What’s ours to own and what’s ours to let go of?
After years of manipulation and societal conditioning tried to dim her light, The Mediocre Black Woman uses her passions for leadership and storytelling to create a welcoming space for Black women to embrace their humanity, reject perfectionism, and rediscover the joy in simply being. Her work recently earned her an award for Best Personal Journals as a Podcast from the 2025 Black Podcasting Awards!
Sometimes we end up inflicting the same things on people that were inflicted on us. The reason why I do these conversations around the intersection is so we can all understand we have more things in common than not. — Goddess Theadora
I was thrilled to join Goddess Theadora as a guest to discuss the connections between race, age, and sexuality in our society. We compared notes on narcissistic manipulation, the importance of sexual education in schools, and young women pushed into adulthood without adequate preparation.
Emotional abuse and devaluation ripple across time and bleed into larger systems built by imperfect humans. It can influence our behaviors, beliefs, moods, future relationships, and even our health in ways we don’t always recognize. Conversations like this are important because they allow us to build safety, reclaim our sense of reality, and zoom out and discover patterns together.
In speaking with Thea, the love and compassion she has for others is so clear. I truly enjoyed the opportunity to reflect with her on how difficult it can be to save a bit of that support for ourselves.