Make It Make Sense With Andrinique

Your great-grandparents did not survive fire hoses and lynching so you could brawl in a customs line over a cruise ship seat. That is the conversation we are having in this episode of Make it Make Sense with Andrinique. There is a version of Black America that never makes the news. It shows up to work. It pays its bills. It raises children who understand accountability before they are old enough t...

Research on walking and memory loss keeps landing on the same number, five thousand to seventy five hundred steps a day, tied to an average seven year delay in cognitive decline. On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, I break down that research alongside the second factor almost nobody talks about: magnesium. Roughly half of American adults are deficient in it, and the studies tied...

What happens when the people closest to you become your biggest obstacle? In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, she is getting into something most people are afraid to say out loud. Family members who speak negativity over your goals. Old bosses who told you that you were not good enough. Friends and peers who planted seeds of doubt right when you were starting to grow. And the ve...

The verdict came down. Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 35 years. And then the Black community showed up, loud, fast, and for all the wrong reasons. Death threats sent to a family that already buried their child. Adults spitting on grieving teenagers outside a courthouse. "F*ck Austin" screamed at minors walking to their cars. All in the name of justice. In this episode,...

You have probably met them. The adult who cannot take accountability. Who makes every conversation about them. Who controls everything and celebrates nothing. Who shuts down or blows up and leaves everyone around them walking on eggshells. Now imagine that person is someone's parent. In this episode of Make It Make Sense, Andrinique is getting into one of the most searched and least talked about t...

If you have ever deleted a dating app before a friend could see it, laughed it off before someone else could make the joke, or felt embarrassed to admit you are on Bumble, Hinge, or Match at 50 plus, this episode is exactly what you need to hear. The stigma attached to dating apps for women over 50 is real, it is loud, and it is completely unfounded. Nearly 35% of all online dating users are now o...

On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique , we have all seen the videos. Girls on horses, Rolls Royces in front of the projects, with building entrances blocked. This episode asks the question nobody is brave enough to answer: why? We get into the history behind where this performance mentality came from, the research on why Black households spend more on visible goods than building ac...

In this episode Andrinique dives into one of the most talked about and most misunderstood parenting philosophies of the last decade: gentle parenting. What started as a legitimate, research-backed correction to punitive parenting has been hijacked by social media, stripped of accountability, and turned into a performance. And the children raised inside that performance are now adults who cannot ha...

If you have spent your whole life saying yes when you meant no, shrinking in rooms where you should be thriving, and apologizing for things that were never your fault, this episode is not about manners. It is about survival. In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, Andrinique breaks down the real science behind people pleasing, why it is classified as a trauma response, the five spec...

On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, we are talking about AI. Not the science fiction version. Not the hype. The version that is already in your workplace right now, whether you are engaging with it or not. If you are between 45 and 55, have been working for twenty-plus years, and your response to AI is "I've seen trends come and go," this episode is for you. Andrinique breaks do...

Black women have built empires from kitchen tables. And some of us have been the first ones in the comments tearing those empires down. In this episode, Andrinique takes on one of the most uncomfortable conversations in Black women’s culture: the pattern of Black women tearing each other down. Not as critics or outsiders looking in, but as women who are part of the community and who have seen it u...

This episode is the final installment of the April's  401K Retirement series. In this episode, Andrinique covers the part of financial wellness that rarely gets airtime: the psychological and generational roots of money behavior. We break down how inherited money beliefs form, what financial trauma research actually says about spending and avoidance patterns, and why so many women can learn the ri...

You Can Still Retire. Here Is Exactly How to Catch Up at 40 or 50. In this episode, Andrinique breaks down exactly what to do if you are behind on retirement and you are 40, 45, or 50 right now. No fear, no shame. Just the accounts, the tools, and the real numbers you need to actually move. We are covering catch-up contributions, Roth IRAs, index funds, backdoor Roth conversions, and SEP IRAs. And...

The 401k Was Never the Plan. It Was the Distraction. You signed up. You checked the box. You let a percentage of every paycheck disappear into an account you barely look at and told yourself you were handling it. 401k was never designed to be your full retirement strategy. That is not an opinion. That is the history of how it was created and who it was created for.  In this episode, Andrinique get...

Later is here !  You have been contributing to your 401k, keeping something in savings, and telling yourself you would figure the rest out later. This episode is where later begins. We are getting honest about what retirement actually requires, why avoidance has a real financial cost, and why the number in your account right now is not a verdict. It is a starting point. In this episode, Andrinique...

In this episode, Andrinique closes out the March nervous system series with the piece that ties everything together. You’ve learned to regulate, you’ve done the work, you’ve prayed and believed, so why does life still look the same?  Andrinique breaks down why your nervous system has been quietly rejecting every blessing that doesn’t feel familiar, what the Bible actually says about your capacity...

What if the practices you’ve been debating, defending, or dismissing were documented in scripture long before the wellness industry had a name for them?  In this episode, Andrinique breaks down the neuroscience behind manifestation, affirmations, nervous system regulation, and journaling and connects it directly to ancient text to prove that none of this is new. The science caught up. The scriptur...

How to Regulate Your Nervous System Before It Regulates You Most people think nervous system regulation is a wellness trend. It is not. It is the difference between making decisions from a clear place and making them from survival mode. And if you have been feeling stuck, reactive, overwhelmed, or like you keep getting in your own way, this episode is the conversation you did not know you needed....

Subconscious Reprogramming and Nervous System Regulation for Ambitious Women. Most women are not stuck because they lack drive. They are stuck because their subconscious is working against them. The patterns you cannot see are the ones controlling your results. Your nervous system, your identity, and the beliefs running beneath the surface are either building your success or quietly dismantling it...

Black History Month - The Democrats took Carter G Woodson's Negro History Week and turn it into Black History Month, now it looks like it's no longer anything of importance. Especially since, it was hardly celebrated this month. ( Feb 2026)  In this episode, Andrinique summarizes why it was crickets from the Democrats as it related to celebrating the "holiday"  they had no energy this Black Histor...

Reparations: Who’s Footing the Bill and Who Qualifies? In this episode of Make it Make Sense With Andrinique, we dig into the three biggest questions surrounding reparations in America: Where did this movement actually originate? Who’s going to pay for it? And how would anyone determine which Black people actually qualify for a reparations check? Rather than offering easy answers, we explore the o...

Black History Month was never meant to be reduced to just two names. Yet every year, the conversation centers almost exclusively on Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks, leaving out the scholars, activists, creators, and everyday people who shaped Black history. In this episode, Andrinique explore the real origins of Black History Month: who created it, why it was created, and what the original i...

In this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique , we break down Black fatigue as a response to repeated behaviors within a certain segment of the Black community, not as a storyline or social construct. This conversation focuses on patterns. Public conduct, entitlement, contradiction, and accountability. From how image and identity are performed, to how feminism, dating preferences, and pers...

2016 is gone it’s 2026 now. So why are you posting pictures from 10 years ago all over your social media? If you’ve been scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook lately, you’ve probably noticed the trend: people everywhere are sharing glimpses of their lives from 2016. Old selfies, throwback moments, memories from a decade ago flooding our feeds. But this isn’t just nostalgia for nostalgia...

On this episode of Make It Make Sense , Andrinique dives headfirst into Minnesota’s absolutely wild fraud scandal that’s making national headlines and leaving taxpayers furious. We’re talking multimillion-dollar daycare fraud schemes, rumors of February daycare closures because apparently ICE agents are too scary for toddlers now, and billion yes, BILLIONS in taxpayer money that just poof vanished...