Bounce Back, Black Woman! | Healing, Confidence & Resilience Through Heartbreak, Loss, and Life Transitions
The toughest trials in life can shake your confidence — heartbreak, grief, trauma, and unexpected life transitions can leave you questioning yourself and your faith. Bounce Back, Black Woman! is a faith-centered podcast focused on healing, confidence, and resilience for women navigating loss, heartbreak, and life’s hardest seasons. Hosted by Resilience Coach Del Smith, each episode helps you rebuild emotional strength, rediscover your worth, and move forward with God at the center. ✨✨✨ Hey my friend — if you’ve ever faced heartbreak, loss, grief, betrayal, or detours you never saw coming, you’re in the right place. Bounce Back, Black Woman! is a space for women who are rebuilding after hardship, learning to trust God again, and walking boldly toward healing, wholeness, and self-worth. Hosted by Del Smith — speaker, certified coach, writer, and journal creator — this podcast helps you untangle the pain of your past and rise again with clarity, confidence, and faith. Through storytelling, reflection, and biblical encouragement, Del creates a soft but strong space to process life’s deepest wounds — and reclaim your power. We talk about REAL resilience — not just breakups, but the trials that change everything, including: • Surviving divorce and betrayal without losing your identity • Escaping narcissistic abuse and reclaiming your voice • Healing from traumatic grief and sudden loss • Navigating estrangement from someone you still love deeply • Enduring life-threatening illness — yours or someone you love • Facing corporate heartbreak, marginalization, and career loss • Rebuilding after financial devastation and starting over • Reckoning with sacrificed dreams and delayed purpose • Accepting free will when others’ choices break your heart • Wrestling with aging, lost dreams, spiritual confusion, and self-abandonment Every episode is rooted in this truth: you are not broken — you’re bouncing back. Through journaling, self-awareness, scripture, and honest conversation, you’ll strengthen your resilience, restore confidence, and create a life aligned with who God created you to be. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday (15–20 minutes), because healing doesn’t have to take hours. You’ll receive soul-deep encouragement and practical reflections designed to meet you right where you are. To go deeper, explore the Bounce Back Journal, visit the website, or join the mailing list to stay connected. You don’t have to do this alone. It’s not just me. It’s not just you. It’s US. ✨
Episodes
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 ta...
🎧 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 rea...
✨ Not Another Year of Self-Abandonment: Healing the Habit of Overgiving in Relationships
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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 i...
✨ The Empty Chair: Grief, Memory & Missing People During the Holidays
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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 memor...
Episode 57: What You Need to Release Before 2025 Ends — So You Don’t Carry It Into 2026
As the year winds down, we all reach that moment where we ask: “What am I still holding onto… and why?”
In today’s episode, we’re taking an honest, compassionate look at the emotional weight many of us are carrying into the holiday season — and the things we must release before stepping into 2026.
We talk about:
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The subtle forms of emotion...
Holiday Boundaries: Saying No Without the Guilt
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December can be emotionally draining — especially for women who have always been the “strong one.” Del unpacks how to set healthy boundaries during the holidays without guilt, shame, or fear, giving you practical and faith-based tools to protect your peace.
⏳ What You’ll Learn
- Why boundaries are essential during the holidays
- How guilt tricks women into overcomm...
When Joy Feels Heavy: Navigating the Holidays While Healing
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The holiday season is often filled with pressure, expectations, and emotional weight — especially for women healing from heartbreak, loss, or exhaustion. Del shares a grounding message for the woman carrying both joy and heaviness, helping her release the pressure to perform and embrace a gentler, more intentional season.
⏳ What You’ll Learn
- Why joy...
When What You Expected Doesn’t Happen: The Real Roots of Heartbreak
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Del dives into the silent form of heartbreak we rarely name — the pain that comes from unmet expectations, unspoken assumptions, and emotional contracts we wrote that nobody else agreed to. If you’ve ever felt disappointed, confused, or “let down” without knowing why… this episode will bring the clarity you’ve been needing.
⏳ What You’ll Learn
The holiday season looks joyful on the outside… but for many women, it also brings up disappointment, tension, loneliness, old wounds, and emotions nobody else sees. If Thanksgiving didn’t go the way you hoped — or if the whole stretch from now through the New Year feels overwhelming — you are not alone.
In this tender, honest episode, Del explores why this season hits differently, why our e...
Gratitude Doesn’t Cancel Grief — Both Can Sit at the Same Table
If the holidays bring up more than you expected… my friend, you’re not alone. As Thanksgiving kicks off “the season of all the things,” it’s completely normal to feel grateful and not okay at the same time.
In this episode, Del shares a tender, honest look at how gratitude and grief can coexist without competing — especially during a season that magnifies family dynami...
Don’t Rush Your Healing: Giving Your Heart Time to Recover
Today’s episode explores one of the hardest truths about healing: Your heart heals on its own timeline — not the one your mind thinks it should follow.
Del shares a raw, moving story about saying goodbye to her grand-dog Mr. Peppers and the unexpected sign of comfort that arrived the very next day. This full-circle moment becomes a powerful lesson in letting your heart take...
Strong but Soft — Finding the Balance Between Confidence and Compassion
Today’s episode explores a different kind of strength — one that doesn’t harden your heart, shut you down, or make you defensive. It’s the strength that allows you to remain open, gentle, and rooted even in challenging environments.
Del shares a personal corporate story about discernment, self-trust, and leaving a chaotic environment with grace. You’ll learn wh...
Overview: Healing isn’t always visible. In this episode, Coach Del explores the quiet side of recovery — the in-between space where growth is slow but sacred. Learn how to stop rushing your restoration, rebuild self-trust, and find peace in God’s pace.
In This Episode:
- The three layers of healing: survival, awareness, surrender
- How to measure progress when nothing seems to change
- Coaching insight: three quiet disciplines that ...
Overview: What happens when truth shows up uninvited — and unfiltered? In this episode, Coach Del gets transparent about a recent experience that tested her faith, emotional boundaries, and growth in real time. When a painful revelation shattered an illusion, she had to choose between confrontation and peace — and relearn what it means to trust herself again.
Through raw honesty, biblical truth, and practical coaching insight, Del ...
Series Overview: Welcome to the Ruthlessly Intentional™ Series — a four-part journey through Honesty, Healing, Forgiveness, and Happiness. In this series, Coach Del invites you to stop drifting through survival mode and start choosing growth, peace, and purpose on purpose. Each episode blends real stories, biblical truth, and practical step...
Series Overview: Welcome to the Ruthlessly Intentional™ Series — a four-part journey through Honesty, Healing, Forgiveness, and Happiness. In this series, Coach Del invites you to stop drifting through survival mode and start choosing growth, peace, and purpose on purpose. Each episode blends real stories, biblical truth, and practical steps to...
Episode 45 – Ruthlessly Intentional™ Healing Healing doesn’t happen when you feel ready — it happens when you decide you’ve carried the pain long enough. Del walks through how rest, release, and rebuilding take courage, self-confidence, and faith.
Journal Prompt: “Where is God asking me to rest, release, or rebuild in this season?” (Scripture: Jeremiah 30:17; Matthew 11:28)
Series Overview: Welcome to the Ruthlessly Intentional™ Se...
🎙️ Episode 44 – Ruthlessly Intentional™ Honesty You can’t heal from what you won’t face. In this episode, Del shares how radical honesty with yourself opens the door to real freedom — and how facing your truth is the first step toward peace.
Journal Prompt: “What truth am I avoiding because it scares me?” (Scripture: Psalm 139:23–24)
Series Overview: Welcome to the Ruthlessly Intentional™ Series — a 4-part journey through Honesty,...
My Resilience Report Card: How I Can Make the Next Year My Best One Ever! It’s time to pause and take inventory — not to judge yourself, but to honor your growth. In this episode, Del invites you to complete your own Resilience Report Card through faith, confidence, and wholeness. You’ll celebrate how far you’ve come and gently name where you’re still growing — because awareness is where transformation begins.
In this episode, you’...
Change doesn’t always mean failure—sometimes it’s faith in motion. In this week’s episode, Del shares what it really means to build resilience when life shifts and God gives you a clearer direction. Through personal reflection and biblical truth, you’ll learn how to pause, pivot, and plant new roots with purpose.
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Why releasing something good can...
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