Kitchen-table adulthood, sharp and cared for.
Gettin' Grown treats grown life as funny, exhausting, bodily, and deeply communal. Songs, side jokes, guest conversations, and sharp pivots make space for perimenopause, self-care, public mess, and Black women figuring things out in real time.
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Gettin' Grown is a culture-and-care show about the ordinary absurdity of adult life. It is rooted in Black women’s conversation, but its range is wider than a single lane. One stretch might start with a song, slip into a joke about memory, and land on perimenopause before anyone has fully caught their breath. Another might turn a celebrity or television reference into a point about ownership, exploitation, beauty standards, or the cost of chasing certain kinds of success. The show’s center is not polish. It is rapport. The episodes feel quick, lived-in, and emotionally flexible, with enough warmth to hold grief and enough bite to call out nonsense. Recent conversations return often to the body: women’s health, brain fog, skin, hydration, intimacy, aging, and the strange feeling of becoming newly unfamiliar to oneself. The medical episodes are especially grounded, giving guests room to talk about respect, health disparities, and what it means to feel seen in an office. The culture episodes are looser but still pointed. A television reference, music-video memories, Black middle-class singlehood, public accountability, and internet foolishness all become material for larger questions about power and self-possession. The recurring self-care language has a ritual quality, but it is not soft-focus wellness branding. It is practical, funny, and protective. Gettin' Grown works best for listeners who want sisterly rhythm with real intellectual weight underneath. The show can be irreverent. It can be tender in the same breath. Its gift is making grown life sound less like a finished state and more like a conversation worth keeping.
Made for: For listeners drawn to Black women’s culture, adult friendship, health conversations, pop-culture critique, and frank talk about becoming grown. It especially suits people who like humor and seriousness sitting close together.
What sets it apart: The show turns informal rapport into editorial force: songs, jokes, memory, guests, and social critique all move through the same intimate table-talk rhythm. It feels loose without losing its point.
Keia and Jade are two happy and hard working (Blackity) Black Women who are just trying to learn how to adult, for real. Join us each week for Kitchen TableTalk, Petty Peeves and Lessons in Black Women Self Care, as we try to figure out life as 30-somethings.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Keia and Jade make Black adulthood legible through humor, candid reflection, thoughtful guests, and close attention to care, culture, family, and work.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm, candid conversation about postponed dreams and love's changeable weather.
This episode turns a kitchen memory and a candid check-in into a roomy conversation about love's mixed weather, ambition, and the dreams that daily life can quietly push aside.
A warm, candid kitchen-table conversation about body changes and dignity in the doctor's office.
This single episode starts in the loose rhythm of kitchen-table joking, then eases into a frank conversation about women's health with Dr. Sharon Malone and Dr. Wendy.
A warm anniversary conversation about Black middle-class life, singlehood, and the family images that shape success.
Gettin' Grown marks nine years with a conversation about what adulthood can look like when Black middle-class life is held up against familiar measures of family, partnership, and success.
A kitchen-table reckoning where accountability, therapy, and moisturized skin end up in the same hard conversation.
Women's History Month starts at the kitchen table, with Michael Gaines returning in a grateful mood before the talk turns to Christopher and a plain reckoning with a long pattern of wayward behavior.
A loose, lively conversation about beauty, visibility, and what success can demand from Black girls and women.
The episode treats beauty, fashion, and television success as a question of what visibility can cost. Its strongest passages connect the pressure placed on Black girls to appearance, casting, skin tone, and the uneven work of being chosen.
A funny, grounded review of accessories, self-presentation, and keeping personal care close.
Style starts small here: wig ads, broken glasses, jewelry, frames, and the everyday pieces that make an outfit feel intentional. The hosts make a warm, funny case for accessories as part of self-presentation, especially when they talk about Black women-owned brands and pieces…
A warm, funny conversation about loving family while generational values keep moving.
The episode centers on the strain of loving family when the world changes faster than shared beliefs can keep up. Its question is simple and useful: how do people stay close when the views that once felt foundational no longer line up?
Birth choices, argued in plain language.
Warm health talk for messy real life.
Hosts Keia and Jade of 'Gettin' Grown' share their annual 'Favorite Things' holiday episode, focusing exclusively on Black-owned and women-owned brands.
Keia and Jade reunite for a joint episode of Gettin' Grown, opening with updates on the Gaza crisis and the Kendrick Lamar-Drake rap beef.
A discussion about the Eric Benet and Faith Evans song 'How Some Ever' and its origin as a Toto cover, with confusion over the lyrics.
A discussion about the appropriateness of a walk in the park as a first date versus a coffee date, focusing on expectations and rapport.
The hosts welcome listeners to a new year of their podcast, discussing the chaotic start of 2025 and their efforts to manage and figure things out.
The hosts discuss a nostalgic song and a friend's haircut in a casual conversation.
Gettin' Grown's "Scheduled Sister Time" opens with the Isley Brothers' "Joy and Pain" and turns into a conversation about needing silence in a dark car or garage after work, family, and the news.
Gettin' Grown’s Second Puberty brings Dr.
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A candid kitchen table conversation about the challenges of adulthood and the military complex.
A candid discussion about the symptoms of perimenopause, particularly brain fog, and the challenges women face during this stage.
Kia Gaines returns to 'Gettin' Grown' after a family bereavement and is welcomed back by co-host Jade and a supportive audience who had rallied around substitute hosts Shanti, Dr.
Jade hosts 'Gettin' Grown' with guest Fran (Franiqua, of the 'Hey Fran Hey' platform and 'Friend Zone' podcast) to discuss the Netflix documentary 'Reality Check' about America's Next Top Model, which premiered in 2003 when both hosts were the same age as the teenage contestants.
A casual conversation about a music video, aging, and the rhythmic styles of silk the shocker and talib kweli.