Gia Peppers Gets Real About Journalism, Election Grief & Creatives of Faith

Gia Peppers — NAACP Image Award-nominated journalist, host and founder of Creatives of Faith,  joins Joy for a wide-ranging two personal.

They open with “bonnet-gate” and what it says about respectability politics, dig into how broken into media looks nothing like it used to, get real about the year since the 2024 election, and close out talking through Gia’s new community, Creatives of Faith.

0:00 Intro: Gia Peppers joins Joy

1:40 Bonnet-Gate: the debate everyone’s having9:01Should streaming be a college degree?

10:03 Breaking into media in 2026 — advice for mentees

17:23 “Everybody’s a journalist now” — and why that’s a problem

21:28 No gatekeepers, no process: what we lost

26:28 Divest your attention — the Jimmy Kimmel boycott blueprint

29:52 The 2024 election hangover, one year later

36:03 Kamala’s “shattered ceiling” line that reframed Gia’s year

41:26 Mamdani, class, and what good politics could look like

47:51Rapid fire: Avengers jokes & picking your battles

50:16 Black Panther casting discourse (and why it’s a distraction)

56:54 DVD players, streaming fatigue & the distraction economy

59:11 Rebuilding community in an isolated world

1:00:53 Climate change needs better marketing

1:03:19 Creatives of Faith: three months in

1:06:11 “The platforms already exist” — owning your work

1:09:05 Outro

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