Good Morning Nashville ☀️

WE MADE IT TO FRIDAY! 🙌🏽

Excited to once again be a part you guys new week as we step into this weekend with a lot of different things going on in the city of Nashville. Make sure to visit your local turkey drive event here in the city, and find a way to give back during this holiday season. One way we continue to give back on a week to week basis, is by providing episodes of black men sharing their mental health story on our platform. Let’s get into today’s exclusive episode.

It’s been a while, but we are proud to introduce a father-and-son duo to the show on today. We’ve had a few episodes where we’ve had this type of guest duo, and it was so divine as to how we were able to get this specific father-and-son pair on our platform. Presenting to some, introducing to others, the father Tony Christian ⭐️, an army vet from New York. And the son, hometown native, artist, creative, and Baptist hospital born, Mr. Antone “AC” Christian. ⭐️

We get into today’s episode by allowing both of these brothers to vent on our platform. Our conversation with the fellas talks heavily about divine timing, Gods grace, and what is it about God that isn’t “trendy” or “cool” nowadays. AC goes on to talk about how our flesh is a main factor behind us not sacrificing what we know, for what we need. There has to be a “death to self”, he says in order to truly receive word of what God’s purpose is for you. AC also vents about the importance of black men taking the stand to vent, without shame. The wealth gained from you just being transparent and telling your story is worth far more than money could buy. Tony Christian, the father, comes from humble beginnings and speaks on the importance of love. Since when did it be come a problem today “I love you brother”, and mean it? There’s nothing new under the son, and often times as believers, we dismiss the fact that one thing is for certain … we’re human. Often times, prayer may not be the immediate need, it may be a conversation or community. And both are what we embrace here on the first and the ONLY black father and son podcast in the state of Tennessee. 💫

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

We are excited once again to be a part of you guys new week, and want to thank you for taking time out of your day to listen in to this weeks episode of Black Men Vent Too. Pops and I stand proudly as the FIRST & ONLY black father and son podcast in the state of Tennessee, aiming to change the narratives behind black men one episode at a time. Man oh man, we definitely got a good one today! So, let’s lock in! 🔒

We are excited to bring to the show a young brother, straight out of Jo Johnston, who truly does have a heart for doing good and passing that on to others in a generous way. We welcome to the platform our brother, Robert Archibald, better known as “Chan”. ⭐️

Chan vents on our platform about the importance of “being you”. He talks about how so many people nowadays are losing their authentic selves to societal distractions like social media. As if what you see on the screen is who you are, and we all know those narratives change. Chan takes pride in being the same person everywhere he’s went. A native of the city, he talks about growing up in a large family, being amongst loved ones in Jo Johnston, and how that framed his mentality overtime to wanting to be a positive influences within community. You’ll hear it today, but Chan takes family values very serious … and isn’t afraid to tell you how he is coming behind his people. Today’s episode is a good one, take some time to listen to a black man vent today. 💫

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(original air date 10/31/25)

Good Morning Nashville ☀️

Its the last day of the month! We hope you guys have had a prosperous October, as we step into the final 2 months of 2025. Man, what a year it has been. Let’s lock in on the final episode for our exclusive season being “Single Motherhood & Mental Health.” 🌺

If you haven’t, take some time to check out all of our episodes that were apart of this season. BMVT wanted to take some time away from the common conversations we have with black men, and zero in on the conversation about mothers and their mental health, to better help us gain perspective as black men. Today’s final guest to appear in this unique season is none other than best selling author, mother, community leader, and faith based mental health advocate … Dr. Cynthia “CeCe” McKnight ⭐️

Dr. CeCe has had a career full of different ventures, achievements, and dynamics. With 26+ years of ministry and service, 30 years of marriage experience, and a doctorate degree … save to say, this young lady is “boots on the ground” with her work. Dr. McKnight comes to vent on our platform about the lost conversation surrounding the “invisible mother.” That mother that may have the support, may have the village surrounding her, but for some reason still feels lonely, inadequate, and indifferent. No mother should ever feel this way, and Dr. Cece talks about how faith and mental health were the prescriptions that brought her out of a dark time. You don’t want to miss this episode, take some time to sit down, lock in, and listen to a black woman vent today.

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We thank you guys for taking time to check out our season being “Single Motherhood & Mental Health.” 🌺

The support you’ve shown us as we aim to support our black women has truly been felt. Always remember, to give us feedback, take some time to give us a Google review today. We’d appreciate your support! ✌🏽 #BMVT

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

New week, means a new episode from your favorite father and son podcast here in Nashville, Tennessee. Today’s episode is jam packed with segment breaks, commercial breaks, and of course a black queen as our guest to come and vent behind the topic being:

Single Motherhood & Mental Health 💝

We are passionate behind this topic because there are so many conversations that can stem from it. What we want to do this month is provide perspective for our black men from our black women of how we can be better within the home, during pregnancy, in our marriages, and more. With that said, let us introduce our second guest for this exclusive season. ⭐️

Today’s guest wears a man of hats within the community, one of them being a reappointed City Commissioner with Metro Action, but she emphasizes that her most important hat of them all is being a mother to her baby girl. We want to welcome our good friend and sister Topania Byars to the platform ✌🏽

Born in Killeen, Texas … she talks with us about navigating her younger years, as her mom moved to Nashville with herself, her children, and a single bag holding all of their belongs. Topania talks about being homeless as a child for a brief period, bouncing around different schools throughout her scholastic career. But that never took away her personality, spirit, and the way she was adored by being her authentic self.

We get more intimate conversation about the process of her birthing her baby girl, Audreé 🌼. Topania vents about the importance of having a village during pregnancy, and gives advice behind how most first time mothers don’t know what they should know. Being a first time parent, pregnant during COVID, was a challenge that Topania will never forget. If you fail to remember … having a baby during COVID was a stressful process for most new parents, not knowing if you could go and be with your partner in the OR due to high-risk regulations during that time. Safe to say, Topania vents entirely throughout our show today of different stories on how God brought her through her early stages of motherhood, but providing her a village that stayed consistent, loyal, and supportive throughout her journey. Take some time to listen to a black woman vent today.

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

Brand new month, brand new episode, let’s lock in guys on the rest of the year as we continue to push mental health on our platform. We thank you guys for tuning in each and every week to the first and the ONLY black father and son podcast in the state of Tennessee. Today’s episode debuts a BRAND NEW SEASON for the month of October, as we invite black women to our platform to discuss the topic:

Single Motherhood & Mental Health 💝

We are passionate behind this topic because there are so many conversations that can stem from it. What we want to do this month is provide perspective for our black men from our black women of how we can be better within the home, during pregnancy, in our marriages, and more. With that said, let us introduce our first guest for this exclusive season. ⭐️

We are excited to bring to our platform Nashville native, Ms. Yvonnda Fite-Green ✌🏽. In today’s episode, do know that you may hear a tiny voice within parts of the show … that tiny voice was Yvonnda’s beautiful baby girl, Remi 🌼. No need for a baby sitter, she was a part of the show too!

On today’s episode, Yvonnda vents about a major subject within our culture that doesn’t get talked about … that being postpartum depression. Yvonnda talks about a time where she picked up a part time job, because the PPD had gotten so bad to where she just felt personal space was needed more than ever. Baby girl Remi, Yvonnda tells us that she was born inside of her sac. It has been researched and reported for that to occur within 1 in 80,000 births. Yvonnda vents with our platform about mentally where she was in that moment … her daughter being born with a veil over her face. Anything that isn’t natural within the pregnancy process, will surely cause mental stress for a woman in an already high-volatile situation. Yvonnda vents about actively still dealing with the PPD today, and how some cases can last up until the child becomes 5 years old. It’s so much that black men do not know about these things, and again, we wanted to not only invite black women for this season, but we want to mention that a live audience of women also was apart of today’s episode … to show our listening audience that were not here to make any black woman feel nervous or uncomfortable. Just like our black men, during this month of October, we want to provide a safe space for women to vent about this topic. And in order to do that, we filled up our studio with women to support our guest on today. Got a few more episodes behind our season of “Single Motherhood & Mental Health.” Make sure you guys tap in all month for more! 🌹

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Good morning Nashville! ☀️

Back again with another one guest, for another week of black men coming to vent on our platform about how they’ve overcome various mental health struggles. We know that if one man comes here and tells his story, it’ll give another black man more confidence to share his. With that said, let’s get into today’s episode.

A major shoutout to Makayla Renee & Jaylin Guthrie, as they are the reasons behind why we met today’s guest. At their annual “Back 2 School” Bash Event, we took the time to do a small interview with this young man, but realized it wasn’t enough and knew he had more to say. We are excited to

bring to the platform none other than Malik Lea ⭐️, affectionately known as “CfnxBlends” 💈

Today’s guest truly does come from humble beginnings. Malik is a Nashville native, have seen the halls of Gra Mar Middle School & Maplewood High School, but comes to talk about how all those experiences cultivated the man of today. Malik shares with us times of hardship like homelessness, addiction, even jail time has been something he’s experienced … but the young man is making a full turnaround behind how he lives his life. Now, he is a proud barber student and goes by the name “CfnxBlends”. You cannot fault a man for trying, and Malik definitely is making sure that his name is stamped in the city by cutting heads and creating relationships wherever he goes. He’s an humble guy, with an ambition for greatness and self development … take some time to listen to a black man vent today.

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

TWO EPISODES IN ONE DAY? I guess that’s how we’re feeling over here at Black Men Vent Too, and we hope that our energy in some way radiates back to you on today. If you woke up this morning, you winning. Complaining won’t do you any good anyways, right? So let’s take life for what it is, enjoy it, and all of us find more creative ways to better enhance our mental health. With that said, let’s get into today’s episode! 🔥

Man! Today’s episode is truly a good one and we are excited to have you tune in to our back-to-back episode drop for this weekend. September is Suicide Prevention Month, and as we advocate weekly for mental health in black men, we knew more was needed from us this month … more episodes, more content, more guests to continue to vent about their mental health here on BMVT.

Presenting to some and introducing to others, one of the great coaches here in Nashville who has served under our MNPS district as well as coaching along side Fisk University legend Kenny Anderson … we bring to the show the father, the husband, the mentor Coach Russell Acklin, Sr. ✌🏽

Coach Russ 🏀 comes to the show to vent about one immediate and thought provoking question … “how do you hug a porcupine?”

Everyone in their life knows that one “porcupine” person … they’re never truly satisfied, always looking to prick at things, and can be tough to handle. We dive off into that conversation with Coach and talk about how men can sometimes be mentally drained behind dealing with the porcupines of life. Whether it be women, kids, the job, car broke down, anything can be symbolic to a porcupine and how it can be hard for a black man, or any man to bounce back mentally. We really unpack this question and more, as we also talk about how we met today’s guest … all thanks to the monthly forums held by the NFL Alumni Fatherhood Organization 🏈

Take some time to listen to a black man vent today. ✌🏽

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Today’s episode is available on All platforms listed! Give us feedback, let us know how you enjoyed the show! 🎙️

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Good Morning Nashville ☀️

In the words of DJ Khaled … “another one”.🔥 We are as always blessed and excited to be a part of you guys new week wherever you may be listening, as we continue to push conversations behind mental health here in Nashville, Tennessee. We stand proudly as first and the only black father and son podcast in the state of Tennessee … and are willing to go ANYWHERE, to get the story of black men and mental health on our platform. With that, let’s get into today’s episode!

Thank God for our virtual resources, because as long as we have them at our disposal, we are willing to go anywhere to get a black man’s mental health story on our platform. You never know, we may just pull up in your city with mics in hand! Today … we travel to Las Vegas 🎰 to see what is being done about mental health conversations in the place known as “Sin City.”

Our guest is none other than Las Vegas native, a soon to be Ph.D recipient studying for Curriculum & Instruction with a concentration in Cultural Studies, International Education and Multicultural Education at UNLV … we present to some and introduce to others, Mr. Sean Tory ⭐️

As a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Sean Tory has spend a lot of his life surrounded with children and adolescent youth. The husband and father of three talks about life today, but reflects on the journey with us as to how he got here. Not an easy journey … having experienced loss, homelessness, divorce, & failed relationships, Sean took these lessons and carved out a beautiful testimony from these hardships. Mentally, he vents about what it took throughout the journey … resilience, steadfast praying, grit & determination. This episode is for sure a good one, take some time to listen to a black man vent today. ⭐️

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October 11th, 2025 📆

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