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Episode Summary: Here’s the truth: oppression isn’t always someone screaming in your face with a slur. Nah. Most of the time, it’s quiet. It’s in the structures, the rules, the policies — the air we breathe. Think about it like carbon monoxide. You don’t see it, you don’t smell it, but it’s choking you out every damn day.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Oppression 101: The Air we Breathe
• Racism in disguise
• Power in Rebellion
• You ever notice how silence is the system’s favorite weapon

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Episode Summary: Critical Race Theory (CRT) was never part of your third grader’s homework. It wasn’t tucked between multiplication tables and vocabulary quizzes. No teacher in middle school stood up and said, “Okay kids, today we’re analyzing institutional racism through post-structuralist legal critique.” It did not happen!

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What is CRT… Really?
• What’s really being banned?
• Why the pushback?
• Talkback

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Episode Summary: Let’s keep it real teaching the full story of America isn’t “radical,” it’s responsible. But too often, teachers get left hanging when it comes to the uncomfortable parts: slavery, systemic racism, redlining, police brutality. They’re expected to tell the truth, but without the resources, backing, or protection from backlash. That’s like asking someone to fight a fire with a paper cup.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Setting the Stage
• Examples of whitewashing
• Why it matters
• Pushing back

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Episode Summary: History isn’t just about what happened, it’s about what’s remembered. Too often, Black history gets buried under silence, while white history gets polished, archived, and displayed like fine china. One story gets footnotes, the other gets headlines. It’s not that Black contributions didn’t shape the foundation of this country, they did but the telling of history has always been selective. The wit in the tragedy is this: erasure takes work. Someone had to actively edit, omit, and reframe the narrative. And yet, truth has a way of surfacing, because buried history isn’t dead it’s just waiting to be resurrected.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Unseen, but used everyday
• The Brilliance Roll Call
• Enslaved People

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Episode Summary: When you carry the mother wound, it often shows up as a shaky sense of worth. You hustle for love like it’s something you have to earn, not something you inherently deserve. You tiptoe around relationships, terrified of being “too much,” and when you finally dare to set boundaries, guilt moves in like an uninvited guest.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What is the mother wound?
• The Hidden Poison
• Types of mother wounds
• Why it hurts so deeply
• Can I love her & still acknowledge the wound

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Unseen Pain: Men in the Shadows of Abuse

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Episode Summary: It’s almost always men who are the abusers in headlines, but women can be abusive too. Let’s be real… society has a blind spot when it comes to men being abused. Walking away permanently is about recognizing when fixing it would take more than love, patience, and a couples’ retreat in the mountains. Leaving for good isn’t weakness it’s self-preservation.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Naming uncomfortable truth
• Call out myths
• The bruises you cannot see
• Emotional Manipulation
• Physical Aggression
• Inspiration and healing

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National Hotlines & Networks

• National Domestic Violence Hotline Phone: 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or TTY 1-800-787-3224 Text: “START” to 88788 Website: thehotline.org 24/7 confidential support in 200+ languages for survivors of physical, verbal, and emotional abuse.

• National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN) Phone: 1-800-656-4673 (HOPE) Website: rainn.org Connects callers to local sexual assault service providers nationwide.

• Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (for abuse survivors in emotional crisis) Phone: 988 24/7 immediate support for anyone in mental distress or crisis.

We are more alike than different

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Episode Summary: None of us asked to be born. We all bleed the same blood, last I checked, red! Despite all that variation, all that inherited context, we’re all expected to function inside the same world. We are taught Racism, Misogyny, Hatred & Division. We’re not meant to stay who we were. We’re meant to evolve.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• Born into a system we did not choose
• Taught behavior versus chosen behavior
• Does your learned behavior make sense to you?
• You are not better than me
• Moving forward with awareness

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You break it, you ghost: The disrespect behind borrowing without accountability

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Episode Summary: He borrowed my speaker for a kickback, gave it back like it had survived war. And I still got hit with a ‘Damn, it’s not that serious. They benefit from your softness but they don’t honor it. And in doing so, they teach you that being open-hearted comes at a cost. Sometimes being the bigger person just means being the clearer person.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• What borrowing behavior does
• What it really says when they break what they borrow
• Why it often happens in situationships & entanglements
• Family Dynamics
• Financial Power Gap

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