The Glorious Mess
The Glorious Mess is a podcast for the ones who grew up in chaos and still became something. Hosted by Raymond Jordan Johnson-Brown — a social worker-in-training and multi-hyphenate creative — the show is rooted in the power of our stories: the ones we lived through, the ones we were told to hide, and the counter-stories we’re claiming for ourselves now. Every season brings a new guest host as we talk healing, identity, and all the messy, brilliant ways people rebuild their lives.
The Glorious Mess
Gay Parents & Getting Sober | Is Sobriety Just Another Kind of Coming Out?
In Gay Parents & Getting Sober, Raymond and Carla sit down for an honest, funny, and unexpectedly tender conversation about the families that shaped them and the clarity they’re choosing now.
What does it mean to be raised by gay parents? What does it mean to be raised by deeply religious Jamaican foster parents? And how does sobriety force you to look back at those stories with new eyes?
From coming out (in all its forms) to unlearning chaos, this episode explores the truths we inherit, the ones we run from, and the ones we finally claim as our own.
A little messy, a lot real.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.