Strawberry Letter (Premiere Networks)

Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Craig Calafati.  The Executive Vice President and Director of Lending for Arkansas Capital Corporation, Arkansas Capital Corporation.  A community development finance company that was chosen by SBA to receive one of the three new SBLC licenses and now offers flexible capital solutions nationwide to small businesses and entrepreneurs in underserved minority communities. 

Company Description *
Arkansas Capital Corporation (ACC) is a private, nonprofit lending corporation dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs in Arkansas and surrounding states. ACC offers flexible capital solutions to meet the unique needs of entrepreneurs, small businesses, and economic and community development projects, emphasizing serving low-income, minority, and rural communities. Since 1957, ACC has partnered with commercial banks, government agencies, and others at local, state, regional, and national levels to deploy over $2.34 billion in capital financing.

Talking Points/Questions *
Talking points:

If you don’t have a Business Plan you will not be successful.  

What is the purpose of Arkansas Capital Corporation?

The SBA does not lend money. Instead, it provides guarantees so lenders are more inclined to lend money to small business owners.

Small business owners should establish a line of credit with immediate access - especially for small businesses with payroll employees.

Aspiring entrepreneurs are encouraged to spend time with entrepreneurs who are already operating a successful business in your area of interest to gain valuable insights.

Small business owners should always know how much money they need before speaking with a lender. #SHMS, #STRAW

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been dating a man for 4 years and I asked him to marry me recently because time is of the essence and I want to have a baby. When we met, he told me that I would be his wife. I took it to heart and I overlooked a lot of stuff to make our relationship work. I usually wouldn’t date an overweight man. I definitely wouldn’t date a man with halitosis...........................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married to my best friend for a very long time. He and I do everything together since we retired this year. We have 2 daughters and we visit them often because our oldest daughter just had her first baby with her husband and our youngest is getting ready for her wedding next year. We can not stand this guy she’s marrying, but we’d never tell her..................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for over half of my life and my husband checked out of the marriage five years ago. He started sleeping on the couch and then eventually moved into the guest room. I’m okay with not having sex because it wasn’t ever that good anyway. I went through periods of being bitter but didn’t do anything drastic because of our children. He told his family that I was verbally abusive to him and his mother only tolerated me so she could see our children.........................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty eight years old and I have a two year old and a two month old. My husband and I have been married two years and we've been busy growing our family, but not on purpose. He has an eighteen year old son and he told me that having more children wasn't high on his list of priorities when I met him, but as soon as we held our first daughter together, he started saying he wanted another son. Then we had our second daughter two months ago and he still mentions wanting another. I have to try to avoid him in the house because he can't keep his hands to himself...................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 58 and on my second marriage to a man that I only knew 7 months before we got married. He swept me off my feet after I met him at church. We actually met online but we agreed to have our first face to face encounter at church. We spent that entire first day together and into the night. He said he was an expert on beautiful souls and mine was the brightest he’d seen in years....................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, about a year ago I left my home church to join another church. I was dating the church’s drummer and he invited me to join. I fell in love with the atmosphere of the church and the senior pastor was really good. When I joined, I was asked to help put together a praise dance team. I enlisted the help of the associate pastor to help me. The associate pastor is only 3 years older than me and we connected on so many levels................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 39 year old married woman and I have been friends with a nutcase for over 20 years. We fall out all of the time because she’s a drama queen and she creates conflict where there should be none. I’m a professor and she’s in financial aid at the college we attended. I got a job there first and she came later. She is in a management role, but she has not gotten a raise or a promotion in 5 years....................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been in a relationship for 19 years but we are not married. I stayed in this relationship because I do really love my guy and we have 5 kids together. Since day one, he has cheated on me and I was young, so I let him get away with it, in hopes that he would get it out of his system. Well things got worse over the years and now he has 4 outside kids with 4 other women. His family knew about the other children, but nobody ever told me about them until recently.........

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I got married in January and I relocated to be with him, after the wedding. We dated for 2 years in a long-distance relationship before we got married. When I moved in with him, I found out he has a split personality. To my surprise, he used cocaine recreationally and he’s a binge drinker. I never saw this side of him when we were dating. The truth came out on our wedding day. He started drinking mid-day and looked like he was high..................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been in a relationship for almost two years and when I think about the things this man has shown me sexually and mentally, I am floored. He literally takes my breath away. But there are a few problems with our relationship. We’ve never spent a night together and I’ve never met his family, except for his twin daughters and their mother. It was a quick “Hi” and “Bye” when we ran into them at Target..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a single female and I moved to a new city 3 years ago, for a new job. I did not have any family or friends in the city, but I instantly bonded with a male co-worker and we’ve become really close. He was really great at helping me get settled and showing me around town. He has a girlfriend of 8 years and a child and I’ve always respected that. We would get flirty here and there but it was always harmless, at first...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 37 year old divorced man and I'm in a one hell of a situation. I have a 5 year old son that has a lot of health issues, so my ex-wife and I decided it was best if we were all on lockdown together. I have custody of my son but she helps me out a lot with his medical care, so she moved back in with us temporarily. Everything was cool at first, but by mid-April, my ex was up to her old tricks.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 37 year old man and I’m in love with the perfect woman and I want to marry her. I am financially secure and I love taking care of my family. I bought a new home 5 years ago and I made sure I had a separate space for my mother to live comfortably. She has her own entrance from the garage, so she’s still independent. She does most of the cooking and I am happy to have her with me...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 40 years old and my boyfriend is a 45 year old, successful businessman. He’s divorced and has one kid from his marriage. We’ve been dating for 7 months and I love his kid and I get along well with his ex-wife. A few weeks ago, his ex and I were chatting in the driveway when she dropped their child off. She asked me if my boyfriend had revealed his big secret to me yet. I asked her what she was talking about and she assured me that it wasn’t about him cheating or anything like that, but it’s very strange and it was the cause of their divorce.

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I was in a relationship with a man for 6 months, but we fell in love quickly and we were living together. He is 36 and I’m 31. He was going through a divorce when we met so I made him wait until the papers were signed before we had sex. He told me that his wife divorced him because he cheated on her multiple times. He told me that he cheated, simply cause his wife had stopped having sex with him.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 55 year old mother of 3 handsome boys. My youngest son is getting married, but I have an issue with his fiancé and I feel very guilty about it. I hate to be rude, but the girl he is marrying is just not that attractive at all. I know it’s none of my business because he’s the one that has to live with her, but my son is very handsome and I feel like he could do a lot better...................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married for 25 years and last weekend, my wife and I took a road trip to see my wife’s dad. My wife’s mom passed away 3 years ago so her dad is still adjusting to being alone. Her dad was so happy to see us and he asked my wife to cook his favorite dinner. So when my wife started cooking, my father-in-law slipped outside and was talking to an older lady that had pulled up..................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m in my early 50s and my husband and I have been married for 7 years. Since the beginning of our union, he knows that I’m able to manage all of our household expenses and he has taken advantage of it. I’ve funded a lot of hair-brained business schemes he’s invested in and lost a lot of money fooling with him. He’s had a string of jobs in leadership positions that I’ve helped him get, but the longest he’s stayed at one company is two years..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 29 years old and my boyfriend is 30 and he’s an idiot. We have been together for 4 years and his ex-girlfriend and I were close friends before her man chose to be with me instead of her. I might have been wrong for dating him, but it felt like the right thing to do at the time. In the beginning, she tried to fight me 3 times and she showed up at my job once and I had her arrested. About a year ago, she started dating a new guy and she left us alone.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 27 year old woman and I have a 1 year old son. I met his father almost 2 years ago. When we met, I assumed he was single because he approached me and spent a lot of uninterrupted time with me. Come to find out, he has been in a relationship for 8 years. It was too late to cut him off because I was already pregnant. We argued over and over again about how he lied to me and he said he never lied, he just didn’t tell me that he had a girlfriend..................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband acts like an absolute child at times and I can’t deal with it. It’s like having a third child and I am so tired of him embarrassing me. The most recent incident went down over the weekend at my Pastor’s house. We were invited to a barbeque and the pastor was a little late because of a wedding he had to do. There was plenty of food on the grill and we always let the elders of the church eat first. The first lady fixed the pastor a plate and sat it to the side and covered it with saran wrap.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been with my girlfriend for 10 years and we’re having our first major issue. When I met my girlfriend, she was new in town, so I introduced her to my group of friends and their wives. There are 4 couples that hang out and we’ve all known each other since college. The wives were all nice enough to my girlfriend but they’ve never included her in “girls night out” or invited her to brunch with them...................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, 2 years ago, I met the man of my dreams and he loves me, motivates me, and we can’t get enough of each other sexually. We've been talking about marriage and starting a family soon. There’s just one problem. Recently, I’d been thinking a lot about my ex-boyfriend and I decided to call to see how he’s been doing. I also wanted to let him know that I’d found happiness again...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 40 year old black man with a lot of weight in my community. I’m a very well-known businessman and former professional football player. I’ve been married for 10 years and I have 3 children. My wife is very sweet and we never argue or have any issues with our children. Everything is great, except for our sex life. My wife is a good woman that is very reserved in the bedroom............

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Dear Steve and Shirley I’m a 32 year old married woman and I’d normally never write in to you, but I heard you cover a topic that I’m going through so I’m turning to you for help. It’s about an issue I’ve been having with my husband since the quarantine began. He and I were having sex more than usual and it was getting boring. I wanted to spice things up with role-playing..........

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I have been married for 15 years and my husband is an associate pastor. He has office hours at the church and the church secretary is there from 9am-5pm. I started working part-time because I wanted to buy new furniture. I work in an artsy area of town at a craft store and there are several restaurants in the area. On 2 separate occasions, my husband called me to say he’d be in the area having lunch with some people from church................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in my early 30s and I'm dealing with a guy in his mid 30s. We hung out for a couple of months and he was ready to get serious, which meant it was time for me to give up the cookie. From the time I met him, I had a problem with his so-called best friend, who is a female. I’ve tried to understand the relationship and he says it’s nothing, but she spends the night at his house and he will stay at her house................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 39 year old Latino woman, married to a 53 year old black man. We’ve been together for 7 years and we’ve been married for 3 years. We met at church and we’re both in the church choir. When we started dating, I saw an edgier side of him. He rode a motorcycle, drank Hennessey on the weekends and he cursed whenever he talked to his friends. It was different from the church man I met, but I liked it. He told me that he didn’t want to scare me away because I was his queen..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, you are not going to believe this. I am 30 years old and my longtime girlfriend has an identical twin sister. I can barely tell them apart sometimes. They both have short curly afros, they both have dimples in both cheeks and their bodies are the same. My girlfriend and her twin love to prank me and confuse me since they look so much alike. Their little pranking went too far and now I want in on the fun..........

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Dear Steve and Shirley, a while back I met a man on a dating app and it was supposed to be just a one-night stand. He came over and we had the most explosive sex! After that, we talked all night. He lives out of town and when he got back home, we talked daily and spent hours getting to know each other. He came back to visit me because he was dying to have sex with me..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I recently met a wonderful man and we instantly had a connection. I am a widow and his wife died earlier this year. When we met, he looked familiar to me, but I thought that it was just a coincidence. After a few dates, we talked more about his wife that had died and he told me her name. I knew his wife and when I put two-and-two together, I realized why he was so familiar to me. His deceased wife was the sister of one of my good friends..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 43-year-old woman and I have a small group of friends who have all known each other since high school. We’ve all been strict about quarantining, so we agreed to meet once a week for drinks and dinner. It’s really helped us feel better and maintain a sense of normalcy with the craziness going on in the world. About a month ago another girl we went to high school with moved back into town...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm thirty seven years old and my sister is forty five. I'm staying with her and her live in boyfriend of seven years. I've been having sex with her boyfriend and it started after I was here only a week. For years, the sexual tension has been strong between me and her boyfriend, but I was married at the time. A few years ago. She mentioned it, but she wasn't mad. I wondered if it was on her mind when I moved in with him, but it's like she doesn't care at all....................................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my boyfriend and I have been together for five years and we’ve been faced with many obstacles, but the main one started over two years ago when I cheated on him and admitted it. I swore to never do it again and we moved on. I really thought that all was forgiven, but my boyfriend still has major trust issues with me and here’s why… He has a high sex drive and so do I, but I refuse to give in whenever he wants to have sex, which is every day or every-other-day. He knows exactly why I won’t do it as much as he’d like to…........

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 42 year old woman and I’ve been in a relationship with a 45 year old man for 3 years. For the past two years, he’s been living with me because he needed some house repairs done. Around Christmas time last year, I caught him at his own house one Saturday when he was supposed to be visiting his parents in South Carolina. I pulled up in his driveway and he met me at the door and told me that it was a dusty mess inside like a construction site and I didn’t need to come in......................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a twenty seven year old female and I just got out of a ten year relationship that was going nowhere. Now I'm dating a twenty nine year old man that pursued me for a few years. He was there for me after my breakup, so I got used to him being around. I want to get your advice before I fall for the wrong man again. He works as a manager of two movie theaters and he runs his mobile detailing business on the side. He's also a really good cook, but I can't get him to cook anything spicy...................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 44 year old divorced woman and I recently got divorced because my husband caught me cheating on him. I had been having an affair with my boss for a few years and it was all going good until my boss found out I was seeing a guy that used to work for him. He got irate and acted out while we were in the office so everyone figured out what was going on. His niece works in our office and she started the rumor, which lead to my husband finding out...................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley,  I met and older guy and I was attracted to him, but played hard to get. He begged me for a first date and I eventually agreed to go out with him. He asked to pick him up and I didn’t think much about it since his house was on the way to the restaurant. When I got to the house, he came out and so did a much older lady. He got in my car and told me that was his mom and that he lived with her….........................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 48 year old happily married man. I’ve been married for 17 years to one of the finest women in the world, but six months ago, my wife and I hit a rough patch in our sex life because I’m on high blood pressure medicine and I can’t perform like I used to. I’ve found different ways to make sure my wife is pleased and she has not had any complaints. She tried different things for me too, but nothing worked. As long as she’s happy, I’m happy. Fast forward to a month ago, I went out for drinks after work with my co-workers and there was a group of us, drinking, dancing and having a great time............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, In relationships, I know you have to take the good with the bad, but my boyfriend is a terrible dresser. He's fifty two years young and a well known DJ in the city. He's still got all of his hair, but he keeps it braided up. He goes to get his hair done just as much as I do. But that's not a problem because I like to be neat and clean. My problem is the way he dresses. I don't know if he's trying to look younger or not, but his jeans are way too tight. They're tight and short. He calls them ankle pants and I wear ankle pants, so I begged him to stop calling them that. Most of the young white guys in our area dressed like my boyfriend, but they are about twenty five pounds slimmer in the waistline.....................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a happily married Godly woman and my husband is a Godly man. We’ve been married for only 3 years but we’ve known each other since high school. After high school, I toured with a gospel choir throughout the south so I’m worldly and well-rounded for my age. After high school, my husband ended up with a great job at the hospital and he was highly respected in our church and community.................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I was married for almost 15 years and my husband cheated on me several times. He eventually got tired of hurting me, or so he said, and he divorced me. I was depressed at first but in the past two years, I’ve started getting my mojo back and although I’m not dating, I want desperately to have sex. I’ve been able to forgive my ex-husband and that’s how I know I’m in a better place mentally and emotionally........................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been married for 6 years and I have 2 children under age 5. I work full time and I tutor children in our home on Mondays and Wednesdays. My husband’s job has him traveling 80% of the time, so that leaves me with the children a lot. Thank heavens I have relatives close by that help me with my children. In August, my husband was out of town for a week and I was stressed out with being a mom and businesswoman......................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m recently divorced and in the process of rebuilding my life, my ex-husband has been in my face and in my space too much. I had to stop talking to him altogether in the past few weeks because he’s still acting as if he’s my man. He did move me into my new place and got an additional key made just in case I had an emergency. We are both very cautious people so I didn’t think it was strange for him to have a key.......................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I was married for 6 years to a man that I didn’t even want to be with at first, but he pursued me heavily and I gave in. After he proposed to me, I waited 3 years to marry him. I guess it was my intuition because I had second thoughts about getting married up until my wedding day. Looking back on things, the signs were there that he was a cheater, but we had sex 3-4 times a week and I was naïve enough to think that would satisfy him.............................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 33 year old single woman and my older sister just married a man that’s for the streets. I know you’re going to say I need to mind my business, but my brother-in-law is a whore. When I graduated from college 10 years ago, I went to a party and he was one of my classmate’s boyfriends at that time. I was annoyed by him flirting and staring at me all night.......................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve known my husband since I was in high school and we’ve been in an off-and-on relationship for 31 years. Years ago, my husband made bad choices and he was sentenced to 8 years in prison for selling marijuana. I stood by him the entire time he was incarcerated because I knew he was my soulmate. When he got out of prison, he kept his promise to be with me forever and we have been married for 5 years.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am 34 years old and my husband is 48. We’ve only been married 6 years and I found out that he’s had a relationship with another woman for the past 3 years. Not only is he with this woman more than he’s with me, they have a two year old son together. When I married him, he didn’t have any children and I have 2. He adopted my children because their father passed away..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 30 year old beautiful and successful woman and I’m in love with a 44 year old, well-educated hunk that swept me off of my feet. When I met him, he told me that he was seeing someone in a long-distance relationship, but I still started dating this man, despite the news. After six months of dating, I did some research and found out that he proposed to this woman and she has set a wedding date. I never confronted him about it but it tore me apart emotionally.............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a female in my mid-twenties, and I started a new job a few months ago. While I love it, I'm planning to put in my notice because I found a better paying job. My work environment is very challenging for me because the entire time I am at work, I’m fantasizing about my boss. When I’m at home, I’m always thinking about him and when I get dressed for work daily, I dress to get his attention.................................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 32 year old black man, married to a white woman that is 30 years old. We’ve been married four years and have two children. My wife has 2 older brothers, 1 lives in the same subdivision as us and the other lives out of state, and I have never met him because I’m black. When I proposed to my wife, he told my wife that he’d never accept her marrying an N word and it broke her heart.................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I have been married for almost 6 years and he’s my best friend. We are inseparable and we have not spent one night apart since we got married. Our sex life is really good and occasionally we will have a third party come and join us in the bed. We like to film home movies of us walking around naked in our home. We also record our sexcapades and we enjoy watching our home movies.........................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 47 year old wife and my husband and I have been married for four years. During the entire 4 years, all of the arguments that we have are over his ex-wife, the mother of his only son. She lives 2 hours away and at times, he will drive to see his son and this woman will not let him visit with the child, depending on her mood...................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been dating a guy for six months and he’s one of the sweetest men that I have ever met. This weekend, he disclosed some information to me and I need your opinion. He and I met when I moved out of my condo. He was the supervisor of the moving company that I used and he was very professional and handsome, so when he asked me out, I accepted. We started out as friends and now we’re in relationship.................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my best friend and I have been really close for 17 years but now we are constantly bickering over her twisted ideas of love and marriage. She has always taken an interest in reading books about male and female relationships, but her favorite book is Steve Harvey’s “Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man” and she has twisted each chapter to fit how she chooses to live. In the past, she has dated great guys, but she would break up with the guys if they didn’t have any desire to take care of her financially....................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 29 year old man and I was dating an almost perfect woman until recently. We met at the wedding of one of my oldest friends and my friend had lots of great things to say about her. That was 7 months ago and we were taking time to get to know each other. She’s two years older than me and further along in her career than I am, but she’s never made a big deal out of it....................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am engaged to a man that I work with. We both teach elementary school and when he transferred to my school, it was love at first site for me. At the time, I had only been divorced a few months and my ex-husband was still pursuing me and trying to work things out. He cheated on me more than a few times when we were married, so I divorced him...................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I met a very beautiful woman that is hood and bougie. She’s a bad dresser and she has a bad figure. She’s got a bad ride and she’s got a mean walk. I mean bad as in good, Steve, real good. We met at a lounge and she stood out from her group of girlfriends. She was poised and graceful and I watched her sip wine while her friends were all loudly chanting and taking shots.....................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in my early 30's and I have a loving boyfriend of two years but my sugar daddy insisted that I break up with him. My sugar daddy owns a barber shop that my ex goes to and that's how we met. I dropped by boyfriend off one day and this sexy older man approached me outside as I was getting an umbrella out of my trunk.......................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 28 year old female and I have a 57 year old male mentor that I work with. He has given me great advice and helped me through some obstacles in my life. This is the first man that has ever treated me with respect and did not try to sleep with me. He is like a father figure to me and I call myself his play daughter. The only problem is his wife...................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 32 year old single mother with one child and I’m pregnant with my second child. I’m pregnant by my best friend, who happens to be married. We’ve been friends with benefits for almost to 10 years and his wife thinks we’re just best friends, so she’s accepted me as part of the family. She’s aware that I’m pregnant but thinks it’s my ex-boyfriend’s baby. I’ve told her husband that it’s time for us to stop messing around and be serious now because we have a baby on the way................

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Two-time Emmy and three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Ashley M. Fox.

“Breaking News! Former Wall Street Banker, Ashley M. Fox, Tells All!” Ever wanted to learn how Wall Street operates? How the rich cultivate generational wealth for their descendants’ descendants? Why Ashley M. Fox left her lucrative job on Wall Street to start her company, Empify? How do properly invest in the Stock Market and actually see a return on investment? Well, the Money Making Conversations Master Class podcast has the scoop on all this information and more! Tune in today to hear this enlightening (and illuminating) exposé!

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Dear Steve and Shirley, my husband and I love to hang out after football games. We are Clemson fans and my husband played football so we are all into the games. We met a group of friends at our favorite bar and two of my single girlfriends came. They’re not into football, but they thought some single men might be out. We were sitting back and chilling and one of my friend’s friends joined us..........................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in a struggle right now and I need a little advice for a big problem. I have a male friend that I’ve known since 1st grade and we’re almost 40 now. I’m divorced and dated a lot of men after my divorce. One day recently, I had a revelation that my soulmate is someone I have known all of my life. My good male friend and I hang out all of the time, but he’s not who I had in mind if I were to date someone I’ve known a long time...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm in love with another man, and I just need to make it through the holidays with my current boyfriend so I can dump him and get with the new guy, but, I need your advice before I let a sure thing go and move on to a fairy tale lover. I don't want to leave my current boyfriend just yet, because he is getting my brakes fixed on my car and he's getting me a bracelet that I want for Christmas. I already saw it hiding in his drawer, so I'm doing all I can to stay faithful until the new year. My new man is in a similar situation, but he's married. He advised me to stay put while he lets his marriage fizzle on out.......................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 41 year old white lady and I work in corporate America with a very good job. I go to work dressed like a million bucks every day because I had help buying my designer pieces. I always start at the top when I date and I’ve never dated a man that is beneath me. A man isn’t even beneath me when we are having sex. I’m always on top in everything I do. I have a son and he likes the best of everything too..................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 27 year old woman and I just moved in with my boyfriend. We’ve been dating for one year and we have a great relationship, but of course there’s an issue, or I wouldn’t be writing you. Our love making is very good, but we are never alone when we are intimate. There’s always four extra eyes very close by, staring at us. It’s his dogs. He has a Doberman and a German Shepherd and these dogs are very spoiled and run the house. When my boyfriend and I get in the bed, they jump in too! Since I moved in, my boyfriend has forced them to sleep on the floor next to our bed, since I didn’t want them in our bed..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a Christian woman and new to dating. I was married for twenty two years and my husband divorced me in 2022. I have dated men at church and men that my friends hook me up with. I'm very traditional, so I like to be courted. I want my doors opened, and I want my man to order for me and when we're on a date. I also like passionate love making and refuse to settle for wham bam thank you, mam in the bedroom.......................................................................

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Two-time Emmy and Three-NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Lynn Richardson.  Financial planning executive and fan-favorite Dr. Lynn Richardson returns to dispense invaluable information for the listeners! This time, she brings with her information on how to manage debt properly, how the Black community’s skepticism of the finance sector will only hurt them in the end, and the secret tax write-off that every family with a home-based business rarely takes advantage of employing their children in their business. That’s right, child labor is perfectly legal if you follow the right steps! Curious? Skeptical? Both? Well then, there is no better solution than listening to this episode of Money Making Conversations Master Class. 

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m married to a man that overindulges in everything he does. He believes in going big in life. If we’re at dinner, he has to invite all of his friends, male and female. He is a big smoker, too. He loves cigars, pipes, weed and hookah and there’s a female in town that owns the smoke shop so he loves to be a big shot and spend a lot of money with her.................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I'm a forty eight year old divorced female and I'm trying online dating. My niece helped me do my dating profile and we used a real photo of me, but she suggested that I lie about my interests so I would attract a man with a nice body. So I said that I love working out, running and traveling. The app matched me with a tall, muscular, older man. He isn't cute, but we've been dating for six weeks getting to really know each other and I like him a lot. He runs marathons and he asked me to do a charity run with him in April. I said yes because I didn't know how to say no..................................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am a 44 year old married woman and we have new neighbors across the street. They moved in during the pandemic, so we see them in passing, but we haven’t formally met them. Two Saturdays ago, I was upstairs reading and resting. Our bedroom is on the front of the house and I had the windows raised so I could feel the breeze. I kept hearing noises like there was a wounded animal close by, so I asked my husband to check the front yard..............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, My fiance and I have been together for a while but we don't live in the same city so we do everything we can to keep the spice in our relationship. We send flirty texts and explicit pictures and when we're together it is on and poppin'. The texts and pictures we send are so raunchy, risque and vulgar that a pornstar would blush. We can't help it..................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 28 years old and I met a great man a year ago and things progressed quickly in our relationship and it seemed like he was the one. I waited till the 3rd date to have sex with him and it was all of that and more. He’s an amateur boxer and I started going to see him practice and I would join some of his workouts. He was definitely an Alpha male and I felt secure in his arms. After 6 months of dating, he told me that it’s time for us to move in together.....................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m a 29 year old hard working mother of 2 and I’ve been engaged for almost a year. I won’t set a date with this man because he’s not the man I thought he was. My fiancé is for the streets and he’s disrespectful with it. When we first started dating 3 years ago, I developed a great relationship with his mom and sisters but recently they take up for him when he’s messing around on me..............

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Martell Holt, reality TV star of Love and Marriage Huntsville, on the OWN Network joins us LIVE. Martell is here to get advice on his very public scandal involving infidelity and an impending divorce.

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I am in a struggle right now and I need a little advice for a big problem. I have a male friend that I’ve known since 1st grade and we’re almost 40 now. I’m divorced and dated a lot of men after my divorce. One day recently, I had a revelation that my soulmate is someone I have known all of my life. My good male friend and I hang out all of the time, but he’s not who I had in mind if I were to date someone I’ve known a long time...............

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’ve been asked to stand with my friend in his wedding. I’m a female, so I can’t be a groomsman but I’ll be at his side at the wedding. Why am I not a bridesmaid, you ask? The future wife is controlling and she doesn’t want him to keep any of his female friends. My friend and I are so close that he officiated my wedding and now he and my husband are the best of friends. I’ve had mixed feelings from the beginning about this wedding so it’s no secret that I don’t think it will last........................

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Dear Steve and Shirley, I’m 36 years old and recently divorced. I met a guy 8 months ago and he just got divorced too. We bonded over our divorce dilemmas and he was open and honest about his breakup. He told me that he was controlling and they had a rough marriage because she liked to fight him and throw stuff at him. He told me that he had to restrain her a lot, but he never laid a finger on her. He told me that he even took a domestic violence class to try to fix his marriage................

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