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Taking Up Space: A Podcast
by Krystal Franklin
I'm Krystal Franklin, mostly known across the world wide web as an opinionated Journalist, host, and award-winning producer. Online, my career and life has the ability to look glamorous, but IRL it's actually quite the opposite. I share my personal and professional experiences to encourage others to operate at their highest potential and to fully take up space in the world by pushing past fear, doubt, and insecurities.
Episodes
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Undeserving & Unlovable?!
Can I be honest? I often default to feelings of unlovable and underserving when things go wrong in my life. It’s largely because I always heard how I was “too much” growing up. Even now, friends will jokingly say it, and although I lean into it, shit still stings. In this episode I explore where...
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God, Where TF Are You? (Giving Up, Cancer?! + More)
I'm saying goodbye to life as I've known it and I'm pissed and sad and upset and disappointed and angry, forcing me to ask one of the most honest questions yet, "God, how is this love?"
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Why I Broke Up With My Friends
Quite possibly my favorite topic to talk about besides sex, love, and relationships is friendships. Which as we all know, is a relationship in itself that also requires nurturing, attention, encouragement, and sometimes even separation. What happens when you find yourself no longer enjoying the...
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Who Would I Be If You Were Still Here?
I’m fucking proud of myself for unlearning, divorcing traditional thought, and establishing boundaries. I only know myself broken from practically birth. Would’ve love to know who I would’ve grown into if I was born healed.
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For Colored Girls Who Are Tired of Feeling
Life sucks right now. And that’s perfectly okay to say.
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Who Inspires The Inspired?
I’ve been struggling quite a bit over the last six months with feeling disconnected from all the things I’m famously known for online – my work, my voice, my impact, this podcast…even conversations around #WithABoy has dwindled because, well quite frankly, ain’t no mothafuckin' boys to talk…
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Dear Krystal
A love letter to myself.
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How Long Does it Take a Heart to Heal?
When I think about those four months of my life I smile. I’m grateful that I was introduced and got to live in the most beautiful bubble of love ever. And as much as those moments were incredible — I’m ready to move on. Almost desperate to. As much as ebbing and flowing is apart of life, I done…
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The Greatest Love...Ever?
Sometimes the only way to be supportive is by walking away.
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"I Heard About The Real"
Since March rumors about my job were floating around online and in April they were confirmed. After 8 season The Real was being cancelled. And as you can imagine, I was instantly flooded with messages, some even a month prior to any confirmation of any thing. I was annoyed. Big time. After almost...
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I've Gotta One Year Old!
Wow. We’re ONE! It’s so crazy to think how quick this year has gone by since Taking Up Space was created. Everything about my personal and professional life has changed, which you all know all about by now. I am so damn grateful for just how incredible God has moved on my behalf. I only want to…
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Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby Part II (Answering Your Questions)
“For the most part, a man will orgasm regardless, what are your thoughts about women having their orgasms first in whatever manner that pleases them, then having intercourse to please their man?” “How do you think your sexual life would’ve been different had you actually learned what you now…
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Let's Talk About Sex, Baby
My arrival at sexual liberation and freedom was severely delayed. My relationship with sex has changed drastically, mostly because I no longer subscribed to a lot of the bullshit I was taught. The scare tactics of purity and "what you won't do another woman will" was embedded at such a young age…
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I Have PTSD
"Now that you're out of my life I'm so much better..." And while I am better, a HELL OF A LOT better, I still carry around the effects of being a survivor, and it's showing up in so clear now more than ever. This episode walks you through real-time growth at one of the most crucial parts of my...
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#KrysTakesLA
In the last two months, life has changed drastically. I turned 34 and secretly moved from Maryland to Los Angeles during WFH orders to make a 13-year dream come true. Less than a month after leaping a MASSIVE net appeared in only a way God gets the glory for. Here's how it happened.
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Somebody's Somebody
One of the worst things women do is make men pay for a heart they didn't break because of unresolved daddy issues. In many ways, I feel like a fatherless daughter. It has shaped my life in more ways than I can imagine. Every relationship in my life, albeit personal, familial, or romantic has been...
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Shrinking In Places You've Outgrown
It's normal to outgrow people and things and jobs, but if you're not honest about your feelings you can find yourself stuck in a loveless relationship, a friendship that lacks reciprocity and a job that doesn't value you. Want to chase your dreams? Want to start over? Get comfortable with being...
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Disappointed, Again?
Disappointment means you're actually living and not just existing. You've opened yourself to love but found yourself heartbroken. You've accepted your dream job but now you hate it. You've forgiven but only to be taken advantage of again. How do you process pain in the wake of constant...
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You Can't Win If You Don't Play
At the end of April Netflix announced a new podcast hosted by two popular Black women in the media and social media space. Alongside the many congratulations were several declarations of disappointment from women that worked in the same industry. The question? Why did it seem as if the same group...
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Life For Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
This has been my life's motto for as long as I can remember. And if I'm honest I always felt as if my journey was unnecessarily hard and wrought with annoying challenges and unavoidable heartache. This episode starts at the beginning, growing up as an only child in a single-parent home. Riddled...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
I'm Krystal Franklin, mostly known across the world wide web as an opinionated Journalist, host, and award-winning producer. Online, my career and life has the ability to look glamorous, but IRL it's actually quite the opposite. I share my personal and professional experiences to encourage others to operate at their highest potential and to fully take up space in the world by pushing past fear, doubt, and insecurities.
HOSTED BY
Krystal Franklin
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I'm Krystal Franklin, mostly known across the world wide web as an opinionated Journalist, host, and award-winning producer. Online, my career and life has the ability to look glamorous, but IRL it's actually quite the opposite. I share my personal and professional experiences to encourage others...
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