by Selena Hill
June 4, 2026
The brand new 10-episode sequence explores how overcoming undeserved disgrace can unlock entrepreneurship, management, and private progress.
OneUnited Financial institution is tackling the silent barrier that always blocks individuals from totally realizing private and monetary success: disgrace.
Final month, the financial institution launched Who’s Your Ma Honey?, a brand new podcast designed to assist company confront and overcome “undeserved disgrace.” The ten-episode sequence premiered Could 7 and is now out there on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible. Hosted by OneUnited Financial institution President and Proprietor Teri Williams and Circle of One Advertising President and CEO Suzan McDowell, the podcast options candid conversations with entrepreneurs, advocates, elected officers, and neighborhood leaders who share how experiences of disgrace in the end turned sources of resilience and empowerment.
In response to a press release launched by OneUnited Financial institution, the present goals to uncover “the hidden presence of undeserved disgrace—the combination of unjustified guilt and unwarranted stigma—to assist company reclaim the supply of their final superpower.” The idea aligns with OneUnited Financial institution’s long-standing mission of selling monetary empowerment and neighborhood growth.
By candid conversations with esteemed Black leaders, Who’s Your Ma Honey? seeks to rework painful reminiscences into highly effective classes, demonstrating how adversity can turn out to be the inspiration for management, entrepreneurship, and generational wealth. Season one company embody journalist Karen Hunter, Nationwide City League President and CEO Marc Morial, activist Sybrina Fulton, Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, entrepreneur Felicia Hatcher, and BMe Neighborhood Founder Trabian Shorters.
The inspiration for the podcast stems from Williams’ personal private journey. Rising up in Indiantown, Florida, she earned a full scholarship to Brown College. As she navigated the transition from a small Southern city to an Ivy League establishment, she stated she turned ashamed of her roots and, within the course of, misplaced contact with the reminiscence of her great-grandmother, Annie Coachman, affectionately referred to as “Ma Honey.” Coachman was an entrepreneur who owned a penny sweet retailer, juke joint, barbecue pit, and rental properties within the segregated South.
“For years, I misplaced the reminiscence of my great-grandmother and the affect she had on my life. My reminiscence loss was rooted in disgrace,” Williams stated in a press release. “All of us have a Ma Honey; somebody or one thing we’ve been undeservedly ashamed of—that’s truly the supply of all the pieces we’ve turn out to be. This present is about discovering that reality, typically uncovering it in actual time.”
Williams believes reclaiming these formative experiences will help people heal emotional wounds whereas strengthening the resilience wanted to construct wealth and create lasting alternatives.
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