This week’s episode is a little bit unhinged and a whole lot honest.

We’re talking about:

- a skunk encounter that escalated way faster than it needed to

- My First Marriage Story - Part 2, where hindsight is loud and clarity is painful

- Petty Triggers: Holiday Edition, because apparently growth has a seasonal allergy

This episode is about the moment you realize something has shifted inside you - not explosively, not dramatically - just quietly enough that you can’t ignore it anymore.

There’s humor.

There’s reflection.

There’s mess.

And there’s that very specific kind of clarity that only comes after you’ve stayed too long.

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Even while I’m knee-deep in Fame, Flames, & Feelings, my ongoing deep dive into The Reckoning. If you love true crime, celebrity scandals, manipulation, power dynamics, and psychological breakdowns, go check that series out too.

Quick accountability moment:

I forgot shout-outs last episode! BUT I made sure to do them FIRST THING in this episode!

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Now - this episode.

Episode 8 is the beginning of a story I’ve never told publicly. In fact, there’s really only a very select few I’ve even told privately. The Dramedy with a touch of Horror that is…my first marriage.

This one is for anyone who has ever been in a relationship or marriage with a narcissist - or someone who made you question your memory, your instincts, and your grip on reality (so basically, a narcissist).

We’re talking:

- emotional manipulation

- gaslighting

- red flags you explained away

- and the slow realization that you weren’t “too sensitive” - you were just being manipulated

This isn’t a textbook explanation of narcissistic abuse.

It’s lived experience. The kind where you don’t realize what’s happening until you’re already exhausted and apologizing for things you didn’t do.

If you’ve been through it, you’re not alone. And if you’re still in it - we stick together. (And yes, it gets clearer eventually… just not quickly.)

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In this minisode of The Reckoning deep-dive series, we break down the chaos that fueled the infamous East Coast vs. West Coast feud - you know, the one the music industry profited from while pretending to be absolutely shocked every time someone got shot.

We unravel how a young Sean “Puffy” Combs helped create a hyper-toxic environment that pushed Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls from genuine friends to reluctant rivals. Between gang politics, industry manipulation, and enough ego to power the Vegas strip, this wasn’t just a feud - it was a powder keg everyone kept tossing lit matches onto.

In this episode, we dig into:

• How Puffy’s ambition turned Bad Boy Records into a pressure cooker where chaos wasn’t a side effect - it was basically the business plan.

• The slow, ugly unraveling of Tupac and Biggie’s friendship thanks to outside forces who couldn’t mind their damn business

.• The role of gang politics, industry puppeteering, and the “grown adults making terrible decisions” cinematic universe.

• Why the night in Vegas wasn’t just tragic - it was the moment everything snapped.

• How Tupac’s death was the predictable outcome of systemic failure… and how Biggie’s murder could’ve been prevented if literally ANYONE involved had two functioning brain cells and a conscience.

• Puffy’s very… interesting behavior after both murders and the accountability questions that still follow him like a badly trained dog.

• The eerie confessions and destructive patterns hiding in Puffy’s lyrics and legacy, now laid bare in The Reckoning documentary.

Sprinkle in some betrayal, a dash of manipulation, two devastating murders, and a music industry counting its money in the background and you have the tragic recipe that shaped hip-hop history.

And don’t worry… I added just enough dark humor to keep us from emotionally flatlining.

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