Rants and Randomness with Luvvie Ajayi
Summary: Join NYT Best-Selling Author and Side-Eye Sorceress Luvvie Ajayi of AwesomelyLuvvie.com as she rants on all things society and pop culture. Her unique brand of loving judgement, hilarious shade and necessary truth-telling will keep you wanting more. Plus, her all-star guests stay dropping gems! Use #RantsandRandomness to discuss on the interwebs.
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In this episode, Luvvie is feeling good about her new reel and your heartfelt reactions to her work, rants on why Reply All is the devil, gives love to the DF Nigerian Food Truck in New York, and chats with actor, comedian, and social media influencer KevOnStage about making digital comedy and why being himself is his key to success.
In this episode, Luvvie is feeling good about her well-deserved vacation, rants on not feeling guilty about outsourcing her life, gives love to Beyonce and the On the Run II Tour, and chats with champion fencer, author, and fashion designer Ibtihaj Muhammad about becoming the first Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal for the United States and having both a Barbie and Nike line created in her honor.
SURPRISE! You know we couldn’t stay away from y’all too long so we dropped a bonus episode! In this special episode, Luvvie answers YOUR questions on winning at work whether you’re in a 9-to-5, working on side hustles, or launching a business of your own. She shares why pricing correctly for your work is so important, the joys and pains of going independent, how to survive a job you hate, and more!
In this special crossover episode with Small Doses with Amanda Seales, Luvvie is feeling good about her Afrobeats playlist, rants about the high road being overrated, gives love to Chicago Recording Company, and chats with the multi-talented Amanda Seales of HBO’s Insecure and Smart, Funny, and Black about making her own path as a multi-hyphenate and how she keeps it all the way 100 online and in real life.
In this episode, Luvvie is feeling good about working out, rants about Trump’s policy separating children from their families, gives love to the National Museum of African American History and Culture aka the Blacksonian, and chats with corporate badass Bozoma “Boz” Saint John about the career she was supposed to have, being authentically herself and her recent decision to leave Uber to become Chief Marketing Officer at Endeavor.
In this episode, Luvvie feels good about Stacey Abrams’ primary win for Governor in Georgia, rants about giving a hard pass to voice-activated speakers, gives love to Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Red Table Talk show, and chats with bestselling writer, activist, and speaker Glennon Doyle about her journey and how white people can do better in the fight for social justice.
SURPRISE! We drop a bonus episode because Luvvie loves y’all that much! In this special ep, Luvvie gets real about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to friendship. She shares why you should side eye people who don’t have any long-term friends, how to make sure you’re not a draining one, and when it’s time to call it quits.
In this episode, Luvvie feels good about her Afrobeats playlist and the internet’s petty clapbacks at racists, rants about why social media should not make you doubt your journey, shows love to the Black Women in Politics database, and talks with Jussie Smollett of the hit TV show Empire about growing up in show business and his new album Sum of My Music.
In this episode, Luvvie talks about a fan who shot his shot correctly, rants about Kanye’s fact-free thinking, shows love to the multi-layered “This is America” music video from Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino), and talks with Franchesca Ramsey of MTV’s Decoded about her new book “Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist”.
In this episode, Luvvie talks about her first solo magazine cover, rants about the royal womb, shows love to the book she reads every year, and talks with Necole Kane of xoNecole.com.
In this episode, Luvvie shares a story about her teenage nephew and how he’s impressed by what she does. She rants about how she would rather ride a goat than fly Spirit Airlines. She spotlights Will Smith’s Instagram and interviews her good friend Abiola Oke, CEO of OkayAfrica.
In this episode, Luvvie talks about March for Our Lives, rants about how she was given Diet Coke instead of a Coke by a couthless waiter. She also shows love to the show Black-ish, and talks with the incomparable Jenifer Lewis!
In this episode, I talk about 2-year-old Parker Curry and her adorable moment with Michelle Obama, rant about how much I hate texting (because I'm YoungOld), show love to ESSENCE Magazine, and talk with ESSENCE’s Editor-in-chief, Vanessa K. De Luca.
In episode 2 of Rants and Randomness, I talk about a magical moment I recently experienced with one of my favorite icons (Cicely Tyson), rant about people's entitlement to our platforms, show love to one of my favorite books EVER, and chat with a true BAWSE I know: Myleik Teele.
In the first episode of Rants and Randomness, I have a feel good story, rant about Valentine's Day extraness, LOSE MY MIND over the Black Panther movie, and interview one of my favorite people, Eunique Jones Gibson.