Turn the Paige Podcast

One minute you’ve got a plan, the next minute you’re sitting on a heating pad recording from bed while your kid coughs in the next room. That’s the reality we’re talking about today: parenting pivots that happen fast, hit hard, and force you to rewrite the whole week on the fly. We get into the messy details of sick-kid season, including a late-night ER run for wheezing and the constant “do we try...

Forty can feel like a deadline, until you realize it can be a doorway. We’re getting real about what it’s like to hit a milestone birthday when your life doesn’t look like the plan you made at 15. If you’ve ever felt behind, out of order, or like you missed some invisible checkpoint, this honest solo chat is for you. We talk about the emotional build-up to turning 40, the pressure women and millen...

Family roles get assigned early, but they don’t have to be life sentences. We’re joined by three of our cousins for a full Fab Five catch-up, and what starts as pure nostalgia quickly turns into an honest talk about identity, adulthood, and the invisible “rules” we learned growing up together. We get into the fun stuff first: Blockbuster style Friday nights, Scholastic Book Fair versus field day,...

A sharp pain in your hip can mess with your workouts, your sleep, and your mood but what messes with you even more is being told it’s “nothing” when you know it isn’t. Tajuana records a candid solo check-in right before a virtual appointment, reflecting on turning 40 and how that milestone is pushing her into a new era of non-avoidance, self-trust, and speaking up sooner. She walks through her his...

Your closet can be full and still feel like you have nothing to wear, especially when your body and your life have changed and your wardrobe never caught up. We sit down with personal stylist Salifya Akers to talk about plus size fashion with zero shame and a lot of clarity: dress for the woman you are today, not the version of you you’re trying to “get back” to. Salifya breaks down why the size t...

Episode crossover - Blair had Tajuana on her podcast, Compassion Season and Tajuana is sharing it on Turn the Paige Podcast We catch up like cousins do, starting with milestone birthdays and ending in the kind of honesty that makes you feel seen. We talk grief, family legacy, spirituality, creativity, and an adult ADHD diagnosis as a real pathway to self-trust and better care.  • Turning 40 as a m...

One wrong click deleted a full recording, so I’m coming to you from my phone with a very real reminder: creators don’t need more pressure, we need better systems. That’s where AI has earned a spot in our workflow at Turn the Paige. I’m walking through exactly how we use ChatGPT and other AI features as a practical assistant across our podcast, Instagram content, Pinterest marketing, monthly newsle...

Summer doesn’t just end, it disappears, and if you’re a parent you can feel it in your bones. Tajuana hops on for a raw solo check-in from home (with a sick kid nearby) and talks about why the last weeks of summer can bring real sadness, not just mild nostalgia. Warm weather, long evenings, pool days, and that no-routine freedom can make us feel like our best selves, and saying goodbye to it can f...

Forty is close enough to feel it in your bones and sometimes in your lower back too. Tajuana goes solo and tells the truth about what it feels like to stand at the edge of a new decade as an elder millennial: grateful for the life you built, surprised by how fast time moved, and a little shaken by the question, “What’s next?” If you have ever felt nervous about turning 40, or you never fully pictu...

Wine can get weirdly intimidating fast. One person is talking about tannins and decanters, another is judging your grocery store bottle, and meanwhile you just want something that tastes good after a long day. We’re changing that energy with Jamicia Stamps, the wine-loving creator behind SelecTaste LLC ( @_selectaste ), who joins us for a fun, honest chat that makes wine feel approachable, persona...

THROW BACK to our very first episode! *Originally aired August 23, 2023* https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/turn-the-paige-podcast/id1677891195?i=1000625345337 “Bounce back” to what, exactly? We’re Tajuana and Sheree sisters, best friends, and full-time working moms, and we’re starting Turn The Page Podcast the same way we live our lives: honest, a little chaotic, and hungry. We open with our w...

Motherhood can be loud enough to drown out the quiet parts of you, including the parts that used to make things just because it felt good. We’re holding onto one line that hit us hard: “heal so deeply that you can do your hobbies again.” Not as a cute quote, but as a real target for women who’ve been in survival mode, especially in postpartum life when time, sleep, and bandwidth feel like myths. W...

Sleep-deprived parenting has a special way of making everything feel urgent, from a baby rolling over at 2 a.m., to a toddler quietly wandering the hallway. We’re Tajuana and Sheree, and we’re back together talking through the real stuff: postpartum survival, the mental load, and the tiny systems that keep our days from spinning out. We get honest about mental health after baby, including ADHD med...

Raising a daughter can feel like the sweetest kind of time travel and the most intense kind of pressure. One minute we’re laughing at mismatched outfits and high fives for tiny wins, and the next we’re staring down the reality of sending our little girl into a world that can be harsh to girls and especially harsh to Black girls. That tension sits at the center of this solo conversation: how do we...

3 A.M., can make you feel like you’re the only person awake on the planet, holding a baby in the dark and wondering how you’ll do tomorrow on this little sleep. Sheree jumps on for a solo, real-life check-in from the postpartum newborn trenches and shares what’s genuinely helping her navigate sleepless nights with a newborn plus an older kid in the mix. We talk about the mindset shifts that change...

A house packed to the ceiling with stuff is one kind of mess. The secrets a family keeps can be even harder to clear out. We’re Tajuana Paige and Sheree Paige Barber, and we’re back to our roots with a Turn the Page Book Club crossover that’s equal parts real life and real reads. Before we even get to the novel, we talk through the unfiltered motherhood moments that got us here: summer days with k...

Growth is supposed to feel empowering, so why does it sometimes feel like you are sinking? Tajuana jumps on the mic solo to name a feeling many of us have but rarely say out loud: you can be doing everything “right” and still feel stuck. When a hard conversation blows up or a familiar pattern shows up again, it is easy to decide none of the therapy, boundaries, or healing work is working. We slow...

Your partner going back to work can hit harder than you expect, especially when you’re still postpartum and the baby is changing by the day. I’m Sheree, back with a solo check-in as we get ready for the end of paternity leave (for hubby) and I’m telling the truth about the emotions that come with it: I’m genuinely sad to lose the built-in support, and I’m also trying to feel strong enough to handl...

Labor is unpredictable, but we didn’t expect the aftermath to be the part that stuck with us most. Tajuana and Sheree sit down with Brandon, Sheree's hubby (and a very vocal newborn cameo) to unpack Bronson’s 28-hour birth story, from being stalled at three centimetres to a sudden shift where “hold on” is no longer an option. We talk coping tactics, what contractions feel like when time start...

“39 years later, my brain finally makes sense.” That’s the sentence I couldn’t stop saying after getting officially diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, and I’m sharing the whole messy, validating, honest experience from my point of view. If you’ve ever wondered why you try so hard yet still feel behind, or why small tasks can feel strangely heavy, you’re going to recognise yourself in this one. I tal...

What makes you drop a book instantly, and what makes you stay up way too late saying “just one more chapter”? I’m squeezing in a solo chat during a rare quiet newborn moment, and it turns into a full-on, strongly opinionated guide to my reading yucks and yums, plus a few real-life wins that actually work in the chaos of motherhood. First up, a simple, budget-friendly at-home paint and sip that sav...

Another Sheree solo episode. Turning 32 made me pause and realise something I did not expect: my 30s are starting to feel like the decade I’ve been working toward, even though I definitely don’t have everything figured out. On a gloomy weather day with real-life mom chaos right around the corner, I wanted to capture that rare, calm, grateful headspace and talk it out like we’re voice-noting each o...

Postpartum can make you feel like you’re living on shifting ground, and saying “I’m fine” doesn’t magically make it true. Sheree records her first solo episode at nearly four weeks postpartum to mark the moment, tell the truth about what’s helping, and name the fear many moms carry after a hard first experience with postpartum anxiety and postpartum depression. We get into the biggest change right...

You can love your kids completely and still miss yourself. I’m recording this one from the car on purpose, because sometimes the most honest conversations happen in the in-between moments, on the way to work, before the day takes over. I get real about the question so many moms carry quietly: who am I outside of motherhood? I share what I was like before kids, when my life was full of hobbies and...

Motherhood can feel like living in 20-minute blocks while everything around you keeps moving. I’m recording solo today while Sheree is deep in the newborn phase, and I’m honestly naming the thing so many moms feel but rarely say out loud: parenting is chaotic, ridiculous, and somehow we still adapt. We get into the real mechanics behind that chaos, from kids eating in the car and handing you trash...