EP 01 | We Are High-Functioning on the Outside and Overwhelmed on the Inside | Dr. Aleesha Grier-Rogers

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 resilience tax. And for many, the maternal mental load multiplier sitting on top of all of it.This is not a conversation about struggle. It is a conversation about clarity — naming what is real, understanding what it is costing you, and beginning to put some of it down.Dr. Grier-Rogers specializes in working with women of color navigating women's health, fertility, and the psychological weight of showing up in spaces not built for them. This episode is her first session inside She Leads Here — and it will stay with you.In this conversation:What the Triple Tax actually is — and why Black women carry it in ways others simply do notThe performance tax: why we are always monitoring, editing, and translating ourselves even when we are exhaustedThe resilience tax: how the cape that was supposed to protect us has been quietly depleting us for generationsThe maternal mental load multiplier: the invisible cognitive weight that does not stop, even in sleepWhat it actually looks like to start putting it down — boundaries, emotional selectivity, and redefining what strength meansReady to be in the room where this conversation continues?She Leads Here is the global membership community for Black women in leadership and entrepreneurship — where the coaching is real, the community is global, and the women you meet here have been exactly where you are.Dr. Grier-Rogers is a member of She Leads Here. You can connect with her and coaches like her inside the community.Join us at sheleadshere.org