Jess LCSW-S uses embodied practices and real, vulnerable conversations to help listeners name and heal from “The F*ckery” that culture, systems, and neighbors are steeped in. The show centers Black women’s healing while inviting everyone into a journey from dirty pain toward joy, rest, and liberation.
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Jess, LCSW-S in collaboration with SOUNDMiND Creative
Building The Worlds You Never Saw | THE Story Artist | Shawna
Shawna Mills is a story artist, director, and designer whose work you already know — Black Dynamite, Star Wars Rebels, Rise of the TMNT. In this conversation with Jess, she goes deeper: to her grandmother Ernestine, who told her she could do anything, and to the ongoing work of moving from surviving into thriving.
They talk about grief as love in another form. Anger as sacred information about a boundary. The parts work Shawna was doing before she had a name for it. And her company, Soda Monkey Entertainment — built to make the worlds she never got to see as a Black girl growing up watching animation. Her dream: put those dreams in the front seat.
Chapters:
0:00 Meet Shawna Mills (opener + intro + Purple Couch pre-roll)
2:23 The conversation begins — reading Shawna's bio
4:30 Grandmother Ernestine — the belief that shaped a career
9:00 From Black Dynamite to Star Wars Rebels
12:00 Grief as love in another form
15:00 A word from Main Street America
15:43 Back to the conversation
17:30 Anger as sacred information about a boundary
23:00 Parts work before she had a name for it
28:30 The move from surviving to thriving
33:00 Soda Monkey Entertainment
36:30 Putting Black girls' dreams in the front seat
39:00 The tree house dream
28 Sept 2026
Black Boy Joy | THE Artist Refusing To Shrink | Ryan The Son
Jess holds space for Ryan The Son — artist, entrepreneur, and creative director — in a conversation that goes places most therapy podcasts won't. Ryan talks about being told he "talks white" growing up, the muscle memory of Black boy joy he had to build after that, and what it takes to trust his gut in industries that keep telling him to shrink.
The two get into ADHD and entrepreneurship, the voice that says you're being selfish for wanting your own life, inner child work, and what it looks like when a Black man refuses to make his personality fit somebody else's box. Jess asks him how he knows it's safe to trust himself. His answer: "Vibes."
Chapters:
0:00 Meet Ryan The Son (intro + opener + Purple Couch pre-roll)
2:23 The conversation begins
4:47 VIMBASI practice — vibe, image, behavior
11:53 ADHD and entrepreneurial pattern-matching
14:43 The "selfish" voice from childhood
15:17 A word from Main Street America
16:00 Back to the conversation
20:38 The performer and the present — both here
23:51 "How do you know it's safe?" — vibes
29:06 Refusing to shrink your personality
33:06 The shrinking funnel in industries
36:06 Channel instead of shrink
Get connected:
Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.org
16 Sept 2026
Rich As F*ck | Soco Rey | Mother Wounds, Eldest Daughters, and Why Aliveness Beats Money
The show opens where it means to keep going — Jess Chavira-Eubanks, LCSW-S, sitting down alone to name what most therapy podcasts won't. She calls it the fuckery. White body supremacy as the standard. Patriarchy that doesn't serve anybody. Capitalism, colonialism, and the systems that shape how our bodies hold pain.
In this launch episode, Jess walks you through the VIMBASI practice — vibe, image, behavior, affect, sensation, imagination — a somatic tool from Dr. Resmaa Menakem's work that she'll weave through every episode. She talks about what it means to build Purple Couch Therapy from her own healing, why she's centering Black women, and what listeners can expect: real conversations, real practice, real community.
If you've been surviving and calling it healing, this is the podcast for you.
Chapters:
0:00 Welcome to the Purple Couch
0:41 Naming the fuckery
2:10 Being called "radical" — reclaiming it
3:10 VIMBASI — a somatic practice from Dr. Resmaa Menakem
5:16 Walking through the practice — Behavior, Affect, Sensation, Imagination
9:40 Dirty pain — why this show exists
10:36 Building Purple Couch Therapy — the vision
12:40 The three phases of healing
15:15 Naming white body supremacy — and healing from it
16:40 Closing thanks
Get connected:
Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.org
9 Sept 2026
Sacred Rage | The Ancestral Vessel | Kimiya Factory
Kimiya Factory — queer Indigenous Afro-Latina activist, founder of Black Freedom Factory, and one of the loudest, sharpest voices coming out of San Antonio — sits down with Jess for a conversation that is heavy and full of joy at the same time.
They get into sacred rage as inheritance, what it means to be a vessel for ancestors, and the cost of doing this work in a city that doesn't want you doing it. Kimiya talks about being on CNN at 20, how the deepest cuts come from your own people, and what it actually looks like to change rape culture. She also talks about being a whole human being — she needs an oil change, she wants rest and softness and a better skincare routine — because Black women organizers are not mascots.
The story of the night they met (with a white woman at the bar) may become one of your favorites.
Chapters: 0:00 Meet Kimiya Factory (intro + opener) 1:48 The conversation begins 7:18 VIMBASI practice with Kimiya 13:30 Imagining rest, softness, better skincare 14:59 A word from Purple Couch Therapy 15:43 Back to the conversation 20:39 The white-woman-at-the-bar story 25:03 Sacred rage as ancestral inheritance 29:32 Being a vessel — ancestors speaking through her 34:32 CNN at 20 — the cost of national visibility 42:32 Black Freedom Factory — from a protest to a movement 49:32 Being a whole human being (needing an oil change) 54:32 The deepest cuts come from your own people 1:00:32 What it takes to change rape culture
Get connected:
Learn about Purple Couch Therapy: purplecouchcounseling.org
9 Sept 2026
Heal From The F*ckery | Jess, LCSW-S
The show opens where it means to keep going — Jess Chavira-Eubanks, LCSW-S, sitting down alone to name what most therapy podcasts won't. She calls it the fuckery. White body supremacy as the standard. Patriarchy that doesn't serve anybody. Capitalism, colonialism, and the systems that shape how our bodies hold pain.
In this launch episode, Jess walks you through the VIMBASI practice — vibe, image, behavior, affect, sensation, imagination — a somatic tool from Dr. Resmaa Menakem's work that she'll weave through every episode. She talks about what it means to build Purple Couch Therapy from her own healing, why she's centering Black women, and what listeners can expect: real conversations, real practice, real community.
If you've been surviving and calling it healing, this is the podcast for you.
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