Release

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — August 5, 2026 — Author and creator Nakia Bolden-Stanley will officially release The Bold Woman Journal and The Bold Woman Collection on August 5, 2026, during the premiere of the Bold Talks with BlackBeauty Show.

The Bold Woman Journal is a 52-week guided journal and workbook created to encourage women to reflect, heal, grow, and live boldly. Through affirmations, reflection prompts, practical exercises, action steps, and personal challenges, the journal helps women reconnect with themselves and move forward with greater confidence and intention.

The accompanying Bold Woman Collection includes thoughtfully designed products such as the signature Bold Woman T-shirt and coffee mug, providing women with meaningful reminders to honor their journeys and boldly embrace the lives they deserve.

The release will be featured during the Bold Talks with BlackBeauty Show, which will bring women together for honest conversations about healing, identity, personal growth, relationships, purpose, and bold living.

The Bold Woman Journal and Collection will be available beginning August 5, 2026.

Reflect. Heal. Grow. Live Boldly.

I began journaling as a way to give my thoughts, feelings, and dreams a place to live. During difficult seasons, writing became my escape from the trauma and pain I was experiencing. Along with reading, journaling gave me a safe outlet—a private space where I could be honest, process my emotions, and express the things I was not always ready or able to say aloud.

Long before I understood emotional healing or intentional self-reflection, journaling was already helping me work through what I felt. With every page, I was learning more about myself. I was naming my emotions, releasing some of the weight I carried, and finding the strength to keep moving forward.

Journaling has helped me through some of the most difficult times in my life, but it has never been limited to moments of sadness or struggle. It has also been present during the happy seasons, the creative moments, and the times when my heart was filled with new ideas, goals, and dreams.

My journals have held my pain, my prayers, my plans, my lessons, and my growth. They have given me room to reflect on where I have been while helping me imagine where I still want to go.

That personal relationship with journaling is part of what inspired The Bold Woman Journal. I wanted to create more than a place to write. I wanted to create a meaningful space where women could process their experiences, reconnect with themselves, honor their emotions, dream without limits, and take intentional steps toward becoming the women they were created to be.

For me, journaling has always been more than putting words on a page. It has been a source of comfort, clarity, creativity, healing, and hope.

It has been a place to reflect, a place to heal, a place to grow, and a place to live boldly. 

-Nakia