She’s Ready For More

Kirstin Purcell got fired with a week’s notice — then built her own business. Here’s how, plus her best tips for hiring smarter. Today on She’s Ready for More, recruiter and Handshake & Heels founder Kirstin Purcell opens up about the moment she got let go, how she figured out health insurance and finances with no corporate safety net, and why she made a promise that no one would ever take her security a...

Have you ever felt like everything was falling apart — and somehow that was exactly what you needed? Clinical therapist, author, and transformational speaker L’Oreal Hartwell knows that feeling all too well. From losing everything in the 2008 financial crash, living in a hotel while pregnant with twins, to navigating bankruptcy, multiple business closures, and the sudden loss of her husband — L’Oreal has liv...

Jessica Weeks walked away from a 20-year career in civil rights at the Department of Justice to open her own nail salon , then opened up about surviving an abusive relationship, losing over 150 pounds, and starting over near 40.

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Jessica shares what working civil rights cases at the DOJ was really like, the day her entire department got let go, and how a single phone call led her back to...

In this episode, Amanda sits down with Angela Wynette , motivational speaker, life coach, seven-time author, Forbes featured, and 2025 International Impact Children’s Book Award winner. But the accolades aren’t the story. Angela opens up about being diagnosed with ovarian and cervical cancer at 19, the toxic marriage that followed unhealed pain, and how a COVID furlough became the moment God sat her down and redirected ...

What does it really mean to choose yourself when you don’t fully know who you are yet?

In this episode, Amanda sits down with Urmi Hossain , finance professional, self-published author, podcast host, and women’s empowerment advocate , to talk about identity, belonging, and the courage it takes to stop fitting in and start showing up. Urmi shares what it was like growing up between two cultures, how she wrote her book Dis...

What does it look like to lose almost everything and still say yes to God?

In this episode, Amanda sits down with Sharr Harden, founder of the Saved Now What Movement , a faith community for women ready to stop surviving and start thriving. Sharr shares her journey through new age religion, the back-to-back loss of her mother and grandmother, depression, and a pruning season that nearly broke her. Then God told her she was the bluep...

What would your life look like if you finally healed your relationship with money?

In this episode, Amanda sits down with financial coach Prea Epps, who went from childhood financial trauma and Chapter 13 bankruptcy to homeownership and a thriving coaching business and she’s holding nothing back. Prea breaks down how early experiences silently shape the way we handle money, what it actually took to rebuild, and why being good ...

Sonja Keeve is a master podcast coach, CEO of Sisters With a Voice Podcast Network, and author of Always Keep Your Joy. She helps women turn their voice into authority, visibility, and real revenue — in 30 days. This one is for the woman who’s lost something she didn’t expect to lose and needs to be reminded it’s not the end of her story.

Timestamps

Guest Introduction

(00:00:00) Sonja shares who she is at her c...

You know exactly what you want to say. You’ve rehearsed it a hundred times. But when the moment comes — you go quiet. In this episode, Amanda gets honest about the conversations we keep putting off in our closest relationships and why staying silent is costing us more than we think. She shares her own story of pushing through postpartum depression, working from home with an infant, and spending two months too long afrai...

You are waiting until you feel ready. Until you have more confidence, more time, more resources, more of whatever you think you need. But what if God is not waiting on the polished version of you — what if he already called the one standing right here?

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice gets real about every moment she stood at the edge of something and talked herself out of it before she even tried....

Who were you before anybody had an opinion about you?

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice gets deeply personal about the moment someone close to her said something that changed the way she saw herself — and how she spent years rearranging herself around words that person probably forgot they ever said. This episode is for the woman who has been living an edited version of herself and does not even ful...

You are doing the work. You are showing up. You are being consistent. So why aren’t you seeing results yet?

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice gets honest about one of the most frustrating parts of growth — the quiet season where you are putting in the effort but nothing around you looks different yet. She unpacks why real transformation does not happen on our timeline, why delayed does not mea...

If life feels like it is pulling things away from you right now — friendships shifting, priorities changing, things that once felt comfortable suddenly feeling off — this episode is going to give you language for what is actually happening.

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice introduces one of the most important and least talked about stages of growth — pruning. The season where things are...

Growth looks boring before it looks beautiful.

In this episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice goes deeper into the transformation season — past the seed planting and into the part that nobody glamorizes. The inner work. The mindset shifts. The boundaries that have to be set. The emotional regulation that has to be developed. The honest conversations you have to have with yourself before anything on the outside s...

What would you say to the younger version of you — the one who didn’t have all the answers yet, who was still scared, still figuring it out, still trying to find where she belonged?

In this closing episode of the Women’s History Month series, Amanda Justice asked women in her community to write letters to their younger selves — and the result is one of the most moving episodes of She’s Ready for More ye...

Have you ever walked into a room that used to feel completely comfortable — and suddenly it just feels off? Nothing dramatic happened. Nobody said anything. But something inside you has shifted and you cannot fully explain it.

That is not a breakdown. That is growth. And it comes with a grief that nobody prepares you for.

In this Women’s History Month episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice unpacks the ident...

How come I have to be the strong one?

If you have ever had that thought quietly — not as a complaint, but as a real moment of exhaustion — this episode is going to meet you right where you are.

In this Women’s History Month episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice gets honest about what it actually costs to be the strong one. Not just physically tired, but the kind of tired that comes from carrying ever...

Why do I feel like I keep starting over? Why am I not further along? Why does it feel like something is always changing?

If you have asked yourself any of those questions — this episode is going to reframe everything.

In this Women’s History Month episode of She’s Ready for More, Amanda Justice challenges the narrative that reinvention means failure and evolution means you are behind. Drawing from the history of wom...