Black Girls Bonding

After a few heavy episodes, Kianti is coming in with something lighter and something she has been giving herself more permission to feel lately: joy. Not the elaborate, expensive kind. The small, free, close-to-home kind that sneaks up on you and fills your cup when you least expect it. In this episode we talk about: Why Kianti decided to redefine what joy looks like for her and the three criteria she uses nowThe magic of unplanned Tuesday hangouts and why spontaneity might be exactly what yo...

Kianti gets real in this one. Like, really real. She's in the middle of a scary season in her business and instead of waiting until she's on the other side to talk about it, she's bringing you into it right now: messy, uncertain, and full of hard-won wisdom anyway. In this episode we talk about: What the "meantime" actually is and why it's one of the most uncomfortable places to beWhy Kianti is choosing to talk about her business challenges while she's still in them, not afterThe Oprah quote ...

Black Girls Bonding went IRL for the first time, and this episode is the proof. Recorded live in front of a room full of Black women, no guest, just us, so the sound is a little different than usual, more room, more energy, more us talking back and forth. The heart of it is all still there. In this one: why heaviness and joy are both true for Black women right now, three things to hold onto to keep the magic going (self-care, better villaging, and shifting out of scarcity), a live audience Q&...

Kianti is coming in with fall on her mind and something that has been sitting with her — the realization that nobody really gave us permission to fully enjoy our lives. To rest without guilt. To want things without apology. To take up space without feeling like we have to earn it first. In this episode we talk about: Why Black women are constantly waiting for permission they were never given in the first placeThe silent generation grandmother who taught Kianti that rest was for the lazy — and...

Picture this: summer 2017. Kianti has the idea for Black Girls Bonding. The show launches in 2023. Six years later. It didn't take six years to figure out how to make a podcast. It took six years to stop waiting to feel ready. In this episode, Kianti gets into the story she's never fully told — the anxiety, the isolation, the perfectionism, and the moment she realized she might be the person she was looking for. And then the moment she finally, actually did something about it. This one is for...