5 days per week, SiriusXM listeners can tune into the Radio Andy channel and be greeted by a cacophony of stomach laughs and unadulterated pleasure—, the sort you solely get from being across the people who know you greatest.

That’s the expertise that’s the Smith ladies.’

Rachel, Lauren, and Mariah Smith host The Smith Sisters Dwell present on the satellite tv for pc radio platform each weekday dissecting popular culture matters of their signature surgical model. Listeners clearly really feel as in the event that they’re part of the household as a result of the present was shortly went from being broadcast as soon as per week to on a regular basis in lower than a yr.

It solely takes an prompt to know the attraction of the present, because the hosts’ bubbly personalities instantly draw you in. However what retains you listening to all 51 minutes of each episode is their near-obsessive consideration to element as they provide perception on every thing from the most recent actuality present to the realities (and humor) of massive sister trauma.

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“It’s actually embedded in us,” Lauren, the oldest of the trio instructed ESSENCE.

Rising up in St. Louis, MO to hardworking mother and father, the worth of labor ethic was one thing they’d had early publicity to, and are grateful for.

“Our dad had a rule that we might watch most issues, solely underneath the situation of having the ability to have a succinct discussions about it later,” Mariah, the youngest sister, shared. “I feel that sort of whet our palette for deep dive dialog, conducting analysis and actually figuring out what we’re speaking about,” additionally stating that all of them participated of their colleges’ debate groups as youngsters.

These abilities burgeoned over time and confirmed up in all of their chosen profession paths, which appear to persistently intersect.

Lauren was the primary to go away the nest for New York Metropolis to pursue a profession in leisure. After graduating from faculty, she landed an internship at Vh1 the place she labored her up and was capable of produce exhibits like Greatest Week Ever. By no means too far-off, Mariah ultimately joined her sister to work on the community as effectively, after which once more at HBO’s Emmy-winning collection, “A Black Woman Sketch Present,” and Bravo’s Watch What Occurs Dwell.

“I’m one of many authentic nepo infants,” Mariah mentioned jokingly in reference to Lauren blazing a path for leisure writing and manufacturing.

Rachel, too, wasn’t far behind, charting a profitable path in PR working with Sesame Avenue amongst different exhibits. She has since constructed a profession in larger training and in the end pivoted away from leisure fully. However then her sisters got here a-knocking.

“We actually love working collectively so when the chance for the radio organically got here collectively, it simply made sense,” Rachel instructed ESSENCE. “I actually get to speak to my sisters concerning the issues we’d speak about anyway, as a job, and it’s actually superb.”

The present’s prompt success was a shock to the Smiths, nevertheless it makes excellent sense.

“Our dad used to have a saying that’s a baseline for every thing we even till to at the present time,” Mariah started explaining about their beloved who handed away in 2021. “What was it?” Lauren chimes in: “Be good, do effectively, research laborious.”

Phrases to dwell by.