Exclusive: America’s largest Black-owned bank launches podcast with mission to unlock hidden shame holding back generational wealth
OneUnited Bank, the largest Black-owned bank in the U.S., is launching a 10-episode podcast titled 'Who’s Your Ma Honey?' to explore how buried personal stories of shame impact financial empowerment and generational wealth in Black communities. Co-hosted by bank president Teri Williams and Suzan McDowell, the series connects emotional resilience with economic advancement through conversations with prominent guests. The initiative extends the bank’s mission of closing the racial wealth gap by addressing psychological barriers alongside financial access.
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For more than 50 years, OneUnited Bank has operated on the belief that financial empowerment in Black communities requires more than products and services—it requires confronting the systems that keep wealth out of reach. Now, the nation’s largest Black-owned bank is extending that mission into addressing how to close the racial wealth gap.Recommended Video On May 5, OneUnited launches Who’s Your Ma Honey?, a 10-episode podcast and video series that the Boston-based bank frames as both a cultural reckoning and a direct extension of its community development work. The show streams on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Audible, and invites high-profile guests to surface buried experiences of shame—then reframe them as the origin story of their resilience and success.
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