VBB Episodes

March 30, 2025

VBB 328 Narcissistic Red Flags!

Dr. Kerry Kerr McAvoy is a licensed psychologist with over twenty years of experience counseling couples through trauma and abuse. Kerry understood toxic abuse, she thought, until she, herself, married a narcissist.

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March 23, 2025

VBB 327: Tools That Heal From A Reluctant Healer!

Tools That Heal From A Reluctant Healer — Alisa Gracheva is a Licensed Psychotherapist with a unique approach to healing that integrates physical and mental health with spirituality, empowering individuals on their journey to health, self-discovery, and even miracles.

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March 16, 2025

VBB 326 Felicity Nicole

Felicity Nicole grew up in a family where love felt more like war. Instead of letting trauma control her choices, her challenges became growth opportunities. In this episode, Felicity expresses heartfelt wisdom, resilience, and the beauty of authentic storytelling.

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March 10, 2025

VBB 325 Women's International Day of Struggle?

International Women's Day (IWD) is celebrated on 8 March, commemorating women's fight for equality and liberation. Women's History Month brings focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women. But how...

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Feb. 26, 2025

VBB 324 Body Positive Pin-Up Culture!

Body Positive Pin-Up Culture! True North Pin Up Magazine hopes to revolutionize and empower women through body positivity, connection, and authentic self-expression. Meet co-founder Keri Looijen.

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Feb. 17, 2025

VBB 323: Wise Words For Women With Bad Taste In Men!

For Women with Bad Taste in Men was written for every woman who's ever had a ‘What Was I Thinking’ relationship, or two, or more. Meet Licensed Therapist and Author Mary Crocker Cook, Ph.D.

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Feb. 10, 2025

VBB 322 Women Who Dominate And Their Message!

Women Who Dominate And Their Message! In 2024, women dominated recording sales and mopped up at the Grammy Awards, but these women also came with messages to change the world.

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Jan. 29, 2025

VBB 321 Melissa Hall Klepacki

The "poop whisperer" commit, Melissa Hall Klepacki, shares simple steps to heal from constipation that is wreaking havoc on your body and well-being.

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Jan. 20, 2025

VBB 320: Angel Reese - Self-Expression vs. Objectification!

Self-Expression vs. Objectification: VBB navigates the fine line between self-expression and objectification, a powerful discussion that picks up where WNBA Basketball star Angel Reese's controversial New Year outfit left off.

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Jan. 13, 2025

VBB 319: Dr. Heather Browne Shares Four Important Questions To Ask Be…

Four Important Questions To Ask Before Every Conversation. Would it help your relationships if you communicated on a deeper, more intimate level? If yes, check out our talk with psychotherapist Dr. Heather Brown.

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Jan. 6, 2025

VBB 318: Lisa Vanahn — From Self-Defence to Self-Discovery!

From Self-Defence to Self-Discovery. Lisa Vanahn is a former professional boxer, kickboxing champion, and Ninja Warrior participant who’s now a passionate mentor and advocate for the empowerment of young women.

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Dec. 30, 2024

VBB 317: Reflections on 2024, Hope for 2025!

Reflections on 2024, Hope for 2025! Christopher & Heather reflect on the year that was 2024, shoutout Gisèle Pelicot, and look forward to what’s to come in 2025.

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Dec. 16, 2024

VBB 316: Jamie Louise Madigan - Is Bitch An Insult Or Inspiration?

Is Bitch An Insult Or Inspiration? Bitch being used as an inspiration sounds counterintuitive, very contrary to how people have been conditioned to apply a word, which for centuries has been used as an insult keeping women in a subservient place in society. Jamie Louise Madigan became...

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Dec. 10, 2024

VBB 315: Gina Cloud - Do Women Define Bitch, or Visa Versa?

Do Women Define Bitch, Or Visa Versa? We take on the bitch with help from Author, Coach, and Teacher Gina Cloud, who shares how women can reclaim a word that has dogged womanhood for centuries.

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Dec. 1, 2024

VBB 314: Lauren Wellbank - A Journey From Fear To Freedom!

A Journey From Fear To Freedom. Lauren Wellbank is a courageous survivor who has successfully turned her harrowing near-death experience at the hands of a violent partner into a mission of hope and empowerment for others. After escaping her abusive...

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Nov. 25, 2024

VBB 313: Sandy Phillips Kirkham - Clergy Abuse!

Sandy Phillips Kirkham shares her harrowing yet inspiring journey of overcoming abuse in a religious setting. Her book, "Let Me Prey Upon You: Breaking Free From A Minister's Sexual Abuse," serves as a resource for education and support.

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Nov. 18, 2024

VBB 312: Jamie Louise Madigan - Poetry For Women, Abused!

Jamie Louise Madigan - Poetry For Women, Abused! Jamie Louise Madigan's journey from victim to thriver is captured in her riveting and stark poetry, which also offers hope and encouragement to countless women facing similar struggles from abuse.

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Nov. 11, 2024

VBB 311: Sophia Dias - Turning Pain Into Purpose!

Turning Pain Into Purpose! Sophia Diaz is an indomitable spirit with a multifaceted entertainment career and a woman who faced betrayal, violence, and near death.

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Nov. 3, 2024

VBB 310: Lois Hollis Says, Shame and Guilt Are Not Yours!

Lois Hollis Says, Shame and Guilt Are Not Yours! A transformative conversation with Shame-Guilt Educator Lois Hollis invites you to explore, question, and overcome the debilitating influence of shame and guilt.

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Oct. 28, 2024

VBB 309: Rissa Miller - Season Of The Witch!

Season Of The Witch: In a world that prefers its women pretty and silent, the unapologetically complex and dynamic female witch has suffered ridicule, torture, and fiery death.  But are modern women like Rissa Miller reshaping the image and popularity of the witch?

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Oct. 21, 2024

VBB 308: Christina Marlett - Is Self-Care Just Women Being Selfish?

Is Self-Care Just Women Being Selfish? Or is it the key to unlocking a potential in women that the Dalai Lama suggested could change the world? Where the truth lies is our conversation with Christina Marlett, founder of Courageous Self-Care.

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Oct. 14, 2024

VBB 307: What is Beauty?

What is Beauty? The male gender has assumed beauty to be the responsibility and the dominion of the female gender, but is Beauty a woman’s prime property, or has it become her gilded prison?

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Oct. 7, 2024

VBB 306: Beth Hildbrand - Bald! I Felt Like An Alien!

Bald Beauty? I Felt Like An Alien! When Beth Hildbrand decided to shave her head after chemotherapy left her little choice, she wasn't prepared for the person she saw in the mirror.

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Sept. 30, 2024

VBB 305: Barbara McBean — Inside You Is Where Eternal Beauty Comes Fr…

Inside You Is Where Eternal Beauty Comes From. Barbara McBean should know. She once competed in the Miss Universe Pageant. She didn’t win, but Barbara is winning in life.  As the Founder and President of Eternal Beauty Institutes, her philosophy will encourage you to view beauty through a lens of p…

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