Hello Darlin’s, I’m Char Ellesse, the founder of online storytelling platform 'Girls Will Be Boys' and I am bringing you a podcast to shine the light on the corners of important conversations that are often missed out of the media or seen as taboo. This Girls Will Be Boys podcast serves as an opportunity to let you into different peoples worlds, share unfiltered conversations and allow our guests to Say It With Their Chests. If you are loving the conversations we are having make sure you follow Girls Will Be Boys across all socials and show us some love, don’t be shy! Listen by clicking ‘Play’ on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever it is you’re listening now. Make sure to Subscribe or Follow, Rate and Review to help others find the podcast. Girls Will Be Boys is an Insanity Podcast Production.
10: Candice Brathwaite // Side B: Black Love and Me
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking author and content creator Candice Brathwaite.
Pronouns: She/her
Candice talks us through her journey with self love, dating outside of her race, and the importance of how she’s raising her Black children. Candice also speaks candidly on self love being the first and most important Black love, and how in the Black community there’s such lack of protection for Black women.
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12/13/2022 • 46 minutes, 54 seconds
9: Skye Lukowski-Standley // Side A: Black Love And Me
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to Model, Care Leaver and most importantly my fiancé Skye Lukowski-Standley.
Pronouns: She/Her
Skye talks to us about her journey with self love, past relationships and how she is now navigating self love in a loving healthy relationship. Skye also opens up on her thoughts and feelings about starting a family in the future, and her honest thoughts on bringing black children into a complicated world where theyre guaranteed to face adversity.
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12/6/2022 • 32 minutes, 42 seconds
8: Gina Knight // Side B: Shame Is A Weapon (Of Manipulation)
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to wig designer and hair loss advocate, Gina Knight.
Pronouns: She/Her
Gina opens up about her hair journey as a young child in care to now as an adult, and how she faced misdiagnosis of her alopecia whilst facing post partum hair loss. Gina also explains about how losing her hair made her feel a loss of identity, and that there’s still so many misconceptions on the definition of alopecia.
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11/29/2022 • 42 minutes, 18 seconds
7: Mya Mehmi // Side A: Shame Is A Weapon (Of Manipulation)
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to curator, creative, artist, DJ and producer Mya Mehmi.
Pronouns: she/her
Mya talks us through the struggles of growing up trans as a South Asian and how shame has been pushed on her from a young age before she even knew what it was. Mya opens up about the internet trying to cancel her and a pivotal event that occurred in the trans community that triggered her to start her transition.
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11/22/2022 • 29 minutes, 2 seconds
6: Tobi Green // Side B: Race, Identity & The Care System
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to dancer, care leaver and advocate for people in the foster care system and TV industry, Tobi Green.
Pronouns: she/her
Tobi speaks candidly about being in the foster care system from 3 months old to 17 years old and recounts her experiences as a black, disabled, queer, muslim woman. Tobi also speaks about how she brakes the bias on being confident in her own skin and living her life to the fullest so that she isn’t held back by her disability or having to rely on the help of other people.
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11/15/2022 • 32 minutes, 41 seconds
5: Skye Lukowski-Standley // Side A: Race, Identity & The Care System
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to Model, Care Leaver and most importantly my fiancé Skye Lukowski-Standley.
Pronouns: she/her
Skye opens up to me about her journey in the care system and how she had to fight for her natural curls hair to keep her identity as a young child. Skye also speaks on her experiences as a care leaver now and why it’s important to raise awareness to get more black care leavers to look out for black children in who are in the care system.
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11/8/2022 • 38 minutes, 32 seconds
4: Charlie Craggs // Side B: Desirability Politics
Listener discretion is advised, topics of suicide.
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to Campaigner, Author, and documentary maker Charlie Craggs.
Pronouns: she/her
Charlie Craggs talks us through her journey of how she has had to overcome the stigma, misconceptions and trauma that come from being a trans women throughout her life. Charlie also opens up about her dating life and how she is aware of the backlash people recieve when dating a trans woman, but how it doesn’t stop the many DM slides that she receives on the daily.
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11/1/2022 • 41 minutes, 13 seconds
3: Stephanie Yeboah // Side A: Desirability Politics
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I am speaking to author, journalist and podcaster Stephanie Yeboah.
Pronouns: She/her
Stephanie Yeboah gets honest about the young age that she learnt about desirability politics and associated her fatness with negativity. Stephanie and I discuss our shared controversial experience of not feeling validated by men through cat calling, as well the back lash she faced when soft launching her boyfriend on social media.
10/24/2022 • 43 minutes, 30 seconds
2: Ola Awosika // Side B: Is It Always Binary?
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I chat to skin care content creator and all round beauty queen Ola Awosika.
Pronouns: he/him
Ola Awosika takes us through his gender expression journey and how he ended up confusing the cis community with the way he dressed. We also dive into how by being expressive in the way you dress can cause concern for safety and how Ola has overcome this throughout his life.
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10/17/2022 • 33 minutes, 15 seconds
1: Joss Jaycoff // Side A: Is It Always Binary?
Hello darlin’s and welcome to Say It With Your Chest. On this weeks episode of Say It With Your Chest I chat to the incredible activist Joss Jaycoff.
Pronouns: she/her/they/them
Joss Jaycoff opens up to me about the struggle of pronouns in Spanish and how it affected the countries view on the non binary community as well as getting deep about whether genitals define us as people.
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10/10/2022 • 35 minutes, 6 seconds
Coming Soon: Say It With Your Chest
Coming to a podcast platform near you, Say It With Your Chest launches in October 22'.
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