Gettin' Grown

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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.

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September 8 · 2 hr
The Gift In A Garbage Bag
MAFS Season 20 is a wrap! This week Jade, Keia, and special guest Dr. Jon Paul Go Live on the Gettin Grown Patreon to process decision day, the reunion and key takeaways from one of the most chaotic seasons yet.
September 1 · 1 hr 36 min
Both And
In adulting, two things are often true at the same time. Join Jade and Keia to discuss why we should never be afraid to explore and question our thoughts, beliefs, feelings, etc.
August 25 · 1 hr 34 min
Pivoting in Faith (Feat: Gia Peppers)
Jade and Keia welcome the one and only Gia Peppers to the Kitchen Table for a powerful discussion on pivoting when the plan falls apart and creating community around building faith practically. It’s a good one.
August 18 · 1 hr 17 min
MAFS Season 20
Jade and Keia catch up on the latest season of Married at First Sight. It is going exactly how you think it is. Sit with us.
August 11 · 1 hr 38 min
Bibliophiling While Black (Reprise)
Jade and Keia celebrate National Book Lovers Day 2026 by running back an episode for the Book Lovers. We’ll share our current book loves and TBRs soon. Shall we run back the Gettin Grown Book Club?! Let us know
August 4 · 1 hr 7 min
New Girl City
This week, Jade and Keia welcome the brilliant students of the New Girl City: Agents of Change Program of the LES Girls Club of NY to the kitchen table. Jade taught a course on podcasting this summer. Check out their final project.
July 28 · 1 hr 26 min
Hella Awkward 2.0
Jade and Keia revisit the Hella Awkward Card game. We had a time. Sit with us.
July 21 · 1 hr 25 min
Problematic Takes
Jade and Keia convene around the kitchen to indulge in some good old fashioned millennial angst. Join us.
July 14 · 1 hr 23 min
Reclaiming Summer (Feat: Noah)
What happened to summer? Jade, Keia, and special guest Noah get honest about how our experience of summer has changed from childhood through every season of adulthood, and what it looks like to stop waiting for that feeling and start building it on purpose. Sit with us.
June 30 · 1 hr 56 min
The Garden Within (Feat: Dr. Anita Phillips)
Jade and Keia welcome trauma therapist, life coach, pastor, and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self- and NYT Bestselling Author Dr. Anita Phillips to the kitchen table for a timely conversation about exploring and understanding our emotions through the lens of self acceptance.
June 23 · 1 hr 36 min
Sit With Us
Jade and Keia catch up around the kitchen table knit a regular degular sister friend check in. Sit With Us
June 16 · 2 hr
Shameless (Feat: Dr. Terrell Winder)
Jade and Keia welcome XD back to kitchen table for special mashup episode! Sit with us and special guest Dr. Terrell Winder to discuss his new book Shameless: The Making of Black Gay Identities in LA, an examination of intersectional identity, stigma and stigma response processes among black gay men.
June 9 · 1 hr 38 min
Petty Palooza! (Part I)
Jade, Keia, and the GG community at large connect around the kitchen table to discuss our petty peeves. We got a lot to be mad about!
June 2 · 2 hr 9 min
It’s on Us (Feat: Nedra Glover Tawwab)
Nedra Glover Tawwab is back at the table to help us get into all things relationships! Why we have more access to each other and fewer real connections, language & tools for balancing healthy dependence and autonomy, and taking responsibility for healthy relationships and real community. Sit with us.
May 26 · 2 hr 27 min
Holley Not Jolly (Feat. Dr. Shanté Holley)
Jade and Keia welcome trauma-informed mental health coach, professor, and creator Dr. Shanté Holley to the kitchen table to talk mental health coaching, its distinct value in understanding our experiences, beliefs, and choices in context, and what taking responsibility for your own healing and mental health can look like in practice. We learned as much as we laughed. Sit with us.
May 19 · 1 hr
We are Knowers!
Jade and Keia formally kickoff Graduation Announcement Season 2026. It’s our favorite time of the year. Celebrate with us.
May 12 · 1 hr 29 min
Multifaceted Muvas
Mother's Day is... complicated. Jade and Keia reflect on the complexity of the holiday, grief as an expression of love, and the village of grandmother, aunties, other mother figures, and chosen family who shape and mother us beyond bloodlines. Sit with us.
May 5 · 1 hr
Studs On ICE
Jade and Keia kick off Mental Health Awareness Month with honest specific commitments to intentionally optimizing performance and preserving our peace. What are you doing for your mental health this May? Sit with us and let’s figure it out together.”
April 28 · 1 hr 54 min
No White Hoochies (Feat: The Hoochie Historian)
Zorine Truly aka The Hoochie Historian joins Jade and Keia at the kitchen table for a dope discussion about hoochie culture as archival work, liberatory practice, and a love letter to Black women living fully and freely in radical authenticity. It’s a celebration. Sit with us.
April 21 · 1 hr 34 min
Mahogany, But Make it Millennial (Feat: Lillian Prince)
Lillian Prince joins Jade and Keia at the table, and we’re talking cards, connection, and the radical utility of telling the truth. From the power of a good playlist, dating horror stories, to working the hard seasons of adulting, this episode covers it all. Sit with us.

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