We Weren't Told

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I decided a long time ago that I wasn't a football person. No maps, no cardinal directions, no football — these were just facts about me, or so I thought. Then I asked my gym trainer a question about football, instead of defending my position like usual. Three days later I was on my couch watching Cape Verde p...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was recently in a room full of women my age — millennials and Gen X — gathered to learn from a woman who is genuinely excellent at what she does. I'm talking senior in her field and decades in. We were there to receive her professional expertise, the kind that can only be built over real time. And somehow, t...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Fair warning — this is my voice after four days of flu and zero voice, and it's either this or I don't show up. And we are not doing that. We went to Ocho Rios for Father's Day weekend, and somewhere between the AC on full blast, a standing fan three inches from my chest, and CJ joking "maybe it&#...

We Weren't Told | Episode 13: Your Body Is Keeping Score Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I've been in the thick of something heavy with some family members — and then I got a message from one of my most cherished friends that made everything I'd been carrying look completely different. She is fighting for her life. And I realised I&#...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I went to a moms' networking event a few weeks ago and as part of an icebreaker, a woman pulled a pair of tiny socks out of her handbag. She said being her son's mother is the most important thing she has ever done in her life — and she meant it with her whole chest. And I sat there and felt something I co...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Threads was on fire this morning. Jay-Z showed up at The Roots Picnic — combed-out locks, dressed in the black Tims, fifty-seven years old and completely himself. Meanwhile Drake dropped three albums after two years of silence and the internet split right down generational lines. And I couldn't stop asking mys...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I'll be honest — this episode almost didn't happen. I've been in a two-day existential funk, the real "is this it?" kind, not the tagline kind. It was CJ who told me to just talk about it. So here I am, Monday at 3:24 PM, showing up anyway. In this episode, I'm talking about what a boiled...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I had coffee recently with a woman I've known since I was four years old — same prep school, same high school, now both mothers of twelve-year-olds. Part of our convo was about what Catholic school did to us, and what it quietly withheld -- the S words. Both of them — sex and silence. And either way, we were n...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was at my favourite café last week — the one I go to alone, to write — when something ordinary happened — a cashier was filming content, a beautiful young man stepped into the sunlight, and I realised I was on the other side of the camera entirely. In this episode, I'm talking about the part of us that still...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I'm going to be honest with you — I have been crashing out for the last two weeks. Eleven minute voice notes, therapy, ceiling-staring. A full, sustained emotional crash. And I almost didn't make this episode because I kept waiting until I had something neat to say about it. I don't. What I have is the...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. By now you've seen the video. Noah Lyles. Junelle Bromfield. The dress reveal. And we need to talk about it — not just the moment itself, but what the reaction to it revealed about something much deeper that millennial women were handed a long time ago. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And somewhere between the MAHA moms and the TikTok feminists — in that gap the algorithm doesn't know wh...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Brandy Norwood just published her memoir — and it cracked something open. Because Brandy isn't a celebrity story we're watching from a safe distance. She's one of the girls we grew up with, and what happened to her inside the Good Girl box happened to a lot of us too. This episode is about the binary w...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. This Friday is the fifth anniversary of my father's death. This Sunday, I'll be at carnival road march in Jamaica — sequins, soca, full colour, all of it. And I'm not pretending those two things don't exist in the same week, in the same chest. Because they do. And nobody told me they would. So toda...

Millennial girlies, let me ask you something — when's the last time you actually tasted your lunch? Episode 2 is here, and we're slowing down long enough to notice the things we've been too busy to question. It's about running on autopilot — and what happens when you finally step off it. Picture it: a Wednesday, a car, and a lunch nobody actually wanted. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations m...

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Before I get into anything else on this podcast, I thought you deserved to know who I am and why I'm the one having this conversation with you. Who is Angel? How did I get here? And why this podcast? We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage...

As Millennial mothers, we were given a road map: build the career, find your person, have the kids and stability would follow. But as the generation that waited for dial-up to connect and letters from pen pals, we grew up to inherit a very different reality. In this trailer, host Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — introduces We Weren’t Told , a podcast for millennial mothers who...