Girls Like Us: A Podcast for Black Girls

Babalwa and Mashudu reflect on the jam-packed year that was 2025, and share some of the lessons they're taking into the new year. 

The girls also reflect on all things delicious, like being flirty and opening up their energy, and being less intense in 2026. It's the year of leaning back, and allowing themselves to flow in this season. 

Key points from this juicy first conversation of the year:
2025 was about finding balance and processing the shifts that were happening as girls in their mid-30s
 
Learning to be more honest with themselves, honour their boundaries, and trust their intuition instead of trying to manage how others perceive them
 
Giving themselves permission to want what they want in 2026 and trust that what is meant for them will find them, rather than chasing success or relevance

Tune in, besties.

In this episode, Babalwa and Mashudu speak about all the ways they've tried to cover their magic because they thought they needed to fit in.

Today, they believe in embracing vulnerability but first they had to understand how shame played a role in them hiding their true selves from the world.

Listen in as the girls get real about shame and the impact of internalising shame.

Share your thoughts on the podcast with them on Instagram @babs_nyembezi and @bubblymash.

In this episode Mashudu and Babalwa discuss taking off the mask and showing up in the moment. How do we get over ourselves and just be our most amazing selves? Find out how as a girl like us you can also lean into the magic of just showing up as yourself.

Season 3 of Girls Like Us in here!

In this episode, the girls discuss how learning to lean into discomfort has resulted in them finding their way back to themselves.

Breaking the rules, re-evaluating everything they've been told and audaciously living outside of the mould has led to more freedom.

Join them as they unpack the role of discomfort in their journey so far.

We catch up on what we've been up to since we last recorded - Babalwa became a Mom to a whole human and Solani discovered the earth-shattering news about her paternity. It's been a year of groundbreaking changes and deep roots being formed around each of our identity. Let's catch up with our hearts wide open as we kick-off the rest of this season of Girls Like Us.