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Empower Hour with Lady J

Welcome to Empower Hour with Lady J (formerly The Jodi Watkins Show and originally Breaking Barriers Now).

This is where faith, leadership, healing, and intentional living come together through honest conversations and practical wisdom. Whether I'm sharing lessons from my own journey or sitting down with inspiring guests, every episode is designed to help you move forward with greater clarity, courage, and purpose.

What You'll Hear

• Honest conversations about leadership, resilience, faith, personal growth, and legacy

• Practical strategies you can apply in your everyday life

• Stories of overcoming adversity, rebuilding after setbacks, and choosing purpose over fear

• Thought-provoking discussions with leaders, entrepreneurs, veterans, authors, and everyday people creating meaningful impact

Some episodes feature special guests. Others are conversations directly from me, sharing insights, experiences, and lessons I'm learning along the way.

Why Listen?

If you're navigating change, rebuilding after disappointment, growing as a leader, or simply striving to become more intentional in the way you live and lead, you're in the right place.

This isn't about perfection.

It's about progress, personal responsibility, and choosing every day to become the person you're called to be.

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Empower Hour with Lady J

Thriving Versus Surviving with Melissa Armstrong

December 12, 2024 • Jodi Watkins

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My guest today is Melissa Armstrong. She operates primarily as a functional health coach and helps women break from trauma using tools that will last a lifetime. We had a fantastic conversation, even with some technical difficulties, and we plan to stay connected.

Here is a little more about Melissa:

Melissa's chaotic, traumatic childhood included parental addiction and abuse, a school shooting at 15, and witnessing my brother's death at 18. Unresolved trauma led to severe physical symptoms, prompting her to explore alternative healing.

Over the past twenty-plus years, Melissa has transitioned from nursing to being a Trauma-Informed Functional Health Coach. She now guides women in healing their minds, bodies, and spirits through the mind-body connection, somatic work, nervous system regulation, lab testing, lifestyle changes, and nutrition. Healing is always possible!

I enjoyed this conversation and look forward to staying in touch with Melissa, especially since we are so aligned.

None of us have to walk this journey alone.

If you would like to connect further with Melissa, please visit her website at:

www.holistichealthbymelissa.com

Follow her on social media by going to:

https://www.instagram.com/holistichealthbymelissa

https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthbymelissa

This track was made by my daughter, Jasmine. She is my why for everything I do.

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Welcome to Empower Hour with Lady J hosted by Jodi Marie. Through life's ups and downs, we have one choice: make excuses and quit, or shift, figure it out, and keep going. It's really that simple. What we choose is what matters. I choose to keep going.

Thank you all for being a part of this mission!

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