We Weren't Told

Angel Beswick-Reid
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Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow. But the generation that waited for dial-up and pen-pal letters grew up to inherit a very different reality. Hosted by Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial women inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners name the tensions and question the rules they’ve been living by and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.

Episodes

  1. 3D AGO

    Episode 8: What Happens When the Street Goes Quiet?

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was at my favourite café last week — the one I go to alone, to write — when something ordinary happened — a cashier was filming content, a beautiful young man stepped into the sunlight, and I realised I was on the other side of the camera entirely. In this episode, I'm talking about the part of us that still wants to be seen — and why nobody told us that wanting wouldn't just quietly resolve itself. In this episode: The café moment that made me sit with something I wasn't expectingThe internal version of ourselves we've been living inside for yearsWhat the marriage script told us about desirability — and what it got wrongThe honest question we don't ask enough about being noticedWhy the wanting is not the problemThe question to sit with: Are you still giving yourself permission to want to be seen? Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time. Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽 @iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    16 min

  2. MAY 4

    Episode 7: Crashout Season

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I'm going to be honest with you — I have been crashing out for the last two weeks. Eleven minute voice notes, therapy, ceiling-staring. A full, sustained emotional crash. And I almost didn't make this episode because I kept waiting until I had something neat to say about it. I don't. What I have is the crash itself. And I think that might be more useful. In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when life hands you something the script never prepared you for — and why falling apart might be exactly the right response. In this episode: The funeral that cracked everything openThe script we were all handed — and the chapter it's missingWhy the crash is not a malfunction, it's a reckoningWhat it means to have somewhere safe to fall apartThe kind of strength nobody told us to buildThe question to sit with: Who are the people you can crash with?Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time. Come say hi on Instagram! 🫶🏽@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    16 min

  3. APR 28

    Episode 6: The Jealousy Card

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. By now you've seen the video. Noah Lyles. Junelle Bromfield. The dress reveal. And we need to talk about it — not just the moment itself, but what the reaction to it revealed about something much deeper that millennial women were handed a long time ago. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: The dress reveal — and the moment that started it allThe pushback, and why none of it moved meJanelle's response — and the line I couldn't stop thinking aboutThe lie we were raised inside about other womenWhat we're slowly, finally, unlearning👉🏽Watch my reaction video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXR0sWykf7P/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== Come say hi on Instagram 👇🏽@iamangelbr@iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    19 min

  4. APR 20

    Episode 5: Off the Menu

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And somewhere between the MAHA moms and the TikTok feminists — in that gap the algorithm doesn't know what to do with — are women like me. Women who don't fit either door. This episode is for them. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: Why identity boxes are a stress response — and why the algorithm makes them worseAngel gets personal: lawyer, stay-at-home mom, domestic engineer, and why none of those labels tell the whole storyThe specific exhaustion of getting pressure from both sides when you refuse to pick a laneThe women living in the gap — and why being unclassifiable is not confusion, it's a conclusionWhat we hand forward to our children when we model the courage to actually thinkCome say hi on Instagram 👇@iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    19 min

  5. APR 14

    Episode 4: Brandy Is Us

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Brandy Norwood just published her memoir — and it cracked something open. Because Brandy isn't a celebrity story we're watching from a safe distance. She's one of the girls we grew up with, and what happened to her inside the Good Girl box happened to a lot of us too. This episode is about the binary we were handed, what it cost us, what it did to our sense of ourselves — and what Brandy, at 47, is showing us we're allowed to finally put down. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: Why Brandy's story is our story — and what the Good Girl box actually cost the girls inside itThe binary that shaped how we understood our own desire, our worth, and what we were allowed to wantWhat we need to hand our daughters insteadCome say hi on Instagram 👇@iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    25 min

  6. APR 6

    Episode 3: Grown and Grieving: What Losing a Parent Feels Like

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. This Friday is the fifth anniversary of my father's death. This Sunday, I'll be at carnival road march in Jamaica — sequins, soca, full colour, all of it. And I'm not pretending those two things don't exist in the same week, in the same chest. Because they do. And nobody told me they would. So today, we tell each other. In this episode, I'm talking about the oak tree you didn't know was protecting you until it was gone — and what it means to learn to stand in the open sun. In this episode: Why my body knows April is coming before my mind doesThe oak tree metaphor that found me when I needed it mostWhat the first year of grief actually feels likeWhy grief doesn't heal — it becomes part of your systemHolding carnival joy and a father's anniversary in the same chest, in the same weekThe question to sit with: Who is your oak tree?Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time. Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    19 min

  7. APR 1

    Episode 2: What A Boring Lunch Can Tell You

    Millennial girlies, let me ask you something — when's the last time you actually tasted your lunch? Episode 2 is here, and we're slowing down long enough to notice the things we've been too busy to question. It's about running on autopilot — and what happens when you finally step off it. Picture it: a Wednesday, a car, and a lunch nobody actually wanted. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: The pandemic truth that reared its ugly head Crying in a bathroom stall on a five-minute timer (yes, really)The four words I didn't know I needed to hearTri-colored quinoa, baked chicken breast, and the question that changed everythingWhat an identity collision actually feels like when you've checked every single boxThe self underneath all your roles — and whether you even know she's still thereCome say hi on Instagram! 👇@iamangelbr@wewerentoldpodcast

    22 min

  8. MAR 24

    Episode 1: So Who TF am I anyway?

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Before I get into anything else on this podcast, I thought you deserved to know who I am and why I'm the one having this conversation with you. Who is Angel? How did I get here? And why this podcast? We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they’ve been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: The eight-year-old with a life plan and the audacity to mean itThe summer job at fifteen that changed everythingA helicopter first date and a Christmas Day proposalTeaching by day, law school by night, pregnant the whole timeWhat it actually feels like when the math stops mathing Come say hi on Instagram 👇 @iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

    15 min

  9. MAR 15

    Trailer

    As Millennial mothers, we were given a road map: build the career, find your person, have the kids and stability would follow. But as the generation that waited for dial-up to connect and letters from pen pals, we grew up to inherit a very different reality. In this trailer, host Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — introduces We Weren’t Told, a podcast for millennial mothers who followed the script and are now examining the expectations they inherited.  Every Monday we’ll take a closer look at the rules about success, marriage, money, ambition, and motherhood — and ask whether they still hold up.   What You’ll Hear in This Episode Angel’s background as a lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother.The cultural scripts millennial women grew up with about success, relationships, and family.How growing up analog and entering adulthood digitally shaped our millennial generation.The realities that didn’t make it into the roadmap we were given.Why millennial mothers are now re-examining the expectations they followed.How each episode will help listeners decide which rules still serve them.What listeners can expect from the show: reflection, perspective, and clarity for action. Resources & Links Follow on Instagram:                                                                                                                   @iamangelbr                                                                                                                   @wewerenttold

    4 min
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Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow. But the generation that waited for dial-up and pen-pal letters grew up to inherit a very different reality. Hosted by Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial women inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners name the tensions and question the rules they’ve been living by and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.

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  • Creator
    Angel Beswick-Reid
  • Years Active
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  • Episodes
    9
  • Rating
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    © Angel Beswick-Reid
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