Onika and J.R. dysh on anxiety and fear. Onika opens up about her anxiety disorder and how it’s affected her life. J.R. speaks on the anxiety he felt in his marriage. They discuss how peoples’ fears and anxiety can stop them from enjoying a full life. They dysh on the quality of ambition and how drive and passion can lead to ultimate success. They talk about why the average choose mediocracy over ambitious dream building. They examine why some people are so afraid of hard work.

Onika and J.R. dysh on cellphones and how communication with our peers has been transformed. They discuss the damage that these devices have done to the young people and their mental health. With society’s new obsession with cellphones and the Internet are people unaware of the world around them? They dysh on selfies and the culture of narcissism they have created. They discuss how self-indulgent selfies are and how they have created a culture where people are self-obsessed.

Onika and J.R. dysh on mental health with Onika’s close friend Grama Judie. They talk about the bond they share and how they came to adopt each other as grandmother and granddaughter. Onika reflects on what it has been like to have a non-family member support her in her journey. Grama Judie opens up about what it is like dealing with Onika in a manic state and she also shares her frustration with the mental health system in Canada.

Onika and J.R. dysh about online dating and Onika’s decision to buy in. She talks about her anxiety around using this method to find love. She reflects on the current state of her life and why online dating may work for her. They dysh on their experience with interracial relationships and how they dealt with society’s polite intolerance. They reflect on having to educate their partner on how they exist as a black man and woman in this world.

Onika and J.R. dysh on the recent H&M scandal where a little black boy is photographed wearing a controversial hoodie. Was the ad campaign unconscious racism or corporate strategy? They talk about what the parents had to say and H&M’s apology. They dysh on #MeToo and if the Hollywood platform can really effect change. J.R. reflects on growing up in a sexual harassment filled era and this new transition now that women are speaking out.

Onika and J.R. dysh on the new minimum wage increase and how it will effect business owners and their employees. They discuss whether or not this increase will spark the disappearance of the middle class. How will our economy and corporations deal with this rapid change? They dysh on working women and the challenges of having a family and a career. Is work-life balance real or attainable? Can women really have it all or does something inevitably suffer?

Onika and J.R. dysh on their New Year’s goals. Onika shares a few lines from her poem followed by a chat about men who behave badly, the chaos they create and the women that love them. They talk about J.R.’s bad boy tendencies and people’s capacity for change. They dysh on the unrequited Daddy's Girls and the effects these relationships have on mental health. Onika talks about the complex relationship with her father and how its affected her relationships with men.

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Onika and J.R. dysh on the holiday season and Onika’s upcoming birthday. They discuss fallen artists and how we perceive their work. With sexual harassment and assaults being revealed what effect is this having on women and their mental health?

They dysh on Rom-Coms, Disney and their one dimensional female characters. They examine how women feel about their romantic relationships as a result. They talk about how these roles diminish the female identity creating a generation of women with low self-estee

After a night out with the girls and one or two cocktails Onika calls JR at 1a.m. to dysh on historical and fictional figures and how they might use social media if they were alive today. They have a conversation about the effects of social media on friendships and relationships and how this new relationship model is creating a generation of people who lack true connection. Onika and JR continue the dysh when they examine why the Western world is so obsessed with consumerism and obtaining more “stuff.”

Onika and J.R. introduce a new segment called All Kinds of Crazy which features stories of mental health struggles and triumphs. In Part 1 of the series Onika dyshes on her mental health journey. She opens up about her first serious mental health episode, being hospitalized and accepting her mental health challenges as being real. Onika reveals her struggle with drug use and the long term effects it’s had on her mental health. She dyshes on her diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder and on her first manic episode.