What does happiness look like when you've known real hunger, real loss, and real heartbreak? For Grammy-nominated R&B icon Kelly Price, the answer is complicated — and profoundly beautiful.

In this unforgettable episode of Happy With Tammi Mac, host and KJLH Radio personality Tammi Mac welcomes Kelly Price for a conversation that strips away the celebrity gloss and goes straight to the soul.

Kelly takes us back to 1970s New York — growing up in the projects, wearing donated clothes, and not always knowing where the next meal was coming from. She was always the "fat kid," she says — even when there wasn't always food. That kind of contradiction shapes a person. It shaped Kelly Price into someone who wakes up every day anchored in gratitude, even when life has given her every reason not to be.

This episode moves through all three of our signature segments:

🌑 The Dark Journey

Kelly opens up about the layers of pain that most people never see beneath the powerhouse voice — from childhood scarcity to the Covid loss of the grandparents who raised her and defined her values.

🌟 The Turning Point

The moment Kelly stopped letting outside noise define her story — and started calling in herself to set the record straight. Literally.

☀️ Finding Happy

Why Kelly Price wakes up every day choosing purple — for royalty — and yellow — for sunshine. Why happiness, she says, is not a feeling you wait for. It's a decision you make.

Tammi and Kelly also revisit the iconic, hilarious first time they met — a radio promo run that turned into a decades-long friendship built on one sacred thing: truth.

If you've ever been underestimated. If you've ever gone without. If you've ever had to decide — consciously, deliberately — to be okay anyway. This episode is for you.

Happiness has been a hard word to come by — but it will exist again.

🎙️ Happy With Tammi Mac is a weekly podcast on the Inflection Network hosted by radio legend Tammi Mac. Each episode explores the darkest moments of extraordinary people's lives — and the precise moment they found their way back to happy.

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