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Sophia Chang, the First Asian Woman in Hip-Hop, Claims Her Title With ‘The Baddest Bitch in the Room’ Podcast

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58 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

Sophia Chang managed some of the most important artists in hip-hop history. Now she is telling women how to move through the world the way she did — on her own terms. SiriusXM announced “The Baddest Bitch in the Room with Sophia Chang,” a new weekly podcast on the SiriusXM Women’s Empowerment Network that launched October 21, with new episodes every Wednesday.

Chang is widely known as the first Asian woman in hip-hop. Behind the scenes, she managed RZA, GZA and Ol’ Dirty Bastard of the Wu-Tang Clan, along with D’Angelo, Raphael Saadiq, Q-Tip and A Tribe Called Quest — a résumé almost no one in the business can match. In the years since, she has built a second career as an author and empowerment coach; her podcast takes its title from her memoir of the same name.

Each week, Chang draws on the unlikely mix that shaped her — hip-hop, martial arts and Buddhism — for conversations and guidance on confidence, relationships, careers, personal growth and self-discovery, aimed squarely at women building their own power.

The show joins the Women’s Empowerment Network, which is executive produced by veteran broadcaster Karen Hunter, and is available on the SiriusXM app and all major podcast platforms. For a woman who spent decades being the only one of her kind in the room, the title is not a boast — it is a thesis, and now it is a weekly appointment.

It is also a full-circle media move: the manager who once guided other people’s stars from behind the scenes now holds the microphone herself, turning a memoir that became a mantra for her readers into a weekly conversation with them.

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Billy Porter Opens a Faith-and-Identity Conversation Series as First Guest of ‘This Is Our Story’

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28 minutes ago

October 29, 2026

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A new monthly conversation series is making room for the stories people are rarely asked to tell in full. “This Is Our Story,” hosted by Seth Pinnock — founder of the UK charity Symphony Co. — launched October 20 from Symphony Co. and In Details Studios, exploring culture, faith, sexuality, identity and the life-shaping stories in between.

The inaugural guest sets the tone: Billy Porter, the Emmy, Grammy and three-time Tony Award winner, sits down with Pinnock for an open conversation about growing up in the Pentecostal church, enduring bullying, and the long road through faith, healing and forgiveness.

Porter’s reflections anchor the episode. “Forgiveness is for me,” he says in the conversation. “It’s not forgive and forget. It’s forgive and move forward.” It is the kind of unguarded exchange the series is built to hold — personal history examined without spectacle, by a host whose own work through Symphony Co. centers community and young people’s stories.

As a monthly series, “This Is Our Story” is positioned as a slow conversation in a fast medium: one guest, one story, and the space to tell it properly. With Porter as its first voice, it opens with a story that moves from the church pews of Pittsburgh to the highest stages in entertainment — and finds healing, not bitterness, at the center of it.

That is precisely the ground Pinnock wants the series to hold. The conversations are structured around the moments that shape a life rather than the highlights that sell one, and Porter’s episode — part testimony, part masterclass in survival — gives the young series an unmistakable statement of intent from its very first installment.

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