Welcome back to The Blueprint! I’m Yanique Walters, your host, your sister, and your friend. In today’s episode, I’m joined by Ingrid Garofola, an Army veteran with over 20 years of service, a wife, dog mom, bonus mom, and a woman of faith.

Ingrid shares her powerful story and the moment she realized true healing had to begin. We talk about childhood trauma, life in the military, emotional survival, the transition to civilian life, boundaries, confidence, and what it really looks like to pursue mental freedom.

In this episode, we cover:

• Ingrid’s childhood and how discipline shaped her
• Joining the Army at 17 and how the military “saved” her
• The emotional toll of service and learning to shut off emotions
• Being a woman in the military and dealing with racism + judgment
• Retiring in 2021 and struggling to find identity beyond the uniform
• The turning point that led her to take healing seriously (2023)
• Therapy, EMDR, and learning the root of trauma
• Setting boundaries when you’re a “yes girl”
• What self love looks like in this season
• Why healing is possible and trauma doesn’t define you

Connect with Ingrid:

• Instagram: @Wyndchillz4
• YouTube: Wyndchillz4
• TikTok: Wyndchillz4
• Website: Wyndchillz.com

Follow Yanique / The Blueprint:

• Instagram: @sisyouareher
• TikTok/Instagram/Facebook:@yaniquetheceo
• App: https://Herreflectionspace.com

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If this episode blessed you, please subscribe, like, and leave a review. And always remember: healing is your blueprint. You are becoming HER.

Parenting doesn’t come with a manual — and for many of us, especially Black families and single mothers, we’re trying to raise emotionally healthy children while healing ourselves at the same time.

In this episode of The Blueprint Podcast, I’m joined by Briyon Minor, LAPC, a licensed associate professional counselor based in Atlanta, for an honest and necessary conversation about parenting styles, children’s mental health, and breaking generational cycles.

We unpack the difference between discipline and punishment, why routine matters, how trauma shows up later in life, and how to raise emotionally aware children without fear-based parenting. Because what happens in childhood doesn’t stay in childhood.

This episode is for:

• Single mothers carrying it all

• Parents navigating gentle vs. traditional discipline

• Families raising emotionally healthy children

• Adults healing childhood trauma while parenting

✨ Connection before correction

✨ Presence over perfection

✨ Healing homes create healed adults

What We Cover:

• Parenting styles and long-term impact

• Gentle parenting vs. discipline

• Burnout in single mothers

• Early signs children may need mental health support

• Anxiety, depression, ADHD, and emotional regulation

• Attachment styles and childhood trauma

• Media exposure and screen time

• Breaking generational cycles — starting with you

Resources:

Attachment Style Quiz: https://shorturl.at/wux5s

Know Your Chapter (HER Quiz): https://herreflectionspace.com/quiz

Sis, You Are HER (Book): https://a.co/d/bgF6yaZ

HER Affirmation Cards: https://shorturl.at/eOC9E

HER Reflection Space App: https://herreflectionspace.com/

Support the Podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/Theblueprint

Crisis Support (U.S.):

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline — Call or text 988

Crisis Text Line — Text HOME to 741741

If this episode spoke to you, share it with another parent who may need encouragement today.

I’m Yanique — your host, your sister, reminding you that you can rewrite your story and create the kind of love you never had.

This episode is a testimony.

In this episode of The Blueprint, I sit down with Aneisha “Wealthy Annie” Rose — a certified John Maxwell life and business coach, entrepreneur, and forex trader with over ten years in the financial industry.

Born and raised in Kingston 13, Jamaica, Aneisha shares how growing up around violence, poverty, and discrimination shaped her mindset, her faith, and her mission to help others build confidence and wealth.

We talk about:

• Growing up in the inner city
• Wrestling with anger, depression, and suicidal thoughts
• How faith and prayer pulled her out of a dark place
• Why she refuses to trade her body for opportunity
• Money management, wealth building, and why saving alone is not enough
• Time management, boundaries, dating, and protecting your name
• Practical steps to build confidence and remember who you are

If you grew up in the inner city, battled low self-worth, struggled with money, or felt like your past disqualifies you, this conversation is going to sit in your spirit.

Content Note: This episode includes honest discussion about suicidal thoughts and attempts, as well as sexual coercion and abuse. Please listen with care.

Connect with Aneisha “Wealthy Annie” Rose:

Website: http://www.wealthyanniecoaching.com

Email: wealthyanniecoaching@gmail.com | pippinwithwealthyannie@gmail.com

Instagram: @thewealthyannie

TikTok: Wealthy Annie – Life and Business Coach

Phone (Jamaica): +1 (876) 827-0646

She supports:

• Women and young professionals seeking confidence and purpose
• Individuals wanting to get out of debt and manage money wisely
• Small business owners wanting to become bank-ready and scale
• People interested in learning forex trading as an additional income stream

Connect with Me: My book Sis, You Are HER is coming December 12. Preorder: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FX1P7MZ4

Instagram: Main – @sisyouareher

Personal – @yaniquetheceo

Support the Podcast: If this content blesses you and you want to help me keep creating it, you can support here: https://buymeacoffee.com/Theblueprint

Self-care isn’t selfish — it’s how we show up whole. Today I’m joined by Ashley Sessions, the powerhouse behind Pampering Sessions, a self-care brand creating decadent body butters, luminous body oils, cleansing sugar scrubs, and more. We break down self-care vs. self-love, rebuilding self-trust, and how small daily practices lead to big inner shifts. Ashley also shares how her brand came to life in under a year, plus what’s coming next (hello, beard kit 👀).

In this episode

• The difference between self-care (the practice) and self-love (the foundation)
• Rebuilding self-trust so your routines actually stick
• Gentle routines that work when you’re busy and tired
• Products for women and men (yes, men love baths too!)
• Friends who lovingly “fix your crown” when it slips
• How Ashley bootstrapped packaging, labels, and her first product line

Guest — Ashley Sessions, Pampering Sessions

• Website: pamperingsessions.com
• Instagram & Facebook: @PamperingSessions
• Email: pamperingsessions@gmail.com (as shared on-air)

Mentioned products

Bath soak (rose & lavender, Himalayan salt), Cleansing Whipped Sugar Scrub (with Castile soap + vitamin E), Triple-whipped Body Butter (shea + grapeseed oil), Shimmering Body Oil (sunflower, jojoba, rosehip), Micellar Makeup Remover, Face Serum (coming), Men’s line (scrub, butter, soap), Beard oil & balm; Beard Kit (shampoo, leave-in, butter, oil, comb/brush) targeted for World Beard Day (Sept 6). Bonus: Self-Care Archetype Quiz for Pampering Sessions insiders (via the website).

Connect with Yanique

• Instagram & FB Group: Sis, You Are HER
• Book & Journal: Sis, You Are HER + HER Reflection Journal (release info inside)
• Subscribe & review The Blueprint to help more women find this conversation. 💜

On this episode of The Blueprint Podcast, host Yanique Walters sits down with Karen “Karey” Casto-Chrin, founder of the global award-winning beauty brand Hopa the Karey / Hoppy Skin—a CBD-alternative skincare and cosmetics line born from deeply personal pain, resilience, and faith.

Karey opens up about grief, domestic abuse, losing contact with her children, and the legal maze she’s fought through—then shares how she turned tunnel-vision survival into a global brand with 250+ products (including the Liberty collections and Bulletproof Mineral Cosmetics). We talk confidence, self-love, practical side-hustle advice, why “loneliness isn’t always bad” during healing, and building legacy in real life.

If you’re rebuilding after heartbreak or reminding yourself who you are—this one’s for you.

Guest Karen Casto-Chrin

Brand: Hopa the Karey / Hoppy Skin

IG/TikTok/Amazon/Poshmark: “hopathekarey” (search to find)

Sites mentioned: HoppySkin.com (launching), beautybox.com (surprise boxes)

Host : Yanique Walters

IG: @sisyouareher | @yaniquetheceo

Site: YaniquePWalters.com

Book: Sis, You Are HER — launching December 12

Affirmation Cards: releasing December (HER Collection)

If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse • US: National Domestic Violence Hotline — 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or thehotline.org

Key themes: confidence after abuse, healing journey, self-love, side hustles, women in business, skincare, CBD-alternative, entrepreneurship, motherhood, resilience

Dating can be messy. Community can be messy too.

Today, Gemini (Shanna Spence) keeps it all the way real about running Toronto’s largest Black singles community, navigating marriage and separation, rediscovering herself as a mom of two sets of twins, and why self-worth and boundaries matter more than opinions.

If you’ve ever stayed for potential, feared the gossip, or struggled to date after doing life alone for a while—this one is for you.

🎙 Host: Yanique Walters 💬 Guest: Shanna “Gemini” Spence

What You’ll Hear:

• Building a real singles community that actually meets up
• Why people’s opinions are loud for a week and then gone
• Dating after divorce and redefining yourself
• The questions to ask that reveal who someone really is
• Self-worth, standards, and not settling for potential
• Boundaries with partners, friends, and even kids

If this episode helped you:

1. Like the video and subscribe for weekly episodes
2. Comment: What’s one boundary you’re reclaiming this season?
3. Share this with a friend who needs the reminder to live for herself

🎧 Listen everywhere + links: https://linktr.ee/thegreatyanique

📱 Follow on IG: @sisyouareher / @yaniquetheceo 📚 Book Updates — Sis, You Are HER (Dec release): Pre-order Kindle version

Guest Note: Gemini is currently on a social break and isn’t sharing handles right now.

📬 Contacts:

• Booking / Speaking / Media: yaniquetheauthor@gmail.com
• Sponsorships & Collabs: yaniquetheauthor@gmail.com
• General inquiries: yaniquetheauthor@gmail.com

On this week’s Blueprint Podcast, Yanique Walters sits down with comedian, writer, podcaster, and relationship truth-teller Clint Coley for a raw, funny, and brutally honest conversation about modern dating.

They dive into:

• What intentional men look like
• Why good dating stories don’t go viral
• How trauma shows up in communication
• Green flags that actually matter
• Why “falling off” usually means he’s not that into you
• And the truth about confidence, ego, and “you problems”

Clint keeps it 100 about accountability, emotional maturity, and why we all need to stop overthinking and start having fun again.

🎧 New episodes every Thursday — subscribe so you never miss one.

Guest: @ClintColey

Host: @yaniquetheceo

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/2pkUVMonalU

🔗 Links & Resources

• 🎧 Listen + Subscribe & Shop My Books: https://linktr.ee/thegreatyanique
• 📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTI210eA_xP2GllS4exz1hg
• 🌐 Website: https://yaniquepwalters.com
• 📬 Email: yaniquetheauthor@gmail.com
• 📸 Instagram: @ yaniquetheceo
• ☕ Support the HER Movement: buymeacoffee.com/Theblueprint

Explicit content: Yes (minor language)

Adrienne went from a shy church girl who married at 18 to a woman of purpose who leads and empowers other women. In this honest conversation, we talk about divorce at 26, the dark season that followed, finding her way back to God, writing poetry that became her book Pieces of Me, and launching communities that help women heal and find their tribe. We also get real about codependency after breakups, choosing healing over hurry, and trusting love again.

You’ll hear about:

• Healing after heartbreak and finding confidence again
• Writing from pain and publishing Pieces of Me
• Starting Women Transitioning into Purpose (2014)
• Building Women’s Alliance (2024) and creating sisterhood
• Honest talk on hard choices and faith
• What real sisterhood looks like: truth and accountability
• Trusting again and the signs of healthy support

Guest Adrienne — wife, mom, bonus grandma, author, businesswoman. Founder of Women Transitioning into Purpose and Women’s Alliance.

Site: LadyDestiny.com

Book: Pieces of Me on Amazon

Connect with Yanique

IG: @sisyouareher | @yaniquetheceo

Shop books and resources: https://linktr.ee/thegreatyanique

Support the show: Buy Me a Coffee

Content note: This episode mentions abortion and may be sensitive for some listeners.