Embracing Change

We've had some wonderful women this season.  Join us as we recap, and well, gush, about all the great guests. Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on April 14, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

Judge Trotter Bratton's mission in serving Hamilton County echoes not only through the municipal court but in a mission-oriented court called "Change Court."  In this arena, she can impact the lives of those affected by human trafficking.   Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on April 7, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman

God can surprise us all with unexpected turns. Ebony shares her life's journey and how God's fingerprints were all over her when she came to Cincinnati and her mission to see others thrive. https://www.citylinkcenter.org/ Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on March 31, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman

Dr. Courtney L. Walton is a highly respected thought leader when it comes to gender and racial studies.  She mentors and nurtures other black and brown women as they navigate unfamiliar waters with empathy and connectivity.  To find out more information about Dr. Walton, please visit: https://www.thebrwnplace.com/ Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on March 24, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman

Travina Adams faced adversity early in life.  Rather than succumb to the pressures and unplanned events, she overcame them triumphantly!  Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on March 17, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman

Dr. Rhonda has focused her life on helping those in the throes of addiction.  Helping others realize they can learn to love themselves, she is on a mission to change the world. https://selflovedoctor.life/ Dr. Rhonda is a Doctor of Naturopathy, Clayton Collage Birmingham Alabama,  Master of Science, Andrews University, Berrin's Michigan, and. Certified Life Coach, Institue for Life Coaching. Podcast Produced and Edited by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on March 14, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com Copyright 2025 - Lucretia Bowman

As a Councilmember, Meeka Owens leads the Climate, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee and is also a member of the Budget and Finance and Equitable Growth and Housing Committees. In her first term, she successfully advocated for the 2023 Green Cincinnati Plan and now aims to maintain the collaborative approach that drives significant systemic changes within and around City Hall.  Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on March 3, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

As director of the Office of Reentry, Trina has had great opportunities to pour into the lives of those who may have been written off by society.  But seeing with the eyes of hope and who people can be, she was able to help others transform their lives. For more information on the Office of Reentry in Hamilton County, Ohio, please visit: https://reentrytoday.com Recorded 2/24/2025 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Copyright 2025 by Lucretia Bowman

As a professional woman, she never thought she would "break." When it happened, her life radically changed in a way that only God could do.  Now, she has a ministry called "Give Me a Break" that helps others work out issues. From her website, to TikTok, to Facebook "lives" she offers a vulnerable look at transformation.  www.givemeabreakjc.com Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on February 17, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

At 40 years of age, Venita Turner suffered the unthinkable: a heart attack. Not long after, a second heart attack left her dead for over 15 minutes and required a heart transplant.   This event sent her down a path of realizing God was leading her to help others who have experienced the same sort of life-changing event.  Join us for a conversation with this incredible woman. https://www.beatgoesoncincy.org/ Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on February 10, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

Vice Mayor of Cincinnati Jan-Michele Lemon Kearney shares her insights into listening to the voice of God through simple nudges and how that can lead to the most unexpected joy.  Join us as we have a conversation with her. https://www.instagram.com/kearneyforcincinnati/?hl=en Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on January 27, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

Season 12 premiere: Special guest Michelle Smith.  After her son was incarcerated, she embarked on a journey to let others see a path to restoration of not only a relationship with an incarcerated loved one but a restoration of a relationship with God.  Join us for this insightful conversation. https://faithfreedomlife.org/ Podcast Produced by Jennifer Osborn Podcast recorded on January 20, 2025 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com For more information on Lucretia Bowman, please visit www.lucretiabowman.com

Lucretia expands on her steps after incarceration and how she moved from "la-cre-sha" to "la-cre-ta."  God transformed and continues to transform.  God is good. Book cited as "Learning to Forgive" is actually "For the Love of God" and can be purchased by clicking here. Recorded 7/15/2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Do you ever have moments when someone else is in control, and you have no choice?  Incarceration can be like that.  When that happens, a learned helplessness can set in, something to be overcome.  Join us as we discuss just that. Recorded July 8, 2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

"Resentment is a complex, multilayered emotion that has been described as a mixture of disappointment, disgust, and anger. Other psychologists consider it a mood or as a secondary emotion that can be elicited in the face of insult or injury." **Wikipedia Do you struggle with Resentment?  Is it a part of your everyday life, but don't know what to do with it?  We discuss resentment in all of its nuances.   Recorded 6/24/2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Anger is often considered a secondary emotion because it's a response to other emotions, rather than an emotion that arises on its own.  It can come out of feelings of rejection, fear, frustration or pain.   But how do you get a handle on what is going on inside of your own head?  Join us as we discuss those very things. Recorded: 6/10/2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Do you know that you can compete not only with others, but with yourself?  That can lead to a very unsatisfying life and focus.  Join us as we talk about that.   Recorded: 6/3/2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Control.  Do you try to control things around you?  Control is an illusion.  We actually control very little, but that doesn't stop us from trying.  Join us to discuss how we've tried to control and lost.   Recorded: 4/29/2024  Edited by Jennifer Osborn  Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Defense mechanisms can be healthy or unhealthy. If unhealthy, they can alter how you see things. We discuss how to identify them and stop the unhealthy cycle.   Recorded: 4/22/2024 Edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Ambition can be good, but it can also be very bad.  When does it come into play in your life?  Join us as we discuss how this can wreck your world. Recorded 4/15/2024 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

What does surrender look like to you?  In this episode, we discuss what surrender can look like and how God can use it.   Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

"...To everything, turn, turn, turn" Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 Change is in the air.  We let you in some updates.  We are so glad to be back with you. Recorded April 15, 2024 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Hello folks! This is Jennifer Osborn from the Embracing Change Podcast.  I wanted to let you know that while we've been on a little bit of a break, we will be returning in the coming months. When we do, we will be at Episode 100! Can you believe it?  I can't.  Our previous season have covered so many wonderful insights when it comes to change, deep revelations in Lucretia's personal story, and some fantastic interviews with some truly remarkable individuals.   So, look for us to return in the coming months, and we thank you for being a listener. Take care!

Lessons are all around us, and if we lean into them we can learn much. If we don't, we can be stuck in complacency and stunted growth.   Recorded September 18, 2023 Podcast recorded and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Have you ever had someone you are speaking to not make eye contact or acknowledge what you are saying?  Do you feel heard?  Do they feel like they are listening?  Our bodies reveal how we are listening to someone.   Recorded on September 18, 2023 Podcast Copyright 2023: Lucretia Bowman Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Podcast edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn

Sometimes suffering is optional.  Sometimes it is not.  Whatever the case, how we process suffering can set us on different paths.   Produced by Jennifer Osborn Copyright 2023 by Lucretia Bowman Recorded on 9/11/2023 Questions or comments: embracingchange2023@gmail.com

How do you talk to yourself?  Is it positive?  Negative?  Riddled with self-doubt?  Join us as we discuss how self-forgiveness and compassion will radically change your life. Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Recorded on: 8/30/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn

Part 3 - We continue our discussion on how racism and trauma create division, and how Undivided is bridging that gap.   More information on Undivided: https://undivided.us/ Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Part 2 - We minimize.  We shrink.  We become something other than what God created us to be.  In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others. Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

We minimize.  We shrink.  We become something other than what God created us to be.  In this episode, we discuss just how trauma divides us and makes us twist and conform to the expectations of others. Recorded July 14, 2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Part 1 of our interview with Courtney Walton.  Join us as she shares about epigenetics and the deep wound of pain.  This is part 1, and part 2 will continue next week.   Recorded 7/5/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Did you know that healing and a cure are two different things?  When we have deep pain in our lives we have to unravel what that means to heal and to know that the ultimate cure is death, either death to self or death to a situation.   Recorded on June 26, 2023 Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn

Pastor Deborah Merritt once again joins us for a discussion on Embracing Peace.  This is our final episode of this season. Recorded on 3/13/2023 Produced and edited by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change, LLC Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com "Having the Courage to Change" written and performed by De'Era Merritt, from the album Voices of Change, Copyright 2007 by Lucretia Bowman.

We invited Pastor Deborah Merritt on the latest episode to discuss "Loving Others as a Shepard versus a Shepard."  Deborah was the first mentor Lucretia had coming into the faith and she adds wonderful insights to the 30 year journey Lucretia has been on.  Recorded 3/13/2023 Edited and produced by Jennifer Osborn for Embracing Change Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Seeing my purpose as my pulpit: Lucretia continues to share about her 30 years in ministry.  In this episode she shares details of the "marriage" of Having the Courage to Change and City Gospel Mission.   Recorded  3/6/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Do you live your life performing for those around you, even God?  Do you know what it is to produce for God?  Lucretia asked these same questions as she continues to walk us through her journey in the building of her pulpit.  Recorded March 6, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Finding her mother meant a new wave of things to work through.  It could have push or pull her back to places she didn't want to go, but God kept her through it.   Recorded: 2/27/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia talks about the many ways in which power was taken from her and how it was restored through her taking it back.   Recorded 2/27/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

When Lucretia left the halfway house she found herself at Mary Louise Inn trying to put her life together.  After an invitation to church she found the clear pathway to prepare herself and made a plan with God at the helm.   Recorded 2/13/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Continuing our journey through the beginning steps of healing, Lucretia takes you through the letter to the little girl her and how that impacted her healing. Recorded: 2/6/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or Comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com 

Pressure can either destroy us or it can make us.  In this episode, Lucretia talks about how the pressure helped make her a diamond.   Recorded: February 6, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

While we may not have control of the trauma we endure, we do have a choice in how to respond and pursue avenues of healing.  Lucretia share her letter to her abuser and how she moved forward enough to say good-bye to him.   Recorded: January 23, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

According to Oxford Languages Dictionary on Google, Persevere is to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no prospect of success.  Such was what Lucretia was facing when she was fresh out of prison and ready to try to navigate her own healing.  In this episode, we'll hear about that and a letter that she wrote to her mother.   Recorded 1/16/2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Leaving Prison to build a pulpit: the 30 year journey Episode 1 - Facing the pain 30 years ago Lucretia was faced with writing a letter to the judges who were considering her for shock probation.  She dared to do it and eventually found herself on the outside with the possibility that things could be different.  However, she first had to face her pain to get to the path of healing. Recorded: January 16, 2023 Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

On December 28, 2021 Lucretia Bowman spoke at Unbound at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.  This is part 2 of 2.    Produced by Jennifer Osborn  Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

On December 28, 2021 Lucretia Bowman spoke at Unbound at Landmark Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.  This is part 1 of 2. Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia shares her heart and story with the women's group at Anderson Hills United Methodist in Cincinnati, Ohio, pt. 2    Recorded 4/6/2020  Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn  Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia shares her heart and story with the women's group at Anderson Hills United Methodist in Cincinnati, Ohio. Recorded 4/6/2020 Podcast produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia Bowman appeared at the Kingdom of God Ministries on November 3, 2019 and gave a message on God's Protective Systems.  Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com

Lucretia Bowman appeared at the Kingdom of God Ministries on November 3, 2019 and gave a message on God's Protective Systems.   This is part 1 of 2. Produced by Jennifer Osborn Questions or comments: embracingchange2021

On 10/28/2019 Lucretia Bowman had the opportunity to speak on the WIZ FM in Cincinnati Ohio.  Afterward, she was interviewed by Raven Nevar in their "after show."  Questions or comments: embracingchange2021@gmail.com Produced by Jennifer Osborn