A Different Kinda Woman

What if the room is only “lit” because you’re doing all the lighting?

Actress Yasha Jackson joins Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson to talk about rebuilding a life from rest instead of performance. After a critical medical emergency and about a month in the ICU, Yasha is restructuring her life in a new way, and learning what it means to mourn relationships that could not pour back into her.

Dr. Stacii shares a simple friendship audit: write down the names, write down the facts, and let facts lead when feelings get cloudy. They also talk about the five levels of vulnerability, the shift from doing to being, and the collaborative community that brings Yasha unmasked joy.

Yasha Jackson is an actress with credits on Netflix, HBO and Showtime. She lives in Harlem and is building her own creative projects.

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Sometimes the love is full, and it still isn't enough. Dr. Terrell Hunt, an Atlanta-based esthetician and acne expert, sits down with Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson to talk about a season of loss that taught her more about herself than any before it: a divorce, a business transition, and friendships that changed.

• Why unresolved patterns show up in the closest relationships

• Chasing versus attracting, and what it means to be rather than do

• Empathy without acceptance: caring about someone and keeping your boundary

• Rest, grief, and choosing yourself

• Staying open to love without waiting to be perfect

Content note: This conversation includes themes of divorce and childhood abuse.

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After losing her husband to violence, Monica Horton moved to Atlanta with a purpose: to work on herself. Seventeen

years later, she joins Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson for an honest, tender conversation about what healing has really looked

like.

In this episode:

• Why familiar isn’t the same as healthy

• Growing up around addiction and watching her mother’s strength

• The decision to fight for herself and for her children

• Getting to know Christ again first, then meeting herself all over again

• Why being “quick to love” isn’t the same as healing

• What it means to become your own peace

This episode includes discussion of loss, addiction, and depression.

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Loving a good partner doesn’t mean losing yourself. Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson sits down with Zyria Brown, a mom of three, to talk about the patterns we carry from past relationships, the “yes woman” habit, and how to protect your peace in a house full of love.

In this episode:

• Why it helps to look at your past, even when your present relationship is good

• How moving quickly in love can keep you from really knowing someone

• How saying yes to everyone else can leave you running on empty

• A simple three-part conversation for asking your partner for space: affirm, share how you feel, invite their input

• Why setting boundaries isn’t selfish, it’s necessary

Content note: This episode includes discussion of past domestic abuse and stalking. If you or someone you know is

affected by domestic violence, the National Domestic Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or

thehotline.org.

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"Your children don’t need a perfect past, y’all. They need a mother who models herself today with self-love." (Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson)

Former professional basketball player, mother of three, and woman of faith Kat Harrison joins Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson for an honest, tender conversation about leaving an abusive relationship, releasing the guilt that followed, and asking a question many mothers forget to ask: What does Kat do for Kat?

In this episode:

• Why looking for potential in a partner isn’t a flaw

• What it takes to leave

• Anxious attachment, worthiness, and the "kids first" story

• Why you can’t rewrite yesterday by overfunctioning today

• The power of buying yourself the flowers

• Golf, joy, and the peace of doing something just for you

Key moments:

05:37 Not a flaw: doing your best with what you knew

13:14 The decision to leave

18:10 What does Kat do for Kat?

23:05 Making a new choice

23:47 The flowers moment

27:59 Golf and pure, unmasked joy

29:33 Dr. Stacii’s takeaway

This episode includes a discussion of domestic abuse. If you or someone you know needs support, the National Domestic

Violence Hotline is available 24/7 at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE), by texting START to 88788, or at thehotline.org.

Watch the full video conversation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/c-AldZJJnjE

What would you be willing to lose to have everything you believe God has called you to? For Patrice Washington, that one question — asked by a coach as she approached 40 — brought a truth to the surface she’d been carrying for years. In this honest, tender conversation with Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson,

Patrice opens up about the end of her marriage of more than 15 years, why so many accomplished women try to love someone into change, the vows she wrote to herself, and why she’s embracing a season of being single by choice.

It’s real, it’s full of sisterly love — and yes, Dr. Stacii lovingly pushes back.

In this episode:

• The question that stopped Patrice in her tracks

• “Nothing changed about him. I just learned to love myself more.”

• Why it’s not always low self-esteem that keeps us staying

• Why alignment takes more than feelings

• Living from option, not obligation

• Choosing yourself after 30 years of centering relationships

• Watching the next generation let her yes be her yes

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Can a woman fully love her family without abandoning the parts of herself that make her feel alive?

In this deeply honest episode of A Different Kinda Woman, Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson sits down with dancer, choreographer, Pilates instructor, and mother Kristen Mychelle for a vulnerable conversation about postpartum depression, anxiety, mom guilt, identity, and the emotional cost of pursuing joy.

Kristen shares how becoming a mother to twins changed her life in ways she never expected. After struggling with severe postpartum depression and anxiety, she fought her way back to herself and eventually returned to the career she loved. Going on tour made her feel alive again, but when she came home and saw how deeply her absence had affected her young son, that joy quickly became guilt.

She began to question whether being a devoted mother and a fulfilled woman could truly coexist.

Together, Dr. Stacii and Kristen unpack the pressure women feel to choose between family and purpose, the danger of allowing our wounded inner child to make grown-woman decisions, and why loving your children should not require burying the gifts God placed inside you.

In this episode, they explore:

• Kristen’s experience with postpartum depression and anxiety

• The pressure to become the “perfect” mother

• Why pursuing joy can trigger guilt in women

• The struggle to balance motherhood, partnership, and career

• How childhood wounds can influence adult decisions

• The difference between loving your family and abandoning yourself

• Creating a new vision for your life instead of living by outdated expectations

• Finding your way back to your purpose, passion, and authentic self

This conversation is for every woman who has ever felt guilty for wanting more, felt pressured to shrink for the people she loves, or wondered whether choosing herself meant failing her family. You do not have to choose between being a loving mother and a thriving woman. Your family can matter deeply, and so can you.

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Jai Vaughn is a Billboard-charting artist, producer, and branding executive who has helped build platforms for some of the biggest names in ministry and media. But behind the accolades was a 20-year marriage that started with a wedding night she wasn't prepared for and ended with a divorce that took seven months — followed by her ex-husband's remarriage within weeks.

In this conversation, Jai opens up about marrying young at her father's urging, falling in love with who her husband could become instead of who he was, and the moment she realized their shared identity in ministry had quietly become a third partner in their marriage. She talks candidly about purity culture's silence around sex, the dreams and visions that first revealed his infidelity, and the small, radical act of self-love that finally brought her back to herself.

This is a conversation about accountability without self-blame, about loving someone's potential without losing yourself in it, and about what it looks like to finally build a life — down to the color of your bed — for no one but you.

Janean Armstrong has spent 28 years in the financial industry, rising from branch manager to C-suite executive overseeing multi-billion-dollar portfolios.

In this episode she tells host Dr. Stacii Jae Johnson the story that inspired her book — a close friend, married to a doctor for 28 years, who discovered she had no bank account, no credit card, and no financial access in her own name. Janean turns that story into a bigger conversation about money, self-worth, and why so many women stay silent about finances even with their closest friends. She also gets honest about her own first marriage, which she admits she entered only to “check a box,” and the very different, financially transparent marriage she built the second time around — including the framework she now teaches: the financial date night.

Dr. Stacii sits down with her cousin, Ambassador Dr. Sharron J. Brown, a survivor of molestation, human trafficking, and incarceration who is now an international ambassador, school founder, and best-selling author of I Found My Voice. Sharron walks through the exact turning points that led her to keep choosing differently, one decision at a time, until she built a different life. The conversation closes with how she recognized real love only after she had already started healing herself.