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We Weren't Told
by Angel Beswick-Reid
Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow. But the generation that waited for dial-up and pen-pal letters grew up to inherit a very different reality.Hosted by Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial women inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners name the tensions and question the rules they’ve been living by and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.
Episodes
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Episode 27 - If At First You Don’t Succeed, Titrate Titrate Again
Two weeks ago I gave you an assignment, then went quiet to do one of my own: a virtual writer’s summit that introduced me to a concept I haven’t stopped thinking about since, and a reminder that a year ago I had no podcast and now I have twenty-five episodes. In this episode we’re: Unpacking...
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Episode 26 - Time to Get Your Shit Together!
A tattoo on the wrist of an 80-year-old woman I met in Wisconsin, some feedback from a faithful listener, and a book that finally convinced me to stop waiting for my ducks to get in a row. It's a short one this week, because I'm practising what I preach! Let's get our shit together, well --...
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Episode 25 - Forty-Three
I turned 43 yesterday, and it felt less like arriving somewhere and more like the moment on a sports massage table when a deep knot finally releases — painful, then unexpectedly lighter. In this episode we're: Revisiting what my 40th birthday looked like compared to yesterday, and what changed in...
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Episode 24 - The Second Job Millennials Never Interviewed For
I haven't posted on Instagram in about two weeks — not because I decided to, but because my body decided for me. It all started with a weird afternoon nap and a headache that showed up the moment I thought about posting. In this episode we're: Unpacking the difference between being a memory maker...
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Episode 23 - We're Failing Millennial Mothers
** TW: Discussions of suicide and filicide. Please take care while listening ** I've been sitting with the Lindsay Clancy case — a mother who strangled her three children and then tried to take her own life after repeatedly telling doctors and family she was in mental crisis — and what it…
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Episode 22 - Interrupting the Pattern
I missed an episode last week because I was deep in the administration of my father's estate — and then I went to Wisconsin, to the writing workshop I'd impulsively booked, and let a wave of grief knock me over on an island with no memories of him waiting for me. In this episode we're: Naming why…
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Episode 21 - Forty Four Messages
A family member told me to remember "positive memories only" about my late father, and it made me so angry I couldn't speak -- until I did. One reel and forty-four messages later from strangers in their own grief, I've made a decision I didn't expect to make, and I'm officially opening a new...
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Episode 20 - The Longest Twenty
CJ and I just celebrated sixteen years of marriage with less than twenty hours away in the Blue Mountains. Nope, not afull weekend, and nope, not a fancy resort -- just a quiet, small Airbnb room in the mountains. As a result, I finally understood something my writing mentor tried to explain when…
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Episode 19 - Gather Your Girls
I hosted Girls Night In: Hobbies Edition last Saturday — pyjamas, wings, a colouring book from the pharmacy — because a particular type of silence has opened up in my life in the past few months, which made me realize I hadn't been tending my friendships the way they deserved. Turns out gathering...
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Episode 18: Eyes Closed, Card Out
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I just closed my eyes and put a very large writing workshop bill on my credit card — flights, a ferry, the whole thing — and felt the exact same rush I felt in my twenties buying eighty dollar perfumes I couldn't...
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Episode 17: Because I Said So
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. A fifteen-second video landed in my high school group chat this week. It was a video of our alma mater's newest graduating class -- cap and gown, hotel ballroom, the whole thing. It sent me straight back to the...
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Episode 16: I'm Not That Kind of Girl
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I decided a long time ago that I wasn't a football person. No maps, no cardinal directions, no football — these were just facts about me, or so I thought. Then I asked my gym trainer a question about football…
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Episode 15: Because Of, Not In Spite Of
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was recently in a room full of women my age — millennials and Gen X — gathered to learn from a woman who is genuinely excellent at what she does. I'm talking senior in her field and decades in. We were there to...
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Episode 14: Sis M, Is That You?
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Fair warning — this is my voice after four days of flu and zero voice, and it's either this or I don't show up. And we are not doing that. We went to Ocho Rios for Father's Day weekend, and somewhere between the AC…
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Episode 13: Your Body Is Keeping Score
We Weren't Told | Episode 13: Your Body Is Keeping Score Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I've been in the thick of something heavy with some family members — and then I got a message from one of my most cherished friends that made everything I'd…
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Episode 12: Aren't We More?
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I went to a moms' networking event a few weeks ago and as part of an icebreaker, a woman pulled a pair of tiny socks out of her handbag. She said being her son's mother is the most important thing she has ever done…
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Episode 11: 99 Problems - Is Getting Older One?
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Threads was on fire this morning. Jay-Z showed up at The Roots Picnic — combed-out locks, dressed in the black Tims, fifty-seven years old and completely himself. Meanwhile Drake dropped three albums after two years…
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Episode 10: The Boiled Egg
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I'll be honest — this episode almost didn't happen. I've been in a two-day existential funk, the real "is this it?" kind, not the tagline kind. It was CJ who told me to just talk about it. So here I am, Monday at…
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Episode 9: The S Word
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I had coffee recently with a woman I've known since I was four years old — same prep school, same high school, now both mothers of twelve-year-olds. Part of our convo was about what Catholic school did to us, and…
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Episode 8: What Happens When the Street Goes Quiet?
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was at my favourite café last week — the one I go to alone, to write — when something ordinary happened — a cashier was filming content, a beautiful young man stepped into the sunlight, and I realised I was on the...
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Episode 7: Crashout Season
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I'm going to be honest with you — I have been crashing out for the last two weeks. Eleven minute voice notes, therapy, ceiling-staring. A full, sustained emotional crash. And I almost didn't make this episode because…
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Episode 6: The Jealousy Card
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. By now you've seen the video. Noah Lyles. Junelle Bromfield. The dress reveal. And we need to talk about it — not just the moment itself, but what the reaction to it revealed about something much deeper that…
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Episode 5: Off the Menu
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And...
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Episode 4: Brandy Is Us
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Brandy Norwood just published her memoir — and it cracked something open. Because Brandy isn't a celebrity story we're watching from a safe distance. She's one of the girls we grew up with, and what happened to her...
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Episode 3: Grown and Grieving: What Losing a Parent Feels Like
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. This Friday is the fifth anniversary of my father's death. This Sunday, I'll be at carnival road march in Jamaica — sequins, soca, full colour, all of it. And I'm not pretending those two things don't exist in the…
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Episode 2: What A Boring Lunch Can Tell You
Millennial girlies, let me ask you something — when's the last time you actually tasted your lunch? Episode 2 is here, and we're slowing down long enough to notice the things we've been too busy to question. It's about running on autopilot — and what happens when you finally step off it. Picture...
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Episode 1: So Who TF am I anyway?
Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. Before I get into anything else on this podcast, I thought you deserved to know who I am and why I'm the one having this conversation with you. Who is Angel? How did I get here? And why this podcast? We Weren’t Told...
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As Millennial mothers, we were given a road map: build the career, find your person, have the kids and stability would follow. But as the generation that waited for dial-up to connect and letters from pen pals, we grew up to inherit a very different reality. In this trailer, host Angel — lawyer...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow. But the generation that waited for dial-up and pen-pal letters grew up to inherit a very different reality.Hosted by Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial women inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners name the tensions and question the rules they’ve been living by and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.
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