Episode 17: Because I Said So

Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. A fifteen-second video landed in my high school group chat this week. It was a video of our alma mater's newest graduating class -- cap and gown, hotel ballroom, the whole thing. It sent me straight back to the cafeteria where my class got ours instead. Thirty-one years later, I'm realizing I never actually got over it. In this episode we're talking about: The graduation we were promised versus what we actually got; Unpacking what it does to a teen to be told "Because I said so" by an authority who never has to explain herself; Watching how one video in a group chat can turn a room of grown women back into fifteen-year-olds; Sitting with the people who hurt us, move on, transform, and never once look back; Naming the difference between actually processing something versus performing that you're over it; Is there a fifteen year old in you somewhere, still standing in a cafeteria, still holding something she was never allowed to put down? Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time. Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽 @iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast