A new year often brings talk of goals and vision—but real vision isn’t about wishful thinking or rushing forward.

In this episode of Bounce Back, Black Woman!, we take a grounded, faith-centered look at vision as intentional direction. As the ending of one year invites reflection, regret, celebration, and accomplishment, the beginning of a new year brings opportunity, uncertainty, and important choices about what comes next.

Using the analogy of planning a journey, this conversation explores how vision requires clarity, alignment, and patience—not perfection. Instead of drifting into the year ahead, listeners are invited to intentionally choose what they want to pursue, change, or leave behind in this new season.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why new beginnings can feel exciting and uncomfortable at the same time
• The difference between wishing and intentional vision
• Why vision often feels challenging or vulnerable
• How clarity creates direction without pressure
• The role of faith in planning and trusting the process
• Why progress happens one intentional step at a time

Scripture Reflection: Proverbs 16:9 (NLT)

“We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.”

Journal Prompt:

What do I intentionally want to pursue, change, or release in this new season of my life?

🔗 Resources & Next Steps

• 📥 Download the FREE 2026 Bounce Back Guide [HERE]
• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Podcast Companion Journal [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]

The start of a new year brings new opportunities—but it can also bring fear, hesitation, and self-doubt.

In this episode of Bounce Back, Black Woman!, we take a grounded, faith-centered look at courage—not as something you need to summon or manufacture, but as something you’ve already lived. As the ending of one year invites reflection, regret, celebration, and accomplishment, the beginning of a new year often raises quiet questions about whether we have what it takes for what’s ahead.

This conversation invites you to pause, recognize moments of courage in your own life, and stop minimizing the strength that has already carried you through hard seasons. Instead of rushing into the year ahead, we focus on honoring the evidence of resilience, faith, and bravery that already exists within you.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Why new beginnings often stir fear alongside hope
• How the end of a year brings reflection, regret, celebration, and growth
• Redefining courage beyond big, dramatic moments
• Common fears at the start of a new year—including fear of failure and judgment
• Why unrecognized courage leads to louder self-doubt
• How faith anchors courage when uncertainty feels heavy

Scripture Reflection:

Joshua 1:9 (NLT)

“This is my command—be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid or discouraged. For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Journal Prompt:

What is one moment from my past that proves I am braver than I give myself credit for?

That memory isn’t nostalgia—it’s evidence.

🔗 Resources & Next Steps

• 📥 Download the FREE 2026 Bounce Back Guide [HERE]
• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Podcast Companion Journal [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]

When the holidays end, many women are left feeling emotionally low, physically exhausted, and overwhelmed—even when nothing is “wrong.”

In this episode of Bounce Back, Black Woman!, we talk about the often-unspoken aftermath of the holidays: the emotional letdown, winter blues, financial stress, physical fatigue, and the quiet that settles in once the noise fades. If you’ve been feeling tired, heavy, or off-balance lately, this conversation is here to normalize what you’re experiencing and remind you that this season isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about listening to your body and heart.

This episode is a gentle invitation to slow down, release guilt, and honor the need for rest before renewal.

• Why emotional and physical exhaustion often show up after the holidays

• How winter blues can quietly affect mood and motivation

• The toll of constant “doing” — decorating, hosting, shopping, cooking, and celebrating

• Why mixed emotions (gratitude and fatigue) can coexist

• Reframing this season as one of re-entry, not reinvention

• Giving yourself permission to rest without pressure or shame

What am I feeling now that the noise has faded—emotionally, physically, and spiritually?

If the answer is simply “I’m tired,” that’s enough. That honesty is a starting place. 🌿

• 📥 Download the FREE 2026 Bounce Back Guide [HERE]
• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Podcast Companion Journal [HERE]

• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]

What I’m Taking Into 2026 (And What’s Staying in This Year)

💛 In This Episode

As 2025 comes to a close, Del guides you through a powerful reflection on what to release — and what to hold — as you prepare for 2026. This closing episode sets the tone for a year of purpose, healing, and intentional growth.

⏳ What You’ll Learn

• What to leave behind in 2025
• What to carry into 2026 with intention
• How to identify habits and beliefs from old seasons
• A scripture to anchor new beginnings
• Journal prompts for clarity and alignment

📝 Journal Reflections

1. What must stay in 2025?
2. What do I want more of in 2026?
3. What identity am I embracing now?
4. What patterns am I releasing permanently?
5. What does alignment look like next year?

📌 RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS

• 📖 Grab your "2026 Bounce Back Guide" [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]
• 💌 Get your copy of the Bounce Back Podcast Companion Journal [HERE]

Episode 61: Still Standing at 61 — What This Year Taught Me About Trust, Truth, and Resilience

As the year winds down, this episode is a pause — not a finish line. While Episode 61 isn’t the final episode of 2025, it’s a moment to reflect honestly on what this year required and what it revealed.

In this episode, Del shares three personal reflections from a year marked by transition, loss, growth, and faith:

💛In this episode, we talk about:

• Trusting God after leaving (and being cast out of) corporate America
• What it means to face the truth about a past relationship built on a lie
• Relearning how to know and love yourself after seasons of distraction and numbing
• Why clarity, though painful, is still a form of freedom
• How endurance shapes us in ways we don’t always recognize in the moment

This conversation is especially for the woman who endured — the one who faced financial strain, relational heartbreak, health or family challenges, and still showed up. If that’s you, this episode is a reminder that still standing is not accidental — it’s evidence of resilience.

A gentle challenge as the year closes:

If you’ve been listening quietly… If you’ve felt seen but haven’t taken action… If something in you knows it’s time to stop doing this alone…

Take one intentional step.

That step might look like:

• Joining the mailing list
• Downloading the Ruthlessly Intentional Tactics guide
• Reaching out to Del directly
• Or simply acknowledging that you’re ready for support

Because life is short — and healing doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when we choose to participate.

Scripture referenced:

• Proverbs 3:5–6 (NLT)
• James 1:4 (NLT)

🎧 Listen now and take a moment to honor the endurance that carried you through this year.

📌 RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS

• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Journal [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]
• 💌 Download you FREE "26 Intentional Tactics for 2026" Guide [HERE]

🎧 EPISODE 60 — SHOW NOTES

Title: Choosing Yourself Without Guilt: Letting Go of Emotional Over-Responsibility

Many women — especially Black women — have been conditioned to carry emotional responsibility that was never theirs to hold. Over time, that pattern turns into self-abandonment, exhaustion, and quiet resentment… all while being praised for being “strong.”

In this episode, I step fully into my coach voice to name what’s really happening beneath overgiving, people-pleasing, and chronic emotional labor — and why healing isn’t about doing more, but about releasing what was never assigned to you in the first place.

We talk about:

• What emotional over-responsibility really is (and why it’s not a character flaw)
• How self-abandonment becomes normalized as strength and loyalty
• The difference between compassion and over-functioning
• Why survival patterns feel productive — but cost you clarity
• How ruthless intentionality helps you choose yourself without guilt
• What it looks like to stop carrying what belongs to someone else

This episode is an invitation to stop managing everyone else’s emotions, expectations, and outcomes — and to begin living with greater clarity, alignment, and peace.

✨ Resources & Next Steps

• 💌 Grab your free 26 Ruthlessly Intentional Tactics guide (with supporting scripture and reflection) — a grounding resource to help you discern what’s yours to carry and what’s not.
• 📖 Order your personal Bounce Back Podcast Companion Journal
• 🎙️ Share this episode with a woman who has been carrying more than her share

And remember, my friend — your bounce back doesn’t begin with doing more. It begins with choosing differently… with ruthless intentionality.

✨ Not Another Year of Self-Abandonment: Healing the Habit of Overgiving in Relationships

💛 In This Episode

It’s time to stop disappearing inside your own life. In this bold and compassionate episode, Del helps you recognize the patterns of self-abandonment and guides you toward a year of self-honoring, truth-telling, and emotional freedom.

⏳ What You’ll Learn

• What self-abandonment looks like in everyday decisions
• How guilt and people-pleasing keep women stuck
• Why healing requires returning to yourself
• A scripture that reframes spiritual self-care
• Journal prompts for emotional clarity

📝 Journal Reflections

1. Where did I abandon myself this year?
2. Who or what am I prioritizing over myself?
3. What pattern am I ready to break?
4. What does self-honoring look like now?
5. What promise can I make for 2026?

📌 RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS

• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Journal [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]
• 💌 Download your FREE "26 Tactics for 2026" Guide [HERE]

✨ The Empty Chair: Grief, Memory & Missing People During the Holidays

💛 In This Episode

Not every holiday season feels joyful. For many women, December magnifies loss, memory, and longing. In this gentle, faith-filled episode, Del explores how to move through grief during the holidays with compassion, honesty, and spiritual grounding.

⏳ What You’ll Learn

• Why grief intensifies during the holidays
• How to honor the memory of someone you’re missing
• Why you don’t have to be “strong” this season
• What God teaches us through Jesus’ own grief
• How to make room for new traditions
• Journal prompts to support your heart

📝 Journal Reflections

1. Who am I missing this season?
2. What memories feel tender or heavy?
3. What tradition can shift to honor my current season?
4. How can I invite God into my grief?
5. How can I give myself permission to feel fully?

📌 RESOURCES & NEXT STEPS

• Download your copy of the Free Guide: "26 Tactics to Bounce Back in 2026" [HERE]
• 📖 Grab your copy of the Bounce Back Journal [HERE]
• ✨ Visit the Website to stay connected [HERE]