Candice Brathwaite on Fearless Creative Output

All The Small Things

Venetia La Manna

Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Candice Brathwaite is an author, journalist, TV presenter, and the founder of Make Motherhood Diverse – an online initiative that aims to ensure more people see themselves reflected online.

Candice’s new book, Sista Sister, is a compilation of essays about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was a young Black girl growing up in London. From family and money to Black hair and fashion, as well as relationships between people of different races and colourism. Sista Sister is the follow up to Candice’s debut book, I Am Not Your Baby Mother, which was published in May 2020 and quickly became a Sunday Times Best-seller. It’s an urgent and eye-opening book about Black British motherhood, the first of its kind in the UK.

In this interview, Candice explains why Black British women will always be at the forefront of her storytelling. She tells us about the boundaries she has in place to ensure optimum self-protection and fearless creative output, the highs and lows of social media and how she doesn’t promote the idea of becoming an influencer. We also discuss friendship and trauma bonding, performative activism, cultural appropriation in wellness, colourism, her career aspirations and much more.

Pre-order Sista Sister

Buy I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Find Candice on Instagram

Candice's TV recommendation

All The Small Things is co-produced and edited by Venetia La Manna and produced by Holly Falconer, with music composed by William Haxworth and artwork designed by Alex Sedano.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to series two of all the small things with me Venetia. I am so excited
0:11.2	to be bringing you a brand new season of this podcast and I'm thrilled to be kickstarting
0:17.1	with the absolute goddess that is Candy's breath weight. Candy's breath weight is an author,
0:23.8	journalist, TV presenter and the founder of Make Motherhood Divorce, an online initiative
0:29.4	that aims to ensure more people see themselves reflected online.
0:33.4	Candy's fantastic new book Sister Sister is a compilation of essays about all the things
0:38.7	she wishes she'd been told when she was a young black girl growing up in London. From
0:43.5	family and money to black hair and fashion, as well as relationships between people of
0:48.1	different races and colorism, it is an absolutely exceptional read and easily one of my top
0:54.3	book recommendations for this summer. Sister Sister is the follow up to Candy's debut
0:59.1	book, I Am Not Your Baby Mother, which was published in May 2020 and quickly became a Sunday
1:04.6	Times Best Seller. It's an urgent and eye-opening book about black British motherhood, the first
1:10.7	of its kind in the UK. Candy's is a self-confessed beauty and fashion obsessive and she now has
1:16.4	a regular style segment on Lorraine on ITV where she's become known for gently encouraging
1:21.5	people to be bolder about embracing color in their wardrobes. Coming up in this interview,
1:26.7	Candy's explains why black British women will always be at the forefront of her storytelling.
1:32.0	She tells us about the boundaries she has in place to ensure optimum self-protection and
1:37.1	fearless creative output, the highs and lows of social media and how she doesn't promote
1:42.4	the idea of becoming an influencer. We also discuss friendship and trauma bonding,
1:47.6	performative activism, cultural appropriation in wellness, colorism, her career aspirations
1:53.5	and much more. I am low key obsessed with Candy's and in fact maybe it's not so low key and I'm
1:58.8	just so thrilled to have our kick-starting this season and I really hope you love this episode.
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