We Weren't Told

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==

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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

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

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

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

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

Before I get into anything else on this podcast, I thought you deserved to know who I am and why I'm the one having this conversation with you. Who is Angel? How did I get here? And why this podcast?

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 eight-year-old with a life plan and the audacity to mean it
• The summer job at fifteen that changed everything
• A helicopter first date and a Christmas Day proposal
• Teaching by day, law school by night, pregnant the whole time
• What it actually feels like when the math stops mathing

Come say hi on Instagram 👇

@iamangelbr

@iamwewerenttoldpodcast

As Millennial mothers, we were given a road map: build the career, find your person, have the kids and stability would follow. But as the generation that waited for dial-up to connect and letters from pen pals, we grew up to inherit a very different reality.

In this trailer, host Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — introduces We Weren’t Told, a podcast for millennial mothers who followed the script and are now examining the expectations they inherited.  Every Monday we’ll take a closer look at the rules about success, marriage, money, ambition, and motherhood — and ask whether they still hold up.  

What You’ll Hear in This Episode

• Angel’s background as a lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother.
• The cultural scripts millennial women grew up with about success, relationships, and family.
• How growing up analog and entering adulthood digitally shaped our millennial generation.
• The realities that didn’t make it into the roadmap we were given.
• Why millennial mothers are now re-examining the expectations they followed.
• How each episode will help listeners decide which rules still serve them.
• What listeners can expect from the show: reflection, perspective, and clarity for action.

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