Shades of Strong® Podcast | From “Strong Black Woman” to Supported Black Woman

Shades of Strong® is the podcast for Black women ready to trade the weight of “Strong Black Woman” for something better: real, lasting support. Through honest conversation, storytelling, and the Support Languages™ framework, host Shirl explores what stre

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The Fine Line Between Being Independent and TOO Independent

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      There’s a difference between doing something because you have to or because you don’t have support and doing something because you don’t...

Never Let What THEY Think of You Silence You

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      Being a Black woman often means that our words and our emotions are weaponized and used against us. We’re compared to pit bulls when we speak...

You Get to Be Strong and Vulnerable

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      One of the primary reasons Black women often avoid vulnerability is because we’re a part of a culture that stigmatizes being vulnerable. In...

Strong Black Women Feel Things Too

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      How many times has something happened in your life and you find yourself staring in the mirror mouthing the words... I shouldn’t be feeling...

You Are the Most Important Person in Your Life

Posted November 18, 202000:14:16

    As Black women we are born nurturers,  but because of life’s circumstances we have a skewed perception of what that means; but even more that...