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Let Me Tell You Something
by Carly, Lei, & Mo
It's your favorite Auntie's. The trinity of Water Signs. Talking about life, relationships, and being your best self. Listen and join the conversation on Insta or FB!
Episodes
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Transitions, Fear, and Disappointment
Ok. Ok. We know this sounds realllllllly depressing, but it's not. It's encouraging and uplifting. I mean, we still know how to laugh and we still do it pretty often, so don't trip. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Brandon Hart of Legacy Health Chiropractic about why he went into chiropractic...
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Big Ole Freak
Good Question. Maybe you can help us figure this out. We talked about the difference between recent women rappers and the ones from "back in our day". Is there a difference? Is Lei a prude? Are we just old now? I guess we'll find out. What else?? Uh, Netflix watches, our upcoming interview with…
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Kanye’s Cancelled. Don’t @ us
This episode is Hella Late, BUUUTTTT, it is here. Carly was pretty sick and you can tell she was barely holding on to her voice for this episode. Our Hot Topic was Kanye West performing at Howard which turned into and became part of our conversation on Cancel Culture. What does it mean to cancel...
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Flag on the Play: Relationship Red Flags
Unless something magical happens, this is our VERY LAST Black Girl Magic interview! We have enjoyed this so much and we've made so many new friends that are now family! There is no way to express the amount of gratitude we feel to everyone that sat down with us and shared. It was something that...
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Starting Over: Rebuilding after an Emotional Hurricane w/ Sharonda Grandberry
NEW NAME ALERT: We're the TRINITY. Because we're the trinity of water signs. MEANT.TO.BE. We've been waiting to do this interview since we started and it was so worth it. Sometimes, we think we can tell a person's story just by looking at them. We get so consumed with our story that we forget…
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I Just Took a DNA Test...
You know the rest! Lizzo's VMA performance was a moment of pure magic. It meant more to us than we could have ever imagined. We even realized some things about ourselves that we didn't know. There were some demons hiding that reared their ugly heads, but thanks to LIzzo, we're learning to put…
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Black Girl Joy: Some of Our Favorite Things
We talked all the things that make us happy and just make our spirits feel joyful. We were being hella silly, making hella jokes and practiced some new laughs. We got some feel good stories and some songs. Lei's birthday story is pretty hilarious! You'll even get to hear our "It's Officially…
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5 Points Blok Party
So, yeah...I mean NBD or anything, but we did get asked to record and interview at the 5 Points Blok Party. It was at Lowe Mill and it was DOPE! We had some bomb ass curry chicken from Mangoes, saw some old friends, met some new ones, and just loved every minute of it. Our friend, Kisha Freed…
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Stay in Your Lane! w/ Victoria Jones
Yeah, we got crazy with the driving metaphors, but how could we not?? Way too much opportunity! Anyway, our topic for this episode is "Staying in Your Lane". We're breaking down what "stay in your lane" means for ourselves, times when we were all cris-crossing out of lanes and how that worked…
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Grown-ish
We love the show Grown-ish and after Carly attended a workshop last week for Gen Z(THANK YOU, ERIN!), she came back with a question that came up: How do you know when you're grown? There is a differing of opinions on this one; Lei thinks it's once you can pay your own bills, Carly thinks it's…
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Get Yo Tribe! w/ Leah Karin (Pt. 2 of 2)
Welcome to Part 2 of our interview with Leah Karin, Da Hood Doula! This episode is titled: "GET YO TRIBE!" We’ve said this before on this show when asking someone to come collect their people from acting a fool, but today we mean it in a different way. This episode is about how to find your…
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Da Hood Doula, Leah Karin (Pt. 1 of 2)
Leah Karin is a health enthusiast. And, just like many things in her life, she approaches healthcare from an "outside of the box" practice. Combining her training as a Doula and personal trainer with being a mental health advocate and mentor, Karin assists clients on their journey to finding…
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Dr. Aisha Fields-International Director of AAPDEP & Owner of Zenzele Consignment
Happy Independence Day! And, just in time for the 4th, we had Dr. Aisha Fields, International Director of AAPDEP and Co-Owner of Zenzele Consignment, come to the podcast and talk about FREEDOM. So perfect, right? But, our talk was about the freedom of African People. Are we free? How will we know...
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Checketh Thineself before Thy Wrecketh Thineself
DISCLAIMER: WE ARE DISCUSSING SEX, IT'S VERY SHORT (GOES FROM 51:30-58:30) IF IT MAKES YOU AS UNCOMFORTABLE AS IT MAKES LEI, BY ALL MEANS, SKIP OVER THAT PART! Now, for the real stuff: Hot Topic this week: BUT, DID YOU DIE THO? or "What the heck is going on in the Dominican Republic?" In this...
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Vegan Chef Adyre Mason of The Veggie
This one is longer than normal, but, we PROMISE it is so worth it! While Lei's been to see Chef Adyre plenty of times, this is Carly & Mo's first time enjoying any of The Veggie's offerings! She brought muffins that Mo couldn't stop eating...haha. But, we can now officially say that we are ALL...
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Personal Branding: Are you walking the talk?
"It used to be called a reputation, now it's called a brand" - Carly Everyone has a brand, right? Whether it's intentional or not, there are things that people associate with each of us. The question we ask in this episode is, "What do you think your brand is and how do you make sure that's what...
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Can I Offer You Some Feedback?
First and foremost, we have to introduce our new co-host: Ms. Monique Gaines! She's been added to the group as our third. We are now a throuple! We've agreed that there isn't a Beyonce in the group either. We've changed our format a little with our new addition and we now have a Hot Topics…
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The #TweenieQueenie Monique Gaines
Our sister-friend, Monique Gaines, is the feature of our next episode in our #MagicInMay series. Monique Gaines is a petite plus-size model that is blazing the runway and representing for all women that find themselves as an “in between size”. She advocates that one size does not fit all, but ALL...
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Emotional Intelligence w/ Kisha Freed of Word X-press
On the first day of #MagicInMay, we present to you our first game changer, Kisha Freed from Word-Xpress, LLC. Kisha is the CEO and Found of Word-Xpress, LLC. She is a transformational speaker, writer, poet and workshop author and facilitator. Word-Xpress, LLC is a small business dedicated to...
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When does Self-Care become Self-ish?
We had a crazy busy weekend in Selma last weekend and we were TIRED, but we definitely wanted to tell you guys all about it. Apparently, we definitely look like we're not from Selma and we sprinkled our #blackgirlmagic all over that place!! This weekend was spent recovering and resting (our...
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How to Survive a Breakup Pt.2
We give you our favorite breakup songs, finish going through the stages of grief (breakup) and end with acceptance in the best way!
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How to Survive a Breakup Pt. 1
Part 1 of How to Survive a Breakup and we're using Carly as our "case study". She's just recently gotten out of a relationship and there are still questions and confusion. We talk about the things she's reached into her "Cope Chest" for and the times she's just had to "sit in it" and learn to...
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Fangirls Gone Wild: HBO's Insecure Seasons 1-3
After a weekend of binge watching HBO's Insecure...we spent the afternoon over analyzing every intimate interaction and relationship as if it held the key to life. Join us for this special fangirl episode where we geek out over the dopeness of seeing black women in all their glory, and seek to...
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What's In Your "Cope Chest"?
We all get lonely and feel a little melancholy sometimes and there are so many reasons why. We can feel lonely in a crowded room or surrounded by the people we love. So, in this episode we talk about all the different ways we have felt lonely and isolated and how we cope when it happens.…
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I'm not insecure, you're insecure
Finally! We answer our very first listener question. What is talking? What is dating? Are they different or just different ways of saying the same thing? Then we delve into insecurity. What makes each of us insecure, where it stems from and how we deal with our insecurities when they pop up. We...
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Dude, you CRAB BARRELLED me?!
I (Carly) got a message from my friend and she wanted to talk about the Crab effect and I was all, YASSS! Can I just say that we had so much fun discussing this?! We shared some of our experiences with the topic and how we dealt with them. Our guests, Jessica Fortune Barker and Gloria Hollins…
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Where's our protection??
Surviving R. Kelly. Cyntoia Brown. Yasmin James. When it comes to black girls and women, we often find ourselves asking this question. So we talk about the realities of being black women and feeling unprotected and unsafe. How do we get an environment where we feel protected? By creating it...
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When my children "fail", what does that say about me?
In this episode, we discuss the struggles we have as parents in determining how much influence we've had in our children's successes and failures. We also discuss the added struggle of raising a child of color and how their successes and failures can have an enormous impact on their futures. As...
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What is gaslighting and why do I love saying it so much?
Hey, it's Carly & Lei! Welcome Back! In this episode we talk about Gaslighting and what that means. We had to do some research ourselves to fully grasp how it's used to manipulate and control. It is a tactic used by manipulators to control and make the receiver feel "crazy" or "unhinged". To know...
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For some of us, it takes bravery to be honest...
Thank you so much for tuning into our small, mighty, but hopefully promising podcast. Let Me Tell You Something was designed to give two women of color the space to exist in all our splendor, to be fully human. So as you listen, it may feel like you’re eavesdropping in our two women in a café, or...
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