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Badass Basic Bitch

Healing from the Past to Become the Best Version of Myself with Christy Parisi

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

Self-improvement, Entrepreneur, Life Coach, Career, Mom Boss, Mom, Working Mom, Parenting, Education

4.2529 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode we have Christy Parisi, who is a single mom, special education teacher, blogger, and part-time singer in an emo pop-punk band. As a long time listener of the Badass Basic Bitch podcast, it's Christy's turn to share her personal story of navigating divorce, mental health, recovering from a toxic environment in childhood, being a single mom, setting boundaries, and finding a community of people she trusts. After separating from her ex, Christy moved from a giant four-bed...

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0:00.0

What's up, Badi Bees?

0:11.7

I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

0:18.5

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

0:23.8

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

0:30.6

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club.

0:41.9

Beautiful. Welcome to the Batty B Club. It is okay to step boundaries.

0:44.8

Just because someone is blood related to you, it does not make it okay for them to hurt you in any way.

0:58.5

You are a lot obligated to let that happen because they are related to you by blood.

1:10.5

Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

1:13.9

On today's show, we have Christy Parisi, who is a single mom special education teacher, blogger, and part-time singer in an emo pop punk band.

1:24.2

And we just talked about this, and I still said it wrong, pop punk band.

1:28.2

Christy is a longtime listener of Badass Basic Bitch Podcast. And she is here today to share her

1:34.0

personal story of navigating through divorce, mental health, being a single mom, setting those

1:40.4

boundaries, and finding a community of people she trusts. So, Christy, thank you so much for

1:46.2

being here today. Oh my gosh. Thank you so much for having me. This is like surreal right now.

1:53.2

So cool. I'm so excited and honored to be here. Thank you. Yeah, I was telling Christy,

1:58.0

you know, we've had people contact us on Instagram, on my Instagram,

2:02.4

even email us. And we always consider everybody's story, always. And there's some, you know,

2:08.7

there's some stories that we've already had a ton of episodes about and we might pass,

2:15.0

but still engage in conversation. And so when I saw Christy's and I read her story, I was like, I have to share this.

2:21.2

And plus, I love that you're such a long time listener.

2:26.3

And so I was honored to have you on the podcast.

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