The Glorious Mess
The Glorious Mess is a storytelling space 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 explores the power of story: the ones we lived, the ones we hid, and the counter-stories we’re claiming now.
Each episode sits in narrative, not advice. You’ll hear lived experience, moments of meaning-making, and conversations that open space for listeners to draw their own conclusions. 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
Invisible Rulers | How Much of the Story Are We Actually Getting?
In Invisible Rulers, Raymond and Carla wade into the messy question of who actually decides what we know and how much of the truth ever makes it out.
What stories get told on the news? Which ones get buried? Who benefits from the way information moves? And how much of what we “know” is really just good marketing?
From pop culture contradictions to Raya as a class filter disguised as a dating app, this episode examines the quiet power shaping our feeds and our beliefs.
Then, we take it somewhere deeper: reframing psychosis as cultural insight, unpacking sleep paralysis as a global story, and asking why some forms of meaning-making are dismissed while others are celebrated.
A little paranoid, a lot curious.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.