Episode 4 is a reset. We catch up on New Year’s Eve plans, what listeners are leaving in 2025, and Shalina also shares her Times Square New Year’s Eve experience — so yes, we get into that. In This Can’t Be Real Life, we discuss travel bans and the dangerous reality of policies being pushed by Donald Trump, particularly targeting Black and Brown nations. In The Pulse, we talk about the New Year shift — it’s time to circle back, follow up, and actually have the meetings we kept pushing off. In You Like It / We Love It, Shalina stands firm: text or email, not long, inefficient phone calls. In We Said What We Said, we break down the difference between a meeting and an email — because knowing the difference matters. Citizen’s Arrest is issued to reply-all bandits and the people who don’t know how to CC, enabling inbox chaos everywhere. Polls are up for next week: who do you really trust at work?

Episode 3 is everywhere — in the best way. We start with holiday reflections, gift-giving debates, and Christmas experiences before pivoting hard into politics, power, and patriarchy. In The Pulse we talk about why there’s no such thing as being apolitical anymore, how America continues to resist women in leadership, and why qualifications don’t outweigh bias — even in the case of leaders like Kamala Harris. Conversations about power and money lead us to Cory Booker, ambition, and the social media clean-ups that follow. In You Like It / We Love It, we get into TikTok Shop, social media algorithms, unfollowing vs. snoozing, and what it’s like to support small businesses online. We Said What We Said focuses on the Bravo-to-prison pipeline and how greed, image, and addiction keep taking housewives down. For Citizen’s Arrest, we call out people who can’t follow instructions on planes — which somehow turns into a discussion about buying plane tickets in incognito mode. We wrap with poll questions about who you’re cutting off and how you brought in the New Year.

This bonus episode has no structure and no regrets. We laugh, spiral, sing, theorize, and jump from Wicked to VMAs to concerts to comedians to citizenship to the FDA — sometimes all in the same sentence. There’s no agenda, just real-time chaos, cultural commentary, and the kind of conversation that only makes sense if you let it wash over you. This episode is loud, random, funny, and very much No Code Switching.

Episode 1, Podcast Origin Story. Every podcast has an origin story — this is ours. This episode is just us, no typical segments, no structure — just conversation. We talk about how we met while working at the same nonprofit, the very different professional paths that brought us there, and the moments that laid the foundation for our friendship. What started as a podcast class at work quickly turned into something bigger: a space for honest conversation, shared experiences, and showing up as our full selves. This episode sets the tone for why No Code Switching exists — and why we decided to take this conversation to the mic.

Announcing the drop of the No Code Switching Podcast.