Still Employed, Still Afraid™ — Episode featuring Dr. Mary Darden-Robinson

Your mental health deserves more than corporate lip service.

In this raw, necessary, kitchen-table-real conversation, Dr. Mary — mental health clinician, administrator, author, and advocate — breaks down the invisible weight Black women carry at work. From microaggressions to “diversity desert” workplaces, from hijacked ideas to complex PTSD caused by the job, she says the quiet part out loud:

You’re not imagining it. You’re not overreacting. And you’re definitely not alone.

In this episode, we unpack:

• Why “resilience” isn’t linear — and why healing from workplace harm looks different for everyone
• How fear, exhaustion, and constant hypervigilance shape the emotional ecosystem of Black women in today’s w ...