Growing Thru It Pod

Growing Thru It Pod

Real conversations with family, close friends, acquaintances, and soon those that I admire to encourage true healing of communities through conversation and action. With an emphasis on action, the mission is truly create solutions to life long challenges, all while asking tough questions to provoke positive change throughout the diaspora; so we can all grow through this thing called life.

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May 8, 2026 23 mins

After taking a week off to attend the Homegoing services of one of my best friends, I’m back with a discussion about growing through authenticity. All the ads, commercials, and social media influencers have been trying to tell us who we are. However, who are you really? Have you been authentically you? Let’s dive into that conversation.




Some music of the week while I was growing through it…


NUEVAYoL - Bad Bunny


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After a long hiatus I’m back with part two of growing through grief. I promise the future episodes will get lighter, but for now I’m still growing through it y’all. Since grief is constant and all you can do is learn to live with it and manage it, I give some advice on how I’ve been growing through each day by putting my own personal spin on the days of the week. I truly hope part two of growing through grief finds you when you mos...

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Check out this blast from the past! In honor of Throwback Thursday @ImJustJoslyn finally decided to come on back to the podcast streets, and this time she’s talking about grief! Don’t worry everyone it’s definitely her shortest episode to date, so you won’t be in your feels for too long. This is a special episode with only her talking around grief that she’s experienced personally, as well as breaking down the different stages of g...

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@ImJustJoslyn is back again with another episode, and this time, she sat down with a fan favorite special guest! It’s her wonderful and magnificent MOTHA!!! Rose aka @RosaHiggins4 on IG got real candid about her views on therapy, and how they have evolved overtime. She gives her personal definition of what therapy means to her, talks about the terrorism on the twin towers, and bridges. She even went back down memory lane and recal...

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On this episode not only is it @ImJustJoslyn’s birthday, but she is joined for the first time ever by the lambent, lovable, licensed clinical Psychologist Lee Thompson! They talk about what drove her into Psychology as a profession, she explains the difference between a psychiatrist, psychologist, and therapist, and gives her perspective on whether or not racism is a mental illness! Given its mental health awareness month Lee drops...

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@ImJustJoslyn is FINALLY back with another episode! Life had been doing life for @ImJustJoslyn and she had to handle some things but now she’s back just wanting more for the community! She’s joined again by the ever so perspicacious @ALatinasguidetotennessee where they discuss the mental aspect of self esteem and how it could be tied to the potential individuals see in themselves, and how their cultural backgrounds, familial units...

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In this episode @ImJustJoslyn is joined by another one of her amazing friends @somecallmesam aka the Smart, Sophisticated, Spectator! They talk about basketball culture in the wake of the NCAA crowning their 2023 women’s basketball champions! LSU has claimed the first title for their program and did it with a lot of swag! However, some people are not celebrating this high-level win for these young ladies and are greeting them with ...

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@ImJustJoslyn is back with another episode after a 2-week break for personal care and healing. Her special guest this week is a brilliant, proud, humble, cultured, Dominican American woman that is the first guest whom is part of @ImJustJoslyn's chosen family. We have the pleasure of listening to the fascinating and lovely @ALatinasguidetotennessee as she opens up and takes us through what it's like being and identifying as ...

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In this episode @ImJustJoslyn sits down with her first cousin aka twin @HillJ09 to discuss the "racy" photo of Jonathan Majors and Michael B. Jordan that has been circulating the internet for the past couple of weeks. You get a chance to hear @HillJ09's thoughts around the photograph and whether or not he found it sexual or vulnerable. He also talks about his personal relationship with his best friend, and how sometimes holding bac...

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In this episode for 1 hour and 30 minutes, @ImJustJoslyn had the pleasure of finally getting her mother, @RosaHiggins4, to take a break from her busy life, have a seat, and indulge in a conversation around growing through segregation. Please understand it was no easy feat to get @RosaHiggins4 to sit down for this long, because she's always either helping family or friends, cooking for them, or on the phone talking to them, so it wa...

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February 23, 2023 63 mins

In this episode @ImJustJoslyn and @MsLovelyLea discuss their experiences growing up Black. As they spent their summers in a small town in South Carolina, and the remainder of their time in New Jersey, they talk about how their childhood molded them into the women that they are today. Having to grow through different realizations of their blackness, they stand proud in the lessons and the richness of their culture that was mostly ro...

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February 14, 2023 62 mins
Joslyn aka @ImJustJoslyn and Joy aka @MsLovelyLea have a real conversation on how they have been distracted, and discuss ways in which they can get more focused on what really matters.
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