Breaking Labels

Challenging Stereotypes and Embracing Personal Growth: Tine's Authentic Journey from Pipe Salesman to Therapist and Podcaster This conversation with Tine Collins revolves around personal growth, acknowledging emotions, authenticity, confronting racial bias and the role of podcasting in personal development. Rosanna opens up about her learned distrust of southern white men due to past negative expe...

Lotus Wilson, a personal development expert and founder of Renegade Mindset, candidly shares her personal journey from struggling with addiction and self-deception to becoming a successful, empowered entrepreneur. She highlights the importance of self-awareness, changing destructive patterns, and discovering one's identity for personal transformation. Her journey from being a young girl raised in...

In this brief episode Rosanna shares what's happened in her life since the airing of the last episode of Breaking Labels and lets you know what's to come for both Breaking Labels and Her Path to Purpose. Subscribe if you haven't already so you'll be first to know when the next episode comes out.  If you have any questions, you can email Rosanna at hello@rosannagill.com and follow her and the podca...

Rosanna shares the impact being diagnosed with Herpes at 19 has had on her self-image and why it's important now more than ever to open up up about the label and how she's overcome the fear of talking about it publicly.  If you'd like to ask Rosanna any questions about living and dating with Herpes, the impact, or anything else, you can join her Friday November 26, 2021, when she goes live on Face...

In the third part of the 'A Different Perspective' series, host Rosanna Gill shares insight she gained from the series and shares her own experience with white supremacy. She talks about the downfall on being focused on proving one is not racist or what your intention is versus focusing on how what you say or believe actually impacts others.  The book Rosanna references during the episode is So Yo...

In the second part of the 'A Different Perspective' series, host Rosanna Gill is joined by Lori Harris and Catharine Montgomery to discuss the term 'mulatto' and whether there's really much racism still in the world.  Both Lori and Catharine share insight on how to ask questions and the spirit to ask them in.  The two books Rosanna recommended as resources are: The Color of the Law by Richard Roth...

"It cannot inherently be true that I am less than because of my appearance." -Lori Harris In the first part of the 'A Different Perspective' series, host Rosanna Gill is joined by Lori Harris and Catharine Montgomery to discuss a listener's question as to why a man of color might put down other men of color and what it feels like and means to be told they (Lori and Catharine) are not like 'other b...

“Why not me?” asks stay-at-home mother Stephanie Mahoney when evaluating her hesitancy to achieve her goals. After years of believing that being a mom and lacking a degree would prevent her from finding professional success, Stephanie decided to travel outside her comfort zone.  After experiencing a difficult postpartum during the pandemic, Stephanie had a change of perspective and began allowing...

For this episode, I wanted to take the time to talk about the future. Specifically, about this podcast and two new projects that I’ve been working on. Inspired by my desire for a talk about race and ethnicity, I’ve decided to launch a series here on the Breaking Labels podcast called “A Different Perspective”. In this series, I’ll be having really open conversations that get into the questions som...

“You can choose to lead your life beyond the predicament you’re in. You can choose to see the light.” This was the advice that jewelry designer Lia Valencia’s mother gave her. At the time, they were living a difficult life in Philadelphia, and Lia was headed down a negative path. However, Lia credits her mother's words for unlocking her life, letting her natural light shine through, and inspiring...

“Sometimes your soul just doesn’t fit in a cubicle,” says Chanel Lee, Owner of Living Beauty Florals. After working in corporate for over eleven years, Chanel finally decided to pursue her dream of running a flower shop full-time. While she has experienced her fair share of hiccups along the way, Chanel explains that she truly loves what she does and couldn’t be happier with her decision to follow...

Ever since the age of 11, Michelle Kuei has been followed by an invisible checkbox. Similar to the checkboxes you fill out on job or college applications, this unseen checkbox represents the assumptions that people make about Michelle with just a cursory glance. Michelle has a visible disability: she walks on crutches as a result of a car accident she was involved in during her early years. The re...

“It’s easy to be in the brain, it’s hard to be in the body,” says Kristen Schwartz, self-proclaimed Realized Empath. Kristen explains that she went through most of her life as a high achiever, repressing her trauma in a career that she believed would make her worthy in the eyes of the world. However, six years ago, on what Kristen calls her dark night of the soul, she hit a wall, met herself in th...

Have a question about race, ethnicity or another culture you've wanted to ask but didn't know how? This is your chance to ask.  Have a scenario where you asked or said something that offended someone but you don't know why? Share the details and it will be discussed on the Breaking Labels podcast during the 'A Different Perspective' series.  Below is the link where you can ask it all completely an...

Are you dimming your own light because you don’t want to overshadow others? Are you constantly taking care of everyone else at the expense of your own needs and goals? This is what Brené Brown calls engineering smallness. In other words, you shy away from your truth and potential because you are worried about protecting others and, oftentimes, yourself. Engineering smallness can take endless forms...

Have you ever played out endless scenarios of a heated conversation in your head, only to have it go nothing as you expected it would? Host Rosanna Gill has gone into this negative spiral countless times, working herself up over imagined conversations that ultimately never happened. So, where does this intense concern for other people’s expectations come from? Why do we expect people to react poor...

Most of us have probably heard that our adverse childhood experiences inform our romantic relationships...but what about our work relationships? And what really constitutes an adverse childhood experience to begin with? Unfortunately, there is a misconception that childhood traumas must be severe in order to impact us later on in life. But it’s not just experiences such as emotional abuse, physica...

Have you ever made a big change in your life only to settle back into the same old negative patterns of self-talk? This is a problem that host Rosanna Gill has faced multiple times throughout her life, whether in work, relationships, or just her day-to-day routine. She has undergone her fair share of “a-ha” moments, when a switch flips and catalyzes a major change....but, for a long time, the posi...

“I am not my illnesses,” says Mary Burgoon. Over the years, Mary has received six different mental illness diagnoses, including Bipolar Disorder, Harm OCD, and Borderline Personality Disorder, just to name a few. She has experienced suicidal thoughts, attempted suicide, and been hospitalized countless times. But still, Mary’s inner strength and authentic self have always managed to shine through....

What would you do if someone told you to “smile a little less American?” This is what Tytti Tulianen’s grandmother told her to do when she was taking her high school graduation photos. While Tytti (pronounced TOO-tee) was born in Finland, she moved to the United States when she was nine years old and spent the majority of her childhood living everywhere from Wisconsin to New York to South Carolina...

Are you on a healing journey? Well, Deborah Driggs is too. While you may know her as a Playboy Playmate, there is so much more to Deb than her appearance in the centerfold of the March 1990 Playboy issue. She has also had a career in acting, achieved the Top 5% in her industry as a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable, and, more recently, has dedicated herself to writing a tell-all memoir, in w...

In this bonus episode Rosanna walks you through an exercise meant to not only heal relationship wounds but also empower you to set boundaries and incorporate the lessons from the exercise in your day to day life.  Use this exercise for any relationship, be it a family member, partner, friend, or even boss.  And if you do the exercise, let us know what your experience is by emailing us at Rosanna@b...

Six years ago, Roshanda Pratt’s life was upended after she, her husband and her kids experienced a home invasion. And although it may surprise you, this event actually changed her life for the better. It wasn’t until Roshanda quite literally had a gun pointed at her head that she realized she wanted to leave a larger legacy behind, she wasn’t fully present in her life, and she had never discovered...

Have you ever thought to yourself, "If I could just get out of my own way, I would..." lose this weight for good, be successful, have all the things I say I want but still don't have?  Well, you're right. But getting out of your way doesn't mean going on another diet or beating yourself up so you'll stop procrastinating or take the steps you need to achieve your goals. And no one is more qualified...

Have you ever wondered when a relationship or marriage is truly beyond repair? What is the point of no return? Infidelity? Too many years of resentment? A divorce?   In Kimberly's line of work, none of those are deal-breakers. Not even divorce.  Kimberly Beam Holmes is the CEO of Marriage Helper,  a program  that has a 70% success rate of saving relationships.  She shares the PIES of attraction, w...