Living The Red Life - Creative Entrepreneur Who Beat the Odds and Found Her Divine Calling

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Diona Nicole Murray, a multifaceted creative, website designer, and advocate for women's reproductive health, opens up about her journey through persistent health challenges, the transformative power of her faith, and her transition from a childless designer to a devoted advocate for women's reproductive health. Her story is a beacon of hope, filled with moments of divine intervention and a call to help others walk into their purpose.Throughout the episode, Diona shares personal anecdotes about her upbringing and passion for creating, which later fueled her journey into fashion and website design. Her narrative intersects with themes of resilience, faith, and determination, as she elaborates on having faced difficult diagnoses while holding onto less than a 1% chance of conceiving her daughter, who is now a vibrant nine-year-old. Diona reflects on her faith-driven path, how her experiences shape her purpose, and the realization that her struggles were not only hers alone but a shared journey with other women facing similar challenges.Key Takeaways:Diona Nicole Murray's journey embodies resilience and faith as she overcame significant health challenges to become an advocate for women’s reproductive health.The importance of authenticity permeates Diona's work, influencing her approach to design and advocacy.Seeking balance between professional obligations and personal integrity remains crucial as Diona learns to prioritize her purpose over people-pleasing.Diona emphasizes the importance of heeding life's callings, even when they diverge from expected career paths, such as moving from fashion design to health advocacy.Her story serves as a powerful reminder of the broader impact of personal struggles and the divine purpose behind them.Notable Quotes:"My look is just an outward expression about who I am internally.""You can't serve from an empty vessel.""The concept of someone being barren can actually walk into a fruitfulness is what I get to help women do.""I'm like a special child of God. You need to get up and walk in your calling.""Her existence is my daily reminder of God's grace."Connect with Diona Nicole Murray:Instagram WebsiteConnect with Rudy Mawer:LinkedInInstagramFacebookTwitter

I suffered all this time in pain. I lived my life 90% in pain. And so while I was still giving to the world and helping people birth things and helping people do things, I wasn't able to give wholeheartedly to my own business like I was doing to others, but I also wasn't able to give birth to a child. And it wasn't until years later, and I was told I had less than 1% chance of conceiving a child. My daughter's now nine. You have been gifted with artistry.

you've been gifted with being able to design websites, register well on camera, well spoken. You've been given these gifts to now pivot and be essentially a beacon. I didn't go through that for just me. I went through that for all the many other women that still don't have a diagnosis, still trying to conceive, still trying to birth.

And the cool thing is... My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast, and I'm here to change the way you see your life. in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. Welcome back to another amazing episode

of Living the Red Life podcast. For Insight Success, I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining me today is Diana Nicole Moray, or Murray. It sounded great the way you said it. We'll do Marais. A woman in power, you're literally on the cusp of filming your episode. I was able to grab you and do your podcast today. Welcome to the Red Life. How are you?

Thank you for having me. I feel great. Fantastic. Welcome to Miami. It's very warm today, as it should be. But the real reason why it's warm, you see that segue. It's because of you. What are we going to learn about you today in your Woman Empower episode? We're going to learn about essentially my why. Why I do the things that I do, why I'm so passionate, why it's ingrained into my soul. I don't just do it because I like it, but that I'm called to it. And so I'm excited to share it.

I love how you recognize the signals, that you're being called to something and that you recognize your why. But you weren't born with this knowledge. Let's figure out the moment you figured out your why. Who were you the day before? You figured out your why. Who were you?

I was a kid that loved to create. I knew that I always had a passion for creating, making what was in the mind and that was thought of, a vision, a creative idea, and making that tangible. Like, I knew that as a child. Sure. And fell in love with it.

What I didn't know was that it had a deeper meaning to that. Yeah. So, which is why you'll, you know, you'll know more about my story through the episode that I'm doing because it's going to be talking about how those two worlds of design and women's reproductive health, how they merge and how it's all about birthing something great. Right on.

Well, I had to admit, I'm a very visual person. and I was taken aback by your look. I love the hair, love your vibe. Talk about your morning ritual. I know this is a bizarre question, but there's a point here. What's your morning ritual when you wear your exterior,

when you wear your coat of armor? When you put this together, who are you? It's interesting because my look is just an outward expression about who I am internally. And first and foremost, I'm a believer of Christ. And so what is inside that inner beauty, I want that to exude on the outside. And so on a day to day, I'm not completely beat face. I am so chill and relaxed.

I love to throw on some sneakers and rock out that way. But this outward, especially like my locks, I love my locks. I was just going to say, yeah. And I didn't, this is actually today is my lockversary. is how they say. Today, actually, it'll be four years today that I decided to have locks. And when I look back at all the different hair styles that I've had, I always feel like this suits me. Like, I feel like it's my natural hair, but I get to style it and do different things. And me being an artist and I started in fashion.

So I love to look good. I love to experiment. I love to showcase who I am and what I wear. what I do. The reason why I ask and the reason why I pegged you in fashion is because you're wearing where you wear very well. And it's not just the alpha about your hair, but the energy is exuding off of you. You're very magnetic. So that's one of the hard parts. That's something you can't train. No matter how much money you throw out a coach. You either got it, you don't. And when you don't got it, it's okay. You just got to work just a little harder and you're in a different path. But when you've got the magnetism that you do, you've obviously been blessed. And as a fellow Christian, as someone that was

saved that nine, you're basically given the power of every single angel now in heaven because you truly are saved and welcome to the kingdom of God. So you're quite in it. I appreciate you saying that, you know, because you, my prayer every day, and I pray that over myself, over my daughter, over my family, that when you walk out into the world that you shine the Lord's light in everything that you do, through the cracks, through everything that no matter what you do, that he walks with me. And so the fact that you can just see that, you know, it's something you feel. Absolutely. Yeah.

For sure. I feel you, homie. And that's something that folks don't quite understand. That's people call it the matrix, call it the code, the divine. There's all, there's energy. Everyone's got an interpretation of it. We only use 10% of our brain because we're just tiny little creatures in the name of the Lord. But we use our brains as how to interpret reality at the 10% level.

I can just imagine how powerful we'd be at the 90% level when we really see the the energy there. But enough about energy, let's refocus back to you. Again, your why, and obviously it's religion, the source, the download, be it our Lord and Savior. When you found your why, where did you begin? Who was the first person you wanted to change and go, look, the force is real, the energy is real, let me give you my divine download. When did that begin? And what did it sound like? Well, I feel like it was clearer when I switched over to women's health because like I said as a child, I just was always creating. Like that was me. So you know how people struggle to figure out what do they enjoy doing or what is their purpose. People would

always look at me and say, you already know, like you're truly gifted and creating and drawing. I mean, I was always drawing and making things. And when I went to, went to go to college, it's a different age now. Kids can just go online and search different things. And that was kind of new. kind of telling my age a little bit. I know I look younger than I really am. You'll never guess with my age is. That's how I ended up going into fashion. Sure. But I enjoyed fashion, but something was calling me to something more. And so I knew I needed something deeper. And so for me, going into really getting to know people, it became when I was talking to people, when I was able to share and really had them walk into their purpose.

And so that's when I realized, yes, I'm doing fashion. And then I went into graphic design. Then I'm building websites, which I still do. Hell, yeah, good for you. And so I get to help other people when they have ideas, help bring that and give that to the world. Help them give birth to the thing that they're supposed to do. And so going through what I went through with my reproductive health, I suffered all this time in pain.

I lived my life 90% in pain. And so while I was still giving to the world and helping people birth things and helping people do things, I wasn't able to give wholeheartedly to my own business like I was doing to others, but I also wasn't able to give birth to a child. So I was inwardly suffering every day, grieving what I never thought that I could have. And it wasn't until years later. So I'm talking from age 11 when I got my first cycle, extremely painful. I didn't not know what was wrong with me until I was in my 30s.

And at that point, finally met a care team that listened because I went through years of not being listened to. And they then told me, well, we got to have surgery, you know. And while that wasn't what I wanted, it was like someone's finally listening, like there's something wrong, and someone is actually looking to figure out what it is. And so I wound up getting cysts removed, fibroids, endometriosis scar tissue, a fallopian tube had to come out. And I'm thinking I'm finally having a breakthrough. And I was told I had less than 1% chance of conceiving a child. And so my daughter's now nine. I love how you just casually drop back.

I'm giving you the faster version, right? No, it's a great, it's a great, great teaser trailer to your episode. She's nine now. Wow. And she's a prayer warrior. Her name is Ariana Elise, which means most holy pledge to God. And so she, her very existence is a blessing, my daily reminder of God's grace. And so going through that process, like if someone would have asked me when I was a kid, you're going to go into women's health.

I would be like, no, I'm not. I'm an artist. like I'm a fashion designer like no I'm not doing that but now I'm passionate I didn't go through that for just me I went through that for all the many other women that still don't have a diagnosis still don't you know still trying to conceive still trying to birth and the cool thing is it's not just a physical thing we're talking about here the concept of someone being barren stuck uh in a in a dried season that can actually walk into a fruitfulness is what I get to help women do.

How are you communicating this to the normals? So it's just like when you kind of shake them and be like the energy, it's all about energy. Like that's my personal selfish opinion. What's your opinion of what's really happened to you? Like the transformation, like you have been gifted with artistry. You've been gifted with being able to design websites, register well on camera, well spoken. and you've been given these gifts to now pivot

and be essentially a beacon, a messenger. How does that feel? Does it feel a little bizarre? It's scary. It's scary. It's very scary. Oh, yeah. It makes he sweat. I lose sleep. I'm like, the first year that I really thought,

like I thought, okay, Lord, I must be, I have a story to tell. You know, I'm writing a book. You know, I thought it was just a book. And then I've realized, no, I'm calling you to go out. Like, is you taking a long time with this book? And there are people on their knees. There are people crying.

There are people stuck. There are people thinking that they're forgotten and they're not. They're chosen. And so it's just me saying I'm getting chills. Just the mere thought that there are people not walking in their calling, not walking in their purpose. And you're choosing me to help them get up because that's really what it is. It's like, get up. Like, you are a special child of God.

You need to get up and walk in your, your calls. Like, that's what the enemy wants. He wants you to just, you know, you're forgotten. You're broken. You're stuck. You're never going to be it. You're never going to be anything. You're not going to do it.

You can't. The enemy will even take body parts out of you. Yes. To test your will. To just test you and be like, but this doctor that spent all this time is telling you, no, no, no, that you're not going to create life. No, no, no. And in reality, that doctor's going to.

to walk off and be the dark energy spirit that was there to test you at that very moment. Here you are, nine years. You created a miracle that's nine years old now. She's nine. How does that feel? It's beautiful. Like I said, you know, every day I look at her. Like before I go to bed, I come in, I look at her and it's like, this is your creation.

You know, you came from this broken womb. I had her with one fallopian tube. Good for you. That's amazing. That's beautiful. One fallopian tube in a less than 1% chance. And, you know, I know the doctor, he was an awesome doctor. You know, I had an awesome care team, and he has to tell you the statistics.

But I know my God has another number in mine. So, you know, and even in that moment, I felt like, you know, it might not be in the cards for me. It might not. So I continue to pour out, you know, but it was even in that season, he showed me what, like, what, He gave me a comfort, even in that season, like, still placed. I have a, I call her my sister daughter, my husband's sister, came to live with us when she was a teenager. And that was during a time when I was, like, so broken, like, just, you think about it. Every time I got my cycle, every month, I went through a depression.

So, and I was in between jobs. So I just was home with me and my thoughts. And they weren't positive at that time. For sure, especially as an artist. And my sister, my daughter, who she calls me mom. She was the first person to call me mom, showed up at our door, and she needed us. She lost her mom when she was three. So I always, you know, we have a special bond and a special connection.

Like, I was the childless mother, and she was the motherless child. And we, like, to this day, that's my baby, you know. And I was thankful for it. because he didn't have to do that. He knew I was really hurting, and he knew, I'm going to bless you and something's coming your way. Not only am I bless you, but I'm calling you to do something greater. But in the meantime, I'm going to give you some comfort.

I got to ask, and don't reveal their age because I won't reveal mine. I feel like we're in the same decade. That's for a second. Now that you've discovered your superpower, and you're looking at the time, I'm like, wow, I got way more time now in life. Like, now you're truly like, I'm alive. I definitely wasn't thinking this way into my 20s or in my 30s. of which precursor i'm in my 40s but now that we've we we feel aligned and we remove that shame

of being gifted of the divine and that we're truly walking in our purpose now what like no what you wake up and you're superman how do you what are you doing in your day to day that's gaining you out of bed yes you you are mom to two beautiful daughters they're beautiful family but what are you doing to give back how how are you representing your why now day to day it's in everything like honestly if it's not it's not for me that's where I'm at in life now if it if it's not serving that purpose and that's the thing having a discernment to know what things to say no to that's where I struggle because I'm also a people pleaser I like to give and do for everybody and what I'm learning is I can't do it all I'm just coming out of a season

where I was, like, running off of fumes. Oh, sure. Like, just tired to pleaded. And you can't serve that way. You can't serve from an empty vessel. And so what I'm learning is you got to say no to some things. Because if you're saying, if I'm saying yes to everything and everybody, then without even realizing it, I'm saying no to him.

And so then I'm not walking where I'm not doing what I'm preaching. You know, I'm not walking where he's. he's called me to be or I don't have time. I'm too busy. I get a vivid, vivid visual of he who should not be spoken because we don't want to alarm the energy here. It's very spooky, I know. But let's say, the negative energy is essentially

almost like doing a checklist. Like, let's just throw things at her to slow her down. Oh, it comes strong now. Let's make sure to, let's make sure. It comes even stronger now. Every day, it's a battle. Yeah. You're being cut off in traffic.

Someone cut you off. You're being constantly tested, do not take anything that happens to you every single day as a coincidence. It is the battle of the fifth dimension, fighting with third dimension. You just got to believe. And once you start believing,

and you start spiritually educating yourself, and you quote-unquote pick aside, you'll start to see the reality just go, it's deep. It's real deep. It's real deep. It's interesting because just last weekend, I was going to retreat.

with my sisters, this organization, and I'm a part of called Faith Mead, and the idea is that you are, you know, we live in a society where everything is self-made. I did this. I did that. And the thought is like, no, he created me. He made this. He made that. And so we were coming to a retreat. Very powerful. Very powerful. When I tell you, every obstacle that could come, because this was just, this was the prayer warriors. Like we were coming to pray. We were coming. And I was so late.

Some of us didn't make it. My plane was rescheduled three times. Like it was like down to when I finally landed after the third attempt of a plane, right. When I landed, it started pouring. And then the Uber driver got canceled three times. The final driver that came to pick me up, he was like, well, maybe you shouldn't be coming. I said, are you scared now? Are you scared to drive me?

but he was like that's crazy i was like listen because something mighty is about to happen when people come together in this way and you know you got to that's why they say you got to put on the armor of god because i got to stay armored up i got to stay prayed up you know prayed up i love it i'm sure there's a shirt out there somewhere that needs to be made i'm sure you're going to make it um gosh i got to ask you how much do you hate or love canva as a designer I saw the eye roll. It's interesting because although I don't design in Camp Canva is really for the person that doesn't want to design it,

but I might deal with a client that they can upkeep something in Canva. So I might design something and export it to like if it's social media, something like that, that they can, I'll load it in and brand it for them. So like if you're going to use this tool on a daily basis, so I think it has, it serves as a great, tool for people that need it um but you know i always say and i you know with i'm i teach design as well very cool and uh you know sometimes you know with ai and all these different tools people get scared like if they're going into design um like this job is not going to be needed i'm like people

can't duplicate you you know so they can have the AI they can do all those things but you still have to have a skill and an eye and if you don't have it you don't have it yes like you don't have it So I'm never afraid of those things. Good. I'm glad you perceive it that way just because I feel like AI is just going to make the human experience and the human touch and the human art far more valuable because it was designed by a person with a soul. Even though a digital soul is a thing, but it's the year still, we'll talk about this in the year 2035. In 2025, we still have souls here. This is going to age poorly.

Before we wrap up, what can folks look forward to in your episode? Um, authenticity. I believe in authenticity. I love to, like, the things that I go through don't happen in a bubble. I go through it, not just for me. So I'll be sharing my story. I'll be sharing a little bit more of my journey into women's reproductive health. I'll be sharing more of why I'm walking into design advocacy. And some of the things that I'm building. You know, I am, I went back to get my master's in my, I'm telling my age now, in my 40s. Oh, right on. Cheers to that. And every day, I was like, why am I doing this? But what I built in my thesis is something beautiful. So I, I want to share a little bit about that. And I, you know, I have, I have planners. I've done visionary planners that kind of marry design scripture and vision

T-shirts I do a lot to help build people up That's beautiful You got to put scripture You got to hide scripture in plain sight Yes That's one of my favorite TikTokers Is this priest

That basically is pointing up to and goes Look these lyrics from that one Evanessa song is straight from the Bible And it's just reverse by verse I'm like yeah there it is The Holy Scripture hit it in plain side Look right here Yep

I was just going to bring that up That's amazing That's beautiful Very cool Well, I'd hate to wrap this up. I appreciate your divine energy, D. I'm going to call you D. You absolutely can.

How can folks find you? How can folks be a part of your journey? You can follow me on Instagram at diana.nacle. You can also find me at Barren Fruit, and that's B-A-R-R-E-N-Fruit, as well as Deanna-N-N-Cole design. If it's easier, I have a website that's just diana-Nocle.com, and it points to Everything. Diana Nicole.com. That's the place to find her.

Dee, such a great time. Such a great time. Thank you. Cheers to being in our 40s. And looking great. And looking fantastic in the name. That wraps up another episode of Living the Red Life, Women in Power Edition.

For Insight Success, I'm Ray Gutierrez.