This episode wasn’t planned. A tragic story out of Chicago shook me—and I pressed record. What followed was a raw unraveling: grief, memory, defense, self-reflection, and the parts of me that show up when the world feels unsafe.

I talk about the tragedy, about my own past, about what it means to hold space for someone you want to side-eye and cry for. I speak about PTSD, protection, and how I’m still uncovering myself through the stories I tell.

This is what Unmuted sounds like when I don’t edit the grief.