Strawberry Letter
Episodes
My Friend, My Husband and My Mother
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I wrote in about my husband helping out my best friend after her husband died. My mother visited us from Nigeria and she told ...
Everything Is A Minor Inconvenience
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Stephen Shirley, Everything is a minor inconvenience for my husband, and I need to see if something is going on with him outside of our household...
Entrepreneur: He's making it easier for people with Opioid Use Disorder to commit to their methadone treatment program.
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Dr. Michael Giles. Our Virtual Dos...
It's Impossible To Sleep Next To Him
21 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband is threatening to divorce me because I haven't slept in the bed with him for almost two months. I have asked him to...
I Put My Money On The Other Dude
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Financial Motivator: Insights on Supporting and Scaling Black Businesses with Morehouse Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center Founding Director Tiffany Bussey.
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Dr. Tiffany Bussey. As the Mor...
He Saw Right Through My Lies
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Financial Motivator: He formed a private investment fund with fraternity brothers and family to buy properties collectively.
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Justin Lee, Sr. Her...
Affordable Homeownership Program: No down payment. No closing costs, No fees, No mortgage insurance.
18 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Angeanette Dowles. Homeownership i...
Why Would She Keep Telling The Same Lie
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Perseverance: Was Laid off, but she Regrouped! Her Cookies are now sold in 4,100 stores nationwide and Canada.
16 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Shica Little. During COVID, D...
Showbusiness Isn’t For Everyone
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Financial Tips: Managing your monthly budgets, build partnerships, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. George C. Fraser. He is back a...
I Should Tell Him Before Marriage
14 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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He’s Afraid of The Competition
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Financial Tips: Debit Cards vs Credit Cards. How to improve your buying power!
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. George C. Fraser. Dr. George C...
He Repeated Everything I Said About Her
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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She Saw My Mama And Didn't Stop
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Financial Tips: Former Wall Street Banker Tells All about buying stocks and building generational wealth.
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Ashley M. Fox. “Breaking News! For...
His Daughter Gets Better Gifts Than I Do
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a wife and a bonus mom to two teenagers, and my husband has a good co-parenting relationship with his ex-wife. His fourtee...
Why Was She At The Same Hotel
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am dating a man that has a lot of female friends. I don't like it, but they seem harmless, so I've learned to go with the fl...
Please Help Me Figure My Man Out
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a 51 year old married woman and I'm eight years older than my husband. He is successful and he loves the Lord. Those were ...
Overcoming the odds: Revolutionized scalp care with her innovative Braid, Loc & Scalp Refreshening Wipes. Tress Clean.
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Kiyana Pearson. Kiyana Pearson is...
He's Angry Because I Like His Side Piece
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty eight year old single mother of a twenty eight year old grown man. Like me. My son started having children at an e...
He Called Me The Name That’s Tatted On Him
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been dealing with a man for a few years, but we can never stay together longer than three to four months at a time becaus...
Financial Tips: Morgan Stanley's Sonia Fears uses simple formulas to grow your money and build family wealth.
02 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Sonia Fears. Sonia Fears of the Fears...
I'm Tired Of Covering For This Man
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm dating a guy that's been living with a woman for six years and they're not married, so technically he's single, so we're n...
Why Can’t I Say Another Man Is Blessed
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm sixty three and I've been married for a year. I've known my husband for about thirty years, and we dated off and on for ma...
He Was Next Door with The Neighbor’s Sister
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I are in a bad place all because I found him next door with my neighbor's sister. The lady calls to tell me tha...
Faith and Finance: Getting wealthy quickly in your 50's, Pastor Dexter B. Jenkins.
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed renowned real estate investor, financia...
Married and Celibate
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, for the past 23 years, I’ve been married to the nicest guy in the world and I have always tried to be the perfect wife and m...
Financial Tips: How to manage your debt. Simple family tax write offs for a home-based business rarely taken advantage of, Dr. Lynn Richarson.
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Lynn Richardson. Financial planning...
Do I Need His Approval To Live My Best Life
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for thirty years. Since I was nineteen darned years old. I had two babies, and my husband wanted one more. I...
We’re Not Going to Make It ‘Til November
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty seven year old, married married man. My wife's twenty nine year old niece got divorced recently and moved back to ...
How Important Is Conversation When You’re in Love
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend is the sweetest person I've ever dated. We met when he picked me up from the airport in his SUV. I had just moved...
She Posted A Picture of My Gifts
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty three year old single woman and I've been in a long distance relationship for the past eight months. He pursued m...
If He’s Going I’m Going Too
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for three years and my husband had two sons when we got married. I'm cordial with the mom of his nine year o...
I Had No Idea Where His Clothes Were Going
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been with my boyfriend for five years. I moved in with him when I got pregnant, and he asked me to marry him on our daugh...
He Wants Me To Share Him With Women At Church
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for twelve years and he is on just about every committee at our church, so he's always doin...
What's Up With My Spoiled Old Man
17 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty four year old married woman and my husband has been sleeping in the other room lately. He and I got into an argume...
He Stole My Wife From Right Up Under Me
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a hard-working, faithful man. I was married for 15 years to my college sweetheart. I never had any problems in my marriag...
My Husband Is A Thug And A Prominent Pastor
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 7 years. I’m 43 and my husband is 38, but he acts like the world owes him something and always has a...
Went From WAP to HAP
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 30 year old mother with 3 children. My children’s father and I have been together over 10 years so let me say this be...
My Wife Keeps Leaving Me and Coming Back
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 35 year old man with 2 kids and a stepdaughter by my wife. I love my family, but I have come to a breaking point with ...
I Wasn’t Able To Tell Her Husband Goodbye
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been sad for a while now and I’m seeking advice on how to move past this situation. I have been in a relationship for...
My Children's Momma Or My Sugar Momma
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I love my wife very much and she is the mother of my children, but I have another woman. My wife is very beautiful and smart, ...
I Don’t Mind Working Overtime
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old single woman with a great job, but I have an issue with a co-worker. I went to a local bar a couple of wee...
This Drinking And Cussing Has To Stop
05 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband of 22 years has made a lot of changes in the last 6 months. He’s been in the military since I met him and he reti...
He Loves To Mention His Ex-Wife
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to my high school sweetheart but we have only been married for 4 years. After high school, we went our separate ...
The Hood The Bad and The Bougie
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a very beautiful woman that is hood and bougie. She’s a bad dresser and she has a bad figure. She’s got a bad ride a...
You Have To Watch The Babysitter
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I need your advice on an issue with my husband. We’ve been married almost 2 years and we are parents of a 7 month old baby g...
My Ex Paid For My Grandma's Funeral
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am engaged to a man that I work with. We both teach elementary school and when he transferred to my school, it was love at f...
Why Would He Cheat On Her And Admit It
28 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I started messing with the man that lives next to me. He was in a long distance relationship, so we started messing around out...
Any Child That I See Could Belong
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Is It Too Risky To Stay with My Husband
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband has put my life in danger for the last time. When we started dating, he had a lot of loose ends to tie up with wome...
Overcoming the Odds: Tells us he wanted to be more than a Waffle House cook, now owns popular dinner supper clubs.
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed Tremayne Thompson. A co-own...
I Wanna Teach These Twins A Lesson
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, you are not going to believe this. I am 30 years old and my longtime girlfriend has an identical twin sister. I can barely tel...
Get The Funk Out Of My Face
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been dating a guy for close to three years and I need some advice on a major issue I’m having with him. I love this man...
His Female Company Is Too Comfortable
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My boyfriend is very outgoing and when I started dating him, I gained several new friends, mostly females. I trusted him and I...
My House My Rules
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for four years and I just had my first child at age forty. My husband has two children from a previous marri...
I’m In The Military And I Never Enlisted
19 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am 57 years old and have been married to an intelligent, extremely good looking 60 year old man for ten years. We’re admir...
I Can’t Stop Loving Him
18 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty eight year old married woman and I've been living alone for the past three years. My husband moved out and he's li...
He Who Finds A Wife
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in need of advice. I am a 36 year old divorced man and I’m engaged to be married. I’m a middle school teacher and I h...
Can You Please Stop Touching Me
14 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a man and fell in love. I'm forty five and he's fifty five. I didn't like him at first, but he wore me down and stole my...
His Family Never Has Any Money
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm married to the sweetest man on earth, and he's very outgoing and he loves to cook. Because of that, we never can have a qu...
Faith and Business: Soar! is a practical and easy-to-follow flight plan for launching the entrepreneurial drive inside of you.
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald, interviewed T.D. Jakes. A bestselling author,...
He Described A Different Experience
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in a long distance relationship with a guy that I dated in high school. We both married other people, and we both got divo...
I Took Up For Him And It Backfired
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My brother and I were best friends, and I love his wife like she's my blood relative. Her family has become my family because ...
My Sister Can’t Have My Girlfriend
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I have some news to share with you and I need your input. I am a 33 year old woman and I have a female friend that everyone th...
Why Would My Husband Pay For Her Vacation
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for seven years and I need advice because my husband is being inappropriate with the girl that keeps our kid...
I Was In The Closet The Whole Time
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 28 years old and single and I’ve had the worst dating history of all of my friends. I was recently dating a guy that t...
He Was Outside Ready To Rumble
05 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm separated from my husband because he cheated on me and the girl he was dating had a miscarriage. He left me and his son to...
My Phone Died So I Went To His Neighbor's House
04 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in the most trifling phase of my life, but it took the last incident to shake some sense into me. I was with the married g...
Motivational And Manipulating Man
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm married to a man that calls himself a preacher without a church. I call him a motivational manipulator. He goes on Faceboo...
He Won’t Fight Back But I Will
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been with Don for four years, off and on. That kind of threw me because she put his name in there. I've been with Don for...
I Never Knew That Men Fake It Too
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty nine and divorced. My male cousin is thirty, and he's been staying with me for the past month. I'm in a long distan...
If I Had A Dollar For Every Time…
29 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm forty seven years old and my husband is seventy four. I used to work for him and we became close over the years, but we ne...
I Fell In Love With The Cookie Monster
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, In 2017 I met a handsome man at a nail salon. He stared at me the entire time so I gave him my card as I left. He called and i...
He Left The Restaurant With His Wife
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I was dating Mr. Right for almost one year and we got a condo together and looked at rings together. He is a physician and his...
Love @ First Bite
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 57 year old single woman but I am dealing with a man that is slightly older than me. He’s a nice man and he just los...
The Lounge Closed Last Year
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married for eleven years and we have our separate spaces in the house. This has helped us cope with...
All of These Woman Can't Be Lying
22 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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He’s Not Used To The Real Thing
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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My Daddy Is For The Streets
20 May 2024
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Perseverance: Successful real estate broker overcame drug addict mom, being teenage mom twice and school dropout.
18 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Kimberly Kelly. Talking Points: ...
He Wants To Be The Center of Attention
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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He Asked To See It and I Heard Him
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have an auto detailing shop, but we make the most money with our mobile detailing truck. My husband has been ...
He Let The Two Girls Sleep Over
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty eight years old and my husband is forty two. We've been married for six years and his business has taken off in the...
My Wife Used To Keep Herself Up
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for thirteen years and my wife and I work from home. I do food deliveries two nights a week just so I can ge...
My Children Are Inconvenient
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 51 year old married woman and I’ve been with my husband for 7 years. We met at a rap concert while picking up our daug...
Don't Threaten Me With A Good Time
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband is driving me batty with his occasional drinking and mood swings that come with it. He has embarrassed me for the l...
He Said If I Write Y'all It's Over
09 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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I’m Tired of Raising His Child and His Ex-Wife
08 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been together for three years and married almost one year. When I met him, he was just getting a divorce...
He Loves My Love Handles and Dimples
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty nine years old, and I'm sad to say that I've been a side chick for most of my adult life. I got used to men saying ...
His Delivery Is Always So Shocking
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a man, we clicked. He showed me his representative for the first few months. Now I see some things that make me wonder i...
It Was All Recorded On Her iPad
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a thirty eight year old married woman. This is my second marriage and my husband's first marriage. I have a twenty one yea...
How Does She Know Your Nickname
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for five years and I had a baby in December, so I'm eager to get these few extra pounds off. Pilates has alw...
He Needs To Freshen Up Everything
01 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm twenty eight years old and dating a man that is five years older than I am. We've been together for eight months and he's ...
My Topless Sister In The Hot Tub
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, My husband and I have been married nineteen years and we have two teenage daughters. My husband has seen it all and he has adj...
How Do I Explain The Silence
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dear Steve and Shirley, I've been married for three years and I work from home, but I have to travel sometimes for conferences. I often ride with co-w...