, we thought we could bring you more of what you love most about this podcast, a daring and unfiltered conversation on sex & love in 2022 and the kind of love we want and the kind we want no part of in the new…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. As many of you know June is not just a remarkable month because it marks the beginning of summer and where we celebrate Juneteenth. It is also remarkable in that it celebrates a community that is not only marginalized but treated as second class citizens 365 days a year. And before we close out th…

2020, a year that many of us probably want to forget, was a rough year for so many people. But it wasn’t just a rough year for those fighting COVID, or working people being laid off from their jobs, it was also a rough time for the woman who does not need an introduction: Hot Girl Meg. Megan Thee Stallion was shot by rapper Tory Lanez after an argu…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. We are back with another episode of your favorite society & culture podcast. If you’re anything like me, you are sick of talking about it, but still on the edge of your seat, wondering what is going to happen next. If you watched the Oscars, you know what I’m talking about. The slap heard around t…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. Apparently, judging by the titles of our recent episode and this upcoming one, we are on a “F*ckin” roll, haha see what we did there? Anyway, Last week we talked about Kanye West and the complexities surrounding both loving and hating an artist, someone who may be a creative genius but has asshole…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. We hope you missed us as much as we missed you. This week we are talking about someone who has been making headlines for over a decade and who has shown the media his genius, his scars, and his darkness. Has anybody else been thinking what we’re thinking? What the fuck are we gonna do about Kanye?…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we are bringing back a guest who has made quite an impact on the show during our first season, Yasmine Jameelah. As you may remember, Yasmine is an entrepreneur, journalist and runs the well-known wellness collective Transparent & Black and its wellness brands Transparent Black Girl and …

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This is our last episode of the year, and to celebrate the start of the upcoming year we will discuss what this year has meant to us. For some of us this year may not be what we expected and for others it may have been one of the best years of our lives. No judgement here. We talk about the major …

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be talking about the realities of toxic relationships and what the media typically does not show when discussing these relationships bounded by trauma and anxiety. Every so often we’ll hear about celebs like rapper DaBaby and DaniLeigh’s relationship fiasco and instead of portray…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing the end of an era, a part of culture that has in many ways established how we talk about blackness, and transformed the ways we discuss black stories, particularly Black women’s stories. If y’all have been paying attention, you know my love for Issa Rae runs deep. H…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing our complicated, and sometimes straight out toxic relationships with social media. Some days we feel we are able to live our lives without it, and others we rely on it consistently. Social media is how we connect, promote ourselves and our businesses and oftentimes,…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be talking about one of my favorite topics and something that remains to be bittersweet for so many people: exes. We haven’t really spoken about exes since Love is a Gamble. Whether you’re best friends with your ex, or view your ex as the enemy, you have to admit, we can find out…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be talking about a topic that has been on my mind ever since I was a little girl. Discrimination and prejudice based on one’s complexion typically darker complexions, and the hierarchy of lighter skin tone. We refer to it as colorism. Or as Queen Lupita Nyong'o calls it, the daug…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week is a little controversial, or maybe A LOT controversial. We’re going to be talking about cultural appropriation, who is allowed to do it, and who isn’t. Is it possible to admire a culture without appropriating or is admiration the root of cultural appropriation? I’ll tell you this now, I…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. It’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you, without a dope clip to step to. All joking aside, right now we are embarking on yet another summer in the midst of The Rona, and there are so many things to look forward to and to and beware of as restrictions loosen. We hope our listeners are vac…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson, It feels like we’ve been gone forever but you know we can’t stay away from our Saucy but Sweet fam for too long. We always come correct, and with extra spice than the week before. The last time, you heard from us we were talking about the election, and the importance of voting and SEX for those of…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson, It feels like we’ve been gone forever and you know we can’t stay away from our Saucy but Sweet fam for too long. You know we always come correct, and stay on top of all that is going on in the world. As election season heats up, millennials have a lot on their plate, many of us are eager for chang…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. The last time we spoke we got into sexy topics, sex, romance, and dating during this hot rona summer. This week, we are talking about something not as sexy, but definitely worth a chat now more than ever: the white gaze on black life in the media and how black voices and talents are underrepresent…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing how to navigate the dating scene, and indulge in the solo life as a party of one during a pandemic that doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon. Most of us want to love and to be able to enjoy our sex lives, but it’s difficult when there is still so much uncertai…

Happy First of July and belated Juneteenth! July 4th is just around the corner! Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we will be discussing what it means to practice self-care and wellness during such a traumatic yet most important time in history. We are still trying to find the balance between staying woke, and staying wel…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson this week we’re going to be diving into the thick of it. Our last episode was about how we are handling being in the thick of this pandemic, but this week we will focus on something just as serious: police violence. These last few months have been filled with uncertainty. Millennials have gone from…

We know it’s been a long time, we shouldn’t have left you without a dope podcast to listen to…..Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we’ll be diving into this complete mess of a pandemic which has led to us being isolated from our friends and family, and losing our sense of self. All of the plans we made have been halted in…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week we’ll be talking about some of the men with bad reputations, and whether those who abide to cancel culture have the right idea, canceling out the disgraced in the industry. But with the cancellation of bad men, comes the uncomfortable discussion of whether or not we should still be celeb…

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. This week, we’re talking about our hot girl summers, our thotumns (Thot-Autumn, get it?) and also celibacy, and remaining abstinent. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say, there is more than one way to enjoy your singledom. Now that Valentine’s Day has come and gone, and the rose petals have …

Welcome back to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. In this episode we talk about wellness and mental health. Why are millennials so lonely and filled with so much stress and anxiety? We are joined by entrepreneur and journalist Yasmine Jameelah to discuss everything relating to mental health. Yasmine runs a wellness collective shattering unconvent…

Welcome back to “Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson.” It's Black History Month! In this episode we’ll be talking about the ways in which Black women are regarded in the media, and how and why Black women continue to be the most disrespected in the media. We are joined by one of my closest friends Abby Yakubu. Abby Yakubu is a professional hair brai…

Welcome to Saucy but Sweet with Ali McPherson. In this episode we are joined by my friends Kirk Cohall, Noëlle Lilley, and Brooke Henderson to discuss first loves. Are our first loves worth reflecting on, or would we rather keep them in the past? What makes them so hard to forget? We’re starting off this new decade with a discussion about our old f…