Gettin' Grown
Keia and Jade are two happy and hard working (Blackity) Black Women who are just trying to learn how to adult, for real. Join us each week for Kitchen TableTalk, Petty Peeves and Lessons in Black Women Self Care, as we try to figure out life as 30-somethings.
Bibliophiling While Black (Reprise)
Jade and Keia celebrate National Book Lovers Day 2026 by running back an episode for the Book Lovers. We’ll share our current book loves and TBRs soon. Shall we run back the Gettin Grown Book Club?! Let us know
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New Girl City
This week, Jade and Keia welcome the brilliant students of the New Girl City: Agents of Change Program of the LES Girls Club of NY to the kitchen table. Jade taught a course on podcasting this summer. Check out their final project.
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Hella Awkward 2.0
Jade and Keia revisit the Hella Awkward Card game. We had a time. Sit with us.
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Jade and Keia convene around the kitchen to indulge in some good old fashioned millennial angst. Join us.
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What happened to summer? Jade, Keia, and special guest Noah get honest about how our experience of summer has changed from childhood through every season of adulthood, and what it looks like to stop waiting for that feeling and start building it on purpose. Sit with us.
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The Garden Within (Feat: Dr. Anita Phillips)
Jade and Keia welcome trauma therapist, life coach, pastor, and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self- and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self acceptance.
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Sit With Us
Jade and Keia catch up around the kitchen table knit a regular degular sister friend check in. Sit With Us
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Shameless (Feat: Dr. Terrell Winder)
Jade and Keia welcome XD back to kitchen table for special mashup episode! Sit with us and special guest Dr. Terrell Winder to discuss his new book Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA, an examination of intersectional identity, stigma and stigma response processes among black gay men.
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Petty Palooza! (Part I)
Jade, Keia, and the GG community at large connect around the kitchen table to discuss our petty peeves. We got a lot to be mad about!
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It’s on Us (Feat: Nedra Glover Tawwab)
Nedra Glover Tawwab is back at the table to help us get into all things relationships! Why we have more access to each other and fewer real connections, language & tools for balancing healthy dependence and autonomy, and taking responsibility for healthy relationships and real community. Sit with us.
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Jade and Keia welcome trauma-informed mental health coach, professor, and creator Dr. Shanté Holley to the kitchen table to talk mental health coaching, its distinct value in understanding our experiences, beliefs, and choices in context, and what taking responsibility for your own healing and mental health can look like in practice. We learned as much as we laughed. Sit with us.
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Jade and Keia formally kickoff Graduation Announcement Season 2026. It’s our favorite time of the year. Celebrate with us.
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Mother's Day is... complicated. Jade and Keia reflect on the complexity of the holiday, grief as an expression of love, and the village of grandmother, aunties, other mother figures, and chosen family who shape and mother us beyond bloodlines. Sit with us.
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Studs On ICE
Jade and Keia kick off Mental Health Awareness Month with honest specific commitments to intentionally optimizing performance and preserving our peace. What are you doing for your mental health this May? Sit with us and let’s figure it out together.”
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No White Hoochies (Feat: The Hoochie Historian)
Zorine Truly aka The Hoochie Historian joins Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for a dope discussion about hoochie culture as archival work, liberatory practice, and a love letter to Black women living fully and freely in radical authenticity. It’s a celebration. Sit with us.
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Mahogany, But Make it Millennial (Feat: Lillian Prince)
Lillian Prince joins Jade and Keia at the table, and we’re talking cards, connection, and the radical utility of telling the truth. From the power of a good playlist, dating horror stories, to working the hard seasons of adulting, this episode covers it all. Sit with us.
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Scheduled Sister Time
The world is a lot right now. This week we put the news down, pulled out a card game, and just chose each other. Sometimes that's the most radical thing you can do.
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We’re Not Really Strangers Game
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The Spiral Notebook- Keia’s New Substack
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Second Puberty (ft. Dr. Sharon Malone & Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald)
Our bodies are not the problem. The systems are. Jade and Keia sit down with two brilliant Black women physicians, Dr. Sharon Malone and Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald, for an honest and expansive women's health roundtable covering perimenopause, IVF, reproductive rights, and how to advocate for yourself in systems that were never designed with you in mind.
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Vacant Spaces (Feat: Kat Guillaume-Delemar)
Vacant properties are more than an eyesore. They are a symptom of systemic injustice and a barrier to thriving communities. Jade and Keia sit down with activist, community development leader, and Council Member Kat Guillaume-Delemar to discuss vacancy, abandonment, and what it truly takes to revitalize a community from the inside out.
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Grown Woman
Nine years in. Grown and still growing. Jade and Keia revisit a powerful kitchen table conversation with sociologist Dr. Kris Marsh on family, class, and what it truly means to live as a grown woman on your own terms.
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Sometimes, it’s a Ponderosa (Feat: Shar Jossell)
Womanhood: how we define it, how it defines us, and how it evolves over time. Jade and Keia bring sister-friend, journalist & culture critic Shar Jossell to the kitchen table. Sit with us.
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Womanhood Defined
Jade and Keia ground our celebration of Women’s History Month in personal and collective reflection on the definition of womanhood and how our understanding has evolved over time. Join us.Â
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Master Gardener
Keia’s back ya’ll!  Sit with us around the kitchen table for a solid debrief.
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Fran pulls up a seat to the kitchen table for a little sister talk about Reality Check, the Top Model documentary.
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My Body, My Opp (feat. Nikki)
Nikki joins us at the Kitchen Table for an in depth conversation on what chronic illness looks like in a Black Woman, and strategies to advocate for yourself under these circumstances.
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A Balm in Gilead w/ Dr. Wendy
Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald joins the Kitchen Table to share her personal experience with Black History and other fun personal facts. Love, prayers, and hugs to our Keia. Â
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The Door of Return (feat. Dr. Gina Paige)
Shanti Mayers of Around the Way Curls and The Sable Collective joins us this week to dive into an important conversation with Dr. Gina Paige of African Ancestry Inc. around tracing and archiving our lineage. Love, prayers, and hugs to our Keia.
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Just ahead of the season opener snowstorm of Winter 2026, Jade and Keia discuss their ideal snow day setups and their plans to rest, rot, read, and write, among other things. Join us.Â
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Eff/Marry/Kill
Jade and Keia return to the kitchen table today with a fun way to name some intentions for what we're experimenting with, committing too, and leaving behind as we move in to 2026. Sit with us! Play Along and send us your intentions at hello@gettingrown.co
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EFF (Tried it, would try again): Something you experimented with—maybe it was messy, imperfect, or you only scratched the surface:Prompt for you: What was fun/interesting enough that you'd revisit it with more intention or less pressure?MARRY (Committing to in 2026): Think ab...New Year Reflections (2018-2025)
Happy New Year to our Tribe! We hope your holiday season was restful and restorative. Sit with us for a gumbo of opening New Year episodes in the spirit of gratitude and reflection as context for our growth and goal setting for 2026. We can’t wait to reconnect with you soon.
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Girl, G’on!!
Join Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for the final time in 2025. We are so grateful for this show and the Gettin Grown Community. We are also ready for this year to pack her things and go! Wishing you all a safe New Year.
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Peas and Kombucha (Feat: Hey Fran Hey)
Happy Holidays!!! This week Jade and Keia welcome Hey Fran Hey back to the kitchen table for some sister time and collective reflection. Sit with us to unpack a wild year and what we’ve learned along the way.
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It Feels Good To Talk About Our People (Feat: Tracie Mae)
Jade and Keia are joined at the kitchen table by longtime sister friend, OG YouTuber, and Creative Director Tracie Mae to discuss all things grief management this holiday season. Sit with us.
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Untempered Messaging (Feat: Jenan Matari)
This week , Jade and Keia welcome award winning Palestinian American author and media strategist Jenan Matari to the kitchen table to discuss stories and storytelling as tools of advocacy, resistance, and liberation. Join us.Â
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Favorite Things, Luther’s Version, Not Julie’s
“It’s Timmmme!!!!!!” or whatever Mariah Carey said. Join Jade and Keia for as they share their favorite brands and items for the holidays. Let’s love on ourselves, our loved ones, and our community by investing and re-investing in Black women owned/Black owned Brands. We’re grateful for all of you this holiday seasons.Â
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Join Jade, Keia and entrepreneur, strategic consultant and CEO, Jasmine Imani at the kitchen table for a compelling conversation about entrepreneurship, curiosity, and the courage to trust your intuition and bet on yourself. Sit with us
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Jade and Keia are joined by writer, stylist, creative director, image activist and icon Michaela angela Davis. Sit with us to discuss Tenderheaded, a love note from Ms. Michaela to us that explores the tensions of visibility and vulnerability, privilege and marginalization, legacy and loss. Don’t miss it.Â
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Jade and Keia gather around the kitchen table for a candid conversation on the history, existence, and evolution of “brain rot” and defending against our own cognitive decline. Sit with us.
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Some of the resources mentioned
Takahashi et al. (2023) - Screen time and developmental delays: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37603356/U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory on Social Media and Youth Mental Health (2023): https://www...Palette Cleanser
Join Jade and Keia for a quick sister checkin featuring The Black Girl Hug Experience Card Game. Grab a snack and sit with us.
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Jade and Keia are joined by peer recovery specialist, speaker, author, and entrepreneur T-Kea Blackman for an enlightening conversation about suicide, Black suicide prevention, and the power of peer support.
Disclaimer: This episode discusses suicide and mental health crises. If you’re struggling, please call/text 988 or reach out to Crisis Text Line (text HELLO to 741741). Additional resources discussed in the episode and also linked below.
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