The Glorious Mess
The Glorious Mess is for people who didn’t inherit a clean story.
Mixed. Fostered. Raised in systems. Raised across cultures. Raised by people who loved you but couldn’t give you your origin.
Hosted by Raymond Jordan Johnson-Brown, the show sits inside identity, memory, race, belonging, and the strange work of becoming yourself when you had to assemble the pieces.
No self-help. No performance.
Just lived experience, sharp conversation, and the honesty of building a self in public.
If you’ve ever felt like the exception in your own family, you’re home.
Welcome to the mess.
The Glorious Mess
Gay Parents & Getting Sober | Is Sobriety Just Another Kind of Coming Out?
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In Gay Parents & Getting Sober, Raymond and Carla sit down for an honest, funny, and unexpectedly tender conversation about the families that shaped them and the clarity they’re choosing now.
What does it mean to be raised by gay parents? What does it mean to be raised by deeply religious Jamaican foster parents? And how does sobriety force you to look back at those stories with new eyes?
From coming out (in all its forms) to unlearning chaos, this episode explores the truths we inherit, the ones we run from, and the ones we finally claim as our own.
A little messy, a lot real.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.