The Glorious Mess
The Glorious Mess is for people who didn’t inherit a clean story.
Mixed. Fostered. Raised in systems. Raised across cultures. Raised by people who loved you but couldn’t give you your origin.
Hosted by Raymond Jordan Johnson-Brown, the show sits inside identity, memory, race, belonging, and the strange work of becoming yourself when you had to assemble the pieces.
No self-help. No performance.
Just lived experience, sharp conversation, and the honesty of building a self in public.
If you’ve ever felt like the exception in your own family, you’re home.
Welcome to the mess.
The Glorious Mess
The Echo and the Other | Can We Really Live With the Far Right?
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In The Echo and the Other, Raymond and Carla sit down for a light but honest conversation about radical pluralism — the idea that we can live together across deep difference.
Can we really coexist with those whose beliefs cause harm? From the far right to influencer culture, this episode explores how social media turns opinion into certainty, and how we might still find ways to listen, reflect, and stay human in the noise.
A little messy, a lot real.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.