We Weren't Told

Episode 5: Off the Menu

18 min · 20. Apr. 2026
Episode Episode 5: Off the Menu Cover

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Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And somewhere between the MAHA moms and the TikTok feminists — in that gap the algorithm doesn't know what to do with — are women like me. Women who don't fit either door. This episode is for them. We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives. Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time. In this episode: * Why identity boxes are a stress response — and why the algorithm makes them worse * Angel gets personal: lawyer, stay-at-home mom, domestic engineer, and why none of those labels tell the whole story * The specific exhaustion of getting pressure from both sides when you refuse to pick a lane * The women living in the gap — and why being unclassifiable is not confusion, it's a conclusion * What we hand forward to our children when we model the courage to actually think Come say hi on Instagram 👇@iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. I was at my favourite café last week — the one I go to alone, to write — when something ordinary happened — a cashier was filming content, a beautiful young man stepped into the sunlight, and I realised I was on the other side of the camera entirely. In this episode, I'm talking about the part of us that still wants to be seen — and why nobody told us that wanting wouldn't just quietly resolve itself. In this episode: * The café moment that made me sit with something I wasn't expecting * The internal version of ourselves we've been living inside for years * What the marriage script told us about desirability — and what it got wrong * The honest question we don't ask enough about being noticed * Why the wanting is not the problem * The question to sit with: Are you still giving yourself permission to want to be seen? Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time. Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽 @iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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