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Storyteller, Entrepreneur, Visionary

Yvette Bodden

Yvette Bodden is a storyteller, author, and founder of AW Confidential Media. She hosts the award-winning AW Confidential Podcast and is the voice behind Awakened-Woman, a digital storytelling platform rooted in truth, culture, and transformation.

Since 2019, her writing has built a growing community of women navigating identity, healing, and reinvention. In 2022, she launched the AW Confidential Podcast, winner of the 2025 Latin Podcast Award for Best U.S. Podcast. The show has also earned multiple nominations in 2024 and 2025 and a 2026 nomination for Best Interview Podcast at the NYC Podcast Awards.

Her work and growing platform have been recognized by outlets such as Bella Magazine, which named her one of the “Bella Bosses We Admire.”

About Me

Founder, Author, Podcast Host, and Speaker

Yvette has been featured by Oprah Daily’s Life Class as an Insider Guest and recognized as one of Bella Magazine’s “Bella Bosses We Admire.” She has also been included on Authority Magazine’s Editor’s List: Top Interviews. Yvette regularly participates in press junkets and media roundtables, including 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 AW Confidential, launched in 2022. The show won the 2025 Latin Podcast Award for Best U.S. Podcast and earned a 2026 nomination for Best Interview Podcast at the NYC Podcast Awards. AW Confidential has also received multiple Latin Podcast Award nominations across 2024 and 2025, including Best Bilingual, Best Female Host, Best Video, Estados Unidos, Society & Culture, and Podcast of the Year.

Through AW Confidential, Yvette leads bold conversations at the intersection of truth, culture, and empowerment, creating space for stories that inspire, challenge, and transform.

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 Hollywood Director, Renny Harlin, 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, Adriana 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), blends memoir and self-help and was praised by The U.S. Review of Books. The book is available through major retailers, including Amazon, Barnes and 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 that invites readers to confront the questions most people avoid. Through intentional reflection, she helps readers break emotional patterns, release shame, and begin the deeper work of healing and self-reclamation.

Based in New York, Yvette channels her experiences of resilience, reinvention, and truth-telling into work that inspires others to define success on their own terms. Through bold storytelling, she is building a community that challenges silence and dismantles 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