We Weren't Told

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And somewhere between the MAHA moms and the TikTok feminists — in that gap the algorithm doesn't know wh...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Brandy Norwood just published her memoir — and it cracked something open. Because Brandy isn't a celebrity story we're watching from a safe distance. She's one of the girls we grew up with, and what happened to her inside the Good Girl box happened to a lot of us too. This episode is about the binary w...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. This Friday is the fifth anniversary of my father's death. This Sunday, I'll be at carnival road march in Jamaica — sequins, soca, full colour, all of it. And I'm not pretending those two things don't exist in the same week, in the same chest. Because they do. And nobody told me they would. So toda...

Millennial girlies, let me ask you something — when's the last time you actually tasted your lunch? Episode 2 is here, and we're slowing down long enough to notice the things we've been too busy to question. It's about running on autopilot — and what happens when you finally step off it. Picture it: a Wednesday, a car, and a lunch nobody actually wanted. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations m...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Before I get into anything else on this podcast, I thought you deserved to know who I am and why I'm the one having this conversation with you. Who is Angel? How did I get here? And why this podcast? We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage...

As Millennial mothers, we were given a road map: build the career, find your person, have the kids and stability would follow. But as the generation that waited for dial-up to connect and letters from pen pals, we grew up to inherit a very different reality. In this trailer, host Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — introduces We Weren’t Told , a podcast for millennial mothers who...