Transparency Over Perfection: Filmmaking, Faith & Healing with Diamond

Let's Try This Again with B. Simone

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

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🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to Let’s Try This Again—I’m your host, B Simone, and this week I’m joined by my talented friend Diamond Batiste—a filmmaker, director, writer, and someone who’s become a real brother to me in this industry. We get all the way real about what it means to grow as creators in today’s oversaturated world, how consistency and joy are key (not just the numbers), and why being true to your vision is what separates you from the crowd. We dive into Diamond’s honest testimony of falling in and out of faith, from reading the Bible in the Army to going through cycles of drifting, chasing love, dealing with abandonment, and realizing the real work starts with radical transparency—with yourself and others. Diamond shares how therapy (and being a Black man in therapy!) unlocked his next level, and how becoming a father and seeking a new relationship with God became his “try again” moment.

We laugh about childhood, flirting with the line between authenticity and honesty, failing forward in relationships, and the struggle to create safe spaces for men (and women) to tell the truth without fear of penalty. I open up, too, about the power of community, the need for graceful pivots, and how I’m embracing budgeting, DIY, and building a business that glorifies God. This episode is for anyone holding themselves back, struggling with old patterns, or scared to be their full, vulnerable self. Whether you’re a creative, a dreamer, or just trying to level up in life, our stories remind you: growth is messy, failure isn’t fatal, and healing always starts with telling yourself (and others) the truth.

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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.
0:29.9	Hey, you guys, welcome back to another episode of Let's Try This Again on my audio listeners, get this little gym. It is the audio intro that is not on the YouTube. So if you
0:34.5	are listening to this, cheers to you, little clicks with the pointer finger and the thumb. Cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers, cheers. I love you guys so much. Yeah, y'all are just VIP at this point. If you listen to the audio, you get a little extra, baby. You get a little razzle-dazzle. And it's this part, this part right here that you're listening to the audio intro every week i record an audio
0:55.0	intro for you guys and yeah just review my week it's been absolutely amazing i'm in columbus ohio
1:00.6	sitting in the car at easton i am going to lunch right after church i visited a i visited it i visited it
1:08.7	what i visited did it did it.
1:32.4	A church in Columbus, Ohio today. I did not go to my father's church, but I'm in Columbus, Ohio. Why? Because this is third. Oh my gosh, y'all. I am stuttering Stanley in this hoe. Lord. I am in Columbus. Why? Because I'm just frazzled. Fazzle. It's the third Saturday of the month.
1:38.8	Y'all know every third Saturday we do LTTA Connect. If you guys want more information, make sure you guys are following the LTTTA app Instagram. The Let's Try This Again, Instagram. Go to let's try this again.com and scroll all the way down to the bottom and put in your email. So you are on our email blast list. We do this in Columbus, Ohio. Every third Saturday. It's a completely free event for women to connect, to heal, grow, evolve, and be in a vulnerable space. It's like a group therapy session.
2:01.2	Each month we have themes. We did forgiveness. We did peace this past weekend, which was yesterday.
2:07.0	We did friendship. Oh, it was so impactful. It was so beautiful. And it's just been amazing.
2:12.5	So much healing. So much just deliverance and freedom and connection and love and sisterhood every single month.
2:21.0	We're trying to see what cities we're going to bring it to next.
2:23.4	We'll probably come to Charlotte or Dallas or Houston.
2:26.7	Those are the cities on our radar.
2:28.5	So please let us know.
2:29.5	I know a couple women said Detroit.
2:31.0	A couple women said Philly.
2:32.6	So we're going to be bringing it to new cities in
2:35.7	26. But yes, every single third Saturday, I am in Columbus, Ohio for LTTA Connect. And you can find
2:42.0	more information on the at LTTA APP, LTTA app, Instagram. I love y'all so much.
2:56.2	And let me get into how I look right now because I am so freaking cute.
2:57.9	And why am I so cute?
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