Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn

Angella Fraser & Leslie Osei-Tutu
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This is what the world needs now: two free-thinking “seasoned” Black women speaking their truth and inspiring others to do the same. Shaped by 45 years of friendship that began at the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School through the Ivy League, medical school, marriages, divorces, triumphs, parenting queer children, life-threatening illness and many many amazing adventures. Each week, besties Leslie Osei-Tutu and Angella Fraser will push against boundaries in love, culture, careers, faith, politics and out-dated assumptions about women of a certain age. Remember, you’re never too old to change your mind…or your hair! (but more on that later :-)All views are our own and do not reflect the views of our institution/company. Information provided is not intended to serve as medical advice.

  1. 4d ago

    Ep191 Watch out: Your talents can become joy stealers

    The things that have brought us success can become our biggest source of burnout, and it often happens so quietly that we don’t even notice until our bodies, our partners, or our coworkers say it out loud. In this episode we dig into a pattern that shows up everywhere: overusing a strength until it goes from serving us to costing us.  Leslie brings in an article  Overusing A Strength: 5 Signs for Physicians by Dr. Ben Reinking, and we unpack it in plain language with our own sobering stories. If you care about burnout recovery, boundaries, emotional wellness, and protecting joy while still being an ambitious, capable person, press play. Subscribe, share this with a friend who does too much, and leave us a review so more people can find the conversation. Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  2. Aug 11

    HBCU Dress Code: Your favorite besties take opposite sides

    Fight! Fight! This week, we debate HBCU dress code bans on bonnets and do-rags, and we end up in bigger questions about freedom, culture, and who gets to define “professional.” We sit on opposite sides, but we keep it honest as we discuss respectability politics and the constant policing of Black bodies. In journalist Don Lemon’s video commentary series Lemon Drop, three prominent African American thought leaders- Clay Cane, Daniel Grimes, and Symone Redwine join him in a polarized discussion of the issue. Links to people and places mentioned in this episode: LEMON DROP | Should Bonnets & Durags Be Banned on Campus?! Don Lemon https://youtu.be/ozEaDpRlRtk?si=OScfmK3uOe84nJCY Pauli MurrayMy Name is Pauli Murray: New Film on Black Queer Legal Pioneer Who Inspired RBG & Thurgood MarshallDemocracy Now! https://youtu.be/Uh4r95VBU2Q?si=kfW2Pd6rvUDCTK3F Dr. Karida Brown Ep141 Freedom Dreams: How Black Women Shaped American Education with Dr. Karida Brownhttps://youtu.be/I9C9gH5dbEU?si=qnyB7GiYq3rjHTiS \Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  3. Aug 4

    Why I Keep My Jealous Bestie

    A few days of missing daily checkins with Ang leaves Leslie feeling some kinda way: yeah, she’s a jealous bestie.  So join us as Ang gives all the juicy updates of her adventures in Panamá and gives Leslie a few surprises to boot.  Links to people and places mentioned in this episode: Black Expats in Panama (BEIP) https://youtube.com/@blackexpatsinpanama?si=w7IuN54v-yiynBMZ Roshida Dowe https://youtube.com/@roshida?si=zjCPprJZnLNLFmnm Aisha Niang (Abroad Ability) https://youtube.com/@abroadability?si=JkXwk11GtMW8STU0 Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  4. Jul 28

    Ep189 Four Supermarkets With A Bag Of Raw Chicken

    She was in her fourth supermarket on a 105-degree day, carrying raw chicken store to store like it’s totally normal, all for the right dried peppers to make adobo.  Turns out both of us Besties have obsessions. Listen to hear how we  navigate our differences with empathy, even if it's forced.   Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  5. Jul 21

    Ep188 Summer Podcast Club: Learning to Face History Without Looking Away

    We close out our summer deep dive on Tara Roberts’ Into the Depths podcast by sitting with the final two chapters, “Healing” and “Rooting,” and the question of how we tell the truth without surrendering our joy. From the Sao Jose shipwreck found in South Africa to family land in North Carolina, we discuss evidence, memory, and what repair can look like when we refuse to look away. Listen, then leave your comments so we can chat and connect with more listeners. Referenced Content: Wilmington on Fire (option 1)  https://globaljusticecenter.org/videos/wilmington-fire Wilmington on Fire (option 2) https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0KVR9UKN84LGA6YMPPJ3PRXST4 American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS https://youtu.be/AORz0OgEVHI?si=yEWoHoPRUovA_HlW The 'Clotilda,' the Last Known Slave Ship to Arrive in the U.S., Is Found History of the São José Slave Ship and Site | Smithsonian Institution Diving With A Purpose https://divingwithapurpose.org Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  6. Jul 14

    Ep187 Summer Podcast Club: What is ours and where is our home?

    This week, we continue with Tara Roberts’ National Geographic podcast Into the Depths, episodes 3 & 4.  Puerto Viejo on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica is where she meets Afro-Costa Rican teen divers bringing up pieces from wrecks linked to Danish slave ships. Should descendants and local communities be the ones who name, interpret, and keep what they find or is it the responsibility of academically trained archeologists? We connect this to familiar patterns of gatekeeping, from Black hair braiding certifications to how African American midwives were pushed aside when institutions decided tradition was not “legitimate” enough. In episode 4, Tara travels to Africa for the first time and runs into a reality many of us wonder about:  Is the dream of a homecoming with open arms  a reasonable or a fantastical expectation?  We unpack diaspora  identity, the grief of not fully belonging anywhere, and the reframing that may be helpful in finding peace. Listen, then leave your comments so we can chat and connect with more listeners. Referenced Content: Diving With A Purpose https://divingwithapurpose.org Your Homework Assignment: Listen to Into The Depths episodes 5 & 6 and join us for the discussion next week: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/into-the-depths Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  7. Jul 7

    Ep186 Summer Podcast Club: Tara pursues the humanity of 1.8 million lost souls

    12.5 million Africans were brought to the Americas between the 1500s and 1800s. 1.8 million died along the way. More than 40 countries are involved in the commerce of human beings. So, did you do this week's homework assignment? If you listened to episodes one and two of National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts’ podcast Into The Depths, move to the top of the class! In this episode, Besties Angella and Leslie talk about what it means to seriously pursue a calling with a long runway (like leaving a good job), how friends push you toward your “big yes,” and why so many of us quit when the first few tries don’t deliver results. We look forward to hearing from you. Referenced Content: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED: https://youtu.be/D9Ihs241zeg?si=N4U4s9FDlCCH3cxl Diving With A Purpose: https://divingwithapurpose.org Your Homework Assignment: Listen to Into The Depths episodes 3 & 4 and join us for the discussion next week: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/into-the-depths Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

  8. Jun 30

    Ep185 Summer Podcast Club Kickoff

    The Besties kick off a summer “podcast book club” and explain why they’re committed to intentional joy that includes facing fear instead of pretending it doesn’t exist. Leslie and Angella also share a hilarious listening mistake before announcing their first pick, Into the Depths - Podcast,  a powerful series about Black scuba divers searching for slave trade shipwrecks and the history they hold. Your Homework Assignment: Listen to Into The Depths episodes 1 & 2 and join us for the discussion next week: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/into-the-depths Want behind the scenes content, Join us on Patreon at $5 or $10 level:  https://patreon.com/user?u=83534204 Get Angie’s eBook:  We’re Too Old for This! The Inquisitive Older Woman’s Guide to Joy http://joystrategy.co/ebook IG: https://www.instagram.com/blackboomerbestiesfrombrooklyn Visit our website www.blackboomerbesties.com Support the show Visit Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn website for behind-the-scenes extras.

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This is what the world needs now: two free-thinking “seasoned” Black women speaking their truth and inspiring others to do the same. Shaped by 45 years of friendship that began at the prestigious Brooklyn Technical High School through the Ivy League, medical school, marriages, divorces, triumphs, parenting queer children, life-threatening illness and many many amazing adventures. Each week, besties Leslie Osei-Tutu and Angella Fraser will push against boundaries in love, culture, careers, faith, politics and out-dated assumptions about women of a certain age. Remember, you’re never too old to change your mind…or your hair! (but more on that later :-)All views are our own and do not reflect the views of our institution/company. Information provided is not intended to serve as medical advice.

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  • Creator
    Angella Fraser & Leslie Osei-Tutu
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2026
  • Episodes
    192
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn
  • Show Website
    Black Boomer Besties from Brooklyn

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