Real conversations for Black moms. No performance required.
Mom Ish: The Conversation is a podcast created for Black mothers navigating real life in real time.
Hosted by Nikki Williams Rucker and Jacinta Gholston, this space centers honest dialogue about motherhood, identity, healing, rest, relationships, and the things we don’t always say out loud. There’s room here for laughter, reflection, softness, and truth.
This isn’t advice shouted from a mic. It’s a conversation you’re invited into. Each episode is designed to help you feel seen, less alone, and more grounded in your own experience.
Pull up a seat. Listen in. Join the conversation.
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Nikki Williams Rucker & Jacinta Gholston
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Latest Episodes
🎧 Episode 10: Soft Era Activated: Black Women Are Releasing Survival Mode in 2026.
2025 demanded too much.
From political instability and economic loss to mental health strain and the erosion of support systems, Black women were expected to carry weight that was never meant to be theirs alone.
In this reflective and affirming episode of Just Breathe: A Black Mom Ish Podcast, Nikki Williams Rucker and Jacinta Gholston pause to name the heaviness of the year behind us, and intentionally set the tone for what comes next.
Together, they explore what it truly means to live in your soft era. Not as weakness, but as wisdom. Not as avoidance, but as alignment. This conversation invites Black women to release survival mode, redefine peace on their own terms, and move into 2026 with clarity, boundaries, and ease.
This episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe deeply, and choose yourself without guilt.
🎧 Episode 11: The Price of Peace: Money, Motherhood, and Mental Health
Peace is often talked about as a feeling, but rarely as a cost.
In this timely episode of Just Breathe: A Black Mom Ish Podcast, Nikki Williams Rucker and Jacinta Gholston unpack what peace actually requires of Black women—especially during the holiday season. From financial pressure and motherhood expectations to emotional labor and mental health strain, this conversation names the quiet trade-offs many Black women make just to keep things together.
Nikki opens the discussion by examining how money stress, hustle culture, and caregiving demands disrupt peace. Jacinta follows with a grounding truth: real peace is internal. If it can be shaken by outside circumstances, then it was never truly rooted.
Together, they challenge the idea that peace can be bought, earned, or outsourced, and instead explore how discernment, boundaries, and self-trust are essential to protecting it.
This episode invites listeners to stop paying for peace with their well-being and begin choosing it with intention.