Episodes

  • Episode 9: The S Word
    May 18 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

    I had coffee recently with a woman I've known since I was four years old — same prep school, same high school, now both mothers of twelve-year-olds. Part of our convo was about what Catholic school did to us, and what it quietly withheld -- the S words. Both of them — sex and silence. And either way, we were never supposed to talk about either one.

    In this episode, I'm talking about the silence around sex and desire that shaped us as girls — and what it's costing us and our children, if we don't name it.

    In this episode:

    • What Catholic school's silence actually taught us about our bodies
    • Why our mothers couldn't give us what they'd never been given
    • How I came to understand virginity as a transaction — and why
    • The conversations I'm determined to have with my son that nobody had with me
    • Why silence was never neutral — it was always a position
    • What did the silence cost you — and what are you doing differently?

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

    Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽

    @iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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    20 mins
  • Episode 8: What Happens When the Street Goes Quiet?
    May 11 2026

    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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    16 mins
  • Episode 7: Crashout Season
    May 4 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.


    I'm going to be honest with you — I have been crashing out for the last two weeks. Eleven minute voice notes, therapy, ceiling-staring. A full, sustained emotional crash. And I almost didn't make this episode because I kept waiting until I had something neat to say about it.


    I don't. What I have is the crash itself. And I think that might be more useful.


    In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when life hands you something the script never prepared you for — and why falling apart might be exactly the right response.

    In this episode:

    • The funeral that cracked everything open
    • The script we were all handed — and the chapter it's missing
    • Why the crash is not a malfunction, it's a reckoning
    • What it means to have somewhere safe to fall apart
    • The kind of strength nobody told us to build
    • The question to sit with: Who are the people you can crash with?

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

    Come say hi on Instagram! 🫶🏽@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast


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    16 mins
  • Episode 6: The Jealousy Card
    Apr 28 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. By now you've seen the video. Noah Lyles. Junelle Bromfield. The dress reveal. And we need to talk about it — not just the moment itself, but what the reaction to it revealed about something much deeper that millennial women were handed a long time ago.

    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:

    • The dress reveal — and the moment that started it all
    • The pushback, and why none of it moved me
    • Janelle's response — and the line I couldn't stop thinking about
    • The lie we were raised inside about other women
    • What we're slowly, finally, unlearning

    👉🏽Watch my reaction video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXR0sWykf7P/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==


    Come say hi on Instagram 👇🏽@iamangelbr@iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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    19 mins
  • Episode 5: Off the Menu
    Apr 20 2026

    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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    19 mins
  • Episode 4: Brandy Is Us
    Apr 14 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

    Brandy Norwood just published her memoir — and it cracked something open. Because Brandy isn't a celebrity story we're watching from a safe distance. She's one of the girls we grew up with, and what happened to her inside the Good Girl box happened to a lot of us too. This episode is about the binary we were handed, what it cost us, what it did to our sense of ourselves — and what Brandy, at 47, is showing us we're allowed to finally put down.

    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 Brandy's story is our story — and what the Good Girl box actually cost the girls inside it
    • The binary that shaped how we understood our own desire, our worth, and what we were allowed to want
    • What we need to hand our daughters instead

    Come say hi on Instagram 👇@iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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    25 mins
  • Episode 3: Grown and Grieving: What Losing a Parent Feels Like
    Apr 6 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

    This Friday is the fifth anniversary of my father's death. This Sunday, I'll be at carnival road march in Jamaica — sequins, soca, full colour, all of it. And I'm not pretending those two things don't exist in the same week, in the same chest. Because they do. And nobody told me they would.

    So today, we tell each other.

    In this episode, I'm talking about the oak tree you didn't know was protecting you until it was gone — and what it means to learn to stand in the open sun.

    In this episode:

    • Why my body knows April is coming before my mind does
    • The oak tree metaphor that found me when I needed it most
    • What the first year of grief actually feels like
    • Why grief doesn't heal — it becomes part of your system
    • Holding carnival joy and a father's anniversary in the same chest, in the same week
    • The question to sit with: Who is your oak tree?

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

    Come say hi on Instagram 🫶🏽@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast


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    19 mins
  • Episode 2: What A Boring Lunch Can Tell You
    Apr 1 2026

    Millennial girlies, let me ask you something — when's the last time you actually tasted your lunch?

    Episode 2 is here, and we're slowing down long enough to notice the things we've been too busy to question. It's about running on autopilot — and what happens when you finally step off it. Picture it: a Wednesday, a car, and a lunch nobody actually wanted.

    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:

    • The pandemic truth that reared its ugly head
    • Crying in a bathroom stall on a five-minute timer (yes, really)
    • The four words I didn't know I needed to hear
    • Tri-colored quinoa, baked chicken breast, and the question that changed everything
    • What an identity collision actually feels like when you've checked every single box
    • The self underneath all your roles — and whether you even know she's still there

    Come say hi on Instagram! 👇@iamangelbr@wewerentoldpodcast

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    22 mins