Education → Self-Improvement Episodes

Tony Award-nominated, Grammy Award-winning Broadway veteran Brenda Braxton has spent decades performing in iconic productions including Dreamgirls, Cats, Smokey Joe’s Café, and Chicago. At 70, she is still performing, creating, building businesses—and refusing to let age define what comes next. In this episode, Brenda shares the realities behind a life in theater, the moment the industry began seeing her differently as she aged, and how her own experience with menopause inspired PAUSE by BBRAXTON™. We talk about reinvention, caregiving, self-care, finding the right information for your own menopause journey, and why taking time for yourself isn’t something women should feel guilty about. Her message is simple: life doesn’t stop at midlife. Protect your joy, find your community, and give yourself permission to take the pause you need.

JoAnn Kisler is a Master’s-Level Metaphysics Practitioner, Spiritual Life Coach, founder of Breath of Energia Healing, and author of Thought Menu. Her work explores the Mother Wound, ancestral conditioning, and how the thoughts and beliefs we inherit can quietly shape the lives we create. In this episode, JoAnn shares practical ways to interrupt those patterns, from journaling and conscious language to boundaries, forgiveness, prayer, meditation, and learning to “love people from afar.” At the heart of the conversation is a powerful question: What are you allowing to sit at the table in your mind? Because changing your life may begin with changing your Thought Menu.