Bare Reality with Taylor Spragling
Here we strip away facades and get real about life. Host Taylor and her guests bring unfiltered conversations that peel back layers of pretense and superficiality, uncovering truths about ourselves and the world. Each episode will explore real-life issues with honesty, practical wisdom, and fresh perspectives that help to better understand yourself, grow, and navigate this crazy world with a bit more clarity. Bare Reality is about baring it all and exploring the truth without embellishment.
Episodes
21 episodes
Do This To Help With Your Hesitance to Post Your Content
In this episode, we explore the challenge of creative hesitancy among content creators, delving into the underlying factors such as the desire for validation, originality, imposter syndrome, competition perception, and saturation perception. We...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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24:45
Sounds of Soul feat. Dareus
Taylor welcomes a very special guest, Dareus, a talented Neo-soul musician and producer. The two embark on Dareus' musical journey and explore the essence of his sound. Dareus shares the story of his musical evolution, from the early inspiratio...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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44:35
Making Self Love Contagious
Kieran Davis, founder and owner of Contagious Collection, joins Taylor to share his story of personal challenge, personal growth, and resilience. The brand Contagious Co, was created to spread awareness for mental health and suicide prevention....
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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54:47
Episode 7: The Therapy Hour
On this week's episode, we're joined by Marriage and Family Therapist Aaliyah Maura. Fellow content creator and blogger, Aaliyah shares her expertise in the field of marriage and family therapy. She hits on the topic of trauma, the body a...
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1:01:06
Episode 6: Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice
This week we're joined by creator of the I Am Me: No Excuses, No Regrets brand, TJ Mitchell. TJ opens up about his life, experiences, and how he became so self-assured as a proud gay, black man in America. We share our thoughts on c...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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1:00:17
Episode 5: Imma Survivor: Overcoming Domestic Violence
This week, we're joined by fellow creative, business owner, and style coach, K. Scott. Scott shares the scoop on her personal experience with domestic violence. She reveals how the relationship came about, the abuse she suffered through, the si...
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55:34
Episode 4: Can We Be Honest Real Quick?
On this week's episode, we're joined by mental health advocate and content creator, Keke Jackson. Ladies, tune in because these two are spilling the tea. This is your trigger warning. Taylor and Keke open up about their toxic relationships, bre...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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55:40
Episode 3: Empath Meets the Narc Pt. 2
On this week's episode, Taylor is back to discuss the repeated patterns of behavior of a narcissist. She dives into the stages of love bombing, mirroring, devaluation, and the infamous discard. This time she's back sharing her own personal stor...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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45:09
Episode 2: Empath Meets the Narc Part 1
On this week's episode, Taylor dives into Nate and Maddy's toxic relationship on Euphoria. As an empath, she shares her personal experience and knowledge of a trauma bond, and what dealing with a narcissist looks like. Join us next week, for Pa...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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21:50
Episode 1: From Backwood to Hollywood
This week we're joined by business owner, hairstylist, and fashionista Ana Shuntae Mann. Creator and owner of The Virtuous Movement, Ana discusses her business journey and how the people around her and her view of self effected her rise. We dis...
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52:06
UNSOLICITED: Trailer
UNSOLICITED Podcast is hosted by Taylor Spragling. Taylor and her guests share their experiences, opinions, whatever is on their minds, their truths, stories that may or may not be about us, and most importantly unsolicited advice you didn't as...
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1:20
Episode 10: Growing Pains
This week we're joined by Alexandria Pearl from the Glow'd Up Podcast. Alexia and Taylor share their personal experiences of growing pains. Growing pains felt in the mind and heart. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Let's be honest. Everyo...
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41:05
Episode 9: The Ugly One
This week we're joined by Felecia Hudson aka Coach Fe. Coach Fe shares her back story of where the name "The Ugly One" started. Three little words that were spoken about her would change the way she looked at herself as a little girl and into a...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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43:48
Episode 8: Hustle Hard
On this week's episode we're joined by Karrington Warfield. She's a key note speaker, author, event planner, entrepreneur, and co-owner of Virtual Visions Event Services. She joins us to share her story of what the hustle really looks like. As ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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36:46
Episode 7: State of Emergency
On this week's episode we're joined by our fellow creative, Anthony Rosser. We share our thoughts on what we think about the constant battle of the sexes between men and women. Knowing what you want is vital, especially while dating. We delve o...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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59:16
Episode 6: The Father Wound
This week's episode we're joined by Tarisai Gwanyaya. We unpack The Father Wound and talk about its effects on so many children into adulthood. We hit on daddy issues, promiscuity, confidence, and the four things women want from their fathers s...
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44:00
Thirty, Flirty, and Thriving
I was not prepared for the rush of emotions that came with turning 30. It's a vibe though. As we approach the new year, I share some of the most important lessons learned in 2021. What does it really mean to invest in yourself, set boundaries, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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27:49
Episode 4: "I Love God, but Hate the Church"
On this episode we're joined by Kisha Scott! We kick things off first by sharing about forgiving folks and our personal journeys of forgiveness. Next we get into an overdue conversation on church hurt and some of the reasons we believe people, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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49:24
Episode 3: Is that, Toxic?
This week we discuss everything toxicity. Some of us are trying to rid ourselves of toxic people, while some of us are tolerating toxic relationships. Get in to this drag as we expose the manipulators, liars, gas lighters, and all the subtle si...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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36:54
Episode 2: Fear?!
On Episode 2, we pick fear apart. Fear is out here rampant and it paralyzes us from taking chances on ourselves. We have all let a fear or two have the last say so at some point in our lives. Get into this drag as we discuss why fear is self-cr...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:31
Episode 1: 5 Steps to Healing in 2020
Welcome to Unsolicited with Taylor Spragling! In our first episode, we are discussing healing and what it looks like in this 2020 atmosphere. The foolishness is at an all time high and 2020 has brought a whole new meaning to the word ghetto. Li...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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47:05
