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**Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan MD**

It hurts to have unmet needs. And it sucks to scurry after crumbs when you’re starving. Join Kelly Brogan MD, as she teaches us how our pain points are portals. She’ll help you discover a world where every seeming challenge is a new chapter in your most audacious story. Plot twists, body symptoms, and heartbreak each represent an opportunity to own ourselves and learn to better wield the power of choice. Kelly will take you on a reclamation journey from the battlefield of victim consciousness to the sovereignty of self-devoted pleasure and expose every surprising place you’ve given your power away. Explore the tools you’ll need to find out what you want, how to ask for it and how to stand in fierce alignment with yourself.Kelly Brogan is a soul alchemist and threshold guardian devoted to the transformation of collective consciousness. As a young know-it-all atheist, candy-addict, straight-A MIT neuroscience major and Ivy-league trained psychiatrist, she specialized in feeding women, herself included, straight into the mouth of the medicated beast. After a Hashimoto’s healing journey inspired her to sound the alarm on the bait-and-switch of big pharma, she became a renegade activist—authoring the New York Times bestseller, A Mind of Your Own, and its follow-up, Own Your Self; co-editing the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression; and eventually becoming an honorary member of the Disinformation Dozen. She is the creatrix of Vital Mind Reset, the online health reclamation program, and the membership community Vital Life Project. She’s a human, cat, and chicken mom.

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184: How To Get Your Sex Drive Back After Menopause | Kimberly Ann Johnson Nov 03, 2026

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Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Get access to Kelly's Audacious Embodiment 2 recordings here.

Anyone who thinks libido only declines after menopause should listen to this interview.

Kimberly is a sexological bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and author of The Fourth Trimester, Call of the Wild, and the forthcoming Erotic Seasons, and she has worked with women across birth, postpartum, and menopause long enough to call the standard midlife story out as incomplete.

I open with Marion Woodman’s map of a woman’s life, which folds maiden and mother into one phase and places a virgin stage before the crone. The virgin, in this framing, is a woman whole unto herself, and it is the stage most of us are hitting around midlife without any language for what is happening.

Kimberly describes moving through menopause without hormone therapy, tracking forty-eight so-called symptoms, and what two years on the other side of it has done to her libido and her sense of self. She also talks about the sexual revolution some women experience as they enter menopause, and the grief nobody warns you about.

Her erotic awakening involved a photographer in Rio and a shot of cachaça she turned down, then wished she hadn’t. Why she did it, and what it unlocked, is a story worth hearing in her own words.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[6:19] Marion Woodman and the forgotten virgin stage of a woman’s life
[10:34] Why you can’t be a crone until you’ve lived seventy years
[14:40] Walking the virgin stage single versus coupled
[17:59] Moving through menopause without any hormone therapy
[24:50] Aliveness as the backdrop for every fracture and rupture
[28:38] Our particular defenses against feeling good
[32:57] Writing past trauma culture without making women victims
[38:27] Kimberly’s erotic awakening and the nude photo
[46:43] The messiness and rawness that is also erotic life
[49:13] Being overtaken by Erotic Seasons and choosing aliveness over perfection
[52:39] Choosing what you genuinely love over what’s good for you
[1:00:51] Everything always works out as a different access to life

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Resources Mentioned:

Kimberly's new book, Erotic Seasons, is out November 17th here.

Find more from Kimberly:

Kimberly Ann Johnson | Website | Events | Books
Sex Birth Trauma Podcast | Website

Find more from Kelly:

YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book The Reclaimed Woman here.
Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.

Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

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183: How to Co-Parent After Divorce (Without Drama) Oct 27, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

In a difficult co-parenting dynamic, it’s easy to assume you’re the more evolved one, and that assumption is exactly what keeps you stuck.

This week’s audacious ask came from a woman who wants cordial, drama-free co-parenting with her ex and asked me how to pull it off without getting pulled into his reactivity.

My answer starts somewhere uncomfortable: the commitment to not speak ill of your son’s father. It’s a healing practice for you, your inner masculine, and your father line. And it pairs with a second practice: looking at how often you position yourself as the better parent, the more stable one, the more spiritual one.

Family constellation work places you and your ex on the same line, not in a hierarchy. From that seat, your choices become visible. You can see the bait when it’s dangled, and you can stay trained on what you came to ask for, instead of defending yourself into another round of drama.

Through a simple scheduling conversation that goes sideways, you’ll see the specific move that keeps you with yourself when he changes the subject. If raising your son means staying linked to a man you’d rather not deal with, this is the reframe that changes the practice.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[2:31] The audacious ask about drama-free co-parenting after divorce
[4:06] Co-parenting as a growth crucible the Mom actually chose
[6:04] Resolving superiority and the paradigm of better and worse
[8:13] Family constellation puts her and the ex on the same line
[10:04] Not taking the bait of the drama
[12:17] The line between trusting someone entirely and not at all

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Resources Mentioned:

Breakup Breakthrough Masterclass | Website

Find more from Kelly:

Replay Kelly's Biological Marriage event here.

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

182: Alex Charfen: Why Your Partner Keeps Pulling Away From You Oct 13, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here

Men: you might be conditioning your partner’s body to fear you.

Alex Charfen is the founder of The Brotherhood, and he teaches masculine containment as a trainable discipline after his own wife told him she didn't feel seen, heard, or safe.

Almost every couple runs on a pattern they never name: trigger, escalation, rupture, withdrawal, repair. Alex became exceptionally good at repair, and it changed nothing. While his body told him they were making progress, her nervous system was still telling her she wasn't safe.

He asks the men he works with three questions. Are you stronger than your partner? More physically capable? More capable of violence? Every man answers yes to all three, and taken seriously, that answer changes what a man is responsible for in the room.

I believe women are the custodians of their own experience. Alex believes men have to self-initiate first. The most useful parts of this conversation live in that friction.

We also get into why the car is a diagnostic for polarity, why the calmest man in the room is the most dangerous, and why regulating your nervous system gives entrepreneurs more capacity than any biohack.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction
[6:36] How an ultimatum catalyzed Alex's reclamation as a man
[9:44] The hidden pattern in many heterosexual relationships
[14:57] The biological reality of a woman's nervous system under threat
[22:20] What shifted in his wife after he committed
[25:51] Micro choices a woman makes in every moment
[31:30] Whether Katie could have done anything to induce Alex's shift
[39:13] The nice guy versus the man in his dark masculine
[44:03] Dominance of oneself, not of her
[52:35] Why successful entrepreneurs so often fail at relationships
[1:00:28] Always putting out fires means you're probably the arsonist
[1:02:55] Contained masculine energy as a healing force in The Brotherhood

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Resources Mentioned:

Momentum Podcast - EP54: The CEO's Secret Weapon | Podcast
The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks | Book
Laura Doyle | Website

Learn more on Alex's upcoming men's groups here.

Find more from Alex:

Alex Charfen | Instagram | Facebook
The Brotherhood Society | Website
Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT) Podcast | Spotify or Apple

Find more from Kelly:

Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

181: How to Activate Your True Feminine Energy (It's NOT What You Think) Oct 06, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

How can you activate your true feminine energy?

My guest Nina Lombardo teaches conscious intimacy, polarity, and sacred feminine practice at Way of Devotion, and she's one of the few voices in this space who refuses to sell an outcome.

We start with her own arc from what she calls "puddleness" into a woman with a spine, and how that reshaped the way she now teaches women coming from the opposite direction: armored, ambitious, over-functioning.

Nina makes a distinction between a need and neediness that reorganized how I think about asking my partner for anything.

There's a piece on choosing partners who conveniently can't meet your depth, because staying hidden feels safer than being fully seen. She doesn't let anyone off the hook here, including herself.

Later, Nina walks through what it actually looks like to express anger through the body as an invitation instead of an accusation, and why a whimper in real time beats resentment every single time.

If you've done therapy, done the healing, and still can't figure out why intimacy feels stuck, the answer she offers is uncomfortable in the best way.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:24] The heroine's journey and a woman's maturational arc

[10:07] The needy woman is the entitled woman

[21:53] Relaxing into desire as its own animate force

[28:28] Having a witness exposes where we're performing and hiding vulnerability

[41:57] Expressing feelings through the body rather than words

[49:09] Responding to him in the moment, versus reacting to the past

[55:04] Exposing your fullness to see whether he meets you

[1:02:18] Shifting from masculine mode into your feminine center of gravity

[1:09:35] Relaxing into subtle realms without agenda

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Resources Mentioned:

Esther Perel | Website

David Deida | Website

Join Nina's monthly community here and use code KELLY for 10% off.

Find more from Nina:

Nina Lombardo - Way of Devotion | Website | Instagram

Find more from Kelly:

Reserve your free spot for Kelly’s Biological Marriage event here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

180: Why I Won't Show Up for My Parents' Chemo Sep 29, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Should you take care of your parents, even when they decide to take the mainstream medicine route?

This week's audacious ask comes from a listener watching her mother go further down a medical path that seems to be making things worse, and she wants to know how to navigate it without losing herself in the process.

Caring for an aging parent who keeps choosing conventional medicine you no longer trust is one of the most disorienting positions a holistic-minded woman can find herself in.

The cultural assumption that adult children should manage their parents' healthcare is backwards. Family constellation work shows that healing flows from child to parent, and that repair is very different from taking responsibility for another adult's medical choices.

I go over the three parts likely driving your caretaking, and why the moment you make those visible is the moment you stop over-functioning and start setting real limits. I also share the exact boundary I set with my own parents years ago, and how it broke a decades-long pattern of commiseration around pathology in my family.

Their body is their business. What you're willing to offer is yours. The freedom sits in making that contract conscious instead of assumed.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[2:10] Caring for a parent whose conventional treatment seems harmful

[3:42] Taking care of a parent may not be your role

[5:36] How conscious and clear the caregiving contract really is

[7:08] Admitting we never truly know what's best for someone

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Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

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179: How to Use Your Birth Chart to Navigate Deep Life Transitions | Meli Neubek Sep 22, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Your birth chart can help you navigate life transitions more than most people think.

Meli Neubek is an astrologer, co-host of Celestial Curiosities, and one of my closest friends, which means she has full permission to tell me when my two-hour-a-day YouTube astrology binge is starting to look like a coping strategy.

I recorded this a few weeks after March 3rd, when I woke up feeling like I'd been under anesthesia for six years inside a dynamic I'd been calling sovereignty. Both of our charts, apparently, had this written.

So we sit with the real question: what is astrology actually doing when it lands, and where does it turn into another way to outsource trusting yourself? Meli walks through the difference between predictive, psychological, and evolutionary work, why she practices tropical over sidereal, and what Saturn was doing to my second house the day everything cracked open.

She also names something rarely said out loud: how suicidal thoughts can show up as part of an identity death, and why that's not a sign something's gone wrong.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[4:05] Carrying on the Kelly Brogan chicken legacy

[6:58] Why free-ranging chickens survive when caged ones don't

[10:58] Falling down an astrology hole after an abrupt awakening

[15:09] When astrology becomes an addictive reality filter

[26:06] Choosing launch dates by the planets

[28:11] The season defines the archetype, not the stars

[36:43] The generational planets shifting from earth to fire

[45:02] Asking Mellie's mother to move out after a decade

[55:54] Suicidal thoughts and raw sharing as part of the anatomy of transformation

[1:10:05] The Socratic paradox and admitting you know nothing

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Related Reclamation Radio Episodes:

Animal Telepath: The Hidden Messages Your Pet Sends That You Keep Missing | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

Profit First by Mike Michalowicz | Book
Steven Forrest, Forrest Astrology | Website
Backyard Chickens | Facebook Group

Find more from Meli:

Meli Neubek | Website

Celestial Curiosities | Website

Find more from Kelly:

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.

Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

178: Lindsey Lockett: Stop Chasing Calm, It's Keeping You Stuck Sep 15, 2026

Show notes

Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Most people chase a state of calm and relief… but what if that’s the wrong goal?

Lindsey Lockett is a trauma integrator and relational weaver who woke up to her own healing hamster wheel inside a psych hospital.

Lindsey spent a decade chasing perfect gut health, perfect sleep, and perfect everything. Then her psych hospital stay following a suicide attempt in March 2019 showed her the bone broth, the supplements, and the perfect protocols were not what she actually needed.

Lindsey names something most people skip: the pregnant pause after you tell the truth. It’s the moment the other person's face shifts and their trained instinct wants to soften what you said, so they do not have to feel it. She defines authenticity as embodied allegiance to yourself under pressure. She is clear that it is not a boundaries speech or an ego trip about not caring what anyone thinks.

She also explains why she’s moving away from polyvagal theory as the dominant framework, why calm is only one configuration of the nervous system, and how integrity has to sit underneath any expression of truth.

If you have felt more fractured after years of nervous system work, not less, Lindsey's take will land.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:08] The hamster wheel of healing that leaves women no more joyful

[12:45] How victim consciousness follows you into greenwashed medicine

[16:00] Making the shift into radical responsibility and real safety

[27:25] The pregnant pause after speaking a hard truth

[38:36] Female conditioning that made self-abandonment feel safest

[43:05] Building capacity through imagination and rehearsal

[46:11] Discernment as the place authenticity emerges from

[56:18] Weaponized authenticity and the pendulum swing to synthesis

[1:00:35] Why fewer nervous system tools means more resolution

👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here.

Related Reclamation Radio Episodes:

Conventional Mental Health is Fixing The Wrong Thing With Elisabeth McKay | Podcast

Resources Mentioned:

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. | Book or Audiobook
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker | Book or Audiobook

Find more from Lindsey:

Lindsey Lockett | Website | Instagram
Animal Body: 10-Day Audio Immersion | Website

Feel Without Fear Workshop | Website
Use code kelly for 20% off Lindsey's offerings.

Find more from Kelly:

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.
Use code kelly for 20% off Lindsey's offering
Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

177: How to End Generational Trauma in 30 Minutes | Mark Wolynn Sep 08, 2026

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Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.

If you've done years of inner work and still feel stuck in the same patterns, you probably inherited your trauma.

Mark is the director of The Family Constellation Institute and the author of It Didn't Start with You, a book that has sold more than three million copies and reframed how we think about depression, anxiety, and chronic illness that seem to come out of nowhere.

I've been a family constellation zealot for years, and this conversation gets at the thing I've struggled to explain to people who assume this work is magical thinking.

Mark walks through the actual mechanics of how a grandmother's car accident can show up as a granddaughter's self-injury decades later, and why conventional psychiatry keeps missing it.

We talk about the Harvard Mastery of Stress study, the three unconscious ways we reproduce a broken bond with a parent, and the specific milestones (marriage, pregnancy, moving, rejection) that tend to trigger inherited patterns.

If you've ever wondered whether a fear, a symptom, or a relationship pattern is actually yours, this is the episode that gives you a way to tell.

Mark also shares why he rewrote his book after all these years, and what he's found about attachment breaks that changed how he works with almost everyone who walks in his door.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:21] The self-injurer whose cutting traced back to her grandmother's guilt

[15:02] How family constellations differ from psychodrama

[19:43] Whether anyone can stand as a representative in the field

[27:21] Three unconscious ways rejecting a parent shapes a life

[31:44] Telling inherited trauma apart from attachment trauma

[40:24] Reading the breadcrumb trail when the family history is lost

[45:58] Why 85 percent of his work turns out to be attachment

[54:44] Symptoms as the doorway and the meaning behind incarnation

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Resources Mentioned:

The Harvard Mastery of Stress Study 35-Year Follow-Up by Russek, L. G., et al. | Article

Bert Hellinger (Founder of Family Constellation Work) | Website

Find more from Mark:

Mark Wolynn | Website | Instagram
It Didn't Start with You | Book or Audiobook
The Official It Didn't Start with You Workbook | Book or Audiobook

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176: Why Women Were Trained to Suppress Their Eroticism | Regena Thomashauer Sep 01, 2026

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Access Kelly's Bio Marriage Live Stream here.

Save your seat for Kelly's Turn on Training here.

The day Mama Gena’s life was designed to collapse was the same day she chose to turn herself on instead.

Regena Thomashauer, known to most as Mama Gena, is the founder of the School of Womanly Arts and the author of five books, including the New York Times bestseller Pussy: A Reclamation. Her new book, On Our Knees, is the reason we had this conversation.

I have followed her work for years, and reading this book felt like being caught up on decades of her life in a single sitting. Our paths could not look more different on paper. Mine ran through psychiatric wards in New York with suicidal women coming off medications. Hers ran through living rooms filled with women in sequins and feathers. The conclusion we both landed on about what a woman's life is actually for turned out to be identical.

This conversation is about aliveness as a discipline. It is about what a woman does when she gets sued, taxed, divorced, and asked to deliver a career-defining event in the same 24 hours. Mama Gena calls the practice volitional heat.

If you have been told you are too much, this one is for you.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[7:17] A woman alive is the most dangerous force on this plane

[12:10] The permission field women grant each other in the dark

[14:13] Turn-on as a choice and the responsibility of volitional heat

[21:22] Getting sued the day her whole company hinged on one event

[23:23] Walking through the “On Our Knees Move” live on the podcast

[30:34] How pleasure floods the body with oxytocin and dopamine

[34:28] The regrettable impulse and loving your story unconditionally

[46:45] Why women celebrate bad news instead of their radiance

👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here.

Get Mama Gena’s new book, On Our Knees, out August 25th here.

Find more from Mama Gena:

Mama Gena | Website | Instagram | Facebook

Find more from Kelly:

YouTube: Reclamation Radio with Kelly Brogan, MD
Instagram: @kellybroganmd
Website: kellybroganmd.com
Join Kelly's monthly membership, Vital Life Project here.
Get Kelly’s new book, The Reclaimed Woman here.
Discover Kelly's Relaxed Woman System here.

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

175: How to Deal With A Narcissist In Your Family Aug 25, 2026

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Is it possible to have a relationship with a narcissist?

That question kicks off this episode, and the answer sits far outside the usual "set boundaries and move on" advice.

Boundaries aren't a personality trait. They're a container. Sometimes they mean blocking a number. Sometimes they mean a full blackout from your family of origin so you can step out of the trauma field long enough to hear yourself.

The relationship with your mother matters more than almost any other work you'll do. She's the anima imprint you project onto every woman, every doctor, every system of care. Resentment toward her chokes off creativity, vitality, and erotic energy in ways most women never trace back to the source.

Family constellation work changed my life on this exact issue, and I explain why I recommend it before any deeper trauma modality. Compassion, neutrality, and even harmony are on the table. None of it requires her to become the mother she couldn't be.

You’ll learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[2:10] Having a real relationship with a textbook narcissist while still keeping boundaries

[4:07] Why your mother owes you nothing, and how loosening that expectation frees you

[6:07] Family constellation is the low-hanging fruit with no downside

👉🏻 Want to start a podcast like this one? Book your free podcast planning call here.

Find more from Kelly:

Learn more about how you can reclaim your financial sovereignty with Infinite Banking here.

Access Kelly's Beauty Backroom event here.

Run with Chief: https://chief.fm

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