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  • Scars That Speak | Becoming Whole After Surviving the Fire

    Scars That Speak | Becoming Whole After Surviving the Fire
    Feb 4 2026
    In Part 2 of this unforgettable conversation with Avonley Lightstone, we move beyond survival and into healing, identity, and purpose. After sharing the tragic beginnings of her story in Episode 1, Avonley now opens up about the emotional and spiritual journey that followed, learning to forgive, rebuilding her sense of worth, and discovering how God transforms pain into calling. Her life is proof that scars do not disqualify you, they testify that you made it through.

    If Episode 1 revealed the fire, Episode 2 reveals the faith, strength, and restoration that rose from the ashes. This conversation will encourage anyone who has ever wondered if life can still be beautiful after brokenness.

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    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

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    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 h et 2 min
  • S5 | EP1 | She Survived the Fire | Interview with Avonley

    S5 | EP1 | She Survived the Fire | Interview with Avonley
    Jan 29 2026
    Season 5 begins with a story of survival, faith, and redemption.

    Today’s guest, Avonley Lightstone, is the author of Strength of Scars, a powerful autobiography that walks readers through a childhood marked by tragedy, trauma, abuse, and unimaginable loss, and the unwavering faith that carried her through it all.

    At just three years old, Avonley tried to save her mother from a house fire. Her mother did not survive, and shortly after, her father placed her up for adoption. What followed were years of emotional, physical, and mental abuse. But her story did not end in brokenness.

    Through faith in God, deep healing, and courageous forgiveness, Avonley found strength in her scars and now helps others do the same. In this episode, she shares how God carried her through the darkest valleys, how she learned to release bitterness, and how listeners can discover purpose beyond pain.

    Her story is raw. Her testimony is real. And her message is clear: your scars do not disqualify you, they can become your strength.

    📖 Get a free chapter of her book: www.avonleylightstone.com

    🎬 Support bringing her story to film: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-strength-of-scars-to-the-screen

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    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 h et 3 min
  • Season 5: Positioned for Power | New Year | Rebranded

    Season 5: Positioned for Power | New Year | Rebranded
    Jan 22 2026
    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: emergeandempower@gmail.com

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    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    31 min
  • Interview with Cyndee

    Interview with Cyndee
    Jan 14 2026
    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.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/emerge-empower-podcast-tv--6068978/support.

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 h et 6 min
  • Interview with Dr Greg

    Interview with Dr Greg
    Jan 14 2026
    When a Father’s Heart Breaks: Greg Linkowski on Loss, Healing, and Hope

    In this deeply moving episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, Dr. Greg Linkowski returns with a story that touches the core of every parent’s heart. Known for his resilience and transparency as a trauma survivor, Greg opens up about one of the most painful chapters of his life, the loss of his son.

    With raw honesty and heartfelt reflection, Greg shares:
    • What it means to navigate life after an unimaginable loss
    • How grief reshaped his understanding of fatherhood, faith, and purpose
    • The moments that nearly broke him, and the grace that held him together
    • How he learned to breathe again, hope again, and live again.

    This episode is not just about loss, it is about love, legacy, and the quiet strength required to survive what should have destroyed you. Greg reminds us that even in the darkest valleys, healing is possible, and that telling your story can become a lifeline for someone else. This conversation is for every parent, every grieving heart, and every person searching for meaning after devastation

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/emerge-empower-podcast-tv--6068978/support.

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    1 h et 11 min
  • Closing the year _ Happy New Year 2026

    Closing the year _ Happy New Year 2026
    Dec 31 2025
    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 emergeandempower@gmail.com

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/emerge-empower-podcast-tv--6068978/support.

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    10 min
  • Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | A Merry Christmas Conversation

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV | A Merry Christmas Conversation
    Dec 24 2025
    In this special Merry Christmas episode of Emerge & Empower Podcast TV, I spend time with my family and my glam babies, sharing a real and meaningful conversation on reconciliation.

    This episode is not a formal interview, it’s a moment. A Christmas scene filled with presence, reflection, and honest dialogue about what it means to pursue peace, protect healing, and love wisely within family.
    During this conversation, I reflect on:
    • Why reconciliation matters, especially during the holidays
    • When reconciliation is healthy and when boundaries are necessary
    • How peace can exist even when relationships are still healing
    • Why Christmas is a season of reflection, not pressure
    This episode is an invitation to slow down, breathe, and allow grace to guide your interactions, with others and with yourself.

    From my family to yours, Merry Christmas.
    Dr. LinJ

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/emerge-empower-podcast-tv--6068978/support.

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    18 min
  • Interview with Stacy | What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything?

    Interview with Stacy | What If Your Childhood Shaped Everything?
    Dec 17 2025
    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.

    Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/emerge-empower-podcast-tv--6068978/support.

    Emerge & Empower Podcast TV – Hosted by Dr. Linda Joseph

    Watch on YouTube: youtube.com/@EmergeandEmpowerTV
    Website: www.emergeandempowertv.com
    Facebook: facebook.com/dr.lindajoseph
    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/drlindajoseph
    Guest inquiries & speaking requests: emergeandempower@gmail.com

    ⚠️Disclaimer: Viewer and listener discretion is advised. Content may include sensitive topics. Guest views are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Dr. Linda Joseph, Shemergence, or Emerge & Empower Media.
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    46 min