I Have Some Thoughts Minisode | 10 years of Insecure, Drake & The White House, James Charles, Cheyenne Bryant
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our new minisode series, "I Have Some Thoughts." These short episodes are designed to contextualize the pop culture moments we're currently paying attention to through a mental health lens. Pop culture isn't just fun to chat about, it can reveal important information about how we relate, cope, and understand ourselves. Join us each Friday to hear Dr. Joy share her thoughts about the happenings of the week.
This week, we're chatting about the 10 year anniversary of Insecure, the White House using Drake's Iceman cover art, James Charles' lack of empathy, and the need for credentials as a mental health professional.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:14.1 | Hey, y'all, we are back with another I have some thoughts, mini-soude, |
| 0:18.3 | where we are talking about some of the pop culture things that you may be |
| 0:21.5 | talking about paying attention to but from a mental health lens and i am here this week with |
| 0:27.3 | alice who many of you have heard on the podcast before she is our director of podcasting and digital |
| 0:31.8 | content hey alice hey dr joy i'm so excited for this week's rundown. We have a lot to talk about. |
| 0:39.1 | All right. Where do we start? So I'm going to kick it off with a topic that is very near and dear to me. This year, we are celebrating 10 years of Insecure. And Who am I excited? Insecure came out. I was a freshman in college. I think I had like recently |
| 0:55.8 | moved into it wasn't even my first month. So I have a lot of kind of formative memories tied to |
| 1:01.2 | insecure. And so now that we're 10 years after the show's premiere, Issa Ray and Prentice Penny, |
| 1:07.0 | who's insecure showrunner, have launched the rewatch podcast Block Party, so, you know, |
| 1:12.9 | the Block CC, where they'll be discussing behind the scenes, anecdotes, and spilling on what it |
| 1:18.6 | took to bring the show to life. We talked about the show on this podcast. It was definitely |
| 1:25.0 | still going on when I first joined. And from like through conversations |
| 1:29.3 | with you, conversations with our audience, we know that the show has connected with so many |
| 1:33.2 | black women in so many aspects of life. It sparked many conversations about dating, |
| 1:39.1 | career, and family life. And so much of what the show discussed just seemed to resonate with people, I think, |
| 1:46.4 | more than a lot of shows have over the past couple years. I want to start with, where were you |
| 1:51.3 | when you first saw insecure? Ooh, 2016. So I was the mom of a three-year-old and a newborn, probably. |
| 2:02.0 | So I was deep in the trenches of figuring out my life with kids. |
| 2:06.3 | And I don't remember exactly what month it premiered. |
| 2:08.8 | And I don't remember exactly where I was when I saw the premiere. |
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