3 Questions with Kat & Val

Why hello super cool humans! We are Kat and Val and we heartily welcome you to our podcast. Each week we will focus on a specific topic and dive into our 3 favorite questions. 

1. What is bringing you pleasure?
2. What are you learning?
3. What is moving around for you?

We are lovingly referring to this episode as our origin episode. You'll hear each of us share a lot more about who were are and how we got here. Super relatable shit like how we met in Bible College, were both Pastors in a conservative evangelical pentecostal denomination, and how we each deconstructed from that worldview.

We learn about Val's passion for therapy, cracking the perfect joke while playing pickleball, and her long term marriage to a talented, hilarious,  brazilian businessman named Rafick. Val (she/her) is deeply wise, warm and candid as she shares about their journey to make peace with childlessness.

We also learn about Kat's choice to end a long term marriage to the father of her two kids, then discovering she is in fact, gay as hell. Kat (she/they) credits a tremendous amount of personal transformation to the body liberation movement and her work as a fat artist.

• Reminiscing about bible college and evangelical culture (4:10)
• Exploring our evolutions, throughout of 26 year friendship (6:53)
• Val shares about her life and who she is today (8:37)
• Kat shares about her life and who they are today (13:17)
• Closing thoughts on pleasure, growth, evolutions, and gratitudes (27:00) 

Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast

Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love Club

Kat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art

Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD

Welcome to our gender episode were Kat and Val discuss what gender is in our culture and other cultures. We explore how the term cis gender, (identifying as the gender you were assigned at birth), feels resonante or not with each of us and how this is different than sexual orientation. Oh, and we also accidentally hard core matched in electric blue, the day we recorded this episode. Check out our Instagram for our adorable pictures!

• Welcome and overview of how we understand gender (0:35)
• Exploring that is limiting about how we "perform gender norms" within capitalism (2:59)
• Reconciling attributes we both possess that have typically been understood as masculine (5:00)  
• The feminine urge to apologize, and other critiques of cultural gender expectations (6:35)
• Kat shares about their sexual identity and gender exploration (7:57)
• Exploring the gendered cultural expectations on being a "mother" (12:43)
• Kat explains what feels like joy as it relates to gender (19:45)
• What we are learning through exploring gender (24:02)

Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast

Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love Club

Kat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art

Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD