Cousin Ed’s Corner

On today's episode, I'm keeping it a hundred with you FAM. I've been pressed. I've been saddened. I've been watching what's happening to our community, the injustices we've faced before our time and the ones still happening right now, and it's been sitting heavy on my heart. But here's the thing about weight like that, it can either sink you or it can move you. I'm choosing to let it move me towar...

In this episode, we are slowing all the way down for a real conversation about gratitude, protection, and never walking alone. I came by just to say Thank You for being part of the Corner. I did not plan to preach, but the Lord had something on my heart, so I let it flow. I want you to know that you are never alone. When you are in that car, in that shower, in that prayer closet, He is right there...

In this episode, we're talk about two things that had many of you reaching out this week. First, I revisit the prayer and message I shared for our new 2026-2027 school year, lifting up our teachers, staff, families, and kids, and challenging all of us to do right, do good, and be the best we can be. Then I get into the one that really lit y'all up: I hugged a tree. 🌳 Straight out of the Brick Cit...

In this episode, we're kicking off back-to-school season with a blessing over the whole schoolhouse, and FAM, I mean the WHOLE schoolhouse. The stores were jam packed all weekend down here in Georgia, kids are heading back in August with a whole month of summer still on the calendar, and I couldn't let this season pass without pouring into everybody who makes it run. I'm talking about the parents...

In this episode, we are getting real about protecting your peace and learning that boundaries are not selfish, they are survival. Today I am opening up about something I am still working on myself, releasing the guilt of trying to do everything for everybody, and recognizing when enough is enough. Too many of us around this age are dying from stress and broken hearts because we keep carrying more...

In this episode, we're winding down and getting real about how we honor the people we love and the people we've lost. Today I'm opening up about a question somebody asked me that put me in a chokehold for a minute: when somebody significant passes away, how do you fill in the gap they left behind? My mind went straight to my grandmother, the woman we called Ma, the glue that held our whole family...

In Today's Episode, I'm pulling up a chair for a Corner Connection that has been sitting on my heart all day. Thirty years ago, on July 27th, 1996, the Centennial Olympic Park bombing shook Atlanta, and I was right there in the middle of that summer as a 19-year-old kid working two Olympic jobs on almost no sleep. Watching the news this morning took me all the way back, and I knew I had to share t...

In Today's Episode, we're pulling back the curtain on the money machine and finding out who is really shaping the future of your dollars. I sat down with Alex Marie , Fintech executive, investor, creator, and founder of Alex4Fintech, and she made this whole world make sense. Most people can't even spell fintech, so I made her slow it all the way down for the Corner Community. High yield savings, E...

In Today's Episode, we're winding down on a Wind Down Wednesday and getting honest about something most of us are guilty of. I share a question that I saw today that stopped me in my tracks: 'What's harder, working or working out?' This question reminded me how we are programmed to work, but we were never programmed to work out. FAM, sit with that one for a minute. Because here's the truth. If you...

In Today's Episode, we're diving into the one word that can change your whole trajectory: CONSISTENCY. Today, I'm sharing why consistency isn't about doing the same exact thing every day, it's about showing up every day, even when you don't feel like it. This isn't just about motivation, it's about US building the discipline, stability, and fortitude that carries our community forward. I'm breakin...

In Today’s Episode, we’re getting into a word our nation needs right now. We’re talking about praying through the chaos and praying for our loved ones, our brethren, and yes, even our enemies and oppressors. I keep it a hundred with y’all: turning the other cheek is HARD when that right hand comes back like a reflex. That’s work. That’s the assignment. And I’m sharing my grandmother’s story, a pra...

In Today’s Episode, we’re celebrating Black Excellence and the power of refusing to take “NO” for an answer. Today, I’m welcoming a brand new family member to the Corner — Dr. Cristen Harris, who just earned her Doctorate in Physical Therapy after being rejected by 12 out of 13 schools, being told by her own advisors to change her major, working FIVE jobs at once, and tearing her ACL on a volleyba...

In Today's Episode, we're celebrating a MAJOR milestone — 600 Episodes of Cousin Ed's Corner! FAM, when I got that notification this weekend, I had to stop and give thanks. From a Corner inside my cousin Mr. Moody's show to a platform of our own, this Motivational Monday takes you through the entire journey from the 50/50 brothers, Mr. Moody's Neighborhood with DJ Naturel, the WhatsApp and Telegra...

In Today's Episode, we're getting real about a question that stopped me in my tracks this week. It's Thank God For Everything Friday, and while a lot of folks are just thankful the weekend is here, we're going deeper — because over at the Corner, we thank God for EVERY day, every hour, every minute, and every second we're given. This week, I came across a young lady sharing a question her grandfat...

FAM, this Wind Down Wednesday we're talking about something heavy — the weight of being needed. You know the feeling: you're the one your kids call, your parents call, your friends call. The phone stays next to the bed "just in case." I used to think being able to do it for everybody was a badge of honor, but I'm learning that carrying everybody's everything without boundaries will wear you DOWN....

On this Corner Connection, we’re taking a trip back in time to the summers that MADE us. It all started with a conversation with my son about my childhood — and next thing you know, I’m right back on Flatbush Avenue in the 80s. Playing in the summer heat and runny in the Johnny Pump. Collecting cans at the Junction for five cents apiece to get my candy money. This isn’t just nostalgia — it’s about...

🚨 New Episode Alert 🚨: In this episode, we’re getting into the power of reinvention and community building. Today, we’re sharing Taya Darling’s incredible journey from ICU nurse during the height of COVID, to real estate broker, to founder of Thrive Tribe Outdoors — a hiking movement she built from the ground up in just weeks. This isn’t just about career changes, it’s about US, about finding pe...

In this episode, we're getting into something that is affecting every single one of us whether we realize it or not — and that's Resetting Your Algorithm. Now I know when you hear that word — Algorithm — it might sound like something only tech folks need to worry about. But trust me, this one is for all of us. Whether you're glued to Instagram, scrolling TikTok, or just living your daily life, you...

In today's episode, I'm taking y'll all the way back to to my days in Brooklyn — and all the way forward to this week's NBA Draft — because God's timeline is nothing short of miraculous. I'm sharing a personal testimony and it starts with a basketball goal in my daddy's yard and ends with me watching one of my former players have his NBA dreams come true. Everything in between? That was ALL God. A...

In this episode, we're getting to the ROOT of things — literally. Today I'm sitting down with Yvonne Sims, the founder of Soul Growery, and this woman is on a MISSION. We're talking about growing your own food, rebuilding lost generational knowledge, and how one sister walked away from almost 20 years in the corporate world to build a half-million-view brand by simply being herself. This isn't jus...

FAM, after the Father's Day episode, so many of you reached out — and I heard you. People sharing how much they miss their dads, how they wished he had been there, how they're still carrying that weight. I couldn't let Motivational Monday pass without addressing that directly. So I stepped on the mic — on the move, because life doesn't stop — and I said what was on my heart. This episode is for ev...

In Today's Episode, I sat down on Juneteenth — June 19th — to do what we always do on a Friday: Thank God For Everything. I sat down, as always, to give God thanks. But FAM, God redirected this episode in a way I didn't see coming, and I had to let it come out. This episode takes me back to my Jr. High memories in Brooklyn — being surrounded by racial tension. It reminded me of the day my bus was...

OK OK OK I cannot hold this in. The New York Knicks are NBA CHAMPIONS. 🏆🧡💙 After 53 years — after Patrick, after Starks, after Sprewell, after Marbury, after every heartbreak this city has carried — this TEAM, Our TEAM, MY TEAM, THIS TEAM OF UNDERDOGS, went all the way and brought it HOME. In this episode I'm talking about all of it — the history, the players who gave everything for this city,...

Wassssss up fam, Some days, life just throws things at you — a cold that won't quit, a car that picks the worst possible time to act up, and a Friday that doesn't feel like a Friday. But you know what I did? I turned the mic on anyway. Because sometimes the message you need to deliver is the message you need to HEAR first. 🙏🏾 In this brand new TGFE episode of Cousin Ed's Corner, I'm getting real...

In this episode, we're checking in on the FAM, talking about the real stuff that matters as we step into the back half of the year: watching the market, protecting your retirement and investment accounts, keeping some savings in the bank, and — this one is BIG — never, ever feeling ashamed to seek outside resources and programs when you need them. That's what they're there for, and there is no wea...