Beatrice Njoya and The Feminine Voice: Creating Space for Women’s Stories in Malta

Beatrice Njoya is the founder and host of The Feminine Voice, a Malta-based podcast where she talks with women about femininity, identity, leadership, and relationships. Njoya, who lives in Malta, also holds the title of Miss Universe Malta 2024. Her profile rose after she stood out at the 73rd Miss Universe competition, which inspired her to start her own media project. Produced by House of Magna, the podcast is for women dealing with changes in their careers, relationships, confidence, and sense of self. This article looks at who Njoya is, why she started The Feminine Voice, and what she hopes to achieve with it.

Who Is Beatrice Njoya?

Beatrice Njoya is a public figure and advocate living in Malta. She started and hosts The Feminine Voice. Originally from Cameroon, she is a single mother of three and works as a professional model.

Njoya’s public profile grew significantly in 2024, when she represented Malta at the 73rd Miss Universe competition in Mexico City, competing among 126 countries.

At 40, she was reported as the oldest woman ever to compete in the pageant’s history, and was recognised internationally as the only contestant in her 40s to reach the grand finale. Malta received a dedicated video segment during the live global broadcast, a first for the country at Miss Universe, built around her story of resilience and representation. Miss Universe CEO Anne Jakkaphong Jakrajutatip introduced the feature by pointing to the organisation’s commitment to inclusivity and to stories that empower women worldwide.

That same visibility also exposed her to racist abuse online, which she addressed publicly and directly rather than staying silent. Speaking about the hate speech directed at her, she said: “We have a lot of people who run faster than wisdom,” pointing to how quickly people judge before trying to understand. Her response, measured, clear and unapologetic, drew public support in Malta, including from local artists who spoke out against the comments.

Beyond pageantry, Njoya is an advocate against gender-based violence, domestic violence, racism and cyberbullying, and serves as President of the Board of TAMA Malta, a Malta-based community organisation working to combat gender-based violence, support survivors and promote equality. That advocacy work, and the years of personal experience behind it, is the throughline connecting her public story to the platform she has since built.

Why Beatrice Created The Feminine Voice

Njoya has been explicit that The Feminine Voice is not built around volume or spectacle. As she puts it: “I am not here to be loud. I am here to be true and help women return to themselves.”

That framing shapes the project’s purpose. Rather than add another feed of generic motivational content, The Feminine Voice is built on the idea that real change happens when women are given room to think out loud. In Njoya’s words: “True empowerment begins when women are given space to explore their stories, their identity and their voice.”

It’s a natural extension of the advocacy she was already doing around gender-based violence, self-worth, and public resilience, now in a long-form conversational format where nuance has room to exist.

What Is The Feminine Voice Podcast?

The Feminine Voice is a Malta-based podcast hosted by Beatrice Njoya, produced by House of Magna, focused on modern femininity, emotional intelligence, leadership and identity. Episodes run roughly 40 to 60 minutes and take three forms: guest interviews, narrative conversations, and reflective solo episodes hosted by Njoya alone.

The subject matter spans identity and self-worth, confidence, purpose, personal transformation, relationships and boundaries, leadership, and the culture and expectations shaping how women see themselves. A recurring idea across the project’s messaging is that confidence, purpose and determination have no age limit, a line that mirrors Njoya’s own story of stepping into a global spotlight in her 40s.

The podcast is available on Spotify and YouTube, alongside a growing library of social content (clips, reflections and behind-the-scenes material) distributed primarily through Instagram.

The Women The Feminine Voice Is Speaking To

The Feminine Voice draws a predominantly female audience (around 73% of listeners), spanning roughly ages 25 to 50 and older, with an international mix that includes professionals, entrepreneurs, and women in leadership positions.

More than a demographic, the audience is defined by what its members are navigating: relationships, careers, leadership, motherhood, entrepreneurship, identity, migration, confidence, ageing, reinvention, and the process of starting over. It’s a podcast for women mid-conversation with themselves, not a fixed life stage.

Why Malta Matters to The Feminine Voice

The Feminine Voice is based in Malta, home to a diverse and increasingly international community of women: professionals, entrepreneurs and residents who, like Njoya herself, have built lives there after moving from elsewhere. Njoya’s own story mirrors that reality: born in Cameroon, she has lived, raised her three children, and built her public career in Malta, representing the country on one of the world’s largest stages.

That context gives the podcast’s themes (identity, belonging, reinvention, confidence) a genuinely local dimension rather than an imported one. When Njoya faced racist abuse during her Miss Universe run, the response from Malta included public pushback from local voices, a sign of a wider conversation already taking shape in the country around race, representation and how women are treated in public life. The Feminine Voice sits inside that conversation rather than outside it.

From Self-Worth to Leadership: The Conversations Beatrice Is Already Having

The themes The Feminine Voice has explored so far track closely with Njoya’s own public journey. Content built around “Choosing Yourself” has looked at self-recognition, prioritising your own needs, confidence, identity and the pressure of external expectations, themes drawn directly from conversations with women navigating major personal decisions. A related concept, “All About Yourself,” has anchored some of the podcast’s episode content and visual identity.

These aren’t abstract talking points. Njoya has publicly discussed overcoming hardship in her own life, and her advocacy against gender-based violence and cyberbullying gives the podcast’s recurring themes (resilience, self-worth, starting again) a credibility that’s lived rather than borrowed.

More Than a Podcast

The Feminine Voice has been conceived as the foundation for something broader than a weekly episode. Alongside the podcast itself, the project produces interview content, social-first storytelling, and editorial material built around each conversation, with room to grow into events, collaborations and a wider community of women’s stories over time. Njoya and House of Magna have built the identity and visual branding to support that growth, without overstating what has been confirmed publicly so far.

The Feminine Voice Meets the TopPeople Philosophy

TopPeople exists to discover and amplify the people, ideas and stories shaping their communities. Beatrice Njoya’s work fits that mission closely: a woman who used a global platform not to centre herself, but to build space for other women’s stories to be heard.

It’s a relationship that runs in both directions. TopPeople gives visibility to Njoya’s story and the project behind it; Njoya, in turn, is building a platform designed to give visibility to other women navigating identity, leadership and change. That overlap, amplification in service of other people’s stories, is why this profile belongs here.

What’s Next for Beatrice Njoya and The Feminine Voice

The Feminine Voice continues to release new episodes and expand its guest list, with Njoya using both the podcast and her public advocacy work to grow a platform centred on women’s stories in Malta and beyond. As the project develops, expect a continued focus on identity, leadership and resilience, themes that have defined Njoya’s public story from the start, now being extended to the women she features.