Calm & Cultured Collective

About Calm & Cultured Collective

Calm & Cultured Collective with Deneen is a lifestyle and reflection podcast for women navigating life with faith, intention, and grace. Through solo conversations, book and TV reviews, and interviews with thoughtful voices, Deneen explores what it means to choose peace, grow spiritually, and live with purpose in every season. This podcast is for women who desire meaningful conversation, cultured perspectives, and a softer way of living in a loud world. Each episode offers encouragement, insight, and honest reflection on becoming the woman God designed you to be. Topics include: • Faith and personal growth • Lifestyle and everyday reflections • Book and television discussions • Reinvention and identity • Peaceful and intentional living New episodes weekly. Welcome to your calm space in a busy world.

Publisher

Deneen

Category

education · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Feb 2026

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Black Women’s Health After 40: Listen to Your Body w/ Tamika Bearden-Young APRN, FNP-C.

   Black women’s health after 40 deserves more attention before a crisis happens. In this episode of Calm & Cultured Collective, Tamika Bearden-Young, FNP-C, joins Deneen for an important conversation about preventive care, family health history, menopause, hormone changes, and the symptoms women too often normalize or ignore. Tamika explains why “common” does not always mean “normal,” and why women should pay closer attention to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, heavy cycles, stomach issues, stress, and other changes in the body. The conversation also explores self-advocacy in healthcare, what women in their 40s and 50s should be asking their providers, the importance of screenings and labs, perimenopause and menopause symptoms, hormone health, medical mistrust, and the value of finding providers who truly listen. Tamika’s message is clear: prevention matters, symptoms matter, and women deserve to understand what is happening in their own bodies. If this conversation speaks to you, share it with another woman, leave a comment with what stood out most, and subscribe to Calm & Cultured Collective for more conversations about health, healing, faith, wellness, and reclamation. Chapters: 0:08 — Introduction to Tamika Beard and Young 4:26 — Why Preventive Care Matters 6:44 — Why Women Delay Care 8:34 — Family Health History 12:15 — Symptoms to Take Seriously 14:41 — Advocating at Appointments 18:25 — Menopause and Hormone Care 22:37 — Building Your Care Team Connect with Tamika Bearden-Young & Foundation Healthcare Website: https://www.foundationhealthcare2920.com/ (https://www.foundationhealthcare2920.com/) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoundationHealthcare2920 (https://www.facebook.com/FoundationHealthcare2920) Connect with Calm & Cultured Collective YouTube: @calmandculturedcollective Instagram: @calmandculturedcollective TikTok: @calmandcultured YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CalmandCulturedCollective (https://youtube.com/@CalmandCulturedCollective) Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/calmandculturedcollective/ (https://www.instagram.com/calmandculturedcollective/) TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@calmandcultured (https://www.tiktok.com/@calmandcultured) Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/calm-cultured-collective/id1874718870 (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/calm-cultured-collective/id1874718870) Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3V57p5zcD1OlbV1DT3qhNf (https://open.spotify.com/show/3V57p5zcD1OlbV1DT3qhNf) Newsletter: https://calmandculturedcollective.riverside.com/newsletter (https://calmandculturedcollective.riverside.com/newsletter)

2. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Church Leaders Must Be Accountable Too w/ Pastor Simpson

   Church leadership requires accountability, empathy, and the willingness to make things right when people are hurt. In Part Two of this church hurt series, Pastor Nathaniel Simpson explains why pastors and ministry leaders must remember that many people arrive at church already broken, confused, wounded, or searching for something they desperately need. Deneen and Pastor Simpson discuss repentance in leadership, discipling rather than condemning people, why some believers withdraw from ministry after disappointment, and the danger of generalizing one bad church experience into a rejection of every church. Pastor Simpson also explains how painful experiences can teach us what good leadership should—and should not—look like. Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, Comment, and Follow. And share this episode with someone who may need to hear that healing does not require them to give up on God. Connect with Pastor Nathaniel Simpson & The Forgiving Church Website: https://theforgivingchurch.org/ (https://theforgivingchurch.org/) Facebook:   / forgivingchurch   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljSEpib1V4SVF0ZHpkQ1Vnb3pwVzNndnxBTl9pYzRjUEFUTkNNaFQ0dmNKYWVNc3B1VUt5WThVVERrSGVNWDExWE05elljOXZLNmRMaXJPQU9WWmc3R01kLVh1NUZkV0g4LW9hOXpWWEloOXZGTURpUVdEVEliek5hNnFB&q=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fforgivingchurch&v=YMadSGQ4Las) Part Two of Three — subscribe now so you don’t miss Part Three of this Church Hurt series. #ChurchLeadership (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/churchleadership) #ChurchHurt (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/churchhurt) #ChristianLeadership (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/christianleadership) #SpiritualAbuse (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/spiritualabuse) #HealthyChurch (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/healthychurch) #ReligiousTrauma (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/religioustrauma) #ChristianHealing (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/christianhealing) #FaithJourney (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/faithjourney) #CalmAndCulturedCollective (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/calmandculturedcollective) #God (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/god) #GodIS (https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/godis)

3. 

   18 Sept 2026

   Church Hurt: Healing Without Losing Your Faith | Part One w/ Pastor Simpson

   Church hurt can leave deep wounds, especially when the place meant to offer healing becomes the source of pain. In Part One of this three-part conversation, Deneen sits down with Pastor Nathaniel Simpson of The Forgiving Church to talk honestly about church hurt, faith, accountability, forgiveness, boundaries, discipleship, and what healing can look like without losing your relationship with God. Pastor Simpson shares his own experience with church hurt and explains why he made the deliberate decision not to blame God for what people had done. He challenges church leaders to validate the pain people experience, take responsibility when harm has been caused, and remember that many people enter the church already carrying wounds. This conversation makes room for both truths: church hurt is real, and God is still God. Together, we discuss what church hurt actually is, leadership accountability, the difference between God and the people who may misrepresent Him, why spiritual maturity matters, and how believers can begin separating disappointment with church from their relationship with God. In keeping with Season Two’s theme of Reclamation, this conversation asks what it means to reclaim faith, trust, community, and the parts of ourselves that may have been wounded in religious spaces. This conversation is for anyone who has been hurt, disappointed, dismissed, or wounded by a church, pastor, ministry leader, or fellow believer—and for those trying to decide whether they can trust the church again without abandoning their faith. Don’t forget to Like, Subscribe, Comment, and Follow. And share this episode with someone who may need to hear that healing does not require them to give up on God. Connect with Pastor Nathaniel Simpson & The Forgiving Church Website: https://theforgivingchurch.org/ (https://theforgivingchurch.org/) Facebook:   / forgivingchurch   (https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&redir_token=QUZZTVljRUtaY3BFYnpITW5nSWFmbVp0dEsyZHxBTl9pYzRmTGJkR3dHTG5reVl1bExpcFFWNS1ISzlTeXFCWWxmTlYtRDBiTkRYaXRWRHBHeUFnVU9BWFl0S1NGVDJBVWVKLXNSc0V5TVpsSmhocDhROW9pdEhqQjR1ZHBmVzBy&q=http%3A%2F%2Ffacebook.com%2Fforgivingchurch&v=pWkLXNSoqAA) Part One of Three — subscribe now so you don’t miss Parts Two and Three of this Church Hurt series.

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