Health Crisis Inspire New Web Series, โ€œThe Blendโ€ featuring All Black Women Doctors

 

LaVonda Rouse wants to show the world that black women too, have credible voices. We could ย hear the passion in her voice over the phone as she talked about her ground-breaking new web-based talk show โ€œThe Blend,โ€ which sheโ€™s the creator and executive producer.ย 

The multi-topic series is a weekly show premiering on Wednesdays, October 3, at 7 pm EST and PST and on Facebook, @The Blend Talk Show.ย  Rouse said in a conversation last week with The Chocolate Voice, the show unapologetically targets African American women, and features a panel of credible, credentialed and compassionate Black women who can speak with authority to any soul whoโ€™s listening.

ย โ€œI had an epiphany to create a show featuring a panel of African American women during an outpatient surgery that I was having.ย  And, right before the procedure, I knew that I wanted a black female doctor to perform the surgery and couldnโ€™t help but wonder if others felt the same way.โ€ Rouse shared.

ย Inspired by her own health crisis in 2015, and a desire to have a physician with cultural compassion, Rouseโ€™s creative juices began to flow and she came up with the concept for a talk show format similar to โ€œThe Viewโ€ meets โ€œThe Doctors,โ€ featuringย  an expert panel of black women doctors that could speak to issues germane to black women. The title she came up with originally was,โ€œThe Lady Doctors.โ€ She envisioned the shows platform as a blend of healthy and healing topicsโ€” mental, physical, emotional and spiritual issuesโ€” which she argues are not being fully being tended to. ย 

โ€œImagery is very important. Itโ€™s the only way we as African Americans can become socially reconditioned is to see credible voices who look like us. Most people donโ€™t want to see a group of black women sitting around a table. They like to mix it up.ย  I understand diversity is everything.ย  But, in this point in my life, I feel that black women have been silenced or kept far too long in the background. Nowโ€™s the time for us to be in the foreground.โ€

Rouse is clear in her goals that she didnโ€™t want to be in the talk show genre just to talk. She wants the series to be a healing tool of support and reflection. With that thought in mind, she shot the pilot in 2016, but decided to put it on hold for couple of years.

โ€œIโ€™m a firm believer in the famous saying, โ€œSell no wine before its time,โ€ย  She shared.

Fast forward to 2018. The name of the show changed to โ€œThe Blend,โ€ and the platform is the internet.

โ€œThe internet is a level playing field. Thereโ€™s no pitching to studio executives just getting it done on my terms.โ€ She says.

“The Blend is not a celebrity oriented show. Itโ€™s a support tool that is meant to allow viewers to work through issues on a weekly basis.” said Rouse.

The shows platform will feature credible black women professionals who haves voices, that will discuss topics with experts on colorism, maternal health, wellness, relationships, finance and a wide range of issues that speak spiritually to the whole person.

Click here to check out a preview of ย “The Blend,” airing weekly on Wednesdays.

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