What's up, Badi Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. There's not a lot that we have control over, but we do have control over how we are in the world.

It's important to be loving to people as much as possible.

You don't always have to be around certain people.

If you find that you do have to be around individuals that hate you, do your best to love them from a

distance and remember that the things that they say are not always true, or usually are not true

at all, and it's not about you. It's about them and something that they're dealing with. So just

do your best not to take it personally. Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic

Bitch. On this week's episode, we have podcast hosts, school counselor, and founder of the Black

Mom Diaries, Patricia Griggs. And today, we're going to be hearing Patricia's story and dive into

the Black Mom experience. Patricia,

thank you so much for being with us today. Hey, thank you so much for having me.

Why don't you tell our listeners a little bit more about what you do? Well, so by day, I am a high school

career counselor. So I work with seniors that are interested in pursuing

non-traditional post-secondary pathways. So that could be that they want to go into the military,

or they want to do a trade school program, or they want to go directly into the workforce.

And then, of course, by night, I created a podcast called The Black Mom Diaries.

And it's just a space for Black moms to come together, share their stories, and hopefully

connect through those stories and encourage each other and support each other.

And your podcast and The Black Mom Diaries really was created because you started having

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