Reimagine with Renata

About Reimagine with Renata

Reimagine with Renata is a faith-centered personal development and lifestyle podcast hosted by Renata Del Carmen—author, life coach, and entrepreneur. Each episode explores self-care, mindset, purpose, love, wellness, and cultural conversations that support personal transformation from the inside out. Through reflective solo episodes and honest conversations, Renata invites listeners to slow down, take a soft minute, and reimagine how they live, lead, and love with intention. This podcast blends faith, lifestyle, and practical tools to help you grow spiritually, emotionally, and creatively. Perfect for listeners seeking personal growth, faith-based encouragement, and intentional living.

Publisher

Renata Del Carmen

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Jun 2018

Latest episode

2 May 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 25 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   2 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Grind Has A Gender

   5:47 a.m. Alarm goes off. Before your feet hit the floor, you're already running the list, the bag, the email, the permission slip, the outfit, the prayer. And somewhere in there, you're supposed to get yourself together enough to walk out the door looking like you have it all under control. Sound familiar? In this episode, Renata goes deeper into the system behind the pace and names it. The grind isn't gender-neutral. It was built around the assumption that the ideal worker has someone else handling everything at home, and it runs on the labor of women who were never meant to benefit from it. Drawing on her own story of navigating motherhood, medical hardship, and a career that spanned fashion, education, and entrepreneurship all in Brooklyn, all inside the machine, Renata connects the personal to the structural and the structural to the present moment: 600,000 Black women economically sidelined since February 2025, reproductive rights rolled back in 18 states, and maternal mortality climbing in ban states. The theory isn't abstract anymore. The receipts are in. Building on Episode 1's introduction of Masculinity Contest Culture and Hartmann's capitalism-patriarchy framework, with new insights from Giannone's CUNY thesis on hustle culture, Economic Policy Institute data on Black women's employment losses, and reflections from Renata's book How Treasures Emerge.

2. 

   2 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Soft is Not Weak

   Host Renata explores how embracing softness in a fast-paced city offers radical self-preservation and intentional living, challenging the notion that slowing down equals weakness.

3. 

   4 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   1,000 Subscribers + A Renewed Rhythm for 2026 (Stillness & Joy)

   Renata Del Carmen celebrates reaching 1,000 subscribers and guides listeners through practices of stillness and joy to establish a sustainable rhythm for the year 2026.

Inside a recent episode

Grind Has A Gender

Published 2 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] In my book, How Treasures Emerge, I wrote about being pushed by my problems and pulled by my dreams. And that's real. But what I didn't fully name at the time was who was doing the pushing. It wasn't just life. It was a system, a gendered system that treats women's labor as unlimited and women's rest as laziness. I think about the adults who shaped how I saw myself early on. There were people in positions of authority, people who were supposed to guide me, who looked at a young Black girl and projected the worst possible version of my life onto me, not because of what I was capable of, but because of what the system had already decided girls like me were supposed to become. […]

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