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Episode 1

Grieving

I couldn't move forward until I explained the truth about what I was carrying. Grief goes beyond death. It is the pain of losing friendships, dreams, identity, and the little girl who learned to survive before she knew she was hurting.
Episode 2

Forward

Acceptance didn't make me fearless; it just made me honest. It’s what came after the grief, at a time when I had no idea where I was going. Still, I prayed, kept moving, and tried to follow the footprints.
Episode 3

Reflection

A letter, a rainy day, and a reckoning brought me to this moment. This episode is about mental health, generational silence, childhood trauma, therapy, and the wisdom I found when I stopped avoiding myself.
Episode 4

On Stillness

I used to think being still meant giving up, but it became the place that brought me home. Here, I talk about my relationship with the church, my mother's prayers, and the faith that showed me I don't have to run to be saved.
Episode 5

On Worth

Titles, degrees, and institutions can open doors, but they don't define who I am. Here, I talk about academia, imposter syndrome, Black womanhood, and the relief I felt when I realized I don't need to earn anyone’s validation.
Episode 6

On Joy

Joy didn't come back all at once. It quietly returned through conversations, memories, and work I thought I lost. As I think about pride, purpose, community, and the good fruit that kept growing in my absence, my sister is here with me as a witness.
Episode 7

On Forgiveness

Forgiveness isn't about pretending the harm never happened or making peace with people who failed. It's about the choice to stop punishing myself for surviving, for speaking up, for leaving, and for becoming someone who knows what she will not accept.
Bonus

On the Record

This one almost didn’t make it out of the vault. I’ve recorded dozens of episodes over the last year and a half–at different points on my way to healing–as I grieved and found clarity. When I started shaping this season, I realized this one didn’t quite belong to where I’m headed now. But then I listened again. And I understood something important: On the Record is my closure. It is the moment I stopped circling the pain and finally named what happened–without apology or self-doubt or my incessant need for permission. It’s where acceptance settled in as opposed to the resignation and defeat of the past. It is acceptance that I did everything within my capacity, and that leaving wasn’t failure. It was completion. I talk about why I wrote my resignation the way I did, why documentation matters, and why truth has to be recorded before institutions rewrite it. I reflect on building community without a blueprint, on watching that work be dismantled, and on the loneliness that comes when you realize a system wants the outcome but not the person who made it possible. On the Record isn’t for spectacle. Like most of my recordings, it started as a conversation with myself, a way to listen back, to remember, and to heal my mind, heart, and soul. And in listening, I realized I had reached the end of a chapter–not just in my career, but in how I measure worth, balance, and belonging. Season 2 was created because this chapter closed. So, this is me putting it “on the record,” not to prove anything, but to move forward clear, grounded, and open to what comes next. Sound Effect by freesound_community">https://pixabay.com/users/freesound_community-46691455/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=31350">freesound_community from Pixabay">https://pixabay.com//?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=music&utm_content=31350">Pixabay

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