Outside Is Still Ghetto (But My Voice Is Valid)
Brown Girl Self-Care
Brown Girl Self-Care
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
After an extended hiatus, I'm back behind the mic!! I’m sharing the raw reality of navigating a major life transition at 50, dealing with the structural games of the "outside world," and wrestling with the deeply colonized fear that unless you are young, trendy, and constantly producing, your voice doesn't matter.
Spoiler alert: It does matter.
True, decolonized self-care isn't about performing wellness or waiting until your life is perfectly wrapped in a bow to claim your space. It’s about standing squarely in your "unknown" and choosing your purpose anyway. Lean in as we untangle what it means to practice liberation in real-time, right from the trenches.
What We’re Unpacking In This Episode:
- The Reality of the Hiatus: Why I went silent for two months, and the vulnerability of questioning my validity in a digital age obsessed with youth and algorithms.
- "Outside is Still Ghetto": The logistics of taking a retail job for stability, navigating spaces that treat you like a number, and the sovereign act of collecting a paycheck without giving away your soul.
- The Universal Struggle for Meaning: Why checking external boxes will never fill an internal void, and how to find your anchor when your surroundings feel sparse or uncertain.
- The Reclaiming at 50: Why my mission to provide a space of encouragement and liberation for Black women doesn't pause just because I'm figuring out my own next steps.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, y'all, what's going on? Yes, it is me. It is Bree. And you are, in fact, listening |
| 0:07.3 | excuse me, to a new episode of the Brown Girl Self Care podcast, y'all. It has been a minute, a long |
| 0:16.9 | minute, yes, it's been a minute. But I am back. I'm pretty sure. I'm officially back for real, |
| 0:25.8 | for real. And, you know, real talk, I was scared to pick up the microphone for a minute because |
| 0:33.4 | I hadn't picked it up in such a long time. It's been what, like six, seven weeks, |
| 0:39.6 | maybe somewhere in there, maybe a little longer, maybe a little less, but somewhere in there. |
| 0:43.8 | And so I was just like, oh, I feel like I'm starting over from scratch all over again. |
| 0:49.1 | And I have to remember that I am the girl, the G-W-O-R-L that has already released like 300 episodes, right? |
| 0:57.5 | Sometimes when you have to get started again, it can feel really scary. You kind of get in your |
| 1:03.1 | mind a little bit. You forget about the things you've already done. You forget that it's okay |
| 1:07.5 | to start again. You forget that it's okay to not be perfect and to not, you know, |
| 1:13.3 | always be on point and have all the answers. And that's kind of like the space that I'm sitting in |
| 1:18.7 | right now. Oh, deep sigh. But yes, I am back. And it feels new and it feels scary, but it also feels very good. |
| 1:30.1 | I will say that my voice sounds a little bit different. |
| 1:32.0 | I am getting over a little bit of a something. |
| 1:34.7 | I don't know what, but I got sick a couple of days ago with all the snotting and the coffin. |
| 1:40.3 | And now I'm almost back to normal. |
| 1:42.0 | So it was interesting. |
| 1:42.5 | Maybe allergies. |
| 1:43.3 | I don't know. |
| 1:43.9 | Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that that is what is going on with my voice. |
| 1:48.6 | But, you know, today for this, I guess, first episode back, I don't even really have yet a title for this episode, but I do know that I want to share some |
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