The Courage Curve: Inspiring Stories of Women’s Resilience and Empowerment
The Courage Curve is a podcast for women featuring inspiring life stories that show what resilience really looks like in everyday life. Each episode shares stories of reinvention, breakthrough moments, and women’s empowerment that reveal how quiet courage turns pain into perspective, burnout into boundaries, and ambition into alignment. It is a space to name the invisible work of women who choose courage before clarity, rebuild their lives from the inside out, and dare to rewrite the scripts they were handed.
You’ll hear grounded conversations about career pivots, healing, family, community, and the subtle shifts that shape personal growth. If you’re looking for a podcast that blends inspiring life stories with real tools, follow The Courage Curve for resilience stories from everyday women and leaders.
This podcast helps answer questions like:
- What is the meaning of resilience in everyday life?
- How can I build resilience as a woman?
- What are inspiring life stories of women who reinvented themselves?
- What does women’s empowerment look like day to day?
- How do I set boundaries to prevent burnout?
- How do I find courage to make a career pivot?
- What small habits increase resilience over time?
About the Host
Parul Saini is a human centered leader with more than twenty years of experience in technology and digital transformation. She has led global IT organizations, guided large scale change, and partnered with executives to shape strategy and build systems that keep companies moving forward. Her work spans engineering, consulting, product development, and executive leadership at companies like Zuora, Splunk, and Uber.
Her career began far from the C-suite. Parul started at a call center helping customers fix their computers. That experience grounded her belief that empathy is the foundation of every great system and every great team, and it shaped the way she approaches leadership and complexity.
Parul has reinvented herself many times across continents, roles, and seasons of life. Each transition was quiet at first. A small truth. A sense of misalignment. A decision to move before she had all the answers. Those turning points became the inspiration for The Courage Curve, a podcast for women who feel they are standing close to a breakthrough and want to understand the deeper work happening within them.
The Courage Curve: Inspiring Stories of Women’s Resilience and Empowerment
002: Choosing Depth Over Visibility: Judy Juanita on Voice, Time, and Quiet Breakthroughs
Judy Juanita is a poet, novelist, playwright, professor, and lifelong cultural force. She grew up in Oakland during the civil rights era and became part of the original Black Panther Party, working behind the scenes as a journalist and editor at a time when women’s labor often went unseen.
This conversation moves through memory, activism, art, and aging with agency. Judy reflects on growing up in a deeply multicultural Oakland, the discipline and moral clarity passed down by her parents, and the early roots of her writing voice. She speaks openly about what it means to tell the truth without flinching, to work in the background while history remembers the front lines, and to keep choosing depth over speed.
Judy also shares the quieter turning points that shaped her life. Leaving the West Coast. Raising a family. Returning to writing later in life. Publishing her first book at 65. Finding her voice not through urgency, but through patience, study, and spiritual practice.
This episode is a reminder that breakthroughs don’t always come early. Or loudly. Sometimes they arrive after decades of invisible work.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your steady effort will amount to something lasting, this conversation will stay with you
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