Journey of a Fearless Female Podcast

Shannon is a reiki master healer, yoga teacher, who travels the world doing mission work and mission service. She is a survivor of sexual abuse, drug abuse and recently survived the suicide of her mother. Shannon grew up as a pawn in her parents’ divorce. Eventually, she began partying, hanging out with the wrong crowd, experimenting with drugs and alcohol, and having older boyfriends. In part 1,...

Amanda had everything she ever wanted, a great husband, a great career, great kids, a great house, but she struggled with postpartum depression. Knowing that she needed help, she attended an anxiety boot camp at her local church. From there she discovered that she’s actually been struggling with depression and anxiety for years. She also discovered that she was co-dependent with friends. Amanda le...

Aubrie wanted to be perfect in everything. She was great at sports,  a straight A student, and a social butterfly. However, she also wanted to have the perfect body and face.  Aubrie got swept up by the dieting culture of the internet and developed an eating disorder. At 18, she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had to have an invasive throat surgery that left her almost voiceless for over a y...

As a kid, Erin had rules around food. Her father was once overweight and his fear of being overweight caused Erin to believe being skinny was the only option. She became obsessed with her appearance and would cut out skinny models and tape them all over her place. She developed a few eating disorders, ranging from anorexia to bulimia to orthorexia. This unhealthy lifestyle was made worse by turnin...

Your Host Paola continues with her journey, as she describes how her childhood shaped her limited mindset. She learned that living paycheck to paycheck seemed to be the only way she was going to live. Paola reveals more details of her struggle to finding her place and purpose in the world. Listen in to learn more about what Paola has learned in the midst of chaos. Part 2 You can find Jenny on Inst...

Erika is the owner and stylist of 108 & Main Salon located at 18700 Main Street, Huntington Beach, CA. Even as a young kid, she knew that she wanted to work in the beauty industry and she enrolled in the ROP program at her high school. When she came out of beauty school, she worked as an assistant and continued to do grunt work until eventually became the owner of her own salon. She shares her sto...

Tara was 13 years old when she got involved with the gangs of Santa Ana. Growing up she felt lost and joining a gang felt like entering into a new family.  In the gang culture, Tara felt like she was a part of a community. However, armed robbery, drug addiction, and prostitution became her daily way of life. On Thanksgiving day, when she was expected home for the holiday, she wrote a letter to her...

Amy’s life seemed perfect, growing up, she was all about sports and fitness. In college, she played soccer, ran track and cross country, and still managed to be an excellent student. After being injured, Amy was determined to finish out her senior year running, and she was given medication to help ease the pain. The addict was awoken inside of her and she began to pop pain killers like candy. On t...

Learn more about your host and her journey as a Fearless Female. After five kids, Paola’s mother was basically done with motherhood and was ready to have a life of her own. However, ten years later, she found herself accidentally pregnant again. Her older kids, who were a whole generation older than their baby sister, begged their mother to get pregnant one more time so that their sister could hav...

Janelle wanted to get pregnant and have a family of her own. However, she struggled conceiving naturally and sought help from fertility treatments. In that time, she had friends and relatives who were getting pregnant and having babies left and right. It seemed like everyone she knew was starting their own family. She was so distraught; she couldn’t go to baby showers anymore or be around pregnant...

Jenny H. spent her youth riddled with neglect and abuse. She watched her dad struggle with alcohol addiction and her mother was emotionally distant. Jenny had been sexually abused and molested by different people in her life. She also had an eerie suspicion that supernatural forces were haunting her since she was a little girl - this lead her down a dark path of alcohol, sex and drug addiction, an...

Jenny H. spent her youth riddled with neglect and abuse. She watched her dad struggle with alcohol addiction and her mother was emotionally distant. Jenny had been sexually abused and molested by different people in her life. She also had an eerie suspicion that supernatural forces were haunting her since she was a little girl - this lead her down a dark path of alcohol, sex and drug addiction, an...

Allison was yearning to go on an adventure and sent out an email asking her friends if they were interested in climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. She teamed up with a mutual friend Danielle and they began training for an adventure of a lifetime. After climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, they felt it was such a transformative experience that they couldn’t just go back to their regular lives again. Believing that ther...

1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, this is Vicki Bush’s story. Vicki knew that she had to get her sizable lump on her breast checked out, but postponing the inevitable results and having no insurance, it took her a few months before she told her daughter about her lump. The next day, she had an appointment at a free clinic. She kept a journal of her process throug...

Michelle dreamed of being in the spot light but her fears and feelings of unworthiness kept her from stepping into her gift. As an introvert, she was shy and self-conscious about herself. Until one day, she realized she could sing. Although she tried to sing, many told her she couldn’t including herself. She became a filmmaker instead and stayed behind the camera for years. It all changed when she...

At the age of two, Jenny’s mother noticed that Jenny went from crawling to walking to crawling again. Her ankle was swollen and hot to the touch. Jenny was then diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis (JRA), a condition which causes inflammation in the joints and it eventually caused her vision impairment. Growing up, Jenny was not treated differently by her mother or siblings. She was encour...

Sarah Sanchez didn’t know why she was constantly feeling fatigue or why she was having trouble breathing when she would just walk up and down the stairs. Her doctors either dismissed her concerns or claimed it was more of a psychological issue rather than a physical. It seemed like nobody took her illness seriously. Her health took a turn for seven years, until she began treatment for the unknown...

Lynda Sunshine West had grown up in an abusive household as well as married to an abusive man, so she knew the feeling of living in fear. She realized fear had been holding her back for 51 years. One day she woke up and decided she was going to tackle her fears, one fear a day, for a whole year (she had way more than 365 fears). She quit her high paying job, sold her home, and almost went through...

Dr. Shelly Gruenig lost her child in 1998. Shelly coped with her grief using food to fill the empty void and ended up tipping the scale at 300 hundred plus pounds. Although, she struggled with her weight for many years, she continued to help others as a Life and Career coach. Then one day she took a friend to the doctor and noticed a flyer for gastric bypass surgery. After meeting an amazing gastr...

Catherine McNulty was only 27 weeks into her pregnancy when she gave birth to her son. After several weeks of being in the hospital and having many close calls, Catherine and her husband made the decision to pull life support and allow their son to die peacefully in their arms. The grief shattered her for many years, until she decided to channel the love of her son into her own healing and dedicat...

Ashley Beckenhauer is the CEO of Bridal Buns. Ten months ago, she was a just a young mom with three little boys under the age of 5, trying to make ends meet. She made money by selling clothes and working part-time in retail but one day her friend encouraged her to style hair for a wedding. Before she knew it, her talent in styling hair launched her into the wedding industry. In just a few short mo...

Nearly 1 in 4 women have experienced severe physical violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. Tyler is one of those women and this is her story. Tyler thought she found the man of her dreams. A ‘real man’s man’ but since she grew up in a dysfunctional home, Tyler was never exposed to a healthy relationship nor did she know the warning signs of an abusive one…until it was too late.  ...

On our first episode, I get to interview my mentor, the lovely Danelle Delgado, one of the most highly regarded training experts, she is an International Speaker, Author, Business Strategist, CEO of Life Intended & Super mom. When she divorced her husband and was left to raise three kids by herself, she couldn’t survive off of her teacher salary alone, so she had to make a drastic life change and...

Fear is a liar and I have been feeding my fears for most of my life.  I am on a journey not only to become fearless but to learn from other women who conquered their fears and have created amazing and incredible lives despite the odds. Join me as I interview them and learn from their wonderful stories of triumph. I am hoping that I can create awareness, compassion and wisdom by cultivating a conne...