Self-Centered Living™

Trish Culpepper
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Self-Centered Living™ is a podcast that centers women of color across cultures and backgrounds — our voices, our stories, our lives. Join me, your host Trish, as we explore who we are through honest conversations and personal narratives with a range of guests. This is real talk about what shapes us, what we carry, and what becomes possible when we start choosing for ourselves. Send love notes and inquiries to: info@self-centeredliving.com © Trish Culpepper, LLC. Self-Centered Living™ is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. Music: "Tide Turns" by Ketsa - Free Music Archive - CC BY

  1. 5d ago

    "Realistic"

    A park in Brooklyn. A guidance counselor's office. A meeting room where something is off but you can't quite name it. This episode explores imposed scripts — what arrives without your consent, how it starts to sound like your own thinking, and what remains yours no matter how many times someone has tried to tell you otherwise. A solo episode on imposed scripts — the narratives placed on you by systems, institutions, and people who decided who you were without asking. How these scripts arrive, how they disguise themselves, and how they settle in the body. An invitation to access what no imposition has been able to take.

    20 min

  2. May 21

    Playing Her Own Hand

    Teri learned poker at 12 from her grandmother — patience, strategy, knowing when to fold. Decades later, those same skills shaped how she navigated corporate America and a political evolution she never saw coming. But beneath the poker face is a Japanese American woman reckoning with prison camps, cultural silence, and the question of when endurance becomes a script. Japanese American identity, intergenerational memory, and what emerges when a woman taught to endure chooses to speak — in letters, at a protest, and in this conversation.

    35 min

  3. May 15

    Trading One Master for Another

    A Black Honda Accord, a teacher's salary, and the script that said ownership equals freedom. What happens when the milestones you were supposed to want start weighing more than they give? This episode explores inherited scripts — where they come from, why they're hard to see, and what becomes possible when you do. The Season 2 premiere of Self-Centered Living. What happens when a woman sits with what she absorbed — from family, culture, and custom — before she had the language to question it.

    15 min

  4. May 8

    It Felt Like My Own Thinking | Self-Centered Living Season 2 Premiere

    Season 2 opens with a family gathering, a familiar feeling, and two questions I've been carrying my whole life. New season. New territory. A solo episode on the expectations carried from family, culture, and community — handed down with love and received without question. What it takes to see them, and what it costs to keep carrying them.

    12 min

  5. 07/17/2025

    The Pen Is Already in Your Hand | Season 1 Wrap-Up

    Nine women across cultures and continents. What their stories revealed about centering yourself — not as an act of selfishness, but as the ground everything else grows from. A Season 1 closing that is also a beginning. A solo episode weaving together the threads of Season 1 — the seven principles of Self-Centered Living, an expansive definition of who this work centers, and what emerged when each guest chose her own voice over the scripts she was handed. The difference between narrating from a wound and offering wisdom forged from it.

    30 min

  6. 07/10/2025 ·  Bonus

    Head Girl

    Evey was the student who got it right — head girl, Ivy League, the path everyone around her validated. But somewhere inside the pressure cooker, a question surfaced that none of those achievements could answer. A young Hong Kong woman navigating cultural expectations, international student pressures, mental health, and the difference between the life you were shaped for and the one you're choosing. A conversation still in formation.

    1 hr

  7. 07/03/2025

    Rooting In Water

    In Louisiana, there are trees that root in the middle of the swamp — no solid ground, just water. MawuLisa has been doing the same thing her whole life. From a Jehovah's Witness childhood to somatic healing, Orisha priesthood, and a commitment to resourcing liberation warriors — this is a woman who finds her ground wherever she stands. A conversation spanning spiritual lineage, embodied healing, ancestral veneration, and the African and Indigenous roots of practices the Western wellness world rarely credits. What it means to trust your own knowing.

    1 hr

  8. 06/26/2025

    Dirty Nails

    Ria grew up eighth of ten in a rural Indonesian village where a chicken curry took three days and the whole family to prepare. She wanted out — air conditioning, a suit, clean hands. But the thing she left behind turned out to be the thing the world needed most from her. An Indonesian woman's path from a farming village to the United Nations to Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. Food sovereignty, ancestral knowledge, and what happens when the life you rejected becomes the life you were meant to build. https://www.instagram.com/riakitchenmagician https://www.soulfirefarm.org https://www.rumahkitchen.com

    46 min
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Self-Centered Living™ is a podcast that centers women of color across cultures and backgrounds — our voices, our stories, our lives. Join me, your host Trish, as we explore who we are through honest conversations and personal narratives with a range of guests. This is real talk about what shapes us, what we carry, and what becomes possible when we start choosing for ourselves. Send love notes and inquiries to: info@self-centeredliving.com © Trish Culpepper, LLC. Self-Centered Living™ is a registered trademark. All rights reserved. Music: "Tide Turns" by Ketsa - Free Music Archive - CC BY

Information

  • Creator
    Trish Culpepper
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    15
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Trish Culpepper
  • Show Website
    Self-Centered Living™