ATLANTA (AP) — When Tyler Perry talks, people listen and Sheletta Brundidge was one of those hanging on to every word.
Perry told the audience at the 2019 BET Awards that “while you’re fighting for a seat at the table, I’ll be down in Atlanta building my own.” Brundidge, a producer at WCCO Radio in Minneapolis and host of the Two Haute Mamas podcast, was listening.
When Perry — who received the Ultimate Icon Award that night — spoke, Brundidge said she “felt that in my toenails,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
“He said to build our own table. So I started the site,” she wrote in a Twitter message. “Then he said help somebody cross. So I went and grabbed a few folks and brought them over with me.”
It was in Atlanta, during the She Podcasts conference this past October, where Brundidge learned to put it all together.
The result is the podcast platform SHEletta Makes Me Laugh. Among the podcasts are “The Teen…
