Questioning the Narratives We’ve Inherited: Motherhood, Identity, and Why Women’s Stories Deserve to Be Told - with Anna Malaika Tubbs

In this powerful and perspective-shifting episode, Leanna Laskey McGrath sits down with Anna Malaika Tubbs, renowned author, speaker, and advocate for examining the narratives that shape how we see ourselves and each other. Anna shares her global upbringing and how it shaped her understanding of identity, belonging, and cultural storytelling. Together, they explore the importance of elevating voices and histories that have been overlooked or erased (particularly women’s and mother’s stories), and how storytelling can be a tool for connection, healing, and change. This conversation goes beyond theory and into real life, touching on motherhood, raising children with awareness, and the responsibility we carry as leaders, parents, and individuals to question inherited narratives. For high-achieving women, executive leaders, and mothers, this episode is both grounding and expansive, an invitation to think more critically, lead more intentionally, and bring more awareness to what stories are shaping our beliefs. In This Episode, We Discuss: How our upbringing shapes the way we see the world The impact of inherited narratives and cultural conditioning Why storytelling matters in leadership, motherhood, and identity Raising children with awareness, empathy, and intentionality The importance of questioning systems and assumptions How curiosity and compassion can create deeper human connection What it means to lead and parent with greater consciousness Connect with Anna Malaika Tubbs: Anna Malaika Tubbs Official Website @annamalaikatubbs on Instagram Read New York Times Bestseller The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of MLK Jr., Malcolm X, and James Brown Shaped a Nation  Read instant New York Times Bestseller and USA Today National Bestseller Erased: What American Patriarchy Has Hidden From Us Connect with Leanna Laskey McGrath: Coach Leanna website  Linkedin