Brown Girl Guilt

Secure the bag is not just a Lil Uzi Vert song. It’s a whole ass mind set. Secure the bag means going after what you truly want and hitting all the goal posts you’ve laid out for yourself. And the bag can be anything really. This episode is titled Secure the Bag because my guest, Gurtej Varn, is someone who embodies the hustle and bustle sentiment behind the saying. Gurtej is a certified financial...

In this episode, for the first time ever, I get to ask my dad his secret formula for being the father to an empire like harpo. I get to ask him how, in having a daughter like me, where he’s had to make sacrifices, what he’s struggled with, and how he’s changed as a man. I also take some space and ask him what he wishes his kids knew about his journey with fatherhood. Like BGG? Connect with us on I...

Multiplicities can and do exist. This can simultaneously be the happiest I’ve been in life, but the most overwhelmed, scared, and anxious. Yes, that’s real and yes we do exist. But that not everything has to have an answer. Some things can remain a question mark. This episode is an exploration of these multiplicities -- the good, the bad, & the ugly of growing into a stronger and stronger vers...

It’s episode 11 titled “My First Tampon” and it’s about to get TMI up in this bitch. Welcome to Harpo’s history with tampons: a tale of unfortunate events that has an incredibly happy ending I promise. You might wonder, why does this experience deserve an entire podcast episode? What’s so noteworthy about your usage of tampons? You gon find out. Like BGG? Connect with us on Instagram @_browngirlgu...

*The following episode discusses body image, body shaming, and bullying. If at any point you feel triggered, please stop and take care of yourself. You are so loved.* We’ve all heard our boy Rumi say it: “the wound is where the light enters”. For me, the wound is also where the laser enters and zaps away the follicles of my coarse, thick hair. In this episode I’m going to talk about my relationshi...

TW: The following episode discusses body image, body shaming, and bullying. If at any point you feel triggered, please stop and take care of yourself. You are so loved. Dear body, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that I was so mean to you when you were just trying to keep me alive. I’m sorry that I lit fires in your crevices and when I begged you to put them out, I yelled at you when you did so in the only wa...

If there is a laundry list of what constitutes a good brown girl, there’s an even longer laundry list of all that constitutes a bad brown girl. Tattoos, drinking and having a sexuality are just the beginning. In my case, I’m 100% the black sheep of my family - SURPRISE SURPRISE - because I very much go against the small box that historically has been made available to me; or I’m accessing parts of...

Okay story time. You’re at a bar with your friends. You’re looking fly, you’re looking spicy. You’ve got a drank in your hands, your girlfriends on your side, and not a care in the world. A mans walks up to you and you notice that he’s probably interested in you. You, on the other hand, are not. He starts to make small talk while moving closer and closer to you. You try to end the convo and get ba...

To be a woman is to not have a home. And to have no one understand that you have no home. To be a woman is to chase your whole life, spend the entirety of your life finding a home. To pack up and leave, to unpack and settle in. Again and again, time after time. To be a woman is to not have stability, a foundation you’re working on building. To be a woman is to not get comfortable settling in. It’s...

During my tarot deck spreads, a question that I ask the universe often is, “how can I create space for all that I want to attract into my life?”. In this contemplation I ask, how can I open myself up more to all that I so badly want? The key to receiving what you want is just that -- receiving. In order for you to attract all that you want, you have to first signal to the universe that you are rea...

I needed my relationship with my mother to fall apart so that I could fall apart. I needed to build that relationship back up so that I could build myself back up. It hasn’t been easy. This relationship has been the toughest one in my life and repairing it has been crucial. It makes me who I am and what I will become. All of my inner child healing has stemmed from my “mother wound”. It was in unde...

If guilt is the lid that limits our potential, love is the transmutable energy that liberates us all. Brown Girl Guilt is the ultimate blueprint for this transmutation. We’re building and honouring gratitude, marinating in glory, and granting ourselves grace on the beautiful journey back home to ourselves. Brown Girl Guilt is where cycles end and revolutions start. Like BGG? Connect with us on Ins...