Hillbillies & Hood Rats

Supporting Women Doesn't Mean Hating Men And Supporting Men Doesn't Mean Betraying Women. Listennnnn… when did supporting women mean we had to hate men? And when did appreciating a good man become some kind of betrayal of womanhood? From feminism, femininity, and traditional gender roles to passenger princesses, daddy voices, double standards, and the exhausting pressure to prove we don&#3...

Sex, Self-Respect & Minding Your Damn Business: How Bout That? Sex on the first date? Good sex, bad relationships, questionable decisions, and apparently a waiting period for self-respect. Who knew? 😂 From sexual compatibility and casual hookups to marriage, parenting, and the red flags we conveniently ignore when the chemistry is that good, we're getting into ALL of it. No lectures. No m...

What If Nobody Was the Bad Guy? What happens when love is still there, but the compatibility isn't? Our very first anonymous mailbox submission opens the door to a conversation about relationships, growing apart, grieving the future we thought we'd have, and the guilt that sometimes comes with choosing ourselves. Are we asking someone to grow with us, or are we asking them to become someon...

Apparently, we're feeling a little hippie today. 🌻✌🏼 Peace, love, mind your business... and one question: Why do we accept violence over sexuality? From Pearl Harbor and Rocky Horror to JFK, Sydney Sweeney, and the conversations we have at home, we're questioning why violence is so often accepted as entertainment or education while sexuality sparks outrage. And somewhere along the way, I...

Apparently, titties in the water are fine. Put a witch hat on them and suddenly somebody has to save my soul. This week, we’re talking about faith, desire, shame, projection, and what happens when personal conviction turns into public judgment. Why does the same woman become “dangerous” the moment her sexuality is paired with power, mystery, or symbolism somebody was taught to fear? This isn’t abo...

Why do we work so damn hard to control how other people see us? Some of us polish the truth. Some of us create an entirely different version of it. And some of us drag every skeleton out of the closet, hand it a whiskey, and introduce it to the whole damn room before anybody else gets the chance. Turns out... those might not be as different as they seem. This week, the backroads took me into priva...

The Woman Underneath "Mom" Everybody prepares for the baby. The nursery. The car seat. The birth plan. The bottles. The diapers. The seventeen thousand things somebody on the internet swears you absolutely need. And then the baby arrives... and everybody follows the baby. But what happens to the woman who brought them here? This week, the backroads took me into postpartum depression, mot...

Puberty sold us a dream. Reality handed us underwire, boob sweat, sports bras designed by medieval torturers, and a hundred-dollar beige bra that's somehow only almost the right size. This week we're asking the important questions: Why are bras measured in bras that don't fit? Why does every company speak a different bra language? Why does sweat end up in places that make absolutely no...

Season 4 | Episode 6: You Can Leave Without Leaving Yourself Season Finale | Hillbillies & Hood Rats Season 4 comes to a close with the question that every episode has quietly been asking: Who are you when everything around you changes? This week we're talking about the identities we inherit, the ones we outgrow, and the courage it takes to leave a place, a relationship, or a version of yo...

Season 4 | Episode 5: Growing Together or Getting Left Behind The Love That Wanted You Smaller What happens when one person starts becoming more... and the other one flinches? This week we're talking about the kind of insecurity that looks an awful lot like love. The kind that doesn't ask you to leave, it asks you to shrink. From the sandbox to adulthood, we're unpacking the difference...

Everybody knows the saying, but how often do we stop to question what it truly means? In a world where gossip flows as freely as the whiskey in small-town bars, we often find ourselves trapped in a web of assumptions and judgments about others. In this blog post, we’ll explore the fascinating dynamics of small-town life, the complexity of human relationships, and how societal labels can distort ou...

Ever notice how the things that got certain women called trashy for decades are now a whole aesthetic moment? This episode we're talking about the vibe economy, what people are actually buying when they buy working class cool, and why Trailer Trash Tammy was never actually the joke. Nobody's the villain here. Everybody's just chasing the same thing through different doors. And sometime...

This week we're talking about the whiplash of crossing over. The WIC aisle and the hundred dollar bill for a gallon of milk. The hide-a-bed with three siblings and the queen sized waterbed. The fights in the front yard and the fights behind walls thick enough to absorb them. Same mess. Different address. Because here's what nobody tells you when the circumstances change — the dysfunction d...

This season is called Hillbillies & Hood Rats and Episode 1 sets the whole thing up. We're talking about the word "trashy," who invented it, who it was designed for, and why the things society told certain women to be ashamed of were actually the most powerful things about them. This one isn't sad. It isn't a trauma dump. It's a reclamation. Grab your coffee, get in t...

This season started with blame. Then we dug into betrayal, public humiliation, revenge, performative healing, self honesty, and the terrifying reality that sometimes the hardest person to tell the truth to is yourself. And somewhere along the road… I realized I wasn’t just talking about ideas. I was talking about my own life. In this Season 3 finale, I tell the full story , the broken marriage, th...

You know that thing where you already know — but you don't quite let yourself know know? Yeah. That's this episode. We're talking about why we stay too long, love the idea of someone instead of the reality, and call it loyalty when it's actually just fear wearing a really convincing costume. No villains. No victims. Just the uncomfortable truth most of us have been sitting with a l...

Someone laid all of their shit bare on Facebook. 107 comments. A homewrecker callout. And one woman who responded with more grace than any of us would have. This week we're dissecting the public meltdown — who it serves, who it hurts, and whether making them famous actually does anything at all. Protect your peace. Tell the truth. Saddle up buttercup.

Cheating, betrayal, emotional neglect, desire, projection, shame, relationship dynamics, and why women always seem to carry the moral weight of situations they didn’t build alone. Episode 5 dives into infidelity, hidden relationship dynamics, emotional loneliness, open relationships, desire, shame, and the uncomfortable truth that most people have absolutely no idea what happens behind closed door...

Not everyone comes at you politely. Some people are passive aggressive. Some people are just straight up mean. And most of the time? They’re expecting a reaction. In Episode 4, we’re talking about how to handle people without matching their energy because sometimes the strongest move isn’t louder… From “Are you okay?” to “What do you mean by that?” This one is short, direct, and actually usable in...

Passive aggression gets a bad reputation, but let’s be honest… there’s an art to it. The “I love that for you.” The “you’re so confident.” The perfectly timed, sugar-sweet comment that doesn’t quite land the way it sounds. In Episode 3 of Season 3, we’re talking passive aggression, subtle shade, fake nice, and the difference between being kind… and being honest. Because not everything said sweetly...

“You think you’re better than us” gets thrown around like an insult, but most of the time, it’s not about arrogance. Episode 2 dives into misalignment, growth, projection, and what happens when you stop shrinking to fit spaces you’ve outgrown. Because sometimes it’s not about being better… you just don’t line up anymore. Disclaimer: This podcast is based on personal experience, perspective, observ...

Sometimes what people say about you has very little to do with you, and everything to do with what they can’t face in themselves. In the first episode of Season 3, we’re diving into projection, emotional chaos, victimhood, compassion, healing, and the hard truth that not everyone wants peace. Some people want attention. Some people want sympathy. And some people? They just want company in their mi...

This episode… went a little off the rails. What started as a conversation about podcasting and self-discovery quickly turned into something way more wild; body image, insecurities, high school experiences, bullying, opinions we probably weren’t supposed to say out loud, and the kind of honesty that doesn’t come with a filter. Stephanie definitely went rogue… but somewhere in the middle of the chao...

What starts as “just posting spicy content” turns into something way deeper. In this episode, we talk about what it really feels like to put yourself out there, to be seen, judged, desired, misunderstood, and still keep showing up anyway. We get into the confidence highs, the insecurity spirals, relationship dynamics, social media pressure, and how photography, ambassadorship, and community can be...

In this episode of Backroads, Bare Naked & Becoming , Jenna and I step into a conversation that goes far deeper than photography. We talk about confidence the kind people see on the outside and the insecurities that can quietly live underneath it. Jenna opens up about how her strong personality can sometimes be read as aggressive, and what it’s like navigating the balance between owning who yo...