AW Confidential
Unfiltered Conversations on Culture, Identity, Healing & Reinvention. AW Confidential is the unapologetic Society & Culture podcast where truth-telling meets star power. A 2025 Latin Podcast Award winner for Best Podcast – Estados Unidos, with 11 nominations across 2024 and 2025, host Yvette Bodden goes beyond the headlines in raw conversations with Hollywood actors, cultural disruptors, and entrepreneurs. No scripts. No sugar-coating. Just stories of resilience, identity, and reinvention that prove one thing: in this space, nothing is confidential.
Episodes
Night Agent, and his work across powerhouse shows, including Blue Bloods, FBI: Most Wanted, and Law & Order: Organized Crime.
In this grounded and thought-provoking conversation, we explore what it truly means to portray authority on screen, how Hollywood’s definition of a powerful man is evolving, and why leadership is more than a title.
Gary also opens up about stepping into creative ownership as a writer and producer and what ...
In this episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with Danica Jones and Clyde Berning, stars of the action thriller Hunting Jessica Brok, for a conversation that goes far beyond the action.
At its core, the film explores the battle of shadow, the internal war between the person you are trying to become and the instincts you hoped you would never need again. As a former elite Black Ops soldier turned mother, Jessica is forced to confr...
Actor Gabriel Sloyer is known for his roles in Netflix’s hit series Griselda, Narcos, and Prime Video’s The Better Sister. The actor joined AW Confidential to discuss his powerful performance as Mr. Chairman in the new action thriller, The Protector.
In this candid conversation, we go beyond the action to unpack the psychology of power, what it takes to inhabit a ruthless character, and how actors navigate roles rooted in dark syste...
When circus-performer-turned-filmmaker Katelyn McCulloch lost her entire first short film in a hard-drive crash, it should’ve been the end of the story.
Instead, it became the moment everything began.
In this powerful episode of AW Confidential, Katelyn joins AW for a raw, funny, and honest conversation about rebuilding after breakdowns — artistic, emotional, and personal.
What started as a total loss turned into a $40 pizza-fueled mi...
What does it take to lead with empathy in environments built on pressure, power, and performance?
In this powerful episode of AW Confidential, Yvette sits down with Carolina Rodriguez, Vice President of Marketing at World Emblem, to unpack what it really means to lead in male-dominated industries—without losing yourself in the process.
Carolina opens up about navigating toxic corporate cultures, surviving poor leadership, and why so ...
In this episode of AW Confidential, actor Jarrett Austin Brown joins the show to talk about Peacock’s new mockumentary STUMBLE — and the deeper story beneath the laughs.
While STUMBLE centers on the chaotic world of competitive cheer, Jarrett’s character, DiMarcus, brings forward a more universal conversation about belonging, ego, masculinity, and redefining strength. We explore what happens when confidence masks insecurity, how hum...
In this episode of AW Confidential, actress Astrid Rotenberry (Netflix’s His & Hers) joins us for a deeply honest conversation about seeing the industry from both sides of the table. Before stepping in front of the camera, Astrid interned at a casting office. She shares the hit series, her Hollywood journey, boundary-setting, ambition, self-belief, and what true self-advocacy requires.
We talk about filming His & Hers in At...
In this powerful episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with iconic Hollywood director Renny Harlin, whose legendary career spans genre-defining classics including Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master.
As Harlin closes the final chapter of The Strangers trilogy, this conversation goes beyond the screen to explore the responsibility of directing stories rooted in psycho...
What does power look like when it’s rooted in self-awareness… not ego?
What does leadership feel like when you’re still finding your footing?
And how does a man step into the Oval Office — on screen — while staying grounded in his truth?
This week on AW Confidential, AW sits down with Russell Thomas, the thoughtful, soft-spoken force behind Eli, the Vice President (and newly rising acting President) on Tyler Perry’s hit BET drama The ...
In this episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with acclaimed Colombian-American playwright, actor, singer, and producer Sandra Delgado — a woman New City Chicago hails as “her own brand of triple threat.”
Sandra is the creative force behind the nationally praised play Hundreds and Hundreds of Stars. This story refuses to let us look away from the human cost of America’s broken immigration system. Through her writing and performan...
This week on AW Confidential, we sit down with the brilliant and beloved Al Madrigal — comedian, actor, writer, executive producer, and former Senior Latino Correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. From his breakout days in San Francisco’s stand-up scene to winning the Jury Award for Best Stand-Up at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival and performing on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and Conan, Al’s journey is nothing shor...
This week on AW Confidential, we’re going behind the scenes of AFAM Wives Club, iWant’s boldest reality-drama yet — with three of the women who are redefining what modern Filipina storytelling looks like. Mari Fowler, Keylyn Trajano, and Julia Chu join AW for a conversation that feels like sitting inside the group chat: hilarious, raw, fearless, and overflowing with truth.
We dive into:
What it really feels like to live your real...
In this episode of AW Confidential, host Yvette Bodden sits down with her cousin for an honest conversation about family, cultural identity, and healing while growing up Latina.
Together, they unpack the unspoken truths of life in a loud, loving, and wildly dysfunctional Dominican/Puerto Rican family and what it takes to break generational cycles.
In this deeply personal (and borderline scandalous) conversation:
No names. No blam...
In this special holiday episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with director, producer, and co-writer Josh Webber, the creative force behind Dog Patrol: Operation Santa Paws, a film that delivers more than festive charm.
Behind the Christmas lights and adventure, Dog Patrol carries a powerful message about courage, loyalty, redemption, and the second chances we all need, as we head into 2025.
Josh joins AW for an intimate, purpose-...
After fifteen years on General Hospital, Daytime Emmy winner Chad Duell steps out from behind the script to talk identity, purpose, and life beyond the camera. In this honest conversation, Chad opens up about the discipline that shaped him, the spiritual lessons learned along the way, and the resilience it takes to start fresh after the world already thinks it knows who you are.
This one’s about more than career — it’s about redisco...
Zack Quin — the Nuyorican comedian whose 694K-strong community and 75M TikTok likes have made him one of the most influential Latino voices online — joins AW Confidential for a raw, hilarious, and deeply human conversation about culture, comedy, and healing out loud.
In this in-studio episode, we dive into Latino identity, resilience through humor, and the unexpected emotional truth behind the character everyone knows as The Nuyoric...
What does it take to walk away from the safe path and chase a dream?
Actress Dani Deetté knows. She left the Michigan Circuit Courts behind to reinvent her life on screen, now starring as Wendy Wysong in Amazon Prime’s The Runarounds.
Dani has also guest-starred in FBI: Most Wanted (TOS), Dark Matter, Based on a True Story, Tulsa King, Bull, NCIS: New Orleans, and held a recurring role in Ozark and held recurring roles in Ozark, Ma...
In this episode of AW Confidential, AW sits down with Belissa Escobedo (Blue Beetle, Hocus Pocus 2, The Baker and the Beauty) and Pablo Castelblanco (Alaska Daily, Dear White People, Scream Queens), stars of NBC’s Happy’s Place.
They open up about what it means to represent Latino culture in Hollywood, breaking past stereotypes, and finding pride in their roots while chasing their dreams. It’s a bold and heartfelt conversation abou...
In this episode of AW Confidential, we step into the magical world of Apple TV+’s The Sisters Grimm. Based on Michael Buckley’s New York Times bestselling book series, the animated fantasy follows two orphaned sisters descended from the Brothers Grimm who must navigate a town filled with heroes and villains pulled straight from storybooks, all while searching for the truth about their missing parents.
Featuring an incredible voice ...
In this episode of AW Confidential, host Yvette Bodden sits down with actress Sam Morelos, who stars as Lexi in Regretting You — the upcoming film adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel.
Known for her roles in That ’90s Show and Descendants: The Rise of Red, Sam brings humor, heart, and authenticity to a story about love, loss, and the bonds that help us heal.
Yvette and Sam open up about the emotional layers behind friends...
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