Intrepid Storytelling
Intrepid Storytelling Podcast with Deanna Powell — Real Stories. Raw Truth. Unbreakable Spirit. The Intrepid Storytelling Podcast is a powerful, truth-driven space where host Deanna Powell dives deep into the human experience through real, unfiltered, and transformational stories. Each episode features courageous individuals who have faced adversity, trauma, resilience, healing, reinvention, and personal breakthroughs. From survival and recovery to empowerment and purpose, this podcast uncovers the lessons, wisdom, and inspiration hidden within life’s most challenging chapters. Whether it’s overcoming abuse, battling illness, rebuilding after loss, or finding your voice after silence, these stories remind us of the strength we all carry. Perfect for listeners who crave authentic storytelling, personal growth, healing journeys, resilience narratives, and inspiring conversations that spark hope and change. Join Deanna each week as she amplifies voices that deserve to be heard and celebrates the bold, brave, and intrepid spirit within us all.
Episodes
What happens when the things you were told about yourself as a child become the beliefs that shape your entire life? And what happens when you finally find the courage to challenge those beliefs and rediscover who you really are?
In this powerful episode of Intrepid Storytelling, host Deanna Powell sits down with Lena Fein, author of Shattering the Mirror, to explore childhood trauma, emotional abuse, shame, self-discovery, and the...
What happens when a Bible study that seems harmless slowly becomes a high-control religious group? And how do you recognize manipulation when you genuinely believe you’re doing the right thing?
On this episode of Intrepid Storytelling, host Deanna Powell sits down with Chris Vishoot to share his experience inside Shincheonji, New Heavens, New Earth, also known as the Church of Jesus, the Temple of the Tabernacle of the Testim...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Jacob Berman to explore biblical scholarship, resisting religious conversion, and the ancient origins of monotheism. Jacob Berman shares his unique story of growing up in Texas, navigating a religiously non-dogmatic household, and resisting conversion to Christianity during his teenage years. Through critical examination of ancient texts like D...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Leilani Wells to explore non-traditional paths to success, radical self-reliance, and reclaiming personal agency. Picking up immediately following her release from juvenile placement, Leilani Wells details how working travel carnival jobs at age 15 became her ticket out of a volatile environment. She candidly shares her journey through standing...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Leilani Wells to explore complex family secrets, teenage homelessness, and corrupt juvenile justice systems.
Leilani Wells opens up about growing up amidst volatile domestic altercations, hidden paternity truths, and a search for cultural identity in Southern California. Driven to run away as a teenager to escape a toxic home environment, she na...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Fausto Castellanos to talk about his Grooming, Child Sexual Abuse, Crystal Meth Addiction, and Radical Forgiveness. Fausto grew up in an environment shaped by paternal narcissistic abuse and early childhood sexual trauma, developing chameleon-like coping mechanisms and the need for attention and acceptance to survive. As a teenager, his emotion...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Richelle Bauman to explore surviving childhood abuse, escaping violent relationships, and reclaiming life as a paralegal. Richelle Bauman shares her harrowing journey of growing up amidst severe domestic violence, child abuse, and a broken foster care system. After enduring traumatic instability, family betrayal, and horrific physical threats f...
In this full episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Mirella Stoyanova to explore trauma recovery, international adoption, and identity reclamation. Mirella Stoyanova is a writer and licensed therapist who experienced a harrowing childhood in Bulgaria, witnessing a tragic murder-suicide involving her parents at just three years old. Following this trauma, she was adopted twice, first by her ...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Sam Squanch with PP Washington to explore confronting childhood abuse, hunting online child predators, and protecting kids in the digital age. Sam open-heartedly shares the dark reality of his childhood abuse and the years of self-destruction and meth addiction that followed. After battling through his personal trauma and finding sobriety, he s...
In this episode of the Intrepid Storytelling podcast, host Deanna Powell sits down with Laurie Thibert to explore the CATR Theory of relationships, navigating corporate betrayal, and parenting through trauma and addiction. Laurie Thibert shares her journey from being a peacekeeper in a family of eight to facing high-stakes corporate sabotage and severe personal adversity. After being scapegoated and threatened by her business part...
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