Becoming Full of Yourself | Austin Channing Brown

We Can Do Hard Things

Treat Media and Glennon Doyle

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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440. Becoming Full of Yourself | Austin Channing Brown Author, speaker, and racial justice leader Austin Channing Brown joins us to share why centering the lives and voices of Black women isn’t just powerful—it’s transformative for everyone. In this conversation about truth-telling, liberation, and reimagining the future, we discuss: -The cost of cultural “belonging” and the radical freedom in refusing it;-Why the difference between justice and fairness matters more than we think;-How embodiment becomes a necessary act of resistance to white supremacy; and-The profound insider knowledge Black women carry that the world desperately needs. Austin Channing Brown is an author and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She is the New York Times bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness, a Reese’s Book Club pick. Her writing and work have been featured by outlets such as On Being, Chicago Tribune, Shondaland, and WNYC. Her latest book, Full of Myself: Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self-Possession, is available now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Austin Channing Brown is an author and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America.
0:18.0	She is the New York Times bestselling author of I'm Still Here, Black Dignity in a
0:23.1	World Made for Whiteness, A Reese's Book Club Pick, her latest book, full of myself,
0:29.7	Black Womanhood and the Journey to Self Possession is available now. Okay, Pod Squad, first of all,
0:36.7	you should know that before we begin, our guest today is one of my
0:40.8	favorite people on the entire planet. True. Same. Is that not true? It's true. So the person who is here
0:50.3	is the artist, the justice champion, Austin Channing Brown. Hello, my loves. I'm so glad to see
1:00.6	her faces. It's been too long. Austin has a new book out. The world is very lucky. Okay? And Austin's new book is called Full of Myself. And it is,
1:15.2	I think, the book for right now, the book for right now. It is the liberation story of a woman
1:24.2	reclaiming her full humanity in a world trying to keep her from that. And I sent
1:30.4	Austin an email this morning asking her if I could open up interview with this story. So when I got an
1:36.8	early copy, that's the best perk of my job, I sat down on the couch as Abby knows with my dogs
1:43.7	and my tea and I didn't move from the first page until the last.
1:49.0	Everyone else carried along with their day around me.
1:52.6	We did.
1:53.3	And so did she.
1:55.0	Yeah.
1:56.2	Because your writing just blew my mind in this book, which you know, because every 10 minutes,
2:03.0	I would stop and text you pictures of your own pages with just like WTF question mark,
2:09.1	question, question. And you're like, please. Okay. So because of my love for you and because
2:14.9	of my lifelong attempt to reembody myself, I related so
2:18.6	freaking deeply to this book. And so after I finished the last page, I wrote you and told you
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