About this podcast
Inner Circle Podcast is more than a show—it’s a movement. A bold, purpose-driven platform amplifying immigrant voices through real conversations on business, finance, politics, mental health, and more. With 600+ episodes and a growing audience, we’re reshaping narratives, building bridges, and sparking change.
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We amplify the unheard. Empower the overlooked. Elevate the community—one voice at a time.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 329 episodes
- Cheating in Corporate America · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 137Last night we said this story would grow. This morning, the most powerful CEO in tech resigned. The Inner Circle called it — and tonight we open the books on cheating in…
- Veterans Day Tribute & The Nvidia Scandal · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 136I became a citizen when I was in basic training. I didn’t have to wait for the five years.” One sentence, and everything this show stands for is in it. This Veterans Day, the…
- Bernice Cooper Makes Brooklyn Park History · 1 h 12 min · Season 3 Episode 135I started over here. And I told myself — I’m coming back right here to have the first interview.” She kept that promise. Councilwoman-elect Bernice Cooper — first Black woman and…
- When Celebrities Pick a Side · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 134She defended Nicki Minaj’s right to pick a side for ten straight minutes. Then the host asked: “So are you still going to be listening to Nicki?” — “I’m going to take a break on…
- Happy Hour Friday · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 133Three guys started this podcast. Three years later, they’re back in one room — and the room changes everything. Abe, Titus, and Sam Y — the original Inner Circle — on set…
- The Night After: What the Election Results Mean for Your Wallet · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 133The morning after the blue tsunami, the Republican chair didn’t duck. “I believe America has spoken” — and then he autopsied his own party on air. Ms. B pulls up with…
- Election Night in America · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 132Eight months ago she became a citizen. Today she voted — and it took five minutes. We went live as polls closed across America: Buela’s first ballot ever (yes, she got the…
- November 2026 in Entertainment · 1 h 21 min · Season 3 Episode 132Ms. B doesn’t allow sleepovers. Her reason will make every parent rethink theirs. Our biggest episode yet covers everything November is about to throw at you: the Jay-Z halftime…
- The Economic Anxiety of Voters · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 132“People are exhausted. People are literally tired. And this economy does not allow room for rest.” Six days before the election, 84% of voters say the economy is driving them to…
- Midterm 2026: The Top Issues · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 131We asked two immigrants what’s driving them to the polls. Neither one said immigration. For the first time ever, all four of us are at the table — seven days before the election…
- The $10 Billion Question · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 130$11.6 billion on political ads this election. We asked the only question that matters: has one ever changed your vote? “Not really.” Peterson is back, the full Tuesday table is…
- Halloween Style Entertainment · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 129We came to talk Halloween. A church picnic changed the plan. The full table is back — and before the first costume gets mentioned, Buela says she’s thinking about leaving her…
- Entertainment Freestyle: Everything Trending · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 128Her verdict: “She paid for what she gave.” Freestyle Monday, and nothing survived. The Diddy documentary sitting at number one on Netflix — produced by 50 Cent — and a lifelong…
- Love & Money: Who Pays When Love Ends? · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 127The chair was gone. The ladies ran the whole house. She walked in saying a prenup is planning your divorce. She walked out writing her own clauses. Watch Buela change her mind in…
- Denaturalization: Should Every Immigrant in America Be Worried? · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 127The police called her to her job. Her first thought: “They’re going to deport me.” She’s been a citizen for almost twenty years. This week they raided a congresswoman’s home over…
- Pick a Career, Any Career: Choosing Work in a Changing World · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 127Your passion is a hobby, not a career. She said it to your face. Tonight the college student ran the table. Buela’s rules for picking work in a world that won’t sit still…
- The Moving Finish Line: Why Becoming an American is Getting Harder · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 126She took the new citizenship test. She passed. Then they called her job. Buela became an American the day she graduated basic training — March 1. Tonight she tells you what the…
- The Price of Going Viral: Who Pays When the Internet Picks You? · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 125For two weeks the whole community laughed at the viral videos. Tonight the Inner Circle Podcast asked the question nobody else will: what happens to the person IN the video when…
- October 2026 in Entertainment · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 124October is loaded — and so was this one. The panel built the official watch list for the month... and then the parking lot video showed up. First, the business: what's actually…
- Women Cheating vs. Men Cheating! · 1 h 20 min · Season 3 Episode 124The whole community watched one engagement collapse this week — and tonight the Inner Circle Podcast said what everybody was thinking. The gloves came OFF. Three ladies, one…
- Money 101: The First-Paycheck Playbook · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 123Your twenties: energy and time, no money. Your thirties: money and energy, no time. Your sixties: money and time, no energy. Our 20-year-old finance major just explained your…
- Conspiracy Culture: Why Nobody Trusts Anything Anymore · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 122Only a third of Americans trust the news. A quarter trust institutions. So who's left? The panel spends an hour finding out — and the answers get uncomfortable. Why did one…
- Entertainment Monday - September 28 · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 121The grand jury said no crime. The autopsy said no answers. Nobody believes anybody — and tonight the panel went three rounds on the Nolan Wells case to figure out why. Then…
- The Taxes Episode - The Employee's Burden · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 121Look at what you earned. Now look at what hit your bank account. Tonight, the Inner Circle Podcast finally pays its debt — the taxes episode. The full anatomy of a paycheck…
- Is AI Going to Kill Us All - The Doomsday Alarm · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 120The people building AI say there's a chance it ends us. The Inner Circle Podcast has a different question: can it even speak Koloqua yet? The panel takes on the doomsday alarm —…
- The Fall 2026 Lineup - Entertainment Monday · 1 h 7 min · Season 3 Episode 119She's paying for five streaming services. He has zero and doesn't miss them. And somebody's cousins in another state are still using her Netflix password. The Inner Circle…
- The Loudest Silence in America · 1 h 8 min · Season 3 Episode 118Record deportations. A million people losing protection. Legal pathways closing one by one. And the streets of America... quiet. The Inner Circle Podcast takes on the question…
- September 2026 Entertainment · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 117You can't say fifty-fifty when you're making $300K and your wife is making $75K. That's an eighty-twenty situation." Ms. B and Ms. Johnson take over for a girls-talk night that…
- September 11: 25 Years Later. · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 116One host watched it happen live in her college dorm. One was a high school senior. And one wasn't born yet — she learned about 9/11 in the U.S. military. Twenty-five years later…
- The Money Just Got More Expensive · 60 min · Season 3 Episode 115The Fed just raised the price of the one thing everybody rents: money itself. Your card, your car note, your dream house — all more expensive by morning, to fight prices that…
- The Midterms & Our Vote · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 115One co-host is missing tonight — she's out campaigning. That's the whole message. The midterms are November 3, early voting starts within days, and the Inner Circle has one ask…
- The Pump Is Eating Your Paycheck: The Cost of Energy · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 114One host paid $3.39 a gallon this week. Another paid $5.24 — for the same gas, in the same country. Oil just crossed $100 a barrel, diesel is near record highs, and every truck…
- Fast & Furious: The E-Bike Takeover · 1 h 16 min · Season 3 Episode 113There's a fourteen-year-old doing thirty on your street with no license, no helmet, and no fear — and somebody bought it for him. The full Inner Circle takes on the machines…
- The Camera Never Blinks: Flock Cameras and Who's Watching Us · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 112There's a camera on your street reading every license plate that passes. You didn't vote on it — and you probably just found out it exists. The Inner Circle Podcast closes the…
- The Black Tax: One Paycheck, Two Countries · 1 h 10 min · Season 3 Episode 111You work one job. But your paycheck has two addresses. Tonight the Inner Circle says the quiet part out loud: the bill nobody sends you but everybody expects you to pay. Abe, Ms…
- The Dormant Organization: When a Community Loses Its Voice · 1 h 16 min · Season 3 Episode 110The largest Liberian community outside Liberia. An organization since 1974. So when the headlines turned on us — who spoke? Nobody. And tonight the Inner Circle says it out loud…
- Summer 2026 Entertainment Recap · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 109Summer's over. The stories are not. Abe, Ms. B, and Buela run the whole season back — completely unscripted, and it might be the most fun hour of the year. Messi retires from…
- Inner Circle Gala + "The Great Minnesota Get-Together: Is It Ours Too? · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 110Two get-togethers. One question: do we show up? The State Fair opened its gates today — the biggest fair in the country, everything on a stick, two million people calling it the…
- The Sekou Effect: One Headline, Higher Walls · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 109The ladies take over. And they take on the hardest story in the community. A Liberian success story — 24 group homes, a government post back home — is now the headline everyone's…
- The $317 Million Question: Why Back-Home Scandals Run Our Group Chats? · 1 h 11 min · Season 3 Episode 108A former vice president is sitting in jail. The largest drug seizure in Liberia's history. And your group chat hasn't talked about anything else for a week. Abe, Buela, and…
- Even a Prince Went Back Home · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 107Prince Harry gave up the palace for the American dream. Six years later, he's packing it in — and every immigrant knows exactly why. Abe, Buela, and Ms. B put the royal exit on…
- Back to School: The Costs, the Rules, and the Cheat Codes · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 107$863 per kid before the first bell. Phones getting benched. AI detectors reading your essays. School is back — and it's a whole different game now. Abe hands the co-host chair to…
- Trust & Accountability: The Headline and the Community · 1 h 3 min · Season 3 Episode 106MPR dropped an investigation: a Liberian government official running Minnesota group homes from 5,000 miles away — $36 million in taxpayer money, neglect findings, and a…
- Social Media Companies on Trial · 1 h 15 min · Season 3 Episode 105A jury already made Meta pay $6 million. Now the states are in court arguing your child's attention was engineered on purpose. So who's really guilty — the platforms, the…
- National Black Business Month: Celebrating Black Businesses · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 1043 million Black-owned businesses. Only 194,500 with a single paid employee. That gap is the whole story. "There's living in the business, and there's building the business. We…
- Primary Day in Minnesota: Minority Candidates | Peterson Flies Solo · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 103The co-hosts got caught up. The show went on anyway. Peterson's first-ever solo flight landed on ELECTION NIGHT — and he called it live on air: Amy Klobuchar, projected winner…
- America Is Getting Older — Who's Going to Take Care of Everybody? · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 101"How many yachts do you need, Abraham?" — "A LOT, if I can afford it!" Abe and Ms. B go head to head on the crisis nobody's group chat is talking about: America is aging fast…
- Body Shaming: The Ariana Grande Effect · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 102The internet played doctor with the biggest pop star alive — and she quit public life. Concern? Or cruelty? Ms. B: "If I can count your ribs, that's not shaming — that's the…
- Let Your WHY Build Your WEALTH · 1 h 2 min · Season 3 Episode 100"You basically decided to take your closet and turn it into a clothing store. I'm sorry to say." Ms. B and Yahri take over the Inner Circle Podcast Business & Finance Wednesday —…
- The 5th Annual On The One Music Festival · 1 h 4 min · Season 3 Episode 99The 5th Annual On The One Music Festival (w/ Chadwick Phillips) He was on a major label, on shows with Kendrick Lamar — and months behind on rent. Nobody knew. Chadwick Phillips…
