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A Fine Human Season 1: Episode 8- Chelsea Leyland Jan 26, 2026

AFH: Season 1, Episode 8
Featuring Chelsea Leyland (⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/chelsealeyland)⁠
Al sits down with Chelsea Leyland.
Chelsea is the co-founder of Looni, a company dedicated to hormonal health and wellness. Her journey has taken her across the globe, speaking about her personal experience with epilepsy and medical cannabis and her commitment to patient access. She has spoken at institutions such as the European Parliament and Cambridge University. More recently Chelsea has spoken openly about navigating endometriosis, pregnancy losses and reproductive health. Previously, she spent over 10 years DJing and curating music for fashion and art clients, including Chanel, Fendi, the Guggenheim Museum, the MoMA as well as opening for Duran Duran and Diplo. Chelsea's super passionate about building community. And with the power of vulnerability and community being central to her ethos, Chelsea started numerous advocacy groups, facilitating personal support for individuals going through challenging experiences with epilepsy, endometriosis, and fertility struggles, in a true combination of her passions.
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A Fine Human Season 1: Episode 7- Todd Baratz Anxiety, Nervous System Reulation & Sex. Jan 26, 2026

AFH: Season 1, Episode 7
Featuring Todd Baratz (⁠⁠instagram.com/yourdiagnonsense⁠)
Al sits down with Todd Baratz.
Todd Baratz is an author, a renowned psychotherapist and sex therapist whose innovative approach to mental health and relationships has established him as a leading figure in his field. In addition to his clinical practice, he is the author of the book How to Love Someone Without Losing Your Mind His insights are regularly featured in various media outlets, where he discusses topics ranging from romantic relationships to individual mental wellness. He lives in New York City.
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Instagram ⁠⁠Todd Baratz⁠
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This podcast was produced by ⁠⁠aurielle sayeh⁠⁠, filmed by ⁠⁠@thetellychannel⁠⁠, and powered by @⁠⁠dameproducts⁠⁠.

Kate McAndrew: Venture Capital, Life Balance & Founder Guidance Nov 25, 2025

AFH: Season 1, Episode 6

Featuring Kate McAndrew (@Kate_McAndrew)

Al sits down with Kate McAndrew, Venture Capitalist, General Partner and Fine Human.

About the Guest:

Kate Preston McAndrew is the Co-Founder and General Partner of Baukunst, a $100M pre-seed venture fund backing companies at the frontiers of technology and design from inception. With more than a decade of experience investing in hardware, software, CPG and AI-native systems, Kate is known for her high-conviction, founder-first approach and her ability to spot breakthrough talent at the very beginning.

Before launching Baukunst, she spent eight years at Bolt, where she helped shape one of the industry’s first dedicated pre-seed programs and worked hands-on with dozens of technical founding teams.

Kate is also an active voice in the early-stage ecosystem, speaking frequently on founder readiness, product craft, and how to build enduring companies from zero to one. She is a published author, proud single mother, dancer, and San Francisco lover. She holds a BA in Cultural Studies from McGill University.

Guest Info:

Instagram Kate McAndrew

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Charlie Ann Max: Feminine Rage, Nudity & the Fude Experience Nov 18, 2025

AFH: Season 1, Episode 5

Featuring Charlie Ann Max (instagram.com/charlieannmax)

Al sits down with Charlie Ann Max of the Fude Experience, and speaks on feminine rage, nudity and Fude.

About the Guest:

Charlie Ann Max is a multidisciplinary artist, chef, and founder of

Füde. With training from the Joffrey Ballet and a health-supportive

culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education, her work

lives at the intersection of food, art, and the human experience.

A cultural curator and experiential artist, Charlie has hosted over 100

immersive dining experiences designed to foster meaningful

connection. Through these gatherings and her creative practice, she

invites people to return to their purest selves. Her relationship with

nudity, as a practice of self-acceptance and body positivity, deeply

informs Füde’s ethos.

An advocate for wellness and anti-censorship, Charlie pushes

boundaries toward liberation in all facets of her work, whether

through modeling, activism, or plant-based cuisine. Her practice is

rooted in creating transformative spaces that celebrate vulnerability,

creativity, and communal nourishment.

Guest Info:

Instagram Charlie Ann Max

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Olivia Marie Plath: Reality TV, Self Discovery & Self Pleasure Nov 11, 2025

AFH: Season 1, Episode 3

Featuring Olivia Marie Plath(@OliviaMarieplath)

Al sits down with Olivia Marie Plath, and speaks on faith, growth, and transformation.

About the Guest:

Olivia Marie Plath is a reality tv star (Welcome to Plathville, TLC) who uses her platform to talk about her upbringing in Christian fundamentalism and how travel, education and politics have opened her worldview. She enjoys facilitating deep conversations and sharing her love of sparkling water with everyone around her.

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Instagram Olivia Marie Plath

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Ericka Hart: Sex Ed as Resistance Nov 04, 2025

AFH: Season 1, Episode 3

Featuring Ericka Hart (@ErickaHart)

Al sits down with Ericka Hart, the Black queer femme activist and award-winning sexuality educator redefining liberation, pleasure and power.

About the Guest:

Ericka Hart (pronouns: she/they) is a black queer femme activist, writer, highly acclaimed speaker and award-winning sexuality educator with a Master’s of Education in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Ericka’s work broke ground when she went topless showing her double mastectomy scars in public in 2016. Since then, she has been in demand at colleges and universities across the country, featured in countless digital and print publications like Vogue, Washington Post, Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, VICE, PAPER Mag, BBC News, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, W Magazine, Glamour, Elle, and Essence. Ericka’s voice is rooted in leading edge thought around human sexual expression as inextricable to overall human health and its intersections with race, gender, chronic illness and disability. Both radical and relatable, she continues to push well beyond the threshold of sex positivity. Ericka Hart has taught sexuality education for elementary aged youth to adults across New York City for over 10 years, including for 4 years at Columbia University’s School of Social work and the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College. They are currently running their own sex ed training program called Sex Ed as Resistance, a bratty switchy Sagittarius service bottom and misses Whitney more than you.

Guest Info:

Instagram Ericka Hart
Ericka Hart

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Mal Wright: Identity, Silence & the Straights Oct 28, 2025

AFH: Season 1, Episode 2

Featuring Mal Wright (@Igobymal)

In this episode, Al Fine and Mal Wright explore identity, the straights, and the power of presence. From reality TV fame to real-life reflection, Mal brings her signature blend of humor, honesty, and grounded insight to a conversation that feels both expansive and deeply personal.

About the Guest:

Mal Wright (she/her/they if you’re feeling zesty) is a reality TV standout from Netflix’s The Ultimatum: Queer Love S1, known for her grounded energy, sharp wit, and unfiltered authenticity. A creative based in NY with Caribbean roots and a background in corporate leadership and casting, she brings industry savvy and cultural depth to everything she does—on and off the screen.

Guest Info:

Instagram Mal Wright @Igobymal

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Latham Thomas: Purpose, Parenting & the Power of Presence Oct 21, 2025

Al Fine and Latham Thomas discuss parenting and the power of presence.

Guest Info:

Website: Peaceful Parenting
Instagram @mamaglow @glowmaven

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What Can True Sexual Intimacy Look Like? with Dr. Ian Kerner, Licensed Sex Therapist Jan 09, 2025

Dr. Ian Kerner, bestselling author of “She Comes First” and licensed sex therapist, shares insights from his 20+ years helping couples create more fulfilling sexual connections. From his own journey of overcoming sexual challenges to becoming a leading voice in sex therapy, Dr. Kerner discusses how traditional scripts around sex often limit pleasure and intimacy. He emphasizes moving beyond the “intercourse discourse” to embrace a more holistic view of sexual experiences that prioritizes mutual pleasure and absorption.

Through his clinical work and research, Dr. Kerner has observed concerning trends among younger generations choosing partnerships without sexual chemistry, while also noting positive shifts in couples’ openness to sexual exploration and toy incorporation. He provides practical frameworks for couples to examine and improve their “sexual scripts” - the patterns and behaviors that make up their intimate encounters.

The conversation explores how couples can cultivate psychological arousal, maintain erotic connections between encounters, and create space for authentic sexual expression without judgment. Dr. Kerner shares valuable insights about the importance of both emotional safety and maintaining elements of mystery and desire in long-term relationships.

Topics Covered:

Rethinking traditional sexual scripts
Creating psychological arousal and intimacy
The role of foreplay vs coreplay
Sexual chemistry in choosing life partners
Maintaining desire in long-term relationships

Guest Info:

Website: IanKerner.com
Books: “She Comes First”, “So Tell Me About the Last Time You Had Sex”

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This podcast was produced by The Wave Podcasting

Why is Women’s Health Still An After Thought? with Dr. Somi Javaid, founder of HerMD Nov 19, 2024

The challenges of being a woman in medicine and a woman treated by the medical system are real. Dr. Somi Javaid shares her experience working in gynecology and sexual health, opening HerMD, and the dire need for better education, representation, and resources for women’s health.

Dr. Somi shares the challenges of balancing motherhood, working at a medical practice, and being a part of a broken healthcare system, which led her to quit her job. Though a frustrating trajectory, this path led her to open HerMD, an incredible comprehensive women’s healthcare practice specializing in menopause, sexual health, and advanced gynecology.

We discuss the major issues in women’s healthcare today, which consistently result in a lack of funding and disparity in research. The need for education is critical. Most women don’t know the difference between perimenopause and menopause, how their bodies change after pregnancy, or that hormones are good for them! We then talk about normalizing libido fluctuations, pelvic floor health, and testosterone therapy. Reducing the stigma around sexual health and women’s healthcare conversations is deeply important work!

Topics Covered:

Quitting medicine to open HerMD
The state of women’s health and sexual healthcare
Perimenopause and menopause symptoms
Sex is an intimate conversation
Women’s health double standard
Testosterone therapy
Confusion around hormones

Guest Info

Instagram: @somijavaidmd
Website: drsomi.com
Website: hermd.com

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How Can Men Thrive In Modern Life? with Matthew Stefanko, Co-founder of MANUAL Nov 05, 2024

Matthew Stefanko shares his journey from struggling with mental health and substance abuse to founding the company Manual. Manual helps young men aged 15-25 with mental health, sexual health, career planning, personal finance, and more. For Matthew, it's the organization he wishes he had had when he was that age.

We talk about avoiding burnout, being a leader with anxiety, and recognizing one’s own strengths. Matthew reflects on the hyper-masculine environment he grew up in and how that manifested in him later on and in other men. Ultimately, young men are experiencing a crisis of not being heard or understood and not knowing what to do about it, which can have negative long-term consequences.

Though it's sometimes easier said than done, being honest with yourself about your mental health struggles and seeking appropriate support is so important to learn how to deal with them and access a state of thriving.

Topics Covered:

Balancing entrepreneurship and well-being
Serving yourself to serve the mission
Male disconnection and loneliness
The male crisis
Substances and social anxiety
Rise of erectile dysfunction
Men’s roles in partnerships

Guest Info

website: manual.care

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How Can Touch Connect Us to Grief and Healing? with Sarah Seely, Founder of Thai Brooklyn Oct 15, 2024

Ready to deepen your healing capacity? Sarah Seely, a somatic bodyworker, and I discuss interconnectedness, the power of touch, and the wisdom of grief.

Sarah explains the importance of somatic work. We discuss ways to honor the interconnectedness of mind and body, including her primary offering, Thai massage. She shares her journey through trauma and realizing what she didn’t want from her work. Boundaried evaluations of purpose, such as this, tend to bring transformative results.

Sarah describes Thai massage as a form of communication, a healing mechanism, an intimacy practice, and even a yogic guide. Bodywork has the power to support the nervous system's return to realignment and address touch-related traumas through safe touch practices.

Sarah shares what it was like to lose her fiancé. The experience illuminated what self-care practices she had and which she actually needed. Ultimately, her grief led her to reevaluate her career and focus on somatic work. We discuss how powerful healing in community can be and the many shapes it can take. She concludes by sharing her favorite, juiciest pleasure practice: mindfulness.

Topics Covered:

What is somatic work?
Becoming a healer
Flight, fight, and fawn
The language of touch
Massage, trauma, and safe touch
Grief and healing in community
Mindfulness as a pleasure practice

Resources Mentioned:

Guest Info

Website: thaibkny.com
Instagram: @thaibrooklyn

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What Happens When Entrepreneurship Meets BPD? with Nadya Okamoto, Co-founder of August and PERIOD. Oct 01, 2024

How in touch are you with your period? Nadya Okamoto, the co-founder of August, a lifestyle period brand working to reimagine periods to be powerful, has dedicated her life to ending period poverty and improving period care for all women.

Our society has many important issues, and one of them is that the world is not designed for vulva-body people. Alchemizing this frustration into a passion, as 26-year-old Nadya so admirably has, is truly innovative and actually making the world a better place. She co-founded the period product brand August, started an organization at 16 called Period to end period poverty and stigma, and is one of the most prominent educators on social about periods. Definition of a powerhouse!

Nadya shares the gold she has mined from her borderline personality and how she approaches mental health in her business. She opens up about her journey to reaching a point of acceptance about her diagnosis and now is confidently sharing on TikTok about her experience. We get into how sex, periods, pleasure, and being a woman are deeply interconnected and the beauty of engaging over ignoring your period.

Topics Covered:

Periods, period care, and period stigma
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) in business
Sex cravings, masturbation, and stress relief
Relationship between periods, sex, and pleasure
Engaging with your period
Social sharing as an external processor

About Nadya Okamoto

Website: nadyaokamoto.com
Instagram: @nadyaokamoto
TikTok: @nadyaokamoto
August: itsaugust.co
Period: period.org

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What Does Couples Therapy Actually Do For a Relationship? with Dr. Alexandra Soloman, Licensed Clinical Psychologist Sep 17, 2024

Have you ever been to couples therapy? Dr. Alexandra Soloman, a licensed clinical psychologist, and I discuss what it’s like to be on the other side of the couch, toxic relationship patterns, and how to balance self-development work with reality.

Most people have heard of couples therapy, could benefit from it at some point in their relationship, yet likely have never been to a session. Between the societal stigma and misconceptions about it, it’s not surprising that couples therapy is often considered the last resort to save a partnership.

In our conversation, Dr. Alexandra shares what to expect when visiting a therapist with your partner, how she approaches it as the one facilitating the experience, and why it’s not scary. So much of couples therapy as a psychologist isn’t acting as a referee or judging, but rather inviting people to listen differently to each other.

Dr. Alexandra talks about how to navigate relational ambivalence, AKA whether a couple should stay together or not, and how to grow in your relationship as you dig deeper in your own self-actualization work. She challenges the idea that everything must constantly be improving and offers strategies for getting comfortable with non-linear growth.

We also discuss the four communication patterns that emerge behind most couples that continue on to divorce (and once you know them, they are easy to spot). Finally, we wrap up by diving into relationship superpowers and growth edges.

Topics Covered:

How a psychologist approaches couples therapy
What to consider when you ask the question, “Should I stay or should I go?”
Tools to decide if a relationship is worth working on
Understanding and addressing “The Four Horsemen” patterns: Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness and Stonewalling
Reframing weaknesses as “growing edges” and how to use them to your advantage

About Alexandra Soloman

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How Can We Find Pleasure and Peace in the Wake of Pain? with Rochelle Dreeben, my Grandmother and Holocaust Survivor Sep 03, 2024

My very special guest today is my grandmother, Rochelle Dreeben. Her experience surviving and escaping Poland after World War II has been immensely informative. She has taught me so much about pleasure and peace, and I’m very happy to introduce you to her.

A few years after Rochelle was born, the Nazis bombed the Warsaw Ghetto where she lived. She recalls how the Nazis took away the rights of Jews, and people began to disappear. As a child, her strongest memories are loneliness, hunger, and extreme tension. She recalls how her parents made one brave decision after another. Her stories from this time are remarkable, filled with courage, and just… incredible.

Rochelle’s favorite things now, which are almost certainly directly inspired by her childhood experiences, are movement and peace. No matter the commotion around her, Rochelle will always be composed, at ease, and very likely smiling. Living an aligned life has much to do with knowing and understanding your ancestors' stories, and I count my blessings that I am so deeply connected to mine. There’s a lot to be proud of.

Topics Covered:

Rochelle’s Holocaust experience
Surviving the Warsaw Ghetto
Exodus through war torn Poland
Quest for personal peace

Rochelle Dreeben:

Buy Rochelle’s memoir,One Dark Night

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How Does Exploring Gender Open Doors to Play, Possibility, and Pleasure? with Rae McDaniel, Author of Gender Magic Aug 20, 2024

Talking about gender can get very serious very quickly, but my guest, Rae McDaniel, squashes that. They are all about reinfusing gender with play, possibility, and pleasure. They show us how in their amazing book, Gender Magic, and share some of their gender wisdom with me today.

For Rae, gender magic asks how each of us can discover who we are and express our magic to the world in a way that doesn’t send her suffering. This requires a healthy dose of softening boundaries, doing away with rigid definitions, and eliminating dichotomies.

Instead, we must engage in one of the biggest adult taboos: play! Silly is subversive! No matter your gender and how comfortable you are with your gender, there is always something to be learned through gender play.

We then get into power stuff: exploring feminine power, masculine power, and how even striving to activate more power within oneself can be a gendered motivation. Nothing is inherently feminine or masculine. These are ideas from which we get to decide what the words mean to us as individuals.

One of my favorite things about Rae is that their ideas are rooted in the real world. Theory and sharing thoughts within our circles are well and good, but that is not the world. I guarantee you will learn something from this convo. Also, don’t forget to buy their book!

Topics Covered:

The unsexy/sexy process of titling Gender Magic
The play, possibility, and pleasure of gender play together
How gender identity and power can interact, support, and contradict each other
Feeling good as a style compass
Releasing gender and affirming through gender

About Rae McDaniel

Instagram: @theraemcdaniel
Website: rae-mcdaniel.com
Buy Gender Magic: Hachette Book Group

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This podcast was produced by The Wave Podcasting

What's The Secret to Living a Pleasure-Filled Life at Any Age? with Maryjane Fahey, Founder of Glorious Broads Aug 06, 2024

Let’s talk about sex as we age! I am so excited to share this conversation with Maryjane Fahey, creator of Glorious Broads and all-around bad b*tch.

Maryjane is 74 and has never felt more alive. The revolution of openly curious women is on the rise, and I’m living for it! Curious about sexuality, open marriage, sobriety, both having kids and not having kids… it’s all about opening up communication with yourself and with the people you’re in relationship with.

Especially as women, we crave intergenerational friendships. Most of Maryjane’s audience is younger, 25-45, and love hearing her debunk myths about growing old. We absolutely don’t shrivel up and become irrelevant; we absolutely still want sex and can feel sexy, and we absolutely can live pleasure-filled lives!

Maryjane shares the juice on sexuality as we age. Once pregnancy is removed as an option after menopause, pleasure is at the forefront. If we choose, there can be the liberation of not needing the next partner or spouse, just the next wonderful person to be with. Power is no longer a performance.

This one will leave you feeling inspired and hot, no matter how old or young you are!

Topics Covered:

Feeling lively AF at 74
Maryjane’s daily practices to connect with joy and pleasure
The rise of curious women!
Sexuality as we age
On being anti-retirement
Menopause and hormones

Resources Mentioned:

Instagram: @wednesdaymartinphd
Hormone Studies: What Went Wrong?

About Maryjane Fahey

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How Do Weed, Work, and Wellness Coexist? with Solonje Burnett, Founder of Weed Auntie and Erven Jul 23, 2024

In this episode, I’m joined by the effervescent Solonje Burnett, who exists at the intersection of community, wellness, and weed. Solonje uses her platforms to speak to weed education and interconnectedness in a genuinely inspiring and joyous way.

There are many parallels between how our society indiscriminately labels sexual pleasure and weed as a sin or something to be ashamed of when actually both are healing modalities. We discuss what makes up a conscious, healthy relationship with weed. It's essential to stay in conversation with your body and yourself about how you’re using weed as a tool for connection or escape, for example, and not avoidance or numbing out.

Our society promotes a lot of misconceptions, traumas, and lies around cannabis use, so when we do finally feel comfortable smoking, sometimes our identities, such as mom or leader, can feel jeopardized. For Solonje, smoking weed brings out her most playful and raw form and gets rid of the desire to perform. For her and most people, we become more present, open, and creative when we’re high and less guarded and secretive.

Solonje’s company, Weed Auntie, focuses on weed education and provides many types of services and events for small groups, like tea parties, to large organizations, like Soho House. All carried out with Solonje’s beautiful language of interconnectedness and inclusivity to show that weed is all types of people and all types of things. She also launched Erven in October 2023, a tech company that facilitates the exchange of sales performance data from cannabis retailers’ POS systems to brands.

Naturally, we wrap by chatting about weed and sex as relates to body, mind, and sexual products. Ultimately, responsible smoking is a valid choice and one that calls for more play and pleasure in life. By the end of this conversation, Solonje helped me to feel confident enough to claim that weed helps me be my best self!

Topics Covered:

Conscious, responsible weed-smoking
Working through the stigma and shame of cannabis consumption as a woman, mom and business leader
Cannabis in the workplace and upholding our humanity
Solonje’s businesses, Weed Auntie and Erven
Weed and pleasure!
Reflecting on our relationship with alcohol
THC breaks

Resources Mentioned:

About Solonje Burnett

Instagram: @solonjeburnett
Solonje Burnett: solonjeburnett.com
Erven: erven.ai

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Can Art and Magic Thrive in Business? with Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz, Founder of Holisticism Jul 09, 2024

How weird can we get? I speak with the super groovy and wise head witch in charge at Holisticism, Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz, about staying true to our art and magic in this big, strange capitalist world.

Michelle’s approach to business merges magic, whimsy, art, and an anthropological curiosity about existence. Past experiences of seizures, hearing voices, and trying to “fix” what seemed wrong solidified that life is not black and white. Rules are always an interpretation, there are always more answers, possibilities, and discoveries. From these ashes rose Holisticism.

We get into how operating creatively within capitalism is not innate, what balancing compromise with sacrifice could actually look like, and a whole lot of other things that seem like opposites (i.e. spellwork and marketing). Staying focused within systems that tell us what we want isn’t possible sometimes feels overwhelming, but through tools like ritual, spellwork, and systems, there really can be balance among all that chaos.

Humans have actually been practicing ritual and spellwork since forever, it's just been called by so many different names. Michelle breaks down each component of a spell, and I was surprised by just how flexible and personalized intentional magic can be.

Ultimately meaning-making is a structure to help us understand our own minds. You both are and you aren’t the same as your business. You may nourish and cultivate it, but it is not your baby. Let’s remove the singular, concrete labels and instead celebrate that our identities are infinite.

Topics Covered:

Holisticism for intuitive small business owners
Creativity within capitalism
How to make a spell + Michelle’s favorite rituals
Spiderweb thinking vs. linear thinking
Perfectionism is closer to mediocrity than failure

About Michelle Pellizzon-Lipsitz

Instagram: @michellepellizzonlipsitz
Holisticism: holisticism.com

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This podcast was produced by The Wave Podcasting

Is Joy Missing From Modern Birth Experiences? with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Orgasmic Birth Doula Jun 25, 2024

Excited/intimidated/thrilled by the idea of an orgasmic birth? Me too. I spoke with orgasmic birth doula Debra Pascali-Bonaro about the dire need to put joy, love, and ecstasy back into the birth experience.

Debra’s journey centers around transgressing the medical system’s authority on what birth should look like and instead encouraging women to let their own bodies and babies be the guide. The system isn’t all bad, but it leads from pain and fear instead of uplifting the birth experience. This is deeply evident from how birth is managed in hospital rooms to the birthing language itself.

Debra widens my understanding of an orgasmic birth to include not just a potential birthgasm, which can really help the baby come out, but also the experience of your baby being between worlds, first feeling your baby against your skin and looking in their eyes, and the many pleasurable moments in between.

After all, birth is on the same continuum as sexuality. Pleasure keeps the hormones flowing. Debra emphasizes that we need to take the time for pleasure practices every day because we birth the way we live.

Topics Covered:

Putting joy, love, and ecstasy back into birth
Orgasmic birth, the birthgasm, and all of the pleasure
The pleasure and pain of my own birth experience
Sex and birth continuum
Pregnancy is a time for healing and sexuality
Pleasure practices
Shifting illness-based birth language to a more pleasureful one

Resources Mentioned:

Guest Info:

Debra Pascali-Bonaro | website
Orgasmic Birth | Instagram
Orgasmic Birth | podcast

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Welcome to Horny For Life Jun 17, 2024

Welcome to Horny for Life! I’m Al. I live at the intersection of business, taboo and wellness. I’m a trained psychologist, sex toy inventor, mom, running a multi-million dollar sexual wellness company.

On this podcast, I’m joined by dynamic humans who approach life with curiosity and courage, people who embrace the idea of paving their own path. The stories we share might challenge your beliefs or inspire you to think in a new way. That’s what we’re here to do.

I want to know what makes people feel good. I want to know what alignment looks like. I want to know what makes people feel uncomfortable and push on the bruises.

Join me on this audio therapy session. I’m horny for life, and soon you will be too.

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