Wendy Osefo Shares a Surprising Career Update: "The Budget is Gone"

Dr. Wendy Osefo is a successful career woman, to say the least, in addition to being an absolutely fabulous mom of three.

As if her many degrees didn't serve as enough evidence,ema href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-potomac" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"The Real Housewives of Potomac/a/emcast member is an author, an a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/rhop-wendy-osefo-johns-hopkins-political-commentator-degrees" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"assistant professor/a, a political commentator, and now the host of her own talk show, a href="https://www.youtube.com/@dr.wendyosefo/videos" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Dr. Wendy Show/em/a./p pWendy's career ambitions have been documented onemRHOP/emsince she joined the cast in Season 5. Now, in Season 8, Wendy's latest career venture is being shown to viewers from the ground up — but there are some roadblocks in the way.Find out what might hold back Wendy's newest venture in a preview for an upcoming episode ofemRHOP/em./p pstrongDon’t miss out on the latest Bravo news:/strong/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/karen-huger-gives-an-update-on-her-heart-health-calcium-deposit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongKaren Huger Shares a Major Update on Her Health (VIDEO)/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/rhop-recap-keiarna-stewarts-career-job-details-explained" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongKeiarna Stewart is More Than Just a "Kiki" and BFF to Wendy Osefo: Inside Her Beauty Industry Career/strong/a/p pa href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/ashley-darby-wears-black-cutout-dress-for-an-oscars-party" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongAshley Darby Smolders in a Jaw-Dropping Cutout Dress for an Oscars Party (PHOTO)/strong/a/p h2Wendy Osefo's Talk Show/h2 div alt="Dr. Wendy Osefo during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." caption="Dr. Wendy Osefo during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="282f61d5-7a51-4ada-a8e2-6248e6b21cab" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/media_mpx/thumbnails/bravo-video.nbcuni.com/image/NBCU_Bravo/499/855/DrWendyCrossesTheLine__521746.jpeg?itok=6dJDEkrY" width="862" height="485" alt="Dr. Wendy Osefo during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." title="Wendy Osefo Says Nneka Ihim Crossed the Line" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pDr. Wendy Osefo during an appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen./p /span /div /div /div /div pIn a preview foremRHOP/emSeason 8, Episode 17, airing on March 17, Wendy gives viewers a look inside of the work that she is putting in to a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/season-8/videos/wendy-osefo-is-finally-shooting-her-talk-show-pilot" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"shoot the pilot of her talk show/a, as seen in the clip above. But, she has one small problem — she's just a little over budget./p p"The budget is gone, okay," Wendy explains, before flashing to a shot of her a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/eddie-osefos-cannabis-company-happy-eddie-and-career-details" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"husband, Eddie Osefo/a, writing her a check for $50,000. "We have exceeded the 20k budget."/p pThere's a good reason for Wendy going over budget. "The theme of my pilot is Black Girl Magic," she explains in the clip. This means that Wendy has to pull outemall/emof the stops in terms of getting guests for the show's debut episode in order to make a lasting impression on viewers./p p"When you're a commentator, you have the privilege of giving your five-minute take on something and leaving," Wendy explains. "But when it's your show, the success depends on whether people tune in to me."/p h2Wendy Osefo's Career Update/h2 div alt="A close up of Dr. Wendy Osefo." caption="Wendy Osefo attends "A Toast To Black Hollywood" on June 23, 2023 in Los Angeles, California." data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="130949ed-5c0a-4e4e-b57d-65c92e8539a5" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2023/10/rhop-wendy-osefo-01.jpg?itok=JJo6nM1f" width="862" height="575" alt="A close up of Dr. Wendy Osefo." typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" pWendy Osefo attends "A Toast To Black Hollywood" on June 23, 2023 in Los Angeles, California./p /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Getty Images /span /div /div /div /div pDespite being worried about going over budget, Wendy's talk show,a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ufCA60Qpk" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emThe Dr. Wendy Show/em/a, is officially live. Wendy uploads episodes to a href="https://www.youtube.com/@dr.wendyosefo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"her YouTube channel/a every Monday at 4 p.m., where she discusses everything from "politics, to pop culture, to family life, to news of the day, and even sprinkle in someemRHOP/emtea."/p div data-embed-button="related_content" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:node.embed" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="e6d5dc4b-6459-4692-b8a6-eb8773dc0671" data-langcode="en" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" class="embedded-entity"h2 class="headline" a class="embed-in-feed" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/style-living/wendy-osefos-bikini-style-on-new-years-eve-vacation" Wendy Osefo Closed Out 2023 in a Teeny String Bikini (PICS) /a /h2 /div p"This talk show is going to speak to everything," she said in the pilot, uploaded to her YouTube channel in November 2023. "But let this first episode with you guys just be real."/p p"I don't have it all figured out," she continued. "I don't know what I'm doing. I don't know if it's going to work. But what I do know is I have something in my heart that keeps me up every day and every night. And that something has been in my heart for a long time."/p pIn addition to uploading episodes every week, Wendy has been busy making appearances doing a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C4MAZVlPLbj/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"public speaking/a, appearing a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C38a04xvU4k/?hl=enimg_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"onemother/emtalk shows/a, hanging out with a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C17_h9bu1WJ/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Vice President Kamala Harris/a, and raising her three children, as seen on a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C3qp6-_vKCK/?hl=enimg_index=1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"her Instagram feed/a./p pSee more of Wendy onemThe Real Housewives of Potomac/emon Bravo on Sundays at 8/7c. Stream the episode the next day on a href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/the-real-housewives-of-potomac/8038056425113847112?orig_ref=direct" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Peacock/a./p