Join me on a raw, real, and messy journey through healing—a path I’ve walked for over half my life. No sugar-coated fairytales here—just grit, humor, and the truth that real healing comes from within. If you’re ready to laugh, reflect, and embrace the beauty in imperfection, come join me as I share my story and dive deep into the messy magic of transformation.
Disclaimer: This podcast dives into sex, spirituality, and life’s complexities. Some topics may be unconventional or uncomfortable.
Listener discretion is advised—engage with awareness and compassion.
Step onto the dancefloor with me!
Trigger Warning: This episode contains discussion of abuse and childhood trauma.
In this episode, Kendra shares the moment she stopped searching for who hurt her and began sitting with the inner child it happened to. A conversation about abuse, memory, and the radical shift from investigation to embodiment—choosing presence, protection, and compassion over needing all the answers.
12 Jan 2026
A Reflection on Self-Ownership, Clear-Minded Living, and Boundaries
At a crossroads between familiarity and fulfillment, in this episode I unpack vivid dreams that tempt me back into old coping patterns, substances, chaos, and performative intimacy; just as I’m moving toward deeper commitment and cohabitation with my partner.
This episode explores how the nervous system clings to what’s recognizable, even when it’s misaligned, and what it takes to feel fear without numbing it. I reflect on releasing the need for external validation, calling my energy back from unreciprocal spaces, and choosing sovereignty and boundaries over familiar chaos.
This is a conversation about sobriety, intimacy, self-trust, and the courage to choose a life that actually feeds you.
✨ Familiar isn’t fulfillment.✨ Fear isn’t a stop sign.✨ Sovereignty is embodied.
11 Jun 2025
"All the Medicine is Inside You" with Deep Soul Awakenings
Shared Episode: All the Medicine is Inside You
(Originally aired on Deep Soul Awakenings)
In this soul-nourishing shared episode, we’re bringing you a luminous conversation from Deep Soul Awakenings with Millie Franco—featuring none other than our very own Kendra Valentine of Embodied Badass.
Together, Millie and Kendra explore a timeless truth: that all the healing, wisdom, and power we seek already lives within us. Through personal stories and intuitive insight, Kendra shares her journey of remembering, reclaiming, and trusting the medicine within her own body and spirit.
This is a conversation about returning to ourselves—about listening more deeply, softening into truth, and awakening the healing that’s been there all along. It’s an invitation to reconnect with your inner knowing and walk your path with greater compassion and clarity.
We’re honored to share this sacred dialogue with the Embodied Badass community. May it be a mirror, and a reminder:
You are the medicine.
#YouAreTheMedicine #DeepSoulAwakenings #EmbodiedHealing #SacredRemembering #InnerWisdom #DivineFeminineHealing #SpiritualEmpowerment #HealingJourney #EmbodiedBadass #BlackBirdSoulHealing
28 May 2025
The Kind of Grief No One Talks About: Suicide, Shadows, and Soul Forgiveness
This episode honors the grief no one prepares you for—the kind that comes when someone you love dies by suicide, and you're left holding a thousand tangled threads of anger, love, guilt, and silence.
I share a deeply personal story about someone I once held close—someone who hurt me, disappeared, and then left this world in a way that made the grief even messier. This isn’t a tidy conversation about death. It’s a raw eulogy for a soul connection that broke me open and taught me how to hold space for rage, for love, for forgiveness, and for the parts of us that don’t get to say goodbye the way we hoped.
This is shadow work. This is ancestral work. This is about choosing to live when death is all around. And this is a love letter to anyone who has ever grieved someone complicated—and needed permission to feel it all.
#GriefHealing
#SuicideLossSupport
#ShadowWork
#SpiritualGrief
#AncestralHealing
#RawConversations
#SoulAwakening
#MentalHealthMatters
#PodcastForHealing
#GriefAndLove
14 May 2025
Say Less, Listen More: The Shit No One Teaches You About Trauma
This isn’t your polished, packaged healing story. This is the real, gritty, gut-wrenching truth of surviving childhood sexual assault, and the long, complicated, non-linear path toward reclaiming your body, your voice, and your worth. I talk about how trauma shapes our patterns, why unsafe feels familiar, and what it actually means to hold space for someone in their pain. For survivors, for supporters, and for anyone ready to stop shaming and start listening—this one’s for you.
#HealingOutLoud #TraumaSurvivor #StopTheShame #SayLessListenMore #SurvivorVoice #GritAndGraceHealing #EndRapeCulture #HoldSpaceNotJudgment #ListenToSurvivors #ReclaimYourStory
30 Apr 2025
Requiem for the Nice Girl
This is the funeral of the nice girl.
The one who said yes when her body whispered no.
The one who confused access with love.
The one who mistook self-abandonment for kindness.
In this episode, I sit with the sacred yes that lives in my sacrum, and the sovereign no that echoes through my solar plexus. I talk about what it really took to stop performing niceness and start practicing kindness—from the gut, from the ground, from a place that doesn’t require me to betray myself.
This isn’t just about boundaries. It’s about burial.
It’s about witnessing the parts of ourselves we were taught to glorify—submissive, smiling, silent—and offering them a dignified goodbye.
So if you’ve ever felt exhausted from being “good,”
If you’ve ever confused survival with softness,
Or if you’re ready to stop being a “nice human” and start being a kind one—
Welcome. Pull up a seat at the wake.
We’re laying her to rest with love.
#RawRealAndRooted #EmbodyYourTruth
16 Apr 2025
When “Yes” Wasn’t Really a Yes: Untangling the Mess of Consent
This episode is real, raw, and probably uncomfortable—but it needs to be. We’re talking about consent, not just as a legal checkbox, but as something deeper, messier, and often tangled in layers of conditioning, trauma, and survival. What happens when we say “yes” because we’re afraid, because we’ve been trained to please, or because we don’t even realize we can say no? I’m unpacking my own experiences—where I didn’t have a choice, where I didn’t know I had one, and where I gave my power away without realizing it. This is about breaking the silence, shedding shame, and reclaiming the right to our own boundaries. No more shrinking. No more swallowing our truth. It’s time to take our power back.
2 Apr 2025
Your Body is Yours-Even When the Past Says Otherwise
Teenage years can be a battleground of self-worth, where the world tries to tell you that your value is tied to what your body can offer instead of who you are. The secrets we carry—the ones we were too young to understand, too afraid to speak—can feel like chains, but they don’t define us.
In this episode, we get real about the pressure to equate worth with sex, the fight for autonomy, and the power of reclaiming your choices. We explore what it means to understand your no, how to ask for consent from yourself before anyone else, and why self-ownership is the first step toward true empowerment.
You can’t change the past, but you can hold space for yourself with love, acceptance, and the knowing that you are more than what happened to you.
19 Mar 2025
Situationships & Self-Respect: Trusting Your Gut and Setting Boundaries
Welcome to Embodied Badass...Change Comes From Within!
In this episode, Kendra Valentine, aka Embodied Badass, dives into a recent situationship that tested her intuition, boundaries, and integrity. She shares raw insights on navigating mixed signals, honoring her gut feelings, and learning when to walk away. With honesty and humor, Kendra explores the lessons life presents when we ignore our inner knowing, the importance of clear communication, and the power of standing firm in our truth.
If you've ever struggled with setting boundaries or second-guessed yourself in relationships, this episode is for you.
20 Feb 2025
Welcome to Embodied Badass...Change Comes From Within with Kendra Valentine
Step into a space of radical honesty, deep healing, and unapologetic self-expression. In this podcast, Kendra Valentine invites you into the liminal space—the gray area of transformation—where love, chaos, resilience, and self-discovery collide.
This is not a sugar-coated journey. Here, we dismantle the illusions, shed the masks, and embrace the raw, unfiltered truth of being human. No more seeking validation from the outside—this is about stepping fully into the truth of who we are.
Expect conversations on healing, spirituality, sex, rock and roll, misfit magic, and the beautifully messy process of becoming. No topic is off-limits, no truth too wild to be spoken.
If you’re ready to break free from old narratives, dance in your own rhythm, and expand into the fullest version of yourself—this is your space.
🎧 Subscribe now and join the journey.
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