Aphrodite In The City

In this episode of Aphrodite in the City, Carol and Mina sit down with burnout + leadership coach Maude to explore why so many high-achieving women experience burnout—and how to create a more sustainable path to success. Together they discuss the hidden signs of burnout, the unique pressures women face in corporate careers and entrepreneurship, and practical strategies for protecting your energy through healthier boundaries, rest, and self-awareness.

Maude shares her journey from corporate leadership to coaching, explains the science and psychology behind burnout, and offers actionable tools for overcoming perfectionism, emotional caretaking, toxic workplace culture, and chronic stress. Whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, building a business, or simply feeling overwhelmed, this conversation offers a roadmap toward greater resilience, balance, and fulfillment.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Meet Maude
• 01:05 What the divine feminine means
• 02:54 From corporate leadership to coaching
• 05:01 What burnout really is
• 08:28 Why women experience burnout differently
• 11:25 Balancing hustle with survival
• 16:17 Recovering from burnout
• 20:34 Boundaries, perfectionism & self-worth
• 29:52 Changing toxic workplace culture
• 35:05 Finding healthy companies
• 37:24 Entrepreneur burnout & loneliness
• 40:56 Final takeaways & where to connect

Connect With Maude:

Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.coachingwithmaude.com/⁠

⁠LinkedIn:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/maude-burger-smith/

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

In this response episode of Aphrodite in the City, Carol and Mina reflect on their conversation with relationship coach Nicola Navon, exploring how balancing masculine and feminine energy creates healthier relationships, greater self-trust, and more authentic leadership. They discuss healing the inner masculine, embracing feminine flow, navigating corporate culture, challenging cultural conditioning around gender, and why surrender becomes possible only after cultivating strong inner safety and boundaries.

Timestamps:

• 00:00 Welcome & episode overview
• 00:20 Healing masculine and feminine energy
• 03:17 Healthy vs. wounded masculine and feminine
• 07:10 Corporate culture and feminine leadership
• 13:08 Women's cycles, shame, and workplace expectations
• 17:15 Redefining feminine leadership
• 18:57 Patriarchy, feminism, and healthy masculinity
• 27:35 Surrender, trust, and inner safety
• 31:37 Community reflections and takeaways
• 32:30 Closing thoughts

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Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Relationship and intimacy coach Nicola Navon joins hosts Carol and Mina to discuss masculine and feminine energy, healthy polarity, and what it takes to create deeper intimacy in modern relationships. Nicola shares how experiences with betrayal, healing, and personal growth shaped her approach to conscious partnership, communication, boundaries, and lasting connection. Together, they explore common relationship patterns, emotional safety, masculine and feminine dynamics, and practical tools for building healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

Nicola Navon is a relationship and intimacy coach and host of the Divine Union Podcast. Through her work, she helps individuals and couples integrate their masculine and feminine energies, improve communication, deepen intimacy, and create more conscious partnerships. Drawing on over a decade of experience in human behavior, somatics, neuroscience, and communication, Nicola teaches practical tools for navigating conflict, healing relationship patterns, and fostering authentic connection through her signature framework, The Union Method.

In this episode you'll learn:

1. What divine feminine energy really is and how self-compassion, surrender, boundaries, and embodied love create healthier relationships.
2. How to identify common relationship imbalances such as control, people-pleasing, mothering, shame, manipulation, and hyper-independence.
3.  Practical tools for creating deeper intimacy, including somatic awareness, self-reflection, boundary-setting, and vulnerable communication.
4. How masculine and feminine energies work together and how healing old wounds and cultural conditioning can lead to more conscious, connected partnerships.

Connect With Nicola:

Website: ⁠⁠https://www.nicolanavon.com/

⁠Instagram:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/nicolanavon/

Podcast: ⁠https://tr.ee/tbAn-PiUoG

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Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Today, Aphrodite In The City hosts Carol and Mina reflect on their conversation with somatic trauma practitioner and creator of the Empress O Method: Girisha Andrea. Here, they explore how her teachings on inherited trauma, the busyness addiction, and body-based safety apply to their own lives - and to the lives of modern women. This episode is a candid, personal conversation about the patterns women carry — and how to begin releasing them. Listen in to Episode 5 for Girisha's full episode!

In this episode, Mina + Carol go into:

1. How transgenerational trauma quietly shapes your life
2. Why being "busy" is actually an addiction — and what it's costing you
3. Simple, body-based practices to restore balance starting today + more!

Connect With Girisha:

Website: ⁠⁠https://empressco.online/⁠

⁠Instagram:⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/girishaandrea/⁠

Facebook: ⁠https://www.facebook.com/girishaandrea/⁠

YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@girishaandrea9832

'Tune in every other Friday for new episodes! Listen during your morning commute (or your moonlit bath ritual!).

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AITC YouTube: ⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/@AphroditeInTheCity⁠⁠⁠⁠

AITC Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/aphroditeinthecity/⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Mina's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/thestardustedmuse/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠⁠⁠

Email Us: [email protected]

Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Today we welcome Certified Sex, Love, Orgasm, and Relationship Coach Girisha Andrea. She's also a Trauma Healer and Grief Specialist, and practices in Hungary and with clients worldwide. In this episode, we have a juicy discussion about healing, burnout, pleasure, and how to come home to your body.

Girisha helps women become confident in their orgasms and self - so they can heal past trauma and abusive relationships. We say a big "YES please" to that!

Here, Girisha dives into:

1. How orgasm and sexual healing is inseparable from addressing trauma, abuse, grief, shame, and transgenerational patterns
2. Burnout and “busyness” addiction, difficulty receiving, and overcontrol through the mind
3.  Tools to restore yin receptivity, safety in the body, pleasure, and authentic self-expression

Connect With Girisha:

Website: ⁠https://empressco.online/

⁠Instagram:⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/girishaandrea/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/girishaandrea/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@girishaandrea9832

'Tune in every other Friday for new episodes! Listen during your morning commute (or your moonlit bath ritual!).

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Mina's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/thestardustedmuse/⁠⁠⁠

Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠⁠

Email Us: [email protected]

Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Welcome back to the journey! In this episode, hosts Mina and Carol discuss the last episode (episode 3!) and how the content relates to modern women. In episode 3, we featured dating and relationship consultant Kathrine Bejanyan. She discussed dating in the modern world, the roles of masculine and feminine, how things have changed over the years, and her best tips on how to work through dating fatigue. Here, we go even deeper!

In this episode, Mina + Carol go into:

1. Thoughts on being in your feminine joy while dating
2. Setting boundaries and how that can help you attract what you want in your life
3. Mindset on the process of dating to make it less daunting + more!

Connect With Kathrine:

Website: ⁠https://kathrinebejanyan.com/⁠

Email: [email protected]

Linktree:⁠ https://linktr.ee/therapywithkathrine⁠

⁠Instagram:⁠⁠ ⁠@kathrinebejanyan⁠

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Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠⁠

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Join us to continue the journey! In this episode, we welcome dating and relationship consultant Kathrine Bejanyan. Here, she discusses dating in our modern world, the roles of masculine and feminine, how things have changed over the years, and her best tips on how to work through dating fatigue.

Kathrine offers 1-1 therapy as well as group sessions for couples and singles, where she helps her clients connect with themselves and their loved ones.

In this episode, Kathrine goes into:

1. Challenging what our modern world deems "feminine" and "masculine" and how this has changed over time
2. How to drop more into your feminine joy while dating
3. Her best tips on how to date intentionally without sacrificing boundaries + more!

Connect With Kathrine:

Website: https://kathrinebejanyan.com/

Email: [email protected]

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/therapywithkathrine

⁠Instagram:⁠ ⁠@kathrinebejanyan

Join Kathrine's Online Workshop (Feb 22nd)

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Carol's Instagram: ⁠⁠instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/⁠⁠

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Welcome back to the journey! In this episode, we welcome Tamara Eleni - a Self-Mastery Coach and Intuitive Guide, specializing in Human Design. She’s a 3/5 Generator and her trial and error profile has seen her pursue many career paths in the hope to find the answer to the question, ‘what is my purpose?’ 

Whilst Human Design has played a foundational role in Tamara’s own self development journey, she has also come to realize that purpose isn’t something you find. It’s something that you ARE. From that place of knowing, you share that magic with the world. 

Tamara offers intuitive coaching because she believes that all the answers are within you, simply waiting to be unlocked. She will continue to offer Human Design through a self-paced container that is currently in production.

In this episode, Tamara gives insight on:

1. The five Human Design types
2. How each type can drop more into their feminine
3. Tips on how to manifest no matter what your type + more!

Connect With Tamara:

Instagram: @iamtamaraeleni

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Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin

Welcome to the journey! This podcast is for the modern woman who is ready to rise. The woman who wants to reclaim her power, her pleasure, her purpose - and the goddess within. Your divine feminine has been waiting...

In this episode, co-hosts Mina and Carol introduce the podcast, themselves, and you'll also learn about:

1. The three "P's" to reclaiming your divine feminine
2. The 10 pain points most modern woman face that derail full embodiment of the feminine
3. Ways to connect with the community + more!

Tune in every other Friday for new episodes! Listen during your morning commute (or your moonlit bath ritual!).

Connect With Us:

AITC YouTube: youtube.com/@AphroditeInTheCity

AITC Instagram: instagram.com/aphroditeinthecity/

AITC TikTok: tiktok.com/@aphroditeinthecity

Mina's Instagram: instagram.com/thestardustedmuse/

Carol's Instagram: instagram.com/venusrisingceramics/

Email Us: [email protected]

Music: "Beautiful Time Lapse" by Aleksey Chistilin