On The Purple Couch with Jess, LCSW-S

Jess, LCSW-S in collaboration with SOUNDMiND Creative

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Jess LCSW-S uses embodied practices and real, vulnerable conversations to help listeners name and heal from “The F*ckery” that culture, systems, and neighbors are steeped in. The show centers Black women’s healing while inviting everyone into a journey from dirty pain toward joy, rest, and liberation.

Sep 29

Building The Worlds You Never Saw | THE Story Artist | Shawna

Shawna Mills is a story artist, director, and designer whose work you already know — Black Dynamite, Star Wars Rebels, Rise of the TMNT. In this conversation with Jess, she goes deeper: to her grandmother Ernestine, who told her she could do anything, and to the ongoing work of moving from surviving into thriving. They talk about grief as love in another form. Anger as sacred information about a boundary. The parts work Shawna was doing before she had a name for it. And her company, Soda Monkey Entertainment — built to make the worlds she never got to see as a Black girl growing up watching animation. Her dream: put those dreams in the front seat. Chapters: 0:00 Meet Shawna Mills (opener + intro + Purple Couch pre-roll) 2:23 The conversation begins — reading Shawna's bio 4:30 Grandmother Ernestine — the belief that shaped a career 9:00 From Black Dynamite to Star Wars Rebels 12:00 Grief as love in another form 15:00 A word from Main Street America 15:43 Back to the conversation 17:30 Anger as sacred information about a boundary 23:00 Parts work before she had a name for it 28:30 The move from surviving to thriving 33:00 Soda Monkey Entertainment 36:30 Putting Black girls' dreams in the front seat 39:00 The tree house dream
Sep 28

Black Boy Joy | THE Artist Refusing To Shrink | Ryan The Son

Jess holds space for Ryan The Son — artist, entrepreneur, and creative director — in a conversation that goes places most therapy podcasts won't. Ryan talks about being told he "talks white" growing up, the muscle memory of Black boy joy he had to build after that, and what it takes to trust his gut in industries that keep telling him to shrink. The two get into ADHD and entrepreneurship, the voice that says you're being selfish for wanting your own life, inner child work, and what it looks like when a Black man refuses to make his personality fit somebody else's box. Jess asks him how he knows it's safe to trust himself. His answer: "Vibes." Chapters: 0:00 Meet Ryan The Son (intro + opener + Purple Couch pre-roll) 2:23 The conversation begins 4:47 VIMBASI practice — vibe, image, behavior 11:53 ADHD and entrepreneurial pattern-matching 14:43 The "selfish" voice from childhood 15:17 A word from Main Street America 16:00 Back to the conversation 20:38 The performer and the present — both here 23:51 "How do you know it's safe?" — vibes 29:06 Refusing to shrink your personality 33:06 The shrinking funnel in industries 36:06 Channel instead of shrink Get connected: Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.org
Sep 16

Rich As F*ck | Soco Rey | Mother Wounds, Eldest Daughters, and Why Aliveness Beats Money

Jess sits down with her best friend Soco Rey — a therapist in LA, an embodied healer, and the person who first told her what "rich as f**k" really means. Not money. Aliveness. The two met on a beach in Miami nine years ago when they were both surviving and pretending they weren't. In this conversation, they trace the friendship — through burnout at the county, through mother wounds, through the moment they both figured out what they were actually chasing. Soco talks about her Sovereign Daughter work with eldest daughters who are living for everybody but themselves, the pivot from grinding to embodiment, and what it looks like to hold each other when the healing gets hard. This one has tears in it. Come sit with us. Chapters: 0:00 Meet Soco Rey (intro + opener) 1:48 The conversation begins — finding our feet 5:20 VIMBASI practice — affect, sensation, imagination 6:35 The vibe of best-friend energy 14:07 Being in survival mode without knowing it 15:00 A word from Purple Couch Therapy 15:43 Back to the conversation 17:01 70-hour weeks at the county 22:31 What "rich as f*ck" really means 28:31 Mother wounds and eldest daughter work 37:31 Sovereign Daughter work — the practice 40:31 Being held by a friend when you don't know how to ask Get connected: Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.orgFollow Soco Rey: socorey.com / @healwithsocoLearn about Sovereign Daughter Program: https://socorey.com
Sep 9

Sacred Rage | The Ancestral Vessel | Kimiya Factory

Kimiya Factory — queer Indigenous Afro-Latina activist, founder of Black Freedom Factory, and one of the loudest, sharpest voices coming out of San Antonio — sits down with Jess for a conversation that is heavy and full of joy at the same time. They get into sacred rage as inheritance, what it means to be a vessel for ancestors, and the cost of doing this work in a city that doesn't want you doing it. Kimiya talks about being on CNN at 20, how the deepest cuts come from your own people, and what it actually looks like to change rape culture. She also talks about being a whole human being — she needs an oil change, she wants rest and softness and a better skincare routine — because Black women organizers are not mascots. The story of the night they met (with a white woman at the bar) may become one of your favorites. Chapters: 0:00 Meet Kimiya Factory (intro + opener) 1:48 The conversation begins 7:18 VIMBASI practice with Kimiya 13:30 Imagining rest, softness, better skincare 14:59 A word from Purple Couch Therapy 15:43 Back to the conversation 20:39 The white-woman-at-the-bar story 25:03 Sacred rage as ancestral inheritance 29:32 Being a vessel — ancestors speaking through her 34:32 CNN at 20 — the cost of national visibility 42:32 Black Freedom Factory — from a protest to a movement 49:32 Being a whole human being (needing an oil change) 54:32 The deepest cuts come from your own people 1:00:32 What it takes to change rape culture Get connected: Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.org
Sep 9

Heal From The F*ckery | Jess, LCSW-S

The show opens where it means to keep going — Jess Chavira-Eubanks, LCSW-S, sitting down alone to name what most therapy podcasts won't. She calls it the f*****y. White body supremacy as the standard. Patriarchy that doesn't serve anybody. Capitalism, colonialism, and the systems that shape how our bodies hold pain. In this launch episode, Jess walks you through the VIMBASI practice — vibe, image, behavior, affect, sensation, imagination — a somatic toy to play with from Dr. Resmaa Menakem's work that she'll weave through every episode. She talks about what it means to build Purple Couch Therapy from her own healing, why she's centering Black women, and what listeners can expect: real conversations, real practice, real community. If you've been surviving and calling it healing, this is the podcast for you. Chapters: 0:00 Welcome to the Purple Couch 0:41 Naming the f*****y 2:10 Being called "radical" — reclaiming it 3:10 VIMBASI — a somatic practice from Dr. Resmaa Menakem 5:16 Walking through the practice — Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagination 9:40 Dirty pain — why this show exists 10:36 Building Purple Couch Therapy — the vision 12:40 The three phases of healing 15:15 Naming white body supremacy — and healing from it 16:40 Closing thanks Get connected: Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: https://www.purplecouchcounseling.org/

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Jess LCSW-S uses embodied practices and real, vulnerable conversations to help listeners name and heal from “The F*ckery” that culture, systems, and neighbors are steeped in. The show centers Black women’s healing while inviting everyone into a journey from dirty pain toward joy, rest, and liberation.

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Jess, LCSW-S in collaboration with SOUNDMiND Creative
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2026
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5
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