Conversations With Candice
Conversations with Candice is a podcast hosted by Candice Brathwaite, a two-time Sunday Times bestselling author and broadcaster. The show uses the metaphor of building a house to explore topics like identity, boundaries, relationships, parenting, and emotional healing. Candice speaks honestly about experiences often left unspoken, such as parental estrangement, burnout, and marriage. The podcast aims to be a warm, honest, and sometimes funny conversation for those navigating work, family, love, and personal change.
Episodes
When Better Just Means Whiter
"Sometimes 'better' just means whiter, and we have to be willing to analyse that and challenge it. And when it comes to adult boundaries under your parents' roof: sometimes the only way to truly uphold a boundary is to go and build your own."Welcome to Chapter Three, Episode Four of Conversations with Candice! Today Candice leads with a raw, unfiltered monologue on race, clas
Why Do You Deprive Yourself Of A Good Time?
"Content is now. To be content is to be in the still waters of now, not continuously running your head mad with what has been, and not putting tension on what could be."Welcome back to Chapter Three, Episode Three of Conversations with Candice! Today Candice opens up about navigating her luteal phase on HRT, looming book deadlines, and why we must stop robbing ourselves of joy.📢 CHAPTER
You Don't Want The Tea, You Want The Ego Stroked
"You don't want tea, my love. You want your ego stroked. You want a guy in your ear telling you he misses you and loves you and made a mistake, but there ain't no tea here. The kettle is broken." Welcome back to Chapter Three, Episode Two of Conversations with Candice! We are continuing our season on Parental Relationships and boundaries, but today we start with a little foreplay
The Thin Line Between Hope & Stupidity
"There is a thin line between hope and stupidity. The hope you once held for your absent father, you are now repackaging and giving to men who will never love you the way you love them."Welcome to Chapter Three of Conversations with Candice! After a well-deserved summer break, Candice is back in your ears to launch an explosive, deeply personal new chapter focused entirely on Parental Re
Sometimes You Have To Divorce
"You have to decide what you're worth. Just because someone doesn't agree with what you believe you're worth doesn't mean it changes the worth. What about your life needs an edit?"Welcome to the Chapter Two Finale of Conversations with Candice! We are closing the doors on our season on Love & Relationships with one of the most explosive, crucial episodes yet.📢 FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: VIDEO IS MOVI
Girl, Lose the Weight
"Before you invite someone into your house, you have to get your foundation solid. You can't perform confidence out in the world if you're talking down to yourself inside."Welcome to Chapter Two, Episode Nine of Conversations with Candice! We have arrived at the penultimate episode of our season on Love & Relationships, and we are diving deep into two of the most emotionally charged dilemmas o
Why Does He Hate Seeing You Win?
"What actually hurts us as humans is expectation. You create your own lust—it takes two to sprinkle a little stardust on the routine."Welcome back to Chapter Two, Episode Eight of Conversations with Candice! We are just two episodes away from closing out our chapter on Love & Relationships, and today’s episode delivers some of our most passionate, unfiltered debates yet.CHAPTER THREE HOUSEKEEP
"Don't Give Him Another 20 Years"
"Don't you dare give another 20 years. If you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps and put yourself in a good financial position once, you can make shit pop again. Never forget that."Welcome back to Chapter Two, Episode Seven of Conversations with Candice! Summer holidays are in full swing, stress levels are high, but we are back in the studio answering your most pressing questions about love, co
Am I Going To Die Alone?
"Living with a man is not a prerequisite for a good, healthy relationship. Do not let loneliness win in a quiet moment and fill that precious space in your bed with any old flimsy dickhead."Welcome back to Chapter Two, Episode Six of Conversations with Candice! We are past the halfway mark of our season on Love & Relationships, and today we are tackling three massive, deeply nuanced listener d
Your Mother Dosen't Have To Love You
"Who said a mother's love was fundamental? Preach to me, because we are learning together. What if, before they were our mothers, they were just broken girls and women themselves?" Welcome back to Chapter Two, Episode Five of Conversations with Candice! This season is all about love and relationships, but today we are widening the lens completely. We aren't just talking about romantic partnerships
"I Don't Want To Want Things"
"I don't want to want things. I need to create space in my head, and not wanting is a way to create space in your head and find peace... If I don't know it exists, it doesn't exist."Welcome back to Chapter Two, Episode Four of Conversations with Candice! This season is all about love and relationships, but today we are pivoting entirely into our relationship with ourselves, our ambitions, and the
You Are A Single Mother (And He's Taking The Piss)
"I'm gonna need you to respect the want like it's a need. The way you need to breathe is the way you need to get to your knitting class. Because as women with busy lives, it's very easy to not respect the want... and when you disrespect the want, one day the want is gonna come down the road and fling your head back and disrespect you."Welcome back to Episode Three of Chapter Two of Conversations w
The Men Don't Want to Work
"Respect the want like it's a need. The way you need to breathe is the way you need to get toyour class. Because as women with busy lives, it's very easy to not respect the want... and whenyou disrespect the want, one day it’s gonna come down the road and fling your head back anddisrespect you."Bob’s your uncle if you’ve got an uncle called Bob! Welcome back to Episode Two of ChapterTwo of Convers
We Should Have Got a Divorce
"If there was any year we were gonna divorce, it was 2025... Any one of these days, one of us was sliding papers across this motherfucking table."Welcome back to Chapter Two of Conversations with Candice. We aren't easing you into the theme of love and relationships, we are dropping you straight into the deep end.This week, Candice is joined by her husband, co-producer, and partner of 14 years, Bo
Get off of the hamster wheel!
It's the final episode of chapter one of Conversations with Candice, and what a ride it's been. Before we close this chapter, Candice covers everything from the show's upcoming season break and how you can now join the conversation in Chapter Two, to answering your listener questions live for the very first time.In this episode, Candice tackles:Manifestation - why you probably
Stop Snagging, Start Living
In this penultimate episode of Chapter One, Candice is calling out the one thing keeping you from moving into the life you've been building, perfectionism.Using the metaphor of a house that's been renovated but never moved into, Candice breaks down why "snagging" (obsessively nitpicking every last detail of your life’s rebuild) is really just procrastination wearing a designer outfit. She shares h
The Fee vs. The Fine: The Real Cost Of Pretending To Be Someone Else
We're almost at the end of Chapter One and this episode is the one you've been building towards. After weeks of laying foundations, clearing out the rubble, and doing the deep internal work, it's finally time to talk about self-expression. What it looks like to actually show up as yourself in the world. Not performing. Not seeking permission. Not dressing for someone else's approval. Just you
Why being a lukewarm b***h is the biggest threat to your glow-up
Episode 7: The Demolition Episode - What You Need to Destroy to Finally Grow Strap on your hard hat, because this episode of Conversations with Candice is calling in the demolition squad.We're past the halfway point of this chapter, and after covering a foundations, permission, planning, and structure it's time to talk about what you need to tear down in order to truly rebuild. Because growt
Why You Keep Underestimating Yourself (And How to Finally Stop)
In this raw, unfiltered episode, Candice ditches the cue cards and delivers one of the most powerful episodes yet.Inspired by pacing her husband through his first 10K in over a decade and her own breakthrough performance, Candice unpacks what it truly means to make your new life watertight.If you're mid-rebuild and starting to forget how capable you are, this episode is your reminder.In this
The Fear Isn't Failure. The fear is Being Seen
We are DEEP in Chapter One of YOUR rebuild, and this week we're talking about Structure, the moment your private dreams go public. This is the stage where your new identity stops being internal and starts showing up in the real world for everyone to see, judge, and witness.In this episode, Candice breaks down why the fear you're feeling isn't really about failure, it's about exposure. Sh
You're Seeking Approval From People Who Aren't Thinking About You
We can't put a brick down yet! We need planning permission first. But in this episode, we're talking about the metaphorical kind. Episode 4 is all about the invisible permission committee living rent-free in your head. You know the one; parents, friends, society, social media, and yes... even ghosts (people who haven't been in your life for years). We're diving deep into why so many of us are
Stop Living Someone Else's Life
In this episode, we're getting into one of the most important steps of rebuilding your life: the blueprint. Not a vision board. Not a Pinterest aesthetic. The actual rules you're going to live by.Candice breaks down why so many of us are living lives designed by other people and what it really takes to start building one by your own intention.This episode is equal parts real talk and deep reflecti
Its Time to Strengthen Your Foundations
I think it’s time to strengthen your foundations.Not in a dramatic way.Not all at once.But in the quiet, honest way where you admit something doesn’t feel as solid as it should.In this episode of Conversations with Candice, Candice talks about the part of growth no one really celebrates, the slow, unseen work that everything else depends on.Because a lot of the time, when things feel off…when
The First Step to Rebuilding Your Life
Welcome to the very first episode of Conversations with Candice. This episode is about something many people quietly think about… but rarely say out loud: What do you do when your life looks fine on the outside but doesn’t feel right on the inside? Episode 1 is a conversation about rebuilding your life.Not dramatically.Not by quitting everything overnight.But by understanding y
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Conversations with Candice is a podcast about rebuilding your life and the foundations no one ever talks about. Hosted by Candice Brathwaite, each episode explores identity, courage, boundaries, family, and the choices that shape the life you truly want. Launching March 16th, 2026.Enjoyed this episode? Subscribe so you never miss a conversation.Conversations with Candice is hosted by two-time Sund
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