This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross. If you're a regular listener to our show,

you know that we have a new co-host, Tanya Mosley. She's not only a great interviewer,

she's a really interesting and thoughtful person whose life experiences

inform her approach to journalism and what she chooses to cover.

It's been great getting to know her better as we continue to work together.

I want you to get to know her better too. So my guest today is our co-host, Tanya Mosley.

She's had a wide-ranging career in journalism. She was an anchor of the NPRWBUR mid-day

new show here and now. She worked as the Silicon Valley Bureau Chief of Public Radio Station KQEDN

San Francisco. Earlier in her career, she was a TV reporter in several cities, including Seattle

and Louisville. She created and hosts the Webby Award-winning podcast Truth Be Told,

which is meant to be a safe space for black people to talk to each other and hear from experts in

many fields about family work, trauma, joy, and more. Tanya has described the podcast as exploring

quote, how you can be in a world that doesn't always want you to be your true self.

The fifth season is devoted to the therapeutic use of plant-based psychedelics,

magic mushrooms, de-heal trauma. Her focus is on healing racial trauma. As part of her reporting,

she went to a retreat in Jamaica to take mushrooms in a therapeutic setting

in an attempt to heal her own racial trauma. She grew up in Detroit in the 80s and 90s and says,

quote, it kind of felt like death knocking at your door. We'll talk about that later. Tanya,

welcome to your own show. I know, right? Kind of surreal. I know it's surreal for you too.

I'm looking forward to this. So the first time we met in person, you told me the story of how you

got into journalism. And I know you wanted to be a journalist when you were really young,

like how young and what got you so interested in the field.

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