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Awakening Truths | Makeupyourpower Podcast
Where the truth hurts—and we talk about it anyway.
Real stories. Honest conversations. Transformation in motion.
There are moments that change us: a relationship ending, a loss we didn’t think we would survive, a career shifting, or an awakening we can’t quite explain.
Then comes the question:
Who am I becoming now?
Join Nichole Lynn Haywood, Creator & Host, and Tina Akowitz, Co-host, for conversations about personal growth, spiritual awakening, relationships, grief, resilience, intuition, and rebuilding after life changes.
We make room for the painful parts, the unanswered questions, and the choices that help us move forward. Through personal reflections and our Spotlight Guest Series, we explore the human being behind the story.
Different people. Different beliefs. Different paths. One table.
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Explore our episodes for honest stories, meaningful reflection, and perspectives that invite you to examine your own.
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The Spotlight Guest Series
Behind every transformation is a story.
Our Spotlight Guest Series brings people from different walks of life into thoughtful conversations about the experiences that shaped them.
You’ll meet healers, therapists, coaches, teachers, entrepreneurs, intuitives, advocates, veterans, and creators. We explore more than what someone does today. We ask what changed them—and what they chose to do next.
Each conversation makes space for an unfolding journey:
Pain → Awakening → Breakdown → Rebuild → Embodiment → Service
What happened? What shifted? What needed rebuilding? What are they still learning? How does their experience influence the way they live and serve today?
There is room for unfinished journeys here, too.
A Conversation Shaped Around the Person
Before recording, we learn about each guest’s story and prepare questions with their experiences in mind.
Our intention is to bring presence, curiosity, and respect to the conversation. Guests choose what they feel comfortable sharing.
Sometimes there is laughter. Sometimes there are tears. Sometimes our perspectives differ.
Awakening doesn’t require everyone to arrive at the same truth. It invites us to examine our own.
The Story Behind Awakening Truths
From Transmute Your Pain Into Power to the conversations we share today.
I started this podcast in 2021 as Transmute Your Pain Into Power. It gave me a place to put a voice to pain, shame, and guilt I once struggled to express.
Over time, I realized I wasn’t the only one carrying a story.
So many of us hold a chapter we thought would define us forever—a loss, a failure, a relationship, or a version of ourselves we had to leave behind.
Awakening Truths grew from my desire to explore what comes next: the awareness, the rebuilding, and the choices that become possible when we begin telling our stories honestly.
—Nichole Lynn Haywood, Creator & Host
From the Spotlight to the Roundtable
My vision for Awakening Truths continues to grow.
I envision a roundtable where different experiences, professions, spiritual paths, and perspectives meet in conversations about identity, relationships, grief, boundaries, purpose, and the light and shadow of being human.
As the show develops, I hope to bring more listener questions and shared reflection into that space.
Sometimes hearing another person’s story gives us enough hope to take our own next step.
Meet Your Hosts
Nichole Lynn Haywood | Creator & Host
Nichole is the founder of Makeupyourpower, a Spiritualist, Intuitive Development Guide, Psychic Medium, and astrology enthusiast.
Her work centers on helping people reconnect with their intuition, reflect on the experiences shaping their lives, and recognize the choices available to them.
Through Awakening Truths, she brings curiosity, intuitive perspective, and a belief that our most difficult chapters can hold opportunities for awareness and growth.
Tina Akowitz | Co-host
Tina is an Empowerment Coach who brings a relational and practical perspective to transformation.
Her reflections connect the stories we hear with questions about resilience, self-worth, boundaries, and what moving forward can look like in everyday life.
Explore Tina’s Work at Purposeful Transitions
Do You Have a Story to Share?
Have you navigated an experience that changed your direction? Rebuilt after a loss or setback? Found purpose through something you once struggled to understand?
We welcome applications from people willing to share their lived experience with honesty and reflection. You don’t need a large following or a polished success story.
Your story doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to be yours.
Podcast Guest Interview | Complimentary
Accepted guests receive:
Personalized interview preparation.
A recorded conversation with Nichole and Tina.
An episode title and description.
Publication across our established podcast platforms, including YouTube.
A basic episode announcement and guest tagging where appropriate.
Applying and participating are complimentary. Applications are reviewed for alignment with the show; applying does not guarantee an interview.
Optional Guest Promotion Packages
For accepted guests who would like additional promotional support, we offer personalized graphics, written captions, and interview clips.
We publish the included promotional features on our podcast’s channels and provide finished assets for guests to share on their own platforms.
Spotlight Starter | $55
One guest introduction social media post with a custom graphic and personalized written caption.
One interview clip with video captions and accompanying written social media copy.
Spotlight Social | $125
Monday: Guest introduction post with a custom graphic and personalized written caption.
Wednesday: Pivotal-moment post with a custom graphic and personalized written caption.
Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday: Three interview clips with video captions and accompanying written social media copy.
Full Spotlight Experience | $199
Everything in Spotlight Social, plus:
Sunday: A written guest spotlight newsletter featuring one of the three interview clips.
Friday: Dedicated episode premiere promotion with written release-day copy.
A written website blog feature with relevant guest links.
All prices are introductory. Packages include finished promotional assets for your own sharing and one round of minor revisions.
Promotional packages are entirely optional. Purchasing a package does not affect guest selection, interview questions, or the opportunity to share your story. Audience reach and engagement are not guaranteed.
If you’re interested in promotional support, let us know after your guest application is accepted.
The Heart of the Show
We preserve the stories that prove transformation is possible.
Your painful experiences are part of your story. They are not the entirety of who you are.
Those chapters matter. So does what happens next.
What did you learn? What are you choosing? Who are you becoming?
Somewhere inside another person’s story may be a sentence, a realization, or a question that helps you see your own life differently.
Listen. Watch. Reflect. Awaken.
Come for the conversation. Stay for the questions it creates within you.
Welcome to Awakening Truths | Makeupyourpower Podcast.
Listening With Care
Awakening Truths is a space for real stories, honest conversations, and different perspectives.
As our conversations continue to grow, you may hear guests speak openly about experiences involving trauma, grief, loss, relationships, mental and emotional health, physical illness, addiction, spirituality, intuitive experiences, identity, shame, guilt, and other deeply personal parts of being human.
We believe these stories deserve to be heard—and we also believe they deserve to be heard with care.
The experiences, spiritual beliefs, healing practices, opinions, and perspectives shared by our hosts and guests belong to the individuals sharing them. They are offered as lived experiences and opportunities for reflection, not as instructions for how you should understand or navigate your own life.
Awakening looks different for everyone.
What helped one person may not be right for another. A belief that deeply resonates with one guest may not resonate with you at all. We don't ask our listeners to adopt every perspective shared at our table.
We invite you to listen with curiosity, discernment, and compassion—for the person speaking and for yourself.
A Note About Professional Support
Awakening Truths | Makeupyourpower Podcast is created for educational, inspirational, reflective, and entertainment purposes.
Our conversations are not therapy and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or replace medical care, mental health treatment, legal advice, financial advice, or guidance from other appropriately qualified professionals.
When guests discuss practices, services, treatments, spiritual experiences, or approaches that were meaningful within their own journeys, their experiences should not be interpreted as guarantees of results or recommendations for your individual circumstances.
If something you hear brings up difficult emotions or connects with an experience you're currently navigating, we encourage you to honor what you need—including stepping away from an episode and seeking appropriate professional support when needed.
Our Commitment
Whether we're sitting with one Spotlight Guest, answering questions from our community, or eventually bringing multiple voices together around the Awakening Truths table, our intention remains the same:
To create space for conversations that are honest enough to acknowledge the pain without allowing the pain to become the entire story.
We will talk about the light.
We will talk about the shadow.
We will talk about what fell apart.
And we'll remain curious about what can be built from there.
You don't have to agree with every person who sits at this table.
You don't have to share their beliefs.
You don't have to walk their path.
Sometimes another person's story simply gives us permission to look more honestly at our own.
Take what resonates. Question what doesn't. Use your own discernment. And always remember—you remain the authority over your own choices.
Awakening Truths | Makeupyourpower Podcast
We preserve the stories that prove transformation is possible.