The Breakfast Club - The Dating Conversation That Has Everyone Picking Sides

Episode Date: July 10, 2026

This week, Loren LoRosa is back in the studio after an unforgettable run through BET Awards weekend, Essence Festival, and exclusive interviews—and she's reflecting on the inspiration she's bringing into this next chapter. Then, Loren dives into the biggest stories making headlines: -The Cheetah Girls are officially returning! Raven-Symoné announces The Cheetah Girls: Next Gen, and Loren explains why the franchise means so much to an entire generation. -Pour Minds takes over Club Shay Shay. Loren breaks down Lex and Drea's viral interview with Shannon Sharpe, from their inspiring podcast journey to the conversations about dating standards, money, and building a successful brand. -The Daphne Joy debate. Loren reacts to the discussion surrounding double standards women face in media, why Black women are often judged differently, and the online backlash that followed. As always, Loren mixes pop culture with thoughtful commentary, sharing personal insights on purpose, ambition, boundaries, and what it really means to build something from the ground up.YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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the room because lord we have been all over the place but today i want to get into some news in real time y'all know before we get into the latest we always check in behind the scenes of the grind so let's do it Back on the grind. All right, y'all. So we came back off of that long break that the breakfast club took, but you guys didn't even fill it over here because, of course, I kept the episodes coming here on the podcast, the latest with Lauren the Rosa.

And thank you guys for tuning in. We've done numbers across the episodes, even across social. My conversation with Deb Antony, that exclusive sit-down. I really in-depth one, honestly, and she doesn't do much of those, has picked up very well, and I've received a lot of feedback, just from people who love the interviews that we do here at the latest. So I hear you guys. I appreciate you guys.

I see y'all on social. All in the comments, hashtag lowriders whenever I'm posting things from the podcast. So keep doing what y'all do because it lets me know what y'all like and what y'all want to hear. I'm not even going to lie to you guys, though. This week, getting back to work at the Breakfast Club after being technically out of work at the breakfast club for a week, even though we were still working. We were at Essence Festival. We were at the BETT Awards. words, it's been a little rough.

I ain't going to hold y'all, like, you know, getting up out of bed at 415, 430 in the morning on a good day when I ain't running late. And just, you know, there's a lot of mental preparation that I try and do now before I hop on the mic for the latest with Lauren the Rosa, whether it's here on the podcast or on the Breakfast Club. And a big part of that is because, I don't know, like I feel like seeing how people who are doing this at a really high level and have been for some years that are very successful, like Envy, Charlemagne, Oprah, and y'all know I watch a ton of podcasts too. So I'm watching,

you know, people do this at such a high level all the time. The feeling that I get when I walk away from watching them do what they do is the feeling that I want the people to get. And I think over this last week of me ripping and running at all these different places and getting to interact with all of you guys in real life, um, I just, I'm really grateful and I'm really appreciative. And I tell you out every episode and I don't just do it because it's our tagline and how we wrap up the podcast. It's really a true meaning. Like, I'm honestly grateful to be on this journey to learn and to understand where my voice sits in the world of all of the media and all of the things.

So that that impact that I feel as I'm watching these greats that I mentioned and listening to these greats that I mentioned is the same thing that you guys feel every single time you press play on an episode. here on the latest with Lauren the Rose of the podcast, the Breakfast Club, the view, wherever you see me at, I want you to feel that. So there's a different mindset. There's a different flow state I have to tap into, you know, just to keep myself,

not alone. I wouldn't say keep myself aligned because I feel like, you know, God does that. Like, that is like a divine thing. That is not anything that human or man can control. It's more so just making sure I'm quieting the noise to understand the why, not understand, but to always put the why in the intention first. Regardless of we just having a good time, we're doing a little key key, we getting all in the

business, just understanding that. So, you know, coming back into this week of work and not really having the break of it, I had to like really use and pull from all of the people that I met and all the experiences I've had over this last week to do that. And I think one of my favorite things that I, like, ever, ever, ever. Like, people think I just like being out and ripping and running because Bronga grinding is the motto. And, you know, we're on the grind right now. We build it.

And this is the season for that. But no, it energizes me and it keeps me going. Like I told you all, it was for anybody else, having a full week off and having to get back up at 4 a.m. Again, right after that. And really not really taking a break, honestly. It would have been difficult. But for me, when I'm out and. about and I'm talking to you guys and I'm getting to see like what it is that you care about

what impacts you that we care about or we talk about. And just the excitement and the joy, I ask the question all the time on this podcast, especially in the earlier days of it. Are we impacting people? Like is what I'm doing every single day leaving an impact that people can really feel? And I think when I'm out and about, I feel that. And it's what I'm trying to say in so many words, because y'all know I can get wordy. is that the motivation and the inspiration

that is really felt when I'm on the ground when I'm outside with the folk. So that's why I love bringing those conversations back here to you guys when I do have them and get a chance to experience them because if I feel the motivation, the inspiration, and the push to keep going, keep dreaming, keep figuring all the things out,

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Depends on how old you are if you're listening to this right now. The Cheetah Girls movie is back, baby. The Cheetah Girls are reassembling. So Raven Simone, Disney Channel star, entrepreneur, icon, in my opinion, Raven Simone announced that Cheetah Girls 4 is happening. So it will be with Raven Simone in the original cast. So yes, Raven Simone, Adrian Baylon, Sabrina Bryan, Lynn Whitfield, Lloyd Alter, they are all coming back at the time. Keeley is not a time. Keeley Williams is not attached to the film.

I wasn't really surprised about that, to be honest. But it would have been nice to see her in it. I think it would have been nice to see all the girls together. But if you've been following, you know, her journey post-cheater girls and post some of the Disney Channel stuff, you know, there have been some hiccups there. So, so yeah. But anyway, the movie is coming back.

It's going to be called the Cheetah Girls Next Gen. And it was officially greenlit right as Raven Simone broke the news. So the storyline for the film is picking up right when the Cheetah Girls Galleria, who's played by Raven Simone, and Chanel, who's played by Adrian Baylon. They have kids and their daughters, Faith, who is new to the franchise and her three friends, traveled to Africa to volunteer at a wildfire sanctuary. Now, along the way of all this volunteering and traveling, the four girls test their friendship, find their voice and discover the true

the true cheetah girl spirit as they preserve and ultimately take the stage as the new cheetah girl. So this is Raven Simone's second return to Disney Channel as one of her previous characters. You guys will remember she did Raven's Home. I think

it was like, yeah, it was five or six seasons. It was six seasons of Ravens Home in 2017. And that went on from 2017 to about 2023. And that was a spinoff of that. So Raven, is another archive show that is just like the essence of a lot of our like childhoods. Like the unks are so excited because this weekend, Jay-Z is in New York.

He got the three shows at Yankee Stadium. It's going to be lit, okay? But when I see them get excited and they talk about laying their outfits out and can't wait to sing the songs and all that, I get it. But you know, we encountered Jay-Z, like we didn't grow up on him because the unks is old, okay? we encountered him eventually later in our lives and through lessons and through interviews and through the love of entertainment and hip hop and all the things but i understand what it's like to grow up on something because let me tell you this there are two moments in this last two weeks that made me

realize what staple feeling and moments from youth and impacts really are in entertainment and it can be small things right like you don't got to be solving some of the biggest world problem sometimes it's just putting a good feeling and a comfort feeling in somebody's heart that will last forever and i know that's what hip-hop and music does for people. But let me tell you all about the two moments. When I went to the BET Awards and Lauren Hill was honored, and they sung Joyful, Joyful, from Sister Act 2, I used to sing that movie.

Down, you could not tell me I was not in that movie. That was one of the, like, I remember watching and singing along with that movie and seeing all those black kids on the screen and Lauren Hill and being like, oh, this is dope. Like, rap, hip-hop is in a movie. Like, at a young age, I understood why the crossover of that was so phenomenal and so fire. and just how big that movie was. And then the Cheetah Girls, Disney Channel,

and seeing these young black girls, it was almost like the feeling of Moesha. Like seeing these young black girls in this, you know, mainstream pop culture space and, you know, having a good time, telling stories, making friends, laughing, singing, dancing, and learning all the songs

and singing along with them. Yeah, it just, it's, it hit home. And I know a lot of y'all probably like, oh, that's about the Cheetah Girls, Lord. It's one of them things, if you know, you know. Ain't nothing for you I can do. if you don't know. If you know, you know. So I'm excited to see that. Honestly, I'm excited, too, to just see the world's reaction once it actually drops. There was a big reaction when

Raymond Simone made the announcement. And she had been trying for some years to just like stay in contact with Cass. I remember she was doing like Instagram lives with some people and you know what I mean? Like we, we've been waiting on these things and I'm finally here. So there's that. Love horror movies, but also working on yourself. Mental Health is Horrifying is the podcast where those two worlds collide. I'm Candace Green, a registered psychotherapist, and I'm inviting you to journey into the darkness with me. I explore the mental health themes behind your favorite horror stories and what they can teach us about fear, resilience, and healing. It's self-care with a sinister twist.

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150% this kid, Jafar Jackson, should absolutely positively get nominated for his portrayal as Michael Jackson. Listen to I Am Rap Report on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you, you get your podcast. I am Rapaport podcast. What did Black music, food, and culture teach us about who we were becoming? 2016 was sort of that last era of monoculture, where we still consumed things in community. From Beyonce and Rihanna. Everybody wanted to be Beyonce.

I don't think we'll ever see another Rihanna. To soul food, memory, identity, and the stories we carry through black culture. What does it mean to be black and eat in a family? America. So we were these group of people who knew how to work the land, who knew how to live with the land. We make it do what it do. Therapy for Black Girls is bringing together the conversation shaping Black Life right now. You will never make me feel bad for being a black girl, for being a Black American girl, ever.

Therapy for Black Girls is bringing it all to the mic. Listen to Therapy for Black Girls on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcast. Speaking of the girls being outside, our sisters over at the Port Monde, podcast, Lex and Drea, sat down with Shannon Sharp on Club Shay-Shay. First of all, I'm really proud of them. I, you know, in this podcast

space, I'm always honest with you guys about the fact that we are on a journey. Like, we are a little over our first year in the podcasting game and learning you know, us as a community. Me, y'all, the lowriders,

the lowrider family. So I love watching other podcasters build out and elevate and just see how they maneuver in business and um you guys know i did poor minds live show here in new york when they came great experience but i was there just watching them and see how like seeing how they you know brought things from the podcast onto the live stage and how production went down and how people like i mean people knew everything down to the slogans that they open and close their podcast with and being a person that has always loved talk shows and wanted a talk show now we got the

latest. I understand that. I understand the tagline. I understand the marketing. I understand the branding. I understand the branding around that. But to see it in real life, like to be listening to a podcast for some time and to watch it grow, then to see it in real life. It's just beautiful to see. And now these girls are on this press run, you know, talking about the podcast in our lives. And what I love the most is that these were two regular girls, college graduates, fine-ass girls who just chose the dream got together and were consistent and figured out. And they talked about that on the episode and the motivation that that gives them. This is such a, I told y'all, I come off of these trips and all these audience very motivated and inspired. This is such a motivational episode.

Let's take a listen to Lex and Joia from Poor Minds talk about just the building of their podcast over the years. And being a regular girl as I popped out to do it. How long has this been amazing? Like, I feel like he's been an instrumental part of our career because he kind of gave us the opportunity, you know what I mean? When we were still filming at my apartment, before we were ever even in the studio, he pulled up to my apartment and recorded with us. Yeah, he was on your living room floor. Yes, he was literally.

And then like a few years later, the show grown, the show grown. That's all right. It's that brown. It's taking it down. The show had grew a little bit more. And then he, you know, offered for us to come on 85 South. So we went on 85 South and that really like cataport. our show to another level because I think that episode got like a million views in like two or three days.

Yes. Yeah. And so that helped us get a lot more viewership. And then they ended up asking us, did we want to sign to them? Because they were trying to start a management company and we were going to be the first people that they signed. Right. So they signed us. We was kind of like they guinea pigs a little bit.

But it ended up working out amazingly. And Carlos and 85 South have just been such a blessing in our lives with the show. They really cleaned up our business, too. Like, we didn't know what we're doing, what we were doing, but they have taught us so much. And, like, we were getting so many nose. And Carlos was the one yes. And it's crazy because all of them knows came back like, hey, when that finishes up, y'all can come over here. We're like, no.

Yeah. You had your chance. And we're proof that all you need is one yes. So I'm cool with all these nose because I know once I get that one, yes, it'd be up. Now, this one, this next topic, because the interview was like, they talked, it was a three, hour long interview, a little bit over three hours, honestly, almost like three and a half hours. They talked about, or was it two and a half? Child, it was a long interview.

But it didn't feel long because it felt like you were just listening to them, go down a line of topics and stuff like that on their show. So, and Shannon Sharp was smart. So in the beginning of the interview, they opened up, they talk a lot about their journey themselves, how they met, how they formed the podcast, got the business going, their mindsets. So it really helped you understand them because then they went into their takes on different topics. right so they get into daffiny joy and and if you guys are not familiar with who that is that is the mother of 50 cents youngest son seer sire seer um she was in a relationship with diddy and there more recently not too long ago was a sex tape that leaked of her and diddy doing one of the freakoffs

that we've heard so much about with the red lights with a male escort went super viral and now Tiffany Joy has been on this press run It's like business I don't know what the business she's in Like if that's really booming Because she's the only fan's girl She says that it is But she's been on press runs

That I don't think would have been possible Without that sex tape being posted And the board minds girls got into that Let's take a listen Women are always judged more harshly When it comes to anything that we do A black woman who was in that situation Wouldn't be on a press run right now

If I'm being honest I'm people wouldn't be invited her on their shows They'll be like, oh, she's a slut. Yeah. I think this just goes to show what we deal with as black women, you know. This is no shade to Daphne. I think when you have a moment, you take it. Absolutely.

You know, she's on Cam Newton podcast. That's an ad. I know an ad when I see one. I'm not mad at her. That's what you're supposed to do. But seeing the reaction of people the way they treat her, there ain't no tapes outside of me and Dre doing nothing. But the way people act towards us just because we talk about our dad.

dating experiences. And we get treated like, oh, my gosh, you would have thought that we'd kill somebody's mother or something. Yeah, I get, yeah. Or fuck day mama. Even with, like, the way they treat Megan the Stallion, you know, because of her lyrics or things like that. And it's like, they treat us like, we are just the worst thing ever.

Then you have this woman who has a sex safe. She's getting, not one but two niggas. Ain't no, that's what you like to do, whatever the situation may be. But they're like, oh, you see how feminine she is and how something. soft and how beautiful and how this and that. It's just like, are y'all for real right now? Y'all dad and ass. But this is, like I said, no shade to her.

It's very, it's just interesting. Yeah. It's interesting. Barry. Go ahead. I'm listening. I was just going to say, like, I feel like we haven't seen a black woman be in a situation like that and get the same type of attention and all the right.

Well, she ain't going to become no billionaire if that's what you're asking. Well, she says she was like, when people are comparing her to Kim Kardashian, she was like, I love that. That's what she said. I hope she get a product line. I hope she gets a skincare line and come out with some skims or what it was skimmed and spank and I guess

they can call it dance. Dates is crazy. Dates is crazy. She has to see this and be like, no, did. I hear what they're saying. Completely. I said that about the conversations

they have and, you know, even, I mean, And mind you, their podcast is like, it's just like girl talk, honestly. Like, they mix and trend the topics and stuff like that. But it really feels like you just with your home girls having a good time, having a good conversation. But they do get into relationship stuff and sexual things that they're not afraid of that at all. And they're very beautiful girls. The bodies be brought in. Okay, I love the poor minds.

Girls, I love Lex Andrea. Because in real life, they're real girls. Like, and y'all like, what does that mean? You got to clarify that in 2026. I don't mean that none of the crazy stuff. What I mean by that is like, It's not like they're caricatures of themselves. Like in real life, they're fun.

They're girls' girls. They like to have a good time. They like a good key key, a good drink, a good, you know what I? I love girls who are like ambitious, get to the money, got their brands together, can figure it out. But also cute fashion can pop out, have a good time, then get back to the business. Really like the essence of brown go grinding is that. So the way sometimes that I see people react to their podcast and talk about them, I'm like, that's so insane to me because some of our biggest influential celebrities started like everything

was sex-based and I know people instantly bring up like Kim Kardashian in a situation like this and I know that in the beginning Kim Kardashian wasn't it wasn't what it was now like I remember Kanye having a go off on people because he would be invited to different fashion things and they went and went her in a room because she was the reality started with the sex tape but she was able to overcome it and build really, really, really big business from it. And when I look at podcasts, like, call her daddy and things of that nature, I compare it to, like, conversations that people have about also the horrible decisions podcast as well, too, which is also, like, girls talk, they get sexual. They're a lot more sexual than poor minds, it's honestly,

but there's a, there's a thing there. And I think a lot of times it's black. When we point out certain things that we feel within ourselves, that, like, it's unspoken word like you don't even got to say it amongst us we just know but when you say it out loud people hate to hear you express what you're actually going through as if you don't understand what's happening to you in real time right so yeah they got a lot of pushback for this clip and I'm glad that they they stood 10 toes down on it like I saw a Lex post in response to it like I knew that you're going to be calling me everything but a child of God once his interview dropped interview was great though in my opinion they also talked about women having standards and how people try to make women feel bad for having standards about who and how they date.

Let's take a listen. So you said you guys like when you were younger, you felt a sense of entitlement that you were entitled to a guy that have a certain level. Yeah. Now you no longer feel that way. Is there a certain number that you feel like guys should make or need to make in order? Because like you said, you guys have your own now. Yeah. So you don't have to accept anything.

Yeah. I feel like we just at least need to be equal. You need to at least be making what I'm making or better. You're making, y'all making big buddy. That big bucks are no whammy. Yeah, that big bucks are in no whammy's. Yeah, thanks. So I need a big daddy.

Yes, that's what I'm looking for. So I guess with that case, ain't nobody splitting no bills. You know, no. I mean, I will say this. I used to say that, but I do feel like once you get to a certain level of money, who really cares? I don't think rich people have conversations about that. I ain't rich yet.

I don't think rich couples, like when the woman is making money and the man is making a lot of money, I don't think they're arguing about who paying a light view. Literally. Like, I think those conversations about splitting the bills are so like... I think it's for people who need to split the bills. Right.

And that's okay. There's nothing wrong with splitting the bills, but the type of lifestyle that I imagine myself whenever I'm married and I'm having kids, that's not what I've ever imagined for myself. It's not going to be like, oh my gosh, I paid it this money. you pay it, just take it out the pot.

It's a lot more where that came from. We don't have a joint account. We're going to have a. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. Just check it just like you feel we're on the same pain. Because everything ain't good. No, everything ain't going to be on in this pot.

Come on now. This ain't no gumbo. We see it. Hey, I'm going to keep the shrimp and the ogre over here. Now, if you were putting. You said, she's the sausage over there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I feel you.

Yeah. everything are going to be in one pie. Yeah, I agree. But what happened, because it seems to me, and I could be wrong, and if I'm wrong, guys correct me, whatever happened to growing with a man, a man doesn't have anything, he's planted, and you watch him and y'all grow together. It seems now everybody wants already, already grown. The fruit, I can just go pick the apples or the pears or whatever the case. The fruit already. Nobody wants to grow anymore. I do think that that's a little messed up, that people have that mentality these days. But I don't know, as a one, woman in my 30s, you should be built. You should be grown already. Like, because I feel like,

what have you been doing all this time? Yes. Yeah. At 35. Like, if, and just saying if I'm dating somebody that's the same age as me, like, what have you been doing all this time to where I need to work with you while you build? I think that when women are in their 20s, that's unrealistic. Because y'all are both trying to figure things out. And I'm not saying that we still can't grow together. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. But you should still, but you should still, but you should have something that you are already coming with. I shouldn't just be over here like, okay,

well, he got to get it together. Let me just get it out with him. I don't think nobody should be there to get it together. Look, if we run out of college or, you know, hey,

I'm trying to grow this right here. Okay, this is what we try to do. But I agree. I mean, but sometimes it's really hard because sometimes it takes people longer than others.

Sometimes where some people can figure it out in 22, some people maybe at 25, some people might take them 30. It's kind of like maturing. Yeah, Some kids mature a lot sooner than others. Yeah. And some like, well, damn, he's mature at 13, 14,

and here you are, 25, and you still ain't mature. Yeah, and I do. I think it's different when you're growing with a person that you've been with for a long time. Or even if something is to happen because you have situations where a woman is with a man and he's doing amazing. And then something ends up happening as life altering. And then y'all are not in the same financial space that you all once were in.

And you got to, you know, be there for him while he gets it back. Get back on his feet. Yeah, get it back to where it was. I think that's okay. And that's understandable, especially in a marriage. Yeah, I just feel like when it comes to these money conversations, they're tough. It really gets extremely interesting.

But I also feel like when you're in a relationship, like being like this ride or not, I think that they try to put on black women, they make us feel so bad for it. But again, I'm about to be 37. Yeah, okay. I'm not saying that you have to be worth, you know, a million dollars, but also you got to have some money coming in.

Somebody got to be, they got to be worth it needs to me. Who you fool it? Well, she ain't fooled me. Come on, come on. Go and toast to him. I see. You see who said that and who didn't. Okay, but this is what I'm saying, though.

You have to have some money coming in, right? Because my thing is, we are in this age where everybody's like, oh, I want to start from the bottom and I want to grind, I want to go get it. Hey, when I quit my job, when poor minds was taken off, they literally had to force me out that job. Yeah. They were like, you can't be here no more. You don't have the time.

And I was like, I want my consistent check. Yes. Y'all have to follow your dreams and go to work. Yes. Nobody that's not supporting themselves. So I do think that like, yeah, you can ride or die with somebody or whatever you want to do, hold it down. But y'all need to be making some money now. Yeah, but we need to be riding.

Yeah. I didn't try to die. I don't die four times. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. I died a lot in my 20. Man, shout out to the people I heard doing all the things.

Like, honestly. Like, I, that is, I tell my male friends all the time. I admire men because men. are really good about setting their boundaries when it comes to dating, relationships, friendships, work. They set their boundaries well and they stick to it. They compartmentalize and they do like I feel like women compartmentalize too, but sometimes it's more for protection.

Maybe men do it for protection as well too, but the way that men do it, it allows them to like manipulate and get the best out of every any situation. And I don't always feel like for, I'm going to just speak for myself. as a woman, I don't always feel like me compartmentalizing does that for me. I do feel like I know very well how to work a room and work a situation. But I don't feel like my boundaries are as strong sometimes when it comes to certain things, like work, like relationship boundaries, as I've seen men in my life be and how beneficial that is for them.

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