One Voice Evolving

What happens when the life you thought you'd live suddenly comes to an end? And what if that ending becomes the beginning of a life you never imagined possible? In this episode of One Voice Evolving, Kim welcomes writer, traveler, and creative explorer Alice Readman. whose unexpected divorce at 47 led her on a journey of reinvention that eventually took her to Bali for nine transformative years. T...

Silence, self-erasure, and survival patterns can keep you “safe” for years—but they can also keep you trapped. Clinical psychologist and author Nicole Wordlaw joins Kim for a heartfelt conversation about how trauma, racism, sexism, and inherited family wounds can shape our lives—and how to begin reclaiming your voice with compassion.

Kim speaks with organizer and author Amanda Gross about her book Get Ready White Women and the larger question of how white women can engage in anti-racism work with honesty, accountability, and staying power. The conversation centers on intersectionality, healing justice, and the tension between urgency and the slow work of changing systems and self. Amanda Gross shares the book’s origins in her...

Hilary Giovale shares what it means to move from inherited guilt into reparative action, including the practical, doable steps of personal reparations, land tax giving, and rebuilding relationship with place, ancestry, and Indigenous community. She explains why “decolonizing” is not a buzzword but a lived practice, and how small, consistent acts can begin to shift both inner conditioning and outer...

The advice good girls are given in midlife is exactly what keeps them stuck. Angela Burk, author of The Real Girls Guide to Midlife, joins Kim Brassor to unpack why radical self-possession matters more than radical self-acceptance when your needs, voice, and future are finally asking for center stage. Angela shares the moment her own life started to split open, from the early perimenopause confusi...

As Kim continues the Reel Conditioning series and invites women to dismantle the Good Girl script, this replay with trauma therapist Dawn Bouillion feels more relevant than ever. Dawn shares how trauma, religious conditioning, and lifelong expectations teach women to disconnect from themselves in order to survive—and why healing begins by reconnecting with the voice they've spent years ignoring.

In this compilation, Kim brings together voices that reveal one powerful truth: when women change on the inside, everything around them begins to shift. From questioning assumptions and naming what has long gone unspoken, to doing the inner work that transforms beliefs, behaviors, and impact, these stories remind us that growth is never meant to happen alone.

AI GOVERNANCE, EQUITY, AND ETHICAL STRATEGIES FOR BUSINESS AND EDUCATION In this episode, Holly Hartman joins Kim to explore the critical need for AI governance, ethical guardrails, and the impacts of AI bias on marginalized communities. They discuss practical steps for organizations to implement responsible AI policies, challenge biases, and build trust in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

In this candid conversation, founders Arlene and Louis Byrd share the raw realities of launching Hiyer, a platform designed for entrepreneurs seeking authentic community and racial equity. They discuss the challenges of innovation, the importance of integrity, and the societal implications of technology and leadership.2

One hundred episodes in, Kim hands the mic to someone else to tell her story — her producer, Joseph, who's been in the room for all of it. This is the journey of a woman who kept choosing to grow: through discomfort, through deconstruction, through the slow work of seeing herself clearly. What's next starts now!

One hundred episodes. Two and a half years. And the thing I didn't expect: I didn't arrive here — I became here. Not in one conversation, not in one aha moment, but in the accumulation of every honest exchange I refused to water down. What began as a question about what racism had cost me became something bigger when I realized the answer: patriarchy is the thread. Through race, class, gender, bod...

She has degrees in aerospace engineering, physics, and math. She tutored her husband through his science degree. He sent out three applications and got all three jobs — including his dream job, which they moved across the country for. She applied for years. Her resume got routed to accounting. She was told to come back when she was done having babies. That's not a metaphor. That's Jayne Reid's act...

Vishant Vyas is a cancer biologist who took a forced pause from the lab — and started writing stories about biology. Love stories starring bacteria. A liver cell staging an intervention. Immune cells behaving like spies. It sounds playful. The science underneath is anything but. In this Substack Live conversation that Kim loved too much to leave on a platform, she and Vishant go deep into what's a...

Brooke Haynes is back, and this time the conversation isn't about what happened — it's about what comes next. As an adoptee, advocate, and someone deep inside adoption communities, Brooke has watched adult adoptees stay stuck in grief because they've never had a place to put it down. She calls it the adoption fog. And with reproductive rights shifting and domestic adoptions rising, the system is a...

Kim ran a Holocaust episode through ChatGPT for a description. What came back didn't mention the Holocaust. It invented a different episode entirely — about avoidance and self-trust. Christian Ortiz wasn't surprised. Christian is an Afroindigenous decolonial social scientist and the developer of Justice AI GPT — the world's first decolonial AI framework. His work: helping people see how colonialis...

Some people say the church is the only organization that shoots its wounded. If you've been in deconstruction, left a church in pain, or watched a faith community implode — you already know exactly what that means. In this episode, Kim Brassor replays a webinar she created during a real church crisis — one that exploded across her community and left people bleeding with nowhere to go. What she lai...

Some conversations don’t need to be polished. They need to be honest. In this episode, Dr. Harriette Richard speaks from lived experience — not theory — about what it means to move through the world with an awareness of race that isn’t always shared by others. She names the tension that comes with that. The moments where speaking up feels necessary… and the moments where staying quiet feels safer....

In this episode, Kim sits down with Meg O’Brien for a conversation that doesn’t stay in the abstract — it goes straight into the real tensions many of us are living in right now. What if the thing that finally got you to pay attention to history… was a middle school teacher? That’s what happened to Kim. She heard Meg O’Brien speak at a church, and something shifted. Not because the history was dum...

That’s not a concept for Kat — it’s a daily practice. In this informal “Coffee with Kim” conversation, Amy “Kat” Lamb shares what it actually looks like to stay aligned in real life. Not in theory, but in the middle of work, leadership, relationships, and everything else pulling for your attention. She talks about the small, intentional practices that keep her grounded — from early morning routine...

DEI isn't dead — it's just been forced underground. That's the honest assessment from Soon Mee Kim, a long-time leader at the intersection of technology, communications, and inclusion, and the voice behind the Substack Unmuted . In this episode, Kim and Soon Mee get into the uncomfortable reality of where DEI actually stands right now — not in theory, but on the ground. The companies hiding it in...

“I was living outside of myself for a long time.” That’s not just a reflection — it’s the thread that runs through Brooke Haynes’ story. In this episode, she opens up about her experience with adoption and how it shaped her sense of identity, belonging, and self-trust in ways she didn’t fully recognize until later in life.

Kim sits down with Lee Woodman for a deeply reflective conversation on observation, awareness, and how we experience the world beyond what we’ve been taught to see. Lee shares how poetry, art, and lived experience open access to deeper ways of knowing — beyond the traditional five senses. Through stories, imagery, and metaphor, this conversation explores how perception shapes identity, clarity, an...

Kim sits down with Michele Torrey for a thoughtful conversation about identity, leadership, and rebuilding self-trust during midlife reinvention. For many women over 40, leadership and identity begin to evolve as they question inherited systems, examine power dynamics, and develop deeper clarity about their own authority. As conversations around racial equity, systemic privilege, and social justic...

Kim shares exciting changes to the One Voice Evolving podcast and introduces a new community: The Cove. In this special edition episode, Kim responds to questions posed by the OVE Team that naturally leads to Kim candidly sharing the "roads" that led to The Cove. For more information, visit onevoiceevolving.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of One Voice Evolving , Kim sits down with Anna Rollins to explore the powerful intersection of faith shifts, identity reconstruction, and midlife reinvention. For many women over 40, spiritual transitions become a catalyst for deeper self-trust, leadership growth, and renewed clarity about identity and purpose. As conversations around racial equity, systemic privilege, and power d...