To close out Season One of The Stiletto Room, I wanted someone who embodies purpose, softness, strength, and divine timing — and that woman is Liz Hernandez.

Liz is an Emmy-nominated television host, longtime radio voice of LA, founder of Wordiful, and one of the most intentional humans I know. In this deeply personal conversation, we trace her journey from taping fake radio interviews in her childhood bedroom to becoming a voice millions wake up to — and the life-altering detours that shaped her purpose along the way.

We talk manifestation, intuition, and trusting your gut — including turning down MTV’s move to New York, caring for her mother through dementia, and how grief gave birth to Wordiful, a movement built on the power of language, gratitude, and connection. Liz opens up about burnout, nervous system healing, boundaries, motherhood energy, losing her soul dog, and learning how to finally put herself back on the list.

This episode is about words — the ones we speak, the ones we lose, and the ones that save us. It’s about choosing peace, honoring grief, and remembering that you are already enough.

This is how you end a season — with truth, heart, and intention.

About Liz Hernandez

Liz Hernandez is a Mexican-American Emmy-nominated television personality, radio broadcaster, and journalist. As of 2022, Liz Hernandez has returned to her first love, radio, as the morning show host for 94.7 The Wave (KTWV-FM) in Los Angeles.

As a SoCal native, Liz started her entertainment career as a radio host on the Power 106 FM nationally syndicated show, Big Boy’s Neighborhood. After hosting for 10 years, she moved on to TV entertainment news as a host and correspondent for Access Hollywood, E! News, and MTV.

Liz is also the creator of WORDAFUL, a content and live event series and membership platform that focuses on the importance of how we can communicate with ourselves and others.

WORDAFUL is derived from the phrase, “Words are powerful.” It is a new form of storytelling that encourages and connects us to the power of words. We can create new realities for ourselves by changing our internal and external dialogue—ones that support more meaningful relationships and lives.

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What happens when one of the most influential cultural forces of the last 40 years walks into The Stiletto Room? Baby, you get Flavor Flav — rapper, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, icon, activist, reality TV pioneer, and one of the realest humans alive.

And let me be clear: Flav isn’t just America’s hype man — he’s an American treasure. A living, breathing reminder of what it looks like to turn survival into joy, pain into purpose, and personality into pure cultural impact.

In this electrifying, emotional, hilarious, historic conversation, I sit down with Flav as he takes us from Public Enemy’s early days and his brotherhood with Chuck D, to grief and legacy, to watching politics shift from “fun” to “dangerous.” We talk Ruby Bridges, civil rights, community impact, and yes — Flav sponsoring the U.S. Olympic water polo team (and getting in the pool himself).

Then we go deep: sobriety, relapse, honesty, redemption. Flav opens up about his mom, his guardian angels, and why secrets keep people stuck — and how telling the truth is what sets you free.

And of course… the Taylor Swift era. The friendship bracelets. The “King Swifty” coronation. The kids losing their minds when they see him.

This episode is history, humor, heart, and healing wrapped in a clock the size of a dinner plate. Flavor Flav isn’t just a legend — he’s a lesson in survival, joy, and pure authenticity.

Expect big laughs, real vulnerability, and a reminder that icons aren’t made by perfection—icons are made by impact. Yeah boyyyyy!

About Flavor Flav

Flavor Flav is the most iconic hype man in history and one of the most recognizable legends in entertainment. A musical prodigy proficient in 15 instruments, he rose to fame in the late ’80s as a co-founder of the legendary hip-hop group Public Enemy. Possessing one of the most sampled voices in hip-hop history, Flav and Public Enemy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 62nd GRAMMY Awards in 2020. Beyond music, Flav became a reality TV phenomenon with Flavor of Love, VH1’s highest-rated show of all time and a defining pop-culture milestone of the era. In 2024, he made headlines worldwide as the first individual to sponsor a U.S. Olympic team, serving as official sponsor and hype man for the men’s and women’s water polo teams through the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. He continues to use his platform to advocate for mental health, sobriety, humanitarian rights, and women’s sports, inspiring audiences across generations worldwide.

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What happens when one of your closest friends — and one of the most fearless humans you know — sits down in The Stiletto Room? You get Chaz Bono, baby. Actor, activist, producer, trailblazer, and someone I’ve walked through sobriety, transformation, and truth with for decades.

In this raw, powerful, beautifully honest conversation, Chaz opens up about growing up as the child of Sonny & Cher, navigating identity long before the world had language for it, and what it really took to step into himself at 40 years old. We talk about transition, chosen family, the brutal political climate, LGBTQ+ rights, the fear and freedom of hormones, and how activism becomes a lifeline — not a choice.

Chaz shares how acting saved him, how independent horror became his unexpected creative playground, and why living authentically at ANY age is not just possible — it’s non-negotiable.

This episode is for anyone who’s ever felt “different,” anyone who’s ever had to fight for their place in the world, and anyone who believes in living boldly, bravely, and unapologetically.

About Chaz Bono

Chaz Bono is an American character actor and activist, and the only child of famed entertainers Sonny and Cher. He is best known for his work on American Horror Story and Curb Your Enthusiasm. An acclaimed author, Bono has written three books, including NY Times Best Sellers, Family Outing 1998, and Transition published by Dutton in 2011, a candid account of a forty-year struggle to match his gender identity. Adding to his multiple hyphenated talents, he has shared his life and experiences in, and produced the three-time Emmy nominated documentary, "Becoming Chaz."Bono has a rich history of advocating for LGBTQ rights, having worked for two national LGBTQ organizations, and as public speaker on college campuses and at events around the world. He continues to be a strong voice the for LGBTQ community, and is a passionate champion of equality for all Americans, especially those discriminated against and targeted because of race, religion, sex, age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity. In 2012 Bono decided to pursue his lifelong dream to have a career as a character actor. He’s guest stared in the films Dirty, Reborn, Three From Hell, Reboot Camp, The Bell Keeper, and Burry The Bride and Little Bites, which he also produced. Bono has also guest starred on American Horror Story: Roanoke and American Horror Story: Cult, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Bold and the Beautiful.

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