In this heartfelt episode of Loud Whisper, I sit down with Dr. Dean Graves to explore the journey of healing from trauma, overcoming past pain, and learning to move forward with purpose.

Dr. Graves shares deep insights on how our experiences — no matter how painful — can shape us into stronger, more compassionate individuals. Together, we uncover the steps toward emotional healing, self-discovery, and freedom from the past.

If you’ve ever struggled to rise above your experiences, this conversation will remind you that healing is possible, and growth is within reach.
 Listen, reflect, and rediscover your strength.

#LoudWhisper #Podcast #HealingJourney #DrDeanGraves #EmotionalHealing #TraumaRecovery #MentalHealth #PersonalGrowth

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

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What happens when you stop chasing expectations and start living from your inner knowing?

In this episode, I sit down with Lynn M. Bunch—founder, coach, and visionary behind LynnMBunch.com to explore how tuning into your intuition transforms not only the way you lead but the way you live.

Lynn shares her powerful journey of guiding leaders, teams, and individuals to align with purpose, trust their instincts, and create meaningful impact. Together, we dive into:

• How to listen to the quiet voice of your intuition.
• Why leadership begins with self-trust.
• Practical tools to shift from fear into alignment.

This is a conversation about courage, authenticity, and the freedom that comes when you reconnect with your voice.

Take a deep breath, lean in, and let’s step into the power of living intuitively.

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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What if your pain wasn’t a problem to fix—but a part of your story that deserves to be heard?

In this deeply healing and soul-stirring episode, I sit down with licensed mental health therapist and shame resilience expert Kira Wackett for a raw, honest, and much-needed conversation. Together, we pull back the curtain on what “mental health” really means beyond the buzzwords—and how shame silently shapes the way we perform, overfunction, and abandon ourselves just to be seen as "enough."

We explore:

What shame actually is and how it shows up in high-achieving women
  Why your need to "fix yourself" may be blocking your healing
The difference between doing and being—and how hustle culture feeds our disconnection
  How radical acceptance can become your most powerful tool for peace, presence, and purpose
The real cost of editing who you are just to belong

This episode is your permission slip to pause, reflect, and begin again—from a place of wholeness.

✨ You don’t need to be fixed. You need to be seen. Heard. Held.

Press play and let this conversation remind you: You are not alone, you are not broken, and you are always worthy of coming home to yourself.

🧠 Connect with Kira Wackett and explore her work at Adversity Rising
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The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

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Where it all began the story behind the healing space that found me first. In 2021, I sat down with the luminous Debbie Brimble of Inner Brilliance Academy for a conversation that touched places in me I hadn't yet named. It was raw. Tender. Unfiltered. So much so, that I never released it.

At the time, I didn’t fully understand why. Maybe I wasn’t ready to be that honest. Maybe I was still finding the courage to let my own voice take up space.

But recently, I stumbled upon the recording—and when I pressed play, I wept.

This wasn’t just an interview. It was a sacred mirror. A reflection of a woman on the edge of transformation. In this rare role reversal, Debbie interviews me—and what unfolds is the untold story of Loud Whisper… where it came from, the ancestral truth it carries, and how I realized I had been living my life on mute.

I speak openly about survival, about growing up among fierce women who didn’t have a voice—and how I unknowingly inherited that silence. I share how, on the brink of turning 40, I found myself wide awake at 3AM, deeply unfulfilled, and asking, “Is this all there is?”

This conversation is more than a look back. It’s a reclamation. A reminder that healing is never on a timeline—it unfolds when your soul says, Now.

So here it is. Finally.

An offering from my heart to yours.
 May it meet you exactly where you are.

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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This one… Whew. It’s not just a conversation—it’s a mirror, a movement, and a moment of truth. 

On this episode of the Loud Whisper Podcast, I sit down with the incredible Sabrina Victoria—a woman whose story is not just one of survival, but of radical self-belief, bold reinvention, and soul-level healing.

From escaping abuse, to rebuilding her life, to creating a global movement for women—Sabrina shares what it really takes to rewrite your story from victim to visionary. 💫

We talk about:
 Breaking cycles of victimhood
 Finding strength in your story
 The fear (and freedom) of letting go
 Reclaiming your voice, your brilliance, and your power

This episode is for the woman who's tired of shrinking, tired of pretending she's okay, and ready to rise—one step at a time.

🎧 Press play.
 Let it stir your soul.
 Let it remind you: You are your own rescue.
 You are the whisper that becomes the roar. 💥

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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EPISODE
 In this powerful and heart-opening episode, I sit down with Women's Health Nurse Practitioner and Midlife Wellness Advocate, Yewande Banire, for a much-needed conversation on the silent journey all women face from perimenopause to menopause and the deeper layers often left unspoken, especially for Black and Brown women.

We shed light on the quiet suffering, confusion, and shame many women endure during this natural transition, and we name what too often goes unnamed: Black women are not being seen, heard, or prioritized in conversations around their health.

Despite the medical advancements and resources available, only 4% of women in the U.S. are receiving proper hormone therapy. What does this mean for women in underserved communities and women across the African diaspora where education, resources, and cultural permission to speak are even more limited?

Together, we dive into:

• The stigma, silence, and shame around menopause and sexual wellness
• Why so many women feel alone during this transition
• The systemic neglect of Black women in clinical research and care
• The emotional, physical, and cultural barriers to healing
• How we begin to reclaim our bodies, our stories, and our sacred cycles

Yewande shares her mission to educate and empower women especially women of color to understand their changing bodies, advocate for their well-being, and speak their truth without fear.

This episode is more than a dialogue it’s a healing declaration. For every woman who's been told to stay quiet. For every woman who feels unseen. For every woman finally ready to come home to herself.

We see you. We hear you. And your healing matters.

Press play, and let the healing begin.

#LoudWhisperPodcast #MidlifeWellness #BlackWomensHealthMatters #MenopauseAwareness #ReclaimYourBody #WomensHealth #PerimenopauseSupport #YewandeBanire #IsabelDraughon #ComeHomeToYourself #SpeakLoudLiveFree

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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In this episode of Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice, host Isabel Draughon talks  with Lissa Appiah. Lissa is a Certified Career Strategist, Certified Organizational Coach, Personal Branding Consultant, and the Founder of WeApply. She helps quiet leaders and their teams uncover their unique strengths and win at work while staying true to themselves.

Corporate leaders work with Lissa to deliver career and leadership workshops and training that boost engagement and retain talent. Career changers and promotion seekers choose Lissa to find their voice and stand out for opportunities. She has helped thousands secure roles with Fortune 500 companies and various government levels in Canada and the U.S. 

Recognized as a LinkedIn Top Voice of 2024, one of Canada's Top 100 Black Women to Watch in 2022 and a Semi-Finalist of Total Mom Pitch 2023, her insights have been featured in the Globe and Mail, LinkedIn News, Fortune, CTV News, and Rogers TV. She has a Master’s in Public Administration from Carleton University and a Bachelor’s in Public Administration and Sociology from the University of Ottawa.

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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In this episode of Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice, host Isabel Draughon sits down with Mark Dallimore. Mark is a well-being coach who helps conscious professionals and entrepreneurs unlock a life of inner harmony and purpose. His approach centers on guiding clients to shift from the overactive thinking mind to a deeper connection with the body’s intuitive wisdom. From this grounded awareness, we can transform our inner world and create a reality that reflects the passion and abundance we truly desire.

Mark teaches simple yet powerful energetic practices that seamlessly fit into even the busiest schedules, helping his clients experience lasting balance in their work and relationships.

Mark's own journey began in 2012 after a successful but unfulfilling career in advertising. The disconnection he felt led to years of personal challenges, mental health struggles, and a deep search for meaning. Along the way, he explored modalities like Buddhism, shamanism, and energetics with some of the most respected healers, monks and teachers in the world. Through this process, Mark discovered the practices that now form the foundation of the way he helps people today. And over the past 5 years, Mark has helped hundreds of clients realign with their purpose and create thriving, abundant lives.

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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In this episode of Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice, host Isabel Draughon sits down with Nichole Lee. Nichole is an internationally recognized Certified Trauma-Informed Somatic Life Coach, Spiritual Strategist, Multidisciplinary Healer, Intuitive Guide, Well-Being Educator, Speaker, Retreat Leader and Podcast Host.

Nichole guides women of color in creating more authentic and fulfilling lives by rediscovering who they are, healing emotional wounds, and cultivating more freedom, fulfillment and joy. Her specializations include Life Transition Navigation, Identity Rediscovery, and Loss & Grief Recovery. With expertise spanning across spirituality, positive psychology, neuroscience, energy healing, meditation & mindfulness, health & well-being, trauma-informed care, and 20 years prior experience in global business management consulting, Nichole offers a holistic approach to achieving change and transformation.

Nichole discusses with Isabel her journey and perspective on grief and the connection between grief and transformation. She addresses how grief can serve as a catalyst for personal transformation, what the biggest misconceptions about grief are that keep people stuck, and how grief can be about more than just death.

As you tune into this chapter of the Loud Whisper Podcast, remember that your experience is uniquely yours. There's no right or wrong way to navigate this landscape, no prescribed timeline for healing. Allow yourself the space to mourn, to remember, and to find your own path forward. May the whispers of shared experiences, expert insights, and personal reflections we've explored offer you a flicker of comfort and a reminder that, even in the depths of grief, you are not alone.

The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

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In this deeply transformative episode of Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice, host Isabel Draughon sits down with the incredible Zelma Pierce-Chamberlain, MTD, a retired educator and meditation guide, for an inspiring conversation that will leave you feeling empowered and uplifted. Zelma shares her journey of healing and resilience, emphasizing the sacred practice of listening to the divine within. With meditation as a guiding force in her life, she discusses how it helped her navigate challenges with grace and intention, and invites you to embrace the power of stillness and connection to the divine.

Through practical tips and powerful insights, Zelma teaches us that meditation is not about time—it's about purpose. She guides us on how to start our day with gratitude, set the tone for peace, and step into life with intentionality. This episode also includes a special S.O.S. meditation practice, offering a simple yet profound technique to quiet the mind, open the heart, and reconnect with our true selves. Whether you’re new to meditation or looking to deepen your practice, this conversation will help you embrace each day with clarity and purpose.

Together, Isabel and Zelma explore the importance of spiritual alignment, moving from a reactive life to one of intentionality. They reflect on how embracing our inner wisdom can shift not only our inner world but the people and opportunities drawn to us. In the midst of life’s chaos, Zelma shares the value of solitude, setting boundaries, and cultivating a space for true healing, reminding us that when we stop resisting and start embracing, the universe responds.

This episode is not just about meditation—it’s a call to trust the process, face life’s struggles with courage, and move forward with faith. Tune in for a conversation filled with inspiration, deep reflections, and a powerful reminder to reconnect with the peace and wisdom that lies within.

Connect with  Zelma Pierce Chamberlain:

Website: https://www.sos.org/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/science.of.spirituality/ 

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/SOS.Global/ 

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SantRajinderSingh 

Find out more about the Divine Beauty Women's Retreat: https://www.sos.org/programs/women-retreat-divine-beauty 

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The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth.

✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:
Website: www.isabeldraughon.com

Instagram: @isabel_draughon

LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon

If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.