What Black Women Know

Your wardrobe can be full of clothes you love and still feel impossible every single morning. Mandy Tucker's argument: that's rarely about the clothes. The pieces you reach for on the hard days are telling you exactly what you're covering up — and what you're ready to stop hiding from. About this episode: This one is about what your closet knows before you do. Mandy and Jamilia get...

You know exactly what you should be doing. You have the credentials, the clarity, the ambition. So why aren't you doing it? This is the conversation about the gap between knowing and doing — and what's actually sitting in the undercurrent, keeping capable women stuck. About this episode: Ouriana Walker has spent years watching smart, accomplished women — executives, founders, students at t...

Everybody talks about the leap — the day you hand in your notice and walk out of corporate for good. Almost nobody talks about what you have to leave behind to actually build the thing on the other side. Not the title. You. The version of you that corporate built. About this episode: Chenise Upshur spent fifteen years in corporate before she walked away — and what she learned coaching women throug...

Most of the rules running your life, you never actually agreed to. You inherited them — from a mother working three jobs, from a culture that told you what a young lady does, from a workplace that rewarded you for being the strong one who never asks for help. Petra Owusu-Brandstaeter has spent fifteen years figuring out how to take those rules apart. About this episode: Petra calls it the inner ar...

You were taught to be strong. To show up for everyone. To give to your family, your community, your partner, your colleagues — and to do it without complaint, without rest, and without putting yourself first. But nobody told you what that would cost you. The panic attacks. The high blood pressure. The resentment that builds quietly until one day you do not recognise yourself. The exhaustion that h...

What if the most powerful tool in your leadership arsenal was the one you were taught to leave at the door? This episode makes the case that love is not a soft skill. It is a strategy. One that increases retention, reduces burnout, grows profits, and fundamentally changes how you show up as a leader, a colleague, and a human being in every room you walk into. Annie Paraison — leadership and relati...

There is a name for what you have been carrying — and it has been costing you more than you know. In this episode, Jamilia Grier sits down with Dr. Aleesha Grier-Rogers, clinical psychologist and women's health coach, to break down the Triple Tax — the layered, compounding weight that Black women absorb daily across every space they occupy. The performance tax. The emotional labor tax. The res...

What Black Women Know  is the podcast for Black women in business, leadership, and life — featuring candid conversations with coaches, mentors, and experts from around the world who have navigated exactly what you are facing right now. Every week, host Jamilia Grier sits down with an expert guest who has climbed the mountain — and she tells you what it actually takes to reach the summit. Not theor...