Self-Centered Living

Season 2 ends at the summit — where the life you've been walking through all season suddenly comes clear. On quiet, choice, and what Latanya Sweeney's warning about AI reveals about a borrowed life. What opens up for you now?

What happens when the friend you haven't made yet is a part of yourself, one you always knew was there but that the world around you hardly reflected back? A young Dominican American woman, now in Mexico City, living into a culture that was always a hallmark of her identity.

What does it look like when a young woman who has always poured herself into every path presented and sought, starts asking — what if devotion begins with me? An American woman of Nicaraguan descent, raised in a female household, shaped by Catholic ritual, and figuring out what devotion looks like when it starts to point inward.

What happens when an eye surgeon is asked to trust what she can't see? A Jamaican American doctor navigating the space between Western medicine, ancestral healing, and the intuitive knowing she was taught to distrust. Eye Care Contact Info: Scott Eye Care | https://www.wjscottmd.com Email: Ladyjay24723@gmail.com

There's a room in my house I still don't fully walk into. This episode is about what happens when grief and rage stop being problems to manage and become the way through — and the night on a floor in Costa Rica where I finally came apart enough to let something in. Exploring emergence, plant medicine, epigenetics, and why the nest was never the destination.

Ida grew up in Iran before the revolution changed everything — freedom, identity, a future in competitive swimming, gone overnight. She came to the U.S. and built a career in male-dominated rooms in a field that never holds still. What happens when a life shaped by upheaval meets a career that demands constant reinvention? An Iranian American woman's journey from pre-revolution Iran to enginee...

A park in Brooklyn. A guidance counselor's office. A meeting room where something is off but you can't quite name it. This episode explores imposed scripts — what arrives without your consent, how it starts to sound like your own thinking, and what remains yours no matter how many times someone has tried to tell you otherwise. A solo episode on imposed scripts — the narratives placed on yo...

Teri learned poker at 12 from her grandmother — patience, strategy, knowing when to fold. Decades later, those same skills shaped how she navigated corporate America and a political evolution she never saw coming. But beneath the poker face is a Japanese American woman reckoning with prison camps, cultural silence, and the question of when endurance becomes a script. Japanese American identity, in...

A Black Honda Accord, a teacher's salary, and the script that said ownership equals freedom. What happens when the milestones you were supposed to want start weighing more than they give? This episode explores inherited scripts — where they come from, why they're hard to see, and what becomes possible when you do. The Season 2 premiere of Self-Centered Living. What happens when a woman sit...

Season 2 opens with a family gathering, a familiar feeling, and two questions I've been carrying my whole life. New season. New territory. A solo episode on the expectations carried from family, culture, and community — handed down with love and received without question. What it takes to see them, and what it costs to keep carrying them.

Nine women across cultures and continents. What their stories revealed about centering yourself — not as an act of selfishness, but as the ground everything else grows from. A Season 1 closing that is also a beginning. A solo episode weaving together the threads of Season 1 — the seven principles of Self-Centered Living, an expansive definition of who this work centers, and what emerged when each...

Evey was the student who got it right — head girl, Ivy League, the path everyone around her validated. But somewhere inside the pressure cooker, a question surfaced that none of those achievements could answer. A young Hong Kong woman navigating cultural expectations, international student pressures, mental health, and the difference between the life you were shaped for and the one you're choo...

In Louisiana, there are trees that root in the middle of the swamp — no solid ground, just water. MawuLisa has been doing the same thing her whole life. From a Jehovah's Witness childhood to somatic healing, Orisha priesthood, and a commitment to resourcing liberation warriors — this is a woman who finds her ground wherever she stands. A conversation spanning spiritual lineage, embodied healin...

Ria grew up eighth of ten in a rural Indonesian village where a chicken curry took three days and the whole family to prepare. She wanted out — air conditioning, a suit, clean hands. But the thing she left behind turned out to be the thing the world needed most from her. An Indonesian woman's path from a farming village to the United Nations to Soul Fire Farm in upstate New York. Food sovereig...

There was one basket at Diamond Park. If you wanted on the court, you had to play. Faatimah was 12, 5'5", and not leaving. Two decades later, she's still not leaving — she's building what she would have needed and making sure other women have it. The Bay Area basketball player and founder of the Women's Premier Basketball Association on what basketball gave her and why she&#39...

Lower Manhattan, 1988. Dorotea and her friends leave an after-hours club and walk into a Buddhist center mid-sitting. She sits for thirty minutes in silver platforms and glitter. What opened in that contradiction — rebel and meditator, organizer and writer, Filipina immigrant building a full creative life in a country that habitually underestimates the people it can't easily categorize — has n...

Kyrah doesn't think of her life as chapters. She thinks of it as a trilogy — and the first book is closing. What shaped it: a mother who saw everything before it arrived, schools where she could count the faces that looked like hers, and a confidence she can trace back to one person's belief in her. A Caribbean American Gen Z woman on navigating an Ivy League education, creating community,...

As a child, Dara had a tent. Whatever happened outside it, no one could touch her in there. That instinct — to build safe ground and then be bold from it — shaped everything that followed. A national food justice coalition. A bus turned into a grocery store. A tank that eventually hit empty. And what came next. A conversation about food sovereignty, land justice, Black-led organizing, and what it...

Brittani was heading to the WNBA. Up at 4:45am since grade school, on the court since she was 11, AAU, highly recruited. When that identity collapsed, so did everything she thought she knew about herself. What followed was a reckoning — and a homecoming she didn't see coming. A former D1 and professional basketball player turned documentary filmmaker and cinematographer — the DP behind Juju Wa...

Two cheap microphones, a best friend, and a show she almost didn't watch. Natasha's path was never a straight line — and the thing everyone dismissed as fun turned out to be the thing that asked the most of her. A first-generation Jamaican American woman on creativity, entrepreneurship, and what happens when the winding path turns out to be the one that was yours all along. patreon.com/2bl...

A corporate exit. An empty nest. An election. And a whisper that wouldn't stop until it became a mantra. This is the story behind the Self-Centered Living podcast — what provoked it, what it cost, and what it asked me to let go of before it could begin. The debut episode. Host Trish shares the personal and political terrain that led to launching this podcast — one vehicle for a body of work ce...