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Moming and Me: The Podcast
I’m Najah Chavis, and I say the quiet thing out loud. Moming and Me is where I share candid, raw, unfiltered perspectives on relationships, friendship, parenthood, boundaries, accountability, and life. The highlights and the lowlights. The joy, hurt, excitement, disappointment, and everything we’re figuring out along the way.
With so much in place to divide us, I share my experiences to remind us how much we have in common. Expect laughter, honest questions, and a reminder to stop abandoning…
Episodes
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I Want Somebody. I’m Still Choosing Me.
Season 3, Episode 1: Grown Folks Dating. I’m open to love. I’m not in a rush to prove it. This one is about wanting a relationship without abandoning the…
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Another “Rules for How a Woman Should Deal With a Man” Post? Hard Pass!
Season 3, Episode 2: Grown Folks Dating. Every week there’s a new list of rules for how a woman is supposed to act with a man. This episode is why I ignore all…
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I Don’t Believe in Love at First Sight
Season 3, Episode 3: Grown Folks Dating. I don’t even know if I believe in love at first anything. Love isn’t about the first moment. It’s about who I become…
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Not Every Attraction Needs a Relationship
Season 3, Episode 4: Grown Folks Dating. A lot of heartbreak could be avoided if people stopped treating compatibility like it’s something you figure out…
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Every Partnership Is a Relationship. Not Every Relationship Is a Partnership.
Season 3, Episode 5: Grown Folks Dating. Some people are looking for someone to be with. Some people are looking for someone to build with. This one is about…
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What Does Trust Require?
Season 3, Episode 6: Grown Folks Dating. Trust isn’t just built. It’s defined. And most couples never say their definition out loud. Maybe we’ve been assuming…
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What If We’re Both Wrong?
Season 3, Episode 7: Grown Folks Dating. The “who’s the prize” debate is missing the point. Less competition. More collaboration. Maybe that’s what we’ve been…
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Can Someone Explain This?
Season 3, Episode 8: Grown Folks Dating. A whole conversation replaced by one fire emoji. Somebody help me. We gotta bring conversation back. 😂 What am I…
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I Can’t Be Shooting Both Our Shots
Season 3, Episode 9: Grown Folks Dating. Interest is cute. Effort is the point. This one is for the people who want you to notice them and also do all the…
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Why Y’all Think Everybody Want You?
Season 3, Episode 10: Grown Folks Dating. I smiled. I was polite. That was the whole thing. Being kind and smiling shouldn’t require a disclaimer. 🤎
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Stop Spending Money on Strangers
Season 3, Episode 11: Grown Folks Dating. We’ve been taught to invest money first. But you’ve already made the biggest investment: your time. This one is about…
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Nobody’s Saving Your Spot
Season 3, Episode 12: Grown Folks Dating. If all we’re doing is texting and talking on the phone, but you’re never trying to make plans to actually see me…
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Let Their Effort Speak for Their Interest
Season 3, Episode 13: Grown Folks Dating. You don’t have to ask people how they feel. Watch what they do. If I’m making all the moves, my next one is moving…
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Social Media Has Y’all Confusing Content With Character
Season 3, Episode 14: Grown Folks Dating. Some of us are spending so much time watching each other’s online behavior that we’re overlooking how people actually…
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Sir… Fun Is Not a Retirement Plan
Season 3, Episode 15: Grown Folks Dating. A good time is not the same as a plan. This one is for the grown men still leading with fun and nothing behind it…
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Entertaining Clowns Is Crazy
Season 3, Episode 16: Grown Folks Dating. One clown is a lesson. A whole lineup is a choice. This episode is about how many you let in before it becomes a…
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Some of Y’all Need to Expunge a Few Exes Off Your Record
Season 3, Episode 17: Grown Folks Dating. Not every person you dated earned the title. This one is about who actually counts. I got one ex. The rest of y’all…
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Why You Calling Her About Your Man?
Season 3, Episode 18: Grown Folks Dating. That phone call never ends the way you think it will. Early 20s me already made that call for us. Broke my damn soul…
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Peace Isn’t Boring. Chaos Is Just Familiar.
Season 4, Episode 1: Love Without Losing Yourself. If calm feels like something’s missing, that’s not a sign to leave. That’s a sign of what you got used to. I…
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You Can’t Claim to Care When Consideration Doesn’t Show Up
Season 4, Episode 2: Love Without Losing Yourself. Caring is a claim. Consideration is the proof. This episode is about the small stuff that shows whether…
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Keep Them Crumbs. “Just Enough” Ain’t Enough for Me.
Season 4, Episode 3: Love Without Losing Yourself. Just enough to keep you around is not the same as showing up. This one is about the bare minimum and why I…
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I’m Not Your Ex. Stop Making Me Pay Their Debt.
Season 4, Episode 4: Love Without Losing Yourself. Somebody else hurt you, and now I’m the one getting the rules and the suspicion. This one is about not…
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Someone Can Love You and Still Not Be Good for You
Season 4, Episode 5: Love Without Losing Yourself. Love is real and it still isn’t a reason to stay. This episode is about the difference between being loved…
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Stop Romanticizing Struggle Love
Season 4, Episode 6: Love Without Losing Yourself. Struggle love sounds deep until you’re the one living in it. Learn the lesson and move on before you get…
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Some People Aren’t Your Forever… They’re Your Lesson
Season 4, Episode 7: Love Without Losing Yourself. Not every ending means you lost. Sometimes you walked away with exactly what you needed to become wiser…
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You Might Be Strong Enough to Stay… But Are You Strong Enough to Leave?
Season 4, Episode 8: Love Without Losing Yourself. We praise the people who stay through anything. This one asks about the other kind of strong. Let it go. Not…
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Who Clocking My Time?
Season 4, Episode 9: Love Without Losing Yourself. Everybody has an opinion on how fast you moved on, including people you’ve known twenty years who turned out…
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Don’t Get Loud About My Joy… When You Was Quiet Through My Pain.
Season 4, Episode 10: Love Without Losing Yourself. They watched me love the wrong person for years and said nothing. Now I’m happy and suddenly everybody has…
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Y’all Don’t Even Like Who You Married
Season 4, Episode 11: Love Without Losing Yourself. Some people wanted the wedding, the title, and the pictures, and forgot to check if they liked the person…
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Men, You Are More Than What You Can Provide.
Season 4, Episode 12: Love Without Losing Yourself. This one’s for the fathers and the good men. Not to them. For them. You are more than what you can provide…
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I Stopped Defining Family by Blood… a Long Time Ago.
Season 5, Episode 1: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. Family isn’t just about who you’re born to. It’s about who continues to choose you. The…
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Some of Y’all Need to Disappoint Your Parents
Season 5, Episode 2: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. Are you happy, or just making your parents proud? Those are two different lives. Being your…
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Stop Letting Your Family Date With You
Season 5, Episode 3: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. Your relationship has more people in it than the two of you, and that’s the problem. All that…
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If I’m the Problem… Why Are You Mad I Went No Contact?
Season 5, Episode 4: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. If I’m so difficult, my absence should be a relief. Instead it’s a whole campaign. Leave me…
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Yes, the Kids Get Cut Off Too.
Season 5, Episode 5: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. The question people always ask when you go no contact: but what about the kids? If I don’t…
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Some of the Most Broken Homes I’ve Ever Seen Had Two Parents in Them
Season 5, Episode 6: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. We’ve gotten so focused on family structure that we’ve stopped paying attention to family…
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Am I Parenting the Child in Front of Me, or Parenting From What Was Done to Me?
Season 5, Episode 7: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. Some of us are raising children while healing from the way we were raised. And that’s not…
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Bitter Baby Daddies… We Tired.
Season 5, Episode 8: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. She moved on. You still have kids. Those are two separate facts, and this episode is about…
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A Bitter Baby Mama Will Hurt Her Own Child… Just to Punish a Man Who Stopped Choosing Her.
Season 5, Episode 9: Family Is a Title. Relationship Is a Choice. This one says the part people whisper about coparenting. Not every “protective mom” is…
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Tell Me While We’re Still Friends
Season 6, Episode 1: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. If you had something to say, the time was while we were still good, not after. The right friendships…
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You Loyal, or Just in a Good Mood?
Season 6, Episode 2: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Loyalty that only works when we’re getting along isn’t loyalty. A disagreement is not permission for…
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The Loudest Person Screaming “Loyalty” Be the Main One You Can’t Trust.
Season 6, Episode 3: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. The people who talk about loyalty the most usually need it the most, from you. Sometimes “loyalty…
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Your First Response Tells on You
Season 6, Episode 4: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. I shared good news. Your face answered before your mouth did. Some reactions ain’t questions…
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When Losing a Friend Feels Like Relief.
Season 6, Episode 5: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Somebody doesn’t have to be a terrible person for you to decide that being their friend is no longer…
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I Wasn’t Just Being Useful… I Was Being Used.
Season 6, Episode 6: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. There’s a difference between being needed and being used, and I learned it late. Same heart. Better…
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I Don’t Care Who You Are. Watch How You Treat People.
Season 6, Episode 7: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Your title doesn’t excuse your character. This episode is about the people who think status buys…
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What You See Isn’t Always What You Get.
Season 6, Episode 8: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. What we see and who someone is aren’t always the same thing. Some people really are exactly what you…
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Some of Y’all’s Morals Have Never Been Tested
Season 6, Episode 9: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. It’s easy to have standards when nothing is testing them. The question is, who are you when the…
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Every Lie Is Volunteered. Let’s Talk About It.
Season 6, Episode 10: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. A lie doesn’t just hide the truth. It takes away someone else’s right to make an informed decision…
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You Lied. Now I’m the Problem?
Season 6, Episode 11: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. You lied, I found out, and somehow my reaction is the issue. This one is about that flip. You had…
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You Didn’t Come Clean. You Got Exposed.
Season 6, Episode 12: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Integrity isn’t honesty after the consequences arrive. It’s honesty when lying would’ve been…
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You Could’ve Just Said Nothing
Season 6, Episode 13: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Nobody asked you to promise anything. You volunteered, and then didn’t follow through. Just…
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Your Intentions Don’t Erase Their Experience
Season 6, Episode 14: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Meaning well doesn’t undo the damage. A good heart still requires accountability. Intentions…
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Privacy or Fear of Judgment?
Season 6, Episode 15: Loyalty, Lies, and Who You Can Trust. Some of what we call privacy is just fear of being seen. Iʼd rather give people the truth about me…
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You Don’t Have to Agree With Me
Season 7, Episode 1: Same Thing, Seen Differently. Online conversations turned into contests, and understanding somebody got treated like losing. Curiosity has…
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Why Do Two People Experience the Same Thing Differently?
Season 7, Episode 2: Same Thing, Seen Differently. Same room, same moment, two completely different stories. Neither one is lying. We don’t all have to arrive…
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Understanding Isn’t Agreement
Season 7, Episode 3: Same Thing, Seen Differently. You can understand exactly why somebody did what they did and still not be okay with it. Both can be true…
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Is It Wrong, or Just Not Your Way?
Season 7, Episode 4: Same Thing, Seen Differently. Let people be happy without making them defend how. Some people hear “I’m happy” and still insist on…
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Wrong… According to Who?
Season 7, Episode 5: Same Thing, Seen Differently. Somebody decided what I did was wrong. I’d like to see the rulebook. How you figure?!? 😂 Your standards…
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Was It Disrespect or a Misunderstanding?
Season 7, Episode 6: Same Thing, Seen Differently. Before you decide somebody disrespected you, check whether you’re measuring them by lines they never knew…