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Brenda Winkle Empowerment, LLC

Helping empathic leaders grow into their next chapter without losing themselves 🎙 Top 5% podcast “Your Yes-Filled Life”🎙️

I am an energetic leadership guide, intuitive channel, and somatic mentor helping visionary professionals, founders, and entrepreneurs reclaim their energy, trust their inner knowing, and lead with clarity, soul, and ease. Blending decades of experience in leadership and education with intuitive gifts, energy healing, and trauma-informed somatic work, I support high-capacity leaders—executives, ed

ucators, physicians, creatives, and spiritual seekers—through transitions that demand more than mindset alone. My grounded yet expansive approach helps leaders come home to themselves and lead from presence, not pressure. Known for my calm authority, psychic precision, and nurturing presence, I create high-frequency spaces for deep recalibration—whether I'm speaking on stage, coaching a group, guiding breathwork, conducting a choir, or working 1:1 with clients ready to step into their next chapter.

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09/07/2026

My doctor told me that dancing saved my ass.

His exact words. 😂

What I thought was a hip problem is actually an old glute injury that has apparently been trying to heal for a while. He told me that continuing to dance may actually have helped me maintain mobility.

Which is fabulous news because I love dancing.

But after seeing him Friday, I was sore.

I danced anyway because I really wanted to.

And then my body made it pretty damn clear that what it needed next was rest.

So I didn’t dance yesterday.

I didn’t dance today.

And yes, I was disappointed.

But I also noticed something else:

It felt really good to honor myself.

Not because resting was what I wanted most.

Because it was what I knew I needed.

And that feels especially poignant right now because I’m about to teach YES TO ME again.

The first and second times I taught this experience were right around one of the biggest yeses of my own life: leaving education and stepping fully into the work I do now.

YES TO ME has changed since then.

So have I.

But every time I teach it, I watch women hear something in themselves that matters - and what they do with that knowing can change things.

Sometimes your yes is a giant life change.

Sometimes it’s finally admitting what you want.

Sometimes it’s a boundary.

And sometimes your yes is:

Girl, sit your ass down. We’re not dancing tonight.

Self-trust isn’t always doing what feels exciting.

Sometimes it’s trusting yourself enough to honor what you hear, even when another part of you is disappointed.

That’s what we’re practicing inside YES TO ME.

September 15 | 6–8 PM Pacific
Free + live on Zoom

09/06/2026

I wasn’t looking for this.

I was cleaning off a bookshelf today and found this piece of paper tucked between two books.

I’ve moved these books multiple times. I mean… MOVED… like to new houses, new states, into storage, back out of storage.

I don’t remember putting this there.

Honestly, I barely remember writing it.

October 2016.

“My intention is that I am a sought after spiritual teacher and coach or something better.”

And I just stood there looking at it.

Because almost ten years ago, some version of me knew.

She didn’t know exactly what the business would look like. She didn’t know about the podcast or POWER or the women I’d coach. She couldn’t have predicted all the ways my work would evolve.

But she could hear something.

And maybe that’s the part that gets me the most.

We spend so much time believing we need to have the whole thing figured out before we can trust what we’re hearing.

Sometimes you don’t.

Sometimes the knowing comes first.

The evidence comes later.

And sometimes, almost ten years later, you find a piece of paper between two books that reminds you:

You’ve been hearing yourself longer than you realized.

This is the work I’m inviting you into with YES TO ME on September 15.

Not figuring out your entire life in two hours.

Making enough room underneath everyone else’s needs, opinions and energy to hear what you have to say.

And if you already know you want to build the capacity to keep trusting what you hear, that’s the work we’re doing for a full year inside POWER: Self-Trust for Empaths.

YES TO ME helps you hear yourself.

POWER helps you practice trusting what you hear.

Maybe there’s something you’ve been hearing for a long time, too.

🔗 for both are in the b!0

09/05/2026

Something is shifting.

And for those of us who feel deeply, this isn’t a time to become more available to everyone else’s noise. It’s a time to become more deeply connected to your own knowing.

Because your sensitivity isn’t here to make you responsible for everyone around you.

It can become part of how you do the work you’re here to do - but that requires discernment, self-trust, and the personal empowerment to hear yourself clearly.

That’s why I created YES TO ME.

Two hours to come back to yourself underneath everyone else’s needs, opinions and energy.

September 15 | 6–8 PM Pacific
Free + live on Zoom

🔗 in b!0

09/04/2026

One of the hardest things about being deeply empathic is that sometimes you’re right about what someone else is feeling.

They are disappointed.

They do wish you would say yes.

They would prefer that you make a different choice.

And because you can understand exactly why they feel the way they do, it can become really easy to make this leap:

Their feelings are real → therefore I should do something about them.

That’s where empathy can quietly turn into self-abandonment.

You change the no to a yes.

You soften the boundary you actually needed.

You make the choice that keeps everyone else comfortable.

Or you spend three days wondering whether you’re a bad person because someone you love isn’t thrilled with your decision.

But here’s the distinction:

Sensitivity tells you what you can feel.
Discernment tells you what is yours to carry.

Their disappointment can be real.

Your no can still be right for you.

You can understand their preference completely - and it can still not be an instruction for your life.

That doesn’t require you to become less empathic.

It means your empathy finally includes you.

And imagine the energy you get back when you’re no longer spending so much of it trying to arrange your life around everybody else’s possible reactions.

That’s part of what we’re going to practice at YES TO ME on September 15.

For two hours, we’re going to create enough space underneath everybody else’s needs, opinions and energy for you to hear yourself.

You don’t have to arrive knowing the answer.

You can come fully in the wobble.

YES TO ME
September 15 | 6–8 PM Pacific
Free + live on Zoom

🔗 in b!0

09/03/2026

Sometimes the thing you’re circling feels enormous.

Not necessarily because it is enormous.

But because you’re trying to solve every possible part of it before you let yourself take one step.

What will they think?

What if I regret it?

What happens six months from now?

What if I make the wrong choice?

How do I make sure nobody gets hurt?

How do I know this is really what I want?

And suddenly one decision has become a 47-tab browser open in your brain.

This is something I see so often with empathic women. We can feel deeply, anticipate other people’s responses, see multiple perspectives and imagine twelve possible outcomes.

Those are gifts.

But without discernment, they can also make one decision feel like you need to solve the entire future before you’re allowed to move.

You don’t.

Stephanie described something she noticed through POWER:

“Things that feel like HUGE problems sometimes only need a few small steps to feel a discernible difference.”

That’s self-trust in practice.

Not:

I know exactly how this is all going to work out.

But:

I trust myself enough to take the next honest step—and respond to what happens after I take it.

Maybe the next step is one conversation.

One boundary.

One no.

One request.

One hour to yourself.

One decision to stop overriding what you already know.

You don’t have to solve your entire life today.

Try asking yourself:

What is the next honest step I actually know how to take?

Then start there.

Because self-trust isn’t built by perfectly predicting the future.

It’s built by experiencing yourself meeting it.

That’s the work we practice inside POWER: Self-Trust for Empaths.

Enrollment for the Fall cohort is open now. We begin September 29.

🔗 in b!0

09/03/2026

You would never look at your phone at 10% and think, “You know what this needs? More output.”

You charge it.

You charge your AirPods. You keep the battery pack handy when you travel. You plug things in overnight because you already know they can’t keep giving you what you need without replenishment.

And yet…

How often do you expect yourself to keep going on 10%?

You answer the text. Take care of the thing. Make sure everyone else is okay. Feel the shift in someone’s mood and immediately start figuring out what they need.

And somewhere along the way, taking care of your own energy becomes the thing you’ll get to after everything else is handled.

Except everything else is never completely handled.

For empathic women especially, protecting your energy isn’t a luxury. It’s part of self-trust.

It’s learning to notice when you’re depleted before your body has to scream at you.

It’s recognizing what belongs to you and what you’ve picked up from somebody else.

It’s asking, “What do I need?” before automatically giving away what you have.

And it’s understanding that putting yourself first doesn’t mean nobody else matters.

It means you matter, too.

This is a big part of what we’re going to explore inside YES TO ME, my free two-hour live experience on September 15.

We’ll use teaching, coaching, somatic work and breathwork to create enough space for you to hear yourself underneath everybody else’s needs, opinions and energy.

You don’t need to arrive with the answer.

You can come fully in the wobble.

But for two hours, instead of plugging into everyone else…

we’re plugging you back into you.

Join me live September 15 from 6–8 PM Pacific.

Register at 🔗 in b!0

09/02/2026

How often do you start your day already accounting for everyone else?

What they need from you. What needs to get done. Who might need help. What you promised. What you should probably take care of first.

And somewhere in there, you hope there will be enough time, energy, or bandwidth left for you.

Maria described something shifting as she moved through POWER.

Instead of trying to carve out time for herself from whatever remained, she began with herself.

In her words:

“I embody and then decide IF I can carve out time for others.”

That is a profound shift for an empath.

It doesn’t mean you stop caring about people or become unwilling to give your time and energy generously.

It means you stop treating yourself as the person who automatically gets whatever is left.

Imagine waking up and checking in with yourself before the rest of the world gets a vote.

What do I need today?
How do I want to feel?
What do I actually have available to give?

And then making choices from there.

That’s what I hear in Maria’s words:

“This is MY day and my life.”

Not selfishness.

Self-possession.

Your needs don’t have to survive on everybody else’s leftovers.

This is the kind of self-trust and embodiment we practice inside POWER: Self-Trust for Empaths.

Enrollment for the Fall cohort is open now. We begin September 29.

🔗 in b!O

09/02/2026

One of my clients said:

“I think I thought knowing it’s the right thing was supposed to make it feel easy.”

Whew.

Because how often do we turn discomfort into evidence?

I’m anxious → wrong decision.

They’re disappointed → wrong boundary.

I’m grieving → wrong choice.

I’m scared → my intuition must be saying no.

But sometimes your nervous system isn’t saying “stop.”

Sometimes it’s saying:

“This is new.”
“This costs me approval.”
“This asks me to choose myself.”
“This version of me hasn’t been safe before.”

That’s the part we have to discern.

Because hard doesn’t automatically mean wrong.

And peace doesn’t always arrive before the choice.

Sometimes peace comes after you stop abandoning yourself to keep everyone else comfortable.

So here’s your micro-check:

Ask yourself, “Do I truly not know… or do I already know, and the answer is just hard?”

That question changes everything.

I unpack this more in episode 292 of Your Yes Filled Life: “Do you really not know? Or is the answer just hard?”

And if you have something you’re trying to discern right now, bring it to Yes to Me on September 15.

Come fully in the wobble. You don’t have to have it all figured out to be held in it.

Listen to episode 292 of Your Yes Filled Life on all major platforms, then reserve your spot for Yes to Me:

🔗 in B!0

09/01/2026

My mind is blown. All I had to do was to do the things I got a nudge about. And… the same is true for you. Go do the things.

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