Real Talk Radio with Nicole Antoinette

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Amy Gahran on Unconventional Love and Stepping Off The Relationship Escalator Feb 01, 2019

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Amy Gahran is a journalist based in Boulder, Colorado. She's the author of "Stepping Off the Relationship Escalator: Uncommon Love and Life" -- a research-based book about all kinds of unconventional intimate relationships. It covers consensual nonmonogamy, solohood, and much more. For several years, Amy also wrote (under the pen name Aggie Sez) the blog Continue Reading…

Noël Russell on Part-Time Van Life, Redefining Success, and Not Taking More Than You Need Feb 01, 2019

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Noël Russell is a first generation American, born and raised in California, and ever since she could walk, she’s spent every second of her free time romping in the mountains. These days, you'll often find her camped in the backcountry, hiking along a trail, or traveling around the Sierra Nevada in a converted campervan with Continue Reading…

Nick North on Blended Families, Being a Trans Man, and Building Healthy Relationships Feb 01, 2019

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Nick North is a husband, a dad to 5 kids, and a branding strategist. He also has a history of living as a woman, a wife, a mom, a photographer, a corporate type, and even an Emergency Medical Responder. When he embraced his identity and came out as transgender, he realized just how much gender Continue Reading…

Sirena Rana Dufault on Solo Hiking, Wildlife Rehabilitation, and Learning As You Go Feb 01, 2019

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Sirena Rana Dufault is an advocate for the outdoors and wildlife. For over a decade, Sirena has helped to build, maintain and promote the 800-mile Arizona Trail (AZT) and has hiked it twice. Right now, she's in the process of writing a book, Day Hikes on the Arizona National Scenic Trail, which will be published Continue Reading…

Kirby on Chronic Illness, Unsexy Self-Care, and a Living Low-Waste Lifestyle Feb 01, 2019

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Kirby is a mid-twenties public health nerd living in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose passions fall at the intersection of public health, sustainability, and exploring the outdoors. Her type 1 diabetes and hashimoto’s thyroiditis diagnoses in 2014 drove her to pursue those interests full-time, as she returned to school to get her Masters in Public Continue Reading…

Sonalee Rashatwar on Fat Trauma, Being Anti-Diet, and Questioning Everything That Doesn't Work For You Feb 01, 2019

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Sonalee Rashatwar (she/they), MSW, LCSW, MEd is an award-winning social worker based in Philadelphia. She is a fat queer nonbinary bemme therapist, specializing in treating sexual trauma, body image issues, racial or immigrant identity issues, and South Asian family systems, while offering fat positive sexual healthcare. Popularly known as The Fat Sex Therapist on Instagram, their Continue Reading…

Corinne Oestreich on Surrogacy, Supporting Native Communities, and Reclaiming Thanksgiving Feb 01, 2019

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Corinne Oestreich is a professional journalist who has been writing for Powwows.com since 2014. She is Lakota and Mohawk, and is an ambassador for the internet campaign #phenomenalwoman and #phenomenallyindigenous. Corrine is also the founder of the non-profit organization "The Buffalo Project”, a program that seeks to reduce human trafficking and violence against women through empowering men Continue Reading…

Africa Brooke on Sobriety, Sexuality, and Deciding Not To Fake It Feb 01, 2019

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Africa Brooke is a Zimbabwean born writer, speaker, mindset mentor, and advocate living in London, and she's a woman on a mission to get us thinking about holistic self-development, identity, mental health, sober living, sexuality, and all things pleasure. In this episode, Africa tells her sobriety story—why and how she quit drinking, all the times she failed to stick Continue Reading…

Ann Shen on Making Art, Being a Bad Girl, and Taking Care of Our Mental Health Dec 01, 2018

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Ann Shen is an illustrator, author, and designer based in Los Angeles. She started her creative career in her mid twenties, when she quit her job and to go to art school. Since then, she's hit the ground running creating whimsical, colorful work for clients like Disney, Facebook, and Papyrus, among many many others. She's Continue Reading…

Cait Flanders on Being a Mindful Consumer and Creator Dec 01, 2018

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Cait Flanders is a former binge consumer turned mindful consumer of everything. Through personal stories, she writes about what happens when money, minimalism, and mindfulness cross paths. Cait's story has been shared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, Forbes, and more. Her first book, The Year of Less, is a self-help memoir that Continue Reading…