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June 25, 2025 16 mins

Sheree and Tajuana continue their "Live from a Random Restaurant" series with honest conversation about reading journeys, spring transitions, and using vision boards to stay on track.

• Discussing current reads including "The Wedding Guest" by Jasmine Guillory and historical fiction about WWII
• Exploring diverse reading genres including queer Black romance novels
• How reading develops our capacity for empathy and imagination
• Moving plans and creating "grown-grown" living spaces
• Pinterest inspiration and spring cleaning as preparation for new beginnings
• Tracking hormonal cycles using apps like Lively to better understand how they affect daily life
• Community recommendations for family pools and summer gatherings

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Turn the Page Podcast.
Sisters, best friends andbrunch enthusiasts With
relatable episodes that feellike you're chatting with two of
your closest friends or sisters.
Join us as we turn the page todifferent topics about losing
yourself in motherhood,adulthood, anyhood, and finding
yourself again throughmeaningful friendships,

(00:25):
shameless piles of unreadlibrary books and endless Amazon
package deliveries Real, honestand a little bit chaotic.
We talk about it all.
So grab your favorite drink,put the kids to bed, lace up
your sneaks or whatever you needto do and join us.
We can't wait to connect withyou.
Can't wait to connect with you.
Hey guys, welcome back to Turnthe Page Podcast.

(00:47):
This is Sheree, again youreditor-in-chief and one of your
co-hosts, just bringing youanother special intro for part
two of our Live from a RandomRestaurant series.
We hope you loved the last oneand we hope you enjoy this one,
again bringing you real andauthentic, doing what we can

(01:08):
when we can.
We thank you guys for joiningus and loving us and we hope you
enjoy this episode.
Hi, everybody, welcome to turnthe page podcast.
This is tawana and this isSheree.
I am revamping my indoor gardenmyself.

(01:37):
My self-care my self-care hasnot been on point my skincare,
which is probably self-careactually has been on point.
To take that back morning andprobably self-care actually has
been on point.
I take that back Morning andevening, love me and everything
spray from Primarily Pure, whichI mentioned in the last episode
, and the newsletter, and I shopthem out on Instagram all of
the time.
I really just want to be likeyou with reading.
So I was reading in the carbefore you got here today on my

(02:00):
phone yes, reading currently theWedding Guest.
Did you put that in thenewsletter?
No, ever, because I might dothat.
Alasdini, the Wedding Guest,the one you told me about, oh,
jasmine Gilliloy.
I was thinking of somethingelse.
Did you tell me that?
Yeah, yeah, did you put it inthe newsletter?

(02:20):
No, ever.
Okay, I might do that.
I'm also reading beyond this thesea.
I like historical novels.
It's about a girl who was sent.
She lives in london or englandduring world war ii and her
parents obviously didn't wanther there like during that time,
so they had an opportunity.

(02:40):
I still can't figure out if thefamily she went to live with in
america is like family to themor like close friends anyway, a
family that they trusted enoughin.
I want to say boston she.
They sent her to live with themfor the remainder of the war in
america.
She went over on ship,obviously, um.

(03:01):
So I'm reading that and it'sjust like her life in america.
They have two sons, so she's inthe middle, which I think is
pretty cool because they're likeher adoptive brothers in a
sense.
They all like grow up togetherand how she's away from the war,
but her parents are still thereand like not every kid was so
lucky to be able to go to afamily away from the war.

(03:21):
A lot of people have moved tothe countryside, but that's
still not the best and I didn'tknow.
It was a really like a thingback then where people would
send their kids away if theycould to like be in safer spaces
until the war was over.
I can see that, yeah, so thatthat's a good book.
So far, I'm audioing that.
I'm kindling wedding guests andI have like two more on my

(03:43):
shelf, which overwhelms me, butI can only do as much as I can
do.
Correct, it's not a race, sothat's how I'm trying to revamp
myself.
Fair enough, I keep I and I'mproud of myself for having to do
this.
Every couple of weeks I willlook at my vision board for this
year to see, to remind myselfand to like reset myself.

(04:04):
Oh nice, put myself back ontrack.
That's smart.
Yes, and reading was wonderful.
Reading more, I remember.
Yeah, I've been doing onlyaudiobooks.
So far this year we're in mayyou've only been doing
audiobooks.
Yes, I've been reading.
I've been reading one booksince, like December.

(04:26):
Is it long?
No, it's just like I would readit when, like everyone was
asleep.
But lately I've been trying to,when everyone goes to sleep,
I've been trying to also take mybutt to bed.
I know, yeah, that was like myone time, though like I would

(04:46):
just read on my phone in bed.
So, are you still reading thebook?
Yeah, it's just.
Oh, is it audio?
No, no, it's a book, but it'sjust I'm reading it very slowly.
So, your audio, you're readingit.
It's a different book, an audio, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I have.
Yeah, yeah, I have.

(05:06):
What am I listening?
Oh, that's not my phone.
I am listening to and I also,while she's finding that out, I
have a Nicholas Sparks book onmy shelf, something Miracles.
I'm really bad at rememberingtitles, guys.
Yeah, excuse me, I know, excuseme.
I just finished a book calledOutdrawn by Deanna Gray.

(05:29):
One of the main characters'name is Sage Shut up, which I
love.
The same spelling no, oh, okay,but it's like a queer black
rom-com.
They're like artists for acomic book.
What book?
What's the one?
Oh, the one you told me aboutlessons in flirting.
Yes, I put it on hold.

(05:51):
I cannot wait to read it.
So good, I was gonna buy it.
I was like you know what I'm,I'm very impulse buyer.
I was like toana, you can waitfor this because you don't need
it right away.
So it's on hold for like 18weeks.
Oh, that's annoying.
Worth it, though it was verygood.
That's annoying.
Worth it, though it was verygood.
That's another good one.
Flirting Lessons by JasmineGilroy.

(06:11):
I've never gotten to like thequeer space or the black queer
space with reading.
I never thought about it.
So they call lessons inflirting lessons.
They call it like a safe thing.
A who Sapphic, sapphic lessonsand flirting lessons.
They call it like a safe thing,a who sapphic, sapphic.
Okay, I don't know if that'sthe right word, but I had to
look it up.
I was like what does this mean?
And it means like queer,basically.

(06:33):
So like I just kind of stumbledupon the genre, I have to get
the.
Let me get that.
That's interesting.
I don't.
Well, I do have genres that Ilike, so I like historical
fiction and I like I was neverreally into rom-com until Cherie
told me about the Wedding Guestand I'm loving it and that's
kind of, I would say, like ithas racial not even racist, but

(06:56):
like racial undertones, becausethe main character, the guy, is
white and the girl is black.
So I'm loving that and likedifferent from different
perspectives.
Because they're at a weddingand she asked the question like
am I going to be the only blackperson there?
And it like stopped him in histracks because he's like oh, I

(07:16):
like knew the whole weddingparty was white, because I
didn't think of it like thatuntil you asked me, yeah, so I
was like, oh, okay, this is likean interesting perspective,
like from his side.
Um, I mean, of course she'sgonna ask that, but like he was
like I didn't think about thatbut yeah, so I am still early on
in it, but I am loving it.
So if you guys want to read it,I'm putting it in.

(07:40):
Whatever newsletter comes outafter I read it, yeah, but if
you guys want to look it up,it's called the Wedding Guest by
Jasmine Gilroy, something likethat.
Yeah, yeah, if you Google it,google will correct it for you
if it's wrong.
No, no, no, I think you got itright.
I just don't know if it'sGilroy or Gilroy.
I don't know how to say herlast name, sorry, jasmine.
So, yeah, what is happening inthis world?

(08:04):
Why can't you do this for me?
Anyway, so, oh yeah.
So, the book about the artists,like the Black queer book.
And then I just started anotherbuddy read with Sage.
Sage, your daughter reads no, Imean, I know she reads, reads,

(08:25):
but she reads adult books withanother friend and community
member called they both die atthe end by adam silveira.
Oh, interesting, I love.
So.
Sheree, I love titles.
Sheree is the queen of titlingour podcast episodes, y'all.
Oh yeah, she's the best atfinding the perfect title.
Probably because she reads someso many books she's able to,
like, think of really good ones.

(08:46):
But you know what somebody toldme once and this is like a
downside of reading at one of myinternships I was having a
really hard time with um, Ithink I over empathize, so, like
when people oh, ding, ding,that's why you're in the
industry that you're in.
When people detail things to me, though I picture it in my mind

(09:08):
.
I do that now it's kind ofexciting, no, but, like, the
example I'm using is likesomebody detailed like a trauma
that happened.
Oh, okay, and I picture it inmy mind happening to them or to
you that I haven't figured out,I don't know um, but I picked, I
picture it, I think toempathize and try to like meet

(09:30):
them where they are and like bein the space that they're in.
Yeah, and my supervisor at thetime was like I think it's
because you really like reading,like you're used to using your
imagination to create like aninner world.
Yeah, so you use words and cantranslate them into pictures or
images or whatever.
So that is like one downside ofit, I would say.

(09:51):
But, yeah, besides that, loveit.
Okay, I've read some good booksthis year.
Oh, I was laughing at the memeyou sent me about your the t80
not t83, whatever thatcalculator is we had to use in
school.
What meme it was about?
Like no one has ever asked meto do math since I've learned,

(10:13):
or something like that.
It was something about howwe're bad at math and no one has
ever asked me to use the maththat I learned and it said like
notIP to your T83, but it waslike something about that
large-ass, complicatedcalculator we always had to buy
for school and I just posted iton my stories earlier in the
week saying oh, please don'tever speak to me about math.

(10:35):
I've moved on.
Yeah, I'm bonded with my TI, ti84.
I got part of it right thattracks trauma.
Bonded with my ti-84.
I got part of it right.
That tracks for me.
Um, and I put this is why I dolaw.
I don't do math.
Correct, this is why I'm in law, not math or anything that
revolves around numbers.
Um, I just I read.
I mean I'm in the law, I read,that's what I do, mm-hmm.

(10:58):
I'm better with words thannumbers.
Y'all Mm-hmm.
Okay, so spring for me?
We're moving in June, so springfor me is like spring cleaning,
a little decluttering andpacking, and one of our favorite

(11:19):
families is having a party inJune.
Yes, we love their parties.
We're really excited becauseit's in the summer and they have
a pool and it's out back and wejust I mean other than them
being our cousins, like theyalways have the best parties.
I think I'm also just in aspace of like I'm heavy into

(11:39):
Pinterest right now, justgetting inspo.
I'm heavy intoPinterestinterest right now,
just getting inspo.
I'm heavy into pinterest forturn the page guys.
Yes, so I've been doing that,trying to like, find the
aesthetic to um for decoratingthe new place, because I wanted
to feel like grown, grown, um,grown, grown, grown, grown, like

(12:03):
we're not just like in acollege dorm anymore, like I
want to get right.
You know, yeah, I want to livelike that.
I see, I see.
So that's been my current hyperfixation.
It's been all my free timelooking up inspo for the move

(12:23):
and, yeah, it's going to be agood summer.
This is the precursor, though,so I'm enjoying it.
I'm not rushing it and, yeah,we'll see what it takes us.
Y'all girls need to be at ourpool a lot this summer again.
Yep, oh, you guys won't have apool.
Nope, we have a little pool forher in the backyard.

(12:44):
I think we can.
Maybe you can find a communitypool, or obviously, come over to
us.
There is one nearby, but it'sexclusive.
I bet that's grown, grown, butyou can also come to us.
Obviously, we didn't evenreally use our pool like that,
but it's literally right outyour front yard.

(13:04):
I know We've been a few times.
Do you have a big enoughbackyard to put like a blow-up
pool, like a little kiddie poolfor her, maybe like the one we
used last summer, like thatwading pool that Harrison Doven
with his socks on yeah, or hisyeah that one socks on, yeah, or

(13:26):
yeah that one?
Um, is your backyard big?
Not really, but okay, it'sbigger than I've ever had.
Guys, you come from humblebeginnings.
I do, um.
So, yeah, I think we're just ina space of transforming and
growing and learning andflourishing and thriving, one
day at a time.
Keep an eye out for the May andor June newsletters, depending

(13:51):
on when this drops.
Let us know if you're doing anyspring cleaning or anything to
transition into the warmermonths.
And, oh guys, yes, we'll talkabout this on the next episode.
We do with um, just us.
We have a few coming up withguests.
But sheree told me about thisapp to track your cycle, not for

(14:12):
, like, just tracking yourperiod, but it goes all the way
down to like the phases of yourcycle and my girl Mariah at the
restaurant it's called Livelyright and it tells you each
phase of your cycle and tellsyou, like what to eat, what to
do and like movement to do so.
I've been really honing in onthat.

(14:34):
You can do a seven-day freetrial and then you can do a paid
version.
It's like either $33 annually,like either 33 annually or like
333 a month or something.
But I'm excited about thatbecause, as I'm getting older, I
would like to know how myhormones are affecting my
everyday life.
So we'll talk about that moreonce I start to like study more,

(14:55):
but I look at it every day.
I just haven't gotten down to ascience yet.
But yeah, so that's it, guys.
We're going to wrap it up here.
Pay for our food and get hometo our babies and call it a
night eventually.
Yes, so we'll talk to you guyssoon.

(15:15):
Thanks for hanging out.
Bye, always bye, all right,everyone.
This was another episode ofTurn the Page Podcast.
Thanks for hanging out.
Always Bye, all right, everyone.
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(15:36):
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Thank you.
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