Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice with Isabel Draughon

Isabel Draughon

Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice | Health, Healing & Conscious Leadership Loud Whisper is more than a podcast it is a healing space for humanity, truth, and transformation. Hosted by transformational coach, speaker, and conscious leadership mentor Isabel Draughon, this podcast brings together courageous visionaries, healers, leaders, advocates, wellness experts, and storytellers for conversations that awaken, challenge, and reconnect us to what it truly means to be human. In a world that constantly rewards performance, productivity, and perfection, Loud Whisper invites listeners back to themselves. Through raw conversations, powerful storytelling, expert insight, and soul-centered wisdom, we explore healing, identity, leadership, emotional well-being, spirituality, self-worth, purpose, grief, and personal transformation. This is a space for truth-telling. A space for unlearning. A space for remembering your voice. Guests do not just share their stories here they ignite something in the people who were meant to hear them.  If your work lives at the intersection of inner healing and meaningful impact, and your message has the power to shift how someone sees themselves, we want you in the room. Together, we are amplifying voices that heal, liberate, and transform. I am a champion for love and humanity

  1. 4d ago

    You Didn't Go Through All That Just to Be "Fine": Healing Betrayal | Dr. Debi Silber | Loud Whisper

    "You didn't go through all that just to be fine." That line lands harder the longer you sit with it, and it's the heart of this conversation. This week Isabel talks with Dr. Debi Silber, a holistic psychologist who didn't just study betrayal, she lived it. First from her family, then from her husband. After the second one she got him out of the house, looked at both experiences, and realized the common thread besides her was that she never took her own needs seriously. So with four kids, six dogs, a business, and thirty years since she had last been in school, she enrolled in a PhD program to study betrayal at the highest level. Her research turned into three discoveries that changed how we understand it. Here is the one that reframes everything: betrayal is not like other trauma. When you lose someone you love, people rally around you and you grieve. With betrayal, the person you trusted most becomes the person who hurt you, so you don't just lose them. You start questioning your own judgment, your sanity, and whether you can trust anyone ever again. And because the betrayer is so often loved by everyone else, you end up carrying it in silence. Debi walks Isabel through her five stages of healing, and why almost everyone gets stuck in stage three. Stage three is where you can finally function again, so it feels like progress. But you're living behind walls, flat, numbing the day with food or work or wine, telling yourself you're fine. People stay there for ten, twenty, thirty years. She also explains something a lot of us have never heard: why traditional therapy, as well intentioned as it is, can quietly lock you into that stage instead of moving you out of it. And Isabel brings in the thread she has been teaching for years. We are so quick to say this person or that person betrayed us, but the betrayal that keeps us smallest is often the one we commit against ourselves. A few things they get into: Why betrayal is its own kind of trauma, and why time alone never heals it The symptom cluster now known as Post Betrayal Syndrome, and how it shows up in the body The five stages of healing, and the one where almost everyone gets stuck How therapy can accidentally keep you stuck instead of moving you forward The woman in her eighties who healed a seventy year gut issue in two weeks Self-betrayal, and why women do it more than anyone The real cost of "easy now" and the payoff of "hard now" Why a boundary is thirty seconds of discomfort for a lifetime of freedom "The worst of it already happened. You owe it to yourself to see what the other side feels like." Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice is a podcast for anyone who is tired of performing and ready to come home to themselves. Hosted by Isabel Draughon: coach, speaker, and author. Connect with Dr. Debi Silber: ↳ The PBT Institute: https://thepbtinstitute.com ↳ Instagram: @debisilber ↳ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/debisilber ↳ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/debisilber ↳ TikTok: @debisilber ↳ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InspireEmpowerTransform ↳ Her podcast, From Betrayal to Breakthrough: https://thepbtinstitute.com/podcast ↳ Her books: Trust Again, The Unshakable Woman, and From Hardened to Healed Connect with Isabel Draughon: ↳ Website: https://www.isabeldraughon.com ↳ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabeldraughon/ ↳ Loud Whisper IG: https://www.instagram.com/loudwhisper_reigniteyourvoice/ ↳ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Loud-Whisper-Reignite-Your-Voice-with-Isabel-Draughon-100049057790233/ ↳ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loud-whisper-reignite-your-voice-with-isabel-draughon/id1526408195 📅 Book a free 30-min discovery session: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/contact 📖 Get the Loud Whisper Journal: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/shop If this one moved you, subscribe, rate, and leave a review. It helps us reach more people who need to hear it. 🤍 #LoudWhisper #ReigniteYourVoice #BetrayalRecovery #PostBetrayalSyndrome #Betrayal #Trust #SelfBetrayal #HealingJourney #Boundaries #EmotionalHealing #TraumaHealing #SelfWorth #WomensHealing #TrustYourself #InnerHealing #Wholeness #ComingHomeToYourself #Rebuild #Rebirth #NewEpisode The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    43 min
  2. Jun 24

    The Broken Parts Are the Parts People Love (They Just Don't Know It Yet) | Danitza Borges & Isabel Draughon

    "The broken parts are the parts people love. They just don't know it yet." That one line is worth the whole listen, and it stopped Isabel in her tracks. In this episode, Isabel sits down with Danitza Borges, a former corrections officer who lived through a situation that nearly cost her life. When the adrenaline wore off, one thought hit her: if she had died that day, her three-year-old son would have had almost nothing left of her. She went looking for a way to leave messages behind for the people she loved, couldn't find one, and spent the next six years building it herself. That became Elys, a platform that holds your videos, voice notes, photos, and music and delivers them to your loved ones on the dates you choose, even after you're gone. Out of the same need she also created the Hot Button, a safety app that starts recording the moment you feel unsafe, whether you're getting into a rideshare, heading out on a first date, or going for a jog. If your phone gets taken from you, the message still reaches your people. As Danitza puts it, the system was only ever built to help after something happens. Women deserve to be protected before. From there the two of them get into the things that don't usually make it into a polished bio. The masks we inherit and wear for years. Why we abandon ourselves just to keep everyone else comfortable. What a real legacy actually looks like once you strip away the followers and the bank account. And how loneliness quietly became one of the most dangerous things we're up against. Danitza opens up about the abuse in her past, the mask she chose to survive it, and the slow work of chiseling it off. Isabel gets honest about her own years of living with a victim mentality and what it finally took to put it down. It's funny in places, tender in others, and at one point Danitza pays the show a compliment that brings Isabel to tears. A few of the things they get into: How a near-death moment became Elys and the Hot ButtonThe jogging story you kind of have to hear to believeWhat a "legacy life" really means (hint: it isn't the followers or the bank account)Why we celebrate the finish line instead of the person who showed up to runLoneliness as an epidemic, and what leaning on AI for connection is quietly costing usThe "strong woman" mask, and why it doesn't peel off like a Band-AidLosing people as you heal, and learning who is actually meant to fly with youTaking the little girl inside you out of the driver's seat"You're always the cake. Everything else is just the icing." Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice is a podcast for women who are tired of performing and ready to come home to themselves. Hosted by Isabel Draughon: coach, speaker, author, and a recovering people-pleaser who has walked this road herself. Connect with Danitza Borges: - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elys_legacy Connect with Isabel Draughon: - Website: https://www.isabeldraughon.com - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabeldraughon/ - Loud Whisper IG: https://www.instagram.com/loudwhisper_reigniteyourvoice/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-draughon-acc-cpcc-5489a762/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Loud-Whisper-Reignite-Your-Voice-with-Isabel-Draughon-100049057790233/ - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loud-whisper-reignite-your-voice-with-isabel-draughon/id1526408195 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmrSPi3BkJapDCntfVV2cxw - Book a free 30-min discovery session: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/contact - Get the Loud Whisper Journal: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/shop If this one moved you, subscribe, rate, and leave a review. It helps us reach more women who need to hear it. #LoudWhisper #ReigniteYourVoice #SelfAbandonment #HealingJourney #WomensSafety #Legacy #AuthenticSelf #TheMasksWeWear #InnerHealing #SelfWorth #WomenEmpowerment #PodcastForWomen #Sisterhood #SelfLove #Boundaries #Wholeness #ComingHomeToYourself #WomenSupportingWomen #MentalWellness #NewEpisode The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    1h 19m
  3. Jun 23

    The Very Thing You're Ashamed Of Is the Very Thing That Sets You Free | Shame

    What if the very thing you're most ashamed of is the exact thing meant to set you free? In this deeply personal solo episode of Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice, Isabel Draughon opens her heart and shares a story she carried for nearly three decades. Sent from her home in Africa to the United States at 19 to chase an education, Isabel found herself pregnant and alone.. 8,000 miles from home, and spent years hiding in shame, convinced she had let her family down and fallen behind everyone around her. This is the story of how that shame slowly lost its grip… and how Isabel came to understand that the experience she was most ashamed of is the very thing that prepared her to guide and empower women today. As her youngest steps into adulthood, Isabel reflects on motherhood, identity, and the quiet voice that woke her one morning with a truth she'll never forget: "The very thing that you are ashamed of is the very thing that has set you free." If shame has kept you silent, small, or hidden, consider this your invitation to set it down, and finally come home to yourself. In this episode: Why we hand so much power to shame and what it quietly costs usIsabel's untold story of teenage motherhood, secrecy, and survival far from homeThe conversation with a dear friend that began to break shame's holdHow our hardest experiences become our deepest purposeWhy you can't fully step into authenticity until you release shameA reminder that a past phase does not get to define who you are"We have to stop being apologetic for being human." — Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice is your healing space, a podcast for women ready to heal, grow, and amplify their authentic voice. Hosted by Isabel Draughon: transformational coach, speaker, author, and student of life. Connect with Isabel Draughon: - Website: https://www.isabeldraughon.com - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/isabeldraughon/ - Loud Whisper IG: https://www.instagram.com/loudwhisper_reigniteyourvoice/ - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabel-draughon-acc-cpcc-5489a762/ - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/p/Loud-Whisper-Reignite-Your-Voice-with-Isabel-Draughon-100049057790233/ - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/loud-whisper-reignite-your-voice-with-isabel-draughon/id1526408195 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmrSPi3BkJapDCntfVV2cxw - Book a free 30-min discovery session: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/contact - Get the Loud Whisper Journal: https://www.isabeldraughon.com/shop If this episode spoke to you, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review, it helps us reach more women ready to heal. #LoudWhisper #ReigniteYourVoice #HealingShame #LetGoOfShame #WomensHealing #AuthenticSelf #ComingHomeToYourself #InnerHealing #SelfWorth #WomenEmpowerment #HealingJourney #TransformationalCoaching #Sisterhood #PodcastForWomen #SelfLove #Unapologetic #SpiritualGrowth #MentalWellness #WholenessJourney #ShamePodcast The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    42 min
  4. Apr 15

    Stop trying to fix your life with Stuart Perrin

    Here are longer versions for the mirror reel: Option 1: Stop trying to fix your life. I know that sounds counterintuitive. But hear me out. If you looked in the mirror and saw a pimple on your face  you wouldn't try to wipe it off the glass. You'd go to where the pimple actually is. That's exactly what most people are doing with their lives. They see something wrong  in their relationships, their career, their circumstances  and they spend all their energy trying to fix what's outside of them. Never stopping to ask: what if the real work is internal? Stuart Perrin put it in a way I'll never forget. The moment you change what's within you you will literally see the world differently. And when you see differently, everything changes. This episode will challenge how you've been approaching your own life. The Healing Space Podcast with Stuart Perrin is live now. Link in bio. The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    1h 10m
  5. Mar 23

    When Success No Longer Feels Like You | Identity, Healing & Alignment With Lavada Hamphrey

    There’s a version of you the world has come to know—strong, capable, reliable, successful. But what happens when that version no longer feels like you? In this deeply honest and powerful conversation, we go beyond surface-level success and into the quiet truth many high-achieving women carry but rarely say out loud. The pressure to hold it all together. The silent disconnection. The emotional burnout that comes from constantly performing and never truly feeling seen. This episode explores what it really means to reconnect with your inner voice, rebuild self-trust, and return to alignment with who you truly are. Together, we unpack: The hidden cost of high-functioning burnoutWhat it feels like to lose your identity while doing everything “right”How trauma, conditioning, and expectations shape the way women show upThe process of healing, self-discovery, and emotional alignmentWhat it takes to reclaim your voice and step into authentic leadershipThis is a conversation about personal growth, identity work, and the journey back to yourself. If you’ve been feeling disconnected, overwhelmed, or quietly questioning your life—this is your reminder that you are not broken… you’re being called back into alignment. You are not lost.  You are returning to yourself. The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    50 min
  6. Feb 9

    Stop Procrastinating Your Life Away: Why Self-Trust Is the Real Missing Piece with Larisa Makuch

    What if procrastination isn't about time management at all but about not trusting yourself? In this powerful conversation, I sit down with Larisa Makuch, author of Stop Procrastinating Your Life Away, to explore why so many high-achieving women look successful on paper but feel stuck, disconnected, and quietly dissatisfied within. We dive deep into: ✨ Why you're acting busy instead of acting aligned ✨ The real reason you keep putting off your soul's whispers ✨ How to find the tiny piece of self-trust you still have (yes, it's there) ✨ Why picking your pain is one of the most powerful choices you can make ✨ The difference between transformation and performative productivity This isn't about doing more. It's about being brave enough to stop postponing your truth. If you're tired of waiting on your life, this conversation is your invitation to come home to yourself. Your life has meaning. The world needs you. Let's stop waiting and start living. #LoudWhisperPodcast #StopProcrastinating #SelfTrust #HighAchievers #AuthenticLiving #PersonalTransformation #InnerWork #LarisaMakuch The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    54 min
  7. Jan 22

    Loud Whisper: Where Real Strength Lives — A Conversation with Stuart Perrin

    Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice In this powerful episode, I sit down with Stuart Perrin to explore the life-changing power of meditation not as a belief system, but as a craft that builds inner strength and resilience. From how he began his journey to transforming his life and the lives of those around him, Stuart shares deep insights on where real power actually comes from, why your foundation matters more than you think, and how to build enough inner capacity to live fully without burnout or collapse. We discuss: Why meditation isn't about escape — it's about showing up more powerfully in the worldThe difference between a spiritual life and spirituality as ideologyHow building your core energy (qi) allows your heart to stay open and your success to have meaningReal stories of transformation: from teaching in prisons and universities to building businesses while maintaining inner peaceIf you've ever felt overwhelmed, disconnected, drained by the world, or in need of stillness that actually lasts this conversation is for you. Listen on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | YouTube #LoudWhisperPodcast #ReigniteYourVoice #MeditationJourney #Mindfulness #MentalWellness #InnerPeace #SelfGrowth #PersonalDevelopment #Wellbeing #HealingConversations #ConsciousLiving #StuartPerrin The Loud Whisper Podcast: The Healing Space is your health and wellness podcast  the place where you can pause, breathe, and heal. Here, we explore conversations that nourish the mind, body, and soul, guiding you back to balance, clarity, and truth. ✨ Stay connected with me, Isabel Draughon:  Website: www.isabeldraughon.com  Instagram: @isabel_draughon LinkedIn: Isabel Draughon If you loved this episode, please subscribe, rate, and leave a review—your support helps us amplify these soulful conversations. Together, we’re creating a community rooted in healing, wellness, and conscious living.

    55 min
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Loud Whisper: Reignite Your Voice | Health, Healing & Conscious Leadership Loud Whisper is more than a podcast it is a healing space for humanity, truth, and transformation. Hosted by transformational coach, speaker, and conscious leadership mentor Isabel Draughon, this podcast brings together courageous visionaries, healers, leaders, advocates, wellness experts, and storytellers for conversations that awaken, challenge, and reconnect us to what it truly means to be human. In a world that constantly rewards performance, productivity, and perfection, Loud Whisper invites listeners back to themselves. Through raw conversations, powerful storytelling, expert insight, and soul-centered wisdom, we explore healing, identity, leadership, emotional well-being, spirituality, self-worth, purpose, grief, and personal transformation. This is a space for truth-telling. A space for unlearning. A space for remembering your voice. Guests do not just share their stories here they ignite something in the people who were meant to hear them.  If your work lives at the intersection of inner healing and meaningful impact, and your message has the power to shift how someone sees themselves, we want you in the room. Together, we are amplifying voices that heal, liberate, and transform. I am a champion for love and humanity