Gettin' Grown

Jade and Keia welcome trauma therapist,  life coach, pastor, and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self- and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self acceptan...

Jade and Keia catch up around the kitchen table knit a regular degular sister friend check in. Sit With Us --- Knicks in FIVE! --- It’s Graduation Announcement Season 2026- We can’t wait to celebrate you and your loved ones.  Send your shoutouts to hello@gettingrown.co --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.co/ shop...

Jade and Keia welcome XD back to kitchen table for special mashup episode!  Sit with us and special guest Dr. Terrell Winder to discuss his new book Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA , an examination of intersectional identity, stigma and stigma response processes among black gay men. --- Purchase Shameless (Use code PRIDE40 for 40% off) https://nyupress.org/9781479827589/shamele...

Jade, Keia, and the GG community at large connect around the kitchen table to discuss our petty peeves. We got a lot to be mad about! --- It’s Graduation Announcement Season 2026! We can’t wait to celebrate you and your loved ones.   Send your shoutouts to hello@gettingrown.co --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.c...

Nedra Glover Tawwab is back at the table to help us get into all things relationships!  Why we have more access to each other and fewer real connections,  language & tools for balancing healthy dependence and autonomy, and taking responsibility for healthy relationships and real community. Sit with us. --- Support Nedra https://www.nedratawwab.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nedratawwab Order The B...

Jade and Keia welcome trauma-informed mental health coach, professor, and creator Dr. Shanté Holley to the kitchen table to talk mental health coaching, its distinct value in understanding our experiences, beliefs, and choices in context, and what taking responsibility for your own healing and mental health can look like in practice. We learned as much as we laughed. Sit with us. --- Support Dr. S...

Jade and Keia formally kickoff Graduation Announcement Season 2026. It’s our favorite time of the year. Celebrate with us. We can’t wait to celebrate you and your loved ones.  Send your shoutouts to hello@gettingrown.co --- A special thanks for this week's sponsors for supporting Gettin Grown. Bask & Lather is hair care that started with family love. Explore viral bestsellers and products of healt...

Mother's Day is... complicated.  Jade and Keia reflect on the complexity of the holiday, grief as an expression of love, and the village of grandmother, aunties, other mother figures, and chosen family who shape and mother us beyond bloodlines. Sit with us. --- It’s Graduation Announcement Season 2026- We can’t wait to celebrate you and your loved ones.  Send your shoutouts to hello@gettingrown.co...

Jade and Keia kick off Mental Health Awareness Month with honest specific commitments to intentionally optimizing performance and preserving our peace. What are you doing for your mental health this May? Sit with us and let’s figure it out together.” --- It’s Graduation Announcement Season 2026- We can’t wait to celebrate you and your loved ones.  Send your shoutouts to hello@gettingrown.co --- Sh...

Zorine Truly aka The Hoochie Historian joins Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for a dope discussion about hoochie culture  as archival work, liberatory practice, and a love letter to Black women living fully and freely in radical authenticity. It’s a celebration. Sit with us. --- Support Zorine’s Work Website: hoochiecon.com Socials/Instagram: @thee_hoochie_historian_ HoochieCon TV: https://www....

Lillian Prince joins Jade and Keia at the table, and we’re talking cards, connection, and the radical utility of telling the truth. From the power of a good playlist, dating horror stories, to working the hard seasons of adulting, this episode covers it all. Sit with us. --- Support Penned to Perfection www. PennedtoPerfection.com https://www.instagram.com/pennedtoperfection_/ - Read 10 Dates Late...

The world is a lot right now. This week we put the news down, pulled out a card game, and just chose each other. Sometimes that's the most radical thing you can do. --- We’re Not Really Strangers Game --- The Spiral Notebook- Keia’s New Substack --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.co/ shop For more Information on...

Our bodies are not the problem. The systems are. Jade and Keia sit down with two brilliant Black women physicians, Dr. Sharon Malone and Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald, for an honest and expansive women's health roundtable covering perimenopause, IVF, reproductive rights, and how to advocate for yourself in systems that were never designed with you in mind. --- Check out The Second Opinion with Dr. Sh...

Vacant properties are more than an eyesore. They are a symptom of systemic injustice and a barrier to thriving communities. Jade and Keia sit down with activist, community development leader, and Council Member Kat Guillaume-Delemar to discuss vacancy, abandonment, and what it truly takes to revitalize a community from the inside out. --- More About Kat’s Work Website: https://communityprogress.or...

Nine years in. Grown and still growing. Jade and Keia revisit a powerful kitchen table conversation with sociologist Dr. Kris Marsh on family, class, and what it truly means to live as a grown woman on your own terms. --- Check out The Love Jones Cohort: Single and Living Alone in the Black Middle Class https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/economics/economic-stratification/love-jones-coh...

Womanhood: how we define it, how it defines us, and how it evolves over time. Jade and Keia bring sister-friend, journalist & culture critic Shar Jossell to the kitchen table. Sit with us. --- Follow Shar Across All Social Media Platforms @SharSaysSo and on her website www.sharsaysso.com --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://ge...

Jade and Keia ground our celebration of Women’s History Month in personal and collective reflection on the definition of womanhood and how our understanding has evolved over time. Join us.  -- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off  --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.co/ shop For more Information on the Exclusive Tour Merch Sale on Patreon https://www.pat...

Keia’s back ya’ll!  Sit with us around the kitchen table for a solid debrief. --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.co/shop For more Information on the Exclusive Tour Merch Sale on Patreon --- https://www.patreon.com/gettingrown --- Fact Checking Resources: https://www.factcheck.org/ https://www.snopes.com/ https://...

Fran pulls up a seat to the kitchen table for a little sister talk about Reality Check, the Top Model documentary. --- If you're interested in donating to our community fund which supports children directly impacted by ICE. We will follow up with an official crowd funding link once finalized. Paypal: shop@jadeofalljades.com --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off -...

Nikki joins us at the Kitchen Table for an in depth conversation on what chronic illness looks like in a Black Woman, and strategies to advocate for yourself under these circumstances. To reach out to Nikki via Threads: @SilencePerhaps --- Thank you Babbel for supporting this week's episode. Learn a new Language and get up to 55% off your subscription at Babbel.com/GROWN  --- If you're interested...

Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald joins the Kitchen Table to share her personal experience with Black History and other fun personal facts. Love, prayers, and hugs to our Keia.   --- If you're interested in donating to our community fund which supports children directly impacted by ICE. We will follow up with an official crowd funding link once finalized. Paypal: shop@jadeofalljades.com --- Shop  https:/...

Shanti Mayers of Around the Way Curls and The Sable Collective joins us this week to dive into an important conversation with Dr. Gina Paige of African Ancestry Inc. around tracing and archiving our lineage. Love, prayers, and hugs to our Keia. --- If you're interested in donating to our community fund which supports children directly impacted by ICE. We will follow up with an official crowd fundi...

Just ahead of the season opener snowstorm of Winter 2026, Jade and Keia discuss their ideal snow day setups and their plans to rest, rot, read, and write, among other things. Join us.  --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Use the Code GG for Free Shipping https://www.blackgirlhug.com/ --- Shop Gettin Grown Merch https://gettingrown.co/ shop For more Informat...

Jade and Keia return to the kitchen table today with a fun way to name some intentions for what we're experimenting with, committing too, and leaving behind as we move in to 2026. Sit with us! Play Along and send us your intentions at hello@gettingrown.co -- KTT Discussion Prompts EFF (Tried it, would try again): Something you experimented with—maybe it was messy, imperfect, or you only scratched...

Happy New Year to our Tribe! We hope your holiday season was restful and restorative. Sit with us for a gumbo of opening New Year episodes in the spirit of gratitude and reflection as context for our growth and goal setting for 2026.  We can’t wait to reconnect with you soon. --- Shop https://everybodibrand.com/ and Use the Code EBGG15 for 15% off --- Use the Code GG for Free Shipping https://www....