Women of Color An Intimate Conversation

Podcast Marketing Coach Danielle Desir Corbett on PSO, Discovery-Based Marketing & Amplifying Your Voice as a Creator

* Presence without discoverability is a best-kept secret. In this episode, host Deneen L. Garrett sits down with Danielle Desir Corbett—Founder & CEO, 6x grant-funded and award-winning travel creator, host of The Thought Card, and podcast marketing coach. Danielle helps independent creators grow their audiences through discovery-based marketing strategies like SEO and PSO (Podcast Search Optimization), and curates funding opportunities through Grants For Creators—one of the fastest-growing grant discovery platforms in the U.S. and Canada. This is the episode for the creator who is ready to stop waiting to be found—and start being undeniable. Connect with Danielle Desir Corbett * Guest Name: Danielle Desir Corbett * Title / Role: Founder & CEO | Podcast Marketing Coach * Platforms: The Thought Card | Grants For Creators * Guest Profile: womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/danielle-desir-corbe/ [https://www.womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/danielle-desir-corbe/] * Website: danielledesir.com [https://danielledesir.com/] * Podcast: thoughtcard.com/podcast/ [https://thoughtcard.com/podcast/] * Instagram: @thedaniellecorbett [https://www.instagram.com/thedaniellecorbett] * LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/danielledesir [https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielledesir/] Join the Movement: Are you a Black woman 50+ ready for your next chapter? Join the Dream Lifestyle™️ Collective — the newsletter built for strategy, sisterhood, and your next bold move. Visit: dream-lifestyle-collective.beehiiv.com Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is a Top 20 Women's Empowerment Podcast · YouTube U.S. Top 1% · Global Top 8.5% · Top 5% of podcasts worldwide. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe · Leave a Review · Share with a woman who needs this today. Host: Deneen L. Garrett, Cultural Alchemist & Media Architect, Creator & Host, Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation Official Website → deneenlgarrett.com Live every Thursday at 1PM ET on YouTube → @DeneenLGarrett WOC Live | July 2026 — The Presence Series: Command the Room, Own the Narrative 📅 7/2 — Demarra West | From Trauma to Authority: Building a Business on Your Own Terms 📅 7/9 — Danielle Desir Corbett 📅 7/16 — Princess Cullum, PhD 📅 7/23 — Nicole Seabrooks 📅 7/30 — Dominica McBride

Demarra West: From Trauma to Authority — Building a Business on Your Own Terms

Presence begins from the inside out. In this episode, host Deneen L. Garrett sits down with Detroit-based Trauma Responsive Therapist, Author, and Founder Demarra West for a conversation about what it truly means to build a business—and a life—on your own terms. Demarra is the author of Me Too: A Therapist's Journey to Heal, Find Liberation & Joy, host of The Be Well Beautiful Podcast, and a yoga, meditation, breathwork teacher, and Reiki master. This is a conversation about wholeness, authority, and the courage it takes to command your room when you've spent years holding space for everyone else. Guest: Demarra West, Founder, Be Well Beautiful 🔗 Guest Profile: womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/demarra-west-1 🌐 Website: demarrawest.com 📸 Instagram: @bewellbeautifulpeople 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/demarragardner 📚 Amazon Author Page: amazon.com/stores/Demarra-West/author/B0CQTPJZLW Previous Episode: Harnessing Power, Finding Purpose → womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/Harnessing-Power-Finding-Purpose Connect with Demarra West: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/demarragardner Instagram: @bewellbeautifulpeople Join the Movement: Are you a Black woman 50+ ready for your next chapter? Join the Dream Lifestyle™️ Collective — the newsletter built for strategy, sisterhood, and your next bold move. Visit: dream-lifestyle-collective.beehiiv.com Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is a Top 20 Women's Empowerment Podcast · YouTube U.S. Top 1% · Global Top 8.5% · Top 5% of podcasts worldwide. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe · Leave a Review · Share with a woman who needs this today. Host: Deneen L. Garrett, Cultural Alchemist & Media Architect, Creator & Host, Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation Official Website → deneenlgarrett.com Live every Thursday at 1PM ET on YouTube → @DeneenLGarrett WOC Live | July 2026 — The Presence Series: Command the Room, Own the Narrative 📅 7/2 — Demarra West | From Trauma to Authority: Building a Business on Your Own Terms 📅 7/9 — Danielle Desir Corbett 📅 7/16 — Princess Cullum, PhD 📅 7/23 — Nicole Seabrooks 📅 7/30 — Dominica McBride

When Life Lifes: A Real-Time Pivot with Oryn Stewart

When Life Lifes: A Real-Time Pivot with Oryn Stewart What if the most powerful thing you can bring to your next chapter is exactly what they told you to leave at the door? We're closing out The Execution Series: Power, Pivot & Purpose — and we did it the way real leaders do. Life lifed. My scheduled guest couldn't make it, and instead of canceling, we pivoted in real time. My producer, Oryn Stewart, stepped from behind the scenes to in front of the camera — and what happened was one of the most honest conversations of the series. We talked about what it really means to let go — not just say it, but do it. Write it down. Burn it. Singe the thing that keeps coming back. We talked about the scab you keep picking and why the wound won't heal. We talked about showing up vulnerable, releasing your expectations of how people respond, and why presence — not ambition — might be your real purpose right now. And we talked about faith without works, and why praying for change while avoiding the work is how we stay stuck. This episode is about leading with your whole self, building a legacy that bridges your deepest wisdom with your professional presence, and what it actually looks like to execute when the plan changes. Because that's the thing about power — it's not what you do when everything goes right. It's what you do when it doesn't. Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is a Top 20 Women's Empowerment Podcast · YouTube U.S. Top 1% · Global Top 8.5% · Top 5% of podcasts worldwide. 🎙️ Subscribe wherever you listen. 📺 Watch on YouTube. 🔗 Join the Dream Lifestyle™️ Collective newsletter for Black Women 50+ → deneenlgarrett.com

The Purpose Catalyst: Leadership, Risk & Resilience with Dr. Connie Y. Bell

What if the most powerful thing you can bring to the boardroom is exactly what they told you to leave at the door? In this installment of The Execution Series: Power, Pivot & Purpose, host Deneen L. Garrett is chatting with Dr. Connie Y. Bell — transformational executive leader, doctoral mentor, and author operating at the high-stakes intersection of leadership, risk governance, and human resilience. As a Senior VP of Security Risk and founder of the Beyond the Bell Collective™, Dr. Bell delivers a masterclass on moving from professional stagnation to strategic clarity. In this episode, we explore: * The Power of Purpose: How to align high-level execution with your personal "why" * Risk vs. Resilience: Navigating global threats while protecting your own intentional wellbeing * The Permission Factor: Shifting from performing for corporate standards to leading with true impact and integrity Full episode notes: https://www.womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/ [https://www.womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/] Connect with Dr. Connie Y. Bell: LinkedIn: connie-bell Instagram: @divamom2u Join the Movement: Are you a Black woman 50+ ready for your next chapter? Join the Dream Lifestyle™️ Collective — the newsletter built for strategy, sisterhood, and your next bold move. Visit: dream-lifestyle-collective.beehiiv.com Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is a Top 20 Women's Empowerment Podcast · YouTube U.S. Top 1% · Global Top 8.5% · Top 5% of podcasts worldwide. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe · Leave a Review · Share with a woman who needs this today. Host: Deneen L. Garrett, Cultural Alchemist & Media Architect, Creator & Host, Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation Official Website → deneenlgarrett.com Live every Thursday at 1PM ET on YouTube → @DeneenLGarrett WOC Live | June 2026 — The Execution Series: Power, Pivot & Purpose 📅 6/4 — Tanya Spencer | Power & "Bad-Asshery" 📅 6/11 — Nicole Welch | The Control Room Catalyst | Mastering the Pivot 📅 6/18 — Dr. Connie Y. Bell | The Purpose Catalyst | Purpose-Driven Leadership & Strategic Authority 📅 6/25 — Ebony Goodrich | Leadership is More Than Being "Qualified" | The Spiritual Pivot

Go Beyond & Make Miracles Possible: Healing Lineage, Breaking Beliefs & Choosing Freedom | Rima Desai, Part 2

Part 1 was the story. This is the work. In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Rima Desai — transformational life coach, spiritual healer, and Masters-trained counseling psychologist — goes into the interior work that changed everything. Where do limited beliefs actually come from? How does inherited trauma live in the body across generations? And what did energy healing shift for Rima when years of traditional approaches alone couldn't get her all the way there? This is the conversation for the woman who knows something needs to change — and is ready to understand why, and how. In this episode, we explore: · The Roots of Limited Beliefs — how they form early, travel through generations, and quietly shape a woman's entire reality · What Rima Had to Unlearn — and the two and a half years of intentional therapy she invested in herself before she could do this work with others · Advanced Family Tree & Lineage Work — what it is, how ancestral grief lives in the body, and what it takes to release it · When Energy Work Does What Therapy Couldn't — Rima's own journey through chronic depression and anxiety, and the shift that changed everything · Going Beyond in Practice — what it actually looks like in a woman's real, everyday decisions · Results That Left Doctors Asking How — including clients brought back from ICU, suicidal ideation, and outcomes the medical industry called impossible Rapid Intimate Round: "Healing is not... optional." "The version of me at 6 needed... a mother." "The version of me today knows... there is so much more truth than what I can logically make sense of — and I don't need to figure it out today." Missed Part 1? Start there first — She Lost Her Mom at 6: Healing Grief & Spiritual Awakening | Rima Desai, Part 1. —— Guest: Rima Desai Transformational Life Coach | Spiritual Healer | Counseling Psychologist Connect with Rima → https://www.womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/rima-desai/ Host: Deneen L. Garrett Creator & Host, Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation ➡️ Podcast → Subscribe ➡️ YouTube → Watch + Subscribe ➡️ Dream Lifestyle™️ Collective → Join the newsletter built for Black women 50+ 𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗹𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁⚫️𝗰𝗼𝗺 — Deneen 🖤 Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation is a Top 20 Women's Empowerment Podcast. New episodes every Thursday. Subscribe · Leave a Review · Share with a woman who needs this today.