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Empower Podcast TV continues to amplify stories of individuals who have emerged from past trauma and turned their pain into purpose. This season features survivors, professionals, and leaders who share both their personal journeys and professional expertise, empowering others from a place of healing, clarity, and responsibility. These conversations remain trauma-informed, faith-rooted, and purpose-driven, highlighting how lived experience becomes preparation for leadership, service, and impact. Declarations for this Season: • Our healing was not in vain. • Our past prepared us for purpose. • Pain has become power to empower others. • We are positioned for responsibility, not performance. • Our voice is strengthened by what we survived. • This is a season of emergence, empowerment, and purpose.  Guided by Scripture, we stand on the truth that our steps are ordered by the Lord (Psalm 37:23), that we are created for good works prepared in advance (Ephesians 2:10), and that we are positioned for such a time as this (Esther 4:14).   Watch, subscribe, and join the conversation: https://youtube.com/@emergeandempowerpodcasttv?si=_WkMaqxoqCBYrQkn For guest inquiries, collaborations, or media requests: [email protected]

Season Finale | Walking Miracle: Rewriting Life After Loss and Survival Emerge & Empower Podcast TV with Dr. LinJ To close out this season of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Cyndee Dhalai for a deeply moving conversation on resilience, grief, survival, and rewriting one’s life after unimaginable loss. Cyndee shares her journey as a daughter, sister, teacher, wife, counselor, mother, coach, patient, widow, and now author and poet. Often described as a living, walking miracle, she reflects on a life shaped by rejection, severe illness, medical impossibilities, and profound grief, including the loss of her husband of over 33 years. In this episode, Cyndee speaks openly about defying medical odds, learning to walk again after more than a decade in a wheelchair, living without medication due to extreme allergies, and navigating grief that is neither neat nor linear. Thriough her books Pieces of Me: Touch My Soul and Grief Is the Price You Pay for Love, she reminds us that while grief is the price we pay for love, healing is possible and life can still hold beauty, meaning, and light. This season finale is a powerful reminder that while we cannot choose every chapter of our lives, we can choose how we tell the story, even rewrite it with greater truth, compassion, and purpose.

Season Finale | Walking Miracle: Rewriting Life After Loss and Survival Emerge & Empower Podcast TV with Dr. LinJ To close out this season of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. LinJ sits down with Cyndee Dhalai for a deeply moving conversation on resilience, grief, survival, and rewriting one’s life after unimaginable loss. Cyndee shares her journey as a daughter, sister, teacher, wife, counselor, mother, coach, patient, widow, and now author and poet. Often described as a living, walking miracle, she reflects on a life shaped by rejection, severe illness, medical impossibilities, and profound grief, including the loss of her husband of over 33 years. In this episode, Cyndee speaks openly about defying medical odds, learning to walk again after more than a decade in a wheelchair, living without medication due to extreme allergies, and navigating grief that is neither neat nor linear. Through her books Pieces of Me: Touch My Soul and Grief Is the Price You Pay for Love, she reminds us that while grief is the price we pay for love, healing is possible and life can still hold beauty, meaning, and light. This season finale is a powerful reminder that while we cannot choose every chapter of our lives, we can choose how we tell the story, and even rewrite it with greater truth, compassion, and purpose. 

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 [email protected]

In this powerful and timely episode, Shenee Edwards confronts a subject rarely discussed openly: Bullying in the Church. Drawing from personal experience, faith-based insight, and advocacy work, Edwards exposes how manipulation, intimidation, exclusion, and spiritual abuse can take root within religious institutions meant to offer refuge and compassion. She explores the emotional and spiritual toll church bullying takes on individuals and families, why it often goes unchallenged, and how faith communities can begin the difficult work of accountability, healing, and reform. This candid conversation is essential listening for anyone who has felt silenced, marginalized, or harmed within a religious setting—and for those seeking to restore integrity, empathy, and genuine spirituality within the church.

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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.

Episode 68 - STEP SEVEN | Letting God Heal the Pastor Not the Performer Today we talk about the crash that almost every pastor knows but rarely admits—the moment after the sermon when the anointing fades, the adrenaline stops, and the real battle begins. You’ve prayed. You’ve preached. God has moved. But when the house grows quiet… the worries return. The pain you’ve carried comes back. The temptations you thought were gone show up again. And the enemy whispers, “You’re failing.” But you’re not. You’re human. And God is inviting you into something deeper than image management—He wants to heal the pastor, not the performer. In this episode, we walk through why pastors hide, why the anointing doesn’t erase our humanity, and how God used imperfect people throughout Scripture—Elijah, Balaam, and even King Saul—while still calling them to transformation. This step is about dropping the act, letting God into the rooms we keep locked, and allowing His voice to shape us more than our platform does. Step 7: “I seek character change, not image management.” (2 Corinthians 3:18) If you’ve ever felt anointed one moment and broken the next… you’re not alone. And you’re not beyond healing.

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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JL spent decades surviving-surviving a violent childhood, surviving two disastrous marriages, surviving spiritual manipulation that hid behind a pulpit. What she hadn't learned was how to live. In…

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BONUS EPISODE — “Tripping Over Myself” In this bonus episode, Jon looks at the blind spots we all have — the places where we keep tripping over our own attitudes, reactions, and old patterns. Sometimes the biggest obstacle in the hallway isn’t the enemy… it’s us. This episode features Jon’s new original song, “Tripping Over Myself” — a throughtful track about stumbling over our own blind spots and learning to let God show us what we’ve been defending. If you’ve ever reacted too quickly, defended something that didn’t matter, or discovered your biggest struggle was actually your own stubbornness… this bonus episode will make you smile and encourage your heart. Sit back, enjoy and let God speak gently to the places you’ve been protecting.