VBB Episodes

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 …

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 …

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 …

"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 …

"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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

"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 …

Lauren Geertsen has helped millions of people heal their relationship with food and body image. Her book, The Invisible Corset: Break Free of Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self, helps women identify and escape limiting, culturally-inherited...

It’s Deja Vu all over again! Throughout August, VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH will reboot four of our most impactful conversations from 2021. We begin with Jess Weiner; a social activist turned entrepreneur who helped change the image of Barbie and helped Dove...

I’m a single woman. I also have a Ph. D. in rhetoric, so I understand how words work. I decided to put those things together in order to game online dating. Spoiler alert: It worked. I knew full well that …

According to eharmony, heterosexual women, age 21, receive the lion's share of attention online. Women in their 20s consistently see the highest rates of incoming messages and likes. Women who are in their mid-20s received 14.4% more messages than did...

Single, divorced, or widowed, who doesn’t want LOVE in their LIFE? The real conversation is how to find it. April Davis set up her first successful married couple when she was 16 years old, and today, she’s Founder & President …

The first line on her website reads - Dating Apps Suck! That's even though she met her long-term partner through a dating app. What online date coach Perri Scheiner means is, dating apps suck if you don't know how which …

Part of changing unhealthy cycles is breaking old stigmas and misinformation with conversation. PRIDE MONTH: VBB #152 talked with a parent of a trans child who advocates for all trans children. VBB #153 a social justice champion whose work to …

Michelle Johns, entrepreneur, musician, worship leader, and author of God, A Lesbian and the Space in Between, speaks with passion of society's lack of fundamental empathy for female, black, male-identified lesbians, and the LGBTQIA community as a whole.

Award-winning writer, editor, and public speaker, Kirstin Ott Palladino can be found in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and on CNN, and NPR. She is co-founder and editorial director …

She's lived her career dedicated to campaigning for social justice and harm reduction for lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans people. Susan Gapka worked to help amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to include gender identity and gender expression. She also...

Liz Declan is a self-identified queer single mom with a six-year-old daughter who does not identify with the traditional gender binary. Liz has a plea for parents of cis kids, for cis adults who are not parents, and for cis …

What do these women have in common, Oprah Winfrey, Winona Ryder, Miley Cyrus, and Jody Day? All are childless or child-free women, but one has founded the global support group Gateway Women and is the author of “Living the Life …

Karen C. L. Anderson, Author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration, speaks to women who wish to use the difficult relationship they have with their mothers as a catalyst for personal growth and healing.