Break Phree Podcast

She married the same man twice—only to later watch him marry someone who was once her best friend.

In this deeply honest episode of Break Phree, Adrianne Michelle Spain opens up about heartbreak, betrayal, divorce, low self-esteem, and the painful choices she made while operating from broken places. She shares what it took to stop running from God, confront her own patterns, forgive what nearly destroyed her, and find the courage to start over in her late 40s and early 50s.

Adrianne also speaks candidly about once rejecting her son because he is part of the LGBTQIA+ community. After returning to Christ, she realized that while she was asking God to change her son, God was changing her heart. She learned how to stand on her faith while loving her child with grace, compassion, and without condemnation.

Her healing journey ultimately led her to write Girl, Breathe Again and create Girl, It’s Time to Heal for women silently carrying heartbreak, shame, rejection, betrayal, and unforgiveness.

This powerful conversation proves that starting over is not a punishment—it can be an invitation from God to heal, rediscover who you are, and finally breathe again.

In Part One, Derrick Smith revealed the choices and consequences that cost him 20 years of his life. Now, in Part Two, we meet DERRICK2.0—the man he became before the prison doors ever opened.

Derrick shares how a life-changing encounter with God forced him to confront the man he had been and intentionally rebuild himself from the inside out. While incarcerated, he earned his GED, graduated from Miami Dade College, built a government-contracting business, and created CDL-preparation and government-contracting programs to help other incarcerated men prepare for success.

But coming home after 20 years brought a new set of challenges. Derrick opens up about adjusting to freedom, facing rejection because of his record, and refusing to let his past disqualify him from his purpose.

Today, as The 2.0 Architect, Derrick helps others understand that transformation begins when you take responsibility for rebuilding your own life. His testimony proves that your environment does not determine your future—and sometimes you become free long before they release you.

Walk in purpose. On purpose.

The Power in Healing ft. Kortynie Canady

In this episode of Break Phree Podcast, Kortynie sits down and tells the truth — the version she used to hide. The heartbreak that broke her. The moment she stopped recognizing her own face in the mirror. The things she tolerated because starting over terrified her more than staying broken.

This isn’t a highlight reel. It’s the accountability, the anger at God, the forgiveness she didn’t want to give — to him, and to herself.

Kortynie turned her lowest moment into The Power in Healing and built TRUE TO K to help other women do the same. If you’re the one smiling for everybody else and falling apart the second you’re alone — this episode was made for you.

Watch until the end. She answers the question everyone’s afraid to ask themselves.

🎙️ Break Phree Podcast — Where Faith Meets Freedom

Before there was DERRICK2.0, there was Derrick Smith 1.0.

In Part One of this powerful Break Phree Podcast interview, Derrick takes us inside the life he lived before his transformation and the choices that ultimately led to him serving 20 years in prison.

He opens up about his conviction, the darkest moments of incarceration, the relationships he lost, and the painful reality of watching life continue without him. Derrick also shares the mental and spiritual battles he faced—and the moment he realized something within him had to change.

This is the story of Derrick 1.0: the choices, consequences, pain, and breaking point that prepared him to become the man now known as DERRICK2.0.

Part Two will reveal how Derrick rebuilt himself, discovered his purpose, and became The 2.0 Architect..

READY READY READY! From Church Rejection to Reaching Hundreds of Thousands. Ft. Pastor Candice Grace

Candice Grace’s journey is one of faith, rejection, restoration, obedience, and becoming the woman she was called to be.

One of ten children, Candice attended 24 different schools before the age of 17. By 18, she was already a mother, living on her own, working, and attending college. Raised as a pastor’s daughter, she knew the expectations that came with being a “good Christian woman”—but life didn’t unfold as neatly as she had been taught it should.

She experienced rejection from the church, navigated marriage and motherhood, and later went through a divorce she was afraid to talk about because of the expectations surrounding marriage and relationships in the church. Behind the fear of what people would think, Candice was also trying to figure out who she was when she wasn’t somebody’s wife, mother, minister, or the pastor’s daughter.

Then her life took an unexpected turn.

Candice felt called to minister online. She studied TikTok for a month before going LIVE—and what started with just 17 people grew to more than 400 in three days. On June 5, 2026, she went LIVE for 24 continuous hours of prayer, worship, encouragement, and ministry, with the platform showing her content to more than 624,000 people in real time.

But with influence came another conversation the church doesn’t always like to have: money.

Candice has built a successful platform through TikTok LIVE, opening up a powerful conversation about faith, influence, ministry, money, and whether Christians can prosper financially without compromising their calling. We also get into the difference between monetizing your gift and exploiting people’s faith.

Today, as the founder of Uplift LeadHERship, Candice is building something bigger than a social media following.

This conversation gets into church hurt, divorce, motherhood, faith, prophecy, money, visibility, success, sacrifice, and what happens when God takes you outside of the box people expected you to stay in.

She was once afraid of what people would think about her life.

Now hundreds of thousands of people are watching what God is doing with it.

🎙️ Break Phree Podcast — Where Faith Meets Freedom.

While other young people were hiding relationships, changing the way they talked, or terrified that being honest could cost them their family, Storm grew up with something many Black gay boys never experience:

Permission to exist exactly as he was.

His mother didn’t shame him. She didn’t make him feel like something was wrong with him. She looked at her son and asked the question before he could even say the words:

“When are you going to tell me that you’re gay?”

And that moment may have changed the trajectory of his entire life.

On this episode of Break Phree Podcast, Storm gets REAL about growing up gay in New Orleans, being a Black gay man in today’s world, and how having acceptance at home kept him from fighting some of the depression, secrecy, shame, and identity struggles that so many people silently carry.

But we go even deeper.

Storm talks about learning to do hair and makeup, finding his gift, navigating masculinity and sexuality, and what happens when the world has opinions about who you are—but you were never taught to hate yourself.

Some people spend half their lives trying to become free.

Storm had a mother who gave him permission to be free before the world could convince him he needed to hide.

🔥 This conversation is going to make some parents uncomfortable.

It’s going to make some people rethink what “acceptance” really looks like.

And it might make somebody realize that the way you respond when your child tells you who they are can stay with them for the rest of their life.

🎙️ STORM — on Break Phree Podcast

Where Faith Meets Freedom.

He Tried to Kill Me in Front of Our Son | From Broken to the Bank | Joi Hunt

“I never imagined the man I married would one day try to take my life.”

Behind the smiles and appearances was a decade of abuse, manipulation, and fear. Then everything changed when Joi Hunt says her husband tried to kill her in front of their son.

In this unforgettable episode of Break Phree Podcast, Joi shares the terrifying reality of surviving domestic violence, finding the courage to leave, and rebuilding her life from the ground up.

Today, she’s an attorney, entrepreneur, author of From Broken to the Bank, and she turned the chapter that nearly ended her life into the one that changed it forever.

This conversation exposes what abuse really looks like behind closed doors, the emotional scars survivors carry, and the incredible strength it takes to walk away when staying could cost you everything.

If you’ve ever wondered why someone stays, what it takes to finally leave, or how healing begins after unimaginable trauma, this episode offers an honest, unfiltered look at one woman’s fight to reclaim her life.

⚠️ Viewer discretion: This episode contains discussions of domestic violence, attempted homicide, and emotional abuse that may be difficult for some viewers.

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Behind every successful entrepreneur is a story most people never see.

Before Kim Perrymond built a million-dollar party planning empire, she was a little girl growing up in chaos, searching for stability, love, and safety. She survived a decade-long abusive relationship, walked away from a secure teaching career, and made one of the most difficult decisions a mother could ever face—sending her children to live with family while she fought to build a future she believed they all deserved.

Was it sacrifice or selfishness? Strength or survival?

In this raw and transparent conversation, Kim shares the untold truth behind her success, the emotional cost of chasing her dreams, and how healing from childhood trauma became the foundation for everything she has built. She opens up about overcoming abuse, breaking free from survival mode, rebuilding her confidence, navigating motherhood while pursuing entrepreneurship, and discovering that real success starts with healing.

This isn’t just a conversation about business. It’s about the courage to rewrite your story when your past says you never should.

If you’ve ever questioned your worth, wrestled with guilt, or wondered if your biggest setback could become your greatest breakthrough, this episode is for you.

When Nikell lost both of her parents, she believed the adults in her life would protect her.

A promise was made to her mother that she and her sister would be cared for. Instead, a decision was made that would expose Nikell to seven years of abuse at the hands of someone who should have never had access to her.

From losing her parents to losing her innocence, Nikell’s story is one of unimaginable pain, betrayal, survival, and ultimately healing.

In this powerful episode of Break Phree Podcast, Nikell shares her journey through childhood trauma, family betrayal, faith, forgiveness, and finding the courage to reclaim her voice.

This conversation is for every survivor who has ever wondered if healing is possible after the unthinkable.

Viewer discretion advised. This episode contains discussions of childhood sexual abuse.

The Pain That Refused to Let Me Go Ft. Vaneesah “Vee” Bahar

Grief doesn’t always begin with death.

Sometimes it begins with a prison sentence.

Sometimes it begins the moment you’re forced to leave your newborn baby behind.

Sometimes it comes through the loss of the people you love most.

In this unforgettable episode of Break Phree Podcast, Vaneesah Bahar shares the heartbreaking chapters that shaped her life. After losing her father at just five years old, she would later face another unimaginable loss—being sentenced to six years in prison only three weeks after giving birth, forcing her to leave her infant son behind.

But the pain didn’t stop there.

Within the years that followed, Vaneesah experienced the devastating deaths of her grandmother, mother, and brother. Each loss left another wound, yet instead of allowing grief to consume her, she chose to transform it into purpose.

Today, she is the founder of Grief Relief Angels and serves as a Violence Intervention Specialist, walking alongside families affected by violence, trauma, incarceration, and unimaginable loss. Her life is a testament that healing doesn’t mean your pain disappears—it means refusing to let your pain have the final word.

This conversation is raw, honest, and deeply human. It’s about motherhood, incarceration, loss, faith, forgiveness, resilience, and discovering purpose in the places you never expected.

If you’ve ever had to grieve a person, a dream, your freedom, lost time with your children, or the life you thought you were going to have, this episode will remind you that even when the pain refuses to let you go, God never lets go of you.