Tatyana Ali

Recently, you've seen her on Abbott Elementary, on social media, advocating for maternal health, talking about her new children's book, Ozzy and the Octopus, inspired by her own son, or promoting Baby Yams, her philanthropic baby quilt company, where 10% of all proceeds go to support Black and Indigenous community birth workers.

And so we are honored to welcome a guest we have wanted on Podmeets World for quite some time.

It's Tatiana Ali.

Hello.

Thank you so much for being here with us.

You have been a dream guest for us for some time.

I know we have asked you now several times to come on, and I'm just so grateful that it finally worked out for your schedule.

In your intro, we talked all about your activism and your philanthropic work with a lot of focus on maternal health and rights.

You know, and so in your situation, in this case, using that credibility for something credible and truthful and to share other people's stories and your own, you know, like I said, it's a double edged sword.

It also takes some time to recover from a traumatic birthing experience.

And your son was in the NICU.

But I also, my son was born four weeks early and he spent the first six months of his life in and out of the NICU.

And

It was, you know, my birth plan was thrown out the window.

And, you know, so it, I also did not really start to process everything that had happened until you get pregnant again.

And now there's some space, a couple of years have passed.

And you go, I think I'm finally ready and able to face the everything that has gone on since that time.

And you are so cute singing Why Do Fools Fall in Love with Samuel L. Jackson, directed by Robert Townsend, produced by Keenan Ivory Wayans.

I mean, it gets absolutely no more legendary did that.

No, but do you remember then the moment when you found out you got the part?