Badass Basic Bitch

Briona “Bri” Jenkins (she/her/hers) is a 31-year-old Black, queer woman changing the world while living in Austin, TX by empowering people to own their stories through vulnerability. 

Given the title, “The love child of Oprah, Beyonce, and Michelle Obama,” Briona Jenkins is a public speaker, activist for the LGBTQIA+, female, and people of color communities, and has years of experience using her platform to evoke change.

Originally from Hamden, Connecticut, Bri attended Albertus Magnus College, in New Haven, CT., which is where she completed her undergrad as a Sociology major with a concentration in Social Work.

Since October 2019, she hosts a podcast called The Tea with Bri where she sits and chats with a different guest every week about whatever topic the guest chooses. 

On December 4, 2019, she won the Austin LGBT Chamber of Commerce ‘Rising Star Award’.  Released in February 2020, she was the subject for a documentary entitled, “Uncomfortable Spaces”. In May 2021, she was awarded the Premier Achievement Award from her Alma Mater, Albertus Magnus College. 

When not at work Bri is very involved in the Austin community. She has served on a number of boards. In June 2021, she joined the board of Random Acts and is currently finishing out her second term as Co-Director of  New Leaders Council’s Austin Chapter Board, and has served on the boards of Keep Austin Fed, Austin Black Pride, and Lone Star Victims Advocacy Project. She also appears on panels and stages all over the city and has spoken at the 2020 Women’s March Rally in Austin, BossBabe’s Annual State of the Uterus event, Texas State Business Week, on a virtual SXSWEdu panel, and two GISH panels about Racial Equality & Justice. 

Lucy Werner is the founder of The Wern, a PR, brand strategy, and graphic design consultancy based in London. Lucy specializes in creating affordable DIY packages for small business owners. Lucy’s no run-of-the-mill PR pro. She’s such an expert in her field, she wrote the book on it—literally. Her two books, Brand Yourself and Hype Yourself have helped to educate thousands with no-nonsense insider tips and strategies aimed at empowering small businesses. 

Lucy also has taught hundreds of entrepreneurs through workshops and talks for Cass Business School, Courier magazine, Hatch Enterprise, UAL & UCL. 

Listen in to all her great tips!

Meet your Season Two Host, Brianna Dunbar. Brianna was born in New York and raised by a single mom of 5 kids. Through her struggles with self-worth and battling an eating disorder for almost two decades, Brianna found herself packing everything in her Honda Civic and moving 3,000 miles to California where she knew no one, to chase an entrepreneur dream. She found her passion, voice, and used her scrappiness and hardships to achieve something no one ever thought she could. Until she found herself in the middle of her own divorce leaving her a single mom of 3. Now, remarried, Brianna lives in Austin with her husband and three children, as she continues to build companies and empower women to see they are enough. 

All good things come to an end, or in this case a handoff.  Exactly a year ago, the Badass Basic Bitch podcast was created in Courtney's backyard with two women talking about an idea. That idea turned into hundreds of thousands of downloads and listeners. We've been so blessed and thankful for each one of you! 

Courtney is going to be focusing her time on her newly launched brands and Brianna will be pouring into the podcast and bringing it to the next level. Listen in to learn more!

Meet Laura Behnke, a TV sports reporter turned expectation-busting coach and women's empowerment advocate. Sounds like a mouthful but it's simple: she helps women embrace the realities of living a unique life on their own terms. 

Her story may be unique but her experience is all too familiar to so many women. She has not followed a traditional path. She never had a boyfriend until she met her husband at 35, got married at 38, started a company at 39, went through an IVF journey at 41, and is now expecting her first child! 

Join us as we dive in with "The Life Actually" podcast host and writer of the "Anti-Dating-Guide Dating Guide."

@laurabbehnke

As Salt-N-Pepa once said, "Let's talk about sex, baby. Let's talk about you and me.  Let's talk about all the good things. And the bad things that may be… Let's talk about sex. In today's episode, the Baddie B's are busting open the most common myths on sex. 

Danielle Canty is from the UK but living in LA, she is the Co-Founder and President of BossBabe, which has grown to have 3.5 Million followers. 
As co-founder and President at BossBabe, Danielle Canty has been the right-hand to the CEO in scaling the company from start-up to a multi-million dollar company in less than 2 years. Along the way, Danielle has developed industry-recognized thought leadership on creating, scaling and monetizing a brand.
Danielle has spoken at multiple conferences, is one of the hosts of The BossBabe Podcast, and is seen as a leader in the operational scaling of start-ups.
Danielle started her career as a chiropractor, quickly transitioning into a serial entrepreneur and becoming part of one of the fastest-growing multi-disciplinary primary healthcare companies in the UK. This background coupled with growing multiple product channels at BossBabe has lead Danielle to becoming a customer experience and lifetime value enthusiast.

Dr. Kate Balestrieri, Psy.D., CSAT-S, is a Licensed Psychologist (Clinical and Forensic)  in CA, FL, and IL. She is a Certified Sex Therapist, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist – Supervisor, and PACT II trained couples’ therapist. Dr. Balestrieri earned her Doctorate of Clinical Psychology from the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, and completed her Post-Doctoral Fellowship through the Northwestern University Feinberg  School of Medicine with a concentration in Forensic Psychology. In over 14 years of clinical experience, she has conducted clinical and forensic evaluations, provided expert witness testimony in court, and been a treatment provider in clinical, forensic, and correctional settings. 

The Founder of Modern Intimacy and Co-Founder of Triune Therapy Group, Dr.  Balestrieri is a passionate advocate for mental health, relational and sexual health and wellness. In her private practice, Dr. Balestrieri works with adults, individuals and couples, primarily around treating trauma, substance abuse, and addiction, intimacy disorders (sex/love addiction and sexual dysfunction), eating disorders and body image issues, bipolar disorder, Posttraumatic Stress disorder, depression, and anxiety. She also conducts comprehensive personality assessments, differential diagnosis evaluations, and screenings for the presence of alcohol/drug addiction, compulsive relationship behavior, and other psychosexual evaluations. 

Throughout her work, Dr. Balestrieri focuses on helping people build resilience and recovery from what ails them to move from a position of pain or discomfort to one of thriving, holistically in their lives. In that effort, Dr. Balestrieri works with individuals astutely to help mitigate anger management concerns, establish healthy boundaries,  build effective communication strategies, and improve relationship patterns.

Additionally, Dr. Balestrieri is also trained in alternative dispute resolution and is a  member of the American Psychological Association, American Psychology-Law Society,  Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, California Psychological Association,  the American Association for Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists, PACT  Institute, and the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals.

Dr. Tess Browne is a UK-based Chartered Clinical Psychologist, wellness enthusiast, closet creative, and blessed mama to two little boys. She is passionate about integrating her expertise in mental health with her own personal experiences as a human, to support women navigate the ups and downs of life. Dr. Browne specializes in helping women who have experienced trauma and maternal mental health issues. She is a huge advocate of proactive self-care and believes the better we care for and nurture ourselves every single day, the more psychologically resilient and able we are to overcome life's stresses and challenges when they inevitably come our way. Dr. Browne shares free evidence-based resources via her Instagram page @drtessbrowne and on her website www.drtessbrowne.com, including her popular Mom Guilt Manual - the essential guide to understanding, managing, and minimizing feelings of maternal guilt.

For some of us our moms are our other half, for others, you may not have that kind of relationship. Either way, our moms try to let us know the things we need to know in life. They tell us what we need to know to be successful. But what don’t they tell us? What are the things that our moms never told us? That is what we are diving into today.
If you are a mom, you probably understand these points we will be talking about. If you're not a mom, think about your mom and try and understand what it is like being in that role. Maybe you want to be a mom one day and maybe you don't, and that’s okay. But moms are superheroes, they are special because no matter what you are connected to her like no one else because of the fact that she carried you so close, and for so long!