Dr. Cheyenne Bryant On The Legitimacy Of Her Doctorate, Pretty Privilege, Healed Marriages + More

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]the conversation about your doctorate because people can't find your dissertation online.

[00:00:05]>> How are you responding to that in this new era of your life?

[00:00:08]>> I'm gonna clear it up once on here. I'm not doing it again. And I'm clearing it up for my doc squad, for my fan base, for my audience who deserve to hear me address it. For the folks who have already made up their mind to not like me or not understand me, >> listen, I don't give a [ __ ] what your narrative is. I would like for you to recreate it, double down on it, and run that [ __ ] cuz I don't give a [ __ ] about it. Now, to my doc squad, my fan base, my folks, you know, my village, it's very simple. I went to a school, Argusy University, completed an entire program.

[00:00:42]I went back online to uh get my official transcripts because I was applying to a law school many years ago to be a professor there and I had to provide my transcripts right to to get hired. And I went to contact the school and said, "Hey, I need my official transcripts. I need my entire thing." And there was no school. I was like, "Okay, I'm confused." I Google it says this school has been shut down. I said, 'Oh, well, they got to have records. I mean, they were accredited when I attended the school. They were accredited when I finished the program.

[00:01:17]I go and look, there is a third party that has the records. Where I contact the third party, that third party only holds records for two years. I was past my two years. So, that means that I had no access to records. And then I contacted uh you know, financial aid.

[00:01:35]You can't make up financial aid. It shows that I paid for a doctoral program alongside my master's program and my undergrad program. And they said, "We can fully refund you your money >> under one circumstance.

[00:01:49]>> We give you your money back. You don't get credit for not a class, a course, a program you took in this university at at this this institute. So, do you want us to refund you or do you want us not?"

[00:02:04]I said no because I didn't want to risk the chance of them saying, "Well, we're going to give you back your money and it wipes out your entire program." Luckily, I had, you know, got to do this with all of the schools. I had downloaded from the actual student portal my transcripts at that time and I was able to get all just about all of my transcripts, including up to like dissertation. Um, but everything else there's no there's just no holding take for any of our um records, which I think is completely completely effed up.

[00:02:40]>> Just in general, >> they all going to kill you online this week. They're going to say she has no records. They just want to hate you regardless. But >> no, that's fine. And it's not even that there's no records that I don't. The school had a third party that carry their records only for a limit of two years. So, it's not me, it's any student that attended RBC. But again, it doesn't, how can I say it? It doesn't affect me because if I chose to go get a license as a LMFT, I have my masters in marriage child therapist. I have my hours. I can just take that and say, "Hey, let me submit these for licenser and I want to go sit for my exam and and all I have to do is study." I don't need a doctorate in counseling psychology to go get licensed as a therapist. That's what we're all missing.

[00:03:27]>> They say the reason that you don't get questioned or tested as much is because of your quote unquote looks.

[00:03:32]>> I said this last time I was on, you might you might be my alter ego brother cuz some of the stuff you say is just right up the alley of what needs to be addressed. So there's pretty privilege and I've learned that there's pretty punishment.

[00:03:44]And I didn't really understand that term until I got into my field. And I want to say this, I didn't get I've been in my field for 18 years. I didn't get into this field to become famous, to become a celebrity. I got in this field because I was a little girl from the inner city who was tenacious and determined to make it out. And I had a lot of broken pieces and abandonment. And when God provided me tools that helped me take my broken pieces and make peace from it, go from my wilderness into my promised land, which I talk about in my book, Live Your Promise, um I thought, wait a minute, I got to make sure I give everybody I come in contact with these principles because everyone deserves that freedom and that healing that I'm experiencing, what I call God's peace. All right? And so with that, people got a whiff of it. And you know, the fan base, the folks made me famous, made me a celebrity. I did not grow up and say, "Hey, I want to just listen, I'm a good-looking woman. Um, I've had access to the industry for my entire life. If I wanted to be famous, I would have went maybe the actress route or the modeling route."

[00:04:50]Easy, easy call for me. So, none of that. No one goes to college and gets multiple degrees to say, "I want to be famous." Now, do I love it here? Yeah, I love it. I'm grateful for it. I appreciate it. If folks would focus on, doc, how did you create your own lane? I don't want to be you. But damn it, I want my own lane to occupy. I would give them the tools like I'm doing in my book, Live Your Promise, about how I did it, how I went from the hood to the hills. Was it hard? Yeah. Is it possible? Absolutely. Am I the only one that can do it? Hell no. The tools I use, if you apply it, you will get the same result. Just like baking a cake.

[00:05:29]>> Some people like, "Well, how can she tell me about my marriage when she hasn't been married?" Or, "How can she tell me about my family or my kids when she hasn't been through that >> even though you studied it and you got your degree in it?" So, what do you say to those people?

[00:05:40]>> So, you just going to cook the whole the whole interview? Just going to cook all your questions going be >> cuz you know what?

[00:05:46]I'll be honest to tell him that we talked about this pre pre but what I say were like you know and I looked it wasn't like you know two years ago this is like a week ago and I'm like Jesus Christ y'all trying to stomp out the Cheyenne Bryan like my nicks did the Philly sixes >> your question was what what do I think about people who say I'm not married so how can I teach folks the thing >> I do not teach people how to be married is between you and your partner that's your agreement that's your covenant and however you two decide to create and curate your marriage. I can't teach you that. What I teach people is how to get out of their own way because happy healed people make happy healed marriages. Miserable, unhappy people create miserable marriages. Traumed out folks create trauma bonds. Healed people create healed bonds. I teach you envy how do you process through your trauma so you don't bleed on your wife. I teach you, Lauren, how do you get out of your daddy issues? Not saying you have them, your daddy issues, parental issues.

[00:06:41]Okay. Well, you're I'm on point today.

[00:06:43]out of your daddy issues, right? So that you don't point and project your pain onto this man who is loving the hell out of you and doesn't deserve that. If I could teach you how to heal those and how to get out of your way with that, then I have helped you become a better woman for yourself, which in return is going to do what? Benefit the collective of that marriage. No one can teach people how to be married. We teach you how to get out of your own way so you and your partner can be healthy. That's it. Because no matter how much we teach you the the proper tools of marriage, if you are traumat sabotaging this thing, >> those tools will not be effective until I help you get out of your away.