Milk & Honeys is the perfect blend of raw industry insights and unfiltered realness.
Like the ingredients that sweeten and smooth out a cup of tea, hosts Kayla Becker (TV host of 10 years) and Vanessa Curry (model and actress of 10 years) bring their own flavors to the conversation— Together, they spill the tea on what it really takes to live and thrive in LA’s entertainment and comedy scene.
Kayla Becker: Best known for her time in WWE, where she worked as a backstage interviewer under the ring name Kayla Braxton. She graduated from Belmont University with a degree in broadcast journalism. During her time in college, she started creating online content and had a few digital entertainment shows for her school and around Nashville, Tennessee. Six months after she graduated, she began hosting her own entertainment web and TV segment in the top-20 television market in Orlando, Florida. Braxton was a backstage interviewer on SmackDown and co-host of The Bump. Since 2020, she has been the host of Talking Smack, which at that point was renamed to SmackDown LowDown, alongside Paul Heyman. Along with TV correspondent, Becker is also an actress, podcaster, and stand-up comedian in Los Angeles, CA.
Vanessa Curry: Vanessa Curry originally form the Bay Area California has been featured in several commercials, TV shows and print work. She has been seen in commercials for AT&T, BMW, Home Depot, 5hr Energy, Urban Decay Cosmetics, Applebee’s, Target and Cover Girl Cosmetics. Vanessa has also acted in television shows and Films such as Lethal Weapon, Glee, CSI NY, Behind The Trees and Always And Forever. Some of her print work has included Sports Illustrated, Adidas, KKW Beauty, Skechers, Target, Nike, Ulta Beauty and Sephora. In addition, she is also and accomplished dancer, dancing for artists such as Christina Aguilera, Pitbull, Leighton Meester and Sensato. Vanessa has performed on shows such as Dancing With The Stars, XFactor, American Music Awards, Latin Grammys and IHeart Radio Music Awards.
So, grab a mug and sip on some Milk & Honeys—because they’re serving the tea with all the right ingredients.
This week, remember when the worst thing about going back to school was getting your lunch money stolen, and not the fear of your embarrassing moment going viral? Vanessa and Kayla certainly do.
In this nostalgic episode, we’re diving into our drastically different educational backgrounds – from Vanessa’s strict Catholic school experience complete with nuns checking skirt lengths to Kayla’s journey through multiple schools as a foster child navigating racial identity. We share how these formative years shaped who we are today, from developing code-switching abilities to overcoming the infamous “Catholic guilt.” The playground was our battlefield where Red Rover selections determined your social standing and dodgeball left both physical and emotional scars. We’re talking about the real, face-to-face bullying of the 90s versus today’s relentless cyberbullying – debating which generation had it worse while acknowledging each had unique challenges.
You’ll laugh as we recount our detention stories (or “ASS” – After School Suspension, as Kayla’s school called it), passing handwritten notes in class, and playing MASH to predict our futures. There’s even a surprise Christian rap performance from Kayla that you absolutely won’t want to miss!
For anyone who grew up in the 90s or early 2000s, this episode will transport you back to a simpler time before iPads replaced textbooks and when showing your personality meant colorful socks under your uniform. And for today’s students? Consider this your anthropological study of how your parents survived school without smartphones.
Checkout previous episodes of Milk & Honey w/ Kayla Becker & Vanessa Curry featuring some of entertainment’s biggest names HERE
