Liberation Wisdom Podcast

What if pleasure isn’t just personal — but political, ethical, and communal?

In this expansive and soul-stirring conversation, Kayla is joined by Andrew Phipps for a wide-ranging dialogue that bridges pleasure, ethics, community, nervous system safety, power, and what it means to live a truly fulfilling life in a rapidly changing world.

Together, they explore how modern systems — from capitalism and politics to productivity culture and individualism — have shaped how disconnected we feel from our bodies, from one another, and from pleasure itself. This episode invites listeners to zoom out and ask bigger questions:

What are we actually working toward? Who does our success serve? And what would change if pleasure, ethics, and connection were central rather than peripheral?

Andrew offers a global perspective on ethics, politics, and climate responsibility, naming how short-term decision-making and insular thinking have created collective harm — while Kayla brings the conversation home to the body, the nervous system, intimacy, and the longing for community many of us feel in our daily lives.

Together, they imagine a future rooted in shared resources, communal care, ethical leadership, and pleasure as a measure of quality of life — not just productivity or profit.

This episode is an invitation to soften, to question, and to remember that pleasure isn’t indulgent — it’s connective. It’s how we attune to one another, find our people, and come back into right relationship with ourselves and the world.

1. Why ethics are largely absent from politics — and why that matters
2. How arbitrary systems and borders shape disconnection and inequality
3. The difference between longevity and quality of life
4. Pleasure as a shared, relational experience — not a solitary one
5. Why community, not individualism, is the antidote to burnout and despair
6. How comparison culture erodes fulfillment
7. The role of nervous system safety in intimacy and connection
8. Reimagining success through rest, connection, and shared care
9. Tuning into “frequency” — and how resonance creates belonging
10. Why pleasure may be the most radical blueprint for the future

This is a conversation for those who feel the old ways crumbling and sense something more humane, connected, and pleasurable trying to be born.

Connect with Andrew Phipps

1. Instagram: @theintimacyinquiry and @empathyunbound
2. Listen to The Intimacy Inquiry Podcast
3. Youtube: The Intimacy Inquiry Podcast
4. Listen to Empathy Unbound Podcast

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

1. Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course
2. Book your Liberation Wisdom session
3. Join my Newsletter Community
4. Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
5. Book 45 minute consultation
6. Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode of the Connected Pleasure Podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Jordin Wiggins —naturopathic doctor, author, coercive control clinician, and dominatrix-trained pleasure strategist—for a powerful, nuanced conversation about desire, power, and why so many successful women feel disconnected in their intimate lives.

Jordin works with women who have done “everything right” on paper—careers, families, achievements—yet feel numb, exhausted, and unseen in their relationships. Together, we explore the concept of “super traits”: extreme empathy, loyalty, forgiveness, and over-functioning, traits that often lead women into relational dynamics where desire disappears and intimacy becomes extractive rather than nourishing.

We unpack why traditional therapy and common relationship advice often fails women with super traits, how power imbalances go unaddressed in patriarchal models of intimacy, and why pleasure is not the reward for healing—but the reset that makes real connection possible.

This conversation also dives into:

1. How over-functioning and under-functioning dynamics erode desire and safety
2. Why scheduling sex, “just setting boundaries,” or trying harder often backfires
3. The role of sexual coercion and invisible power contracts in long-term relationships
4. How patriarchy harms everyone—including men—and why more men are now seeking this work
5. Pleasure as a nervous system capacity, not a performance
6. The importance of learning to tolerate sensation—both pleasure and pain
7. Feminine and masculine energy, safety, and the ability to truly receive
8. What BDSM teaches us about consent, power, desire, and embodied choice

Jordin shares how her own journey—from chronic health issues and a sexless marriage to pleasure-centered healing—led her to integrate functional medicine, trauma awareness, and embodied power work into a method that helps women move from survival-based intimacy into true receiving.

This episode is an invitation to question the stories you’ve been told about love, sex, and responsibility—and to remember that desire must be freely chosen, not managed, negotiated, or earned.

Pleasure is not indulgent.

It is information.

And it is a pathway home.

Connect with Dr. Jordin Wiggins

1. Instagram: @drjordinwiggins
2. Take the Super Traits Quiz
3. Listen to The Pleasure Principles Podcast

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

1. Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course
2. Book your Liberation Wisdom session
3. Join my Newsletter Community
4. Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
5. Book 45 minute consultation
6. Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode of the Connected Pleasure Podcast, I’m joined by Wren Morrow, an outdoor boudoir and erotic adventure photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. Wren guides individuals and couples through deeply embodied, sensual experiences in wild places—using photography as a portal back into the body, pleasure, and belonging.

We explore how Wren’s work emerged organically through van life, nature immersion, and embodiment practices, and why outdoor boudoir is about so much more than taking photos. What’s being offered is an experience—an invitation to slow down, shed shame, and remember what it feels like to belong in your body and on the earth.

Wren shares her powerful perspective on boudoir as fluorescence—the unfurling of a human being willing to be seen. We talk about shame as the instinct to close back into the bud, and pleasure as the courage to open, soften, and take up space. Together, we unpack how body image, motherhood, trauma, and cultural conditioning disconnect us from our sensuality—and how play, nature, and sensation help restore it.

This conversation also dives into:

1. Why embodiment and pleasure are birthrights—not reserved for “perfect” bodies
2. How nature mirrors our own “imperfections” as stories of resilience and becoming
3. The reclamation and bravery involved in being nude in wild spaces
4. Holding consent, safety, and boundaries during outdoor erotic art sessions
5. Group shoots, feminine friendship, and the healing power of shared experience
6. Men, shame, vulnerability, and the complexities of holding erotic space across genders
7. Navigating power dynamics, safety, and tenderness with integrity

We close with reflections on the divine feminine and masculine, the harm patriarchy has caused everyone, and the importance of moving toward a future rooted in embodiment, pleasure, responsibility, and collective healing.

This episode is an invitation to soften, unfurl, and remember:

Your body is not wrong.

Your scars are stories.

And pleasure begins with presence.

Connect with Wren Morrow:

1. Website: https://www.wrenmorrow.com/
2. Social Media: @_wrenmorrow

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

1. Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course - Beta starts January 21st 2026!
2. Book your Liberation Wisdom session
3. Join my Newsletter Community
4. Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
5. Book 45 minute consultation
6. Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode of the Connected Pleasure Podcast, I’m joined by Eve Hall — pelvic floor physical therapist, intimacy coach, and host of the Please Me Podcast — for a powerful conversation about sexual health, orgasm equality, and women reclaiming their pleasure.

We explore why the orgasm gap exists, how cultural conditioning and misinformation about women’s bodies impact intimacy, and why penetrative sex alone is rarely enough for most women. Eve breaks down female arousal, the importance of time, blood flow, and clitoral stimulation, and why pleasure is something that can be learned, expanded, and reclaimed.

We also talk about Big Clit Energy — the confidence and vitality that comes from knowing your body and owning your desire — and how closing the orgasm gap benefits everyone, not just women.

This episode is educational, affirming, and deeply empowering for anyone ready to stop settling and start experiencing pleasure as a vital part of wellbeing.

Connect with Eve Hall:

1. Website: https://pleaseme.online
2. Contact Page and Social Media: https://pleaseme.online/get-in-touch/
3. Substack Newsletter: https://pleaseme.substack.com
4. Patreon (Ad-Free & Bonus Content): https://patreon.com/PleaseMePodcast
5. Shameless Care: https://shamelesscare.com/

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

1. Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course
2. Book your Liberation Wisdom session
3. Join my Newsletter Community
4. Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
5. Book 45 minute consultation
6. Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode, I begin by pausing.

Before diving into today’s conversation with my guest, I wanted to hold space for the emotional weight so many of us are carrying right now. This is the first full week of January 2026, and everywhere I turn — with my clients, in my community, and in my own body — I feel the grief, anger, fear, and exhaustion moving through the collective.

I speak honestly about what it’s been like to witness this moment as a former therapist and as someone stepping more fully onto the priestess path. I share why I am moving away from the medicalized lens of diagnosis — not because suffering isn’t real, but because so much of what people are experiencing is a natural response to living in a world that does not support human life, rest, connection, creativity, or safety.

In this reflection, I explore:

1. Why anxiety, depression, burnout, and numbness are often symptoms of systemic failure — not individual brokenness
2. What it means to hold collective grief and rage without collapsing into hopelessness
3. The priestess role of holding duality: honoring the collapse of old structures while still tending the vision of what comes next
4. Why feeling our feelings fully is not indulgent — it’s essential
5. How rage and grief can be alchemized into clarity, courage, and creative power

I talk about the necessity of fierce love — love that is tender and boundaried, compassionate and unwilling to accept what is dehumanizing. I reflect on the fear that comes with imagining an entirely different way of living, and why change will not come all at once, but through sustained courage, heart, and collective imagination.

This episode is also a reminder of why I created this podcast in the first place: to help seed new blueprints for how we live, love, heal, relate to money, steward technology, and care for the earth and one another. The change we are longing for does not come from outside authority — it comes from within us, and then between us.

Toward the end of the episode, I share about my upcoming eight-week beta course Sacred Desire, and why I believe reclaiming desire, pleasure, and embodied truth is deeply radical work in times like these. I speak to how women reconnecting with their desire, boundaries, and inner fire is not escapism — it is world-changing.

Join the Sacred Desire Waitlist Here!

Inside Sacred Desire, we focus on:

1. Reclaiming your relationship to sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure
2. Understanding the barriers that have disconnected you from your desire
3. Healing in community rather than isolation
4. Rising together, supported and witnessed

If you feel a pull toward this work, I invite you to join the waitlist. When you do, you’ll receive:

1. My FREE Sacred Body Workbook: A Guide to Healing Body Image + Embracing Pleasure
2. A FREE 45-minute Desire Discovery Call with me
3. Space to discern, without pressure, whether this container is right for you

Above all, this episode is an offering of presence. A reminder that you are not alone, that your feelings make sense, and that even in the heaviness, something new is trying to be born.

Hold your grief.

Honor your rage.

Do not abandon hope.

We are still creating what comes next — together.

Join the Sacred Desire Waitlist Here! The course begins January 21st, 2026.

If you cannot make this round AND want to be on the waitlist for future launches of this course, please also join the waitlist and we can begin your reclamation journey through a free desire discovery call and being in my newsletter community before future launches.

Please send this to a friend that you think may benefit from this work as well. I am so grateful to anyone that is spreading the word about this sacred work and helping those that are ready step into the divine fire and collective love and liberation.

In this solo episode, I explore a conversation that has been rising again and again in my work and my life: the remembering of the Sacred Feminine and the reclamation of the Divine Masculine — not as genders, but as energies that live within all of us.

I share why this feels like a pivotal moment, personally and collectively, as I deepen into my priestess path and continue weaving sexual healing, desire, and pleasure into spiritual remembrance. I talk about how patriarchy didn’t just distort the masculine — it violently erased the feminine, forcing all of us into hyper-masculine survival modes that were never meant to sustain us.

In this episode, I unpack:

1. What the Sacred Feminine and Divine Masculine actually are as energetic archetypes
2. How patriarchy fractured both, leading to domination, hyper-vigilance, burnout, and disconnection
3. Why reclaiming the Sacred Feminine is the first step toward true balance and healing
4. How pleasure, rest, intuition, and embodiment are foundational to feminine remembrance
5. What it would mean for the masculine to hold safety, integrity, and sacred containment rather than control

I reflect on how women have been forced to lead from trauma and over-functioning, and how healing the feminine allows us to soften, receive, and create from truth rather than survival. I also speak to the grief, anger, and rage many women carry — and why those emotions must be honored rather than bypassed as part of this reclamation.

This episode is also deeply connected to the current energetic moment. I speak about the new moon in Sagittarius, the winter solstice, and the womb-space of the dark — a zero point where death and rebirth meet. This is a time of reflection, rest, and conscious birthing, not pushing or proving.

I share my long-term vision for this work: beginning with healing the Sacred Feminine through sexuality, desire, and pleasure, and eventually moving toward Sacred Union work — where both partners are supported in embodying healed feminine and masculine energies together, free from patriarchal scripts.

I also talk about why community and sisterhood are essential in this process, and why healing the feminine must happen collectively, not in isolation. This is why my work continues to center women gathering together — witnessing, resourcing, and remembering side by side.

At the end of the episode, I share an update about the upcoming beta launch of my newly renamed course Sacred Desire (formerly Not Broken). This foundational container is a death-rebirth journey designed to help women shed shame, reconnect to their bodies, reclaim pleasure, and remember who they are beneath conditioning. I explain how joining the waitlist includes:

1. My Sacred Body Workbook
2. A free call with me to explore your personal barriers to desire
3. A gentle, no-pressure entry into the circle

This work feels essential to birthing a new world — one rooted in embodiment, pleasure, reverence, and truth. I believe this remembering is not optional anymore. It’s the foundation of what comes next.

I’ll see you in the new year, beloveds.

If you’re feeling called Join Sacred Desire starting on January 21st, 2026

1. Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course

Stay in touch with Kayla:

1. Book your Liberation Wisdom session
2. Join my Newsletter Community
3. Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
4. Book 45 minute consultation
5. Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode, I sit down with Tiffanie Miner, a shamanic healer, spinal energetics practitioner, and intuitive guide. We dive into her journey from chronic illness and trauma to discovering her gifts in energy healing, ancestral work, and shamanic medicine.

We explore spinal energetics—how releasing trapped emotions and tuning into our bodies can transform nervous system patterns, deepen intuition, and open us to guidance from our ancestors and spirit allies. Tiffany shares how group work, couples sessions, and ancestral healing ripple out to transform families and communities.

We also talk about collective shifts and intuitive downloads happening right now—how gratitude, connection, and reciprocity are reshaping the way we show up for ourselves and each other. Plus, we dive into Celtic goddess guidance, warrior energy, and star-beings, and what it means to remember our power while moving toward love, softness, and leadership.

This episode is full of wisdom, activation, and inspiration for anyone ready to reclaim their body, their intuition, and their inner strength.

Connect with Tiffanie Miner:

• Website: https://rootedrevivalholistics.com/
• Sign up for Tiffanie's December Energetic Detox
• Dive in and Check Out Tiffanie's Bringing Yourself Home -Nervous System Healing package
• See Tiffanie in action and follow her on Instagram: @intentiallyrootedinhealing

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

• Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course
• Book your Liberation Wisdom session
• Join my Newsletter Community
• Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
• Book 45 minute consultation
• Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode of the Connected Pleasure Podcast, I sit down with Sharon Marie Scott, author of Forbidden Alchemy: Transmuting Taboo into Erotic Medicine, to explore the transformative power of pleasure, play, and conscious sexuality. Sharon shares her journey from trauma and shame to sovereignty, choice, and spiritual mastery through pleasure.

We dive into:

• Discovering your pleasure: How deciding that you’re worth falling in love with yourself—and exploring what truly excites you—can be playful, freeing, and life-changing.
• From shame to sovereignty: Why shame around desire is imposed, not inherent, and how conscious sexual exploration can help you move from need to choice.
• The “sandbox” of sexual play: Sharon’s book includes exercises ranging from mild to wild—primal play, polarity play, power exchange, and rope—designed to help beginners and seasoned explorers alike expand their pleasure safely.
• Kink, trauma, and natural desires: How fetishes and preferences can arise from innocence, generational inheritance, or curiosity—not just trauma—and how awareness transforms compulsions into conscious choices.
• Pleasure as spiritual practice: Sharon explains how pleasure operates at higher frequencies than love alone, and how sex magic and erotic alchemy can accelerate manifestation and conscious creation.
• Pain and pleasure as transformative tools: How shifting the story around sensation allows us to access higher states of consciousness and integrate both pleasure and challenge into personal growth.
• Community and co-creation: The role of regenerative, pleasure-focused communities in supporting growth, exploration, and collective manifestation.

Sharon also shares her upcoming work, including her 12-week course The Pleasure Frequency Atelier, which blends online activation, in-person embodied practice, and integration to guide participants through sex magic, erotic alchemy, and conscious pleasure.

Whether you’re just beginning to explore your sexuality, seeking to heal from shame, or ready to integrate pleasure into spiritual mastery, this conversation offers a roadmap to reclaiming desire, deepening your sensual and spiritual connection, and raising your frequency.

Connect with Sharon:

• Website: sharonmariescott.com
• Instagram: @sharonlifetunredon
• YouTube: Life Turned On
• TikTok: Life Turned On
• Upcoming Course: The Pleasure Frequency Atelier
• Book: Forbidden Alchemy: TransmutingTaboo into Erotic Medicine
• Coming Soon: Flesh and Flame: Pleasure as the Portal to Divine Mastery (Feb 2025)

If you’re feeling called to stay in touch with Kayla:

• Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course (launch sometime in late winter to early spring 2026)
• Book your Liberation Wisdom session
• Join my Newsletter Community
• Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
• Book 45 minute consultation
• Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this intimate and heartfelt episode, Kayla and her co-host sit down—one week after returning from the SHED Retreat—to reflect on what truly unfolded inside this powerful container.

After a full season exploring what it means to shed through the lens of the Year of the Snake on Shauna's podcast Life Turned On, the retreat was the culmination: 10 women, two facilitators, one island, and a weekend that cracked all expectations wide open.

Here, they share:

• What surprised them the most about the group dynamic and the depth of transformation
• Why the retreat felt like a womb space—a cocoon of safety, softness, and feminine frequency
• How quickly the women bonded, supported one another, and dropped into profound vulnerability
• The behind-the-scenes moments—the lodging mix-ups, the “meat hook” underworld meditation, the spontaneous tattoo
• The power of the singing circle, the ceremonies, and the shared rituals
• What it felt like to re-enter real life after living in community, connection, and sacred feminine energy
• Their favorite moments, from spoken-desire rituals to witnessing women see and honor one another fully

This episode is a love letter to the women who showed up, the magic they created together, and the reminder that transformation happens fastest when we are willing to be witnessed.

If you’ve ever wondered what actually happens inside a transformational retreat—or if you’re craving deeper sisterhood, community, and embodied healing—this conversation will open your heart.

Resources:

Join the SHED RETREAT 2026 WAITLIST!!!!

Check Out Shauna's Podcast Life Turned On

Check Out and Join the The Living Temple

If you’re feeling called:

• Join the waitlist for the Sacred Desire course (February 4th, 2026 start)
• Book your Liberation Wisdom session
• Join my Newsletter Community
• Support this podcast and leave me a tip!
• Book 45 minute consultation
• Email me at [email protected] with any questions

In this episode, I’m coming to you on the heels of the New Moon in Scorpio and fresh from the deeply transformative SHED Retreat—still riding the emotional and energetic high of what was created there. My scheduled guest didn’t make it, so Spirit made it clear that today needed to be a solo episode, and honestly… I think this conversation wanted to come through.

I start by sharing an exciting announcement: the Not Broken course is officially launching this January, 2026. This 8–9 week live experience is for women who feel disconnected from their sexual desire, struggle to access pleasure for themselves, or simply feel lost inside their own intimacy. It’s a beta round, meaning it will be the lowest energy exchange it will ever be, and I’m calling in founding members who want to co-create this sacred container with me. You can join the waitlist through the link below.

I also share that I am renaming my spiritual guidance sessions to Liberation Wisdom Sessions—a more aligned reflection of my priestess path and the soul-level support these one-on-one sessions offer. These sessions are for anyone needing grounding, clarity, or guidance as you unravel what’s no longer yours and root deeper into your becoming.

From there, I shift into a conversation inspired by so many stories that surfaced during the SHED retreat—stories about relationships, intimacy, disconnection, and the longing to feel seen, held, and understood by a partner. Although I typically speak directly to the individual, today I offer wisdom from years of working with couples and from witnessing the patterns that consistently shape relational intimacy.

I talk about:

• Why so many couples feel like intimacy only happens inside a sexual context
• How emotional intimacy forms the foundation for desire
• Why women often need emotional safety before accessing physical pleasure
• How men are conditioned to seek closeness through sex, not emotional connection
• Daily and weekly practices that build deeper emotional intimacy
• The role of non-sexual touch and why your body needs it
• How 20-second hugs literally rewire your nervous system for safety
• Ways to offer alternate forms of connection when you’re not available for sex
• Reconciling different intimacy needs without shame or pressure
• How to reestablish closeness when the relationship feels like “roommates”
• What it means to advocate for yourself in partnership
• Why pleasure work begins with YOU, not your partner

I also share more about the dynamic of working with couples, and how partner support containers can be added to the Not Broken course or my 1:1 coaching to help bring your new embodiment into the relational space.

And of course, I reflect on the power of community and what unfolded during the SHED retreat—the transformation, the sisterhood, the courage, and the frequency we built together. Next week, Shauna and I will be releasing a full retreat recap on her podcast Life Turned On, which I’ll link below.

I’ll be taking next week off in honor of Thanksgiving here in the U.S., as well as the National Day of Mourning as we honor Indigenous lives lost in the making of this country. After that, I’ll be back with more guests, more wisdom, and more conversations devoted to reclaiming sexuality, desire, and intimacy on your own terms.

If you’re feeling called:

• Join the waitlist for the Not Broken course (January 2026 start)
• Book your Liberation Wisdom session
• Reach out if you and your partner want support at [email protected]
• Support this podcast and leave me a tip!

Other Resources

• Listen to our processing of the SHED Retreat next week and get first access to the waitlist for next years retreat on Shauna's Life Turned On Podcast

Until next time, my loves—take gentle care.