FIRST BORN DAUGHTER–Episode 6: Felicia Pride

 
 
As an award-winning writer and director, Felicia Pride has written for TV shows “Queen Sugar” and “Grey’s Anatomy” and is currently supervising producer on “Bel-Air,” the reimagined version of the 90s sitcom “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”.

In film, she’s the writer and executive producer of Really Love, produced by Netflix in 2020, and made her directorial debut with Tender, a short film.

She is also the founder of Honey Chile, an independent media and production company that centers Black women over the age of 40 and is the co-host of their twice NAACP Image Award-nominated podcast, “Chile, Please.”

In this episode, Felicia talks about what it’s like being a successful Black woman in Hollywood, how her ideas of success have changed over time and why being on the other side of 40 is absolutely amazing.

Full episode here

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