Girl...Call Me with Tanya and Jessica

Fallen Ladies, World Cup Fits & Juneteenth Joy

This week, Tanya returns from San Miguel de Allende with a bruised knee, a sore hip, and a few hard-earned lessons after officially joining the city's unofficial club of "fallen ladies." Meanwhile, Jessica shares how AI unexpectedly became her personal stylist, leading to a conversation about confidence, style, and reinventing yourself. The conversation moves from Mexico to the FIFA Club World Cup, where the arrival fits, international pride, and global community have Tanya and Jessica cheering for everyone. They reflect on Haiti's return to the world stage, the joy of seeing people celebrate their cultures, and why sports still have the power to bring people together. They also celebrate a long-awaited New York Knicks championship, proving that sometimes loyalty really does pay off. Plus, Juneteenth traditions, the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, Pride Month celebrations, and this week's Shine Sis Shine. As always, it's friendship, laughter, culture, and a few unexpected detours along the way.     **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg [https://coff.ee/podcastgirg] We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com [podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com] * Website: www.girlcallme.com [http://www.girlcallme.com] * Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme * Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast * Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

Pride, Podcasts & the Power of Different Perspectives

This week, Tanya and Jessica discuss Pride Month, community, and the power of hearing perspectives beyond our own. From Tanya’s experience at a Black expat brunch in San Miguel de Allende to conversations about Gayle King, Lizzo, Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka, Jay-Z, and the evolving world of podcasting, they explore what happens when we move beyond our usual circles and stay curious about other people’s experiences. Plus, they’re issuing a challenge: listen to a podcast hosted by someone who doesn’t look like you, live like you, or think like you. You might be surprised by what you learn. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg [https://coff.ee/podcastgirg] We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com [podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com] * Website: www.girlcallme.com [http://www.girlcallme.com] * Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme * Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast * Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

Fullness, Soft Life & the Things We Learned to Survive

What parts of your personality are truly you, and what parts were built through survival, adaptation, and the pressure to perform? In this episode, Tanya and Jessica reflect on a powerful conversation inspired by Michelle Obama and Keke Palmer about identity, hyper-functioning, emotional labor, and what it means to live fully as Black women navigating ambition, visibility, relationships, and change. The conversation moves from social media and public personas to friendship, career evolution, entrepreneurship, softness, boundaries, and the tension between who the world thinks you are and who you actually are in quiet moments. They also unpack the difference between capability and desire, why so many women become “the capable one,” and how expansion in this season of life may look less like doing more and more like becoming more honest about what you truly need. It is funny, reflective, vulnerable, and deeply real, exactly the kind of conversation that reminds you that growth is not always loud. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg [https://coff.ee/podcastgirg] We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com [podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com] * Website: www.girlcallme.com [http://www.girlcallme.com] * Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme * Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast * Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

News Overload, Anxiety and Protecting Your Peace in Chaotic Times

We’re re-releasing one of our most needed conversations: News Overload, Anxiety and Protecting Your Peace in Chaotic Times. How do you protect your peace when the world feels nonstop, chaotic, and emotionally exhausting? In this episode, Tanya and Jessica discuss news overload, anxiety, therapy, stress, hypervigilance, and how constant chaos affects our nervous systems. They reflect on politics, media consumption, emotional awareness, and the importance of boundaries, rest, laughter, friendship, and joy. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed by the state of the world and trying to figure out how to stay informed without losing yourself, this conversation is for you. In this episode: news overload, anxiety, therapy, cortisol, mental health, self-care, nervous system care, emotional awareness, boundaries, friendship, politics, media, and finding joy in hard times. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg [https://coff.ee/podcastgirg] We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com [podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com] * Website: www.girlcallme.com [http://www.girlcallme.com] * Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme * Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast * Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

Take Up Space: Why Women Keep Making Themselves Smaller

This week, Tanya and Jessica zigzag from Spirit Airlines chaos to WNBA preseason, the Met Gala, Michelle Obama, Megan Thee Stallion, and the deeply specific trauma of being trapped in a middle seat on a five-hour flight. But underneath the jokes, they unpack something bigger: what it means to move through the world in a body that is constantly asked to shrink itself. From theater seats and blood pressure cuffs to amusement park weight limits, awkward robe sizes, and the emotional calculus of taking up “too much” room, the conversation gets real about visibility, shame, comfort, and learning to advocate for yourself without apology. This episode is for anybody who has ever: • made themselves smaller to keep others comfortable • overthought a seat, a chair, a robe, or a room • apologized for existing in their full form • forgotten they deserve space too Shoulders back. Butt back. Don’t shrink. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg [https://coff.ee/podcastgirg] We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com [podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com] * Website: www.girlcallme.com [http://www.girlcallme.com] * Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme * Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast * Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe