TBG University: The Growing Pains of Graduation
Therapy for Black Girls
iHeartPodcasts and Joy Harden Bradford, Ph.D.
4.8 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Congratulations, you’ve been accepted to the inaugural class of Therapy for Black Girls University (TBG U).
Whether you’re packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stoles for graduation, embarking on the next chapter of your life is often exciting, but also a little scary. There can be a lot of unknowns that can leave you feeling uncertain and having the right support can help you to feel confident and grounded. TBG U was designed to help you strengthen your voice, sharpen your knowledge, and affirm who you are and who you’ll become. Our goal is to create relevant and accessible resources, content, and experiences to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond.
In this first episode of the TBG U series, we're joined by graduating seniors Jayna Ellis from The University of North Carolina, Chapel-Hill and Kaliha James of Howard University. During the conversation they shared the lessons they've learned over the last four years and how their perspectives have changed throughout their time on campus.
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Jayna Ellis
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Executive Producers: Dennison Bradford & Maya Cole Howard
Producers: Fredia Lucas, Ellice Ellis & Cindy Okereke
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| 0:00.0 | Congratulations! You've been accepted into the inaugural class of Therapy for Black Girls University, |
| 0:13.8 | or TPU for short. Whether you're packing for a new year on campus, thinking through your gap year, |
| 0:21.2 | enrolling in a community college, or grabbing your stoles for graduation, embarking on the next |
| 0:27.6 | chapter of your life is often exciting, but also a little scary. There can be a lot of unknowns |
| 0:34.3 | that can leave you feeling uncertain, and having the right support can help you to feel confident |
| 0:39.2 | and grounded. TPU was designed to help you strengthen your voice, sharpen your knowledge, |
| 0:45.7 | and affirm who you are and who you'll become. Our goal is to create relevant and accessible |
| 0:51.6 | resources, content, and experiences to help you thrive at this stage of your life and beyond. |
| 0:59.2 | If something resonates with you while enjoying our conversation, please share it with us on |
| 1:03.8 | social media using the hashtag, tbguniversity. And be sure to join us over on TikTok and Instagram |
| 1:11.6 | at tbguniversity. Our seminar is now in session. Laptops are phones out. You'll definitely want to |
| 1:20.4 | take notes. I'm Jaina Ellis. I'm a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 1:28.1 | Graduate Class of 2023, and this is Tbguniversity. I'm Kalea James. I'm a student at Harvard University |
| 1:35.5 | Graduate Class of 2023, and this is Tbguniversity. I'm so excited to introduce you to our two guests |
| 1:43.6 | today, Jaina Ellis and Kalea James. Two incredible graduating seniors with a wealth of knowledge |
| 1:50.8 | and lived experience that they're going to share with us today. To kick us off, we're going to hear |
| 1:56.2 | a little bit from Jaina and Kalea about some of the invaluable lessons they've learned over the |
| 2:00.5 | last four years and how their perspectives have changed in becoming upper class women. Kalea will |
| 2:06.4 | kick us off. So the first thing is just balancing my life, bring on my own schedule, because until now |
| 2:16.5 | like high school, you're told where to be, when to be, and even though we saw our classes now, |
| 2:22.4 | they're way more spread apart, and you have more free time to figure out what you want to do certain |
| 2:28.9 | hobbies. So that was the first thing, and then moving into my own apartment, meal prep thing, |
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