Work in Progress: Bellamy Young
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
POTUS is in the house! Bellamy Young has been a busy actor for 30 years, tackling many roles, including playing President Mellie Grant on the hit show ‘Scandal.' Now, she's teaming up with humanitarian group Care to uplift women's voices.
Bellamy Young shares with Sophia what inspired her to use her platform to highlight women leaders from around the globe in her new podcast "She Leads With CARE." She also reveals the obstacles to doing a podcast in multiple languages worldwide, the inspiring stories that left her in tears, what's possible when we care, her work in progress, and the new sci-fi novel she wrote!
Bellamy also opens up about her time on 'Scandal,' from what the atmosphere on set was like to her feelings about working with Shonda Rhimes, and whether she thinks the cast would really be up for a reboot! Her answer is scandalously good!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. It's Sophia. |
| 0:02.5 | Welcome to Work in Progress. |
| 0:14.8 | Friends, Whips Marty's fellow lovers of excellent television. |
| 0:18.4 | We are joined today by a woman who I just adore look up to and |
| 0:24.9 | who I can't wait to have in front of me for a whole hour so I can pepper her with questions. |
| 0:31.0 | Today's guest is Bellamy Young, who you probably love as I do from her role playing |
| 0:36.5 | Melody Melie Grant in ABC's hit series Scandal. |
| 0:41.6 | Yes, she won the Critics Choice Award. |
| 0:44.1 | Yes, she's gone on to star on other series. |
| 0:46.1 | Yes, she is a singing and acting legend, a theater baby. |
| 0:49.9 | And a brilliant, brilliant, heart-forward woman who is an author and now a podcast host, |
| 0:58.2 | she's also just one of the loveliest people I have ever met. |
| 1:03.6 | And I can't wait to sit with her today and talk about how she balances all these things, |
| 1:08.2 | her career, her fascination in the world, and her work as an ambassador |
| 1:13.9 | with care. Care is the world's leading humanitarian organization that is dedicated to saving |
| 1:20.0 | lives and defeating poverty around the world. And the work that Bellamy has done with care, |
| 1:26.2 | the women that she's met, the change she has seen made in conversations from Honduras to Jordan to Nepal, to Tanzania, to Ukraine, to Vietnam, to name a few, inspired her to make sure the stories that touched her in her work could touch the rest of us. |
| 1:43.7 | So in partnership with care, she has |
| 1:45.5 | launched an incredible new limited podcast series called She Leads with Care. And she will take |
| 1:52.7 | all of us around the world to have inspiring conversations with women leaders that are changing |
| 1:59.3 | this planet for the better. |
| 2:02.9 | I am absolutely thrilled that she's here, |
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