The Gurls Talk Podcast

Gurls Talk started as a community that model and activist Adwoa Aboah built after her own very public struggles with mental health and addiction, and the podcast is an extension of that same mission, giving young women a place to hear honest conversations about the stuff that usually gets whispered about or avoided entirely. Episodes cover mental health, body image, sexuality, relationships, grief, identity, race and the messy overlap between all of them, with guests ranging from therapists and authors to musicians, activists and listeners who wrote in with their own stories. The interviews feel less like a Q and A and more like two friends sitting on a sofa working something out together, and guests often go further than they would on a traditional chat show because the space is set up for vulnerability. Adwoa and her rotating co-hosts are good at sitting with difficult topics without rushing to tie everything up with a neat lesson, and the show treats its audience like adults who can handle nuance. There is also a strong sense of community threaded through every episode, with regular nods to the wider Gurls Talk network of meetups, workshops and online conversations. For young women, and honestly anyone, who want a mental health podcast that feels like a real community rather than a lecture series, Gurls Talk is still one of the best places to land.