The Black Girl Bravado

As we grow older, we evolve as people. We change, our environments change and so do our friendships. Have you ever considered how the process of making friends has changed as you grew up? What about the quality of your friends as opposed to the quantity? Consider the friendships you've had throughout the years and reflect upon your current friendships as we discuss the phases of friendship and...

We've all been there... a friendship was going and then it was gone. Maybe it was a falling out. Maybe the tension was building over time. Maybe the friendship just fizzled. However it went down, the end of a friendship can leave you feeling scared to start a new one. We're here to help! Listen in as we go over the signs of friendship PTSD and how to overcome it. Last week, we launched thi...

Welcome to our newest series... Friendship Goals: RELOADED! Friendship is the basis of this podcast. We love to talk about it, so we're revisiting our Friendship Goals series and adding more from our current perspectives. To start this series off, we're talking about communication styles. We want to create harmonious, sustainable friendships, so we have to learn how to communicate our thou...

Ya'll we both struggle with the fear of missing some shit lol. We're shackled and want to be freed from this stronghold.  In this episode we chat about the signs of FOMO, why it's bad to experience too much FOMO and of course tips to overcome. Do any of you struggle with this or are we the only ones who need to get our shit together? lol For the full conversation join us on Patreon . P...

This week, we're talking about letting go and moving on. We've been in situations that were easy to let go of. We've also been in situations for longer than we should have been because we were scared to leave and look for an alternative. Moving on is easier said than done, homegirls. In this episode, we talk about our personal experiences with letting go, moving forward and growing out...

You are faced with tons of decisions that must be made every day. These decisions can seem small, like deciding what's for lunch or what the outfit of the night is. Other decisions can have a much larger impact on your life, like deciding what the next career move you're going to make is, or trying to figure out where you want to move when your lease ends. When all of the decision making s...

Welcome back, y'all! We're getting deeper into our Thriving over Surviving series. This week, we talk about the feeling of inadequacy and why we tend to compare ourselves socially. We mention the negativity that accompanies the use of social media among other things, too. Bottom line is... we have to believe in ourselves! Comparisons gets us nowhere, especially when we're all running o...

We have a question. Do you trust yourself? Self trust is at the core of all of our decisions. When we begin to break our own boundaries, we violate our own trust. You wouldn’t trust somebody who lies, so why lie to yourself? It's time we hold ourselves to a higher standard for the greater good, beloveds. Let's get into self trust. Listen in as we talk about our thoughts towards building se...

This is our 200th episode! We started this thang on Germani's living room floor... Who would've thought we'd be here 5 years later?! Thanks for helping us get here, homegirls! Our Thriving over Surviving series continues. We discuss mother and father wounds with licensed psychologist Dr. Joy Harden Bradford. Dr. Joy is the host of mental health podcast Therapy for Black Girls. She got...

When going through the daily motions of life, it's easy to lose touch with ourselves. Today, we're reflecting on how we've been moving recently. Honestly, we haven't been operating at our highest intentionality... but we know what we have to do, homegirls! It's all about recognizing where we're falling short and doing the work to get back to where we want to be. After this...

We've all experienced our fair share of trauma. Trauma is inevitable. Those experiences change you. The aftermath of those events do not have to be completely negative, though. There's beauty in knowing that we can learn from traumatic experiences in ways that encourage positive growth. In this unlocked BGB Bonus episode, we talk about post-traumatic growth.  Post-traumatic growth  (PTG),...

We're bringing our Hot Girl Summer series to an end with our personal tips and tricks for flirting. We let you in on our favorite ways to flirt and how we expect men to come at us correctly. Things get spicy when we spill a few of our sexiest hot girl summer moments + stories of us in the streets. Stick around for some suggestions you can use this summer when getting flirty! We want to know ho...

There's one topic we couldn't ignore while we plan our hot girl summers: SEX! For this one, we brought in a sexpert. We sat down with sexual educator and intimacy coordinator Samia, who teaches sex masterclasses through her company, Sexual Essentials. Samia laid it all out for us. We talked about confidence in the bedroom, mastering new sex positions, ways to talk to your partner about you...

What are y'all wearing this summer? Personally... we aren't sure yet. We DO know that it's time to go shopping. After purging our closets during the quarantine, we're ready to get some new clothes and stunt on 'em when we step out. We talk about what we wear, what we WANT to wear and a few items we really want to add to our wardrobes. We've got some style tips for y'all...

Confidence is the ultimate key to having a hot girl summer, and there's no better way to gain some than by practicing body positivity. As the weather warms and the things open up again, it's important to check in with ourselves and make sure we're ready to face the world with our heads held high. Listen in as we discuss our journeys of accepting our bodies, gaining confidence and prese...

This month's bonus episode we chat about Post-Traumatic Growth. Posttraumatic growth (PTG) or benefit finding is positive psychological change experienced as a result of adversity and other challenges in order to rise to a higher level of functioning. The past year has been a challenge for us and we've all experienced our fair share of trauma, but there's beauty in knowing that we can...

We were robbed of a hot girl summer last year... so we're taking back what the devil stole. The key to a hot girl summer is dating, so we brought relationship expert Damona Hoffman in to kick off our new Hot Girl Summer series and prepare y'all for some summer flings. We talk about the do's and don'ts of online dating, our dating experiences and what to expect in the dating world a...

What a month May has been! We chat about our journey into our new space, feelings surrounding the fear of falling in love and losing control and lastly how our insecure attachment styles and abandonment issues have us in a chokehold! For the full conversation please join us on Patreon at the Soul Sista level. Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

If you want a behind the scenes look at the life of an influencer, tap in. We chatted with Bri Hall, an established content creator, makeup artist and musician. Bri brought us into her world of YouTube and social media influencing. We talked about staying sane when living life online, tips for growing an audience and why self expression is so important when pursuing any creative endeavor. She had...

We are ending our insightful Moms Making it Happen series with none other than the sex-positive cannamoms of Good Moms, Bad Choices - Erica and Milah! We go in-depth with the ladies as we discuss dating as a mother, weed smoking as a mother, feeling sexy after having children and so much more. We love chatting with Erica and Milah. They had us cracking up as they brought us into their worlds of en...

Calling all cannamoms! We dove into the intersection of recreational cannabis use and motherhood in this chat with Shonitria Anthony. Shonitria is a journalist, an entrepreneur, AND a 'cannamom,' which is a cute term she coined for her and women like her that enjoy marijuana when the kids are asleep. Learn about the ways one can partake in marijuana safely and responsibly while juggling mo...

We're kicking off May with a new series: Moms Making it Happen. This one is for the moms, the moms-to-be and every woman in between who is interested in the wonderful world of motherhood. Jessica Rose starts the series this week. She's a content creator, an author, a parody rapper and an entrepreneurial single mother! Listen in as Jessica describes her goal of removing the stigma that surr...

Our eye-opening "Heal Thy Self" series comes to an end with Beatrice Kamau. Beatrice is a self-love coach, inner-child healing expert and a podcast host. Many of us may not want to look back on our childhoods to assess trauma that could resurface in our current lives, but starting at the root is necessary in order to heal. Beatrice walked us through the process of inner child work and talk...

Our "Heal Thy Self" series continues! Miyume McKinley joins us to discuss intergenerational trauma - the things that happened before us that still affect us to this day. We want to begin healing our traumas. Miyume has the answers! She is a licensed mental health therapist, the host of two mental-health related talk shows and she is an expert on black intergenerational trauma. In this epis...

Today's affirmation: I have the power to heal myself. As we continue our "Heal Thy Self" series, we chat about the healing powers of Reiki with Tanai Holder. (If you went to our live show at The Salt Lounge, you're familiar with Tanai's work!) Tanai is an intuitive healer, spiritual teacher and an entrepreneur. She's practiced sacred healing methods for 15 years as a Reiki...