The Mediocre Black Woman
The Mediocre Black Woman

The Mediocre Black Woman

The Mediocre Black Woman

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A spiritual house for Black women healing the fear of being truly seen—remembering our humanity has always been our divinity. The Mediocre Black Woman began as a rebellion against perfection and performance. What started as a whispered permission slip has evolved into a spiritual home for Black women who long to rest, soften, unmask, and return to themselves without apology or performance. This house carries the sacred medicine of Chiron in Leo in the fifth house in retrograde —the wound of being unseen, dimmed, or undervalued, healed through gentle self-expression, truth-telling, and the courage to let your real self be enough. Here, we heal the fear of being seen by first daring to see ourselves. We heal, we cackle, we cry, we channel, we rest. We sit in the honesty of our becoming. We release the “shoulds,” the striving, the exceptionalism. And we remember that what makes us human is what makes us divine.

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Season 2 Is Here: Spirit Been Dragging Me By the Edges
DEC 11, 2025
Season 2 Is Here: Spirit Been Dragging Me By the Edges
<p>Listen… if y’all only knew the spiritual whiplash I’ve been experiencing behind the scenes. Spirit really had me out here getting snatched, humbled, stretched, initiated, and <em>lowkey bullied</em> into my purpose — and somehow, it all led us right here.</p><p>Season 2 of <em>The Mediocre Black Woman Podcast</em> has officially entered the chat, and this time? We’re not just making a podcast or a publication. We’re building a <strong>House</strong>!</p><p>A spiritual house. A healing house. A house where shadow work meets humor, where revelation meets humanity, and where we stop abandoning ourselves for belonging.</p><p>This new season wasn’t planned. It was <strong>assigned</strong>. And if you listen to the trailer, you’ll hear exactly how Spirit lined every moment up — the layoff, the clarity, the posts that turned into community catharsis, the conversations that shook something loose, and the downloads that wouldn’t let me rest until I moved.</p><p>Somewhere between asking a recruiter how “conservative” their company was (a question I had <em>never</em> asked in my entire career) and realizing I was already shrinking myself in my imagination… the truth hit me: <strong>If I have to dilute to enter, that door ain’t mine.</strong></p><p>And that moment spiraled into the next, and the next, and the next — until Spirit finally said: “Gurl… <strong>build the damn House.</strong>” So I did.</p><p>I pulled a spread one morning, not thinking about anything except getting centered, and Spirit dropped the entire framework for Season 2 right into my lap. The Moon. The Death card. The Sun. A three-stage journey through the hidden, the shedding, and the rising. A full Fool’s Journey woven through it all. This season isn’t just content — it’s curriculum. It’s initiation. It’s medicine. It’s a mirror back to you.</p><p>And here’s the part I resisted for a long time: <em>The Mediocre Black Woman has always been spiritual work.</em></p><p>It has always been a space of visibility, vulnerability, and reclamation disguised as storytelling and laughter. It has always been a classroom. A sanctuary. A place where we practice being enough — even when we don’t feel it yet.</p><p>But now? Now the House is named. Now the foundation is poured. Now the doors are open.</p><p><strong>What You Can Expect This Season:</strong></p><p>🔥 Honest conversations about healing, shadow work, and personal transformation🔥 Deep dives into Chiron, the Moon/Death/Sun framework, and the Fool’s Journey🔥 Reflections on purpose, identity, and shedding who you thought you had to be🔥 Laughter, messiness, softness, and real-time growth🔥 A community space that honors intuition over dependency🔥 And of course… the mantra remains: <strong>If you never did another motherfucking thing, you are enough.</strong></p><p>This trailer is long because it had to be. It’s the grounding for everything to come. So welcome in. Welcome back. Welcome deeper.</p><p><strong>Season 2 of The Mediocre Black Woman Podcast starts now. </strong>And I can’t wait to walk this next chapter with you.</p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Goddess Theadora</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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Bonus: How Are You Choosing to Move Through What You’ve Been Through?
NOV 12, 2025
Bonus: How Are You Choosing to Move Through What You’ve Been Through?
<p>As we close out <strong>Season 1</strong> of <em>The Mediocre Black Woman,</em> I wanted to leave you with a <strong>bonus episode</strong> — a story that reminds us what it means to heal, to transform, and to keep moving forward with grace.</p><p>In this conversation, I sit down with <strong>Mahogany Purpose</strong> — an artist, poet, musician, and founder of <strong>Black Greeting Cards</strong> — to talk about how trauma can become a pathway to purpose.</p><p><p>This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p>Mahogany’s journey began in loss. After losing her brother to gun violence at 19 and later experiencing a miscarriage, she turned toward art — or as she beautifully says, <em>art found her.</em> What started as simple handmade cards for her girlfriends blossomed into a business built on love, community, and healthy representation.</p><p>Together, we talk about:✨ Turning pain into purpose and art into service✨ Breaking generational cycles of busyness and survival✨ Creating from love rather than lack✨ Raising our frequencies through healing — for ourselves and the collective</p><p>This episode isn’t about trauma itself. It’s about what happens <em>after. </em>The rebuilding. The returning. The reclaiming of joy.</p><p><strong>🎧 Listen to the full conversation</strong>Then ask yourself: How are you choosing to move through what you’ve been through?</p><p>* 🌿 <strong>Connect:</strong> Check out and <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/posts/connect-with-mahogany-purpose-msw-artist-poet-strategist-storyteller">Connect with Mahogany in our Directory! </a></p><p>* 📖 <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/underworldgoddessqueguide"><strong>New Offering</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Underworld Goddessqué: The Guide for this Season</p><p>* A 33-page seasonal guide channeled for this exact moment — a spiritual workbook, journal, and ritual companion designed to help you release, transform, and return to a full-body yes. Rooted in the energy of <strong>Oya</strong>, the Yoruba Goddess of storms and transformation, this guide invites you to move through your own endings and rebirths with intention. Inside, you’ll find reflections, rituals, tarot insights, and journal prompts to help you navigate the death of old patterns and the emergence of new power.</p><p>* 💌 <strong>Support the Work:</strong> If this episode spoke to you, offer what feels aligned — a <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/leave-an-offering">Love Offering</a>, a restack, a comment<strong>,</strong> a subscription, or share the incredible <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/profile/posts">Black voices in our directory</a>.</p><p>💌 A Note of Gratitude</p><p>This is the <strong>final free bonus episode</strong> of the year — and I just want to say thank you.Thank you for listening, for sharing, and for letting this space hold you through the journey of Season 1. Every comment, every quiet reflection, every moment you’ve spent here has helped this house grow.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p>Tomorrow, my <strong>final paid subscriber episode of the season</strong> drops — a closing offering. </p><p>As we prepare for <strong>Season 2</strong>, know that everything we’ve built here — the stories, the healing, the honesty — is only the beginning. We are moving into deeper purpose-filled waters. And will officially launch our <strong>Season 2 Trailer on December 2nd 2025.</strong></p><p>xoxo,Goddess Theadora</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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48 MIN
Leadership, Labels, and Living Black in America
NOV 11, 2025
Leadership, Labels, and Living Black in America
<p>It’s 3:33 in the morning and I’m sitting straight up in bed, mind blown. I’d already finished writing this post to go with the episode, had it ready to go, and then Spirit was like, <em>nah, we got more to say. </em>I saw a random clip on YouTube earlier tonight, tracked down the show — <em>American Gods</em> — and decided to watch it. Season 1, Episode 2. What’s wild is, the clip that pulled me in wasn’t even in this episode or this scene. But within minutes, I’m like, <em>what in the actual f*ck?</em> Because this—this right here—is exactly what I was just talking about with JD.</p><p>This is my whole frustration with labels. Like, yeah, I’m Black, obviously. I’m a Black woman. But I don’t identify in my heart or spirit with that, because that label wasn’t ours to begin with. It was something <em>done</em> to us — some arbitrary shit built to subjugate and divide, to dominate both people and resources. And we’ve been carrying the weight of that identity ever since. I identify as the meaning of the name my mother gave me — <strong>a gift from God, Divine Love itself.</strong></p><p>And then <em>this scene</em> shows up, right on cue. Go ahead and press play on the clip below.</p><p>Thank you <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/315309810-carma-jean">Carma Jean</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/410640270-no-kept-secrets-podcast">No Kept Secrets Podcast</a>, and many others for tuning into my live video conversation with this week’s guest <strong>JD Johnson</strong>, founder of<a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/358822270-j-elevate-consulting">J² Elevate Consulting</a> and host of <em>Fixin’ Your Crown, Boo!</em>, to talk about leadership, identity, and the moment you realize—<em>oh… I’m Black-Black</em> in America.</p><p>JD grew up in Toronto with Caribbean roots, spent years navigating corporate spaces across North America, and eventually built a business.</p><p>But this conversation went way deeper than career paths and coaching. We talked about what it means to be labeled “aggressive” when you’re really just <em>passionate</em>, how age and power show up, and how moving between cultures can shift the way you see yourself—and the world around you.</p><p>There’s laughter, honesty, and a few detours 😅. Underneath it all is the theme of realizing how the world sees you, and how you decide to see yourself anyway.</p><p>Listen to the full conversation. Then pause and ask yourself: when did you first recognize how the world sees you—and how have you learned to move through it, and continue to, now that you know?</p><p>* 🌿 <strong>Connect:</strong> Check out and <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/posts/connect-with-jd-johnson-founder-of-j-elevate-consulting">Connect with JD in our Directory</a>! </p><p>* 📖 <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/underworldgoddessqueguide"><strong>New Offering</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Underworld Goddessqué: The Guide for this Season</p><p>* A 33-page seasonal guide channeled for this exact moment — a spiritual workbook, journal, and ritual companion designed to help you release, transform, and return to a full-body yes. Rooted in the energy of <strong>Oya</strong>, the Yoruba Goddess of storms and transformation, this guide invites you to move through your own endings and rebirths with intention. Inside, you’ll find reflections, rituals, tarot insights, and journal prompts to help you navigate the death of old patterns and the emergence of new power.</p><p>* 💌 <strong>Support the Work:</strong> If this episode spoke to you, offer what feels aligned — a <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/leave-an-offering">Love Offering</a>, a restack, a comment<strong>,</strong> a subscription, or share the incredible <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/profile/posts">Black voices in our directory</a>.</p><p>As we prepare for <strong>Season 2</strong>, know that everything we’ve built here — the stories, the healing, the honesty — is only the beginning. We are moving into deeper purpose-filled waters. And will officially launch our <strong>Season 2 Trailer on December 2nd 2025.</strong></p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Goddess Theadora</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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51 MIN
Its Election Day | What If Your Breaking Point Is the Beginning?
NOV 4, 2025
Its Election Day | What If Your Breaking Point Is the Beginning?
<p>Before we begin — it’s Election Day. If you’re reading this before the polls close, <strong>go vote. </strong>Vote with your heart. Vote with your ancestors in mind. Vote like your livelihood depends on it — because in many ways, it does. Now, let’s talk about becoming.</p><p>Over the last few weeks, we’ve been in this portal — a stretch of time where Spirit has been asking us to surrender, release, and transform. I’ve been writing through it, channeling through it, sometimes crying through it — this season of death and rebirth that God(dess) has us walking through together.</p><p><p>This Substack is reader-supported. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/p/what-if-you-traded-the-shoulds-for">A couple of posts ago</a>, I talked about the <em>Daughter of Cups</em> — how she invites us to look again. How she challenges us to reframe what we think of as endings. How she teaches us that not everything unexpected is punishment; some of it is preparation.</p><p>And that brings me to today’s conversation. I had the honor of sitting down with <strong>Dakarai Larriett</strong>, candidate for U.S. Senate in Alabama. But beyond politics, beyond the campaign, his story is about what we’ve all been feeling this year — what it means to be tried by fire and still rise.</p><p>Dakarai was wrongfully arrested. He lost his freedom, his sense of safety, and for a moment, the faith that the system would ever see him as human. But instead of letting that break him, he decided to run. Not away — <em>for Senate.</em></p><p>That decision, that moment, is the Daughter of Cups in motion. That’s what it looks like to take the most painful part of your story and let it become your platform, your prayer, your purpose.</p><p>We’ve all been in our own version of that story lately — being stripped, stretched, and asked to remember who we are without the titles, the jobs, the relationships, the things that “kept us safe”. It’s not easy. It’s uncomfortable. But it’s sacred work.</p><p><p>Thanks for reading! This post is public so feel free to share it.</p></p><p>Because what if the breaking wasn’t punishment? What if it was permission? Permission to stop performing. Permission to stop proving. Permission to start becoming.</p><p>This conversation with Dakarai isn’t just about politics — it’s about transmutation. It’s about what it means to keep your integrity when everything around you tries to pull you out of it.</p><p><strong>So as you listen, I want you to ask yourself:</strong>👉🏾 <em>Where in your life have you been invited to rebuild?</em>👉🏾 <em>What part of you is being resurrected through the rubble?</em>👉🏾 <em>And what if this — right here, right now — is the beginning?</em></p><p>Listen to the full conversation and when you’re done, take a deep breath. Light a candle. Thank yourself for surviving long enough to see what you’re becoming.</p><p>* 🌿 <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/posts/dakarai-larriett-entrepreneur-servant-leader-community-builder-u-s-senate-candidate-alabama"><strong>Connect</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Check out and Connect with Dakarai in our Directory! He has a powerful story to share.</p><p>* 📖 <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/underworldgoddessqueguide"><strong>New Offering</strong></a><strong>:</strong> Underworld Goddessqué: The Guide for this Season</p><p>* A 33-page seasonal guide channeled for this exact moment — a spiritual workbook, journal, and ritual companion designed to help you release, transform, and return to a full-body yes. Rooted in the energy of <strong>Oya</strong>, the Yoruba Goddess of storms and transformation, this guide invites you to move through your own endings and rebirths with intention. Inside, you’ll find reflections, rituals, tarot insights, and journal prompts to help you navigate the death of old patterns and the emergence of new power.</p><p>* 💌 <strong>Support the Work:</strong> If this episode spoke to you, offer what feels aligned — a <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/leave-an-offering">Love Offering</a>, a restack, a comment<strong>,</strong> a subscription, or share the incredible <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/profile/posts">Black voices in our directory</a>.</p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Goddess Thea</p><p></p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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34 MIN
Is it an absolute fuck yes?
OCT 27, 2025
Is it an absolute fuck yes?
<p>Thank you <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/12044824-margaret-williams-ms-acc">Margaret Williams, MS, ACC</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/393963821-warrior-womanhood">Warrior Womanhood</a>, <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/174907464-mac">Mac</a>, and many others for tuning into my live video with <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/46518166-lamakhosi-la-mar">LaMakhosi (La Mar)</a>! Join me for my next live video in the app.</p><p>We’re early with this week’s episode — because this one really <em>couldn’t wait.</em> Before you press play, I want you to pause and <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/p/if-im-even-starting-to-wonder-how?r=4ya3vd">read the reflection I shared on Saturday</a> — and <a target="_blank" href="https://substack.com/profile/46518166-lamakhosi-la-mar">LaMakhosi (La Mar)</a> beautiful response in the comments that brought us right here, right now, to this Spirit-led conversation.</p><p>Sometimes Spirit doesn’t wait for our calendars to clear. It moves when it moves. And this conversation? Whew. It’s one of those moments that moved <em>me</em> — and I know it’s about to move you, too.</p><p>In “Is It an Absolute Fuck Yes?”, we’re diving into that tender, in-between space — the moments where you’re deciding whether to shrink or stand tall, to settle or to stay rooted in your truth.</p><p>It started with a question I asked myself after being considered for a job:</p><p>“Do I really want to take something that requires me to hide parts of myself — my piercings, my tattoos, my energy — just to fit in?”</p><p>That question turned <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/p/if-im-even-starting-to-wonder-how?r=4ya3vd">into a reflection</a>, which turned into LaMar’s response, which turned into <em>this</em> — a conversation about authenticity, belonging, self-trust, and the courage to honor our “no” even when it’s inconvenient.</p><p><strong>Together, we explore:</strong></p><p>* The tension between survival and self-expression</p><p>* How to recognize when your body and Spirit are saying <em>no, not this</em></p><p>* The art of honoring your own energy — even when you can’t fully explain why</p><p>* And what it looks like to release every version of yourself that no longer feels “juicy”</p><p>It’s emotional, raw, and divinely timed. I cried reading LaMar’s story out loud as it gave voice to my own. I feel myself constantly reminded why I started this platform in the first place — to have <em>this kind</em> of conversation. So before you tune in,<a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/p/if-im-even-starting-to-wonder-how?r=4ya3vd"> read Saturday’s pos</a>t. Read LaMar’s response in the comments. Then come back and get this medicine.</p><p>This is for anyone standing at the crossroads of faith and fear.</p><p>🤎 If this episode spoke to you, offer what feels aligned — a <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/products/leave-an-offering"><strong>Love Offering</strong></a>, a <strong>restack</strong>, a <strong>subscription</strong>, or share the incredible <a target="_blank" href="https://themediocreblackwoman.com/profile/posts"><strong>Black voices in our directory</strong></a>. It all keeps the current moving.</p><p>xoxo,</p><p>Goddess Thea</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_2">themediocreblackwoman.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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57 MIN