Empowered Conversations

What happens when the church, the place that's supposed to be a refuge becomes a place where survivors of violence feel silenced, misunderstood, or even blamed? What happens when forgiveness is weaponized? When...

Be honest with me- have you ever had someone in your life who just... annoys you? Maybe it's a coworker, a family member, a neighbor, or that person in the grocery store line who seems to be moving in slow motion? Ilene...

Have you ever looked at your life and wondered, "Why do I keep doing this? Why do I keep repeating the same patterns—the same fights, the same fears, the same feelings of not being enough?" Michélle Konson is a speaker...

Today's conversation is a tender one. It's about loss—the kind of loss that changes you forever. It's about a father who lost his 22-year-old daughter to leukemia. And it's about what happens after—how a family...

What if a diagnosis didn't mean the end of your dreams—but the beginning of a different, deeper journey toward them? Susan Johnson graduated from Drake University with a B.A. in Sociology. Since her diagnosis of Bipolar...

What were you doing when you were twelve years old? For most of us, it was homework, maybe sports, maybe figuring out who we were. For today's guest, it was publishing her first novellas. Shanti Hershenson's first two...

Have you ever found yourself in the same fight with your partner—over and over again? Or maybe you keep attracting the same unavailable person, just in a different body? Or you're successful in every area of your life...

What happens when the thing that threatens to take everything from you becomes the doorway to your greatest purpose? Dave "Letterfly" Knoderer has spent more than fifty years as a creative—as an author, an artist, an...

Have you ever felt like you're doing everything right—working hard, hustling, pushing—and still feeling stuck? Like the momentum you once had has disappeared, and no matter how hard you try, you can't get it back? Rob...

When was the last time you found out about a food recall? Was it from a headline you scrolled past three days too late—after you'd already fed it to your kids? Most people find out about food recalls from a headline...

Today, we're exploring something that touches every single one of us—the quiet pull inside that says there's more to life than what we're living. But how do we actually hear that voice? And more importantly, how do we...

What if the less you believe, the closer you get to genuine religious experience? Joshua Pritikin, PhD, is an Internal Family Systems Certified Practitioner and author of Religion Unburdened by Belief. He counsels...

What happens when being "the nice one" becomes a way of disappearing? Bradley L. Gabbert is the author of The Agreeable Child: A Yogic Journey from Tragedy to Triumph—a memoir about childhood trauma, people-pleasing...

What makes a great leader? Is it charisma? Vision? Decisiveness? Or is it something deeper—something that often gets overlooked in our culture's obsession with power and position? Dr. Kevin Wayne Johnson believes the...

What do men say when no one else is listening? What do they desire, fear, and struggle to tell the people closest to them? Pepper Kat is a former television news producer turned adult-industry professional, podcast...