Djabu Balde grew up in Guinea-Bissau surrounded by very little materially, but she remembers much of her early childhood as happy. Her life would eventually take her across countries, cultures, and families, from the mother who loved her from afar to the woman in Spain who later chose to give her another home. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Djabu reflects on the childhood experience that profoundly changed how she understood her body and safety, and the years it took to understand that what happened was never something she caused.

She also shares the story of leaving Guinea-Bissau for Spain, being separated from her biological mother, struggling inside a new family environment, and eventually finding another mother in Loli, a woman who stepped forward when Djabu needed somewhere safe to belong.

Topics covered:

• Growing Up in Guinea-Bissau

• The Childhood Experience That Changed Her

• Understanding Her Mother’s Choices Differently

• Leaving Home for Spain

• Growing Up Between Two Countries

• Being Separated From Her Mother

• The Woman Who Chose to Give Her a Home

• Finding Safety With Loli

• Building a Different Future for Her Son

• Returning to Her Childhood Village

• Writing Entre dos madres

• Why She Chose to Tell Her Story Now

One of the most important shifts in Djabu’s story came when she finally understood her biological mother’s experience differently. What she had once interpreted as abandonment or failure gradually became something more complicated: a mother living inside cultural and social pressures while still trying to create another future for her daughter.

Later, Loli became the second mother at the center of Djabu’s life. When Djabu’s home situation in Spain became untenable, Loli chose to take responsibility for her rather than allow her to enter residential care. Djabu describes that moment as being chosen and given another chance.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

Djabu Balde’s Story: Two Mothers, Two Worlds and Finding Belonging #womensstories #reallifestories #identityandbelonging

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Elisabetta Caraccia shared nearly two decades of life, family, travel, creativity, and parenthood with actor Ray Stevenson. Together they raised three sons, made Ibiza their home, and built a life shaped by adventure, family, and the freedom to choose what mattered most to them. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Elisabetta reflects on the life she and Ray created, the unexpected day in May 2023 that changed their family, and what it meant to suddenly become the parent responsible for helping three boys understand a future none of them had imagined.

She speaks about motherhood, love, family, memory, spirituality, and the ways Ray continues to have a place in their everyday lives. Elisabetta also shares how each of their sons responded differently, what she learned about allowing emotions to move through her, and why she believes a relationship can continue to shape a family even when its physical form changes.

Topics covered:

• Elisabetta’s Life Before Ray

• How She Met Ray Stevenson

• Building a Family Together

• Why Ibiza Became Home

• Ray as a Father

• The New Chapter They Thought Was Beginning

• The Day Everything Changed

• Helping Their Three Sons Understand What Happened

• Keeping Papa Part of Everyday Family Life

• How Each Child Responded Differently

• Love, Memory and Continuing Connection

• What Elisabetta Believes About Life Beyond the Body

• Turning Personal Experience Into Creative Purpose

• Creating the Ray of Light Awards

• Why She Would Choose the Same Love Again

Elisabetta describes Ray as an exceptional father and says that looking back has made her appreciate even more deeply the life they created together. She speaks of their bond as something she continues to experience, while clearly presenting these spiritual ideas as her own beliefs and personal experience.

The Ray of Light Awards later became a way to carry forward the values Elisabetta associates with Ray: storytelling, humanity, connection, hope, and creative expression.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

Elisabetta Caraccia’s Love Story With Ray Stevenson: Family, Memory & Legacy #womensstories #reallifestories #familyandlove

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Hollie Stenson built a successful career in the film industry, working both in front of and behind the camera. From the outside, she had a life that looked capable, independent, and successful. But underneath that life were experiences she had learned to push aside rather than fully understand. In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Hollie reflects on her relationship with her father, career, health, family, loss, people-pleasing, and the period when the way she had always coped with difficult emotions suddenly stopped working. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

She shares how relying on alcohol gradually became a way to disconnect from experiences that felt overwhelming, and how shame, isolation, other people making decisions for her, and repeated attempts at recovery left her feeling increasingly disconnected from herself. Hollie says one of the biggest changes came when she began taking ownership of her own process and understanding what was happening rather than seeing herself as fundamentally broken.

Topics covered:

• Growing Up With an Extraordinary Father

• The Relationship That Shaped Her Childhood

• Building a Career in Film

• Receiving Life-Changing Health News

• The Experiences She Never Fully Processed

• When Her Usual Coping Strategies Stopped Working

• Why Shame Made Everything Harder

• Losing Control of Her Own Decisions

• What Traditional Recovery Models Felt Like to Her

• Learning to Understand Her Own Patterns

Hollie explains that learning about the psychology and biology behind her behavior helped remove some of the shame she had carried. She also speaks about therapy, education, boundaries, and building a different set of tools for the future.

Her story is not simply about what happened during three difficult years. It is about what those years forced her to understand about herself, and what changed when she finally began making decisions about her own life again.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

When Pushing Everything Down Stops Working #womensstories #reallifestories #emotionalresilience

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Victoria Price learned responsibility long before most children her age. Growing up in a home where life could feel unpredictable, she became the capable one, helped care for her younger siblings, and learned early how to keep things moving even when the adults around her were struggling. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

Then, at seventeen, Victoria became a mother. In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, she reflects on the judgment she experienced as a young mum, leaving school, becoming financially independent, building a career, and the determination that grew every time somebody underestimated what her future could become.

Victoria eventually rose to Partner at a Big Four professional services firm, one of the most senior positions in the industry. But she also speaks honestly about what that level of focus cost her, how motherhood shaped her ambition, and why success later became less about proving herself and more about the kind of leader and mother she wanted to be.

Topics covered:

• Growing Up With Responsibility Early

• Becoming the Capable One at Home

• Becoming a Mother at Seventeen

• Being Judged Before Her Life Had Even Begun

• Leaving School and Continuing Her Education

• Finding Women Who Supported Her

• Building Financial Independence

• “You’ve Ruined Your Life”

• Using Other People’s Doubt as Motivation

• Motherhood and Ambition

• The Cost of Being Constantly Driven

• Experiencing Mum Guilt for the First Time

• Leaving Professional Services

• Building Emello and Starting Again

Victoria says becoming a mother gave her an immediate sense of responsibility and purpose. She set goals around education, financial independence, housing, and creating a different future for her son, rather than letting other people’s expectations determine what happened next.

Later, reaching senior leadership changed her understanding of success again. A mentor helped her see that leadership was no longer simply about her own promotion or achievement, but about the standards she created for everyone around her. Today, Victoria is the founder of Emello, bringing her business experience into a much more creative chapter of her life.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

They Thought They Knew How Her Life Would Turn Out #womensstories #reallifestories #motherhood

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Episode launch Tuesday 5th May 3PM CET

She was seventeen and pregnant when someone said out loud what she thought everyone was thinking."You've ruined your life, then, haven't you?"That's where Victoria Price's story takes its turn.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Victoria sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about a childhood spent walking through her own front door not knowing what she'd be met with. About a mother who struggled with mental challenges for as long as Victoria can remember. About the day at four years old when her earliest memory was made and it wasn't a happy one. About becoming a carer to her younger siblings and a housewife to her own father, long before she should have been. About a mother who eventually left, disappeared for years, and never really came back. And then about everything that came after.Victoria Price is one of a handful of people on the planet to ever reach Partner at one of the world's Big Four accounting firms. She is a leader, an entrepreneur, and the founder of her own fashion brand Emello — a woman who became a mother before she became herself, and built one of the most senior careers in global finance with a child on her hip ( later 3).But behind the title is a woman who has been underestimated her whole life and used every word of it as fuel.Victoria speaks about the silent rule of her childhood — don't talk about it. About the relief no one is supposed to admit when a difficult parent leaves. About the day she told her dad she was pregnant, and the first words he said to her. About the antenatal class where the other mums turned up in Range Rovers and she walked. About the job she turned down because it would have solved a today problem. About the mentor who pointed at a door and changed how she leads, forever. About mum guilt for the first time in her life. About forgiving her mother and what that actually looks like.— — —Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series exploring the inner lives of women; what they've survived, what they've become, and what they've never said out loud until now.Hosted by Asal Zara. Filmed in Ibiza, Spain.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.New episodes every Tuesday, 3PM CET.If this episode meant something to you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with the woman who needs it. And subscribing (it's free) is how we keep telling these stories.— — —FOLLOW VICTORIA PRICE & HER BRAND: EMELLO Emello: https://shorturl.at/33R7FLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-price-75224936/FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.comFOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766— — —#hersideofthestories #asalzara #victoriaprice #emello #teenagemum #teenagemom #womeninbusiness #womenleaders #singlemother #motherhoodjourney #womensstories #realstories #bigfour #breakingthecycle #generationaltrauma #postnataldepression #healingjourney

Anna Janssen has lived a life shaped by childhood, love, sudden loss, motherhood, relationships, travel, forgiveness, and starting again. In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, she looks back on the moments that changed her and the choices that shaped the woman she became. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

Anna reflects on growing up in the Netherlands, leaving home young, traveling across the world, falling deeply in love, experiencing unexpected loss, raising her children, and facing moments that brought parts of her own past back into focus. She also shares how her understanding of forgiveness changed over time and why becoming softer became an important part of her life.

Topics covered:

• Anna’s childhood and family life

• Leaving home and becoming independent

• How early experiences affected later relationships

• Love and sudden loss

• Building a new life through travel

• Motherhood and protecting her children

• Anger, trust, and forgiveness

• Finding strength during difficult moments

• Learning to let go without forgetting

• How Anna became softer with age

• Turning life experience into meaningful work

• Who Anna believes she is today

Anna’s story is about what stays with us, what changes with time, and how a lifetime of experiences shapes who we become.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

Anna Janssen’s Life Story: Childhood, Love, Loss & Finding Yourself Again #womensstories #reallifestories #personalgrowth

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#trauma #healing #grief

Attacked at 12… Then Her Daughter Faced the Same | A Story of Trauma, Survival & Foregiveness | Her Side of the Stories

She was just 12 years old when something happened that changed everything.

In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Anna Janssen shares a life shaped by trauma, loss, and resilience — from surviving a violent attack as a child, to losing the man she loved in a sudden accident, to facing the unimaginable again when her own daughter went through something similar.

This is not just a story about what happened.

It’s about what stays.

What changes you.

And what it takes to keep going anyway.

Anna speaks openly about trauma in the body, grief, forgiveness, relationships, and the long journey back to strength.

In this episode:

▪ What happens in the mind and body during trauma 

▪ The long-term impact of early trauma on relationships  

▪ Losing a partner suddenly and the shock that follows 

▪ How grief evolves over time  

▪ What it means to forgive — and why it’s not what you think  

▪ Facing trauma again through her daughter  

▪ How to support a child through something unimaginable 

▪ Turning pain into strength and purpose  

This is Her Side of the Stories.

New episode every Tuesday, 3PM CET.

00:00 Introduction  

01:00 A happy childhood before everything changed 

04:40 “At 12… something happened”  

05:30 The moment that changed her life  

09:00 Telling her mother  

12:00 How trauma affected her relationships  

14:00 The things that never leave you  

17:00 Learning about forgiveness  

18:30 Seeing him again years later  

21:00 The guilt and confusion after trauma  

24:00 Reclaiming control  

28:30 Leaving home and searching for freedom  

30:30 Falling in love in the United States  

31:00 The phone call that changed everything  

34:00 “I just ran” — the moment of loss  

36:00 Living with grief  

38:00 Love, fear, and avoiding pain  

40:30 Losing another partner  

41:00 Anger after loss  

44:30 Starting again with children  

45:00 When history repeated itself  

47:00 Finding her daughter after the attack  

49:30 How she responded in that moment  

51:00 Supporting her children through trauma  

53:00 “You’re the only one there”  

55:00 The long-term impact on her daughter  

57:00 Healing differently  

58:30 Turning pain into purpose  

01:00:00 Understanding forgiveness  

01:01:30 Why forgiveness is for yourself  

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#trauma #healing #grief #childhoodtrauma #traumarecovery #mentalhealth #emotionalhealing #healingjourney #resilience #womensstories #lifetrauma #overcomingtrauma #personaldevelopment #realstories #hersideofthestories #traumastory #griefjourney #innerhealing #survivorstories #selfhealing

Millions know Anouk Matton as MATTN, the Belgian DJ who has performed on some of the world’s biggest stages and built an international career in electronic music. But behind the energy, music, travel, and public image is a quieter side of her life that most people have never seen.

In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Anouk reflects on the experience in her early teens that changed the way she understood safety and control, the habits and thought patterns that followed, and what it has been like carrying those private struggles while building a very public career.

She also speaks about performing under pressure, the panic attack that changed the way she experienced flying, online criticism, being compared with her husband Dimitri Vegas, and the difference between the artist people see and the woman she is at home.

Topics covered:

• Growing Up in Belgium

• The Difference Between MATTN and Anouk

• The Experience That Changed Her at Thirteen

• Why Control Became So Important

• Living With Private Patterns for Years

• Performing While Managing What Nobody Could See

• The Moment Flying Suddenly Felt Different

• How Public Life Affects Her

• The Comments That Stay With Her

• Being Compared With Dimitri Vegas

• The Support She Finds in Her Relationship

• How Motherhood Changed Her Priorities

• Learning to Be More Present

• What She Would Tell Her Thirteen-Year-Old Self

• What She Wants Her Son to Remember

Anouk explains that motherhood shifted her center of gravity. London became her priority, and she found herself becoming more organized, more present, and more focused on small everyday moments rather than constantly living inside the pace of her career.

She also reflects on how difficult public criticism can be. Even after receiving many positive comments, she says the few negative ones are often the ones that stay with her at night. Her story is about what success looks like from the outside, and what a person may still be carrying underneath it.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

The Woman Behind MATTN #womensstories #anoukmatton #womensexperiences

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Kelly Weekers has lived several versions of what success can look like. She became Miss Netherlands, worked internationally as a model, studied psychology, built a career of her own, became a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and mother, and created a life that many people would describe as a dream. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

But one question followed her through much of that journey: Am I actually worthy? In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Kelly reflects on ambition, self-worth, modeling, relationships, friendship, motherhood, public judgment, and the difference between creating an impressive life and creating one that genuinely fits who you are.

Kelly shares why modeling quickly began to feel like someone else’s dream, the casting that finally made her walk away, and why returning to psychology felt like returning to herself. She also reflects on dating John Ewbank, being judged for their relationship, changing friendships, people-pleasing, boundaries, and the years she spent trying to prove that her achievements belonged to her.

Topics covered:

• Where Kelly’s Ambition Came From

• Living Someone Else’s Dream

• Becoming Miss Netherlands

• Why She Walked Away From Modeling

• Learning What Actually Made Her Happy

• Self-Worth and the Need to Achieve

• Meeting John Ewbank

• The Question Behind Her Ambition

• When She Stopped Needing to Prove Herself

• Motherhood and Changing Priorities

• Moving to Ibiza

• Building a Bigger Life on Her Own Terms

• What She Wants Her Daughters to Remember

Kelly says that for a long time her ambition was partly driven by not feeling good enough. Goals became a way to gain approval and prove people wrong. Today, she describes herself as still deeply ambitious, but says the motivation has changed: she works and creates because it genuinely fulfills her, rather than because she needs somebody else to validate it.

Kelly’s story asks a question many successful women eventually face: Are you building the life you want, or the life you learned to want?

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

Kelly Weekers’ Story: Success, Self-Worth & Choosing Your Own Path #womensstories #personalgrowth #selfworth

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For decades, actress La Georgea built a successful career and a life that appeared complete from the outside. But since childhood, she says she carried a deeply personal understanding of herself that she didn't feel able to express openly. Please visit our website for more information: http://www.hersideofthestories.com

Growing up between Belgium and Austria in a deeply conservative Catholic family, Georgea learned early how to adapt to the expectations around her. Over time, she built a public identity, an acting career, relationships, and even different versions of herself that allowed her to keep moving forward while an important part of who she was remained private.

In this intimate conversation with Asal Zara, Georgea reflects on identity, shame, love, marriage, belonging, career, and what happened when she finally told her longtime husband the truth she had carried for decades.

Topics covered:

• Growing Up Between Belgium and Austria

• Knowing Herself From an Early Age

• Family, Faith and Expectations

• Learning to Hide Parts of Herself

• Building a Successful Acting Career

• The Personas That Helped Her Express Herself

• Shame and the Pressure to Fit In

• Finding Language for Who She Was

• Telling the People Closest to Her

• The Conversation With Her Husband

• The Story Behind elle/elle

• What Freedom Feels Like Now

Georgea describes the morning after telling her husband as one of the lightest moments she had ever experienced. She remembers waking up feeling as though an enormous weight had finally lifted, even though the difficult work of understanding what came next was only beginning. Georgea’s story is ultimately about what it costs to spend decades performing a version of yourself, and what can happen when that performance finally ends.

Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic long-form interview podcast exploring extraordinary women’s lives from the inside. Each episode explores the experiences, relationships, identities, turning points, and choices that shaped who they became.

Her Side of the Stories explores the inner lives behind the lives people see.

Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

La Georgea’s Story: Finding Freedom, Identity and Belonging #womensstories #identityandbelonging #femalevoices

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