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BECOME Empowered is a personal growth and entrepreneurship podcast featuring inspiring conversations with entrepreneurs, authors, speakers, coaches, and other successful leaders. Each episode explores the mindset, strategies, life lessons, and turning points that shaped their personal and professional journeys. Listen for real stories about resilience, confidence, leadership, business growth, overcoming adversity, and becoming the best version of yourself.

Recent Episodes

Aug. 13, 2026

The Dyslexia Professor: Why It's Not a Reading Problem — with Russell Van Brooklyn

Imagine walking into a state government internship, handing them an evaluation that says you read and write at a first-grade level — and walking out having earned fifteen credits of A-minus. Now imagine a university committee looking at that same work and flunking you to fifteen credits of F. That's the moment Russell Van Brooklyn stopped waiting for permission and decided to solve dyslexia himself. On this episode, Sabine sits down with Russell Van Brooklyn — known worldwide as the Dyslexia Pr
Aug. 6, 2026

The Voice That Saved Her: Fenix Shepard on Rock Bottom, Faith, and Being Loved Unconditionally

Some people find their turning point in a boardroom. Fenix Shepard found hers in a jail cell — where a total stranger looked at her with compassion and asked one question that cracked her life wide open: "Don't you think it's time to heal?" In this episode, Sabine sits down with Fenix Shepard — spiritual mentor, Navy veteran, trauma survivor, and author of Loved Unconditionally — for a conversation that goes straight to the heart. Fenix walks us back to her last rock bottom at 30, the correction
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July 30, 2026

From the Savanna to the MJ Stage: Courage, Reinvention & the Invisible Stage — with Dorina Malcheva

Thirty-five years ago, Sabine met an 18-year-old dancer in West Africa — talented, a little naïve, and not yet sure she belonged anywhere but the stage. In this episode, that young woman returns as Sabine's guest: Dorina Malcheva, now Artistic Director of MJ – The Michael Jackson Musical in Hamburg, Germany, leading a team of 34. It's a conversation that moves like a memory: the smell of the airport air, the fires along a dark road, the first show they ever built together in an African club. Bu
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July 23, 2026

From Rock Bottom to Recognized Authority: Jeremy Knauff's Blueprint for Rebuilding

Jeremy Knauff spent nearly two decades building a successful marketing agency — until a severe health crisis nearly killed him and took the business down with it. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, the U.S. Marine Corps veteran and founder of Spartan Media shares what it was like to lose everything, the autoimmune condition that brought him to the edge, and the moment a fellow Marine's suicide became the turning point that changed how he showed up in the world. Jeremy walks us through exactl
July 16, 2026

Courage Is Built, Not Found

You don't find courage — you build it, one bold step at a time. In this episode, Sabine unpacks why courage is forged in the moments when everything in you screams "stop," and why the difference between a wish and a whisper might be the thing standing between you and your next chapter. Get Your Free Bold Move Kit: https://sabinekvenberg.com/get-your-bold-move-kit Connect on Social Media: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/SabineKvenberg IG: https://www.instagram.com/sabinekvenberg/ LinkedIn: h
July 9, 2026

8 Minutes Gone: Jeff Luther on Rebuilding Life 30 Seconds at a Time

Jeff Luther collapsed mid-workout in front of his 16-year-old son — no pulse, no breath. Two AED shocks didn't bring him back. The third did. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Jeff walks us through what actually happens in the space between life and death, the paralyzing fear that followed a second cardiac arrest, and the exact moment — 30 seconds at a time — that he started rebuilding his life on his own terms. We talk about ego, gratitude, the stories we tell ourselves, and why the belief