Empower Hour with Lady J
Welcome to Empower Hour with Lady J (formerly The Jodi Watkins Show and originally Breaking Barriers Now).
This is where faith, leadership, healing, and intentional living come together through honest conversations and practical wisdom. Whether I'm sharing lessons from my own journey or sitting down with inspiring guests, every episode is designed to help you move forward with greater clarity, courage, and purpose.
What You'll Hear
• Honest conversations about leadership, resilience, faith, personal growth, and legacy
• Practical strategies you can apply in your everyday life
• Stories of overcoming adversity, rebuilding after setbacks, and choosing purpose over fear
• Thought-provoking discussions with leaders, entrepreneurs, veterans, authors, and everyday people creating meaningful impact
Some episodes feature special guests. Others are conversations directly from me, sharing insights, experiences, and lessons I'm learning along the way.
Why Listen?
If you're navigating change, rebuilding after disappointment, growing as a leader, or simply striving to become more intentional in the way you live and lead, you're in the right place.
This isn't about perfection.
It's about progress, personal responsibility, and choosing every day to become the person you're called to be.
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Empower Hour with Lady J
Rewrite Your Narrative
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Today, my guest is the amazing Stacey Vanthuyn, who I now call "Stacey V."
Stacey helps others "Raise Their Results" using her experience and what she has learned from her own mentors along the way. Stacey's tagline is "Ignite Your Desire, Amplify Your Life."
She and I talk about her four pillars to overcoming limiting beliefs. These pillars are:
1) Vision
2) Vibration
3) Vulnerability
4) Victor versus Victim
These four pillars are so important to break through our barriers. If we continue to play the same song over and over, nothing will change. However, when we add in a new tune, we can embark on a new course.
One of the things that separate those of us doing what we love versus those not is the willingness to take risks. We are taught to do well in school, go to college, and get a job. But what if there is more to life? What if that job doesn't have you operating in your calling? This is when we begin to get uneasy. We don't look forward to going to work. We look forward to the weekends. We try to numb our lives with alcohol, drugs, or [insert toxic habit here]. I have been there and so has Stacey. We begin to just operate. We don't enjoy life. We just do what we have to do in order to get by. We become robots in life. We conform to society because that's what everyone wants us to do. We try to fit in and please everyone. However, we aren't meant for any of that. We have this internal makeup that allows us to be different. We need to be able to operate in those differences or else we become miserable.
The conversation with Stacey is one that I am truly grateful for. I hope the insight in this show (even with the technology hiccups) has the ability to open the eyes of some people out there who want to learn how to begin the journey of amplifying, or reclaiming as I say, their lives. The first step is being open to working with someone who can help you. We have all had to do it. No successful person has become successful without being open to coaching and accountability. If you find someone, let me know. We need to have people around us who help us become aware of some things that may be holding us back. We also have to be willing to be uncomfortable and take risks. This is the pathway to true growth.
In order to connect with Stacey, go to her website at www.raiseyourawareness.com.
She is ready to hear from you!
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You are also encouraged to subscribe to this Breaking Barriers Now YouTube channel. You can find out more about the host, Jodi Watkins, and the links to her channels, including this one, at https://linktr.ee/jodiwatkins.
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Stay blessed and remember not to quit!
Welcome to Empower Hour with Lady J hosted by Jodi Marie. Through life's ups and downs, we have one choice: make excuses and quit, or shift, figure it out, and keep going. It's really that simple. What we choose is what matters. I choose to keep going.
Thank you all for being a part of this mission!
Please share the podcast with everyone you know. If you are interested in sponsoring or appearing as a guest, please contact Jodi through her website at www.ladyjempowers.com, and don't forget to join our email list for weekly newsletters and announcements.
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