The Educated Domestic Podcast
"The Educated Domestic" explores the tension of being a highly educated, love-ready, empty-nesting mom who is navigating the becoming of all she's dreamed of...being a "wife". It explores modern-day ideologies while challenging personal beliefs. Through heavy lightheartedness and "scholarly" humor, we will reveal what's it like to rediscover one's self after parenting.
Episodes
🎙️ The Educated Domestic Podcast: Season 1 Episode 5🎙️
Redefining "Wife Energy": The Birthday Episode
In this episode of The Educated Domestic, Dr. Little explores the shame of desiring marriage as an educated, accomplished women and challenges the stigma around that desire to reframe it as clarity and alignment.
Challenging common narratives like “you don’t need a man” and “focus on the bag,” Dr. Little reframes the con...
🎙️ The Educated Domestic Podcast 🎙️
What happens when the very strength that helped you survive… becomes the barrier to intimacy?
In this episode of The Educated Domestic, Dr. Little explores the layered reality of dating as a high-achieving woman — especially for single mothers who learned to lead, provide, and command respect out of necessity.
For many accomplished women, degrees aren’t just credentials.
They’re protection.
Excelle...
Strong Ain’t Free: The Fatigue of the Black Woman
Strength has long been praised as the hallmark of Black womanhood—but what happens when strength stops being empowering and starts being expected?
In this episode of The Educated Domestic, we unpack the quiet exhaustion behind the “strong Black woman” narrative. From hyper-strength and emotional labor to being praised for resilience while denied rest, protection, and care, this conver...
In this episode, we sit with the quiet tension between grief and relief that comes with becoming an empty nester. The conversation explores the ache of letting go, the freedom of reclaimed time, and the complicated emotions that live in between. As we continue to navigate love, dating, and relationships in this new season, this episode offers an honest reflection on identity, healing, and what it means to choose yourself while sti...
What happens when the kids finally move out? And you are left entering this phase of life called "empty nesting"?
In Season 1, Episode 1, journey with your host, Dr. Little, as she seeks to answer this question, while explaining what "The Educated Domestic" is and the beginning of becoming.
What is the "The Educated Domestic" Podcast? It's the space where the heart and the head meet - where woman gets to journey to be...
Hosted by Dr. Marlena Little - an accomplished educator and change-agent, on transformative journey of identity and love.
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