Unapologetically Grown

What Our Guests Taught Us: Grown Women Wisdom So Far

Grown women pulled up a chair and told us the truth about starting over, taking care of themselves, building businesses, and finding their voices after 50. Now Audra Madi

Fitness After 50: Stop Punishing Your Body and Start Training for Longevity

Fitness after 50 isn’t about punishing your body or trying to become the woman you were 20 years ago. It’s about getting stronger for the life you’re living now. Audra M

You Can Still Eat Grandma’s Recipes: Plant-Based Eating & Reinvention with Dr. Monique May

What if eating healthier didn’t mean giving up the food you grew up loving? Dr. Monique May is proving that plant-based eating can still have flavor, culture and a littl

Redefining Intimacy After 50

Who told us intimacy had an expiration date? Not us. This week, Dr. Jeannelle Perkins pulls up a chair to talk about what real connection looks like after 50; the emotion

Hysterectomies, Grief & Identity After 50

Black women face hysterectomies younger, and more often, than their peers. Monica Wood joins Audra Madison and Val Royal to get real about hers: the decision, the surgery

A Broken Heel & A New Path

Carla Truitt joins Audra Madison and Val Royal to share how she traded a career in the music industry for founding Eight Royale, her high-end women's footwear brand built

Ageless Beauties and Self-Love After 50

Ashunta Kendricks returns with Audra and Val for a conversation about what beauty actually looks like after 50, and who gets to define it. They talk through the evolution

Hip Hop Beauty

Ashunta Kendricks, celebrity makeup artist and cultural architect, joins Audra and Val to explore the rich history and cultural significance of Black beauty pioneers, and

Black Women and Menopause

Audra Madison sits down with Dr. Paula Orr, MD, to talk menopause, specifically what it looks like for Black women. Dr. Orr breaks down why Black women reach menopause ea

Finding Your Voice: Life as a Digital Nomad After 50

Desiree Rew joins Audra Madison and Val Royal to talk about leaving the U.S. to live as a digital nomad and what it took to unlearn a lifetime of conditioning. A conversa

The Quiet Shifts Nobody Warned Us About

Nobody sat us down and warned us about the quiet shifts. The subtle changes that show up in your body, your relationships, your confidence, and the way the world starts t

Unapologetically Qualified - We're Not Starting Over; We're Starting from Experience.

Who told us that turning 50 means starting over? In this debut episode of Unapologetically Grown, we're throwing that idea out completely. We're not starting over. We're