She Knows Best

About She Knows Best

A podcast by millennial girlies, for millennial girlies, unpacking taboo truths at the intersection of healing, identity, and culture, with sass, soul, and serious substance. She Knows Best is a refreshing, intelligent, and deeply relatable podcast that explores the layered realities of modern African womanhood. Hosted by Afsa and Liz, two dynamic African millennial women from different sectors of culture and public life, the show brings honest, thought-provoking conversations on everything from mental health and identity to relationships, power, and purpose.

Publisher

The Tribe Africa

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Aug 2025

Latest episode

18 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

23 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Jul 2026

   Before We Overshare Again…The Season Finale

   Episode 10 | Season 2 Finale Before We Overshare Again…| The One Where We Read the Comments We couldn’t disappear for the mid-year break without leaving you with one more episode to hold you over. 🫶🏾 We made it! Season 2 has officially come to an end, and what a ride it’s been. In this finale, we’re looking back at some of our favourite episodes, the conversations that stayed with us long after we left the couch, and the moments that made this season so special. We also dive into some of the wildest comments you’ve left us online… and let’s just say, some of you can liiiie. 😭😂 More importantly, we want to say thank you. Thank you for watching, listening, sharing, debating with us, disagreeing with us, and growing this community into something we never imagined. You are the reason we keep showing up. Now it’s time for us to take a short mid-year break, to rest, reset, and dream a little bigger before we come back with an even better season. This episode is equal parts recap, banter, gratitude, and just a little bit of therapy. Enjoy, and we’ll see you soon. 💬 It’s not therapy, but it might help.

2. 

   9 May 2026

   Black Don’t Crack: For Us, By Us – The African Beauty Narrative

   For a long time, African beauty consumers have had to make do with products that were not always created with their skin, climate, lifestyle, or lived experience in mind. In this episode of She Knows Best Podcast, Liz & Afsa sit down with Dr. Eman, Head of Research & Development at Bella Zuri, for a grounded conversation on why African beauty deserves better. Under the theme “Black Don’t Crack: For Us, By Us – The African Beauty Narrative,” this episode unpacks what it truly means to formulate beauty products for African skin. From melanin-rich skin needs, hyperpigmentation, dryness, sensitivity, undertones, and climate-specific concerns, Dr. Eman shares the science, intention, and local insight behind building products that understand African women. The conversation also explores the assumption that imported products are automatically better, the power of locally inspired ingredients like shea butter and avocado oil, and how African beauty knowledge can be blended with modern science to create products that are both effective and proudly rooted in community. More than a product conversation, this is a story about representation, innovation, and pride in African-made beauty. It is a reminder that African women deserve products created with them at the center, not as an afterthought. By the end of the episode, listeners will walk away feeling seen, informed, and proud of the African beauty narrative being shaped by brands like Bella Zuri.

3. 

   25 Apr 2026

   The African Woman's Body Has Always Been Public Property. Let's talk about it.

   They've Been Selling African Women's Bodies For Centuries. We're Just Now Talking About It.They've been legislating, policing, trending, and profiting off African women's bodies for centuries. And nobody asked us.In Part 1 of our Reclaiming My Body series, Afsa and Liz go all the way in, from the patriarchy and religion that taught us our bodies belong to everyone else, to the cultural customs that turned our flesh into public property before we were old enough to understand what was happening.We talk about the naked mom household and what it actually teaches children about bodies and shame. We talk about Sara Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman whose body was put on display in Europe, studied, mocked, and exhibited even after her death, and draw the direct line to how African women's bodies are still being consumed as spectacle today. We talk about why bodies have become trends, who profits when they do, and what it costs the women whose bodies are being borrowed. And we talk about abortion, what pro-choice actually means in a context where the choice was never yours to begin with.Who truly owns your body? In life, and in death?This is the conversation your school, your church, and your family never had with you. We're having it now.It's not therapy, but it might help.

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