Her Side of the Stories

She could sense what others couldn’t and help thousands of people find answers. But behind the psychic gift was a woman who spent years hiding and struggling to see her own worth.In this episode, Asal sits with Elaine Mary Collins — an intuitive reader who began psychic development at fourteen and received her first tarot deck from her mother at fifteen.Elaine opens up about growing up around addiction, violence and instability, and how those early experiences shaped both her sensitivity and the protective patterns she carried into adulthood.They explore intuition, tarot, mediumship, spiritualism, self-worth, people-pleasing, emotional eating, boundaries and the responsibility that comes with guiding people when they are vulnerable.Elaine also explains what she senses during a reading, whether psychics are ever wrong, why some people want comfort more than truth and whether everyone has the ability to develop their intuition.At the end of the conversation, Asal experiences her first taste of a tarot reading — opening an unexpectedly personal conversation about adventure, betrayal, abandonment and the things we think we have already healed.Elaine Mary Collins is one of the world’s most trusted psychics, with clients ranging from celebrities and CEOs to politicians. For nearly 50 years, people have turned to her for guidance, clarity and insight.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

What happens when you feel like you don't belong anywhere?In this episode, Navine Kumari shares what it was like growing up between two worlds, saying no to an arranged marriage, losing her father, being blamed by her community, and spending years searching for where she truly belonged.Born in the UK to Indian parents, Navine grew up balancing tradition, family expectations, identity, and freedom. She opens up about colourism, arranged marriage, grief, losing both parents, motherhood, and the emotional journey of supporting her son when he came out as gay at just 13 years old.This is a conversation about belonging, courage, acceptance, and what it means to choose your own path without losing your love for where you come from.Navine Kumari is an entrepreneur, mother, and founder of one of Ibiza's most successful catering companies.In this episode:• Growing up between two worlds• The caste system and arranged marriage• Feeling different and wanting to belong• Colourism and beauty standards• Saying no to the life planned for her• Losing her father and being blamed by her community• Grief, identity and finding herself• Motherhood and unconditional love• Her son's journey of coming out as gay at 13• Supporting children through life's challenges• Losing her mother• Spirituality, death and letting go• What happiness means todayIf this conversation resonated with you, stay closer and subscribe to our channel 🧡Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.

What happens when parts of your childhood disappear from memory, but continue shaping your life anyway?In this episode, Dr. Katelyn Means shares her deeply personal journey through trauma, shame, survival, healing, and recovery.As a child, Katelyn experienced things no child should have to navigate. What followed were years of trying to make sense of feelings she couldn't fully explain, relationships that repeated familiar pain, struggles with anorexia, medication, perfectionism, and the belief that something was fundamentally wrong with her.Together, we explore the relationship with her father, the memories she carries, the ones she doesn't, and the impact those experiences had on every chapter that followed.We talk about shame, about survival mode, about trying to control a body when life feels uncontrollable, about why we repeat patterns and about the long journey from simply surviving to finally feeling safe.One thing she said stayed with me long after the cameras stopped rolling:"The absence of memory doesn't mean the absence of experience."This is a conversation about trauma.But even more than that, it's a conversation about hope.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.ABOUT DR. KATELYN MEANSDr. Katelyn Means is the creator of The Euphoria Effect, a framework exploring the connection between childhood experiences, trauma, healing, and human potential.FOLLOW DR KATELYN MEANSInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_euphoria_effect/FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIESYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficialSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpiApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.comInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestoriesWebsite: www.hersideofthestories.com

When Model & Author Djabu Balde was five years old, she was subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), which she nearly didn’t survive. She was born in a small village in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, and for most of her life she has carried this in silence, until now.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Djabu speaks publicly about her experience for the very first time. About her mother who tried to stop it from happening. About her father who didn’t show up to stop it. About the body she had to learn to live in again, the years of therapy, the fear of being touched, the slow, careful work of reclaiming her own sexuality. And the book she has written so that other girls do not have to live what she lived.This is a conversation about FGM — but it is also about a mother’s love that crossed an ocean. About migrating to a new country with nothing but a dream. About surviving an abusive home. About becoming a mother herself with an empty fridge and a one-year-old son. About forgiveness, about faith, and about a relentless amount of strength.Djabu is an actress, model, and now author. Her book is her offering to the millions of girls still subjected to this practice, one every twelve minutes, every day. This is Her Side of the Stories. Her voice. Her truth. Her side. FOLLOW DJABU BALDEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/djabubalde_/Book: https://www.amazon.es/Entre-dos-madres-Djabu-Balde-ebook/dp/B0H1QJS9LN FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIESYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficialSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8gApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestoriesWebsite: www.hersideofthestories.com FOLLOW ASAL ZARAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766#endfgm #fgmsurvivor #djabubalde #hersideofthestories #asalzara

In May 2023, Elisabetta walked into a hospital room in Ischia. Her husband, the actor Ray Stevenson, looked up at her, said one word, and was gone.The word was “Finalmente.” Finally.In this episode, she sits with me and tells me about that day. About telling their boys. About the mediums she called from the plane on the way to her son in England and the poem that arrived from ten different people, in ten different countries, in the days that followed. She tells me about keeping him alive inside her family every single day. Not as a memory, but as a presence still beside her.And about the film festival she built from the worst loss of her life — the Ray of Light Awards. Her love letter to him, and to every story that uplifts the human spirit.At the end of our conversation, I asked her one question. If she could live this life all over again, knowing exactly how much it would cost her — would she still choose this love?She didn’t pause for a second, 100% she said.This touching but yet beautiful conversation is for anyone who has ever lost someone they didn’t think they could survive losing.Her name is Elisabetta Caraccia and this is Her Side of the Stories.ABOUT ELISABETTAElisabetta Caraccia is a philanthropist, a mother of three, and the founder of the Ray of Light Awards — a film festival in Ibiza honouring storytelling rooted in human experience, connection and meaning. She is also the owner of Boutique Hostal Salinas in Ibiza, where she lives with her three sons. The Ray of Light Awards is her love letter to her late husband, the actor Ray Stevenson — and to every story that uplifts the human spirit. Ray of Light Awards: https://rayoflightawards.com (26–31 May 2026 — Ibiza, Spain)Boutique Hostal Salinas: https://www.boutiquehostalsalinas.com FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIESYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficialSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8gApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories#raystevenson #grief #starwars #loss #hersideofthestories

You can be falling apart and still look fine. Hollywood actress Hollie Stenson tells the truth about high-functioning female alcoholism, the three years that almost killed her, and the recovery she had to fight for on her own terms.In this raw, unfiltered conversation with Asal Zara, Hollie opens up about her father's death, her divorce, sexual assault inside rehab, premature ovarian failure at 31, 60 hospital visits, and the compounded grief nobody around her could see. She talks about why AA didn't work for her, why alcohol is one of the most dangerous drugs to detox from, what she wishes the people around her had done — and the woman she became on the other side of all of it.If you have ever loved someone struggling with addiction, watched grief change you, been told to stay quiet about your pain, or simply needed to hear a woman tell the truth about her life — this episode is for you.This is Hollie's first ever conversation about her recovery from alcohol use disorder.Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series with Asal Zara, exploring the inner lives of women through real experiences, feelings, and transformation. New episodes every Tuesday 3PM CET.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.────────────────────────FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.comFOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766KEYWORDS: Hollie Stenson, Hollie Stenson interview, female alcoholism, high functioning alcoholic, hidden alcoholism, alcohol use disorder, women in recovery, sobriety story, premature ovarian failure, trauma recovery, why AA doesn't work, female recovery story, women's mental health, Hollywood actress sobriety, Her Side of the Stories, Asal Zara, podcast for women.

At seventeen and six months pregnant, someone from her own school said it out loud: "You've ruined your life, then, haven't you?"Victoria Price is one of a handful of people on the planet to ever reach Partner at one of the Big Four - and the founder of her own fashion brand, Emello.But behind the title is a woman who has been underestimated her whole life and used every word of it as fuel.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Victoria sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about a childhood spent walking through her own front door not knowing what she'd be met with. About a mother who struggled with mental challenges for as long as Victoria can remember. About the day at four years old when her earliest memory was made and it wasn't a happy one. About becoming a carer to her younger siblings and a housewife to her own father, long before she should have been. About a mother who eventually left, disappeared for years, and never really came back.And then about everything that came after.Victoria speaks about the silent rule of her childhood — don't talk about it. About the relief no one is supposed to admit when a difficult parent leaves. About the day she told her dad she was pregnant, and the first words he said to her. About the antenatal class where the other mums turned up in Range Rovers and she walked. About the job she turned down because it would have solved a today problem. About the mentor who pointed at a door and changed how she leads, forever. About mum guilt for the first time in her life. About forgiving her mother and what that actually looks like.This is one of the most quietly powerful conversations we've had on Her Side.If you've ever been judged before anyone bothered to know your story, raised a child with no map, carried a mother's pain into your own womanhood, or built a life out of something that started in survival; this one is for you.— — —Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series exploring the inner lives of women; what they've survived, what they've become, and what they've never said out loud until now.Hosted by Asal Zara. Filmed in Ibiza, Spain.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.New episodes every Tuesday, 3PM CET.If this episode meant something to you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with the woman who needs it. And subscribing (it's free) is how we keep telling these stories.— — —FOLLOW VICTORIA PRICE & HER BRAND: EMELLO Emello: https://shorturl.at/33R7FLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-price-75224936/FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8gApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.comFOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766— — —#hersideofthestories #asalzara #victoriaprice #emello #teenagemum #teenagemom #womeninbusiness #womenleaders #singlemother #motherhoodjourney #womensstories #realstories #bigfour #breakingthecycle #generationaltrauma #postnataldepression #healingjourney

Episode launch Tuesday 5th May 3PM CETShe was seventeen and pregnant when someone said out loud what she thought everyone was thinking."You've ruined your life, then, haven't you?"That's where Victoria Price's story takes its turn.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, Victoria sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about a childhood spent walking through her own front door not knowing what she'd be met with. About a mother who struggled with mental challenges for as long as Victoria can remember. About the day at four years old when her earliest memory was made and it wasn't a happy one. About becoming a carer to her younger siblings and a housewife to her own father, long before she should have been. About a mother who eventually left, disappeared for years, and never really came back. And then about everything that came after.Victoria Price is one of a handful of people on the planet to ever reach Partner at one of the world's Big Four accounting firms. She is a leader, an entrepreneur, and the founder of her own fashion brand Emello — a woman who became a mother before she became herself, and built one of the most senior careers in global finance with a child on her hip ( later 3).But behind the title is a woman who has been underestimated her whole life and used every word of it as fuel.Victoria speaks about the silent rule of her childhood — don't talk about it. About the relief no one is supposed to admit when a difficult parent leaves. About the day she told her dad she was pregnant, and the first words he said to her. About the antenatal class where the other mums turned up in Range Rovers and she walked. About the job she turned down because it would have solved a today problem. About the mentor who pointed at a door and changed how she leads, forever. About mum guilt for the first time in her life. About forgiving her mother and what that actually looks like.— — —Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series exploring the inner lives of women; what they've survived, what they've become, and what they've never said out loud until now.Hosted by Asal Zara. Filmed in Ibiza, Spain.Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side.New episodes every Tuesday, 3PM CET.If this episode meant something to you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with the woman who needs it. And subscribing (it's free) is how we keep telling these stories.— — —FOLLOW VICTORIA PRICE & HER BRAND: EMELLO Emello: https://shorturl.at/33R7FLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-price-75224936/FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIES YouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficial Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8g Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestories Website: www.hersideofthestories.comFOLLOW ASAL ZARA Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766— — —#hersideofthestories #asalzara #victoriaprice #emello #teenagemum #teenagemom #womeninbusiness #womenleaders #singlemother #motherhoodjourney #womensstories #realstories #bigfour #breakingthecycle #generationaltrauma #postnataldepression #healingjourney

Anna Janssen was twelve when something happened that shaped the way she would love, grieve, mother, and trust for the rest of her life. Decades later, she found her own daughter on the other side of the same nightmare — and became the only person who could meet her there.In this episode of Her Side of the Stories, she sits with Asal Zara and tells the truth about silence, the love she lost in a single phone call, and the woman she became on the other side of all of it: a healer, a mother, a power woman who is finally soft. This isn't a story about what happened, it's a story about what stays. What it does to the way you love. The way you grieve. The way you mother. The way you finally, after everything, learn what forgiveness actually means — and who it was always for. Anna speaks about losing the man she loved in a single phone call. About anger. About the years she spent avoiding pain by avoiding everything. About the moment she became the only person her daughter could turn to — and what she said. About finding herself again on the other side of all of it. This is one of the most honest conversations we've had on Her Side. If you've ever survived something you weren't ready for, kept something to yourself for too long, or wondered whether the past will ever stop sitting in your body — this is for you. — — — CHAPTERS00:00 Welcome02:01 Three years after the war03:38 A happy childhood06:45 At 12, something happened09:28 The strength that came out of her11:54 Telling her mother12:45 "Don't tell your father"15:02 What it did to intimacy — until today15:22 Forgiveness is for yourself15:40 The pattern survivors don't talk about17:16 The smell that stayed20:43 Anger and forgiveness22:46 Seeing him again at 2326:43 Blaming herself28:13 The school years30:27 The confusion no one names33:18 The anger her son could see37:27 Texas38:50 Falling in love in America39:38 The day he didn't come42:14 The funeral she ran from43:18 Italy47:56 Meeting the father of her children51:18 Her second great love54:48 Living on a boat57:24 The Sunday afternoon59:41 Walking back onto the boat61:50 What her daughter did65:07 The silent retreat66:33 A year of teaspoons67:12 The letter69:10 Becoming a power woman70:34 Her trauma vs her daughter's72:13 "The trauma stays. But you can change it."73:12 Becoming a healer78:45 How to actually forgive80:20 Walk in the water and forgive81:33 What she'd say to them now82:25 Her advice84:36 Becoming softer — — — Her Side of the Stories is a cinematic, emotionally honest conversation series exploring the inner lives of women — what they've survived, what they've become, and what they've never said out loud until now. Hosted by Asal Zara. Filmed in Ibiza, Spain. Her Voice. Her Truth. Her Side. New episodes every Tuesday, 3PM CET. If this episode meant something to you, the kindest thing you can do is share it with the woman who needs it. And subscribing (it's free) is how we keep telling these stories. — — — FOLLOW HER SIDE OF THE STORIESYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hersideofthestoriesofficialSpotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/0NdDte4w6fgcuZZwZH1rpi?si=5u1ARRWURf2ynKa0n3Fe8gApple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/her-side-of-the-stories/id1890695561Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hersideofthestoriesWebsite: www.hersideofthestories.com FOLLOW ASAL ZARAInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/asal_zara__LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asal-zara-aa845766 — — — #hersideofthestories #asalzara #annajanssen #childhoodtrauma #traumahealing #grief #forgiveness #motherdaughter #womensstories #realstories #survivorstory #generationaltrauma #healingjourney #losingapartner #emotionalhealing