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