Donna and Rachel are friends who aren’t afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world. On this episode of Smart Mouth Life, we're checking in with political strategist Tonya Jameson, Smart Mouth Life's first two-time guest.  Tonya, a former longtime journalist at The Charlotte Observer, is the owner/head coach of the Jameson Advisory Group, working with politicians and community leaders. She is also a fierce advocate for political education, specifically voter rights.  Given the state of this country as we get closer and closer to Nov. 3, we have so many questions.

So we are more than two months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and things are starting to open up. It's fair to say we’ve spent this time doing things differently — mostly because we’ve had too. But (silver lining!) some of these things we’ve happily decided we like and are going to keep in our lives going forward and some of them are going straight into the trash the minute we can easily let them go. INSTAGRAM: @smartmouthlife TWITTER: @smartmouthlife FACEBOOK: @smartmouthlife WEBSITE: Smart Mouth Life

Sarah Delia is a WFAE reporter who covers criminal justice issues. She is an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist, who joined the WFAE news team in 2014. She is the lead host and report of WFAE’s first ever investigative podcast She Says which follows the journey of a sexual assault survivor’s struggle to find justice in Mecklenburg County. She is also the host and reporter for The List, a podcast that explores the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis. 

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren’t afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Psychologist Dr. Amy Combs joins us to talk about pandemic coping tips. She has been in private practice in Charlotte since 2004. She founded Charlotte Center for Balanced Living in 2006 and currently maintains an active private therapy practice.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren’t afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.

Today we’re getting real about things to know in business: Doing the business, owning the business, killing it at the business. We’re sharing even more of our faves, pet peeves and publicly sharing *some* of the things we’ve only discussed over lots of wine privately before. Get ready.  

Described an “idea whisperer,” Valaida Fullwood brings unbridled imagination and a gift for harnessing wild ideas to her work as an author, public speaker and consultant. She helps people and organizations drive bold ideas forward by guiding their projects and by writing their stories. Valaida is the award-winning author of Giving Back, a 400-page hardcover book profiling stories of philanthropy among African Americans that was developed with photographer Charles Thomas.

Donna and Rachel are friends who aren’t afraid to ask questions, laugh loudly, obsess freely and covet vintage items. The pair created the Smart Mouth Life Podcast to celebrate women who run their mouths and the world.