Episodes

On this empowering episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond sits down with author, speaker, and transformational guide JJ DiGeronimo for an inspiring conversation about self-love, spiritual awakening, healing, personal growth, and learning to protect your energy. JJ shares insights from her books Seeking and Illuminate Your Path and introduces the six phases of spiritual awakening, beginning with the crossroads that can arise when life doesn't go according to plan. Rather than vie...

What does it take to move beyond survival mode and create a life filled with purpose, stability, and possibility? On this inspiring episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with entrepreneur, author, resilience coach, and founder of The Resiliency Blueprint, Michelle Rogers, for an open and powerful conversation about overcoming trauma, rebuilding your life, setting healthy boundaries, and learning to believe that you deserve more. Michelle shares how she transform...

What happens when someone suddenly disappears from your life without explanation? On this powerful episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Gretta Perlmutter, certified Post-Betrayal Transformation Coach, host of the Coping with Ghosting podcast, and author of the upcoming book Coping with Ghosting in Love. Together, they explore the emotional impact of ghosting, betrayal, heartbreak, and abandoned relationships. Gretta explains why ghosting affects more than ...

What happens when women finally give themselves permission to have honest conversations about sex, intimacy, and their own bodies? On this thought-provoking episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond sits down with licensed clinician and certified sex therapy practitioner Caroline Hood for a candid discussion about female sexual empowerment, healing, and breaking free from the shame that has surrounded women’s sexuality for generations. Together, they explore how childhood experien...

What does Disability Pride really mean? On this special Disability Pride Month episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond shares why she proudly embraces the disability community—not because disability defines her, but because it has shaped her resilience, strength, and purpose. Drawing from her lived experience as a blind woman and her journey as the mother of a son with autism, Blaque Diamond tackles some of the most common misconceptions surrounding both blindness and autis...

What if understanding your personality could transform your relationships, improve communication, and help you better understand yourself? On this episode of the Women on the Rise segment of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with bestselling author Marita Littauer, whose book Wired That Way has been changing lives for over 20 years. As the author of more than 20 books and daughter of renowned personality expert Florence Littauer, Marita shares how understanding personali...

On this inspiring episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast’s, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Dineigha, a full-time working mom of three and the owner of AddiScents, a self-care brand created with love, purpose, and natural ingredients. Dineigha shares how her passion for body butters, oils, sprays, scrubs, and skin-loving products grew from her own love of smelling good, her daughter’s eczema journey, and her desire to help women and families enjoy luxury self-care without luxury prices. From...

On this empowering episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Zolal Habibi, an activist and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance, for a powerful and eye-opening conversation about freedom, democracy, and the fight against oppression. Joining the show from Paris, France, Zolal shares her background, her involvement in the resistance movement, and the work being done to advocate for human rights and democratic change. She di...

This week on the BFF Empowerment Podcast, we're celebrating the fathers who show up, step up, and do the work. In this special Father's Day episode, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Oryan battis, a devoted single father, music artist, and entrepreneur who wears many hats with pride. Oryan opens up about his journey into single fatherhood, raising his four-year-old daughter, and the sacrifices he's made to give her the best life possible. He also shares his path from a challenging childhood i...

What happens when a love of books turns into a movement that empowers women in business? In this inspiring episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with entrepreneur and founder Jennifer Kornoely to talk about the power of women supporting women, lifelong learning, and building success through community. Jennifer shares how a career in real estate photography led her to discover the transformative world of audiobooks, personal development, and business education. W...

What happens when life changes in an instant, but your dreams refuse to die? On this empowering episode of the Women on the Rise segment of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with visually impaired music artist, content creator, and motivational voice Solo Boogie. After losing her vision at just 20 years old, Solo Boogie faced the difficult journey of rebuilding her confidence, rediscovering her purpose, and learning how to navigate life in a completely different way. T...

What happens when women choose to rewrite their stories and step boldly into their next chapter? In this deeply powerful and heartfelt episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond sits down with bestselling author Debbie Weiss for an inspiring conversation about resilience, reinvention, and the courage to embrace change at any stage of life. Together, they dive into the realities of caregiving, raising children with autism, overcoming trauma, breaking free from limiting beliefs, and ...

On this powerful Mental Health Awareness Month episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond opens up about one of the most personal chapters of her life: becoming a single mother through painful circumstances, surviving trauma, and learning how to keep going when life felt overwhelming. Blaque Diamond shares her journey through unexpected motherhood, betrayal, emotional pain, postpartum struggles, domestic violence, suicidal thoughts, therapy, healing, and the strength it took to...

On this powerful Women on the Rise episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond sits down with Joanna Zhang, founder of Operations Genius, a fractional virtual assistant service designed to help business owners focus on their true gifts while receiving support in operations, marketing, systems, and team building. Joanna shares her journey from financial planning to entrepreneurship, how her own challenges with delegation inspired her to create a plug-and-play team model, and why teamw...

In this inspiring Women on the Rise episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond sits down with Angie Castro, host of This Is What Blind Looks Like, for a powerful conversation about podcasting, blindness, independence, advocacy, and chasing your dreams. Angie shares her journey growing up in Chicago, building a life in Madison, Wisconsin, working as an administrative assistant at a respite center for children with disabilities, and creating a blindness-centered podcast that has been ...

In this powerful episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with therapist and coach Diane McDowell for a deep and eye-opening conversation about emotional safety, people pleasing, trauma, grief, relationships, and what it means when the brain gets “hijacked.” Diane shares her personal story of growing up in a religious cult until the age of 14, experiencing culture shock after leaving, struggling with dyslexia, and later becoming a therapist who now helps others unde...

In this powerful and deeply personal episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, Blaque Diamond opens up a heartfelt conversation centered around children, healing, protection, and awareness. With a trigger warning for discussions of child abuse, she shares pieces of her own journey as a survivor, reflecting on the pain of being harmed by someone who was supposed to protect her and the lasting impact abuse can have on a child’s life. This episode also speaks to the importance of adults paying atten...

On this heartfelt Women on the Rise episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Kirsten Oconnor, a grief advocate, author, and founder of This Is Grief NZ. Kirsten shares her deeply personal journey of losing her 24-year-old daughter, Kalia, to suicide and how that loss led her to become a voice for honest conversations around grief, mental health, and healing. Together, Blaque Diamond and Kirsten explore the many forms grief can take, from the loss of a loved one...

On this special International Pageant Day episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond is joined by her entire 2025 Better Together Edition Queen’s Court from the Ms. Blind Diva Empowerment Pageant. Featuring Ms. Blind Diva 2025 and Ms. Photogenic 2025 Courtney “Coco” Brown, Ms. Independent 2025 Ashley Inniss, Director’s Choice 2025 Lakisha Guest, and Ms. Altruistic 2025 Bianca Johnson, this heartfelt conversation celebrates sisterhood, confidence, accessibility, empowerment, and ...

In this dynamic and free-flowing episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with the multi-talented Nikki Allen—a singer, songwriter, novelist, screenwriter, filmmaker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who truly embodies what it means to wear many hats. From transforming a screenplay into a novel to creating music with purpose, Nikki shares her creative journey and the inspiration behind her empowering projects, including her upcoming work rooted in reclaiming self-wo...

This Women’s History Month, host Blaque Diamond takes a deeply personal and powerful approach on the BFF Empowerment Podcast. In this heartfelt solo episode, she reflects on what it truly means to be history in the making as a Black blind woman, single mother, award-winning author and poet, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and Ms. Altruistic 2025. Blaque Diamond opens up about recent life changes, her growing journey in pageantry, updates to the No Limits Girl Empowerment App, and her decisi...

On this powerful Women on the Rise episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with Gloria Battini, spiritual medium, intuitive development teacher, and consciousness guide, for a heartfelt conversation about intuition, dreams, healing, spirituality, and coming home to your authentic self. Gloria shares her journey from anxiety, OCD, and a toxic relationship to spiritual awakening and purpose-driven work. Together, they explore premonition dreams, empathic gifts, spirit...

On this powerful and expansive episode of the Women on the Risesegment of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with holistic pediatrician and transformational midlife expert Dr. Sue McCreadie for a conversation that blends science, spirituality, mindset, and personal growth. With over 30 years of experience as a pediatric physician specializing in nutritional medicine, Dr. Sue has dedicated her life to helping children thrive. But her journey didn’t stop there. Through per...

In this inspiring episode of the BFF Empowerment Podcast, host Blaque Diamond sits down with powerhouse entrepreneur Michelle Peth, founder of Beet Tan, to talk about turning passion into purpose—and purpose into profit. What started as a deeply personal mission to help her sister find a safe alternative to sun tanning after multiple skin cancer scares blossomed into a thriving beauty brand and national training academy. Michelle shares how she went from single mom with a spray tent and a dream...