How ‘Pour Minds’ podcast hosts Lex P. and Drea Nicole built a sisterhood beyond the mic
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From its sold-out tour to unfiltered conversations, “Pour Minds” podcast creates a space for Black women to laugh, let loose, and feel seen.
Real ones know: there’s nothing quite like kicking it with your homegirl. The deep debriefs, the “did you see this?” spirals about whatever’s trending, the way a conversation can swing from serious to silly in the same breath; that’s the magic of womahood. And that magic is exactly what’s pulled listeners into “Pour Minds,” the podcast co-hosted by Lex P—who also hosts “Love, Lex P”—and Muse Beauty founder Drea Nicole.
Because, as they describe it, “Pour Minds” is “great conversations between two best friends.”
“It’s a Friday night. You just got off work. Your boss made you mad. Your man has made you mad. You and your friends just need a good charcuterie board and some wine, and you want to talk about everything under the sun and kick your feet up and relax. That’s what Pour Minds is,” Lex described. “Pour Minds is a girls’ night in with great conversation, good drinks flowing, and a good time.”
And this summer, the duo invited listeners and fans into that world with a 16 stops “Still Sippin Tour.” With sold-out shows across the country and internationally, Lex and Drea create an interactive, engaging experience with the energy of a girls’ night out and the intimacy of a girls’ night in.
“This is our third tour, but this is our first tour of like this magnitude and this scale as far as the capacity of the venues that we’ve been going to, and then just the fact that like every single show has sold out so far,” Drea Nicole told theGrio. “It’s just a surreal experience to really see in real time how much the show has grown in the past three years, and it’s always awesome to just be able to touch our listeners and be able to see them in real life, and just I think also give them an unforgettable experience”
And it certainly is unforgettable. In the Washington, D.C., show alone, the crowd went from a twerk contest to heartfelt conversations about staying committed to your goals and dreams, even when things get scary. The room felt like a mix of cool aunties and young nieces and cousins, coming together in a way that was both comforting and liberating, especially as a Black woman. Though there were some men in attendance, the overwhelming majority were women, and watching the room shift from collectively twerking, whether in their seats or on the stage’s twerk contest, without a care in the world, to sharing collective “hmmms” as the co-hosts offered dating advice to the young girls in the crowd, felt like a testament to the layers of Black womanhood.
“I think it’s a testament to our purpose,” Lex shared. “Sometimes, Black women, we just want to let our hair down, have a drink, and have a good time. I feel like we have to deal with a lot in the everyday world, and if Drea and I can just give you an hour out of your day where you can just laugh and not care about whatever is going on. That’s all we’re here to do.”
“Lex and I, I think we try to do a really good job of cultivating like a very fun and safe space and environment, and it’s meant to be taken lightly. Like a lot of it is lighthearted banter just between two best friends, and we just sit down, and we be talking s—t, and we be having a good time,” Drea added. “Everything doesn’t have to be so serious. Sometimes people’s purpose is to make others feel good, and I think we do a really good job of that. I can tell by all of the outpouring of love and support that we get on the internet that we do an amazing job of making other women feel supported and feel understood, and they can relate to us in a lot of different ways—and some men, too.”
In an age where podcasting has become increasingly popular, the “Pour Minds” co-hosts acknowledged their success, but also hope to see other Black women break through in the industry.
“If I’m being honest, every time Drea and I are at a lot of these events, you know, being honored and things like that, there’s no other Black women podcast in the building,” Lex shared. “Black women are an underserved and undervalued group of women. I feel like every time there are podcasts or any type of content that comes out, it’s always geared towards everybody but us. When Black women are the tastemakers. We do start the trends, so we’re ahead of everything.”
“So I think we actually need to give mics away for free, if I’m being honest, only to Black women,” she joked.
Now the two are honest about the work they poured into the show to reach the level they are at now. What originally started as two friends talking into podcast mics they bought online has since blossomed into a full production with a team, a themed studio, sponsorships, celebrity guests, and more. And to get there, the duo has had to navigate backlash, tough conversations behind the scenes, learn to be leaders and ultimately grow tough skin. So while they know their show may not be everyone’s cup of tea, they also remain confident in the fact that it means something for someone.
“[People] don’t understand what Drea and I have been through as far as the work that we’ve put in. I always say we have put blood, sweat, tears, and hard-earned money into this podcast behind closed doors,” Lex explained. “We went through breakups, you know, losing our parents. But we still show up every week with big smiles on our faces and show up to work just like everybody else does.”
And in a world where everyone performs expertise, “Pour Minds” hits different because Lex and Drea aren’t pretending. They don’t have it all figured out, and they don’t act like they do.
“We’re two best friends who have truly grown up in front of the camera, in front of our audience, and we’ve navigated life. We’ve navigated difficult circumstances,” Drea concluded. “But regardless of everything that we’ve been through, we’re still gonna have a kiki. We’re still gonna have a ball, and we’re gonna have a good time.”