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 Obsession Question | Who Benefits From Men Wanting Us Like This?
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In The Obsession Question, Raymond and Carla wade into the uncomfortable territory of desire, attention, and power and ask when being wanted starts to feel less like attraction and more like control.
Why do some men continue to pursue even when there’s no response? How did attention become something we’re expected to manage or soften? And why does desire so often feel pressurized or unsafe?
From Carla’s experience of persistent messaging to a broader look at feminism, state power, and how systems create dependency, this episode explores the myth of the perfect victim and the perfect enemy and what gets lost when harm is flattened into binaries.
A little uncomfortable, very honest.
New episodes every month. Recorded at Virage Studios.