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We Weren't Told

We Weren't Told

By: Angel Beswick-Reid
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Summary

Millennial mothers were given a roadmap: build the career, find your person, have the kids, and stability would follow. But the generation that waited for dial-up and pen-pal letters grew up to inherit a very different reality. Hosted by Angel — lawyer turned life coach, wife, and mother — We Weren’t Told revisits the expectations millennial women inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners name the tensions and question the rules they’ve been living by and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.Angel Beswick-Reid Personal Development Personal Success
Episodes
  • Episode 7: Crashout Season
    May 4 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.


    I'm going to be honest with you — I have been crashing out for the last two weeks. Eleven minute voice notes, therapy, ceiling-staring. A full, sustained emotional crash. And I almost didn't make this episode because I kept waiting until I had something neat to say about it.


    I don't. What I have is the crash itself. And I think that might be more useful.


    In this episode, I'm talking about what happens when life hands you something the script never prepared you for — and why falling apart might be exactly the right response.

    In this episode:

    • The funeral that cracked everything open
    • The script we were all handed — and the chapter it's missing
    • Why the crash is not a malfunction, it's a reckoning
    • What it means to have somewhere safe to fall apart
    • The kind of strength nobody told us to build
    • The question to sit with: Who are the people you can crash with?

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee, my friend. It's go time.

    Come say hi on Instagram! 🫶🏽@iamangelbr | @iamwewerenttoldpodcast


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    16 mins
  • Episode 6: The Jealousy Card
    Apr 28 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's. By now you've seen the video. Noah Lyles. Junelle Bromfield. The dress reveal. And we need to talk about it — not just the moment itself, but what the reaction to it revealed about something much deeper that millennial women were handed a long time ago.

    We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time.


    In this episode:

    • The dress reveal — and the moment that started it all
    • The pushback, and why none of it moved me
    • Janelle's response — and the line I couldn't stop thinking about
    • The lie we were raised inside about other women
    • What we're slowly, finally, unlearning

    👉🏽Watch my reaction video here: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXR0sWykf7P/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==


    Come say hi on Instagram 👇🏽@iamangelbr@iamwewerenttoldpodcast

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    19 mins
  • Episode 5: Off the Menu
    Apr 20 2026

    Millennial girlies, pull up a chair — and no, for once, not at your therapist's.

    The internet has a menu for you. Option one: trad wife, sourdough from scratch, a starter named Gerald, submission as aesthetic. Option two: marriage is a trap, domesticity is a con, ascend or be complicit. And somewhere between the MAHA moms and the TikTok feminists — in that gap the algorithm doesn't know what to do with — are women like me. Women who don't fit either door. This episode is for them.

    We Weren't Told revisits the expectations millennial mothers inherited about success, ambition, money, marriage, motherhood, and sexuality. Each episode helps listeners navigate the rules they've been living by — and decide, with greater clarity, which ones still belong in their lives.

    Grab your drink or your iced coffee my friends. It's go time.

    In this episode:

    • Why identity boxes are a stress response — and why the algorithm makes them worse
    • Angel gets personal: lawyer, stay-at-home mom, domestic engineer, and why none of those labels tell the whole story
    • The specific exhaustion of getting pressure from both sides when you refuse to pick a lane
    • The women living in the gap — and why being unclassifiable is not confusion, it's a conclusion
    • What we hand forward to our children when we model the courage to actually think

    Come say hi on Instagram 👇@iamangelbr @iamwewerenttoldpodcast


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    19 mins
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