Welcome to The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes — the podcast for emotional healing, self-awareness, and personal freedom. Each episode is a real, raw conversation about breaking through shame, honoring emotional needs, and reclaiming your authentic life.

Whether you’re navigating trauma recovery, overcoming people-pleasing, or learning to finally put your needs first, this space is for you. Dwayne Barnes shares hard-earned wisdom from his own healing journey — not as a therapist, but as a man who’s done the soul work and now helps others do the same.

Topics include:

• Emotional healing & trauma recovery
• Understanding emotional needs
• Inner child healing & generational patterns
• Self-awareness & personal transformation
• Freedom from people-pleasing & emotional abandonment
• Masculine emotional freedom & spiritual growth
• Mindset shifts, self-worth & reclaiming purpose

If you’re ready to stop abandoning yourself and start honoring your truth, you’re in the right place.

👉 Want to go deeper?
Book a 1:1 Freedom Coaching session and begin your personal healing journey with Dwayne at: authordwaynebarnes.com.

Subscribe now and meet yourself at The Pivotal Point — where healing begins with truth.

🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.

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What if your confidence isn’t something you have to earn, but something you remember?

In this soul-deep episode, I sit down with trauma survivor and hypnotherapist Prema Saraswati, whose story of surviving genocide, abuse, and cultural oppression leads us into a conversation on healing, inner power, and the subconscious roots of confidence.

Together, we explore:

• How surviving trauma shaped Prema’s spiritual path
• The truth about confidence and why it’s not something you “gain” — it’s something you reclaim
• Why hypnotherapy works when willpower and affirmations fall short
• The “iceberg” model of the mind and how 88% of your behavior is shaped below the surface
• Dependable love, ancestral trauma, and the sacred invitation to truly heal

Prema’s story is living proof: your past may shape you, but it never has to define you. Tune in and discover how your deepest pain can transmute into your highest power.

👉🏾 Learn more about Prema and her confidence classes at empoweredmindwellness.com

Call to Action:
💬 What’s one belief you’re ready to reprogram?

🔁 Share this with someone who needs to know their power isn’t lost — it’s waiting to be reclaimed.

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🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.

In this soul-stirring episode of The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes, we explore the true meaning of legacy, not as something you leave behind, but as something you live and embody right now.

Legacy isn't just money, fame, or status. It’s the healing you activate, the love you model, the cycles you break, and the truth you dare to live.
Through the layers of healing legacy, liberation legacy, creative legacy, and ancestral legacy, Dwayne redefines success through the lens of sacred impact.

If you’ve ever asked yourself:

• What will I leave behind?
• How do I build a life that truly matters?
• Can my pain become part of my purpose?

This episode is your invitation to stop chasing legacy and start living it.

🔑 Inside this episode:

• How legacy is more than money, it’s the courage, creativity, and love you embody
• The five layers of sacred legacy (and how to live them with intention)
• Why generational healing is a form of legacy-building
• What it means to turn your story into power and presence
• How your life creates space for others to become who they were meant to be

🌿 Ready to take your healing and purpose deeper?
Book your 1:1 Freedom Coaching Session with Dwayne:
👉🏾 https://authordwaynebarnes.com/pages/the-courage-to-be-freedom-coaching

📚 Grab Dwayne’s books:

• Authenticity Over Approval Method: https://www.amazon.com/Authenticity-Over-Approval-Method
• Their Eyes Were Never On Me: https://www.amazon.com/Their-Eyes-Were-Never-On-Me

🧘🏽‍♂️ Download the free 15-minute Ancestral Meditation:
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🙏🏽 If this episode moved you:

1. Share it with someone who’s building something sacred
2. Leave a review to help others find this space
3. Comment or message with the legacy you’re choosing to build

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🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.

In this pivotal episode of The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes, we explore the deep, often unseen cost of emotional overgiving and how to reclaim your sacred energy and live from a place of power, not depletion.

Joining me is my dear friend and transformational leader, Dr. Wendy Perkinson, a communication expert, leadership educator, and a living testament to the strength of resilience, purpose, and faith. Together, we dive into the meaning of emotional currency, why protecting it is essential for your freedom, and how to break the cycle of overextending yourself.

If you’ve ever felt emotionally drained, undervalued, or stretched thin, this conversation will help you realign with your true worth and move forward with peace, clarity, and strength.

🔹 Inside this episode:

• The true meaning of emotional currency and why it's sacred
• The hidden dangers of chronic overgiving
• How to set powerful emotional boundaries without guilt
• Daily practices for replenishing your emotional reserves
• Why leadership, faith, and authenticity are key to emotional freedom

This is your invitation to stop surviving and start thriving.

🔥 Continue Your Freedom Journey:

• 🌟 Book a 1:1 Freedom Coaching Session with Dwayne Barnes: https://authordwaynebarnes.com/pages/the-courage-to-be-freedom-coaching
• 📚 Grab Dwayne’s transformational eBooks "Authenticity Over Approval Method" and "Their Eyes Were Never On Me":
  Authenticity Over Approval | Their Eyes Were Never On Me
• 🧘🏽‍♂️ Experience your FREE 15-Minute Ancestral Meditation for grounding and clarity: https://dwayne-barnes.kit.com/16a3a3b18d

🔔 Stay Connected:
Explore more coaching, inspiration, and soul-centered leadership at authordwaynebarnes.com.

✨ If this episode moved you, subscribe, rate, and review and share it with someone ready to reclaim their emotional freedom.

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🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.

What if the pain that nearly broke you... was actually the thing that set you free?

In Part 2 of this bold and deeply personal conversation, host Dwayne Barnes continues the journey with the unstoppable Fee King—an actor, writer, and midlife freedom warrior who’s teaching women how to get UNSTUCK and stay free.

This time, Fee opens up about the toxic relationship that felt like a prison—the emotional manipulation, the heartbreak, the unraveling of self. And how it all became the sacred fire that burned away who she wasn’t… so she could become who she truly is.

💥 Topics in Part 2:

* Walking away from love that depletes you

* The cost of staying too long

* Rebuilding self-trust after emotional trauma

* Creating her UNSTUCK blueprint for other women

* Reclaiming joy, sexuality, and power in midlife

This episode is about resurrection.About what happens when you say: enough is enough.And about how transformation begins the moment you stop waiting for permission.

🎭 Learn more about Fee King at www.fee-king.com📚 Read her book: HER-Story: UNSTUCK📲 Follow her journey @feeking on Instagram

🧭 Ready for your own freedom pivot?Visit authordwaynebarnes.com to explore The Courage To Be™ Freedom Coaching — where healing meets radical self-liberation.

What if the key to your next chapter was hidden in your first?

In Part 1 of this raw, two-part conversation, host Dwayne Barnes sits down with the powerful and unfiltered Fee King—actor, writer, NAACP-nominated solo performer, and the living blueprint of what it means to rise after 50.

Before the coaching, before the spotlight, before the reinvention… there was a little girl who witnessed the unthinkable:

* Her mother being shot by a boyfriend

* Being taken to doctor’s offices to fake symptoms for street prescriptions

* Growing up with Nostradamus predictions that convinced her the world would end in 1999

And yet, even through that chaos, Fee held a desire to do better and be better.In this first half of her journey, she shares the pivotal point that changed everything: the day her mother passed — and the compassion, patience, and power that awakened inside her afterward.

💥 Topics in Part 1:

* Childhood trauma, confusion, and survival

* Spiritual identity, self-worth, and early pivots

* The hidden cost of being the “strong one”

* How compassion becomes a superpower after loss

This episode isn’t just storytelling — it’s soul work.And it’s only the beginning.

🎭 Learn more about Fee King at www.fee-king.com📚 Read her book: HER-Story: UNSTUCK📲 Follow her @feeking on Instagram

🧭 Ready to rewrite your own story?Visit authordwaynebarnes.com and step into The Courage To Be™ Freedom Coaching — healing that empowers you to rise.

You don’t need a title to be a leader. In this soul-stirring episode of The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes, we explore what real leadership looks like—from the inside out. If you’ve ever wondered how to cultivate your leadership vision, even while healing, hiding, or holding space for others, this episode is for you.

Dwayne breaks down 5 transformative ways to move your leadership forward, including how to reclaim your voice, release what no longer aligns, and lead with divine intention. Plus, you’ll receive a daily Leadership Declaration you can speak over your life to stay grounded in your calling.

Whether you’re a creative, healer, entrepreneur, or cycle-breaker—you are a leader. Even if no one ever told you. And today, we remember that truth.

🎯 Topics Covered:

* What leadership really means (without a title)

* 5 soul-aligned leadership practices

* Daily leadership declaration to anchor your vision

* Dwayne’s personal story of reclaiming his power

🔥 Need support on your leadership journey?Book a 1:1 Freedom Coaching Session:👉🏾 https://authordwaynebarnes.com/pages/the-courage-to-be-freedom-coaching

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🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.

In this episode of The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes, we explore what it truly means to be strong.

For years, I believed strength meant surviving — holding it all together, muscling through pain, and never showing weakness. But the deeper I’ve gone in my healing, the more I’ve realized: real strength is letting go.

I share my personal transformation from emotional endurance to spiritual resilience — and why surrender, softness, and balance are the new markers of power.

We also look at the lives of Nelson Mandela and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — two giants who showed the world that real strength isn’t loud or aggressive... it's forgiving, faithful, and fueled by something bigger than ego.

If you’ve been told you're strong just for surviving — this episode is your invitation to discover what real strength feels like.

🎧 Listen now and share it with someone carrying more than they need to.🌱 Explore The Courage To Be™ Freedom Coaching at authordwaynebarnes.com💫 Download your free ancestral meditation: dwayne-barnes.kit.com/16a3a3b18d

🎙️ The Pivotal Point w/ Dwayne Barnes – Explore radical authenticity, emotional freedom, and spiritual resilience. Dive into coaching, meditations, and books at www.authordwaynebarnes.com. Join the movement and transform trauma into transformation.