Stories I Tell Podcast

In this week’s episode of Stories I Tell’s podcast, The Matriarchal Laykeeping, we honor the life of the one and only Maria McCloy of South Africa. A sister. A global force of joy. A builder of community, gone too soon. This is a remembrance of Maria McCloy, a woman who made space wherever she stood, and whose love continues to move through all of us who were blessed to know her. This is a public...

And this week’s episode: A hog in the spotlight is still a hog. We explore care, clarity, and why community, not performance, is the way forward. // Subscribe to the Stories I Tell Podcast everywhere you listen to podcasts. Write us a  5 star review, it helps us grow and be with more people as awesome as you are, dahlinks. We’re better together, so share this podcast widely. Care is infrastructre™...

In this week’s Scorpio full moon edition of "The Matriarchal Laykeeping," the "Stories I Tell" podcast, we explore care with boundaries. Care needs structure. // Subscribe to the Stories I Tell Podcast everywhere you listen to podcasts. Write us a review, it helps us grow and be with more people as awesome as you are, dahlinks. We’re better together, so share this podcast widely. We are the joy we...

In this episode of Stories I Tell , we move through clarity, integrity, and what it means to know who we are when care collapses. This is a reflection on self-possession, truth, and the discipline of building character in systems that benefit from our fragmentation. We explore how shame fuels manipulation, how clarity disrupts it, and how community is built when we choose to stand in what is real....

Subscribe to the Stories I Tell's "The Matriarchal Laykeeping" Podcast everywhere you listen to podcasts. Write us a review, it helps us grow and be with more people as awesome as you are, dahlinks. We’re better together, so share this podcast widely. We are the joy we seek🧚🏽‍♀️ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

Hola dahlinks, War does not always arrive with boots. Sometimes it arrives in language. In policy. In the casual, wide declaration that an entire people can be erased. And? Something in the collective body knows. We’ve been here before, fam. This is cultural memory at work. Not panic. Not performance. Memory that steadies. Memory that remembers how to move without asking permission. Old ways meeti...

Full Moon in Libra. A full hug for my grandson. A full stop on certificate culture. Hola darlings, This Full Moon in Libra, I am thinking about my grandson. A Libra baby. Balance in his bones. Clarity in his chart. A reminder that truth stands on DIVINE BUSINESS. And as his grandmother, as Big Mama, as Glammie, I know something for certain. No certificate needed. I am the work m’baby. My crown? Is...

A nod to intergenerational storytelling and the cultural memory we embody when we gather after a delightful public speaking engagement with high school aged young ladies at Manhattan Business Academy via Mr. Kenrick Smalls, founder of Brooklyn Scholar Athletes, an AAU league for which both my sons played, successfully.// Subscribe to Stories I Tell @substack for more updates. Interested in getting...

Before wellness became an industry, grandmothers regulated homes, bodies, and communities through prayer, plants, and the laying of hands. That work was not branded. It was lived. I call this tradition Matriarchal Laykeeping . A Laykeeper tends the energetic grid of people, homes, and communities through cultural memory and embodied practice. Some learn this work through certification. Some are ra...

February beckons January: “Wanna dance?” January kicks down the door. February stands in the doorway, swaying softly, pulsing drums , sentinels that decide what is allowed inside. And what will never be placed outside again. It is the shortest month, which is not a weakness. It is a discipline. Twenty eight days to tell the truth. Twenty eight days to feel the body. Twenty eight days to see what f...