While I've Got You

In this episode of While I've Got You, Gabby Turner sits with the tension of benefiting from and being harmed by the same systems, from the patriarchy to higher education to the weight of being perceived as racist. Sparked by a misattributed Ted Lasso quote that turns out to be Dumbledore's, she traces the ways privilege and oppression can live inside the same person at once, and what it actually takes to dismantle a system you als...

In this episode of While I've Got You, Gabby asks whether a messy, imperfect version of allyship is still better than staying mute altogether. She digs into the blurry line between performative allyship and virtue signaling — why a regular person posting about their volunteer work gets read as fake, while someone with real influence can stay silent until it costs them nothing. She lands on a reframe that cuts through both con...

Have you ever met someone who said something a little off and instantly clocked them as a risk to your reputation before you'd learned a single other thing about them? That's the tension sitting at the center of this episode. In Good Uninformed People, Gabby Turner gets into something that's been on her mind since a conversation on Drew Afualo's podcast The Comment Section, where Afualo and comedian Ida Osman talked about how quick...

This week, Gabby is thinking through a question that started somewhere unexpected: content creation discourse. Between scrolling Substack and watching the internet's collective exhaustion with cookie-cutter content, pastel fonts, and everyone posting the same thing, she started to wonder if the fatigue went deeper than social media. If people are tired of performance online, are they tired of performing everywhere else too?

Gabby tr...

Gabby is riding a wave of motivation she hasn't felt in years, juggling three jobs, a growing podcast, and a brand she's building from scratch, and it feels incredible. It also feels familiar in a way that scares her a little. The last time she moved at this pace, in college, it took years to recover from the burnout that followed.

This episode sits inside that tension instead of resolving it. Gabby turns to Keke Palmer's TED Talk o...

In this episode of While I've Got You, Gabby sits with the tension underneath so many friendships: knowing whether to address what's wrong, or just adapt around it. Drawing from months of friends reaching out to her for help navigating their own friendship conflicts, she turns the question back on herself, why is this so much harder to work through in her own relationships than the way she helps others work through theirs.

She trace...

Gabby's been sitting with this one since March, when Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to 50 months and Usher followed up with comments many read as an endorsement — call it a "legacy" over a conviction. Weeks later, Usher announced a co-headlining tour with Chris Brown, whose own charges are recent and ongoing, not old history.

In this episode, Gabby digs into what it means to keep loving music made by people you have real mor...

In this sister episode to The Glow Up Tax, Gabby Turner turns inward. Instead of the physical pursuit of a glow up, she's tracking a shift she's noticed in herself since mid-May and has found that she is more open, more unbothered, more willing to say what she means without apologizing for it. She connects the timing to something she'd only recently started paying attention to: her Saturn return, the astrological transit that lands...

The Glow Up Tax

Gabby Turner decided in January that 2026 would be her glow up year — sustainable, patient goals around her skin, her curls, and her consistency at the gym, built to last past a single burst of motivation and gave herself until her 30th birthday to get there. She went in with a healthy mindset, real self-confidence, and no interest in extremes. Then a few months into hormonal acne treatment, her skin got worse ...

Have you ever watched a man date exclusively Black women for years, and then announce his engagement to a white woman, and felt something you couldn't quite name? This episode is about that feeling, and everything underneath it.

In Why Her Though | A Thought Starter on the Black Girlfriend, White Wife Phenomenon, Gabby Turner gets into one of the most layered conversations in contemporary dating culture: the specific vitriol directe...

Have you ever caught yourself doing something with real fluency — noticing every detail, having opinions, feeling it in your body — and still walking around saying I don't really know anything about that?

That's where this episode starts.

In Liberation Through Creativity, Gabby Turner is driving home from a coffee shop at the beginning of the year, listening to Tiffani Singleton and Taryn Delanie Smith on We're Your Girls...

Have you ever finished a long conversation with an AI chatbot, felt completely understood, closed the app, and then woken up two days later with the exact same feeling?

That's what this episode is about.

In Heard But Unresolved: A Cute Little Workflow, Gabby Turner gets into something nobody is quite naming yet — the difference between feeling heard and actually processing something. After her therapist asked whether there was ...

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Every time a creator fumbles on a red carpet, the comments fill up with the same voice — journalists and media traditionalists reminding everyone why trained professionals should be the ones getting hired for these moments. And on the surface, it's hard to argue with. Traditional journalism is a real craft. It requires preparation, accountability, and the willingness to a...

The night before the 2026 Oscars, Gabby Turner was watching television and noticed something that had nothing to do with awards season — and everything to do with a pattern she has been watching her entire life. In Despite How the World Sees You, Gabby connects a storyline from the ABC drama High Potential to the cultural conversation swirling around Ryan Coogler's Sinners and arrives at something worth naming out loud: the b...

Have you ever had a lunch break completely derail you in the best possible way?

That's exactly what happened in Maybe Authenticity Is The Way? — the debut episode of While I've Got You. Gabby Turner sat down to eat, clicked on a podcast she had never heard, and eighteen minutes in found herself climbing into her closet to record because something had cracked open that couldn't wait.

That podcast was Les Alfred's She's So Lucky,...