Deconstruct To Curiocity

Emily Sauer is a spritely entrepreneur who has always been passionate about creating catalysts that spark human connection. While developing Ohnut (an intimate wearable designed to help women and couples who experience deep dyspareunia) she co-founded the Lady Bits League, founded the Pain Perception Project, and is now launching Pelvic Gym to connect people and professionals from all over the sexual and pelvic health world, through education and story. Emily has redefined her life as a proud entrepreneur, maker, community leader, and sexual health advocate. @ohnutco @sauerhour @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost

Election week is about to be hella crazy. Can I say that? Just did. There’s no right or wrong way to process. Boundaries include social media & TV. Make an election night plan now. Figure out how you want to spend the day/night of down to the details. Prep your meals. Practice self-care. It’s okay to not tune in. It’s okay to stuff your face with jalapeño chips & game all night. How you process is up to YOU. And we are here to support you all the way. And of course, if you haven’t already - go vote. Your voice matters. Love you. Xoxo @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost

Kiona, Ph.D., M.S., M.A. is the founder of the award-winning digital platform How Not To Travel Like A Basic Bitch, which was launched in 2016. Seeing the deficits in academia where rarely Brown and Black people are rarely deemed experts in their own cultures and access to higher education is placed behind a huge paywall, she created a platform that does the opposite. She travels the world spotlighting different cultures, redefines the expert, and uplifts marginalized voices, hosting and teaching publicly streamed lessons for free on a gift-based model. Making global education accessible to anyone with a smartphone.

Her work has gotten her Travel Content Creator of the Year by Audacity Fest and World’s Best Influencer by Fodor’s Travel. In addition, her travel expertise has gotten her features in Outside Magazine, Huffington Post, Washington Post, Pop Sugar, Next Shark, and many more. She’s been the keynote speaker at the Cosmos Summit, diversity expert panelist at World Travel Market, and moderator at MissFits Fest.

She hosts a biweekly podcast called How Not To Travel which has hit Top 10 in UK/Ireland, USA, France, and Australia. She also has taken her educational classes offline and does monthly education trips to Cuba where her study abroad program is sold out a year in advance. She also runs a mentorship program called How Not To Grad School Like A Basic Bitch, which facilitates People Of Color getting into graduate school on fully funded programs.

Born and raised in Hawai’i and of mixed race Korean/Austrian descent, she frequently discusses the intentional erasure of Asian history, voices, and representation and advocates for Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in the media. @howtonottravellikeabasicbitch @laurendeleary @officialadamfrost https://hownottotravellikeabasicbitch.com/links/

Dr. Hillary McBride is best known as co-host of the Liturgists podcast and host of the CBC podcast Other People’s Problems. But that work has only been possible with years of clinical practice as a counselor and research as a psychologist, a base of expertise that includes work at the intersection of spirituality and mental health, trauma and trauma therapies, body image, eating disorders, sex and sexuality, and feminist approaches to psychology. Her first book, Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as We Are, was published in 2017; her next book, This Is My Body: Embodiment and Why It Matters for Just About Everything, will be out in 2021. She has been recognized by the American Psychological Association, and the Canadian Psychological Association for her research addressing our relationships with our bodies across the life span, and how to make a home within our bodily selves, in a world that asks us to leave our bodily homes from the moment we're born. Hillary makes her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. @hillaryliannamcbride @laurendeleary @adam.budnick

Should your go to person for deconstruction and spiritual discussions be your partner? Can you cultivate a thriving relationship while one deconstructs and the other doesn’t? Is it possible for two people to be in different stages of deconstruction and be together? If the closest people in my life only hear my process as rebellion, how do I invite them in? How do you navigate conversations about church and parenting? How do you handle sexual ethic deconstruction changes while in a relationship? What is your perspective on how to navigate newfound independence within the boundaries of marriage? How do you communicate deconstruction/fluctuating beliefs when dating in the Bible belt? Can you have the same core values & beliefs and express them in different ways (i.e. church no church)?

Elizabeth Earnshaw (aka Liz Listens) is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist and Certified Gottman Therapist. She owns A Better Life Therapy in Philadelphia, PA where she and her colleagues have supported hundreds of couples. Elizabeth also writes and speaks on relationships. She shares many of her insights on her Instagram account @lizlistens and within her membership program Love Lessons 365.

Matthias Roberts is a therapist, author of Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms (Fortress, 2020) and host of Queerology: A Podcast on Belief and Being which was recently named as one of the "12 Best LGBTQ+ Podcasts of 2020" by O: The Oprah Magazine and the #1 Podcast to Listen to on National Coming Out Day by Radio.com. He holds two master's degrees, one in theology and culture and one in counseling psychology from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. In his psychotherapy practice, Matthias specializes in helping LGBTQ+ teens and adults live confident and fulfilling lives. He writes and speaks nationwide about the intersections between gender, sexuality, mental health, and theology. @matthiasroberts @laurendeleary @adam.budnick https://www.eventbrite.com/e/beyond-shame-healing-day-tickets-112897112302

Crystal Cheatham is the CEO & founder of @ourbibleapp 🙏🏽 She received her MFA from Antioch University & is an LGBTQ+ rights activist with a focus on religious liberty. Since 2011 Crystal has worked simultaneously as a ghostwriter and queer rights activist with groups such as Soulforce and the Attic Youth Center. As an entrepreneur Crystal is the founder of two projects: Follow the Red Balloon and The IDentity Kit, both of which provided resources for marginalized communities of faith. As an outspoken activist she has written for The Huffington Post on the intersections of faith and sexual identity, a faith and spirituality column for the Philadelphia Gay Newspaper, sat on the steering committee of the HRC as the Faith & Spirituality chair, and partnered with Equality PA to influence clergy to support non-discrimination legislation. She is the host of Lord Have Mercy, a podcast about God, sex and the bible, and has been featured in TeenVogue, Autostraddle, and LGBTQNation amongst others. Twitter,FB,IG @Ourbibleapp and T: @crystalcheatham IG: @TheCheath @laurendeleary @adam.budnick

Jon Steingard - you probably know him as the singer for Hawk Nelson. As of late, he has been deconstructing his faith in public. He is curious about matters of faith and spirituality... any of this sound familiar? @jonsteingard @laurendeleary @adam.budnick

Colby is passionate about helping people come more alive. About seeing us wake up to the truth about who we really are: loved children of God. Some of the ways He does that is with his books: (UnClobber and The SHIFT). He also co-pastors a church, Sojourn Grace Collective, with his wife & co-hosts a podcast with his wife (The Kate and Colby Show). They are raising four sons: ages 15, 14, 10, & 8. He was raised conservative baptist, deconstructed for several years after leaving Bible College, & now has reconstructed a sort of post-evangelical progressive christianity. @colbymartin @laurendeleary @adam.budnick http://www.colbymartinonline.com