People-Pleasing and Co-Dependency with Taneshia Johnson

Badass Basic Bitch

Brianna Dunbar-DeMike

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

4.2 • 529 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Taneshia Johnson is an associate clinical social worker, self-care coach, and first-time author of the book entitled When Depression And Anxiety Have A Voice. She specializes in emotional self-care as well as codependency. Taneshia believes self-awareness can help everyone define who they are and what they need in life in order to have joy and peace. Taneshia has helped hundreds of men and women through one on one coaching sessions as well as her self-care workshops. Codependency ...

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0:00.0	What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.
0:18.4	Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary things,
0:24.4	and I get to share her story with you.
0:26.9	So let's go.
0:28.3	Buckle up as we're going to get real and dive into the shit nobody talks about.
0:33.5	Welcome to the Batty B Club.
0:40.8	That passion. Welcome to the Batty B Club. That pattern of our caregiver or parent, they abandoned us or they rejected us.
0:46.5	In our minds, we took that on as we're not worthy of love, you know, just being here on this earth.
0:54.1	You know, we're not worthy of us, you know, just being here on this earth. You know, we're not worthy of us, you know, being taken care of by people.
0:58.9	And so we learned that the codependency comes in.
1:03.1	And that becomes the way that we feel like we have to exist.
1:10.0	Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.
1:13.9	On today's episode, we are blessed with the presence of Tanisha Johnson, who is a social worker who lives in California and her main focus is helping those who struggle with peopleasing and codependent tendencies through her company,
1:30.8	Tj. Self-Care. Tanisha, thank you so much for being here today. Yes, Brianna, I'm so excited about
1:38.1	today. Thank you. I am excited too. So why don't you tell us a little bit more about yourself and how you found yourself
1:47.8	working with people who suffer from, people pleasing and codependency? Around the age of like 30,
1:54.9	which was about, oh, eight years ago now, I just wasn't feeling myself. You know, I was sad aligned. I had just ended a situation
2:04.3	ship, you know, I should call it. And I was just kind of lost about what direction to go. And so I always
2:12.7	knew about, you know, therapy because I myself, you know, referred my clients to therapy. I'm a social
2:18.7	worker in my 9 to 5. And so I would always, you know, refer my clients for counseling and therapy.
2:25.7	It was a hard pill for me to swallow knowing that it may be something I had to embark on, but I did
2:31.5	it anyway. And when I went to see a therapist, I found out that I was
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