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Here’s to Life with Tori Reid, Episode 02: Phylicia Rashad - What Makes Phylicia, Phylicia?

A conversation with actress Phylicia Rashad...

By Patrick A. Howell, Tori ReidFebruary 15, 2020

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    Here’s to Life with Tori Reid
    Episode 02: Phylicia Rashad - What Makes Phylicia, Phylicia?


     




    I am reunited with an icon, mentor and source of personal inspiration.  In an unforgettable conversation, we explore what makes Phylicia, Phylicia, the sweetness of her childhood, love and marriage, self care with 40 years of meditation, what she’s grappled with, those special years on the Cosby Show, her film debut in Tim Reid’s Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored along with Al Freeman, Jr, and Paula Kelly, completing her narrating Academy Award–winning storyteller Kobe Bryant’s, the Wizenard Series, her directorial Broadway debut with “Blue”, a jazz play by playwright Charles Randolph-Wright, and so much more!  Here’s to America’s Mom, Phylicia Rashad.


    - Tori Reid


    Credits:


    Executive Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
    Producer:  Tori Reid
    Co-Producer and Head Audio Engineer:  Will Broughton
    Intro/Outro Recorded by Brian K. Jackson at Maven Soundz


    Music:


    Intro - “Consumer” from “The Year of 11 Project”
    Outro - Produced by Stereo Mixtrumental 
    Logo Photography:  © Bobby Holland / MPTV Images


    Listen to Episode 1 Here

    LARB Contributors

    Patrick A. Howell is the co-founder of the Caribbean Community of Venture Capitalists fund and Global Market IQ and still believes in the best of humanity and knows that he can do anything he sets his mind to because, well, he has.

    Tori Reid is a Los Angeles-based producer, creative executive and Hollywood insider. She has worked practically in every aspect of the television and film industry, both in front and behind the camera. She is also the CEO and co-founder of Victory & Noble, a storytelling company, and also a new channel debuting on LARB this winter. 

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