Did you know that in the 1700s some people believed that menopause caused women to be vulnerable to spontaneous combustion? Yes, that a woman in menopause could just drop into a pile of ash.

I mean, seriously.

This story among many other fascinating topics are in the wonderful book Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health. And this conversation is with the researcher and author of that book, Susan Salenger. Sidelined examines the many ways in which some women manage and sometimes mismanage their healthcare.

Devotion and ritual. Two topics that we don’t talk a lot about in mainstream culture, but have become a real focus and curiosity in my life over the past few years.

What do devotion and ritual do for us? How can they change our experience of living?

And what happens when we combine devotion and ritual with sexuality?

This conversation is with Anne More. Anne is an internationally acclaimed sexologist who helps people just like us to discover love, freedom, and sex beyond our wildest dreams.

This episode is with Amanda Thebe, personal trainer and fitness professional with almost 30 years in the fitness industry. She also authored the book, Menopocalypse – which is one of the book titles I’ve ever heard.

She is Canada’s first menopause coach and educator. Through menopause advocacy and education, Amanda provides on-site or virtual presentations in the workplace to improve productivity, retention and attendance for female employees. Helping companies to normalize the conversation around menopause and provide support which impacts 100% of their female employees.

The prospect of healing with psychedelic medicines and entheogens have been making mainstream news for a while now. In fact, my new home state of Colorado just passed a bill legalizing the personal use of Psilocybin (mushrooms.) There is a steady stream of research coming out proving the efficacy and usefulness of a lot of these medicines to help heal trauma and many other psychological issues. Probably the most well known is the MAPS program. (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies)

If you have ever been interested in this modality or are just really curious about the new flurry of attention directed at these molecules for the purpose of healing, this episode is for you.

It’s uncommon conversations like this one that inspired me to start this show. Today I speak to Sexological Bodyworker and Sex and Intimacy Coach Connie Eberhart.

I first met Connie in 2019 at an event in Costa Rica when I was working with world-renowned somatic sex educator Jaiya as a private client for that entire year. Jaiya was one of the facilitators in the Netflix series sex, love and goop. If you haven’t seen it…watch it. Connie is a Master Trainer for Jaiya and was a facilitator at that Costa Rica event.

In this discussion, Connie and I explore many areas of pleasure, sexuality, presence, the nervous system, sexuality and spirituality and WHY all of this is important. What does sex have to do with anything anyway right? It’s just sex. Wrong.

Oh…there is SO much more available.

Ok y’all. Get ready. This one is FIRE. 🔥

On January 16th, I made a request. The day before I saw an Instagram post, a “word anthem” describing the now very famous photograph of Jamie Lee Curtis unabashedly celebrating Michelle Yeoh’s win for best actress at the Golden Globes on January 10th. Erin Gallagher wrote a post on LinkedIn about the image of the two famous actresses in that moment. (Go read that post here.) It starts…”Ladies, this is your vibe for 2023: unabashed hype woman. Full on. Full out. Full force.”

That post from Erin went everywhere. It became the very definition of viral. A friend of Jamie Lee’s sent it to her, where JLC herself reposted it and coined the term “word anthem.”

The hashtag #hypewomen is now being used all over social media as a flag, or more like a torch, to gather women in solidarity to the flame of lifting each other. To overcome and disavow any disempowering systems that keep women feeling in competition with each other, instead of holding each other in support…and accountability…

Oh boy are you in for a treat. This episode with Alli Kirk is about making aging a process of evolution, not of deterioration.

Alli is a personal growth specialist, Reiki Master and Teacher and gifted energy worker. I have worked many times with Alli over the past several years and she is the real thing. I consider her part of my Magic Tribe.

The health of women is crucial to the health of the world. That's a big statement and one I stand behind.

This episode with Dr. Mary Shackelton is a master class and indepth conversation about women’s health, beauty, empowerment, sisterhood, hormones and more.

Mary is my doctor, my friend and her energy is contagious. She takes intense science and makes it easy to understand while inspiring with her clarity.

As the founder of Holistica Integrative Care in Boulder, CO, where Mary has been practicing naturopathic medicine with an emphasis on women’s health for 25 years. She also has a Master’s in Public Health (MPH) which focuses much of her work in the area of prevention and health promotion. Her current focus is on Environmental Medicine and the conditions associated with toxic exposures including auto-immunity, chronic fatigue, cognitive decline, hormone imbalances, mitochondrial dysfunction, and neurologic conditions.