Hey Gurlfraaand!! Podcast

Melissa teaches that becoming the woman you want is not a single dramatic moment but a series of small, consistent habit changes. Stop repeating old routines, choose one sustainable practice, and align your daily life with the identity you’re growing into.

She encourages reflection and action: ask what the future you needs, start or stop one habit this week, set boundaries, and prepare a space for the woman you’re becom...

Melissa urges listeners to stop waiting for a perfect feeling of readiness and to take small, brave actions toward the person they’re becoming. She explains that preparation can become procrastination, and confidence grows from evidence created by movement.

Her simple assignment: choose one thing you’ve been waiting on and take one uncomfortable step toward it this week, trusting that growth and clarity come as you move...

In this episode of the Becoming That Girl series, Melissa explores how our standards must reflect the woman we are becoming, not just who we used to be.

She breaks down non-negotiables like peace, integrity, and respect, explains why enforcing boundaries may cost relationships or comfort, and offers a healthier, compassionate approach to growth.

Walk away encouraged to stop tolerating old patterns, stop over-explaining your choices...

Melissa explores the uncomfortable "in-between" phase when you have outgrown parts of your life but haven’t fully arrived at who you are becoming. She explains why this gap matters, how to resist familiar traps, and how to use the quiet to rediscover and protect yourself.

Practical advice includes protecting your mornings, setting boundaries, keeping one promise to yourself, and reflecting on questions to guide one decision t...

Welcome back to Season 4 of the HGP!!

Melissa explores how healing can create an identity crisis and why that discomfort isn’t danger but adjustment. She breaks down how survival mode distorted personality, offers a simple exercise to separate protection from true traits, and speaks on grieving the old self while reclaiming values, boundaries, and rest.

This episode encourages embracing the messy, honest work of becoming you...

Melissa returns with the Season 4 premiere of the Hey Gurlfraaand! Podcast: Becoming that Girl, shifting from healing to becoming. This season explores identity, reinvention, setting boundaries, rebuilding standards, and showing up as the new you after recovery.

Join honest, supportive conversations about finding your voice, creating new sister circles, avoiding burnout, and living out loud as you grow into who you were meant to be...

Hey Gurlfraaaanddd!!! We are back!!!!!

Melissa returns for Season 3 to explore how global crises…economic strain, political division, climate disasters, and information overload are creating collective trauma and wearing us down.

She shares practical ways to protect mental health with the encouragement to keep living the best way we know how. Go to www.melissabaez.com and under Podca...

Hey Gurlfraaand!! Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Dear Entrepreneur series this is your mid-year checkup!!

It’s time to reconnect with the vision and get ready to finish the year strong. Get the practical steps that will guide you through resetting your process, get you focused on your core goals and give you the push you need to get back on track.

If you need accountability, consider joining my FREE mastermind gro...

Hey Gurlfraaand!! We are continuing on our healing journey and today we address church hurt!!

Are you ready for this one?? Of course you are!! This is not a bash session, we are validating feelings, acknowledging experiences and encouraging healing with tips that have worked for me.

If this episode helped you, share it with another gurlfraaand and make sure you subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episodes. 

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Hey Gurlfraaand!!!! We are healing!!! How is that going?!?!

In this episode, we are talking about why we keep attracting toxic people and why do we continue to entertain toxic relationships?!

We talk about how we choose what is familiar as opposed to what is healthy…and that we are determined to change!!

We are breaking toxic cycles and our bloodline will be forever grateful for the work we are doing as we heal.

Make sure to...

Hey Gurlfraaand!!! How are we handling our healing girl era??

In this episode we are addressing mother wounds and the impact it has on our relationships. We are identifying the signs of unhealed mother wounds and we are getting to the healing!! Because healing is our portion!!

Make sure to subscribe to the podcast and share with your gurlfraaands!!!! Connect with me at www.melissabaez.com. Sign up for my emails…I won’t...

Hey Gurlfraaand!!!! It’s a bonus episode!!

In this special Mother's Day edition we uncover the wound we unintentionally inflict on our children by not choosing ourselves.

This episode serves as a reminder…it reminds us that the greatest thing we can do for our children is live our best lives.

If this episode spoke to you, I encourage you to subscribe to my podcast and share it with a friend.

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Hey Gurlfraaand!! Today we are tenderly addressing father wounds—the emotional scars left by absent or emotionally unavailable fathers.

These wounds can deeply affect one's self-perception, relationships, and even spiritual beliefs. Listen as I share my own personal experience and offer steps to aide in your own healing. 

This is a safe space for reflection, healing and growth. Remember, you are not alone in this journey...

Welcome to season three of the Hey Gurlfraaand Podcast!! I wanted to give you a heads up of what to expect this season and give some tips to prepare for this healing journey.

We will be touching on father and mother wounds, childhood trauma, rejection, abandonment, abuse, church trauma, relationship trauma, toxic cycles and more!!!

In this season we are healing, setting boundaries, and embracing the new “us” that comes ...

Dear Entrepreneur...this is not the time to fall back, LEAD THE CHARGE!!

It's getting crazy out here in these streets yal!! Inflation is crazy, the housing market is crazy (for buyers and renters), mass layoffs is crazy, being in a recession is crazy (whats more crazy is the denial of being in a recession)...these things can shake people up!!

But not you, when others are scaling back...we are leading the charge. We are assessing t...

Hey Gurlfraaand - Entrepreneur!! You gon' need discipline for this journey!! On this episode I share some tips regarding being a disciplined entrepreneur. Whether you are in your entrepreneurial journey or thinking about starting it...you gon' need to listen to this one!! Excitement will only take you so far...you need discipline. I am also offering a 30 min FREE Breaking Ground Consultation for either my business coaching or life-...

Hey Gurlfraaand!! Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the podcast!! On today's episode I am not only reminding you that you need to take your seat and go...but I tell you why....because it's elevation time baby!! We can no longer entertain the old while stepping into the new.

I also share a special announcement!! I am in search of an assistant!! If you know someone please have them email their cover letter and resume to ...