# Michelle Browder

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Listen to Me Good, Ep. 2 — Starling Thomas: The Story Behind Born Captive

Filmmaker, storyteller, and justice advocate Starling Thomas joins host Michelle Browder to talk about her upcoming film Born Captive — a powerful, cinematic look at Black women giving birth in bondage across generations, inspired by her own mother's incarceration while pregnant. Starling opens ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 1 — Chaplain Curtis "Chap" Browder: The Man Who Gave Birth to the Movement

In our very first episode, host Michelle Browder sits down with the man who started it all — her father, Chaplain Curtis "Chap" Browder. Appointed by Governor George Wallace in 1978 as Alabama's first Black prison chaplain, Chap has spent nearly five decades walking into the state's prisons and ...

Trailer: Listen to Me Good, Ep. 1 — w/Chaplain Curtis "Chap" Browder: The Man Who Gave Birth to the Movement

She was born behind bars. Now she's telling her story. In this clip from Listen to Me Good, Michelle Browder and Chaplain Curtis Browder preview Born Captive, the upcoming film from Starling Thomas — a woman born in prison whose story exposes what really happens when incarcerated women give birt ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 3 — Tonya Terry: Life After the Anchor Desk

For decades, Tonya Terry was the face Montgomery woke up to — a fixture on WSFA, the NBC affiliate she grew up watching as a kid in Troy, Alabama. In this episode, host Michelle Browder sits down with the longtime news anchor turned wellness advocate to talk about what it really took to walk awa ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 4 — Buena Vista Browder: The Woman Behind the Movement

In this installment of Listen to Me Good, host Michelle Browder sits down with the woman who started it all — her mother, Buena Vista Browder. A historian, seamstress's daughter, and self-described former beatnik from the South Side of Chicago, Buena opens up about surviving an abusive first mar ...

Listen to Me Good, Spotlight Edition — Inside KBEN: Kansas's Fight for Black Maternal Health

In this special spotlight edition of Listen to Me Good, host Michelle Browder welcomes two women leading the fight for birth equity all the way from Kansas: Dr. Charlotte Smith, founder of the Kansas Birth Equity Network (KBEN) and director of birth equity at KU Med's Department of Obstetrics an ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 7 — Ten Years in the Making: The Michelle Browder Story

For the first time, Michelle Browder turns the mic on herself. In this solo episode — celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Mothers of Gynecology Monument and the tenth anniversary of More Than Tours — Michelle traces the full arc of how she got here: leaving her "best life" in Atlanta to ans ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 8 — Rose: Legacy, Labor, and Learning to Advocate for Yourself

In this episode, host Michelle Browder sits down with Rose for a raw, generous conversation about the realities of pregnancy and early motherhood. Rose opens up about the anxiety that gripped her throughout her pregnancy — the fear of becoming another statistic — and the deliberate, careful proc ...

Listen to Me Good, Solo Episode — Flip the Script: School, Segregation, and Reclaiming Our Health

Michelle Browder takes the mic alone in this solo episode, starting with a news story that hit close to home: Nikole Hannah-Jones's essay about the education choices she and her husband made for their daughter, and the daughter's honest response. Michelle uses it to tell her own story, from a di ...

Listen to Me Good, Ep. 11 — “Supreme Fitness: From 280 Lbs. in Prison to Transforming Lives After Incarceration”

Michelle Browder sits down with Freddie Parker, founder of Supreme Fitness Updated, for a raw conversation about weight, menopause, and reclaiming your health. Freddie opens up about the moment he caught his reflection in a prison window at 280 pounds and knew he had to change — and how a book h ...