Houston’ Talk Their New Show

Three inspiring “sister-cousins” are telling BOSSIP about their melanin-excellence embodying show coming to OWN.

Jermeshia Goudeau, Nicole Handy, Jaquita Montgomery/ Source: Family Empire: Houston / OWN

As BOSSIP exclusively reported, Family Empire: Houston, a new series about the multi-generational Braden family of Houston, Texas, is premiering this Friday, June 28 at 8 pm ET/PT.

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The 8-episode unscripted series follows the Bradens across four generations of Black excellence that “explores complex themes of generational wealth and the building of a family legacy.”

In particular, the show produced by Carlos King’s Kingdom Reign Entertainment stars “sister cousins” Nicole, Jermeshia, and JaQuita who have a collective dream to follow in the footsteps of their beloved grandmother and the Braden family matriarch, Oscarene, a real estate entrepreneur who built the family empire from the ground up and “passed down this grit and determination to her children and grandchildren.”

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These inspiring realtors who make up the largest independently Black-owned brokerage in H-Town told BOSSIP that they’re excited to showcase their booming metro housing market while giving viewers an inside look at their family.

The premiere season will feature them confronting skeletons in the closet including an estrangement, complications around Oscarene’s plan to pass down the family wealth, single motherhood, and more. Despite the drama, the group still manages to always find a way to make amends.

Jermeshia Goudeau, Nicole Handy & JaQuita Montgomery-Martin Talk Family: Empire Houston

Sisters Jermeshia, JaQuita, and their cousin Nicole recently chatted with BOSSIP before their OWN show’s premiere. The trio told Managing Editor Dani Canada that they’re ready for the world to meet the Bradens and all the fun (and the inevitable little bit of drama) that comes with them.

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Nicole in particular, said she’s feeling a whirlwind of emotions but she’s excited to work with her grandmother Oscarene and have their moments captured by the cameras.

“Honestly, I always tell people I’m feeling everything,” she told BOSSIP. “I’m excited, I’m nervous, I’m anxious, I’m happy. You know, but I will say this, the one thing that I truly, truly love is if I have to continue to work, it’s with my family and more so my grandmother. You know, she’s 87 years old, so I mean, who else gets to work with their grandmother and then have it captured on film?”

Jermeshia echoed that sentiment.

“I’m thrilled, I will say, I did go through a sea of emotions,” said the broker and realtor. “So one moment I’m like, I’m like, oh my gosh, My life is, my life as I know it, the problem is I know it will be gone, so of course that concerns me, but I do know what I signed up for. I’m super excited. I think our family has an amazing story and we kind of treat everybody like they are cousins, so I feel like I’m just going to get a whole lot of more cousins that I get to know! This is going to be an interesting opportunity and I get to do it with my sister -cousins, I get to do it with my family.”

Speaking of family, Jermeshia also broke down the Family Empire: Houston brood to BOSSIP. The group includes four generations of the Bradens ranging from Oscarene and her late husband Frank a.k.a. “Paw Paw” to the “G 2s” and their spouses and their offspring the “G 3s.”

“When they say it takes a village, it takes a village,” said Jermeshia. “You’re going to meet our mothers, our aunt; we have the “sister-cousins”, but we also have our aunt DeAngela, who is a part of the ‘G one and a halfs’ and she is like my big sister because we’re only nine years apart. I’m the oldest grandchild, so we’re nine years apart. So she’s our aunt, but she feels like our big sister and she works at the brokerage as well. You’ll get a chance to meet her and she is spunky. You’ll meet my cousin, Lakeshia, she is Nicole’s sister, she’s also a realtor with the brokerage. You meet our grandmother who is the matriarch and our husbands. My husband, he’s a realtor with the brokerage as well. So we work together very closely. Those lines are blurred, okay? But it makes it fun and I wouldn’t choose it to do any other way.”