Girl...Call Me with Tanya and Jessica

About Girl...Call Me with Tanya and Jessica

Girl…Call Me with Tanya and Jessica is where real conversations happen. Unfiltered, heartfelt, and rooted in the shared experience of being Black women navigating a world that often misunderstands us. Born from those “girl, call me” moments when you just need someone who gets it, this podcast is a space for reflection, release, and reimagining what wellness, joy, and community mean. Now in Season Four, Tanya and Jessica continue showing up with honesty and humor, tackling everything from impostor syndrome and stress to joy, boundaries, and building community in uncertain times. They delve into health, culture, identity, and the systems that shape our lives, while creating space for laughter, storytelling, and collective care. Whether it’s a deep dive or a vent session, every episode is a reminder that you’re not alone and that we deserve to be well-supported and heard.

Publisher

podcastgirlcallme

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Feb 2024

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

84 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Second Summer Reflections: Black Joy, Sisterhood & Community

   We’re back from Martha’s Vineyard and reflecting on our first Girl… Call Me Presents: Second Summer, a gathering of incredible Black women centered on connection, sisterhood, laughter and Black joy. What happens when Black women have the space to simply let their shoulders down? We talk about the power of community, the importance of creating spaces where women can show up fully, and why even the most accomplished among us sometimes need someone to remind us just how great we are. Of course, it wouldn’t be Girl… Call Me without a few detours. We get into the WNBA, Tanya’s unexpected workout, and the Airbnb catfish that almost derailed Second Summer before it even began. Before we release our special conversations recorded on Martha’s Vineyard, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the joy, vulnerability and sisterhood that made Second Summer so special, and why we need to keep showing up for, celebrating and reminding each other of our greatness. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com Website: www.girlcallme.com Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

2. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Bonnets, Money Pieces & the End of Times

   Tanya and Jessica are back, and somehow a conversation that starts with braiding hair, airport bonnets, Virgo season, and the mysterious “money piece” ends with food safety, extreme weather, disappearing safety nets, local politics, and the question we may all need to start asking: if nobody is coming to save us, how do we take better care of ourselves and each other? Plus, Ray J, questionable salads, WNBA distractions, community survival, and Jessica’s official ruling that the airport is basically a bus station. Laugh with us, pay attention, support your people, and wear your bonnet if you want to. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com Website: www.girlcallme.com Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

3. 

   12 Aug 2026

   Storytelling, Aging & Agency with Tamika Thompson

   What happens when we stop trying to outrun aging and start thinking about what it means to live fully in the bodies and lives we have? This week, Tanya and Jessica are joined by award-winning author and former journalist Tamika Thompson for a wide-ranging conversation about storytelling, horror, aging, health, motherhood, rest and the power of knowing yourself. Tamika shares how growing up in Detroit, her family’s Southern storytelling traditions, and experiences with violence shaped her work as a horror writer. The conversation moves from the stories we inherit to the ones we tell ourselves about getting older, including beauty standards, perimenopause, preventative health and why women are too often left to piece together what is happening in their own bodies. They also talk about raising Black children with agency, finding connection in a world that often feels disconnected, and Tamika’s “Wellness Wednesday,” a practice that makes health, therapy, movement and even the bureaucracy of taking care of yourself a priority. And perhaps the biggest reminder of the conversation: rest is not something we have to earn. It’s a conversation about getting older, knowing yourself better, taking care of the body carrying you through it all, and becoming more fully who you are. Women in Full. ***Connect with Tamika Thompson Web: https://www.tamikathompson.com/ Blog: https://www.tamikathompson.com/tamika-talks-terror FB: https://www.facebook.com/tamikathompsonauthor IG: https://instagram.com/tamikadthompson Threads: https://www.threads.net/@tamikadthompson BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/tamikathompson.bsky.social TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@tamikadthompson Tamika Thompson is an award-winning author and former journalist whose latest novel, The Curse of Hester Gardens, was released by Erewhon/Kensington. She is also the author of Unshod, Cackling, and Naked, winner of the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Horror, and Salamander Justice. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Prairie Schooner, Interzone and numerous speculative fiction anthologies. A former journalist and producer with credits at NBC, ABC News and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment, Tamika is a graduate of Columbia University and USC and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. **Enjoying the show? Buy us a coffee! Your support helps us keep the convo real, the mics on, and the vibes strong. https://coff.ee/podcastgirg We invite you to become part of our community. If you have questions for our hosts or want to suggest a topic for the show, please email us at podcast.girlcallme@gmail.com Website: www.girlcallme.com Follow on Instagram: podcast.girlcallme Follow on Facebook: @girl.callmepodcast Join our YouTube Channel: @PodcastGirlCallMe

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

19,068

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

29

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

51

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