You Don’t Owe Anyone Your Whole Story (feat. Yasmine Arrington Brooks) | Being Authentic AF

Yasmine Arrington Brooks turned a deeply personal experience, growing up with an incarcerated father, into ScholarCHIPS, a nonprofit providing scholarships, mentoring, mental health support, and community for children of incarcerated parents. We talk about self-acceptance, purpose, public recognition, and vulnerability as a source of connection and empowerment. But we also ask where vulnerability ends and exposure begins: Does authenticity require telling everyone everything? Yasmine reflects on protecting ownership of our stories, sharing without exploiting ourselves or others, and using lived experience not as spectacle, but as a way to expand what other people believe is possible for themselves. This episode of Being Authentic AF was produced by Brandon Talton. Original music written and performed by John Fichera. #authenticaf #authenticity #beingauthentic #beingauthenticaf #authentichonesty