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Brenda Winkle is a dynamic speaker, intuitive coach, psychic medium, and energetic leader who empowers visionary leaders to lead with more ease, alignment, and intuition. With a background in public education, somatic coaching, and energy healing, Brenda combines grounded tools with spiritual depth to help visionary leaders reclaim their energy, refine their boundaries, and trust themselves fully in both life and business.
She’s known for her warm, empowering presence and her signature blend of energetic mastery, trauma-informed coaching and energy healing, and embodied leadership. Whether she’s leading a breathwork session, holding space in a 1:1 session, hosting a podcast interview, or speaking from stage, Brenda activates transformation with clarity, compassion, and soul.
📌 Download a free energy audit to learn what's fueling or draining you: brendawinkle.com/audit
Signature Talks Available Now Include:
Somatics of Belonging: Create More Inclusive and Cohesive Groups in Divisive Times. You’ll leave with somatic tools, breathwork practices, and easy, high-impact strategies to support your team/students/clients/patients and yourself. Includes a short breathwork experience.
From Overwhelmed to Aligned: Reclaiming Time, Energy and Clarity in Leadership. You'll leave with actionable steps and practical tools to maintain your clarity long after this talk is complete. Includes a short breathwork experience.
Signature Topics Include:
Energetic Leadership: Leading with intuition and integrity. How to trust your intuition when things are changing to be able to make the most aligned decisions.
Spaceholding: Empathy and Emotional Regulation at Work. Support your leadership team with the knowledge and tools to hold space for those they lead. Help them avoid feeling responsible for someone else's emotions, and know the difference between a normal human emotional experience and when to seek outside support.
Energetic Sovereignty: Boundaries, Burnout & the New Leadership Paradigm. The expectations haven't changed, but we know the pace of how we work needs to in order to go from overwhelmed to aligned for more productivity and fulfillment.
The Intuitive Edge: Making High-Stakes Decisions with Confidence and Clarity. Learn the three intuitive maps to be able to more clearly access your intuition.
Breathwork for Leaders: Nervous System Regulation for Visionaries and Those They Serve. Use breathwork to activate, calm or create clarity.
Lead with Love: How to Create Space, Impact, and Ease in Your Work or Business
Breathwork for educators. This interactive session will provide participants with a breathwork experience led through a trauma-informed lens and leave them with tools they can use in their personal lives, in their careers and with their students to reduce anxiety, relieve stress, and be more present.
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Podcast & Media Presence
Brenda is the host of the Yes Filled Life Podcast, a globally ranked top 5% podcast, where she shares insights on leadership, well-being, and energy alignment. Her mission is simple: to help high-achieving women feel better, trust themselves, and lead with joy.
She has been featured in Top Sante' Magazine, Platinum Magazine, Telegraph, Metro, and Authority Magazine and has spoken on stages across California, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri. She has guested on over 50 podcasts and has been a featured speaker on Humanity's Team weekly live and on KCAA Radio.
A sought-after presenter and keynote speaker, Brenda also creates meditation and breathwork workshops for Fortune 500 companies such as Nike as well as for non-profit organizations like The Association for Body Mapping and American Choral Directors Association's Northwest Region Conference. She also leads professional development in schools, districts and at the state level.
Credentials & Expertise
Brenda is a certified advanced trauma-informed breathwork facilitator, certified trauma-informed somatic coach, and Reiki Master. She is also highly trained in ThetaHealing®, Clendinning, and multiple energy healing modalities.
Before stepping into transformational coaching, Brenda spent 26 years as a music educator and holds a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Boise State University. Her background in education and leadership gives her a deep understanding of how high-performing women think, work, and lead.
A Commitment to Social Change
Brenda served as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chair for the Northwestern Region of the American Choral Directors Association and remains committed to social justice, equity and anti-racist work.
It’s time to redefine success—not as doing more, but as leading in a way that feels powerful, effortless, and deeply aligned.
Contact Brenda
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brendawinkle/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brenda.winkle111
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendawinkle/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brendawinkle111
Free Gifts
- Energy Audit - in just 10 minutes get clarity around what's really fueling and draining you
- Breathwork to Strengthen and Trust Intuition - 4 part video series and PDF guide
- Feel Better Fast Cheatsheet and worksheet
- Feel Better Fast Meditation
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Brenda Winkle has been featured in...
FREEDOM? OR FEELING LOST?
Written by Brenda Winkle - December 2023
THE POWER OF BREATH
Written by Brenda Winkle - November 2023
I FOUND OUT I'D REACHED MENOPAUSE ON EMAIL
Written by Brenda Winkle - September 2023
3 WAYS YOU'RE SELF SABOTAGING YOUR SUCCESS AND HOW TO STOP
Written by Suzy Walker featuring Brenda Winkle - September 2023
EIGHT WAYS TO DE-STRESS AND ALL FOR FREE
Written by Suzy Walker featuring Brenda Winkle - August 2023
HOW TO RAISE CHILDREN WHO FEEL LOVED AND CONNECTED
An interview with Pirie Jones Grossman - August 2023
WOMEN IN WELLNESS: BRENDA WINKLE ON THE FIVE LIFESTYLE TWEAKS THAT WILL SUPPORT PEOPLE'S JOURNEY TOWARDS BETTER WELLBEING
Authority Magazine Editorial Staff - August 2023
FABULOUS LIFESTYLE RADIO
An interview with Lynnette LaRoche - June 2023
BECOMING STRESS PROOF: BRENDA WINKLE ON HOW TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE STRESS FROM YOUR PARENTING & RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR CHILDREN
An interview with Savio Clemente - May 2023
BRENDA WINKLE ON FINDING JOY AND HAPPINESS IN TURBULENT TIMES
An interview with Jake Frankel - April 2023
Podcast Appearances
- Energy Leaks, Self Mastery and the Power of Intution - Mystic Bloom with Jenny Scholl - February 2025 - LISTEN HERE
- Breaking Free: From Chaos to Empowerment with Brenda Winkle - Healed and Cash Flowing with Catherine Storing - January 2025 - LISTEN HERE
- Removing the Woo from Energy Work - Strategy Snacks with Frenchi Ferenczi - August 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- Leveraging Leadership: Integrity and Self Care in Action with Brenda Winkle - Empowered Educator - May 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- How Reiki, Breathwork and Somatic Coaching Can Help You Step Into Your Power With Brenda Winkle - The Unperfected Pod - May 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- A Yes Filled Life with Brenda Winkle - Menomorphisis with Polly Warren - May 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- The Power of Breathwork with Brenda Winkle - Love is Us with Karin Calde - April 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- From Fear to Empowerment with Brenda Winkle - The Mother's Empowerment Podcast - April 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- How to protect yourself from negative energy? AND Am I an empath? With GUEST Brenda Winkle - Mindset Check - March 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- How to Instantly Find Your Calm and Protect Your Energy with Brenda Winkle - Partners of Commercial Fisherman - January 2024 - LISTEN HERE
- Breathe with Brenda Winkle: Harnessing the Power of Breath for Healing and Joy - Enlighten and Elevate with Kelly - December 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Discovering Your Soul's Purpose with Brenda Winkle - Metabolism, Muscles and Mindset Podcast with Dr. Ali Novitsky - November 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Boundaries in Relationships with Brenda Winkle - Love is Us with Karin Calde - October 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Brenda Winkle: Breathing in the Power of Yes - Dream Makers - A Heart Driven Podcast for creatives, entrepreneurs and brave people making cool sh*t in the world with Claire Byrt - September 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Getting in Tune with Your Inner Self and Your Body with Brenda Winkle - Healthy, Wealthy and Wise Relationships - September 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Brenda Winkle - Your Yes Filled Life - Safe Space with Cheyenne - August 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Your Full Body Yes with Brenda Winkle - Empowered Wisdom Show - August 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- How to live your best YES filled life with Brenda Winkle - Live the Width of Your Life Podcast - June 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Getting in tune with your inner self and your body with Brenda Winkle - Healthy Wealthy and Wise Relationships - June 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Are you a highly sensitive person? Interviewing Brenda Winkle about breathwork and using your sensitivity as a superpower - DisSOLVING Fear with Miss Alissa - May 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- Breathwork and Breakthroughs - Piece of Work with Danielle Tantone - May 2023 - LISTEN HERE
- From Fauning to Flourishing - The Not Tonight Podcast - May 2023 - LINK HERE
- Breathwork and Breakthroughs - Piece of Work with Danielle Tantome - April 2023- LINK HERE
- Managing Our Energy and Nervous Systems as Empaths, People Pleasers & Perfectionists - Stepping into Purpose- April 2023 - LINK HERE
- Stories of Astonishing Light Podcast with KJ Nasrul- Our intuitive, embodied gifts - March 2023 - LINK HERE
- Dear Peri and Meno Pause - How to cope in high stress moments - March 2023 - LINK HERE
- Inspired Grownups with Alana Banana Podcast - Stepping into Your Own Power with Brenda Winkle - February 2023 - LINK HERE
- Motherhood Uncut Podcast - Highly Sensitive Mothers and Kids - February 2023 - LINK HERE
- Moving Past Murder -Using a Narcissistic Relationship as a Launchpad to Help Others - Interview with Brenda Winkle, Coach, Host "Waves of Joy" podcast - February 2023 - LINK HERE
- Busting Gender Bias - How patriarchy and gender bias affect our nervous system - February 2023 - LINK HERE
- Mindset Check - Getting out of your head to process with Brenda Winkle - February 2023 - LINK HERE
- Think Ultimate Podcast - Elevate your emotion - January 2023 - LINK HERE
- Grounded in Maine - Brenda Winkle - Empowering Sustainability - January 2023 - LINK HERE
- The Mother's Empowerment Podcast - From Fear to Empowerment - January 2023 - LINK HERE
- Untethered with Jen Liss Podcast - How to trust yourself even when making big decisions - November 2022 - LINK HERE
- Ace Your Life Podcast - Ace your Boundaries- November 2022 - LINK HERE
- Shapiro CM - Shapiro and Associates, Inc - November 2022 - Feel better fast: a new approach to stress management
- Down to Earth PCOS Nutrition Podcast - Finding Purpose and Joy on your PCOS Journey with Brenda Winkle - October 2022 - LINK HERE
- Manifestation Mama Podcast - The Power of Choosing You - September 2022 - LINK HERE
- Money Matters with Megan Podcast - How your energy impacts your relationship with money - September 2022 - LINK HERE
- Fun is Fundamental Podcast - Living a more joy-filled life - Link here
- Beckoning Joy Podcast - Accessing, Regulating and Growing Towards Joy - August 2022 - LINK HERE
- Why Not Meditate Podcast - May 2022 - How to empower yourself and live the best life - LINK HERE
- Momprenuer Guide Podcast - May 2022 -How to break through limiting thoughts - LINK HERE
- Northwest American Choral Directors Association Regional Conference - March 2022 - Your diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Blue Print - how blind spots in bias may be sabotaging your efforts
- Red Fin Blog January 2022 - How to create a calm and relaxing home office according to the experts - LINK HERE - Brenda's Blog Here
- Red Fin Blog January 2021 - 15 Simple ways to create a positive and peaceful home - LINK HERE - Brenda's Blog Here
- Shapiro CM - Jay Shapiro and Associates, Inc - April 2020 - Coffee Talk: Stress management in the Pandemic
Podcast Analytics
The Waves of Joy podcast launched on April 12, 2022.
The podcast has over 15,000 downloads over 107 episodes averaging 140 downloads per episode as of 12/7/23. It is now globally ranked in the top 5% of all podcasts and has a listen score of 31.
