In Real Time with Katoya Palmer
by Katoya Palmer
In Real Time with Katoya Palmer is a space for honest thinking, lived experience, and the kind of perspective you only gain by moving through life with your eyes open. Each episode breaks down something real — a moment, a question, a system, a relationship, a story — and considers what it means as it’s happening.Katoya brings together her experience as a leader, a strategist, a storyteller, and a mother to explore how life and systems shape each other. Some days it’s a deep dive into housing, community safety, nonprofits, or public accountability. Other days it’s a reflection on healing, bur
Episodes
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Mindfulness in the Middle - Episode 5: Mindfulness, Pleasure, and the Compass of Wanting
In this episode of Mindfulness in the Middle, I explore how mindfulness reshaped my relationship with desire—food, comfort, beauty, longing, pleasure, and the parts of wanting that were once considered off-limits. Growing up, desire wasn’t named; it was managed, judged, or tucked into silence.…
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Mindfulness in the Middle - Episode 4: Shedding Labels, Choosing Curiosity
In this episode, I explore what happens when the labels we once wore like armor start to feel more like chains. This week’s mindfulness card challenged me to look at the identities I defended out of habit—daughter, church girl, overachiever—and ask myself which ones actually belonged to me, and...
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Mindfulness in the Middle - Episode 3: Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Younger
In this episode, I sit with a card that asks me to notice the signs of aging—and it takes me somewhere deeper than wrinkles or birthdays. I explore what time has taught me about work, networks, class ceilings, and the uncomfortable truth that effort alone doesn’t always change the room you walk...
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Mindfulness In the Middle - Episode 2: Be Loving and Kind To Your Body
This four-part reflection invites you to explore what it means to care for your body—especially in seasons of stress, transition, or healing. From grounding rituals and breathwork to family beauty legacies and honest truths about weight, this episode holds space for both grace and growth. You’ll...
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Mindfulness in the Middle - Episode 1 Notice Dislike
I almost didn’t share this one. But this is where the work starts. According to Buddhist tradition, aversion is one of the three afflictive mind-states—alongside greed and delusion. It’s the quiet repulsion we feel when we just want someone or something gone. This week, I felt it in my chest....
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Mindfulness in the Middle Intro (Reclaiming Myself)
This is where it begins—my journey to reclaim peace, presence, and purpose after burnout and transition. Mindfulness in the Middle is a series about meeting life where it actually happens: between the past that shaped us and the future we’re still becoming. In this intro, I share what mindfulness...
About this show
In Real Time with Katoya Palmer is a space for honest thinking, lived experience, and the kind of perspective you only gain by moving through life with your eyes open. Each episode breaks down something real — a moment, a question, a system, a relationship, a story — and considers what it means as it’s happening.Katoya brings together her experience as a leader, a strategist, a storyteller, and a mother to explore how life and systems shape each other. Some days it’s a deep dive into housing, community safety, nonprofits, or public accountability. Other days it’s a reflection on healing, bur
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