Basically Unbothered

Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbothered.

Basically Unbothered Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbothered. A podcast that serves side-eye, soft chaos, and sharp takes on pop culture, life, and everything in between. blakegabrielle.substack.com

  1. 4d ago

    Unbothered and Questioning Who Gets to Be Beautiful

    Basically Unbothered: Where Pop Culture Meets Public Health, Gender, and Society What happens when we stop treating pop culture as entertainment alone and start examining what it reveals about society? In this episode of Basically Unbothered, Gabi sits down with Anisa Khadraoui, a public health and life sciences strategist, speaker, and self-described data diplomat, to explore the connections between health, culture, media, and the world around us. From how American food culture shapes our relationship with eating to the ways misogyny spreads through online spaces, we unpack the expectations placed on women, the responsibility society has to teach accountability, and why preventing harm means addressing its causes rather than simply telling women how to protect themselves. We also get into The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, the business savvy of the Kardashian family, Raven-Symoné’s cultural commentary, Black storytelling, Tayari Jones’s Kin, and the evolving conversation around representation and body inclusivity at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. It’s a conversation about the things we watch, the stories we tell, the values we reinforce, and the questions we should be asking. Because being basically unbothered doesn't mean being disengaged. It means knowing when something deserves a closer look. 🎧 Listen in, bring your opinions, and let’s talk about it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Unbothered and Questioning Who Gets to Be Beautiful

  2. Oct 21

    Recapped: Love Is Blind Is Back, Baby! Boston Red Flags & Green Flags

    Basically Unbothered Recapped: Love Is Blind Is Back, Baby! Bunnies, we’re back and we’re unbothered! 🐰☕️ This week, Gabi is catching you up on life lately, including some exciting financial relief, selling out of books at Banned Together Book Fest, discovering new confidence in her voice, and learning to release control and make room for joy. Then it’s time to get into the pop culture conversation. Gabi weighs in on the ongoing policing of women’s bodies, the double standards surrounding female sexuality, and why it’s time to stop acting like everything women do is for men. Finally, Love Is Blind is back, and we’re heading to Boston! Gabi recaps episodes 1–3, shares her green flags, red flags, and beige flags, and breaks down the contestants, questionable dating decisions, astrology debates, and early connections that have her invested. Will Blake win her heart? Is Scott already a walking red flag? And are any of these couples actually giving endgame? Plus, a little Taylor Swift commentary, Black cosplay representation worth celebrating, and plenty of unfiltered opinions along the way. Grab your tea, settle in, and get comfortable. We have relationships to analyze and red flags to investigate. Follow Basically Unbothered on social media, leave a five-star review, and join the conversation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Oct 14

    Unbothered and Doing the Shadow Work

    Basically Unbothered: Shadow Work, Creative Chaos & Learning to See Yourself What happens when two multi-hyphenate creatives sit down to talk about life, creativity, healing, and the parts of themselves they've spent years trying to hide? Gabi sits down with filmmaker, songwriter, author, and creative Yahya for a conversation that goes everywhere in the best possible way. From navigating life as a multi-hyphenate creative to questioning the timelines we're expected to follow, they talk about what it means to build a life that actually fits you. The conversation gets real as they unpack the Cornell Seven case, sexual violence, accountability, coercion, and the complicated ways trauma can affect how we understand our own experiences. Then it's time for some lighter chaos: Taylor Swift's latest era, artists needing permission to actually live before creating, Pauly D and Nikki's relationship, Love Island, Dakota Johnson and Machine Gun Kelly, and the eternal question of why women keep dating men who make us say, "Girl... why?" But the heart of this episode is shadow work. Yahya walks Gabi through a personal shadow-work exercise centered around releasing buried pain, confronting fear of failure, and questioning the belief that other people's perceptions determine your worth. Together, they explore masking, feeling safe enough to be yourself, imposter syndrome, creativity, spirituality, and the difficult realization that sometimes the people you love simply may not understand the dream you're building. It's a vulnerable, funny, occasionally chaotic conversation about learning to trust yourself, making space for your whole personality, and remembering that you don't need everybody else to see the vision before you can see it yourself. Because sometimes being Basically Unbothered isn't about not caring. It's about caring deeply while refusing to let everyone else's voice become your own. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Oct 7

    Recapped: A Different World, Same Old Tropes

    Basically Unbothered Recapped: A Different World, Same Old Tropes Basically Unbothered Recapped turns ONE! 🎉 In this anniversary episode, Gabi is back with a pop-culture roundup, a life update, and a full recap of Netflix’s A Different World reboot. The verdict? It’s entertaining, it gets significantly better as the season progresses, and the nostalgia hits. But for a show carrying the name A Different World, Gabi expected something that pushed the boundaries of Black representation the way the original series did. This episode digs into what the reboot gets right and where it falls short, including HBCU culture, alternative Black identities, Afro-Caribbean representation, LGBTQ+ representation, ADHD, relationship tropes, cheating, love triangles, and the importance of showing young Black people as more than a handful of familiar archetypes. And yes, there are plenty of things to love too. The returning characters, the cameos, the HBCU setting, the political conversations, and seeing the original characters thriving all bring some much-needed warmth and nostalgia. Plus, Gabi shares a personal update about returning to work, navigating expectations as an indie author, building community through content, and learning to measure success a little differently. Come for the recap. Stay for the side-eye. 🫖 Basically Unbothered Recapped: A Different World, Same Old TropesBecause sometimes loving something means saying, “Okay, but we can do better.” This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Recapped: A Different World, Same Old Tropes

  5. Sep 30

    Unbothered with a Plan to Live (Rerun)

    Basically Unbothered: A Plan to Live In honor of the upcoming Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Basically Unbothered is bringing back this special episode featuring Gabi and her mom, Anicia. Originally released as a special conversation about Anicia’s experience with stage four metastatic breast cancer, this episode is an honest and deeply personal look at diagnosis, chemotherapy, surgery, faith, family, grief, community, and what it means to keep living when life completely changes. Anicia shares what it was like to hear that her cancer had reached stage four, navigate treatment, and eventually receive encouraging results. At the center of her journey was one powerful message from her doctor: “We have a plan to live.” Gabi also opens up about experiencing her mom’s diagnosis from the other side, including the fear, caregiver role, emotional aftermath, and realization that serious illness affects an entire family, not just the person receiving the diagnosis. It's vulnerable, funny, sometimes heavy, and filled with the very real mother-daughter energy that makes Basically Unbothered what it is. 💗 This is a rerun, but some conversations are worth bringing back. Content note: This episode discusses cancer, chemotherapy, grief, mortality, and the emotional impact of serious illness. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Unbothered with a Plan to Live (Rerun)

  6. Sep 23

    Unbothered and Tired of Being in Love

    What if you stopped looking for “your person” and started asking whether your person even needs to be romantic? This week on Basically Unbothered, Gabie gets personal about relationships, safety, friendship, trauma, and why she's questioning the idea that romantic love has to be the center of our lives. Plus, a pop culture roundup covering Nolan Wells, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, Raven-Symoné, Black identity, representation, and why sometimes the internet needs to collectively sit down. 😂 Maybe life doesn't have to fit the blueprint we were handed. Maybe we're allowed to build something else. 🎧 Listen to the newest episode of Basically Unbothered wherever you get your podcasts. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Unbothered and Tired of Being in Love

  7. Sep 16

    Unbothered and Releasing Control

    This week on Basically Unbothered, Gabie sits down with mystic mentor, strategist, and psychic healer Ashley for a conversation about spirituality, healing, burnout, alignment, and what happens when you stop trying to live according to everyone else's expectations. The conversation starts with astrology, energy, and the very real exhaustion of existing in a world that sometimes feels relentlessly heavy. From there, Gabie and Ashley get into leaving corporate careers, finding work that actually feels aligned, and turning difficult experiences into something that can help other people. Then it's time for the pop culture roundup. Sam Smith is engaged, Raven-Symoné and Keke Palmer are finally getting their Hollywood flowers, and Ariana Grande's body becomes yet another reminder of how comfortable people are commenting on women's bodies without knowing what is actually happening in their lives. The two also unpack celebrity culture, fame, representation, awards, and the complicated relationship between visibility and success. But the heart of the episode is the deeper conversation about healing. Gabie and Ashley explore femininity, patriarchy, spirituality, boundaries, standards, relationships, control, and surrender. They dig into why boundaries can be difficult to maintain, why people sometimes resist the new version of you, and the difference between setting a boundary and trying to control another person's behavior. Because sometimes the real work isn't controlling what happens next. It's learning that you only control yourself, your choices, and what you are willing to accept. It's spiritual. It's messy. It's funny. It's occasionally very much "girl, let's talk about this." Basically Unbothered. Follow Ashley here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Unbothered and Releasing Control

  8. Sep 9

    Unbothered and Redefining Modern Womanhood Part 2

    Unbothered and Redefining Modern Womanhood Part 2 We’re going deeper. In Part 2 of my conversation with Persephone Rose, we move past the surface-level arguments about gender and into the much harder question: what does modern womanhood actually mean? This conversation gets vulnerable as we talk about lived experiences, the trauma that can shape how we understand gender, the complicated places where cis and trans women’s experiences overlap, and the ways those experiences can sometimes collide instead of bringing us together. We talk about the insecurities women carry, the expectations placed on our bodies and identities, the bathroom debate, and why reducing womanhood to biology misses so much of what it actually means to live as a woman. But more importantly, we talk about what comes next. What if womanhood could be understood as a spectrum of experiences rather than one rigid definition? What would it look like for cis women, trans women, and nonbinary people to stop fighting over who gets to belong and start finding the places where our experiences connect? This isn't a debate. It's not an attempt to have the perfect answers. It's two women from different lived experiences sitting down, asking uncomfortable questions, listening to each other, and trying to imagine something better. Because sometimes the most important conversations aren't the ones where everyone agrees. They're the ones where everyone is willing to listen. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit blakegabrielle.substack.com/subscribe

    Unbothered and Redefining Modern Womanhood Part 2
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Basically Unbothered Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbothered. A podcast that serves side-eye, soft chaos, and sharp takes on pop culture, life, and everything in between. blakegabrielle.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbothered.
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    86
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Blake Gabrielle
  • Show Website
    Basically Unbothered