What We Learned This Year: Honest Reflection, Hard Lessons, and Waking Up Together

Send us Fan Mail ​​In this anniversary episode, Karen and Jonelle look back at one year of conversations, discomfort, learning, and unlearning. They revisit the heart of their work: examining how inherited biases shape everyday choices, relationships, and assumptions. Together, they explore how humility, listening, and self-awareness changed them more than they expected. What began as a plan to teach quickly became a journey of becoming more honest about their blind spots, cultural conditioning, and the emotional habits that surface when things get uncomfortable. They discuss the tension between wanting to fix, wanting to comfort, and actually learning to listen. They also share the importance of consuming stories and scholarship from women of color and expanding their sources beyond the dominant narratives they once defaulted to. This episode marks a year of waking up and sets the tone for a new season of intentional, grounded growth.Calls to ActionReflect on one belief you carried into the year that has shifted through listening, learning, or unlearning.Commit to one new practice in the new year that disrupts an old pattern, especially around bias or comfort.Share this episode with someone who is beginning their own journey of seeing the world with clearer eyes.We would love to hear from you! Contact us at [email protected] the show