S2 Ep1 Shit2TalkAbout: Happy 1st Birthday

So, hello beautiful humans. What is Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About ? And that means I am reading this off the website cuz I worked really, really hard up for this. So this is what I'm reading together.

We turn Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About into Shit2TalkAbout. We stand to use the privilege we inherited to break the bullshit society has created to limit those who don't fit into a preconceived. We have witnessed discrimination and systemic issues. We stand to give a platform for those who have been silenced.

We stand to bring clarity to topics that scare us. We use our curiosity to lean into discomfort, bring light to the darkness of shame that so many of us hide behind. We create a space for each human to show up as they are. We embrace that. Your story is your story, and my story is my story. We create boundaries.

Take risk. Forgive ourselves, forgive others. Live with gratitude and choose to live outside our comfort zone. We all have trauma, but we, we work together. We can be the best versions of ourselves. We vow to be kind to you, to hear you, to see you to be present. For I finally read it. Yay. Expression will be like, Well, cool, Like that tells us a lot.

But Jenn, why are you doing this? So yes, again, reading off the website because it has my bio of, um, Jenn has a story of her own as a child. She suffered solitary confinement, physical abuse, mental abuse, sexual abuse, rape, divorce, abortion, cutting in suicide. Her turbulent background has forged a path to help those who are suffering ignored and silenced.

Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About is a place people can come to find hope and healing, to know they're not alone, and finally be heard. Clearly, Jenns been through plenty of shit. Most people don't even want to acknowledge, let alone talk about. She thought she'd been dealt with her [00:03:00] past, but brain surgery in November, 2020 unleashed a tsunami of memories that couldn't be.

Working through trauma, depression, anxiety, bipolar type to you and adhd will be a lifelong journey. Will be a lifelong journey. Jenn strives to break the stigma of Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About and turn it into Shit2TalkAbout. Yay. Done with tablet. Yes. . I know there haven't been many episodes. Oh gosh.

And since June, and this is coming out on November or, Yeah, so four months. Uh, couple things happened is I realized how difficult it is to do this project by. A lot of it has to do with, I no longer have a marketing team that I'm working with. It has a lot to do with the fact that I started a different show.

Um, it's very weird to me because [00:04:00] they, these two shows are very, um, symbiotic. I'm not sure what the word is, but where they work together in unison. The new show is called Teach Gentech and it's where I have people come onto the show and teach me all about all this tech stuff and it's so intriguing and tech really helps create human connection.

And at the same time, I started that show. Not having a marketing team or a team in general for Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About , it became very, very overwhelming. The podcast, I like to call it, I have a podcast and then I have a stream. So the podcast was, is very, very emotional. It can be very traumatic.

It is very, Emotionally draining and invigorating at the same time, and I have a very, very difficult time going and listening to something and being like, This is [00:05:00] the title of it, or this is the description of it when it comes to these. Difficult conversations where with Teach Gentech, it's a very logical conversation.

It is black and white. It is, you know, I'm gonna be talking about computer things and computer people will understand it, and non-computer people will ask me none computery questions about it, where there's. It's like the podcast is like all the shit in between. And while I've been on break, I guess you could say, uh, of Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About .

I started a. Twitter space, uh, which is, um, about mental health and neurodiversity in tech for those who have never, um, who don't use the Twitters or been on a Twitter space. It's basically a chat room where [00:06:00] only x amount of people can, uh, be on stage to talk and everyone else has to listen. So it, it really is like an audio version of being on stage and.

I've been able to help grow a community there. And so the podcast has still been living, and yet it's not because I have episodes to post yet, I've been, But Jenn, all of the social media and the titles and everything, what are you doing? And I've gotten so overwhelmed that I'm just like, I'll just do the stuff I know I'm doing and that is why the podcast has been on pause for so long.

The reason I'm wanting to share an update now after it's been four months is it has been two years since my craniotomy. Which for those who don't know a craniotomy is brain surgery. I [00:07:00] had multiple or oid cys on my brain. I still do. They're kind of like, you can think of them as like little balls of fluid.

And in 2020, November, 2020. My surgeon, I like to say he created a river in my brain. So my cyst was a lake and there's where bla brain fluid naturally is, I consider the ocean. And my surgeon created a scar tunnel, and that's what I call a river. And that happened two years ago, which led up to me starting the podcast in November, 2021, which that's been a year.

Little over a year because I'm meant to have this go out last week, but I got sick so it's coming out this week instead. And there's been a lot of learning and changes and growth and life that has just come up, [00:08:00] uh, in the fact of almost the until June of. 22. It was a lot of like helping my father-in-law out.

It was a lot of finding my own voice. It was, I had surgery that year. I've been looking for a job. It's been like all these little things that, this passion project of mine, I'm just like, Oh, I can't do it. And a lot of it was because it felt like I didn't have the support, even though people were wondering where it was.

It was like, I didn. I wasn't asking for the help that I needed in my little love box. A lot of it had to do with because I didn't know what help to ask for. It's the social media. It's the podcast going out. It's paying attention to numbers and YouTube and Patreon and gear, and. [00:09:00] It just got also overwhelming that I am finally saying my favorite thing to say, which is, Fuck it.

Uh, I don't care if there's social media for it. We're just gonna be putting out the podcast. And if you're on Twitter, you might get an alert that it came out because these stories are worth being told. And if others are out there and want to share it, it at least is there and eventually one day. I will get to a place where I can focus on social media as well.

We being me, being all the listeners, being those who have been a guest on the show, we could really, really use your help. You can contribute and Patreon, you can also contribute on our PayPal. It's definitely something. If you have spare time and you like social media, you know, come be our social media person.

Uh, if you want to get access to the podcast a little early [00:10:00] and write up descriptions and title the episode, let me know. It's something that I also am totally open to a cohost or somebody else doing the behind the scenes. Like this isn't just my journey. Yes, this is right now I'm doing. Mostly solo, yet I'm not doing it for myself.

I want others to have access and hear these stories that are being silenced, so that way we are.

We're not just stuck in our little bubbles. We, we have access to those who don't look like us or may not be like us, that have, don't have stories like us, because our shame tells us there's no one going through this like we are. Yet. Our stories show that there are, whether or not we're the same color, size, shape, sex, gender, whatever you [00:11:00] wanna call it.

We all have dealt with that shame in some part, and that's when I'm asking for support, is to help share those stories. Not to specifically help me, but help the podcast. Two ways to get in touch with the podcast is on all social medias. It is shit, the number two. Talk about and it is that way because we need to all work on changing things from Sh!t You Don't Want to Talk About into Shit2TalkAbout.

And we are that on LinkedIn, Twitter, not Twitch, cuz it doesn't have a twist. Um, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, it's, we're on all the platforms. Twitch, but you know, if we ever wanna do some live stuff, hit me up. Let's do it. And we can be on Twitch too.[00:12:00]