Meet your hosts

Melisa Keenan is a nine-time international bestselling author, founder of Heart Open Publishing Enterprise, and creator of the Black Madonna Codes ecosystem. Through books, a live show, retreats, mentorship, and community, she brings together voices from diverse traditions and lived experiences to explore spirituality, pleasure, leadership, lineage, and liberation.

Known for asking the questions that widen the conversation, Melisa believes stories carry healing codes and that the world is overdue for women who know how to honor one another like queens. In her spaces, women gather to tell the truth, elevate each other's voices, and bring their wisdom and medicine into the world. She is devoted to intimacy, deeply suspicious of certainty, and only interested in playing with people who are open, curious, and committed to liberation.

Deidra Towns’ political career ended in a booth at her favorite diner, with two close friends and not enough votes. Underneath the sadness and disappointment, she sensed something completely unexpected — relief, with a sprinkle of liberation.

That was the moment she stopped identifying with not enough and started noticing who she had become: a builder of communities and curator of provisions for leaders who are done waiting for old systems to work and are building the new ones that will. Her rooms are big enough for all of who you are: wisdom and wound, fury and tenderness, the sacred and the unfinished. 

A published author who also speaks and coaches at the intersection of leadership and practical spirituality, she cultivates the kind of wellbeing that holds up under pressure — the kind she had to find for herself, first.