Gettin' Grown

Gettin' Grown

Keia and Jade are two happy and hard working (Blackity) Black Women who are just trying to learn how to adult, for real. Join us each week for Kitchen TableTalk, Petty Peeves and Lessons in Black Women Self Care, as we try to figure out life as 30-somethings.

Episodes

April 29, 2025 83 mins

Jade and Keia welcome brilliant clinical psychologist, minister, creative, and author Dr. Thema Bryant to the kitchen table for a rich discussion on healing, self-love, and cultivating practices of gentleness, self-awareness, self-compassion, self-advocacy, and self-forgiveness.  You don’t want to miss this.

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Matters of the Heart: Healing Your Relationship with Yourself and Those You Love

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Jade and Keia gather around the kitchen table to discuss the value of regular self-reflection and sustaining a spirit of curiosity as we age. Sit with us.

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Gettin Grown Self Check-In Prompts

What are you grateful for?

What’s a goal you’ve accomplished?

Do you have any new goals you’ve set or are currently working on?

Are you making progress? Why or why not?

What do you need?

What are you looking forward to?

What are you excited about/hop...

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Join Jade and Keia in welcoming Whitey McGuire to the kitchen table for a powerful conversation on defining and exploring the sustainability movement, how it should always center our stories, and why it matters now.

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Learn more about Whitney and The McGuire Group

Whitney’s Website: http://www.whitneyrmcguire.com/

The McGuire Group’s website: https://themcguire.group/

Sustainable BK’s website:  https://www.sustainablebk.co/

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April 8, 2025 83 mins

Jade and Keia welcome Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) to the kitchen table. Join us for a compelling conversation about knowing about understanding the game and how to play defense. 

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For More Information About the LDF and to follow Janai’s Work:

Instagram & Threads: janainelson

Twitter:  @JNelsonLDF

Bluesky: @janainelson.bsky.social

Legal Defense Fund website: https://www.naacpldf.or...

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April 1, 2025 127 mins

Check out Tara’s New Book

Written in the Waters: A Memoir of History, Home, and Belonging,
 

To  Learn More About Tara’s Work Visit

Website: https://www.tararoberts.me/

Instagram: @tararoberts_explorer
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March 25, 2025 67 mins

Jade and Keia catch up around the kitchen table.  Sit with us. 

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Chef Jade's Sunday on a Monday dinner tickets here

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Update from last week's shoutout: 

Season 2 of Truer Crime is available now. 

Learn more at: https://truercrimepodcast.com/

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Support Resources: linktr.ee/gettingrown

Fact Checking Resources: 

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A big welcome back to Gettin Grown’s Resident OB/GYN Dr. Wendy Goodall McDonald, to the kitchen table as we continue our celebration of Women’s History Month with a roundtable on all things twatty bird. 
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Follow All Things Dr. Wendy 

Website:  DrEveryWoman.com

Practice:  Women's Health Consulting, IL, LLC  

Blog:  The Gyneco-bLogic

Instagram: @dreverywoman

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Shoutout: Learn more about Celisia's podcast, Truer Crime here

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March 11, 2025 99 mins

Jade and Keia continue the celebration of the Black History Year and Women’s History Month with a conversation with CEO of the Museum of Pop Culture (MOPOP) Michele Y. Smith. Sit with us.
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Learn More About Michele and MOPOP

MOPOP Website: https://www.mopop.org/

Michele's linked LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micheleysmith/

Instagram: @mopopseattle

@chelediva 

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Support Resources: linktr.ee/gettingrown

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Jade and Keia  continue to celebrate Black History Year with Toya from Harlem.  Sit with us for a dynamic discussion of the value of learning and knowing our history.

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Learn more about Toya from Harlem

Website: https://www.toyafromharlem.com/

Instagram:@Toyafromharlem 

YouTube: YouTube.com/toyafromharlem

Podcast: @thatwasntinmytextbook

Toya's FREE guide to Black Owned Cafes in NYC: https://toyafromharlem.myflodesk.com/freebie

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February 25, 2025 79 mins

Jade and Keia meet in studio to discuss and celebrate family and how our understandings of family have evolved as we age.  We’re celebrating community and connection all Black History Year at the kitchen table.

Thank y’all being apart of our family. We love y’all.

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Support Resources: linktr.ee/gettingrown

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Our Favorite Fact Checking Resources

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https://www.snopes.com/

https://www.politifact.com/

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February 18, 2025 102 mins

Jade and Keia revisit the modern day episode of SchoolHouse Rock brought to us by Kendrick Lamar’s at Super Bowl LIX. Happy Black History Month!

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Our Favorite Fact Checking Resources

https://www.factcheck.org/

https://www.snopes.com/

https://www.politifact.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-checker/

https://www.npr.org/sections/politics-fact-check

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February 11, 2025 83 mins

Catch up with Jade and Keia around the kitchen table. Combat the fear and angst of these uncertain times by creating your bingo card for 2025 and renewing your commitments to community, rest, wellness, and joy.  


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Our Favorite Fact Checking Resources 

https://www.factcheck.org/

https://www.snopes.com/

https://www.politifact.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-checker/

https://www.npr.org/sections/politics-fact-check

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Jade and Keia welcome Fashion and Celebrity Stylist and content creator Kelly Augustine to the kitchen table for a compelling conversation about inclusion in fashion and lifestyle space and cultivating personal style. Sit with us.

 

Support Kelly’s work

Website: https://www.kellyaugustine.com/

Instagram:@KellyAugustine

Substack: https://outsideofthelines.substack.com/

Amazon Storefront: https://www.amazon.com/shop/kellyaugustine

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January 28, 2025 102 mins

Preparation is a form of self care & community care. Join Jade and Keia for a deep dive in disaster/crisis planning. Times are uncertain and it’s best we prepare for whatever is to come.  The future belongs to those who prepare for it today ~ Malcolm X

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January 21, 2025 227 mins

Jade and Keia cook up a gumbo all about prioritizing ourselves and minding our Black women business this week and all year. Please join us! 

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Our Favorite Fact Checking Resources 


 

https://www.factcheck.org/

https://www.snopes.com/

https://www.politifact.com/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/fact-checker/

https://www.npr.org/sections/politics-fact-check
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January 14, 2025 78 mins

Happy New Year. The world around us seems to be in a very active decline and we’re still doing the best we can. Sit with Jade and Keia as we process current events and then escape them with a deep dive into the recently released documentary about one our favorite legends, Luther Ronzoni Vandross Jr. 

 

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December 31, 2024 91 mins

There is healing in radical transparency and community. Sit with Jade and Keia for our final conversation of 2024.  We’re doing the best we can.  Thank y’all so much for being awesome members of our tribe. We’re grateful for you and wishing you a safe and restorative holiday season. See y’all on the other side.

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December 24, 2024 34 mins

Join Jade and Keia as they catch up in-studio to discuss holiday traditions we’re keeping, changing, and developing as our families evolve.

 

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December 17, 2024 108 mins

Jade and Keia welcome award winning journalist, author, podcast host, and fellow foodie Michele Norris back to the kitchen table, to discuss synergies across difference and conversations about race.  Sit with us to learn more about The Race Card Project and the NYT Best Selling book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.

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Uncertain times call for reconnecting to the collectivism of our cultural traditions. Jade and Keia welcome Friend and Favorite Financial Advisor Tiffany The Budgetnista Aliche back to the kitchen table for a powerful and timely conversation on how to Get Good with Money in preparation for the future. 

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For more Information and all things Budgetnista visit the links below.

 

Website: https://thebudgetnista.com/

Instagram: @thebudgetn...

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