SpeakHER Sessions

What does it really take to find your voice — and what happens when it gets taken from you? In this special solo episode, SpeakHER Sessions host Kim Atwood reflects on the six most powerful lessons she learned from Season 1. Ten episodes, eleven women, and more honesty than she expected when she started asking questions about voice and confidence. This isn't a recap. It's a reflection. B...

Before Kim Atwood had a podcast, a platform, or any of the clarity she talks about on this show, she had two sisters. To close out Season 1, Kim brings it all the way home by inviting Shannon Henderson and Rebecca Wolfe into the studio for the most personal episode of the season. What starts as a funny conversation about birth order and who mom's favorite is turns into something surprisingly...

Some voices are shaped by survival. Jan Sipes' was shaped by something quieter: 35 years of five-year-olds who still stop her in the grocery store to say hello, 10 summers at Camp Gravatt building something generational with her husband Mac, and a faith that held steady through three and a half years of brain cancer, widowhood, and raising three daughters alone. Affectionately known as Mama J...

What does it look like to reclaim your voice after seasons of loss, fear, and survival, and then decide to live boldly on purpose? Breanna Pritchard grew up quiet and shy. She lost her dad to cancer at 13. She married young, and the marriage became something she couldn't name as abuse because it had become her normal. She didn't have a job, didn't have money, and didn't tell he...

When Samantha Butler 's daughter Griggs had her first seizure at one and a half years old, the hospital told her it was probably nothing. Samantha pushed anyway, because her mom had epilepsy, and something in her gut said this wasn't nothing. She was right. Griggs never stopped having seizures. What followed was six years of medications, EEGs, PET scans, MRIs, week-long hospital stays wh...

How do you keep showing up with hope, courage, and compassion when life has already taken so much? Lindsey Scoma was 15 years old when she lost her sister Amber suddenly. It was the kind of loss that makes a teenager want to close up, go quiet, and stop letting people in. And honestly? That impulse made sense. But Lindsey made a different choice, and she has been making it ever since. In this epis...

What happens when the life you're living looks nothing like the life you hoped for, and you're not even sure you deserve anything better? Mallory Dolan grew up without a faith foundation, chasing approval, and numbing pain with alcohol and drugs. She became a mom in her early 20s, splitting Lunchables with her daughter while hiding an addiction she couldn't control. CPS came to her...

What do you do when the waiting is happening in every area of your life at once? Hope Andrews knows that season. She waited on the right relationship. She waited on her education. She waited through fertility treatments that didn't work, a friend's pregnancy that felt impossible to celebrate, and a career pivot that started with silence and crickets. And then, in a fertility clinic on a...

What happens when you step into a leadership role you weren't supposed to have, in a room that wasn't built for you? Billie Williams didn't take a traditional path to becoming Athletic Director at Chapin High School, one of South Carolina's largest 5A programs. She came up through cheer, earned a master's degree from The Citadel, taught civics and government, mentored stud...

What do you do when your body feels like it's failing you, the waiting won't end, and the family you're praying for feels further away than ever? Joy Henderson knows that season intimately. After years of infertility, multiple pregnancy losses, and the decision to adopt three biological siblings, Joy didn't just survive the wait. She let it reshape her faith, her voice, and the...

What does it take to build confidence in a young woman — not just on stage, but in her life? Lauren Metts has been answering that question for decades. As the founder and creative director of The Dance Department in Irmo, South Carolina, Lauren has shaped far more than performances. She's shaped how hundreds of young women see themselves, compete, and lead. In this episode, Kim Atwood sits do...

Welcome to SpeakHER Sessions — a podcast about voice. This show explores how our voice is shaped by experience, the moments that invite us to find and use it, and the way our stories can give strength to other voices. Hosted by Kim Atwood, SpeakHER Sessions creates space for thoughtful, honest conversations with women whose journeys have been shaped by challenge, growth, leadership, service, and c...