In this bold episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, we’re having a real conversation about why the overuse of AI in business is collectively making us dry up. This episode explores becoming more discerning around your use of AI in business so that you're not outsourcing your voice. It talks about your authenticity and what it means to build a brand from your body instead of from urgency.

If you’re a driven female entrepreneur feeling the pressure to keep up with every new tech trend, this one is your permission slip to pause. Carmen unpacks how overusing AI for content creation, program design and messaging can dilute your voice, disconnect you from your true desires and leave your brand feeling bland and forgettable.

This episode explores authentic marketing, personal branding, women in business, pleasure-led entrepreneurship and feminine leadership. You’ll hear why outsourcing your voice erodes confidence, creativity and connection and how the same pattern shows up in relationships and pleasure.

Instead of hiding behind perfection or urgency, you’re invited to slow down, practice discernment and reconnect with your body. What do you actually want? What feels alive? What feels safe enough to say out loud?

For women entrepreneurs ready to build a profitable business rooted in truth, desire and embodied leadership, this is a powerful reset. Your voice is the strategy. Your lived experience is the asset. And no algorithm can replace your magic.

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In this episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, female entrepreneurs are invited to examine where past experiences, boundary violations and shame may still be shaping how they lead and grow their businesses. Through a vulnerable story of erotic reclamation, this conversation explores consent, empowerment, nervous system healing and pleasure-led entrepreneurship. Carmen draws a powerful parallel between sexual healing and business growth, highlighting how guarding, clenching and operating in survival mode block creativity and wealth. Perfect for women in business ready to ditch hustle culture, reclaim their power and build a turned-on, aligned and profitable empire rooted in self-trust and embodied leadership.

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In this powerful conversation, Carmen explores how women in business can shift from survival mode into a pleasure-led way of living and leading. Instead of overfunctioning, people-pleasing and proving worth, this episode invites ambitious women to reconnect with their bodies, desires and inner authority. Carmen offers nervous system regulation, conscious choice and self-trust as foundations for sustainable wealth and leadership.

Listeners learn how small daily decisions — like creating a grounded morning routine, limiting stress triggers and listening inward before reacting to the outside world — become revolutionary acts of self-leadership. These practices help female founders and women entrepreneurs reduce stress, increase clarity and build businesses that actually feel good to run.

This episode challenges traditional, male-dominated models of success and offers a new paradigm: pleasure as a business strategy. When women are well-resourced, well-regulated and connected to their desires, they make cleaner decisions, hold more wealth and lead with confidence instead of depletion.

If you’re a purpose-driven woman ready to build a business that supports your pleasure, power and prosperity, this conversation will feel like permission to do it differently.

As you are building your business, where are you exercising your choice? Are you building a business model that comes from a male, capitalistic lens? Are you operating in survival mode trying to fit into a model that wasn’t made for you?

Carmen has an alternative and it all begins with her 3 day live event called Pleasure Portal to Your Empire.

This live 3-day event is for women entrepreneurs who are done living in survival mode and are ready to become the Creatrix of their lives — women who want their success to feel good, their bodies to feel alive and their wealth to be something they can actually hold.

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This episode explores a truth many women only see after distance, healing and deep self-reflection: how much we’ve normalized self-sacrifice in relationships, family roles and even our careers. This episode shines a light on the invisible ways women give themselves away — emotionally, mentally and physically — without realizing the cost.

If you’ve ever looked back on a relationship, marriage or life chapter and thought, “Why did I accept that?” you are not alone. Women are conditioned to overfunction, keep the peace and earn love through giving. Over time, this creates burnout, resentment and disconnection from our true desires. This episode unpacks how patriarchy, social conditioning and “good girl” expectations make these dynamics feel normal — even when they quietly erode our autonomy.

We also dive into personal sovereignty, bodily autonomy and somatic healing as pathways back to yourself. Instead of building a life or business from survival, obligation or external approval, what would it look like to create from pleasure, desire and embodied choice? This conversation is especially for female entrepreneurs and growth-minded women who want their work, relationships and self-worth to be rooted in self-trust rather than sacrifice.

You’ll hear reflections on divorce recovery, relationship patterns, emotional labor and the power of learning to receive from a place of true desire — not conditioning. This is about women’s empowerment, healing relationship dynamics and reclaiming your voice, your body and your direction.

If you're ready for deeper self-connection, confidence and aligned success, this episode is your invitation to stop deferring and start choosing yourself.

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In this episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, we unpack an important conversation for women exploring sexual healing, erotic liberation and personal growth retreats. If you are a driven, high-performing woman craving more pleasure, intimacy and embodiment, this episode is your reality check and your empowerment guide.

Many women in business are stepping into spaces that promise sexual awakening, feminine embodiment and deep healing. But not all retreats are trauma-informed, consent-driven or paced in a way that supports real nervous system safety. When environments move too fast, center the facilitator’s ego or create pressure to participate, women can override their boundaries instead of learning to trust themselves.

This episode explores the red flags in some sexual healing retreats: lack of emotional safety, no screening process, group intensity before trust is built and subtle coercion disguised as empowerment. These dynamics can disconnect women from their bodies rather than deepen self-trust, self-knowledge and pleasure capacity.

For ambitious women, the real work is slower and more powerful. True erotic empowerment means learning to understand what you want, ask for it clearly, honor your no and build the capacity to receive pleasure, attention, success and intimacy without shutting down. These skills translate directly into business, leadership and wealth.

If you are a female entrepreneur who is tired of overfunctioning, people-pleasing and performing confidence, this conversation will help you build discernment, boundaries and embodied receiving. Pleasure is not about intensity. It is about safety, agency and choice.

Listen in to learn how real sexual empowerment supports confident communication, nervous system regulation and sustainable success for women in business.

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In this episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, we explore desire — what you truly want in business, money, pleasure and life. Many women are taught to shrink their desires, feel guilty for wanting more and undervalue their work. This conversation unpacks how social conditioning, scarcity mindset and shame disconnect you from authentic desire and keep you playing small.

You’ll learn how to identify what you really want, set aligned pricing in your business, expand your capacity to receive and stop negotiating against yourself before you even ask. This episode connects female desire, embodiment, pleasure, wealth, entrepreneurship and self-worth, showing how your nervous system and beliefs impact what you allow yourself to have.

If you’re a driven woman ready to build wealth, deepen intimacy and feel more pleasure without burnout, this episode will help you shift from survival mode to empowered receiving. Desire isn’t selfish — it’s a pathway to expansion, leadership and sustainable success.

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In this episode of Juicy Bits, we explore how overworking, perfectionism and constant striving are often rooted in an unregulated nervous system rather than true desire. For women who have built successful lives yet feel exhausted, disconnected or unsatisfied, this conversation offers a powerful reframe: you’re not broken—you’re adapted.

We unpack how stress responses like overfunctioning, people-pleasing, and hyper-independence can quietly shape business, relationships and intimacy. You’ll learn why slowing down can feel unsafe, why rest may trigger guilt, and why pleasure can feel out of reach—even when life looks good on paper.

This episode invites you into a new way of living and leading—one grounded in nervous system regulation, self-trust and embodied pleasure instead of survival mode. We explore what it means to shift from hustle to flow, from self-abandonment to self-connection and from proving your worth to actually feeling it in your body.

If you’re a driven woman craving more intimacy, more pleasure, and a deeper connection to yourself—without burning everything down—this episode is for you. For practical exercises to help you do this join Carmen's Skool community and go to the Classroom. https://bit.ly/yjlskool There are 15 days of audio recordings to get you started on reconnecting to your body and uncovering what you actually want.

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In this compassionate episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, Carmen offers a love letter to women who have carried shame, guilt or self-blame around their stress responses in moments when they felt unsafe. With care and honesty, she reframes trauma responses as intelligent survival mechanisms rather than personal failures.

Carmen invites listeners to engage only when they feel resourced, reminding them that this episode is not therapy or medical advice, but a personal reflection meant to bring validation and relief. At the core of the conversation is a powerful reframe of the belief “I abandoned myself.” Instead, Carmen explains how responses like freezing, people-pleasing or dissociation are automatic nervous system reactions designed to keep us alive.

This episode speaks to how often women turn appropriate anger inward, blaming themselves instead of recognizing where accountability belongs. Carmen names how common it is for women to minimize their own experiences, especially when they don’t fit cultural ideas of “big trauma,” even though the body still carries the impact.

Carmen explains stress responses and emphasizes that they are not conscious choices. Dissociation and checking out are framed as protective responses, not weaknesses. Repetition of these patterns is also normalized as the nervous system doing what it knows, not a sign of failure.

Carmen invites listeners to shift from self-judgment to gratitude—thanking the body for doing its job and keeping them safe. This episode offers a grounded, validating space for women ready to release shame, reconnect with their bodies, and begin healing with compassion.

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In this episode, you learn that being able to receive pleasure is essential to accept and sustain wealth. Carmen takes female entrepreneurs behind the scenes of a pivotal embodied experience that reshaped how she understands desire, pleasure and receiving. This conversation is an invitation for women who are successful on paper—but craving more aliveness, ease, and sustainability—to explore what it really takes to move from survival mode into CREATRIX mode.

Carmen shares a powerful personal story from a workshop where she made a bold request. The transformation wasn’t just in the asking—it was in her ability to stay present and receive what she had asked for.

This moment revealed something many high-achieving women struggle with: receiving requires capacity. It’s not enough to want more pleasure, more money or more support. Your nervous system has to be able to hold it. Carmen reflects on how often women are conditioned to tolerate what’s offered rather than name what they truly desire, especially when it comes to touch, intimacy, love and even success.

From an early age, all women experience touch and expectations before they have the language or power to consent. That conditioning carries into adulthood, showing up as people-pleasing, over-giving and difficulty expressing needs. Carmen explains how trauma—big or small—lives in the body, and how intentional somatic experiences around consent, boundaries and choice can help undo these patterns.

She also challenges a deeply ingrained belief many women carry: that a gift only counts if you didn’t ask for it. Drawing from her past marriage, Carmen unpacks how unspoken expectations and “mind-reading” fantasies sabotage connection. A gift that isn’t wanted or received as such isn’t a gift—it’s pressure. Whether in relationships or business, clarity around desire changes everything.

For female entrepreneurs, this work matters far beyond the bedroom. Carmen draws a direct line between embodiment and leadership, pleasure and profit. Just because you can build something doesn’t mean it’s what you want. Just because you’re capable of hustling doesn’t mean it’s sustainable. Desire evolves, and learning to listen to it—without judgment—is part of creating long-term abundance.

Carmen shares how her own journey through kink, open relationships,and sexual exploration expanded her understanding of herself beyond societal conditioning. As safety and self-trust grew, so did her capacity for pleasure, authenticity and unapologetic desire. The same is possible in business, creativity and life.

This episode is a reminder that pleasure is not frivolous—it’s foundational. Without it, we block what we say we want. With it, we build the capacity to receive, sustain and enjoy the lives we’re creating.

Carmen leaves listeners with a simple invitation: what is one small desire you could name to someone you trust?

If you’re a bold female entrepreneur ready to experience abundance without burnout and pleasure without guilt, Juicy Bits with Carmen offers a powerful place to begin.

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What if the same traits that make you successful in business are also the ones draining your pleasure, creativity, and connection?

In this episode of Juicy Bits with Carmen, we explore the archetype of the Business Dominatrix—the driven, high-achieving woman who knows she can build her empire, but can’t relax long enough to enjoy it. She leads with control, urgency, and pressure, often dominating her business into success while quietly burning herself out.

If you’re a woman over 30 who is ambitious, entrepreneurial, and exhausted from the grind, this conversation will feel uncomfortably familiar—in the best way.

Operating in constant survival mode keeps your nervous system locked in fight-or-flight. While this can create short-term results, it shuts down creativity, erotic energy, and big-picture thinking. Ideas dry up. Pleasure disappears. Success starts to feel hollow.

Carmen shares a personal story of what happened when her long-awaited relationship finally came together—after years of long distance—just as her business obsession peaked. What followed was emotional withdrawal, disconnection from intimacy, and a body stuck in tension and vigilance.

Grinding doesn’t just impact your mindset—it lives in your body. Clenched jaw, tight shoulders, shallow breath, constant urgency. When even rest or intimacy feels like an interruption, it’s a sign something is deeply out of balance.

This episode unpacks how micromanagement, self-domination, and hyper-vigilance bleed into relationships, family life, and pleasure—often without us realizing it.

The solution isn’t giving up ambition. It’s evolving it.

Carmen introduces the Life Creatrix—a woman who keeps her drive and leadership, but redirects her power toward creating a life that actually feels good. She understands that what grows best isn’t forced—it’s nurtured.

Juicy Bits with Carmen is a podcast for bold women who want success, sovereignty, creativity, and pleasure—without burnout.

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