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Let's Try This Again with B. Simone

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Personal Journals, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Comedy, 454668

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I get real about what it looks like to grow in private when nobody is clapping for you. I open up about being off social media for almost six months, bulk recording episodes, walking into meetings in my “raw” natural state, and realizing how much of my confidence used to be tied to validation. From sitting in a producer’s office questioning my slick-back bun and sauna sweats, to asking myself why I feel the urge to post every win, I had to confront whether I’m disciplined… or just addicted to applause.

I talk about replacing posting with journaling, prayer, and obedience. About not announcing the goal — just finishing. About fasting without telling anyone. About going to the gym at 6 a.m. with no camera. About letting God build me in the prayer room instead of on a platform. This episode is about moving in swift obedience, walking in true authority, and becoming the woman God called me to be — even when nobody sees it.

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0:00.0	What's up you guys.
0:14.4	I'm your host, B. Simone, and welcome to the Let's Try This Again podcast. Let's just try again.
0:25.4	Okay. Let's Try This Again podcast. Let's Just Try Again. Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of Let's Try This Again.
0:28.8	I am your host, Brayland Simone, Greenfield, and it is a beautiful day.
0:34.5	It is Sunday.
0:35.3	If you're listening to the audio, it's actually Monday, but I'm recording
0:38.6	this on Sunday. And that means you are a part of audio fam. Bapra, audio family. These
0:45.6	intros are not on the YouTube. So if you are listening, you are a part of audio family.
0:51.1	Ardeo. Oh my gosh. Ardeo. Yeah, you need to be doing cardio. Oh, Lord. You're a part of the
0:57.0	audio family. So thank you guys so much. Your VIP, y'all are audio fam. You get these
1:02.7	exclusive intro to the episode. And the people that just watch the YouTube don't get this. So
1:07.8	you are special. Matter of fact, head on over to the YouTube and put in the comments right now, audio fam with the headphone emoji. Audio drops every Monday. YouTube drops every Tuesday. Welcome to Let's try this again. If you are new here, we're popping here. Let's try this again, Cherry. And if you are an OG, thank you for coming back. You guys, we are almost two years into this podcast. Two freaking years. What the heck? A hundred episodes is absolutely nuts. And I just can't believe it. Like, we're about to celebrate. I just thank God every single day for this platform. I thank God for what he's doing through me,
1:45.8	how he's using me as a vessel to just share my testimony, be vulnerable, be transparent,
1:50.7	share my journey, even if I've made mistakes along the way with oversharing or not sharing enough
1:56.8	or, you know, when I should have been muted, talking too much, or not healing before I bled on the
2:03.6	internet. Sometimes I was bleeding on the internet before I actually healed through certain things
2:08.3	I was going through in real time. God is still using me and he's turning it around for his good.
2:13.1	And I just be, I just happen to be, excuse me, learning in real time. I'm learning in real time on a platform.
2:19.6	A lot of people get to learn and heal and make mistakes and grow and evolve and private.
2:23.5	But God called me to do it publicly. And I know sometimes with backlash or people's opinions or
2:31.2	whatever, I know at the end of the day, the women and the people that I am called to,
2:36.7	that's exactly why God called me to carry this cross to heal publicly, to grow publicly,
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