VBB Episodes

Over her 50-year career, Victoria Lenon has been focused on coaching and mentoring clients — primarily women — enabling them to reach and showcase their full potential. Over time, Victoria has accumulated a wide array of tools that help her utilize...

Michelle Hrycauk Nassif is a leadership coach and consultant supporting female solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and business leaders to discover, align with, and integrate their purpose into a career and lifestyle that works for them. As a stay-at-home...

The “Future of Black America Top 50” recognizes the accomplishments of 50 Black Americans making a profound difference in their industries and communities. Lisa Hurley — writer, speaker, and activist focused on anti-racism, texturism, and...

My name is Gifty Serbeh-Dunn.  I was born and raised in Ghana; the last of 8 children. I came to Canada at a young age to visit family friends and a coup in Ghana forced me to stay, essentially “exiled” in Canada; separated from my family.  As an...

As a women's empowerment expert, author, entrepreneur, and founder of PleaseNotes, Cheryl Sutherland has been featured in InStyle, Huffington Post, Forbes, Fast Company, American Express OPEN Forum, and Thrive Global. "I've always been in love with...

"I'm on a mission to fight racism. I bring the experience of three decades in the writing business (B2B, B2C, SaaS), including 10+ years in journalism (research is my superpower), as well as the unique lens of being a global citizen. I'm passionate...

Author, Speaker & Food Addictions Expert Dr. Vera Tarman shares with us that an addiction to sugar and flour can be as treacherous as an addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and even cocaine. "I know. I’m a recovered food addict who has maintained a...

In the U.S. alone, in an average year, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation estimates an average of 280,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer; more than 42,000 will die. Therese Forton-Barnes is a 'Household Toxins Health Specialist'...

Jane Wilson has taught over 10,000 people to feel strong, bold, and confident. In our conversation, she dives into reasons why women hold themselves back and why breaking rules and challenging stigma can sometimes feel naughty but is often the key to...

It's 2022, 365 new days to make a difference in your relationships - your family - your tribe - your society, and make a difference in how you see and treat yourself. Christopher & Heather ask these questions: how can we contribute to your reaching...

This episode of VBB is different from other shows we've released. Heather and I are blessed; we speak with dozens of amazing women every year. However, in 2021, one guest, La Tonya Davison, turned the tables on us. La Tonya is a Licensed Master Social...

"When our son Byron married, he and his fiancée created a lasting memory that touched our hearts: They each wrote a letter to their parents, describing their fondest childhood memories, values, life lessons, and ideals they could bring into their...

Corbie Mitleid is a psychic, channel, medium, and has been reading since 1973. She travels coast to coast across the United States and into Canada as a full-time intuitive counselor, inspiring and helping thousands of individuals every year as a...

Sandra Cooze is the author of Journey to Your Self: A Transformational Trilogy, she's an Intuitive, and a Trauma Release & Self- Empowerment Coach with a passion for helping others heal. Sandra’s own traumatic past includes being a victim of child...

Rustie MacDonald's personal journey began in the darkness of severe poverty, rape, abuse, and homelessness. Today, she's a successful multi-book author, International Radio Show Host, Speaker, and passionate full-time single mom. Rustie believes that...

The Making of a Woman: From the Inside Out is a compelling autobiography of a woman who refused to bow down to the circumstances of her childhood. Jewels began family life as an only child only to end up becoming a victim of the most prevalent form of...

At an early age, Fatima C. Oliver became emphatically convinced that pain and family were synonymous. Living with trauma from physical and sexual abuse, the loss of a child, abandonment issues, and domestic violence, she lived life as if waiting for...

"My family didn't discuss sex, leaving me in the dark and terrified of sex. During my first sexual encounter, my partner asked me, 'what do you like?' I responded, aren't you supposed to know that?" That terrified young woman was Carlyle Jansen....

"I don't understand how socially we believe that women don't like sex, that sex is something women give to men, that liking sex makes a woman impure, and women who enjoy sex can't be good mothers or trusted wives." Veronica Kazoleas, a former...

We welcome Dr. Rachel Maines, Technology Historian, and scientist who, while researching the domestic pleasures of needlework, accidentally became the worlds' foremost expert on the mechanical vibrator and female sexual pleasure when her book "The...

Bill Cosby is free on a technicality, and women cry injustice. Texas challenges Roe v. Wade, and women plead no justice. We ask J.D. (Juris Doctorate) - Dr. of Law, Dr. of Jurisprudence, and Legal Analyst Tracy A. Pearson if women are victims of...

When a sex offender like Bill Cosby gets a premature release from prison — on a technicality. When women’s abortion rights are still up for debate or are revoked by law, we must ask, what century are we living in, and does justice apply equally for...

Money doesn’t care what sex you are, but money trauma has a gender story. Our conversation with the Founder of What The Finances & Co-founder of The Trauma of Money, Chantel Chapman, shares a chapter in her life that may sound like your own.

"I’m a 56 year old - I founded Gateway Women for all the childless women still out in the cold, feeling they are the only childless women in the world, I do it for the young women who would have been our daughters and those who don’t yet know that...