You're So Real For That

Send a text My mother, my bully, my best friend. 😮‍💨 If you’ve ever loved your mama deeply and still needed softness you didn’t always get… this episode is for all the daughters, the tender-hearted grown girls, and the ones doing the healing out loud . CAPTION: This week on You’re So Real For That , we crack open our rib cages (gently!) and talk about the most intense relationship many of us wil...

Send a text What’s a top-notch human experience for you? Like the kind where you’re so present you can feel the follicles of your hair and the tips of your toes? In this episode of You’re So Real For That , we kick off the year with a nourishing, hilarious, unexpectedly tender conversation about the moments that make life feel worth living. We talk gratitude , presence , childlike wonder , and the...

Send a text Friend… we’re jumping right back in. Part two of our diaspora conversation turns into a full Socratic seminar (with jokes, because we’re still us), because the questions are big: What does it mean that “African” can be tied to place, while Blackness isn’t location-dependent? What happens when your culture is everywhere, but your “home” is nowhere on the map? And how do we build relatio...

Send a text What actually sits at the root of the “diaspora wars” — the jokes, the tension, the misunderstandings between Black Americans and Black folks across the continent? And what happens when two best friends, one raised in the U.S. South and one born in South Africa, decide to talk about it with honesty, humor, and a whole lot of care? In this episode of You’re So Real For That, Monèt and A...

Send a text If your brain feels like 47 tabs open, you send voice notes that turn into TED Talks, and you are a Black woman trying to build a life that hugs your body just right, this podcast is for you. Start here for the origin story of "You’re So Real For That". In this debut episode, we sit down and reminisce about how a random afternoon at the bank with a teller named Brandon turned...