In this episode Kiesha is in conversation with Aspen Fitzgerald-Dorsey, her first cousin. The two are very close in age but had some very different life experiences. Aspen shares stories from her life including intense academic pressure she experienced attending a prestigious magnet high school, dealing with prohibitive graduate student loan debt, and how she is thinking about her values and priorities now that she is pregnant with her first child at 40.
Aspen Fitzgerald- Dorsey shares with Kiesha Garrison details from her life story as a young Black woman who dealt with the pressures of attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, one of the country's highest ranked magnet schools, and her experience needing to leave graduate school because of crippling student debt. With Aspen being pregnant with her first child at 40, the first cousins compare notes about the different messages they received about the "must-dos" of womanhood and about when was the right time to become a mother.
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