Sense Only
Have you ever wondered how to cut through the noise, find real clarity, and make sense of everything life throws your way? That’s what this podcast is all about.
Hosted by Alicia Mullings, Sense Only is a space for honest, thought-provoking conversations that go waaaaaaaayy beyond the surface. Each episode gives you practical insights, fresh perspectives, and the kind of wisdom that helps you grow, heal, and transform.
This isn’t just a podcast, it’s a collective and a solid community. A place where truth-seekers take action and become Transmuters, and where personal transformation becomes reality.
Subscribe today and start making sense of the world, one conversation at a time.
Sense Only
Sister Circles: The Ancestral Systems We lost, and Why Our girls Need Them Back, Ep 10
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
This episode is a necessary conversation about what we’ve lost and what we must reclaim.
We explore the role of Sister Circles in African and diasporic culture, not as nostalgia, but as functional systems that once supported girls, women, mothers and entire communities.
From pan-African Saturday schools to spiritual and cultural organisations, this conversation asks the uncomfortable but essential questions:
Where are the systems that once held us?
Why are girls being raised in isolation instead of community?
What does womanhood actually require beyond survival?
This is not about limiting women.
This is about supporting becoming.
We discuss:
The cultural purpose of Sister Circles
Why community children require community responsibility
Feminism vs cultural grounding (and where the conversation misses the point)
Parenting as ecosystem-building, not individual struggle
Why empowering parents is the real work
This episode is for anyone thinking deeply about:
Black girlhood. Womanhood. Culture. Parenting. Community healing.