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  • VBB 338 Koya Bakare: When Beauty Finds Its Voice!

    VBB 338 Koya Bakare: When Beauty Finds Its Voice!
    2025/06/30
    Koya Bakare is a NY model featured in Essence, Vogue, and InStyle. She’s also an educator, author, and the National Beauty Pageant Winner of the Elite Ms. US United — 2024-25. However, for Koya, pageantry is much more than the crown and the glitz. For her, the discipline of modelling became the avenue that gave her the courage to dig deep within herself, confront a debilitating past, and find her voice. “My crown was always there,” I simply needed to find my voice and to remember to share it with heart and pride.”
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    29 分
  • VBB 337 Dr. Jody Carrington And The One Thing Humans Can Never Automate!

    VBB 337 Dr. Jody Carrington And The One Thing Humans Can Never Automate!
    2025/06/22
    Dr. Jody Carrington is a fearless champion for authentic human connection. Her energy and genuine approach are to help people solve the most complex human-centered problems. In a rapidly disconnected world that leaves so many overwhelmed, lonely, and burned out, Dr. Jody boldly believes that all humans have the capacity for good. However, because of isolation and burnout, we have lost access to our reservoir of good.

    Understanding how we got disconnected, what is needed to put the pieces back together, and how collectively we can find our way back home is Dr. Jody's passion. With a rare combination of authenticity, honesty, and levity, she never fails to inspire, motivate, and charm.

    As the founder and principal psychologist at Carrington & Company, Dr. Jody has written three best-selling books, speaks on hundreds of stages globally each year, and hosts the podcast UNLONELY. She sets a high bar even with her own children: "I can't tell my kids how to be great. I have to show them." In this modern world, where we look but don't see, where we listen but don't hear, Dr. Jody shares with VBB an important message: We were never meant to do any of this alone.
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    34 分
  • VBB 336: Perfecting Beauty; Women Need Not Apply!

    VBB 336: Perfecting Beauty; Women Need Not Apply!
    2025/06/02
    In 2024, a contest was created to promote the most beautiful women the world has ever seen. The competition is the brainchild of the World AI Creators Awards (WAICAS). As the name suggests, real women need not apply, as all contestants are AI-generated personalities admired for their pixelated perfection.

    We - Christopher & Heather - were curious, so we discussed where this idea would push already unrealistic standards and ideals set for beauty that women have been burdened to meet or at least keep up with in exchange for social status, attention, or affection.

    To justify some of the skepticism about these AI-generated beauty contestants only being boy toy fantasies, contestants are being judged based on three criteria: aesthetic beauty, the technical skill that went into creating them, and their online and business clout. In some cases, that includes contestants with over 250,000 followers on Instagram and employment earnings in the neighbourhood of up to $10,840 a month, or on average $3,252 monthly, working as virtual models for clothing and jewelry companies.

    Virtual or not, the impact of AI models is real, but will the standards these models set around "what is beauty and who is beautiful," which are already unrealistic and unattainable for most real women, become even more exhausting?
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    27 分
  • VBB 335: Tori Jenae On Turning Pain Into Power!


    VBB 335: Tori Jenae On Turning Pain Into Power!

    2025/05/26
    Tori Jenae has lived through a personal hell that has included childhood trauma, family dysfunction, betrayal, abandonment, divorce, plus the kind of grief that can crack a person’s soul wide open. Remarkably, she not only survived, she transformed. As a trauma-informed confidence and relationship coach with over 13 years of experience, Tori now helps women heal, starting at their emotional, psychological, and spiritual roots. Tori supports women in rebuilding their self-worth, breaking unconscious or sabotaging patterns, and creating healthy, aligned relationships. Her work effectively focuses on guiding women through debilitating life changes, including divorce, breakups, and personal loss, to a place where they can create a life of love, confidence, and the success they long for.
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    33 分
  • VBB 334: Bunni Ambrosia Grows From Basket-Case To Wonder Woman!

    VBB 334: Bunni Ambrosia Grows From Basket-Case To Wonder Woman!
    2025/05/18
    Bunny Ambrosia is a true modern-day Wonder Woman whose life story reads like a wild country song full of resilience, grit, and a rebellious spirit. From a deeply challenging upbringing in the conservative South, through motherhood and widowhood at sixteen and surviving homelessness as a single mother, Bunny has transformed every adversity into fuel for her growth. She shares how her daughter became her greatest motivator, and how, step by step, she fought her way to stability, entrepreneurship, and a deeply-rooted mission to help others thrive.
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    23 分
  • VBB 333 Laura Jane Layton: Reflects On Where Self-Worth Really Begins!

    VBB 333 Laura Jane Layton: Reflects On Where Self-Worth Really Begins!
    2025/05/12
    Laura Jane Layton’s journey is a testament to resilience. Like everyone else, she’s faced her share of difficult challenges that, in the moment, felt overwhelming. Looking back, though, she recognizes those tough times as the moments she grew the most—her strongest ones. Through self-reflection, Laura shares how adversity shaped her into a better person and inspired her to do remarkable things. Sharing lessons from her upbringing about fitting in and seeking love, Laura recalls how she learned to embrace her experiences and uses these lessons as her signature approach to coaching: becoming your own “best friend forever” (BFF). Instead of letting an inner critic run our minds, Laura encourages us to change our self-talk and befriend ourselves gently.
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    35 分
  • VBB 332 Dr. Kelly Barron - Firing Up A Menopause Revolution!

    VBB 332 Dr. Kelly Barron - Firing Up A Menopause Revolution!
    2025/05/05
    Dr. Kelly Barron is a powerhouse advocate for women's health and host of The KellFire Show, a podcast breaking taboos by empowering and supporting women through their menopausal journey. With her unique perspective as a doctor and a woman blazing through her own menopause, or as she calls it, her "wild woman phase." Dr. Barron is stripping away stereotypes and taboos about menopause as only a medical transition when it can be so much more — a true rebirth and an untapped chapter for women's self-discovery. Her conversation shatters outdated stereotypes, covers the emotional and physical shifts women experience during menopause, and highlights the importance of community, support, and unapologetic self-love. She shares practical advice for preparing for empty nest syndrome and how women can handle this difficult transition gracefully. Dr. Barron also introduces her online platform dedicated to helping women navigate menopause with fierce support and a personalized approach. She calls it Tempesta — aka, stormy.
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    30 分
  • VBB 331 Alessandra Wall - Challenging The Fem Boss = Bitch Pretext!

    VBB 331 Alessandra Wall - Challenging The Fem Boss = Bitch Pretext!
    2025/04/28
    Dr. Alessandra Wall - Challenging Fem Boss = Bitch Pretext!! Dr. Alessandra Wall is an executive coach, speaker, author, psychologist, and business founder with over 20 years of experience specializing in guiding senior executive women in high-stakes, male-dominated industries to lead authentically and powerfully without sacrificing career fulfillment or their quality of life. Dr. Wall combines science, strategy, and purpose to challenge the boss = bitch standards that often intimidate or cage strong, ambitious women leaders who’s desire is to make a lasting impact and thrive in their professional and personal lives without guilt, or shame.
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    40 分