Send us a text People love to judge your success, but they never stick around for the prequel. You know, the one with the wall-unit A/C, the EBT cards, and the 59¢ pasta dinners that lasted all week. In this episode, I’m taking you back to where it all began—L Street in Lake Worth, Florida—where resilience was the family currency and silence was the love language. My dad was the youngest of four kids in a family that learned grief before they ever learned healing. We didn’t have much, but we ...
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Send us a text People love to judge your success, but they never stick around for the prequel. You know, the one with the wall-unit A/C, the EBT cards, and the 59¢ pasta dinners that lasted all week. In this episode, I’m taking you back to where it all began—L Street in Lake Worth, Florida—where resilience was the family currency and silence was the love language. My dad was the youngest of four kids in a family that learned grief before they ever learned healing. We didn’t have much, but we ...
Ep. 3 - Holy Baaa-nishment: Breaking From the Flock
Being the Black Sheep
23 minutes
4 months ago
Ep. 3 - Holy Baaa-nishment: Breaking From the Flock
Send us a text What happens when your faith decides you’re no longer fit for the flock? In this episode of Being the Black Sheep, Janine Stella unpacks the wild, heartbreaking, and often absurd ways religious communities have given the ultimate cold shoulder—from medieval Spain’s “convert or get out” orders to the silent shunning of modern high-control groups. We’re talking Amish teens torn between family and freedom, Jehovah’s Witnesses facing “social death” for walking away, and the unspoke...
Being the Black Sheep
Send us a text People love to judge your success, but they never stick around for the prequel. You know, the one with the wall-unit A/C, the EBT cards, and the 59¢ pasta dinners that lasted all week. In this episode, I’m taking you back to where it all began—L Street in Lake Worth, Florida—where resilience was the family currency and silence was the love language. My dad was the youngest of four kids in a family that learned grief before they ever learned healing. We didn’t have much, but we ...
