VBB Episodes

Susan Omilian's vow and mission are to help women who suffer domestic abuse on their journey from victim to survivor to thriver, but the one victim she couldn't save was her own beloved niece.

How does it feel seeing yourself in front of a full-length mirror — naked? Are you happy, naked? We talk with Dee Mago, author of Happy Naked; a straight-forward, five senses guide to loving the skin you’re in and feeling that energy in every area of...

“If one woman is attacked, her tongue cut out, she is gang-raped and cast aside like rotting meat, then all women are made subject to the same brutal disregard,” Bali K. Deol, host of SWARAJ Radio, in honour of 19-year-old Monisha, a Dalit female...

Who knew that spending six months in sweatpants would bring clarity of thought, or that the Covid lockdown would actually be liberating to me as a woman? A conversation with journalist, and woman of insight, Alex Madison.

Christina Wessendorf is an International Inner Peace Coach. Her story includes leaving her home in Germany to become 2nd wife to an Egyptian man. From that experience, she discovered her inner voice and courage to stand up for herself. Her PeaceMaker...

As a parent, did you sign up for this: homeschooling at all grades, full-time stay-at-home child care, gender flexing, role flexing, and doing it all on budgets scraping the bottom of the barrel? Didn't think so, and now what?

It's the most misused, misunderstood, and mysterious word in any language. It also the most powerful word we can share! Love, what exactly is that? A conversation with Dr. Jason B. Whiting - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist.

Her book, Manic: A Memoir, is a New York Times best-seller, her story inspired Anne Hathaway to portray her in the TV series, Modern Love. Hers was the sexy lifestyle of a high-powered entertainment attorney in Los Angeles, representing some of the...

Eight Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships and Trapped at Home: Domestic Abuse During the Pandemic are two articles from Dr. Jason B Whiting - Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. He walks us through his vital research point by point.

Where does prejudice come from, along with greed and entitlement? Do any of us have a clean conscience where prejudice is concerned, and if we don't, what can we do about it?

It's just assumed that as a woman, married to a man, I'm straight, but two years ago, I realized, I'm pansexual. Jillian Johnson, Air Force spouse, mom, mental health, and LGBTQ advocate.

Lisa Selin Davis is an essayist, novelist, and journalist who has written for major publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Time, Yahoo!, and Salon. Her first non-fiction book is TOMBOY: The Surprising History...

Melanie Esperon is a born clairvoyant, open channel healer, and guide who trains clients worldwide and in every walk of life, including celebrities like Dwayne Johnson - The Rock!

Tilar J. Mazzeo is a cultural historian who writes about women in resistance. Her books include The Widow Clicquot, The Secret of Chanel No. 5; The Hotel on Place Vendôme; Irena's Children, and her latest a biography on Eliza Hamilton, the wife of...

Tia Meredith, a woman of mixed-race, she's from a midwest town, worked her way up the ladder to a DC job with all the sweet government perks. She’s making more money than anyone in her family ever has, more money than she could ever imagine, but in...

Christopher and Heather, we're Female and Male, White and Black, Pansexual and Straight, and we dig each other, respect each other, and we get along. Why can't the world?

When a woman learns a life-lesson the hard way, will shame silence her well-earned wisdom? Christina Wessendorf is a young woman who gave up a comfortable life in Germany and moved to the Middle East to become an Egyptian man's second wife. Her hard...

Randy Thomas was once an executive with an organization that preached and practiced conversion therapy — the denial and reorientation of same-sex attraction. He learned the hard way they ware wrong and dangerous.

"Most people think my job as a hypnotist is to put them to sleep when in reality, it is to wake them up to their own abilities, creativity, and ultimate confidence." De’Anna Nunez, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, and Hypnotist ~ our guest.

A woman, called to ministry, in a conservative Baptist church… and a lesbian … who came out… at seminary! Rev. Terri Steed Pierce, Senior Pastor, Joy Metropolitan Community Church shares her inspirational story.

One day she’s a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, the next she’s on the front line as a Resident Palliative Care Doctor managing cases of the most critically ill in a city hit hardest by Covid-19, New York City. Our conversation with a New World...

Caroline Heldman is a Professor at Occidental College, LA, specializing in Politics - the presidency, media, gender, race, and rape culture, in the American context. She’s also one of the first celebrities in the United States to contract Covid 19.

Evangelos Diavolitsis, Founder - 5Rhythms Movement, and Meditation Teacher at Meditation Moves talks with us from his lockdown in Florance, Italy.

"Fear does not prevent death; it prevents life!" Just one of the encouraging pearls Christopher and Heather share in support of living through challenging times.