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If You Knew Better: Lil Durk's Mom LaShawnda Woodard Knows the Hardest Person to Forgive Is Yourself
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The Black Effect Presents... If You Knew Better with Amber Grimes! In this episode of I f You Knew Better , Amber Grimes welcomes LaShawnda Woodard aka "Mama Durk" for a deeply personal conversation about teen motherhood, grief, trauma, and healing [00:00] . LaShawnda reflects on becoming a young mother [01:44] , lessons she later understood from her own mom [03:51] , supporting Lil Durk’s music dreams [05:49] , and raising each child according to their individual needs [07:01] . She remembers her oldest son D-Thang [09:00] , opens up about living with grief after his death [09:55] , and shares her struggles with depression and isolation [13:58] . Amber challenges LaShawnda’s…