Letting Go, Leaning In: Healing, Growth & Black Women Abroad
Let's Try This Again with B. Simone
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4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to Let’s Try This Again—I’m your host, B Simone, and this episode is extra special because we’re coming to you straight from beautiful, healing Bali! I sit down with Angelica, co-owner of Hotel Sages, the first Black woman-owned hotel in Bali, and together we get real about the journeys that brought us both here. We dive into what it means to find and create sanctuary—spaces for women to heal, connect, and thrive—whether it’s through my LTTA Connect retreats or Angelica’s journey from California and DC to Bali, building a business, navigating family relationships, and even embracing unexpected love.
We talk openly about childhood, step-family dynamics, divorce, pressure to fulfill others’ expectations, and the boldness it takes to live for yourself instead of just for those around you. Angelica shares how she and her partner came to Bali only to have their investor disappear—and how faith, community, and family support brought their dream alive anyway. I open up about using my pain, public scrutiny, and sisterhood to fuel resilience, and how creating real connection—both at home and especially in international healing spaces—has become my calling. This episode is full of laugh-out-loud moments, deep healing talk, business gems, and practical wisdom for anyone learning to let go of people-pleasing, stop asking for permission, and go where their spirit calls. If you’re craving space to just be—messy, healing, bold, and beautifully yourself—this one is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | What's up you guys. I'm your host B. Simone and welcome to the Let's Try This Again podcast. Let's just try again. |
| 0:32.3 | Hey y'all. Welcome back to another episode of Let's Try This Again. It's a new episode. It's a new week, |
| 0:36.5 | top of the week. If you're listening to this, that means you're listening to the audio. |
| 0:43.7 | And if you just drop, that means this Monday. Hey, you guys, audio drops every Monday. YouTube drops every Tuesday. |
| 0:49.0 | And if you're listening to the audio, you are in for a treat. Why? Because this intro is only on the audio. I've been doing these weekly audio intros to just add to the top of the episodes. |
| 0:52.9 | And you guys have been loving them. So thank you so much for listening you guys this past weekend was absolutely phenomenal |
| 1:01.5 | this is my second year in a row going to woman evolve i went to woman evolve 2024 which is in |
| 1:07.2 | Dallas Texas this year it was in Atlanta Georgia and let me tell y'all how this came about. |
| 1:11.8 | So I bought a suite last year, invited all my people, my fans, not my fans, Jesus, |
| 1:18.2 | my friends and family, and I had, gave two tickets away to two supporters. |
| 1:23.6 | The suite last year was absolutely bomb. |
| 1:26.5 | It was so great. Like, the conference was just phenomenal. If you don't know what Women Evolve is, Sarah Jakes has a conference every year. Last year, I think it was like 40,000 women because it was in Dallas at the dome. This year, it was in Atlanta at State Farm Arena. And last year, the very last day of the conference, they put up the QR code and the tickets for the tickets for 2025. And in that moment, the last day of the conference, I instantly bought the suite for 2025. I was like, I'm buying this suite. It's $10,000. I don't care. I'll figure out who's coming, who's going to give me the money for a ticket next year and baby god pulled through i sold |
| 2:01.7 | every single ticket for the suite and it was just filled with beautiful beautiful women from all |
| 2:07.8 | different walks of life that i knew and we all got together in this suite and we made deeper |
| 2:13.1 | connections cried together worship together shared in the last day of the conference, we all |
| 2:18.6 | came to my house, not everybody. It was about 16 of us, but like six came to my house. We had a little |
| 2:23.8 | sleepover and just debated and talked and had deep conversations about God all night. It was |
| 2:29.9 | talking about our opinions on fasting and it was just getting deep. But I am really realizing |
| 2:37.0 | in this weekend was another reminder that I am a connector and I am becoming so, I'm becoming so |
| 2:44.3 | aware of that. I connect people. I connect women and being the root in the foundation of how a lot of people get together. |
| 2:53.1 | I just have accepted that as one of my gifts. |
| 2:57.0 | And I love, love, love it. |
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