Out Here Tryna Survive
Out Here Tryna Survive is a trauma-informed, reflective podcast centering the emotional lives, resilience, and humanity of Black women — especially those of us navigating midlife, healing, motherhood, and healing after survival.
Hosted by Grace Sandra — Mama, storyteller, advocate, and lifelong student of survival — this podcast explores what it feels like to live in a world that constantly demands our strength while offering little protection.
Through personal storytelling, cultural reflection, and nervous-system-aware conversations, each episode holds space for truth, grief, joy, rage, softness, and repair.
This is not a place for perfection or performance. It’s a place for us as Black women to exhale, feel seen, and remember ourselves.
We are braver than we believe ✨
Out Here Tryna Survive
Latest Episodes
Ep 51: Banish The Fantasy Of Male Protection
Subscribe to my Substack: https://substack.com/@outheretrynasurviveGet the Out Here Tryna Survive Journal: https://stan.store/GraceSandraBusiness Inquiries: OutHereTrynaSurvive@gmail.comA man knows where you live, and sudde...
Ep 50: My 50 Best Lessons On Sex, Healing & Survival in my 50th Year!
Fifty lessons. Three themes. Zero sugarcoating. I’m celebrating a huge personal milestone with a rapid-fire list of what I’ve learned about sex, healing, and survival while rebuilding my life and learning to trust my body again.We start...
Ep 49 Stop Calling Teen Girls (& Brandy) Fast. On Wanya Morris' Grooming.
A grown ssa man can say something vile about Brandy on camera, and somehow the loudest anger still lands on the her. That’s the real story I can’t stop thinking about and it’s why I’m speaking on the resurfaced comments about Wanyye Morr...
Ep 48: Five Survival Mode Lies And The Journaling Practice That Breaks Them
Survival mode is sneaky because it can feel like “I’m just handling life” right up until you pause and realize you’ve been white knuckling everything for years. I’m Grace Sandra, and I’m talking about the way trauma, chronic stress, and a cruel...
Ep 47: Pretty Privilege Can Get You Chosen But Rarely Loved
A man tells me, “You’re not like those other Black girls,” and suddenly the real conversation isn’t about compliments at all. It’s about misogyny, colorism, and the quiet ways “pretty privilege” can become a trap that asks us to shrink other wo...
