Today we’d like to introduce you to Cookie Brown.
Hi Cookie, so excited to have you on the platform. So, before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I would have these dope conversations with my friends about life and everything we were going through and would always jokingly say “these calls need to be recorded this is gold!” We would fix each other’s problems and had the best one-liners. I would do back-to-back rants in my IG stories about struggles from motherhood, to friendships, tragic dating stories, to navigating corporate, and friends started asking why wouldn’t I just do a podcast. I played around with the idea, started, walked away, but once Covid hit, I could tell a voice like mine especially women like me was needed. We needed an outlet!
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
The biggest struggle was definitely me getting in my own way. We live in a time where everyone is so viral hungry and focused on vanity metrics, that we think unless we have this huge following or backing already, what we offer to the culture won’t be impactful. I’m a black woman in her late 30s, a mother to both a young adult AND toddler, single, who has navigated predominantly white male corporate spaces. I had to remind myself I don’t know many voices holding spaces like this.
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
The name Dirty Bag Podcast really came from the concept of unpacking our shit-life’s mess. Cleaning out our literal bags. As mentioned before, I’m a black woman nearing 40, who experienced motherhood at the two ultimate nos in life late teens when it’s considered throwing your life away, and late thirties when it’s considered geriatric. I’ve navigated predominately white male-dominated corporate spaces as an outspoken black woman that advocates for blackness. The cautionary tales and wins are priceless and the jokes literally write themselves. But on the flip side, I hold spaces for the underdogs. I love unsung heroes. Being the first podcast for a lot of my guests has been thee most humbling experience. In such a short time I’ve had everyone from birth workers, sex workers, to even a history-making newly elected Congresswoman. I pride myself on speaking on all walks of life.
Is there anything else you’d like to share with our readers?
I’m looking forward to live shows in the future. I definitely put a heavy focus on highlighting those that took the ultimate leap and 100% went into their passion during Covid. I’m just a woman who’s here to celebrate the highs, unpack the lows, and sort through the in-betweens of life. Imperfection is welcome here and we will survive these “grown folk trenches”.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/thedirtybagpodcast
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedirtybagpodcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
- Youtube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCUUVaX_3-y7IiI5636wm80A
- Other: www.tiktok.com/@thedirtybagpodcast
Image Credits
Destin Ameer
