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Shades of Strong® Podcast | From “Strong Black Woman” to Supported Black Woman — 273 episodes
I Said What I Said. Ain’t Going Back and Forth With You
You're Going to Make It After All
26 Black Women | The Story the Stories Told
When You’re Doing Everything Right and Still Feel Invisible with Radiah Shabazz Harold
When Work Becomes Your Identity with Joyel Crawford
When There’s Nothing Left to Be Strong For with Shelley Washington
Being the One Everyone Depends On with Dr. Candice Dawson
The Weight of Being the Emotional Caretaker with Achea Redd
When “I Got It” Was No Longer True with Tasha Randle
Being the Strong One in Rooms Not Built for Me with Cynthia Strickland
When My Body Said No | Chronic Pain in Black Women with Fawn Walker Montgomery
26 Black Women: What Strength Took. What Support Could Have Given
How to Answer “You Okay” When You’re Not
The Quiet Way We Start Neglecting Ourselves
When Your Body Doesn’t Feel Safe Enough to Receive
On Questioning Whether What You Do Even Matters
The Pressure to Create Balance Is Wearing You Out
Galentine’s Day Isn’t About the Loud Moments
What It Really Means to Find Your "Free"
Trust Sounds Simple Until It Isn’t
Is It Intuition… or Overthinking?
When Work Is Draining You and You Can’t Afford to Stop
When Music Holds What Words Can’t
I'm Not Knocking Being Strong, But...
Support Was Our First Language (Not Love)
When the Small Things Feel Too Big
Can You Find the Courage to Not Be All Things?
It’s the Reciprocity (or Lack Thereof) for Me
You Don’t Have to Be Strong for Anyone Today
Since When Did Boundaries Make Me Mean?
The Voice in Your Head Isn't Always You
Support When You Don't Even Know What You Need
The Exhaustion of Always Having to Explain
Coming Back to Yourself
“I Have To” — But Do You Really?
God Don't Play About You
Who Are You Outside of the Roles Your Play
2025 Had Hands… But It Also Had Layers
Don’t Forget to Put You on the List
Reclaiming Rest, Wellness, and Your Whole Self w/ Tara Pringle Jefferson
How We Friend: A Conversation About Support and Sisterhood w/Alyson Brown and Mia Brinson
A Black Woman’s Dream, Delayed but Still Divine
Have You Checked On Your Strong Friend?
Tired of Being the Strong One? The Hard Truth Behind Letting Go
Finding Support in the Pause
Why Self-Care Sundays and the Soft Life Aren’t Enough
When a Black Woman is Well, Everybody’s Well with Dr. Cecily Moore
When "Support" is Present But You Still Feel Alone
When You're All You've Got | Feeling Unsuppoted As A Black Woman
When Everything Feels Heavy
You Give a F*ck Way Too Much | The Emotional Labor of it All
Learning to Hold Yourself When No One Else Does
Hot Combs, Safe Spaces, and Growing Up Black
You Don't Owe Struggle Your Loyalty
What Ruth and Boaz Taught Me (That Church Never Did)
Protecting Your Peace or Getting Your Lick Back
If You Mean Black Women, Say Black Women
Love Will Never Be Enough
A Mother's Day Reflection: When Love is There, But Support Isn't
Support When You’re in the Thick of a Thing
Rebuilding Your Capacity to Be Held
You Don’t Have to Explain Your Tired
One Soft Moment Can Change Everything
Embracing Joy and Struggle (in that order)
The Conversation That Could Save You From Choosing the Wrong Partner
Honoring Your Capacity
5 Kinds of Support Black Women Need (But Aren’t Getting)
Soulful Sunday | This Week Feels Like Flow
When Support Feels Far Away
You’re Not Ungrateful—Help Just Isn’t the Same as Support
Soulful Sunday | This Week Feels Like Letting Go
The See What You Do, But Do They See YOU?
Soulful Sunday | This Week Feels Like Wholeness
Stop Pushing Through. Reclaiming Space and Support
Soulful Sunday | This Week Feels Like Play
What Happens When You Let Go of "I’ve Got It"
Why Black Women Need Friends Who Truly See Them
Support for Black Women That Actually Supports
Don’t Bring All of That "Strong One" Energy into 2025
Recharge and Reconnect to What Truly Matters
Day 22: Holding Yourself in Contempt
Day 21: Finding Hope in Broken Places
Day 20: Knowing When to Walk Away
Day 19: Focusing on What You Can Control
Day 18: Overcoming Fear When Shift Happens
Day 17: Embracing Change When Life Gets Messy
Day 16: Breaking Generational Curses
Day 15: Building a Legacy That Matters
Day 14: Taking Care of Your Body and Physical Health
Day 13: Finding a Reason to Wake up in the Mornings
Day 12: Balancing Prioritizing Yourself and Handling Your Responsibilities
Day 11: Creating a [Saturday] Morning Routine
Day 10: Validating Your Feelings and Experiences
Day 9: Building Great Relationships with Great People
Day 8: Practicing Self-compassion
Day 7: Finding Quiet Moments When Life is Loud
Day 6: Letting Go of the Need to Control | Trusting the Process
Day 5: Embracing Vulnerability for True Connection
Day 4: Self-Care Rituals That Nurture Your Inner Peace
Day 3: Setting Boundaries and Reclaiming Your Life
Day 2: Identifying Your Priorities
Day 1: The Dark Side of Saying Yes
"Me-First": A 30-Day Journey to Self-Love & Boundaries
Healing the Feminine A Path to Rediscovering You w/Deneen Tyler
Father Wound: A Path to Healing with Dr. LaSondra Barnes
From Hurt to Healing: Navigating Trauma with Tigest Beyene
Unmasking Mental Health with Donnita Hathaway
Mental Health and the Black Female Experience w/Aubri McKoy
The Intersection of Neurodivergence & Vulnerability w/Traci Neal
Navigating and Healing from the Mother Wound w/Alyson Brown
The Power of Acknowledgement and Accountability
Breaking Free from the Ride or Die Mentality with Shanita Hubbard
Fostering a Discipline of Humanzing Ourselves
Empowering Conversations for Black Women: Season Premiere Trailer
Black Women Embracing Being Soft and Strong [A Summer of Encores]
Tearing Down Emotional Walls [A Summer of Encores]
Black Women Ain't Out Here Angry For Nothing [A Summer of Encores]
Healing From the Pain and Trauma of Past Experiences [A Summer of Encores]
Unlearning People Pleasing Behavior [A Summer of Encores]
Be the Friend You Want to Experience [A Summer of Encores]
Supporting Others Through Emotional Pain [A Summer of Encores]
Black Girls Socialized to Be Strong [A Summer of Encores]
Tšhegofatšo Ndabane on Her Approach to Overcoming Burnout
Signs Your Strong Friend Needs Support
Paballo Rampa on Celebrating Herself, and Healing Ancestral Trauma
Adrienne Allen on When You Have to Let Your Mother Go
Finding Peace When Everything Seems to Be Falling Apart
Finding Peace When You Hate Your Job
Safe Spaces and Why Black Women Need Them
When Being Independent Goes "Strong"
Creating Space for Vulnerability & Becoming Your Own Safe Place
Checking In With Yourself as a Daily Practice
Nancey B. Price on Why She Doesn't Identify As a Strong Black Woman
Black History Month and the Black Women We Love
Godly Love and the Dehumanization of Black Women
Loving on Yourself First and Reclaiming Your Enoughness
Cultivating Healthy GIRLfriendships
Wins, Challenges, Revelations and Permission to Reset
Who Holds You Accountable When You're Doing the Most?
Nurture Yourself, Sis! It’s Your Birthright.
F*ck Being Strong. It's Time to Float with the Tide, Sis!
Season 6 Opener | Setting Clear Intentions for Doing "Strong" Differently
Season Closer | You Are the Rise of the Black Woman
Accepting Yourself Fully is the Real Glow Up
Guarding Your Yes vs Saying No
Being Still & Embracing Quiet Moments
A Journey to Being Soft and Strong
The Journey Towards, Vulnerability, Grace, and Ease
Mental Health, Resilience and Post-Partum Depression
Being Steady, Present and Free Even When Life Be Lifing
Finding Comfort in Sitting with Uncomfortable Emotions
Season 5 Trailer | Dance to the Beat of Your Own Strong
DAY 30 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Magical Things Happen When Black Women Heal
DAY 29 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Dear Black Women, You Deserve to Heal
DAY 28 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Getting off the Hamster Wheel of Perfectionism
DAY 27 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Doing the Work to Heal the Mother Daughter Wound
DAY 26 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Perfectionism - Mary Jane's Response to Unresolved Trauma
DAY 25 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | DAY 25 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Why Mary Jane (and you) Keep Getting Love Bombed
DAY 24 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Perfectionism, Alignment, and the Pursuit of Love
DAY 23 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Has Anyone Told You Your Needs Matter?
DAY 22 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Dear Mary Jane Paul, Perfection ≠ Success
DAY 21 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Strategies to Doing Life Without Performing and Manipulating
DAY 20 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Consequences of Hiding Your True Self
DAY 19 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Consequences of Being a Manipulator
DAY 18 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Lack of Emotional Safety and Security
DAY 17 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Annalise Keating - The Fight to Flight
DAY 16 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Annalise Keating - The Need to Control
DAY 15 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Annalise Keating - The Master Manipulator and Performer
DAY 14 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Strategies to Stop Feeling Like You Have Something to Prove
DAY 13 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | You Don't Have to Be Anyone's Ride or Die
DAY 12 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Be Yourself and Free Yourself from Proving Yourself
DAY 11 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Need to Prove Yourself & Power of Healing in Community
DAY 10 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Fight Trauma Response & Cookie Lyon
DAY 9 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding |The Ride or Die That is Cookie Lyon
DAY 8 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Is Cookie Lyon an Angry Black Woman
DAY 7 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Kick People Pleasing to the Curb
DAY 6 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Ten Whole Years of People Pleasing
DAY 5 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | People Pleasing - A Harmless Act of Love or a Mental Health Risk?
DAY 4 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | Why We Become People Pleasers
DAY 3 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | The Side Effects of Being the Strong Black Superwoman
DAY 2 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding | When Love Becomes Kryptonite
Day 1 Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding
Superwoman Must Die | Slaying the Strong Black Woman Syndrome
Don't Call Me Superwoman | Say it with Your Whole Chest
Uncaping, Unmasking, Unhiding the Black Female Body
When Little Black Girls Are Socialized to Be Strong
A Black Girl Daring to Heal
The Power of Sista to Sista Friendships w/Lana Hunter & Melissa J. Nixon
Anyonita G. on Being Olivia Pope via the Superwoman Archetype Quiz
Is Your Mother Wound Keeping You Separated from the Joys of Sistahood
Black from the Past™Featuring Willie (Big Mama) Thornton
Can the Sistahood Circle Be Unbroken?
Black from the Past™ | Mary Eliza Mahoney
Identifying the Layers of the Black Superwoman Cape
Season 4 Trailer | Things We've Lost to the Superwoman Cape
Healing the Little Black Girl Behind the Strong Black Woman
Rest. Because Sometimes Your Strength Gets Tired
The Fine Line Between Being Independent and TOO Independent
Never Let What THEY Think of You Silence You
You Get to Be Strong and Vulnerable
Strong Black Women Feel Things Too
You Are the Most Important Person in Your Life
Is It Time to Retire the Strong Black Woman Title?
Season Finale | Let's Imagine a New Normal Together
It's Time to Level Up. Can You Help a Sista Out?
Black from the Past™ | Honoring Phyllis Hyman
Colorism | When They Say You’re Pretty for a Dark Skinned Girl
Black from the Past™ | Honoring Margaret Garner
The Sexualization of Black Women and Girls
Why Millennials and Gen Z’ers Are Rejecting Being Strong
Dear Black People, It's Okay to Pause From the Cause
People Pleasing Ain't It | Live Your Life, Sis
Juneteenth | Still Breaking Chains
Dear Black Woman, You Have a Right to Be Angry!
The Revolution is Being Televised with Ife Madzimoyo
Podcasters for Justice | We Stand Against Racism and Police Brutality
Forgiving Yourself and Others When You Don't Feel Like Forgiving
From Generation to Generation the Trauma Overflows PART 2
From Generation to Generation the Trauma Overflows Pt 1
When the Trauma is From God
When the Emotional Walls Come Tumbling Down
Moving Past the Guilt and Shame of the Breakup
The Guilt of Being a Single Black Mom
Moving on When Life Let's You Down
Fatherless Black Girls and Daddy Issues
Dear Sis, You Don't Have to Fake It
Season 3 Trailer: Let's Get This Healing, Sis!
Raising a Black Son in White America
Black Girl Happy with Randi B
Living Life on My Terms My Own Way with Gina Neely
The Fight to JUST BE (Seen and Heard) Continues
Black Women Can Never Not See Color
A Black Woman’s Guilt and Shame
Girl Bye! Boy Stop! I Choose Me
Black Women Don’t Need a Captain Save a Queen
Emotional Spending — Black Women Be Shoppin’
Forgiveness, Broken Trust, Come Get Your Healing!
Mailbag Episode Part ONE: Self-Worth, Youth and Privacy, Single Mom’ing Oh My!
Taking Care of You In and Out of “Crisis Season” Featuring Michelle Goodloe
Let’s Do it Again | Shades of Strong Episode Compilation
Where is God When Life Happens
Finding Yourself, Owning Your Voice and Standing in Your Truth
Emotional Healing | Don’t Tell Me How to Heal PERIOD!
Sisterhood | They Smile in Your Face
I’m My Child’s Friend AND I’m Still in Control
Black Men and Strong Black Women | The Great Divide
Rape Culture Within The Culture | S2Epi008
What They Call Us When They See Us | S2Epi007
Habits that Keep Black Women Stuck | S2Epi006
Trapped in a Bad Relationship: Why We Can’t Just Leave | S2Epi005
Black Girls! Protect Your Magic! | S2Epi003
Behind the Mask of the Angry Black Woman | Featuring Ife Madzimoyo
How Enough Am I?
The Cost of Being a Strong Black Woman | S2Epi001
Welcome to Shades of Strong Season Two
The Death of Get Naked LIVE
014: The Strong Black Woman vs. White Privilege w/Amy Brooks
013: Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair
I’m Coming Out Naked and Unashamed
This is Not Good Bye – It’s See You Later
012: Loving Every Fiber of Your Naked Self w/Kaila Boulware
011: Forgiving Your Offender After Sexual and Physical Abuse w/Nicole K. Jones
010: Teen Dating Violence: Good Girls DO Kiss & Tell w/Juanita Foster
009: Ditching the Mask and Coming out of Hiding w/Adelai Brown
008: Walking Through Grief and Healing w/Danielle Dunn
007: Emotional Resilience: Bouncing Back After the Storm w/Gabrielle Leonard
006: Releasing the Pain and Trauma of the Past w/ Angela Roulette
005: Strong Black Women and the Men Who Love Them w/ Rob Badgett
004: Giving Yourself Permission to Not (Always) Be Okay w/RaShaunda Fuller
003: Processing Anger and Setting Personal Boundaries w/Maisha Hudson
002: Your Power Lies in Being Naked and Unashamed w/Contessa Cooper
001: The Strong Black Woman and the Shame of it All w/Chelsea Wallace
Season 1: Welcome (Get Naked LIVE Trailer)