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Stephanie Clarke is a most amazing woman. Her fiery red hair is a hint to her temperament as a speaker, facilitator, author, sacred ceremony hostess, Law of Attraction life coach, and a spiritual leader self-ordained as the Irreverent Reverend. As an Afrikaner wanting to help South Africa heal from its legacy of apartheid, Stephanie founded that country’s first multiracial church. She bravely shar...

Lee Wind (he/him) is an Author and the Founder of the award-winning Blog I'M HERE. I'M QUEER. WHAT THE HELL DO I READ? Lee's Blog has over 3 million page loads from over 100 countries! Lee holds a master's degree in education from Harvard and writes stories to empower kids and teens to be their authentic selves and change the world. In 2022 we had Lee as our guest for PRIDE month and learned that...

Dr. Maria Rothenburger is a fertility therapist and coach who has been through the harrowing journey of infertility. For over six years, Maria and her husband tried in vein to start a family but it only brought depression, anxiety, and intense marriage struggles. Eventually, they agreed the process wasn’t worth the pain or that was tearing their relationship apart, so they decided to be child-free...

Katie Nave is a freelance writer; she's penned articles for Newsweek, Huffington Post, and other top-notch publications. She works at being effective as a mental health advocate; she's a successful professional pediatrician in one of the world's biggest metropolis — New York, but the role Katie struggles with most is the one she once thought would be her most natural, being a mom. Katie reflects o...

Melissa Leon is a 20-year corporate finance professional, small business owner, bestselling author, mother of three, and the self-proclaimed Efficiency Bitch. Melissa uses the word B.I.T.C.H. as an acronym to define the five areas she focuses on for women to live life by their own design: Bank, InBox, Time, Connection, and Harmony. Her book was written to help ambitious women stop wasting time, mo...

Alexandra Mislin is passionate about educating others on how to analyze human behavior to motivate others to act in their interest. Currently, she’s an Associate Professor at American University's Kogod School of Business and teaches various courses in Negotiation and Management in the Department of Management. Her research and study outline how trust and emotions, race and gender, affect negotiat...

Women face a unique set of financial challenges. Women have more hidden costs in their daily lives, like the pink tax, and the potential for more financial setbacks in the future, including the gender pay gap. Around the globe, women are generally less educated about personal finance – partly due to perceptions that finance is a "man's issue." This week we welcome Mariska Reinerink, Certified Beha...

Are you the master of your money, or is money the master of you? April is Financial Literacy Month — at VBB it's Women & Money Month. We could talk about the six components of financial literacy — earning, spending, saving, investing, borrowing, and protecting, or using financial skills for personal financial management, investing, and budgeting, but what about your feelings about money? Are y...

Throughout March, International Women's Month, it’s been one conversation after another with inspirational women born, living, or working globally in China, India, Iran, and Puerto Rico. Today a visit to Ghana, Africa. Gifty Serbeh-Dunn is co-founder of Baraka Shea Butter and owner of Shea Butter Market in Victoria, Canada, but what she has created for the women in her home village epitomizes what...

Michelle Hrycauk Nassif is a loving mother and a wise matriarch whose business is being a powerful Feminine leader. Her deep and genuine passion is to build and nurture Communities that support women and girls in their journey to fulfill their dreams and ambitions. We feature Michelle during International Women’s Month. In her professional role inside the corporate world, Canadian-born Michelle st...

Dr. Sousan Abadian was raised in Washington, D.C., but was born in Tehran, Iran. She shares a uniquely cross-cultural view the rest of the world might consider. Dr. Sousan Abadian was born in Tehran, Iran, and raised in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph. D. in Political Economy and Government and an M.A. in the Anthropology of Social Change and Development from Harvard University and an M.P.A. in In...

Ahilya Mehta is not yet 30 years old, but she is a former co-founder of Aara woman’s health clinic and is currently an entrepreneur-in-residence at Nua women’s wellness start-up in Mumbai, India. Ahilya graduated from Wellesley College in the US and worked as an IT consultant in San Francisco before completing an entrepreneurship fellowship program for female and non-binary first-time founders. “M...

Dr. Candise Lin was born in Guangzhou, China, a port city northwest of Hong Kong on the Pearl River. Candice earned her BA in Psychology and a Ph. D. in Educational Psychology in America. Recently, she has focused on mentoring Chinese students in languages while utilizing Instagram and TicTok as her classroom. We welcome Dr. Lin to help teach us about women in Chinese culture. Join our conversatio...

Kimberley John-Morgan is a strong, unapologetic voice for historically excluded communities subjected to social isms — racism, sexism, classism, ableism, heterosexism, and other forms of oppression. Through her writing and equity education sessions, Kimberley advocates increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), especially where people spend most of their time — at work. Kimberley’s profess...

Elizabeth Leiba is a college professor and a passionate advocate for Black businesswomen. Elizabeth authored I'm Not Yelling: A Black Woman's Guide to Navigating the Workplace" as a resource to encourage savvy Black businesswomen navigating a predominantly white corporate world and to empower those women to find their voices inside an often toxic work environment. Elizabeth boasts over 130,000 fol...

Porsha Stennis signs off her literary work with, Another badass black woman of literature. She refers to her work as the narration of a black millennial woman’s journey through life, highlighting wellness, self-love, and evolution. She authored The Black American Identity Quiz, which appeared in multiple publications, including The (y) syndrome Magazine. “I consider myself a versatile writer, havi...

Rissa Miller has been practicing tasseography, i.e., a tea leaf reading since finding loose tea in her teacup as a teenager. Over the decades, Rissa has honed her methods and refined her language to tell stories in her clients' teacups. For Rissa, tasseography is a very personal divination art. "I learned young how to look through chaos to find order. I call my client seekers because most seek som...

Hilary Burns wasn't aware of her own unhappiness until she was asked this question: what if you didn't have to spend your time trying to fix yourself; then who could be become? Only then did she realize that being a pleasant person, a good mother, and a good wife didn't make her truly happy. In fact, Hilary was numb to her own unhappiness. Today, Hilary is an author, podcaster, public speaker, and...

Gina Cloud is a deeply devoted teacher, author, speaker, and advocate of all things women. Gina is a rebel and a revolutionary determined to free women from the societal, biological, and personal prisons they have endured for millennia. Using her extensive body of work developed over 25 years, Gina is passionately committed to spearheading an evolution and revolution of the ideologies that “define...

2023 begins the seventh year of VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH Podcast. We - Christopher & Heather - invite conversations with women unafraid to be themselves — Defiantly Different. If that's you, you’re invited: Find Us, Like Us, Share Us, and Connect with us in 2023!

As 2022 fades into the sunset, we (Christopher & Heather) review events that impacted the life and times of women. We pay homage to the longest-serving monarch in British history — Queen Elizabeth II — 1952 / 2022. Both Saudi Arabia and the United States made news with acts detrimental to the advancement of women. The death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the Saudi Arabia Guidance Patro...

Dr. Avrum Weiss is an award-winning author, speaker, teacher, and consultant internationally recognized for his pioneering work in developing the theory and application of experiential psychotherapy. His groundbreaking work over the last decade has focused on developing a new sense of the inner lives of men with the purpose of helping men and women gain a new understanding of each other. His work...

Joëlle Croteau-Willard is a Mother, Wife, Regional Director with PSI Seminars, and a lost mom — a woman who has suffered the loss of her child. "I had a late-term pregnancy loss at 23 weeks. I had dedicated my life to transformative personal development, then my son died. And that person who was Joelle prior to May 16th, 2022, that person died with him. Suddenly, I don't want the things I wanted....

Edy Nathan is a licensed therapist, certified sex therapist, hypnotherapist, and certified EMDR practitioner; also the author of IT'S GRIEF - The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss. "Grief is nonlinear. It does not follow any practical course. As much as we want to plan for it, and as much as we want to say I'm going to do this, this, and this, and then it's gonna be over, you don't w...

Janine Latus is the New York Times Best Best Selling author. Her book, If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister’s Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation, is inspired by an ominous message written by her baby sister, Amy, in April 2002. Her note, carefully hidden in a desk drawer, reads, “Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved,” “but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based o...