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Storyteller, Entrepreneur, Visionary

Yvette Bodden

Yvette Bodden is the founder of AW Confidential Media and the sole author behind Awakened-Woman, a digital storytelling platform rooted in truth, culture, and transformation. Since 2019, her writing on Awakened-Woman.com has fueled a growing community of women navigating identity, healing, and reinvention—laying the foundation for an award-winning podcast and multimedia platform that continues to expand her mission..

In 2022, Yvette expanded her brand with the launch of the AW Confidential Podcast, a bold platform for unfiltered conversations with leaders, creatives, and changemakers across culture, business, and entertainment. Winner of the 2025 Latin Podcast Award for Best U.S. Podcast, the show has also earned multiple nominations in 2024 and 2025, including Best Bilingual, Best Female Host, Best Video, Society & Culture, and Podcast of the Year.

The broader AW community continues to thrive, with tens of thousands of followers across social media and a library of 500+ published articles spanning celebrity profiles, relationships, love, abuse, motherhood, and Latino culture—always infused with Yvette’s signature blend of pragmatism and compassion. Her work and growing platform have been recognized by outlets like Bella Magazine, which named her one of the “Bella Bosses We Admire.”

About Me

Founder, Author, Podcast Host, and Speaker

In 2022, Yvette appeared as an Insider Guest on Oprah Daily’s Life Class. A year earlier, she was named one of Bella Magazine’s “Bella Bosses We Admire,” featured on Authority Magazine’s Editor’s List: Top Interviews, and participated in a press roundtable with Ava DuVernay for NBC’s docuseries Home Sweet Home.

Her work has been featured in outlets such as Brainz Magazine, Thrive Global, The Best Holistic Life Magazine, and Belatina News.

Yvette is the creator and host of the AW Confidential Podcast, launched in 2022. Winner of the 2025 Latin Podcast Award for Best U.S. Podcast, AW Confidential continues to redefine storytelling through truth, culture, and empowerment, creating space for real conversations that inspire and transform.

The show earned multiple nominations at the Latin Podcast Awards in both 2024 and 2025, including Best Bilingual, Best Female Host, Best Video, Estados Unidos, Society & Culture, and Podcast of the Year.

In 2024, Yvette was also recognized as a Podcaster of the Year nominee by Bella Media + Co., honoring her voice and impact within the Latina creator community.

Guests have included Tonatiuh (Actor, Kiss of the Spider Woman), Marissa Solis (Executive, NFL), Laraine Newman (SNL Comic Legend), Marie Leguizamo (Managing Director, Banijay Mexico & U.S. Hispanic), Claudia Romo Edelman (Diplomat & Adviser to the UN, Founder of We Are All Human), Eif Rivera (Director), Edel  Rodriguez (renowned Artist), along with entertainment voices like Ernie Hudson, Jon Cryer, Mark Tallman, Donald Faison, Adria Arjona, Jaina Lee Ortiz, Nicholas Gonzalez, Jon Seda, Andrea Navedo, Aida Rodriguez, Carolina Miranda, Manny Perez, Laura Londoño, Bevy Smith, Raymond Lee, Aimee Carrero, and Grasie Mercedes—among many others.

Podcast streams on Spotify, Apple, iHeart, Amazon Music, and YouTube (AW Confidential TV).

Her debut book, A Journey to Becoming the Best Self (Black Rose Writing, 2019) — part memoir, part self-help — was praised by The U.S. Review of Books and is available through Amazon, Kindle, Barnes & Noble, and Walmart. In 2024, she contributed to Amazon’s bestselling anthology Hispanic Stars Rising, Volume V: The New Face of Power with her personal essay, “Breaking Generational Trauma: Letting Go of Shame to Step into Power.” Her latest title, Truth Bombs for the Soul, is a guided journal inviting readers to confront the questions most people avoid, helping them break emotional patterns, release shame, and begin the deep work of healing and self-reclamation.

As a New York–based single mother, Yvette channels her own experiences of resilience, growth, and truth-telling to empower others to create their own definition of success. Her mission is to build community through vulnerable, powerful storytelling that destigmatizes shame, guilt, and fear.

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Past Contributor, BeLatina News from 2019 – 2021.

April – Sept 2020: Celebrity Profiles Interviews for BELatina News

Profile Interview with Actress, Camila Sodi, Telemundo’s, Falsa Identidad for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with Actress, Nathalie Kelley, ABC’s “The Baker and the Beauty” for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with Reina del Sur, Actress, Isabella Sierra for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with Raquel Castro: Actress, Singer, and Songwriter for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with multiple Grammy Winner, Luis Fonsi for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with Chicago Fire, Actor, Joe Minoso for BeLatina News

Profile Interview with Director, SJ Main Munoz for BeLatina News

Past ContributorThriving Women with Yvette Bodden for The Best Holistic Life Magazine