Mikaila Unmuted: Beyond A Mammy, Mule, & Maid

BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique. In this special mid-season episode, Mikaila revisits the conversation that started it all. Recorded before a single episode of BAMMM existed, this intimate dialogue with her close friend Crystal becomes both a podcast origin story and a deeper exploration of the questions at the he...

BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique. In this special live episode, we go deeper into Episode 3:  “What You Carry Can Break You — The Refusal.” Together, we unpack what it means to be shaped by systems that reward self-erasure — and how many Black women learn early to suppress their needs, their truth, and their voice...

BAMMM is a documentary-style podcast exploring the lives of Black women through story, theory, and cultural critique. In Episode 3, we enter one of the most misunderstood parts of any transformation: the refusal of the call. Often framed as fear or hesitation, refusal is something deeper for Black women. It is learned. Conditioned. Reinforced through love and survival. Through the stories of Misha...

This episode is a live, unfiltered continuation of Episode 2 of the podcast Mikaila Unmuted—where the conversation goes even deeper. Together with Ashanti, Christina, and Charlotte, we move beyond the stories themselves and into the questions underneath them. We explore the ways identity can both ground us and restrict us…how many of us have been conditioned to perform—for safety, for acceptance,...

In this episode of B.A.M.M. — Beyond a Mammy, Maid, and Mule , we begin retelling the story of everyday Black women — not as side characters, but as the superheroes they’ve always been. Using the frameworks of Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey and Maureen Murdoch’s Heroine’s Journey , we explore Black women’s origin stories — the moments that shape how we learn to survive, perform, and disconnect f...

This is a special bonus episode of B.A.M.M.M. — Beyond a Mammy, Maid, and Mule . After the release of Episode 1, I sat down live with the three women whose stories opened this season — Dr. Yvonne, Piper, and Ashanti — for a multigenerational conversation about identity, family, and what it felt like to hear their lives reflected back through the podcast. Together we talk about: • what it was like...

In this opening episode of Mikaila Unmuted , we journey across five generations of Black women in one family, exploring the stories, survival, and expectations passed from mothers to daughters. Through intimate storytelling, we examine the legacy of always being strong and what it means to begin choosing ourselves when the women before us often could not. This conversation asks: What do we inherit...