Today's show is pre recorded. Y'all know what time y'all don't know. Y'all have a suit a back to back down, giving them like theming buck things and it's not doing me true good. Steve listening to mother, stay, don't join me. You gotta use that turn very arm. You gotta turn to turn them out. Got to turn them out, to turn turn the water the water. Ya come, come on your thing, daddy. Huh, I shall will, I'll get Rod and everybody y'all listening to the voice, come on dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a radio show today, folks. I just want to dive right in because I think I got it here. It is. Did you know that there is a life for you that's greater than you could have ever dreamed of? Did you know that there's a life for you better than the one you've ever felt before? And did you know that there was a life for you much bigger than the one you wanted? And lastly, did you know that what I just said it's true? Did you know that did you know that the things I just said are available to you? It's not just intended for those who receive awards. It's for everybody. Yeah, you two, It's for you who didn't get your high school diploma. It's for you who are incarcerated. It's for you who have two strikes. It's for you who've been sentenced to life. It's for you who've gotten out and have a felony record and can't seem to get it together. It's for you who have an illness. It's for you who the doctors have given up on. It's for you, this life I'm talking about, it's for you. Did you know that there's a life for you better than the one you dreamed about, better than the one you've imagined, a life better than the one you thought of, That there's a life for you better than the one you've ever felt before. There's a life for you better than the one you saw for yourself. There's a better life for you than the one you expected and even the one you wanted. Did you know that this is true for you? See, here's let me give you the secret to this thing. Now you have to believe that it is for you. Now, you got to fight through the doubts. You got to fight through the will of Satan. Because the devil is busy man. The devil wants you to think that is hopeless. The devil wants you to think that this is it. The devil wants you to think that ain't no more to it. The devil wants you to think that this applies to other people. But you, Yeah, you've been dealt the worse hand of them all, which you ate. But that's what the devil wants you to think. So you gotta fight through. Now, You gotta fight through to get to what I just said is available for you. But what else you got to do? You ain't doing nothing else, might as well fight. Why just wake up and just let it be? Why would you wake up every day and just exist when there's a chance for you to actually live. See the reason I don't mind smiling so much now is because I'm no longer existing. I'm living now. See. See, that's where you want to get to. You don't want to exist, to wake up, paycheck to paycheck, date today, not knowing, not understanding, not having, can't can't get this, can't get that, can't go here, can't go there, Gotta wait, gotta wait, gota wait, gota wait till it seems like you never get nowhere, you can get out of that rut of life, feeling like when you wake up in the morning that your life is whole hum that you're just in a rut. I drive the same way to work. I do the same thing on my job. When I get off, I drive all the way back home. I sit there, I read the newspaper. I water the lawn. I'm so sick of my life. It ain't this, ain't what I wanted. Man, and start, wake up, start over, do the same thing. Then the weekend gets in. You got to mow the lawn, and then you try to fix something in the garage, and you feel like your life is in the rut. I'm talking about. If this feels like a rut to you know, if it's what you've always wanted, I'm cool with that. But I'm talking to people who want it more, who would love their life to be more, who would love their life to different, to be different. I'm not criticizing you if I just described your life. I'm just only talking to the ones who would dare to believe that there's more to it than this. I'm only talking to the ones who would dad dad to accept the challenge, to fight through and see what God got for you instead of listening to Satan all the time. Devil is busy, man, Please understand, he's so busy, so busy, and to trick you, get you into the groove. You know they're doing all kinds of stuff now man, you know atheists and already got prayer. Taking out of schools. Excuse me, look at our skills schools, not as a push by the atheist to get the words in God we trust, taking off our money. Here's a deal. If you don't believe in God and you don't want trust in God, just going about your business. But what you can't do is spill off all into what I'm talking about. That's the problem I have with all of them. If you're gonna do you, didn't do you, but don't spill off into what I got. Now. See, if you don't believe what I'm saying, then I ain't talking to you. Let's just be clear about the relationship with Steve Harvey and his crew. I'm only talking to the people that believe that are looking for something else, that wants something more, that wants something better, that's got to be out there searching and hoping and trying to do more. That's all I'm talking to now. If you don't believe what I'm saying it's true, didn't go ahead and try it your way, go see write me, email me, let me know how it's going for you. But telling you of a way that's tried and true. If you go to God, if you go to your creator, your makeup, if you go to him and you go to him for real and tell him, hey, you know what I want you to go ahead and take over from here. I'm done. I haven't done all I know how to do out and tried everything I know how to try. I'm sick of me right now. Hey, look here, you created me what you want me to do, and here a cool thing about it. When I made that decision, y'all see, I was so afraid for years that I was gonna miss out on something if I did that. I couldn't do this no more. But the stuff I needed to stop doing. I really need to stop the things I was afraid of not being able to do anymore with the very same things I really didn't need to be doing no more in the first place, on the real man, on the real all that temporary fun I was having all them temporary outlets I was using all them temporary things trying to fulfill myself I was doing. I was just doing a bunch of temporary mess man. I said, hold up, man, I want something permanent. Man, I want a permanent feeling in my heart that it's gonna be all right. So he replaced all that fun with joy. But it's only because I went and I faced him. He didn't take me and stop me from being me. He just made a better version of me. See, God, don't take he because all the stuff he sent you through, he needed you to go through all him. He needed you to have him experience or what it felt like to be locked up. He needed you to have experience and know what it was to lose everything. He needed you to have experience to make you tough. You're just gonna be a tough one. I'm a tough soldier in his army. That's all I just say. One of the weak ones. I protect the weak ones. God didn't take a lot of stuff from except the stuff I needed. But the stuff he made me to be, he allowed me to keep it, and he just made a better me. Do that, y'all, and you can have what you want. You're listening, hey, listen. Everybody's your man, Steve Harvey, and today I've been talking about it all along, but it's International Women's Day and the ladies of the show, the women, they're taking over to Mike. And I just want to say about the ladies, Shirley, Carla, Mississippi Monica, Sheryl, y'all do your thing, ladies, don't hold back, enjoy yourself. You know, I have my blessings on this. I thought it was a great idea. I appreciate all y'all do for me throughout the year, and now it is your day to shine, have fun, you know, have some ladies moments, just do you. You know I'm going over here smoking cigar and listening to the show. All right, thank you, Steve. That's right. The ladies are taking over today. It is International Women's Day. Happy International Women's Day, all morning long. The women take over the Mike, yours truly, Shirley Strawberry, Carla Farrell is here, of course, Ryl Underwood and Mississippi Monica. You don't hear anything about her, right, but we're gonna let you in on Misissippi Monica today. Carla, good morning, Happy International Women's Day to you, my girl, my road dog, what's going what's happening through the zo Let's give us. I'm having International Women's Day and we got our girls in here this morning. We gotta be kicking. Oh yes, oh yes, we gotta have our girls. Cheryl Underwood didn't want to do it without you, Cheryl, what is doing odd? Happy International Women's Day to you? Thank you, thank you. The iconic shirty scrawberries, not the iconic phenomenal, but I gotta throw it up all my saris and saying far Fred that's right, I made it. I'm on this okay. Sorry, And ladies, ladies, ladies, please give a warm welcome to our girl. She is our executive producer. She's always behind the scenes, but we're gonna bring her out today because she has so much to add and we love her. Mississippi Monica, good boy. Happy International Women's Day. Power power, pound pound pound, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. So ladies, this is our day. We have taken over the show. We're gonna talk about what it's like growing up in America as little black girls. Okay, how about that? How do we how we continue to support and uplift women? Uh? You know, we don't want to get into the hate ration game. We're not about that. We're about empowering women of that, not at all, right, not at all right, Yeah, you know, and just you know, navigating social media all of that, all of that. Quick story. I have to tell you, Um, I love all of these women. I think when we all met it was pretty much instant. You know, talk about a sisterhood. I wouldn't you all agree to that? Cheryl, I've known you, I think the longest, and when we met it was instant. Yes, I mean instant. I came to one of your shows and we met backstage and it was instant, and we've been friends ever since that. That may have been in the eighties. Carla, same with you. I met you through radio instant. It's a sisterhood. It's a sisterhood. Monica, same with you. I mean we met through a mutual friend, but it was like our spirits met, you know, just like that. And we all have kind of like similar stories, similar stories. Yeah, we'll tell you more about that, how we got together and all of that. But coming up at thirty two minutes after the hour, Cheryl Underwood is here for asked the CLO Chief Love Officer Heavy International Women's Day. We'll be right back with the cello, Cheryl Underwood right after this. You're listening to the stow All right, listen, we said, asked the cello. But we are taking over today, right, so we're gonna change it. It's simply going to be asked, Cheryl. We like about Women's Day? Asked Cheryl, all about us? All about us? But I'll take a co signe. Now I'm about the right answer, so I'll take a co sign especially from my deltas missing Michael. Look at all the Delta's phone lines alone. I have all the deltas. Cheryl, just answer from your heart. I will. I know you will. All right, here we go. This is gonna be funny, all right, this one. Cheryl is from White and Treeport, Louisiana. White says, I'm dating a woman that she says she's not dating anyone else, but she hangs out with mostly men. There are three guys in particular that are always at her house. I've been around them, and they like to say that my girlfriend is like one of the boys. I'm old school. So I told her that I don't like it. I need to be the only man in her house. She's needs nothing wrong with it. So I'm thinking about having some of my female friends from church come by my house while she's there. Do you think that will get her attention? No, that's gonna get everybody aske Sorry it was I'm not to say that everybody interview. Oh no, you bring you bring them girls from church out from church, lady though, because the dudes I ain't messing with, but them girls over there life am my wrong, lady, Because first of all, he needs to listen to backstabb was by the Oja's listen to the lyrics he breaks the dad. All you fellas that have someone that you really care that, it's all of you fellas who better be well. But I'm also a woman who hangs out with a lot of men. I work with a lot of men. I am even friends with women who have that duality, a male side of their personality. So so I know a type of personality dynamic I'm with. I would say this if he has not sat down and spoken to her about his concerns. That's what you have to do as a man. Don't put your foot down, because soon as you put your foot down, I'm like, who you talking to? I'm cooking my birth certificates. Show you your name is not on my birth as your daddy. Right, I know who my daddy is and it's not you. But I could see how men feel that, all of these men and they're at your house. That's the part that would bother me. Yeah, if they are they dating? Are they married? Clarify that from me? What I'm more time he's dating, he's dating, they're dating, but they're pursuing to marriage. Well, he didn't say that, but it may because he feels the way he feels. It may yeah, it may have that in that direction. But right now he's calling her his girlfriend and they're dating. Well, if he has not made his issue to me that that is an issue. But first of all, I pay the mortgage my name. I can't buy anybody I want to up here. You know you ain't paying mortgage. Right. But but if if my man had a concern and he came to me with manhood and perseverance the right way, did I say, Right, Monica, if he comes to me with that manhood and yeah and talk to me and say, baby, I know these are your friends, but your friends are always here. And a man has instincts as well. Am I wrong? Callipharel? Men have instincts as well, and they can see what's happening. Yes, human beings are instincts. Yeah, I got a men and women. I got a good story to tell you off the air because I don't have enough time. And this is a real story. When I first got married and I made a plate for another man because I don't oh yet, Oh yes, what a time we got start. Oh you got okay, we have other questions. But if you okay, okay, no, no, I'll tell you what want me. I'll tell it real quick. In my family, um, I don't eat before a man eat, and men don't fix their own plate. So I sold in if there were men who were guested in the house, and I fixed the plate and I sat the plate down, but a person and my husband looked at me like like it wasna I continuo when they left. It was just trying to help you. I there, it is right there, so I know how uh well, I never I never really knew to do. Was trying to throw me some rhythm. She got snatched off. Go ahead, Oh no, you ain't seching a week listen. I'm a West marcasof I'm an underwood switchblade in my buzz If that's okay, that's not happening a Mississippi and can can I get a Mississippi coast side? But what is the next question? What is the next all? Right? This is from This is from Samantha and Pittsburgh. Samantha says, my brother has been mad at my mother since she got remarried and her new husband told him it was time to move out. It was like on the movie Baby Boy when Jody got put out. My brother is thirty one and living with my mama because he spends his money on cars closing women. I support my mama's and uh stepdad's decision, but I want them to make up so we can be one big, happy family. How can I get them to squash it? Well? First of all, where do this brother live, because there might be some jealousy that you are getting your other brothers living Rentfrey and my close callar for real. But also the husband. Now, if if their mother has allowed him to become head of the household, then you have to respect their wishes. But they should have come to this to gather. You don't separate me from my children because I married you, I gave birth to them. You know, there's a different situation. But if my sons, if if I had something, my sons would be living in the house because as soon as you pop, Funky still be there at thirty one, mowing the lawn, doing everything. Because in case my new husband pop off, who my son's going to come out? Back room? This negro is not your daddy. Handle, it is not your daddy. Did you say he corrected me? Yeah? Do you say how he corrected me? To get back with your father, whoever he is, I'm gonna have to get back with your father. Well he is whoever he is. If I kept figuring out out the whole nanny was jumping that night, it was your the whole in the wall. You better know it. Now. You see what we had to have Cheryl on the show today. Yeah, get it now, you get it now? Thirty one? No, Cheryl, No, that's a little old girl. That's a little old to be still living with your mama. If my baby is suddenty five and I'm a ninety five, all right, listen, coming up next, we're gonna talk about success, success all right right after this, and it's International Women's day. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Happy International Women's Day. I love saying that because you know, it's all about women today. It's all about women. We need to honor, love, support, empower women. Yes, we do, and recognize them, you know. I mean, we need our sisters, we need each other. You know how it goes. Coming up at the top of the hour, Miss Anne is standing by another empowered woman on this International Woman's Day, while the Senate pass as President Biden's American Rescue Plan. Plus and entertainment news, Carl is going to have some music news for us. We'll also talk about coming to America with Eddie and our CINEO. Love this movie. I loved it and yes right now, yeah, I loved it. Trending right now Prince Harry and Meghan Markle with their interview with Oprah. Now our special guests. She's not really a guest, but we had to bring her in especially today because we love her so much and we don't want to do the show without her. The one and only Cheryl Underwood is here. Thank you, Cheryl. Now you're very, very busy, so we appreciate you. Thank you for having me. Yeah, We're gonna talk about all of these stories at the top of the hour, but right now, like I said, it is International Women's Day. Um, let's just have kind of a girl power talk about sex. You guys, I mean success, you miss sex? Yeah, okay, well if your sex is good, then hey, you'll be successful, right anyway? So anyway, yes, all right, So ladies, what do you think is the key to success? The success and we're talking about the success you have right now and you've experienced Cheryl oh me, Well, you know what I want. I really want to talk about even though we were joking with things that are going on where women are being approached or sometimes even manipulated in certain things. I'm gonna tell you'all, let's start tell you let's start in my meaning. I wouldn't even say sexual harassment. I think that the men, the men, you know, we had things in a comedy game where you know, how you gonna go on tour, especially as a female comic, you know, and they don't do a lot of female tours and things like that. It wasn't really happening like that, so you would get approached by dudes that were like, hey you hillight me I could change your life or you're gonna get it. You know, your career gonna bump up. So and I tell this story so a very naive. So and if I'm not wearing my glasses, I don't know who I'm talking to. So, so this guy start talking to me after I did a set right, it did my show, and he was like, so, what are you doing after this? Like something golden bar? Like? I always hang up right, And so he said, well, why don't we get together? I said, to do what? And he was like, you know, to do some things. I said, oh oh. And he seems like if you get with me, uh I can I can advance your career? I said, well, first of all, if I get with you, why am I still working? Yeah? Oh right, why am I still waiting to all that? If you all that? And why am I still working? And I don't think men like to be approached by a woman that flips the game on him. That's how we U say back in the day. So I didn't. I was just saying I And I said to the man, I said who are you? And he said who he was? I knew the name from very much successful, but I couldn't connect the face with the person you him, and so it was so unfamous, like somebody really really big and powerful. But I knew the name, but I couldn't connect it with the person. So I said, which he would, You know, Monica, if somebody come toward me, then I'm like, wow, I'm fascinated by that. But I'm all about my money and all about my grind, and I'm all about how I get. I'm a boss on a loan on myself. So I said to the man, why don't you wait until we're equals, then we truly make love? And he didn't like it. He walked away. Yeah he didn't. Yeah right, he showed me as I'm supposed to be the wildflower to this, to that. And I'm saying all of this to say, of everything that I've done, I always try to get me a fairy godfather and a fairy godmother. But then I also tried to say, what does God really want me to be do? Because sometimes I stumble, you know, you send a DeBarge toward me. I'm going to stumble, Oh no, but you send el DeBarge toward me. I'm going to stumble, it's just well, I mean, we all but my business, right, that's my weakness if you are an El DeBarge type. But for my business business, yes, for my business business. I'm kind of different in my business and a lot of men and women can't take that. And we have to be careful of our stridency and our power that someone must not understand. And I'm saying this, I'm throwing it out to you ladies too. It ain't just men that a challenge you and try you. Sometimes it's the woman that don't understand you was meant to be this boss here and I'm here to help you. Am I right? Carl Prell, speak on it. You better absolutely speak on the girl. I think two as women. I think you know, for me, watching our generations in the past, our mother, our grandmother, we watched them do it all, do you know what I'm saying. That's how you know? And our ancestors. So I think that for me, the pressure of there was no pressure from them, but I put the pressure on myself to not be a disappointment too. I had to. I had to succeed. You know. I watched my grandmother work two jobs. She was a nurse. She would come in. I would wash her uniforms for her and hang them up to dry and iron them, and I would polish her shoes, and Shirley knows to this day, I will not wear white shoes because I had to polish her shoes because she was a nurse and watching my mother. So for me, that was my drive. That was my push for me to be successful. And now that I am a mother, you know, now that I'm a mother, exactly, I want to lead by example and want her to follow her dreams. You know, when I was a little growing up quickly, and I'll let you know, Monica jump in as well. Growing up listening to radio, that was my thing. I listened to radio all the time I was a little girl in Chicago listening to radio. That's all I wanted to Yes, And my mother would take me to the record stores on the North side, you know, and buy records and on the South side and you know, all of these things that I wanted. So this is a passion of mine working in radio. Always knew that I would do this. Yeah, So this success is it's here for me, you know, whatever level it is in my job. But I'm doing what I love. For ahead, but go ahead, go ahead. I do want to hear from Monica, because you know this is your chance. Monica. We don't hear from you that much. And you didn't start off wanting to be in radio. You know that wasn't good for you. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean it was just I met Shirley Strawberry. I was friends with the exactly with the producer at the time, and God took over the rest. So basically starting out, and I'm from Mississippi and my grandmother had twelve children. My mother is the oldest of twelve, so I have eight aunts and four uncles, and I just always watched my aunts and uncle's excel and basically my aunts were bad. They were bosses from the beginning. My grandmother had twelve children. She never worked, She took care of the home. She made homemade biscuits because if you think back, my mom's eighty, so she was making homemade biscuits every day. And just the work ethic she instilled in her girls and watching my mother, who stayed at a job for twenty nine years and eventual and became directive placements for the Department of Human Services. She never wavered, She never took a day off. She stayed with it. And I just saw that tenacity she had and she instilled in me. You have to work, go, get up and get it down every day. That's all right, all right, We're gonna continue these conversations all morning. Coming up at the top of the hour, we got some entertainment and national news for you right after this. You're listening to show all right in today's entertainment news, Carlos here with today's music news. What's going on, Carla? What you got? Well, big announcement. I want everyone to be ready. So today, of course, his International Women's Day, and I want you to check out I Heart Radio presents see Her, hear her. This is celebrating women in music. Love it. It'll be a conversation and interviews with Gwen Stefani, Cardi B. It's gonna be nice tonight International Women's Day, Monday night on iHeartRadio Facebook page and YouTube, APM Eastern. That's it. Get it done. Listen listening? Are you doing it? Yeah? All right? Thank you, Carlo. We'll be watching tonight of course. And in other trending news, did you lady see coming to America with Yes? I love it, freaking loved it. I loved it. I was blown away. I was blown I was a little worried at first because it was so many stars in it. I was like, how are they going to fit this all into this movie and make it good? But they did it. Eddie Murphy is a genius on every level. He's a genius on every level. It was really really good. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed Wesley Wesley, Wesley a favorite producer. Kenya Barris, Yes, we love Rode it. Yeah, it was just beautiful. It was great. You're right, man, Yeah, I can't wait for this on him. Yeah. My daughter she watched it because she never chendn't see the original coming to America, so she didn't know the story. So the twists with Tianna Taylor and all of the younger stars and actors. She enjoyed it. Tanna was fire. What Yeah, yes, yes, but didn't it feel good that you that was a movie that we grew up with that we love. Now we got some of the kids and then you can watch them both together and see why we feel what we felt and shout out to Leslie Jones. You seen Stiller baby making a statement with that. You're making a statement with that. It was so funny. Oh my god, it was so funny and Randy Watson, thank you. That is it was just so good. Do you know that Eddie Murphy told the story that Oprah did not know that the Jewish guy in the bar shop was Eddie Murphy. She did all the time, all the time, she didn't know that. Yeah, he's that good. He's a genius. He's a genious, he is just Eddie Eni. Let's get was great. To go ahead, mar we have to give it to Sherry Henley. She looked amazing in the movie. Lisa mcnowelling, she looked great. She I loved well, we can't tell that part, but I loved the James Earl Jones part, the King's partner. Yeah, I love his party. Yes, I love the movie. All right, So that that was this weekend. Also, did you guys see last night Prince Harry and Megan Markle the interview with Oprah My girl, my girl, did she get it? But she shook him up so hard that the Queen tried to make a statement before we came out. Yeah, yeah about your shook by opfering only shake it like that? All right, Cheryl, it's time now for our headlines. Please introduce our female boss that does the news for us. It is my pleasure on this International Women's Day to enter those ladies and gentlemen, miss and trip, thank you guys, good morning, this is a trip, yes on this International Women's Day. Okay, Jerry selection is to schedule to begin in Minnesota today for the George Floyd murder case. Xcop Derek Chauvin currently only faced his second degree murder and man's laughter charge. Is what A Minnesota appeals court ruled Friday that a third degree murder charge against Chauvin should not have been dropped by a lower chord. We're gonna have to see what happens there or Chauvin appeals. The actual trial could be postponed, So just kind of reserve on that. But all that aside. George Floyd's brother, felonas from minds is of the horrific devastations still suffered by the Floyd family. Boyd was coming from his nose and the officers still sat there on his neck like he was okay. It's never okay that hurt somebody like that. We shouldn't have to go to court for anything like this. We shouldn't have to. Meanwhile, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi says, the House has passed a police reform bill named after mister Floyd. We're proud of this legislation. It will not erase centuries of systemic racism and excessive policing, and it will not bring back George Floyd, but it will take a tremendous step forward and by banning by various forms of chokeholes and federal no knock drug warrants and banned that stuff that was involved in Brianna Taylor's murder, and reducing the immunity that cops currently get when involved in civilian deaths. On the Hill, the US Senate has passed the Democrats overall close to two trillion dollars coronavirus relief bill, even though the fifteen dollar minimum wage part of had to be removed in order to get the rest of it okay, the Republicans said had to be in a different budget bill. That measure now going back to the House of Representatives for final approval before going on to the President for his expected signature. Previously, by the way, the Senate voted against the fifteen dollars an hour hike fifty eight to forty two. It's eight Democrats joining the GOP opposition. However, there is word that most Senators might go along with a lower federal wage hike, but on a separate bill. President Biden signed an executive order yesterday aimed at leveraging federal resources to expand access to voting. Yesterday was the fifty sixth anniversary of Bloody Sunday. That's when six hundred peaceful protesters marched across the Edmund Pet Bridge and saw Alabama of four voting rights, but were attacked by violent white state troopers. Finally, poet turned international sensation Amanda Gorman says some white security guard fired her home, followed her home the other night, demanding to know if she lived in her neighborhood and claiming she looked suspicious. A man who says, once this guy saw her buzz herself into her building, he walked away with no apology. Old folks say that's evil. Twenty two year old Polder says, this is the reality of black girls. One day you're a nicon, the next day a threat. Now back to the Steve Harvey Morning Show. You're listening, all right, So it is International Women's Day, and we were talking about Chicago radio and growing up. I was listening to radio in Chicago and I knew I wanted to do radio. Shirl you from the Shy Monica has lived in Chicago. What did you want to say about radio in Chicago? Well, definitely, I want to say first about me listening to radio. Ivan Daniels also shout out Bonnie d Sean. But yeah, okay, the after works that I really wanted to be. I wanted to I make a lot of money with inarticulation in comedy, but who I wanted to speak like was Shirley Strawberry. And I'm not saying this because you're right here. I'm saying it because do you remember when I called you recently and I said, I'd like for you to give me some diction classes because I'm getting more and more responsibility, and I just want when we're talking about women and especially women in radio, all of us are here because God put us here and we wanted to be here. But we definitely want to be here with you, Shirley Straberry. It's not written anywhere. I just want to give you some love when you talk about women in radio, Cheryl, thank you. I appreciate that so much. You know, I love you love you, love you, love you. And talking about Chicago radio, I mean that's where I guess we all, you know, developed a love for radio, because that's certainly where I learned it. And you mentioned the iconic Yvonne Daniels. Everyone who grew up in Chicago knew about Vone Daniels. I had never heard anything like this in my life when I heard that woman's voice on the radio. Now I found nothing like her. I did have the pleasure of working with her, became friendly and uh chummy and just you know, I admired her so much. She was like one of my radio mentors, along with Chili Childs and Wanda Wells. People in Chicago I know who I'm talking about. Of course, my girl Bonnie Deshung. We worked together for many years. I don't know. Radio just did it for me, and mainly because I loved music so much. I think Carlin and I talked about this recently, because we had such a great love for music. I couldn't sing anything like Vindia. I finally admit it that I can't sing. I didn't play an instrument. I took trumpet time. I can't. So what was the what was the other thing? What was the other thing that I could do. I could get into radio and play these artists that I loved. That's what made me get into radio. And I used to practice all the time when I had the opportunity to talk to them about radio. And it's not so much about that now, diction and all of that now, but back then it was I would practice, practice, practice. My mom bought me one of those tape recorders, and you know, I would read in front of the mirror. That's what I would do. I would read the newspaper or magazine. I would read every day, and I would listen to my voice and perfect my voice. And I took speech elocution classes and theaters, all those kinds of things that you need to get into this. But anyway, I just wanted to say that, and thanks to Cheryl. Well, that's your superpower. That has superpower. Shout out to Sibyl Wilts as well. That's right, all right, coming up in thirty four minutes after the hour, guys, we're gonna talk about We're gonna talk about politics and civil rights as far as women are concerned. Right after this, you're listening to the Stay Show, all right, So today on International Women's Day. We want to celebrate women's achievement. We want to talk about progress made by empowering women. Vice President Kamala Harris, First Lady Michelle Obama, Democratic Leader Stacy Abraham's another one of our favorites, Temka Mallory. The list goes on and on. So, Cheryl, we gotta ask you, how do we as black women remind our sisters to use their voice and power for change as we continue to demand that our black women leaders always have a seat at the table. Well, one of the things that I appreciate about what the young people have is they have social media as that immediate connection to people. We you know, we had church, we had fax machines, we had phones, but they have an immediate connection with Facebook and Instagram and social media. And the other thing is we, Monica and I are members of Black Greek letter sororities. Monica, you are a Delta You remember of Delta Segment Data. I remember Zata fab To Sorority Incorporated. And to have Kamala Harris as a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority be the Vice President of the United States, the president of the Senate, I think also we need to look at our community service organizations and our church organizations. And I have to say this, when you're talking about fighting against police brutality, what these young women are doing nowadays, it's on the backs of what Shirley Chisholm was doing and what those sisters who were members of the Black Panther Party were doing. And people just couldn't understand what was going on. And you make it seem like it was only men marching in the fifties and sixties. It was only men, but there were there were women who were the founders and the organizers of the Niagara Movement that be got the NAACP. And I will say this, I'm gonna throw it to y'all on this one. I bet a lot of people wish they would have made stays to abrahams, the governor of Georgia. But you made a mistake. You made a mistake, You made a mistake, and you empowered her to save a democracy. Absolutely, and now we have Kamala Harris as Vice president. That it's take it. I'm that's still sinking in for me that we actually have a black woman as vice president of these United States. I mean, you know, I didn't think it would be this soon. But I'm so happy it is. I didn't think we would have a black woman as the Vice President of the United States before a white woman. Oh, absolutely vice president of the United States. So yeah, you're you're absolutely right, yea with what you're saying. And Sheryl, I just Stacy Abrams the queen that she call her beause she is the queen. All hail to the Queen. Yes, right, Monica. But the movement, that movement, we need that what she did in Georgia recently, what happened with the winter storm, and what's going on with the governor with the mask mandate, and we know that he said that as a way to deflect, you know, from the catastrophe of his leading ship. A nobody crazy, anybody, Well, you know what, you know what, You're so right, You're so right. And not only that, not only is she brilliant, not only is Stacy Abrams brilliant. And you're right, Cheryl, I do believe that the people in Georgia uh missed when they didn't make her governor. But God had a plan. God had a plan, and she's still alive, and you don't know, she may come back around and be governor or president. We don't know, but I have to Yeah, but I have to say this too. I have the the privilege to meet her. Um. One day, we were in the same nail salon. Can you believe that? Wow? Is the same nail salon one Saturday morning, and I was like, she was walking out, and I was like, oh my god, excuse me, but you know, I'm fan girl, and I'm fan girl all over. I'm like, you're Stacy Abrams. You're the smartest woman in the world, I said, the worser. And she was so kind and for you know, just humbled me to see how humble she was, you know, with all this power and this brilliance in her mind. I'm like, I could be looking at the future president right here, you know. She was so it's just kind. I said, would you please take a picture with me? No one's gonna believe this, and she said, of course, of course I will. And I just thought that was so great. I didn't tell her who I was, and she didn't care, you know, anything like that. Just a sweet, sweet person. More on this International Women's Day. This is the Steve Harvey Morning Show. The Ladies take it over on International Women's day. Right after this, you're listening to the Steve Harvey Show. Happy International Women's Day, and yes it is something to be happy about, and we are happy. The ladies have taken over the show today. We've taken over the mic. We are here Shirley Strawberry, Carla Farrell, Cheryl Underwood, and the one and only Mississippi Monica has joined us today. We want to let you know that coming up at the top of the hour, right about four minutes after, it's my Strawberry letter for today. Do I give up my dreams for my marriage? Is the subject. Okay, put a pin in that. We're coming back to that right now. We've been talking about all kinds of stuff this morning that concerned women, like equality, inclusion, inspiration. But right now it's time to talk about balance of work, marriage and dating. So Carla, let's talk about balancing it all being a wife, mom, having a career. And then Cheryl and Monica, we got to talk about dating and all of that, what it's like to date. Let's talk about the challenges of dating in your career, all right, So Carla, let's talk about balancing it all, being a wife, being a mom, having a career, so yeah, yeah, you know, let me see, I could do I do, okay, But what I really hate, and everyone on the show knows this is I hate the cooking part. I'm sorry, I do. I don't like some people cooking relaxes them and they like it and they have to cook for their family and all of that. It does not interest me in the least. Now do I have guilt about that? Yes, I do, because of the way, as we talked earlier, of how we were born, how we were raised. You know, we're raised to cook for the man's fixes plate all that. Now, if somebody else cooks, I will fix the plate, so that counts. So that counts. Does that count? You know? I might, You know, I don't. And he doesn't seem to mind so far, it's been six years. He hasn't left me yet. He doesn't seem to mind that I don't cook. But really, I have to be honest. I don't like to cook. I can cook, I don't like it. It's not one of my favorite things to do. And as far as balancing it, that's the main thing that kind of gets me, you know away, yeah, some kind of way. Yeah, what about you? And then I'm a mom too of a twenty four year old. And I haven't said this before. Let me get this out. I'm also a grandmother of two. I've never said that before. I've never said that before. I have a little granddaughter, Jade who's five, and a grandson, Max who's three. They are the love of my life. I love these kids. Um, well, we'll talk more about that. But yeah, I am a grandmother. Now, But how did I eat since you're not cooking that they got mother? And I'm just saying, now, come from the grandmother. Yeah. Oh well, if we go, you know, like out and stuff and they want dessert, then I'll get some and bring it home. But yeah, I'm not I'm not that kind of grandmother. I am not just killing your killing me right for me a sandwich? I can do that. Let me say this. I think I love you right now, calif a real went now she my girl. But now, but you know what I think. I think that we got a lot of women out there that are listening to us this morning, and there is a lot of pressure, you know with women, especially, you know, if you're married. I have a young kid. I have a thirteen year old kid, so cooking not cooking is not an option, Shirley Shawberry. But you know, it's the cooking, it's the helping with the homework, it's it's being a wife. It's taking her to cheer practice, Dan's practice, uh, doctor's appointments, Dennis appointments. It's all of these things trying to balance at all. And I think there is some kind of there is the pressure of the perfection, yes, that you can do it all, that I can do it all, and I and it pressing it look good. That's the point, Shirlotte. Pressure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I think we we put that pressure on ourselves sometimes and and and you know, I'm that type of mom or that type of wife if I say do this and do that and they don't do it the way I want them to do it, and I just do it myself. But then I don't want to be that woman or that mom or that wife that turns around and then puts the guilt on him. I do everything. Well, you said, you know you can do it. So it's a lot of pressure. It's it's a it's a juggling app for sure. But go ahead. Well, first of all, when I was married, my house was a chef and he was the Air Force Air Force and he went to Kendall. He went to Kendall College right up in Evanston, and so he But but I knew how to make spaghetti and pork chops and you know things. Point. But my point was on my mother's side, my mother and my my no mother, because I don't hand on Stepmama. I have two mothers that God gave me. They were both entrepreneurs. They were both strong women, and they held it down in the house and at the church. But what I've learned is sometimes you got to let somebody come in and assist you are not But I mean like if you if your husband is good on the grill, then he is the cook and you got the potato salad right right what I'm saying. Or if I'm a boss out in these streets, I know I got to come home, rattle those sheets a couple of times and make a sandwich or put some cereal on the bowl to let you know who I am up in this piece? Am I right? Mississippi? Monica? Take it, Take it, Monica, Take it Monica, you know, and being single and being within this job, I've traveled so much for work, which is a blessing and a curse because I can't. I just got lost in the job. I was having so much fun. This is the best job I've ever had and the longest job I've ever had. Because it's family. We are a family like the Spring Framily right. We get along, we argue, we fight like sisters. Even when I met Cheryl, we argue and fight like sisters. College other sister I see in Jackson, Mississippis. But sometimes but you know, me and Carla been like me and Shirley. I will ignore how Carl in a minute, but it's all up. So I'm here. But as far as dating, I've just kind of kind of pushed that to the wayside. And it's not that I miss anything, but I do kind of sometimes think you all have families, you know, and Shary you've been married, Shirley you have sharedan and Carla and Tasha, you know. But sometimes it's like I have all of that if I want to do that. So I'm okay over here, getting to watch TV whenever I want to, and you know, cook when I want to. Panica wanted to say to you because a lot of times people label being single as being lonely. Yeah, I don't want you to speak on that as well. Yeah, because I've been exactly the Armonica exactly where you are. Absolutely, yeah, exactly, and we shop for hours and forget to eat because we were single. So now that you may surely where's my shopping partner? You know? But now, but I was, I have a long draw, you know, between a long stretch long one. Yeah, but you're single, but you're not lonely, right, So no, no, And our own boss says, I'm the only person he knows that's happy to stay in the house, and I truly am. When you find happiness within yourself, you don't need anyone else, and you shouldn't be looking for that in a partner anyway. If you're not happy, you can't be happy in a relationship. Being single, like Carla said, does not equate to loneliness. Like I have everything I need in my home. I can take care of myself. I just need someone if they're coming into my life to compliment what I'm doing. I don't need a savior. I don't need a sugar daddy. I don't need this or that. You know, my daddy taught me, don't ever call the sugar daddy, I'm you know, call me so. I'm already happy. Yeah, I'm already happy. I don't need a man to make me happy. Now, if he wants to make me happier, come on in happy. I'm not looking to you. Yeah, I'm not looking to you to make me happy. I'm good, I'm happy, thank you. Yeah. But I do believe the success is nothing without someone you love to share with. Billy D Williams. And also, yeah, I am my own woman. But listen, I know I got some options out there, and I got my eyes on a couple of things, and I got a couple of things in the chamber. But I've been a widow for a long time. But that don't mean today popping over here. I know you have to get out of our own way. We overthink situations sometimes we have to. We overthink everything. All right, we're gonna come back. We're gonna come back with the Strawberry letter. Look at the time, do I give up my dreams from my marriages? The subject, we'll get into it right after this. You're listening to the show Happy International Women's Day. The ladies have taken over the Mike Shirley Strawberry. That's me, Carla Farrell, that's her. Cheryl Underwood, that is her right there, and Mississippi Monica has joined us today. She's come from out of the shadows into the light. I love it, Monica. We're so happy to have you today. And Cheryl, of course, it's always a pleasure. Carla. We ride or die every day, every day we're here. We're here, we go both ways. Girl, don't we all right? Crazy? I know, I think on that. That's very progressive. It's progressive. All right, here we go. All right, I gotta tell you about this. This is exciting coming up married to medicine and ob GYN doctor Jackie Walters will be joining us next hour to talk about women's health and wellness, very important to us in our community. But right now and to all women of course, right now we're gonna switch gears because it is time for the Strawberry Letter. Okay, time for the Strawberry Letter. If you need advice on relationships, dating, work, sex, parenting, and more, please submit your letter to Steve HARVEYFM dot com and click submit Strawberry Letter. So, Cheryl, are you ready? I'm ready? You know how we do it. I'll read and give my response and you will go to break come back, you give yours and we'll wrap this thing up. This is a good one, though, a good one for International Women's Day. Uh yeah, let's do that, because I'm glad you wrote in we could be this could be your letter right here that we're reading live. Go ahead, Carl and do your thing. Girl, All right, here we go. Buckle up and hold on tight. It's time for the Strawberry Letter. We're Shirley Strawberry, Cheryl on the wood. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. International Day? Subject? Do I give up my dreams for my marriage? Dear Stephen, Shirley. I worked from home as a corporate sales leader for five years. In February, I quit my job to do a podcast with two of my best girlfriends. Let me give you a little backstory. My husband and I met in college and got married when we were twenty four and started a family. We had our first child when we were twenty five, and our second child on my twenty seventh birthday. I have a degree in mass communications and I've always wanted a radio job, which is why I want your advice. My husband was always pushing me to work towards my goals, but he reminded me that I had two small children that need me. He has excelled in his real estate company and he coaches a little league football team for our county. We're now thirty years old and I'm ready to pursue my dreams of connecting with an audience. So I got my girlfriends and we decided to start a podcast. My husband was supportive until he realized I would be away from the home two days a week. The lady and I had a photo shoot one Saturday and it took six hours. My husband was irritated when I got home because he had the children all day and he had to run errands with them. I deal with that all the time, so I tuned out his complaining. We record the podcast in a studio on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, so I'm usually gone most of the day to get ready for the show, and my husband has the kids. After only two short weeks of me leaving him with the kids, he decided that we needed to set up a home studio for my podcast. I told him that I don't want to do the podcast at home. I love getting a break and the opportunity to work in peace and quiet. There's so much tension at home. Now, do I give up my dreams for my marriage? M Now, what do you think we're gonna say this? Okay, especially on International Women's Day? Absolutely not, Okay, that would be a big fat no. Do not do that. Don't give up your dreams for anyone, And don't let the fact that you have kids stop you. I mean, Carl and I have kids. Women do it all the time, all every day, all the time. You know. It has to do with organization and how you juggle and your support system all that. You can do this. Okay, you've already done it. You can do it when like I said, women do it all the day all the time. And I was a single parent after my separation and my divorce, I was a single parent. So you know you've got a juggle. You can do it. I just had help, all right, I had help. Your kids need to see you. They need to see you working. They need to see you passionate about what you're doing about life, your career. Your husband is trying to guilt you, okay, into doing it how he wants you to do it. Okay, do a studio at home? Yeah, a lot of people do podcasts at home, but you stayed it in the letter. You don't want to do that. You want to get out the house. And guess what? This is only for two days a week, Tuesday and Thursday. He can't stay with the kids two days a week. These are his kids too. What the heck is he talking about here? I don't understand. He needs to do his part. That means taking care of the kids two days a week. What is that? And they're his offspring? All right, this shouldn't be a problem because he's doing so well as his real estate business. You said that, right, So if there's a problem, perhaps you know he can call in help or something. Speak up for yourself, That's what I say. Find your voice, Let your voice be heard in this marriage. Okay. I hate it when people do this to each other. I hate it when they get jealous or they get intimidated or I don't like that. So you know, you guys can work these things out. Just speak up for yourself, Cheryl, go ahead. Well, I'm gonna need a whole another break, so and I'm gonna need some backup, Carla Farrel, missive Monica. I'm gonna need y'all in this because what I'm gonna say in the next break it's all a about your husband. You need to wait till the other side of the break, Girl, International Women's Day. Oh I had I had a mute myself because what I'm gonna say on the other side of the break, and I'm gonna need back up because women are now yelling at the radio right now going say that. We are going to all say that and empower this woman. It's your husband. Oh, I'm sorry, all right, Cheryl, hold that thought. Okay, We're gonna get to part two of the Strawberry Letter with Cheryl Underwood's response at twenty three minutes after the hour, the subject do I give up my dreams for my marriage? We'll get back into it right after this. You're listening to show, all right, come on, we're gonna recap the letter quickly, Cheryl. The subject is do I give up my dreams from my marriage? A young lady wrote in she's thirty now. She wants to do a podcast, but she has two kids, and she does a podcast two two times a week. She has a husband who's been with her all this time. They met in college, and everything he gets upset and irritated when she goes out to do her her job, her podcast, because he doesn't like staying with his kids. So she he wants her to bring a studio, to build a studio in their home so she won't have to leave. That's one of the reasons she's leaving because she wants a break. Two days a week. There are seven days in a week. The other five days she's got the kids, sir. So anyway, that's that's pretty much the gist of this letter, Cheryl. So you say what, she's a hostage. Get out as fast as you can, your hostage them, your kids them, not dude kids. Put them kids right in his lap, peas and carts everything and let him see because see, he been out slaying dragons, he went out doing real estate and everything, and she's been holding it down and he wants to keep her there. She has dreams. You can have a happy marriage and have dreams. And I want to know what's he liked that in college because some of us we you know, we go out for that happily ever after and we're married to do and he doesn't evolve, but we have evolved and we're ready to do some more things. But you want me to stay over him, be a hostage. What you mean a couple of hours which your kids? We went half on a baby. These are your kids. You need to keep these kids. And this podcast, one of my podcasts, blow up and I'm worth hundreds of millions of dollars, then you're gonna want to come over here and do something with somebody. Sister. Let me just tell you something. I know you love him. I know you love it. See I thought about that should describe here, But I don't believe in divorce. I believe until death do us part you first, because I ain't going nowhere. I got married in front of my friends. I got half a cake in the freezer. This is not the end of this relationship. Sometimes, Cheryl, Oh, listen, you're talking to a widow. You're talking to something about it else you tell somebody, yeah, right over right over at Callahan's on Sandy First and Halsted. I know where my husband got laid to rest fare you well, I pity the food, but for this right here, and I want I want Carla, I want you to come jump in this, and Monica, I want you to jumping this because listen, we love our men and especially when we meet them young, and we have these hopes and these dreams, and they make it seem like I'm gonna do this, and then you gonna go get choice, and then when I go to try to get mine, you make it seem like you don't. You don't. Forgot on the snuggle tip what we were talking about over at the Zanz the Bar in the fifteen minute, did I say too much off Stony Island? It came out. It did right right across street from Sweet Georgia Brown shout out right. But I'm telling you we all failed for this. Where the dude was we were talking about what we gonna do together, but really he was talking about what he was gonna do for himself. And then when I've done my part and I want to get out in the world and see about my dreams and I don't want to lose my family because I love you, and then you show me who you are? Is that the man that I fell in love with? Carli Parell, you say what absolutely, Cheryl, I agree with you one hundred percent. I agree with what Shirley is saying one hundred percent. I mean, this woman has a degree in mass communications, and so do I I have a degree in mass communication. So she went to school for this. This is her passion, this is her dream. And you mean to tell me that she's looking at her husband, her man, as a dream killer, your dream crushing. We are as one when we get married, We are as one, our union are as one. You should be right there with me. I'm right there with you, supporting you, and you should be right there with me. Support team my dreams, and support team your wife and your kids. Like you're doing me a face watching the kids. These are your kids too. You need to be a part of it. Yeah. Yeah, I got set up for an oaky dog. You like to me, that's what happened, and that's the issues he should be. But the reality is he's not. He should be, you know, that's what we signed up for. Go ahead, Monica. Well, in my situation, I was in a similar situation when I got when I started working with you guys, I was working from home for six years and it was fine with the guy was dating because I was home during the day and you know, we could run around and play and you know, but I had to go to work now and he's like, oh, well, that job is too demanding and you're there too long, and you know, I'm like, okay, but this is what I chose to do. So it's like you either find you something to do or you know, we can't see each other. And then you know the stress of him always well why are you always gone? And why are you dressing? Why are you doing this? And why are you doing that? Now you're traveling. It just fell by the wayside because I lost interest in the constant need for him to control where I was, why I wanted to do that. He was very insecure, and then I was around you guys who are radio my coins and legends and oh what you must like this and you must like that? Yes, yes I do. So you know I'm not gonna don't play any of that or for you know, push anything I want to do to the wayside for him. So he finally he kind of got the clue and well, can I say that. I really can't say this because I want to say this. I believe in marriage, and I believe if I'm not an asset to my man and my family, then I will remove myself. I think there is some discussion to be had, but he is going to have to understand this is her time now. And if you are really the man that she fell in love and who she married, and the father of the children and the head of the household, then be a man stand by your one when to her dream because you've been doing your dream and she's been supporting you. All right, this calls for a part three. I think of the Strawberry Letter. Today. We're gonna continue this conversation. Please, this is international. We could do it were run the MinC today, right, this is International Woman's Day. We'll be back right after this. You're listening to all right. This kind of sparked a conversation. We were having it before we went to break and off the air as well. It had something to do with the Strawberry Letter? Do I give up my dreams for my marriage? And Cheryl? I think when we left off you were saying you were telling her, don't let her husband be a dream killer. These are her dreams. She wanted to see them come to fruition. Otherwise you're living in a nightmare. I'm sorry if you don't get to live out your dreams and the things you have in your heart, your purpose and all of that, your goals because someone is trying to hold you down. And the person you would not think that would be doing that, your husband. You're the closest person to you. You know, there's a problem that that's a nightmare. That is a nightmare. And that's what that's what I called a relationship. Okay, dope, because when we was falling in love, we're talking about all these things we were gonna do together, all these things you agree with and maybe you can do this, and I'm gonna help you do this. Now. I think he even tried to I think he tried to soften about Okay, we're gonna make a studio in the house. But that still ties me to the house you're not to get out of. And she deserves that, and she deserves two days a week out of seven. You can't handle your kids two days a week. That you know? I think that you also beautiful? Don't you agree? No matter? I mean, let me just say, marriage is work. Yes, marriage is work, but it's a two way street. It's a two way street. My husband is a mortgage alone officer, you know, for Wells Fargo, and he has a very demanding job too. I have a job. I have a very demanding job. So we come together as one as building our empire, our dreams. What do you want? What do you want? And we come together as one to try to press sue our dreams, to grow our emprior to grow our family. What are our long term goals? What are your short term goals? So for him as her king, as her husband, to just basically tell her no, no, no, that is a serious that is a serious problem. And marriage is about compromise, right, And let me say this, this happened. Not to interrupt your color, but this happens way more than we think. Okay, this goes on in marriages all the time, all the time, you know. And it's always us, the women who usually take the backseat. And you know, we have that mommy guilt. Every mom has it. We have that guilt. We want to be there for the kids and do what's right for the kids. And like you say, this is a compromise. It's supposed to be a compromise, each person, you know, having the other's back, supporting each other and all of that. And that's why I tell her to find her voice and speak up, keep ignoring this man, keep doing and don't do it disrespectfully, But do you books, then Yo kids too. We went half. This is fun, ladies, but we got to switch gears here. Coming up at the top of the hour, we're gonna switch and talk to doctor Jackie Walters. She's going to be our special guest. We're going to talk about women's health right after this. You're listening to the Steven Show, all right. Our special guest is an ob gyn breast cancer survivor, television personality and author of The Queen V and she is joining us today. We're so happy that she's here to discuss women's health and all that that encompasses. We will also dive into her best selling book, Queen VU. Emphasis on the V if you know what I mean. Wink wink, please welcome to the show, our friend. We love her so much, Doctor Jackie Walters. Ladies, lady, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh my god, I'm so honored to stay with these beautiful women. Oh my god. It is definitely our pleasure, doctor Jackie, it really really is. Thank you for taking the time. Our health is so important, and especially the health of black women in our community. As we celebrate International Women's Day, We're gonna start it off this way. And then we'll get into some health questions, Doctor Jackie. Season eight of Bravo's hit show Married to Medicine, where we all first learned about you and met you and everything. Well, that show kicked off last night. This is your eighth season doing the show. You also appeared with Andy Cohen and Kenya Moore on Watch What Happens Live on Bravo. Tell us about it, tell us about season eight. What can we expect now? The truth? This season is probably the most impactful season ever for me because we got in there, we did COVID texting, we got into the Black Matter movement, we went to the March on Washington and actually did COVID testing there. So this season was like the mission of all missions for me, so I fairly enjoyed it. It was weird because we had to wear mad We still had the girlfriend drama. You saw what happened when the white coat came home. That's what we love, because that's what we love. Yes, we love that. We love you know that you guys are so professional in the office and you handle your business and you're such strong, intelligent, educated, beautiful women. But then, like you say, when you take those white coats on Okay Okay baby, and this year I'm caught in between two friends. I love Golden doctor Samal and I'm smack dab in the middle of the miss Oh wow. Well, only only you can handle that. Only you can handle it. And I know sometimes it takes a toll. It does take a toll when you're dealing with yes, but yeah they are. So I'm sorry, sir that there's two. They're totally two, totally different person nationality. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy, it's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. So you are a breast cancer survivor and you've been very open and transparent about your journey with breast cancer. We're all about early detection on the show, so let's talk about that for a moment, Doctor Jackie. So I'm an early time breast cancer survivor, and you know my line is your greatest wealth in life is your health, and you have to take it yourself. I have a whole new campaign that I'm starting because black women are forty two percent more likely to die from breast cancer than a Caucasian woman. So my story to every woman in the office is if we're dying more, we should be doing more. And that I'm like get your Mamma Graham. Let's start very simple. Do a chelf breast exam every moment. Know your family history. We offer genetic testing in the office now so you can know if you carry any gene that would predispose you to grasp colon overy, pancreatic. So we're telling women, know your family history, make sure you're doing your self breast exam. And now I'm about to step up some tols. And you are what you eat. So I'm a big advocate on eating live. If you didn't kill her to grow in chair l because I'm gonna say I didn't, No, no, because she started with the charl and she started with the chef and I know my AKA sorrow was not coming over. Was like it wasn't but I knew what you were saying. I know what you were saying, But she was really talking about schel describe berries. Hey, listen, doctor Jackie. We gotta take a quick breakcare. We're gonna come back with more of the Steve Harvey Morning Show on this International Women's Day. Our special guests, the Beautiful, the Lovely, the Talented doctor Jackie Walters. Right after this, you're listening to the Stave Morning Show. All right, here we are back on this International Women's Day with our Women's Day Show. Okay, it's all about women today, women's health, everything. We've talked about it all and it wouldn't be complete without. We're just gonna call you our friend, our girlfriend because we love you like that. Doctor Jackie. Yeah, all right, doctor Jackie Walters. You know her from Married to Medicine. They just premiered season eight on Bravo last night. She has a book out called The Queen V. We'll get into that as well. When we were leaving, you were talking about you being a two time breast cancer survivor and you the last thing you said was you are what you eat. Garbage in, garbage out. Yeah. Just encourage every woman, especially women of color, to make sure you're doing your age appropriate testing. If you're forty years old or older, you should be getting a mammogram. Make sure you're going to get that. You should fight for that. You know, screening mamograms are covered on the most plans, so please get early. Detection is your best protection. So I want to tell everybody you know, Keemo, radiation doublem mispect to me is not a lot of fun. So if you can catch it early, of course, you can definitely extend to your life span. So please go get your testing and can't do a girlfriend thing where we all take each other like you gotta go get your mamogram, but you're afraid. We should wear a limo, you know, and go take each other to the mammogram and then have salad afterwards. Nothing is killed in the making of the salad. That's right, all right, doctor Jackie, We're want to take another quick break. We'll be back. We have more questions for you. We'll be back on the Steve Harvey Morning Show on this International Women's Day right after this. You're listening to show. We're back with doctor Jackie Walters, our special guests this morning. This is International Women's Day. We're talking about women's health. To doctor Jackie Walters, you have been vaccinated and I had my first round of the vaccination myself. So what is the message for our females out there about getting vaccinated? Great questions. Again. Again, I'm gonna stick with women of color because it's impacting us definitely distroportunately. More, we are two point nine times more likely to die from COVID. So we're telling women. Please, if you are a woman of color and you can have your vaccine, please get it. It doesn't matter about it. And you know, the big thing is do I get spizer? Do I get mad? Do I get J? And J get a vaccine? Right? I'm telling her everybody that because to watch pregnant women come into the hospital where they can't breathe and they're separated from their baby for a short period of time, or they're very ill and they have to go to qu is heartbreaking. So I'm telling everybody we're ready to get back to norm, but let's please take out time get your vaccine. It's not live virus. That's what I want everybody to know. It's not a live virus that you're getting. So you're not going to get COVID from getting the vaccination. Yeah, we're gonna make antibody, so it's covid. The live virus entered your body from contact. Then your immune system is ready to fight it off. So it's like an army, right, So I'm begging everybody, get your vaccine. Ain't don you get sick. And if you have a really severe immune response, you may feel a little achy or something. Your arm was four but I didn't feel anything. I was mad. I wanted my arm to be four like day too, but it was okay. But I want to Cheryl Schryl, you got a question for doctor Jackie. Well, I had a question and a comment real quick. But I got a questioned by my love life doctor Jackie that only you can set me up what's going to be. But we need to make sure it's mobile and people know where they can get the vaccine because people don't have transportation to get it. But but I'm glad you shouting that out. But doctor Jacket, I have a love question. I have a workplace for romance with Junior and we will be married, okay, And I want to keep the excitement in our marriage. I want to take the passion that we have in our courtship all the way through to our marriage. So besides having sex, what are good ways to connect with your partner, especially during this time because we're still in the pandemic. And I want to send my expression of passion and sex and hot mucking love to Julia. What would you recommend? Knowing that you had to Queen share all, okay, speak to me, Queen V. If you are not living in the house with your partner. I would encourage you, guys to both be attested frequently. Doctor Jackie, thank you. We know you have patience to get to you have a full day of work today and we just love you and thank you so much for taking the time. And Happy International Women's Day to you. Thank you, saying thank you you guys. We'll see you, Cheryl. Okay, thank you, my aka. It's all raight, all right, guys, coming up at forty nine minutes after the hour, we'll have some tell me something good news for you, and don't forget this is International Women's Day right after this you're listening to show. Wow, we're at the end of the day already for this show. That's so much fun. I know, you know that's the saying yeah when you're having fun. That's as the saying goes yeah. And we're gonna end on this note. Guys, it's time for tell me something good news. Uh Shaka Khan Idina Menzel remake, I'm every woman with a humanitarian organization care to celebrate International Women's Day. Uh. Of course Shaka is an icon. Idina Menzel we know her from the Frozen movies and she's just got an amazing voice. Well. This song is part of CARES hashtag I'm every Woman International Women's Day campaign, which celebrates the strength, resilience and leadership of women around the world throughout the month of March and helps Care distribute care packages to women and girls around the world. Here's a little snippet. You hear it in the background, Take a listen, you and that's the perfect It's the perfect song at the perfect time. And I gotta shout out Masa of Zeta five Beta s Royds Incorporated. Chaka Khan is I remember of Zeta five Beta Royds Incorporated song. I'm proud that this is happening. This is a really great song at a really great time, don't you think? Monica Absolutely? And I want to shout out Masa Mayor Keisha Lands Bottoms of the Great City of Atlanta. She had a rough weekend together. Yes, they had the all Start weekend in Atlanta and mayn Bottom said, don't come here. They came anyway, but we dealt with it. We're gonna be strong in the struggle. Let me tell you what Shaka Khan said in a statement. She said, I'm so thrilled to be a part of this hopeful celebration of strength for International Women's Day. Our version of I'm every Woman is a beautiful recognition of the power and every woman, especially the heroes on the front lines who have been working tirelessly this past year to keep us safe and healthy. You can watch the hashtag I'm every Woman music video on care dot org slash every woman. Wow, yes, profound, thank you. That's right. Um, were we gonna shout out the vaccine? When were earlier? We were talking about the vaccine? What's the doctor name? Uh yeah, doctor sister. Yes it is yes, it is yes, it is yes. Yes. This was fun to day. You had a good time. Cheryl and I have you got to get out of here. Girl. Oh we gotta go. Okay, I gotta go. You and Monica talk, Oh yes, the Talk and Monica we have to meet like this so I you know, I give you our kudos for doing this daily. I just like to smile and watch you out. Did a great job. You did great. Yes, you did a great job. Monica, thank you so much. And Cheryl, you're right, you will be on the Talk today. You don't want to miss Cheryl on the Talk. And of course Cheryl is with us every Thursday. Every Thursday, we are with Junior and you guys are part of it. Right. Yes, today we had the sign on the door that said no boys allowed. Right, yes, yes, yes, yes, boys back in town. But okay, I gotta show out a question. Oh okay, you go first early because you I was gonna ask you. I was gonna guess, I was gonna ask you. Did you learn anything today? You know what I learned. I learned when powerful women come together, we can do powerful things. I learned that the h this might have to be a second show, maybe on the weekend or something. We just get together. Um, and I do understand the power of radio. That's why we had something called Black Radio Solidarity dot Com where we talk about businesses, we talk about vaccinations and things like that. We have to use the power, especially a black radio, to advance certain causes. If we can sell product, if we can sell culture, then we can save a democracy. And we did all of those things through the power of black radio and black media. So I'm thinking you all for allowing me to be part of this with you ladies today. And I love being part of the Steve Harvey Morning Show family. I love being part of the Cheryl, Like we said, we wouldn't do it without you. We couldn't see ourselves doing without you. Right, let's have a we shan't have a political round type because there's so much we need to talk about, Like we need to talk about how Trump need to never come back and do anything. We need to lay that, yes, and more than that. Next year, we have to get ready for the mid terms. That's right. Yeah, this never stops. I mean, we did what we had to do for this past election last year, but we have They're They're always going to keep coming, so we always have to know what's going on. We cannot rest on our laurels. All right, this is a fight and we are in it to win it for sure, you know. And I just want to say thank you to Shirley and Carla for taking me in as a propical child. It's just everything I need to know, and it's still so much more to know. And they've just been patient and just forgiving of all of my little radio mistakes. And I just love these girls. I love you to share them because I've learned as well your professionalism. Thank you. I'm just among the great group of ladies and I really appreciate you. But you know what, before I go, I could not have done anything that I'm doing if I had not been here, because I learned from you, ladies. And then when I put together certain things podcasts and things like that, you know, I'm looking at who are my trailblazers and ready on this you ladies right here? But Monica, what I need to know? Where were we were there? One time we were in Jackson and we had such a good time. And why did the mayor Jackson look like Drake? What's happening? Girl power? All right? We want to thank you all. Happy international women today. Uh you know, love on women, okay, because we certainly love you. Empower each other, love on each other, don't hate. Okay, that's that's so old. Yes, that's empower our future women are yes, little girl for sure, Yes, yes, yeah everyone everyone, Thank you guys. Love bye. I'm always allowed to No boys, Dicky boy Man Hider Club. For all Steve Harvey contests, no purchase necessary, void where prohibited. Participants must be legal US residents at least eighteen years old, unless otherwise stated. For complete contest rules, visit Steve Harvey FM dot com. You're listening to the Steve Harvey Morning Show