Episodes

  • Closing the year _ Happy New Year 2026

    Closing the year _ Happy New Year 2026
    Dec 31 2025
    Emerge & Empower:

    Closing the Year with Gratitude and Vision As we close out this year of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, I want to say thank you. Thank you to every guest who trusted this platform with their story, and to every listener who leaned in, learned, healed, and grew with us. This year was filled with honest conversations, legacy moments, and meaningful dialogue.

    As we step into the New Year, we do so with clarity, purpose, and expectation. The work continues, the conversations deepen, and the invitation remains open. Here’s to emergence, empowerment, and what’s next. Happy New Year from Emerge & Empower Podcast TV. Dr. LinJ

    Connect with us: Emerge & Empower Podcast TV https://www.emergeandempowertv.com/ | WIWA – Women Inspiring Women Always https://www.mywiwa.org/ | Shemergence, Authorship, Publishing https://www.linjglobal.com/ | Guest and general inquiries emergeandempower@gmail.com

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
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    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    10 mins
  • Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | A Merry Christmas Conversation

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | A Merry Christmas Conversation
    Dec 24 2025
    In this special Merry Christmas episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, I spend time with my family and my glam babies, sharing a real and meaningful conversation on reconciliation.

    This episode is not a formal interview, it’s a moment. A Christmas scene filled with presence, reflection, and honest dialogue about what it means to pursue peace, protect healing, and love wisely within family.
    During this conversation, I reflect on:
    • Why reconciliation matters, especially during the holidays
    • When reconciliation is healthy and when boundaries are necessary
    • How peace can exist even when relationships are still healing
    • Why Christmas is a season of reflection, not pressure
    This episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe, and allow grace to guide your interactions, with others and with yourself.

    From my family to yours, Merry Christmas.
    Dr. LinJ

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
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    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    18 mins
  • Interview with Stacy | What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything?

    Interview with Stacy | What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything?
    Dec 17 2025
    What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything? Stacy Schaffer on Trauma, Play, and Healing

    In this powerful episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC, a Licensed Professional Counselor, childhood trauma survivor, and therapist with over 20 years of experience helping children, teens, and families navigate grief, trauma, and healing. Stacy brings a rare and deeply needed dual perspective: she is not only a clinician trained in trauma-informed care, Synergetic Play Therapy, and EMDR, she is also someone who has lived through childhood trauma herself. With honesty, wisdom, and compassion, Stacy explores how the childhood experiences we never talk about quietly shape our behaviors, relationships, parenting styles, and sense of safety well into adulthood. In this conversation, Dr. LinJ and Stacy discuss:
    • How unaddressed childhood trauma becomes generational
    • Why children communicate pain through behavior, not words
    • The healing power of play, presence, and emotional safety
    • The courage it takes to break family silence and tell the truth
    • Why therapists must do their own healing work to truly help others
    This episode is for parents, caregivers, educators, church leaders, counselors, and anyone who has ever wondered why certain wounds still surface years later. It is an invitation to look back with compassion, not blame, and to move forward with hope, healing, and intention.

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    46 mins
  • Interview with: The Deaf Queen Boss

    Interview with: The Deaf Queen Boss
    Dec 2 2025
    The Deaf Queen Boss

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | Hosted by Dr. LinJ

    In this powerful episode, we sit down with Kellina Powell, widely known as The Deaf Queen Boss, a trailblazing author, international speaker, and businesswoman who turned an unexpected childhood tragedy into a global mission of empowerment.

    At just four years old, a simple ear infection changed the entire course of Kellina’s life and left her completely deaf. But instead of allowing her diagnosis to define her, she rose above every barrier, every limitation, and every voice that told her what she couldn’t do.

    Today, Kellina uses her platform to teach the world what resilience really looks like. From overcoming isolation and communication challenges to building a thriving brand, she shares how she stepped boldly into her purpose, proving that being deaf was never her disadvantage, but her superpower.

    This episode is a masterclass in courage, mindset, and destiny.

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    59 mins
  • Interview with Denise Michelle: I Choose Me

    Interview with Denise Michelle: I Choose Me
    Dec 2 2025
    Denise Michelle: I Chose Me: A Journey From Trauma to Triumph

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | Hosted by Dr. LinJ

    Denise Michelle’s story is a powerful testament to what happens when a woman decides to choose herself, despite the trauma, despite the odds, and despite the pain that tried to silence her. At just six years old, Denise experienced sexual abuse that changed the trajectory of her childhood. By adulthood, she was surviving Borderline Personality Disorder, suicidal depression, anxiety, addiction, PTSD, domestic abuse, and the financial devastation of bankruptcy.

    Her healing journey was not linear, but it was intentional. Then, in 2020, Denise endured unimaginable grief, losing five family members, including her mother, to COVID. Instead of collapsing under the weight of it all, she turned inward, upward, and forward, choosing to rebuild her life with vision, purpose, and radical self-love.

    Today, Denise is a transformational coach and founder of SelfLove Mastery, using her story to empower others to break cycles, reclaim their identity, and create a life aligned with the person they were always meant to be. This episode is honest, raw, and deeply freeing, a reminder that healing begins the moment you say: “I choose me.”

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Interview with Ashtyn: Survival in a dysfunctional home

    Interview with Ashtyn: Survival in a dysfunctional home
    Nov 19 2025
    Survival in a Dysfunctional Home unpacks Ashtyn’s powerful and heart-rending journey growing up inside a family system marked by addiction, emotional instability, and generational dysfunction.
    With a father consumed by alcoholism and a mother deeply codependent, often dissociative, shut down, and unable to function, Ashtyn was forced into a parental role far too early. She became the emotional and practical caregiver not only for her biological younger brother, but also for her younger adoptive brother, who depended on her for stability and protection.

    While other children were learning, playing, and being nurtured, Ashtyn was cooking, comforting, problem-solving, and carrying responsibilities that shaped her entire sense of self. In this candid episode, she opens up about the trauma of being “the strong one,” the survival patterns her body learned, and what it truly feels like to break out of dysfunction and step into healing.

    Her story will resonate with anyone who grew up raising siblings, managing chaotic households, or trying to survive the emotional fallout of adults who were never emotionally present.

    Content Warning: Addiction, childhood trauma, emotional neglect, parentification.

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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Interview with Makissa She Went to Serve But Was Wounded by the Enemy Within

    Interview with Makissa She Went to Serve But Was Wounded by the Enemy Within
    Nov 12 2025
    She Went to Serve… But Was Wounded by the Enemy Within

    She went to serve her country, but the real battle began after the uniform came off.

    In this powerful episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with the founder of My Seester, Inc., a combat-disabled female veteran who faced her greatest fight not overseas, but within the very system she served.

    After years of being unseen and unheard, she turned her pain into purpose, creating a community where women veterans are finally recognized, supported, and healed.
    Through My Seester, Inc. and the R.E.T.I.N.A. Project, she’s redefining what sisterhood and strength look like, empowering female veterans to heal through art, advocacy, and connection.

    🎖️ This isn’t just her story of survival, it’s a movement of restoration.

    📺 Watch full episode ➜ YouTube.com/@EmergeAndEmpowerTV
    🌐 Learn more ➜ EmergeAndEmpowerTV.com


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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Interview with TaMara

    Interview with TaMara
    Nov 5 2025
    From Posterchild of Tragedy to Testimony: The Story of Survival and Strength

    In this powerful and deeply moving episode of Emerge and Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with a remarkable guest whose life is a living testimony of resilience, redemption, and faith.

    At just 11 years old, she wrote her first suicide letter. By 16, she had attempted suicide for the first time. Years of battling bipolar disorder, depression, PTSD, and social anxiety led her into cycles of addiction, loss, and pain that were rarely spoken about in her family. Yet through it all, God preserved her story for purpose.

    Haunted by the loss of dear friends like Stepf, she eventually found her calling through those very tragedies, transforming grief into mission. As a multimedia artist, certified art therapy practitioner, and mental health advocate, she founded Project W.I.N.G.S. (We Inspire Nurture Guide and Support), a faith-based initiative dedicated to helping others navigate the storms of mental health and trauma with hope and healing.

    In this episode, she opens her heart about survival, faith, and the courage it takes to be the voice for others still fighting in silence. Because her story, like so many others, is not over, it’s emerging.


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    🎙 Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    📺 Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    🌐 Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    📘 Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    📧 Guest inquiries & speaking requests: shemergenceinfo@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    53 mins