This week Nadine sits down with Ro Nwosu - movement educator, studio owner, single mom, and self-proclaimed "weird gal who loves fairies" - for a conversation that starts with childhood comfort foods and ends somewhere much deeper; the slow, sneaky unraveling of burnout, and what it actually takes to come back from it.
Ro gets honest about the years she said yes to everything - the studios, the trainings, the diversity work nobody else wanted to do - while quietly falling apart behind the scenes. She talks about being a Black woman expected to soften her own truth to make other people comfortable, about a relationship she stayed in three conversations too long, about losing touch with her own joy so completely she couldn't answer a simple question: what do you actually like?
It's a conversation about hero complexes, "softer" racism, the friends who call you on your bullshit, and the wild, freeing decision to become unmanageable on purpose. Ro and Nadine talk about what it means to finally hear your own voice again after years of drowning it out, and why being "a problem" might just be the healthiest thing you ever decide to be.
If you've ever smiled through exhaustion, kept saying yes while you were quietly breaking, or wondered if the version of yourself before burnout is still in there somewhere, this one's for you.
We're not experts, we're just humans having a human experience we think you can learn from, or relate to, or laugh at, or cry over. So hit download, dive in, and hear how Ro truly found herself on The Other Side x
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