Bless Your Heart Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/bless-your-heart-aisha-nyandoro Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South. © 2026 Aisha Nyandoro 47a13050-9f5e-561e-b55a-3d324f151cac yes Introducing 'Bless Your Heart' en Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:28:27 -0400 Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:29:30 -0400 https://img.transistorcdn.com/k5gYLqKfqfit-1aTuhwHf5sr-YGqd07yvNIX-CBrp8w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hMGVi/MzA1NWUzY2YzNTk5/NzFkMDExMzQ1OTY5/MzlkMS5wbmc.jpg Bless Your Heart episodic Aisha Nyandoro Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South. Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. Bless Your Heart, Aisha Nyandoro, American South Aisha Nyandoro jessicalplaczek@gmail.com No No Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom 1 1 1 1 Everyone’s Doing the South with Tressie McMillan Cottom full 3fc6d4cb-286d-4e2f-85de-a03eb497c43e https://share.transistor.fm/s/33a42d0d What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse to help Americans avoid reckoning with their own faults. It also erases the massive contributions the South made to turn the US into a global superpower. A conversation about race, Southern identity, and American history with host Aisha Nyandoro.

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]]> Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:49:28 -0400 Aisha Nyandoro Aisha Nyandoro 3348 What's underneath the rest of the country treating the South as backward? Sociologist and New York Times contributor Tressie McMillan Cottom argues it's a ruse to help Americans avoid reckoning with their own faults. It also erases the massive contributions the South made to turn the US into a global superpower. A conversation about race, Southern identity, and American history with host Aisha Nyandoro.

]]> Tressie McMillan Cottom, Southern identity, race in America, American history, South backward No Introducing 'Bless Your Heart' 1 1 Introducing 'Bless Your Heart' trailer f42a5dc4-e339-4ad0-afc5-7623c1111af0 https://share.transistor.fm/s/32bd7fba The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the South is America's foundation and not its problem, Bless Your Heart is having conversations that will change how you see this place.

 

Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression that sounds sweet on the surface, but delivers sharp critique with a smile. We're bringing this charming, cutting and distinctly Southern sensibility with us as we challenge false narratives.


Each episode is a deep, two-way conversation between lifelong Southerner Aisha Nyandoro and a guest whose life, work, or story challenges what we think we know about the South: including Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mitch Landrieu and Kiese Laymon. Aisha is one of the most important voices in the national conversation around poverty, narrative change and economic justice. And she's seen up close what happens when the stories we are told get it wrong. 

 

Aisha leads the Jackson-based nonprofit Springboard to Opportunities and is the architect of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust – the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS NewsHour. She is a Forbes contributor, TED Speaker, TIME100 Next honoree and Heinz Award winner. She also comes from a lineage of changemakers. Her grandmother was a former sharecropper turned Civil Rights icon, and Aisha has been carrying that work forward her whole life.

 

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]]> The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the South is America's foundation and not its problem, Bless Your Heart is having conversations that will change how you see this place.

 

Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression that sounds sweet on the surface, but delivers sharp critique with a smile. We're bringing this charming, cutting and distinctly Southern sensibility with us as we challenge false narratives.


Each episode is a deep, two-way conversation between lifelong Southerner Aisha Nyandoro and a guest whose life, work, or story challenges what we think we know about the South: including Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mitch Landrieu and Kiese Laymon. Aisha is one of the most important voices in the national conversation around poverty, narrative change and economic justice. And she's seen up close what happens when the stories we are told get it wrong. 

 

Aisha leads the Jackson-based nonprofit Springboard to Opportunities and is the architect of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust – the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS NewsHour. She is a Forbes contributor, TED Speaker, TIME100 Next honoree and Heinz Award winner. She also comes from a lineage of changemakers. Her grandmother was a former sharecropper turned Civil Rights icon, and Aisha has been carrying that work forward her whole life.

 

Subscribe to not miss out!

]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:49:33 -0400 Aisha Nyandoro Aisha Nyandoro 122 The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the South is America's foundation and not its problem, Bless Your Heart is having conversations that will change how you see this place.

 

Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression that sounds sweet on the surface, but delivers sharp critique with a smile. We're bringing this charming, cutting and distinctly Southern sensibility with us as we challenge false narratives.


Each episode is a deep, two-way conversation between lifelong Southerner Aisha Nyandoro and a guest whose life, work, or story challenges what we think we know about the South: including Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mitch Landrieu and Kiese Laymon. Aisha is one of the most important voices in the national conversation around poverty, narrative change and economic justice. And she's seen up close what happens when the stories we are told get it wrong. 

 

Aisha leads the Jackson-based nonprofit Springboard to Opportunities and is the architect of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust – the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS NewsHour. She is a Forbes contributor, TED Speaker, TIME100 Next honoree and Heinz Award winner. She also comes from a lineage of changemakers. Her grandmother was a former sharecropper turned Civil Rights icon, and Aisha has been carrying that work forward her whole life.

 

Subscribe to not miss out!

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