I Used To Be A Pick-Me Ft. Via
Good Moms Bad Choices
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 89 minutes
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Summary
This week, the Good Moms sit down with creator and liberated baddie, Via, for a raw, hilarious, and deeply healing convo on pick-me culture, sex work, motherhood, and becoming the main character in your own life.
In this episode, you’ll hear:
- How Via went from “pick-me” dating advice to empowering women online
- The connection between trauma, sex work, and calling dissociation “empowerment”
- Why leaving a mentally abusive relationship unlocked her feminine rage
- How acupuncture + somatic therapy changed everything!
- The truth about performative sex, porn, and what she actually wants now
- Why safe female friendships can feel more protective than a man
- Reparenting yourself while parenting your child
- Via in the Trigger hot seat plus a very on-brand “bad choice” at the spa
Via opens up about growing up without much guidance, entering sex work at 20, and how her journey helped her walk away from toxic love, reparent herself, and choose herself for the first time. The ladies get into safety, patriarchy, friendship, pussy power, and why sometimes your whole life changes after one needle and one breakup. Tune in to hear how this week’s tarot card pull (hello, Nine of Pentacles) affirms the entire conversation!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Once upon a time, there was a good old traditional housewife. |
| 0:08.0 | She cooked, she cleaned, cared for her children in the man of the house, and of course, |
| 0:12.5 | she didn't talk back. |
| 0:14.1 | She was both obedient and soft by nature. |
| 0:16.6 | She was a good woman who always made good choices. |
| 0:20.2 | Shut that shit off. |
| 0:21.8 | We're good moms bad choices. |
| 0:23.1 | Two single moms who said fuck the patriarchy. |
| 0:25.4 | Sheared all their bad choices. |
| 0:26.6 | And found out they weren't so bad after all. |
| 0:28.3 | We're experts, overshares, and your new bestie. |
| 0:31.0 | Sit back and enjoy the ride. |
| 0:33.0 | I can do a bad all on my own. |
| 0:36.1 | You can hold me back. I can do fat all on my own You can hold me back |
| 0:38.1 | I can too fat all on my own |
| 0:41.1 | When ain't no turning back |
| 0:43.2 | Give me my flowers |
| 0:44.8 | Welcome back to Good Mom's Bad Choices |
| 0:46.7 | I'm Erica |
| 0:47.5 | And I'm Mila |
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