Bless Your Heart

Aisha Nyandoro
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Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South.

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  1. Season 1 Trailer

    Introducing 'Bless Your Heart'

    The South is misunderstood and this podcast aims to correct the record. From who gets to be Southern, to why you don't have to leave to succeed, to why the South is America's foundation and not its problem, Bless Your Heart is having conversations that will change how you see this place.   Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression that sounds sweet on the surface, but delivers sharp critique with a smile. We're bringing this charming, cutting and distinctly Southern sensibility with us as we challenge false narratives. Each episode is a deep, two-way conversation between lifelong Southerner Aisha Nyandoro and a guest whose life, work, or story challenges what we think we know about the South: including Tressie McMillan Cottom, Mitch Landrieu and Kiese Laymon. Aisha is one of the most important voices in the national conversation around poverty, narrative change and economic justice. And she's seen up close what happens when the stories we are told get it wrong.    Aisha leads the Jackson-based nonprofit Springboard to Opportunities and is the architect of the Magnolia Mother’s Trust – the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and PBS NewsHour. She is a Forbes contributor, TED Speaker, TIME100 Next honoree and Heinz Award winner. She also comes from a lineage of changemakers. Her grandmother was a former sharecropper turned Civil Rights icon, and Aisha has been carrying that work forward her whole life.   Subscribe to not miss out!

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Bless Your Heart is a Southern expression. It sounds sweet on the surface, but it’s really our way of saying you’ve got it completely wrong. Hosted by Aisha Nyandoro, CEO of Springboard to Opportunities and architect of the longest-running guaranteed income program in the U.S., each episode is a deep conversation with a guest who helps set the record straight. This season we’re challenging everything you think you know about the South.

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  • Creator
    Aisha Nyandoro
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    1
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Aisha Nyandoro