Real Talk Radio with Nicole Antoinette

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Amy E Smith on Finding Your Voice, People Pleasing, and Better Communication in Romantic Relationships Aug 15, 2018

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Amy E. Smith is a certified and credentialed confidence coach, masterful speaker, and personal empowerment expert. Owner and founder of Joy Junkie Enterprises, Amy uses her roles as coach, writer, podcaster, and speaker to move individuals beyond limiting beliefs and sabotaging mindsets to a place of radical personal empowerment and self-love. With acute focus on Continue Reading…

Keah Brown on Unruly Bodies, Finding Joy, and The Power of Reclaiming Your Body and Identity Aug 15, 2018

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Keah Brown is a journalist, freelance writer, and the creator of the #DisabledAndCute hashtag. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, Essence.com, Catapult, Glamour Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, and Lenny Letter among other publications. Her debut essay collection THE PRETTY ONE is forthcoming from Atria Books. In this episode, Keah talks about her forthcoming book, and what it took to complete the first Continue Reading…

Laura Jane Williams on Purposeful Success, Embracing Your Inner Child, and Healing Burnout Aug 15, 2018

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Laura Jane Williams is an author, journalist, scriptwriter, public speaker and accidental influencer. She is the author of Amazon bestseller Becoming and self-help guide Kidding: Childlike Solutions to Bullshit Adult Problems, out with Running Press in October. She is RED Magazine’s ‘Talking Point’ columnist, as well as Grazia magazine's ex-dating columnist and cult blogger over at Continue Reading…

Virgie Tovar on Diet Culture, Fighting Fatphobia, and the Commodity of Female Submission Aug 15, 2018

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Virgie Tovar is an author, activist and one of the nation's leading experts and lecturers on fat discrimination and body image. She is the founder of Babecamp, a 4-week online course designed to help women who are ready to break up with diet culture, and she started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight. She writes a weekly Continue Reading…

Carrot Quinn on Thru-Hiking, Van Life, and Risking More for the Things That Matter Jul 01, 2018

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Carrot Quinn is a writer and a long-distance hiker. A queer feminist who deeply loves nature, Carrot spends much of every year sleeping in the woods or wandering the desert, and she has hiked over ten thousand miles in the last five years. Her book, Thru-Hiking Will Break Your Heart, is about her first thru-hike of the Continue Reading…

Charlotte Austin on Mountaineering, Honesty, and Living an Adventurous Life Jun 15, 2018

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Charlotte Austin is a writer, editor, and mountain guide living in Seattle, Washington. When she's not writing, Charlotte works for International Mountain Guides, where she leads climbing, mountaineering, and hiking expeditions around the world. She's guided in North and South America, Europe, Alaska, Patagonia, and Nepal. She's a Wilderness EMT, a Leave No Trace (LNT) Trainer, Continue Reading…

Tracy Murphy on Sobriety, Creating Change, and Why Our Words Matter Jun 15, 2018

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Tracy Murphy is a sober, cisgender, lesbian who's passion is making sure people can see themselves represented in the recovery community. Tracy is the founder of LGBTteetotaler, where she not only shares her story and experiences as a sober queer woman, but also highlights the stories of other queer and trans people in all forms Continue Reading…

Larissa Pham on Writing, Intimacy, and Being a Working Artist Jun 15, 2018

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Larissa Pham is an artist and writer in Brooklyn, New York. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, The Nation, Village Voice, and elsewhere. She is the author of Fantasian, an erotic thriller novella. In this episode, Larissa talks about her career evolution and about what it's like for her to Continue Reading…

Caleb Luna on Body Positivity, Fatphobia, and The Politics of Desire Jun 15, 2018

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Caleb Luna is a writer, activist, teacher, performer, fat babe and Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley, where their work broadly explores the intersections of fatness, desire, white supremacy and colonialism from a queer of color lens. Their current project focuses on the mutually constitutive relationship between (fat) bodies and discourse. You can Continue Reading…

Dyana Valentine on Belonging, Dream Work, and Building a Loving Relationship with Money Jun 15, 2018

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Dyana Valentine is an oracle. If you aren't sure what that means, don't worry, you'll learn all about it in this wonderful episode! Dyana began her signature offering, the Woke Up Knowing™ experience, in 2011 after she had a waking vision of being in a bed in an ancient castle with people sitting around her Continue Reading…