Basically Unbothered

Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Unbothered.
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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

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Sep 4 ·  Bonus

    Recapped: Love Island Reunion

    This week on Basically Unbothered Recapped, Gabie is back with a full plate of pop culture chaos. We start with Ariana Grande wrapping up her tour in the most unexpected way after an injury, and why the outrage over her changing her footwear says something much bigger about the expectations we put on women. From there, we get into KATSEYE’s changing identity, the mental health breaks happening within the group, and whether the group is still delivering the K-pop-inspired vision it originally promised. Plus, The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is coming back, and Gabie has some thoughts about the way reality television builds its villains. Then it’s time for the Love Island reunion. Gabie breaks down Jaden and Caleb, Kayda’s blunt honesty, Zach and Kayda taking their relationship at their own pace, Corbin and Parmita, KC and TiTi, Trinity’s refusal to let KC rewrite history, and the endless Melanie discourse that somehow consumed the reunion. We get into the Kenzie and Melanie friendship fallout, Dylan inserting himself where he absolutely did not need to be, Sol’s complicated relationship with the other women, Bea’s ongoing need to police Melanie’s behavior, and Amora’s complicated feelings about Sincere. But beneath all the reunion drama is a much bigger conversation about accountability, friendship, internalized misogyny, victim mentality, and why women so often hold other women responsible for the behavior of men. Why was Melanie the center of so much of the reunion? Why did the women have so much smoke for each other while some of the men escaped the same level of scrutiny? And what happens when taking accountability means admitting that we participated in our own bad situations? Gabie also gives some love to the reunion's true MVP: the unseen footage, which may have done more work than the actual reunion. And finally, spooky season is officially here. Gabie reveals plans to watch the entire Scream saga, revisit The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, and bring all of that chaos back to you. Grab your tea. We have a reunion to discuss. 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: Love Island Reunion

  8. Sep 2

    Unbothered and Redefining Modern Womanhood

    Basically Unbothered: Modern Womanhood, Gender & The Gray Areas | Part 1 What happens when two women sit down to talk about modern womanhood, gender, identity, and all the messy gray areas in between? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Gabie sits down with Persephone Rose, a writer, actor, and BDSM crisis actor, for a conversation that refuses to fit neatly into a box. Persephone opens up about coming out as trans at thirteen, detransitioning for six years, and eventually coming back out of the closet after watching the world debate the experiences of trans kids. She shares what it was like navigating discrimination, relationships, healthcare, identity, and the complicated reality of being seen as both a man and a woman at different points in her life. The conversation also gets into BDSM safety, consent, gendered expectations, the gender pay gap, pronouns, queer identity, representation, and why lived experience can completely change the way you see the world. And because this is Basically Unbothered, we obviously couldn't have a serious conversation without getting into some pop culture chaos. We talk Zendaya's paycheck, Angel Reese getting her own Barbie, Matt Damon's female stunt double, JK Rowling's latest controversy, the Barbie movie, Harry Potter, Pride, and why sometimes the real problem isn't disagreement. It's the complete absence of respect. This episode isn't about pretending everyone sees the world the same way. It's about asking what happens when we stop demanding perfect answers and start making room for complexity. And we're only getting started. Part 2 goes even deeper into modern womanhood, trans identity, privilege, gender, and the uncomfortable gray areas we don't talk about enough. 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
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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
    84
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Blake Gabrielle
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    Basically Unbothered