Desiree Abba talks to us about how her relationships have helped her grow and overcome codependence and find the independence and freedom to explore her own sexuality, as well as fun banter about building our empire and the truism when you’re “on a break”, you’re on a break—no matter what Rachel from Friends says.

Kate joins us for a fun, meandering conversation about living, growing, and evolving. Life lessons are important, and learning to acknowledge our strengths & weaknesses, instead of running & hiding from our emotions, are key to learning.

Episode 50 seems like the perfect chance for a quick message about how Broke & Broken was created and how we hope to continue to serve the community. We hope out listeners continue to engage with us, and help spread our content so that it can have further impact. Together we can eliminate stigma and the shame that silences us, so that we can live our best lives and improve our mental health.

Annie Slasher rejoins us for a chat about learning to love and value the bodies we're in. We talked about everything from learning to focus on our health, rather than external beauty standards, to how we try to help our kids create more healthy relationship with food than what we were taught.

Elly shares her story of leaving abuse behind & daring to create a life that is safe, happy, & loved, without concern for what others say it “should” look like.

Elly shares her story of leaving abuse behind & daring to create a life that is safe, happy, & loved, without concern for what others say it “should” look like.

The incredible Carmen White Eagle talks to us about everything from sex work to shedding the weight of other people's judgements, and the importance of harm reduction. Listen & learn as she shares her experiences & wisdom.

A message from Felina: This is my brave face. No makeup, no filters, no bullshit. Because today I’m in an immense amount of pain due to a fibromyalgia flare up. If you look behind that smile, you’ll see dark, heavyset bags under my eyes, swollen cheeks, and a hint of pain in that smile. My evening consists of detox tea, massage machines, hot epsom salt baths, alternating hot packs and ice packs... in hopes of gaining some relief from painful, swollen joints, burning hot inflammation in my kidney’s, up my spine, the huge knots literally all over my body that are presently causing my left arm to go numb, and the tension headache caused by the muscles in my neck that have become rock hard. Tomorrow, I will go to work, and put on my brave face again. I’ll add some makeup to hide the dark circles, and suck it up as I persevere. Because I have to. Anyone who suffers from #fibro and is working their ass off to continue to thriving has to. I know a lot of other #singlemoms who deal with this auto-immune issue are suffering too. In fact, millions of women deal with #chronicpain every single day and put on their brave face. They wear their brave face to show their boss how strong they are, to provide for their families, to create more opportunities, to spend time with friends and family, to have a life. Along the way, some succumb to addiction to pain pills. Such was the fate of my deceased mother. I am choosing a different path. It’s still painful, but we are all doing what we think is best, hiding our pain behind our smiles, our under-eye creams, and lipstick. We are all putting on a brave face. Over the next few weeks, I will be sharing my personal story with chronic pain and fibromyalgia. As well as recapping my mother’s battle with chronic pain due to #rheumatoidarthritis #lupus and #fibromyalgia issues and her addiction that ultimately took her life. I am asking for your input. If you have dealt with any of these issues, send us your #braveface and we’ll contact you. We’d love to include your story on this topic in this series.

Picklecicles, gas stations in Narnia, and sugar daddies—all things that came up during our amazing chat with listener, Buck. Talking to him was a lot of fun. Bucky Boy is the superhero we never knew we needed. Listen & laugh with us.

The incredible Carmen recently had Summer on her show, Women of Color Talks, and has permitted us to repost it for the Broke & Broken family. Please listen to our conversation about sexualization & fetishization, and check out #WOCtalks!