Dr. Celeste Holbrook | How I Went From A 26-Year-Old Virgin To A Sex Expert

Summary:

In today's episode of Better Than Gossip, Amy and Kristen chat with Dr. Celeste Holbrook, a sexologist, speaker, author and independent consultant who's dedicated her life to helping women achieve soul-centered sex. She inspires women to move through the mental blocks that surround their intimate lives and re-awaken their sensual confidence.

Better Than Gossip is a media brand that seeks to offer Ageless Advice for Timeless Women. Whether on our podcast, our streaming media show or our website, you'll find valuable information that caters to women across different generations. You are definitely in the right place! 

What You'll Learn on this Show:

• What Celeste's work as a sex educator entails.
• Why you need to shift your focus from performative sex to experiential sex.
• Celeste's own experience with painful sexual intercourse and how you can overcome the negative thoughts surrounding that.
• How responsibilities is an arousal killer and why this is one of the biggest struggles women face in their sex lives.
• The reason why some people feel more aroused in the morning or in the middle of the night.
• A different and more freeing way to look at desires and fantasies.
• Celeste's #1 advice for people getting started on transforming their sex life.
• And so much more…

Quotes:

"I could teach you how to do bondage or all the different sex positions, but if they don't help you feel what you want to feel, it does not matter." —Dr. Celeste Holbrook.

"We were born biologically wired to eat. We're born biologically wired for pleasure. Yet, you still have to learn how to cook and you still have to learn how to have sex." —Dr. Celeste Holbrook.

"A bunch of bad sex isn't going to make you happy. Work on the quality of sex and meeting the emotional need and typically quantity falls into place." —Dr. Celeste Holbrook.

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Summary:

In today's episode of Better Than Gossip, Amy and Lisa chat with Whitney Goodman, the author of Toxic Positivity and owner of The Collaborative Counseling Center, a private therapy practice based in Miami. You can find Whitney on her widely popular Instagram page @sitwithwhit, where she goes by the title "radically honest psychotherapist."

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What You'll Learn on this Show:

• Whitney's unique and holistic definition of toxic positivity. 
• The origin of the culture of toxic positivity in the United States.
• A better approach than toxic positivity when interacting with someone going through a tough situation.
• How to recognize toxic positivity in the important relationships in our lives.
• The concept of predatory wellness and how it's negatively affecting women in our society.
• What to do when you are feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, stuck or any other emotion that's often frowned upon. 
• Some of the topics Whitney has been broadly addressing on her Instagram page.
• And so much more…

Quotes:

"9 out of 10 times, we actually know how to fix it or what we really need to do. We just want to talk, vent, be heard and feel validated." — Whitney Goodman.

"You can be an optimistic person and not engage in toxic positivity." — Whitney Goodman.

"As parents, it's so easy to become hyper focussed on our kids' happiness and diminish the value of other feelings." — Whitney Goodman.

"People who feel like they have to silence their emotions feel infinitely worse than the people who get to talk about them." — Whitney Goodman.

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Title: Renata Joy | Staying Young, Strong and Sexy For Life 

Summary:

In today's episode of Better Than Gossip, Amy Schmidt and Kristen Coffield chat with Renata Joy, a mother, a grandmother, a successful entrepreneur and a leading lifestyle expert. She's also the founder of Pure Joy Wellness—a community-based lifestyle brand that helps women over 40 improve their lives through fitness, nutrition, and self-care. 

Better Than Gossip is a media brand that seeks to offer Ageless Advice for Timeless Women. Whether on our podcast, our streaming media show or our website, you'll find valuable information that caters to women across different generations. You are definitely in the right place! 

What You'll Learn on this Show:

• All the exciting things to look forward to from the Better Than Gossip brand.
• How Renata's childhood fueled her passion for health and fitness.
• What to do when you want to make your health a priority, but you feel stuck.
• How Renata transitioned from an ultra-successful career in broadcasting to running a health and wellness brand.
• The seven secrets to staying young, strong and sexy for life.
• And so much more…

Quotes:

"Your lifestyle choices really have a huge impact on the quality of your life."— Renata Joy.

"Compare yourself to you." — Renata Joy.

Resources:

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This episode is both bittersweet and exciting. I've entitled this solocast, Necessary Ending. I think Dr. Henry Cloud says it best, "You know it’s time to put something down - it’s not serving your life anymore and it's time to take action to make movement."

After you listen I would love to hear your thoughts - you can reach me here or [email protected]

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Zibby Owens is the creator and host of the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, an amazing podcast interviewing incredible authors of all kinds about their books. I admire this woman for so many things - and having been a guest on her show, and now having her back for a second time on mine, this girl is on fire. 

Zibby's new anthology of essays, written by 49 past guests on her podcast, is Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology.

In this interview we dig deep into Zibby - her life, her journey, and how she does what she does. We also dig into her newest venture,  Zibby Books, a publishing company attempting to reimagine the business of books as a collaborative partnership.

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How many times do you walk into your closet and can't figure out what to wear? Today's episode is just for you. Today's guest is the amazing Alison Lumbatis, Founder of Get Your Pretty On and author of  The Ultimate Book of Outfit Formulas. Head over to outfitformulas.com and learn more.

Today we talk all the things.
What's Alison's favorite white tee?
Should we have alterations?
Size....schmize...don't waste your time worrying about this.
Your clothes should skim and hug the right parts and how do we do that?
And should we have a clothes accountability partner?

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Find your passion and love what you do.  What joy it must be to be passionate about running family businesses and sharing your parents’ legacy with the world. Amy Schmidt's guest today is Ada Polla, CEO of Alchimie Forever.  Alchimie Forever is Ada’s family-owned skincare business from Switzerland.

Amy talks all the things with Ada, from what it's like to be part of a family business. Tips and tricks to feel your best confident self inside and out.

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• Dry Skin Balm ($25)
• Kantic Calming Cream ($69)
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Two midlife, empty nester walk into a cannabis dispensary.....that's what we are talking about today - and you don't want to miss it.

When menopause starts, and often well before, women can stop feeling like themselves. Hormones go haywire and with them your mood; temperature regulation goes out the window; restful sleep becomes a distant memory; and mental clarity vanishes. Women are left to “deal with it.” We think that’s unacceptable.

Meet Carrie Mapes and Patty Pappas, two trailblazing women who decided to launch a business with women of a certain age in mind.  Take two lifelong friends, and mix in creativity and attention to detail and you have the perfect combination. They developed a discretely dissolving unique cannabis-infused vaginal suppository which is formulated specifically for daytime and nighttime use so you can say Hello Again to YOU wherever and whenever you choose.

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Fearlessly Facing Fifty and Beyond has over 200 episodes with inspiration and stories to age fearlessly and connect confidently to others thriving at midlife and beyond.

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For the last episode of the season I am featuring my conversation with Tracey Cox. And all I can say is, "You can thank me later."

As one of the world’s foremost writers on sex and relationships, she's toured the world as an international sex, body language and relationship expert. She's appeared on Oprah, CNN and The Today Show in the US, as well as many prime-time TV and chat shows world-wide.

Today we dig into the questions we have on our minds but we are afraid to ask. You can learn more about Tracey here.

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Sharing our stories, our wisdom is what builds community, trust and inspires others. My guest today has done just that with her latest book, Collective Wisdom. And we are giving away two copies! All you need to do is send an email to [email protected] and put in the subject: Collective Wisdom for the WIN.

Grace Bonney is the author of the bestselling books In the Company of Women and Design*Sponge at Home. Bonney is passionate about equity, inclusivity, and supporting all members of the creative community: she founded Design*Sponge, a daily website dedicated to the creative community, which reached nearly 2 million readers per day for 15 years (and is now officially archived in the Library of Congress); Good Company, a print magazine and podcast about creative entrepreneurs; and After the Jump, a podcast about creatives that has reached over 500,000 listeners per episode. Her latest book, Collective Wisdom, is in bookstores now. Bonney lives in New York’s Hudson Valley with her wife and their three pets. Find her on Instagram and Twitter at @designsponge.

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Make sure to share with friends and family and would love if you could leave a review. There are so many shows out there floating around and if you are finding value in the Fearlessly Facing Fifty podcast share it with the world – a review means so much.

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