Mikaila Unmuted: Beyond A Mammy, Mule, & Maid
This season of Mikaila Unmuted, Beyond a Mammy, Mule, and Maid, explores how Black women can shed the roles we were conditioned to carry — the caretakers, the laborers, the silent strength holding everything and everyone together at the cost of ourselves.
These roles were never ours by choice. They were inherited through survival, expectation, and systems that required our exhaustion.
Here, we begin the unlearning. We question what we were taught to be, release what no longer serves us, and reclaim the fullness of who we are — soft and powerful, rested and worthy, complex and free.
This season is not just a conversation. It’s a return to ourselves.
Mikaila Unmuted: Beyond A Mammy, Mule, & Maid
BONUS EPISODE | BAMMM Live: Three Generations in Conversation w/ Ep. 1 Guests
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This is a special bonus episode of B.A.M.M.M. — Beyond a Mammy, Maid, and Mule.
After the release of Episode 1, I sat down live with the three women whose stories opened this season — Dr. Yvonne, Piper, and Ashanti — for a multigenerational conversation about identity, family, and what it felt like to hear their lives reflected back through the podcast.
Together we talk about:
• what it was like to hear their stories told publicly
• the patterns that show up across generations of Black women
• what they learned about each other through this process
• and what healing can look like inside a family
If Episode 1 moved you, this conversation adds another layer — because now the women themselves are reflecting on the story together.
This recording comes directly from the BAMMM YouTube Live community conversation, where listeners were invited to ask questions and think through these themes in real time.
And if you're just finding this conversation now, it’s the perfect moment to jump into the podcast.
A brand new episode of B.A.M.M.M. drops in two days, continuing the journey with new stories about how Black women reclaim the parts of themselves the world once told them they lacked.
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