2019-07-11
1 小时 0 分钟My guest today, Doctor Joy Harden Bradford, is the host of the wildly popular podcast therapy for black girls.
She grew up in a small town in the south.
She described it as being so small that they didn't have a stoplight, they had a flashing light, and you would give directions by counting telephone poles to her dad's photography studio.
And she had at the earliest age, a deep devotion and interest in learning and teaching, which evolved into a fascination with psychology and eventually mental health services.
From there, as she was pursuing her PhD, she also became really interested in how people from different backgrounds, different races experienced the world of mental health, mental health services and psychology, and decided to make it her mission to expand access and to expand availability and really expand the conversation around mental health and psychology, which led to her clinical practice, eventually her podcast.
So excited to dive into this conversation today.
I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is good life project.
You grew up from what I know, in a pretty tiny town in Louisiana.
Yes.
Tell me about.
So the name of the town is Payne Courtville, which means short of bread town.
So apparently years and years ago, there used to be a truck that delivered bread, and it would always run before it got to my little town.
It squidwardly translates to shorter bread town.
That's the french translation is short of bread town.
That is awesome.
Yeah.
So thankfully we can just go to the grocery store now.
But that's the literal translation.
Yeah.
So there is not even a like stoplight, it's only a caution light.