There is constant race related outrage in this country. The "storming of the Capitol" brought another chance for us to argue with misinformed people on the internet. But many black and brown women have been struggling with how to respond to white friends or former friends on issues of race because they confess to not having the words or not knowing history. Many black and brown women have been "white washed" and socialized in American culture throughout schools, workplaces and through the media at large. They weren't "born Angela Davis" so to speak and don't immediately posses her type of militant knowledge and power or like that of other prolific black forerunners and they feel shame around it. This has caused them shame in their current fight to take back their identity and speak truth to power. In this episode, Dawntoya talks about her unintentional "whitewashed" school days and encourages women like herself to combat the shame, find their truth and speak it.

This week on Something to Offer, Dawntoya is joined by her husband Adam Thomason. They discuss how 14 years ago at their wedding, they naively made a lot of promises that they didn't have the tools or guidance to keep. Adam shares his journey into therapy to gain the new tools he needed to function in a marriage. He talks about the journey of discovering how dealing with his own personal emotions and traumas began the healing in marriage and offers listeners some of the tools his counselor gave him. To learn more about Adam visit his Instagram or Twitter @redrev Dawntoya Thomason Instagram @dawntoya

On this inaugural episode, Dawntoya introduces herself, speaks to the concept behind the podcast and its name and ponders a long held personal insecurity... "Is it ever too late to start?" Too late for that business, that goal, that class, relationship? We can make a lot of excuses for why we don't move, but is "too late" a myth or an insecurity disguised as something else? 

Check out the trailer for "Something to Offer."