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
The Obsession Question | Who Benefits From Men Wanting Us Like This?
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.