In Episode #30 of the Love, Evolved podcast, I welcome on a very special guest: Dr. George Simon.  Dr. Simon is the leading expert on manipulators, narcissists and other disturbed characters, and has studied this phenomenon for over 42 years. 

This episode is for you if you are a kind-hearted, compassionate individual who finds yourself getting taken advantage of in relationships.  

Dr. Simon and I speak about the rise of narcissism and what has contributed to this problem, what some of the common tactics that people with narcissism and other character disorders use to manipulate others, and how to protect yourself if you find that you get tangled up with these types of people.   Is the phrase, "Hurt people hurt people" always true?  And where are we with treating narcissism and character disorders today?  

This episode is one of the most important ones I have recorded to date.  Please keep in touch with Dr. Simon's work below, and contact me with any comments or questions.

Connect with Dr. George Simon:

• Website + Blog
• In Sheep's Clothing
• Character Disturbance
• The Judas Syndrome
• How Did We End Up Here?
• Essentials for the Journey

Connect with Leigh-Anne:

• The Empath-Narcissist Trap
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode - please rate, review and subscribe to support the podcast.  And please share this episode with others who need to know this information. Thanks for listening!

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

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Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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This episode is short and sweet, and is for you if you've ever shape shifted or molded yourself into someone you're not in order to get love (whether consciously or unconsciously, and especially during dating or the beginning stages of a relationship.) 

We've all done this, so there's no shame.  But there is a way out, especially because this usually comes back to bite us in the end.

In this episode, I speak all about the importance of authenticity and how to create relationships from the true self.  The payoff is worth everything.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• Love, Evolved - Leigh-Anne's website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode - please rate, review and subscribe to support the podcast.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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On this episode, Roy Wang and I speak about the theme of men, women, and power.  

What is true power vs. false power, and how can the journey towards empowerment sometimes look different for men and women?

How can power be a healthy goal for all of us, a spiritual journey, and an essential part of becoming integrated men and women?

We speak about so many different expressions of power: physical strength, beauty, authenticity, knowing your true self, and women as oracles.  

Ultimately, we believe that both men and women can both claim their unique gifts of power in order to help lift each other up vs. compete with each other.

This is an essential episode to listen to in order to understand how empowerment is our birthright, how returning to traditional gender roles may not be the way, and what the path forward can look like for collaborative relationships between men + women.

Roy Wang is a coach with a mission to help men end cycles of shame, discover their inner strength, awaken to their true self, and be of service to the world.

Please reach out to Roy or myself with any comments or questions - we would love to hear your thoughts on this discussion.

Connect with Roy below:

• Roy's website
• Roy's Instagram

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• Love, Evolved - Leigh-Anne's website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode - please rate, review and subscribe to support the work.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

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Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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Mikaal Bates, a men's coach and men's work facilitator, joins us for a powerful conversation on the current state of love, sex, and relationships.

During our conversation, we reflect on some of the current trends we see, such as non-monogamy, gender exploration, the rise of AI, technology and pornography.

We also speak about the highest of the highs when it comes to mind blowingly incredible relationships, and what the true potential of partnership is.

This was a vast conversation anchored in a deep desire for men and women to experience the profound potential of relationships at their highest octave.

Please reach out to Mikaal or myself with any comments or questions - we would love to hear your thoughts on this discussion.

Here are some resources we spoke about:

• David Deida - The Way of the Superior Man
• David Deida - Intimate Communion
• Alison Armstrong
• Conscious Loving
• The Imago Dialogue

Connect with Mikaal below:

• Mikaal's website
• Mikaal's Instagram
• ReMasculation podcast

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• Love, Evolved - Leigh-Anne's website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode - please rate, review and subscribe to support the work.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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Anya Shakh, host of the Venus and Mars podcast, joins us for this incredible discussion on the higher and lower path of relationships.  

We are at the crossroads right now in love, sex, and relationships.  The higher path that is wide open and available for us to step into involves highly conscious relationships and the spiritual path of divine union.

The lower path is everything in our culture that is preventing us from stepping in to this higher road - the division between men + women, depolarization, erosion of human connection, and technology.  It also includes the trend of non-monogamy and giving up on commitment, confusion and chaos in relating to one another, and hyper-individualism.  

Anya and I are passionate about healing the relationship between men + women and bridging the gap.  Now is not the time to give up on each other, we need each other more than ever.  There are things we can do to heal and come back together in healthy, lasting ways, and we speak about all of this on the episode.

Connect with Anya + I below, and reach out with any comments or questions.

Anya's Instagram

Anya's substack

Anya's Venus and Mars podcast - our Reclaiming Womanhood episode

Anya + Leigh-Anne's IG Live - Restoring Harmony Between Men + Women

Connect with Leigh-Anne below - I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex and relationships, using a combination of therapy + breathwork with clients.

• Love, Evolved - my website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode!  Please rate, review and subscribe to support this work.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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Erin Telford joins us for this sweet episode that we're SO excited to share with you. 

This overall theme of opening to love (and therefore realizing that we have agency here) provides a new and improved approach to calling in aligned partnership, and I truly believe that many of the things we speak about will be a great support to those of you who yearn for deep, highly evolved, conscious relationships.  Which, by the way, are available to us all, and are our birthright.

Episode Overview:

- We speak about how breathwork is one of the key heart openers that we know of
- Erin shares about her personal journey with love relationships and how she learned to prepare and open to love
- We reflect on self love and self worth as the foundation for incredible relationships
- Getting into the energetics of how to open and be available
- If your partner showed up at your door, would you be ready?
- We touch on body image and healing our relationship with our physical form so we can show up in the bedroom ready for deep intimacy and connection
- Why being in our 40's is literally the best thing ever
- How dating apps aren’t required when you are energetically open - SUCH a good part in this day and age where people don't see an alternative

Erin is an incredible breathwork teacher, and as I describe her, "the healer of our time."  She also provides conscious business mentoring to individuals, having  built an incredible platform of her own for her work.

I highly recommend Erin's breathwork groups, which she leads regularly, as well as all of her courses (she has great ones for conscious entrepreneurs), AND of course any chance to work with her 1:1 is life changing.

Connect with Erin below:

• Erin's website
• Erin's Instagram

Connect with me (Leigh-Anne) below - I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex and relationships, using a combination of therapy + breathwork with clients, couples, and groups.

• Love, Evolved - my website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

And lastly, here's the link to David Elliott's Romantic Love breathwork meditation.  He also has a ton more on Spotify if you search his name.  SO good!

I hope you enjoy this episode - please rate, review and subscribe to support our work.

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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It was such a pleasure to have Michael on the podcast, and this is another one of those episodes that is good for both men + women to listen to.  We speak about what men need most in order to live lives full of vitality and good health, and why this is needed more than ever.

Episode Overview:

- Michael's personal story of suffering that led to him taking ownership of his life, leading to total transformation
- The importance of meditation on his healing journey
- His philosophy of Savage and Saint - the integrated man
- What masculine vitality looks like + how to get there
- Michael shares about his upcoming program for men about this topic!
- Why it's important (for men in particular) to be ungovernable
- The profound shift that martial arts has had in both of our lives
- What men need the most support with, and how women can best help
- What mothers can do to raise their boys into great men (especially as they enter the teen years)
- How men and women can work together to create a better reality

Michael is a Holistic Health Expert, Masculine Vitality Specialist, and founder of the internationally renowned Savage and Saint Consultancy.  He serves elite performers in the cultivation of vitality, depth of consciousness, and performance excellence.

His extensive background in meditation, martial arts, western psychology, core shamanism, holistic health, and exercise science combine to form a unique mind-body pedagogy that is trusted by top tier executives, founders, athletes, artists, and entertainers worldwide.

He resides in Venice, California, where he devotes his time outside of his private practice and consulting endeavors to wellness study, martial arts and fitness training, writing, and meditation.

Connect with Michael below:

• Masculine Vitality - Group Program for Men (starts 2/13/23)
• Savage and Saint - Michael's website
• Michael's Instagram

Connect with me (Leigh-Anne) below - I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex and relationships, using a combination of therapy + breathwork with clients, couples, and groups.

• Love, Evolved - Leigh-Anne's website
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share, like and subscribe to support my work!

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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In this episode, Max Trombly and I had a powerful conversation about how to reignite the spark in relationships after intimacy has waned.  This is a really useful episode for couples to listen to together, but is also helpful if you're currently single and want to set yourself up for success in your next relationship.

Keeping the intimacy alive is 100% possible - it's really about understanding how to create the dynamic with your partner, and Max and I give several tools for you to do so.  

We would love to hear which ideas we talk about today really land for you.  Let Max and I know if you have any questions about what we shared today, we are here to support you.

In this episode, we speak about:
- Communication techniques to keep the air clear so both partners can relax and open into deeper intimacy and connection in the bedroom
- The huge impact that working with a couples therapist or coach can have to support these sensitive, vulnerable conversations
- The importance of developing emotional competency in relationships and how this ties into having an incredible sex life
- Why semen retention for men gives you a HUGE advantage
- Why understanding your woman's monthly cycle is key for men
- How changing your perception of sex from just a physical exchange to something much more profound and sacred can change the whole game
- The impact that keeping intimacy and connection a priority while having kids can make on a happy, fulfilling relationship

Stay in touch with us if you enjoyed this conversation, we'll be launching our next group program for men + women in February 2023 that will cover all of these topics and much, much more.

Please reach out with any comments or questions by getting in touch with us below.

Connect with Max here:
https://www.instagram.com/maxtrombly/
https://www.ashiftinbeing.com/

Connect with me (Leigh-Anne) below - I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex and relationships, using a combination of therapy + breathwork with clients, couples, and groups.

https://www.instagram.com/love.evolv.ed/
https://www.love-evolved.us/

Sign up for my email list to receive my guide for women - Ten Reasons Why You're Not Attracting High Quality Men - and you'll be the first to hear about when Max + I launch our group program for men + women in February 2023:

https://view.flodesk.com/pages/638e4cc7e23bcf78aedfe9bc

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• The Wayshowers: Mentorship Program
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Substack Articles
• Free Guide: How to Choose a Partner Wisely

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share this with everyone who may need to listen.

I'd also LOVE if you could rate, review and subscribe to the podcast if you find it useful. Thanks so much, I appreciate you all.

In this episode, Max Trombly and I speak all about how to attract an incredible partner.  This is a really useful conversation for those of you who want to attract a high quality, conscious relationship.

We speak about:
- What we find attractive in potential partners, from both the male and female perspective
- What the most important thing is to get clear on before dating
- The inner work we suggest for those looking for high quality relationships
- Max answers the question we get a lot:  "Where are all the conscious men??"
- We end with our final words of wisdom to set yourself up for success

Stay in touch with us if you enjoyed this conversation, we'll be launching our next group program for men + women in February 2023 that will cover all of these topics and much, much more.

Please reach out with any comments or questions by getting in touch with us below.

Bonus!  Here's the episode I recorded with Max + Kelli about their incredible relationship.

Connect with Max here:
https://www.instagram.com/maxtrombly/
https://www.ashiftinbeing.com/

Connect with me (Leigh-Anne) below - I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex and relationships, using a combination of therapy + breathwork with clients, couples, and groups.

https://www.instagram.com/love.evolv.ed/
https://www.love-evolved.us/

Sign up for my email list to receive my most popular free guide, 'Ten Reasons Why You're Not Attracting High Quality Men' - and to find out when Max + I launch our next group program for men + women:

https://view.flodesk.com/pages/638e4cc7e23bcf78aedfe9bc

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• The Wayshowers: Mentorship Program
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Substack Articles
• Free Guide: How to Choose a Partner Wisely

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share this with everyone who may need to listen.

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In this episode, Jeddy Azuma (founder of The Rising Man Movement) and I speak about the power of men's work + personal responsibility.  Jeddy is a great speaker, and this was an incredible conversation with so many important themes.

Episode outline:
- Jeddy introduces himself + shares about the evolution of men's work
- We begin talking about raising our boys into great men
- The masculine + the feminine and working with complementary energies
- Moving from victim mentality to personal responsibility (true empowerment!)
- How the smallest steps forward can make the biggest impact
- Healing from abuse and trauma and rewriting our stories
- How men's work can improve the relationship between men + women
- The inner work happens in layers, one step at a time
- What IS men's work - what can men expect in a men's group or event?
- Areas most men have shame around, and why sharing it in circle is liberating
- Rising Man Movement's offerings and how to get involved

Article Recommendation:
Intro to the Victim Triangle - Lynne Forrest

Connect with Jeddy here:
Rising Man Movement Website
Rising Man Movement Instagram
Jeddy's Instagram

About Me:
My name is Leigh-Anne, and I'm a holistic psychologist specializing in love, sex, and relationships.  I'm particularly passionate about conscious relationships and spiritual partnership through divine union, which includes masculine/feminine polarity.  I'm an advocate of both women's work and men's work happening side by side to heal the relationship between men + women.

My one-on-one work with clients includes a powerful combination of breathwork + therapy to break through blocks and patterns and get right into the heart of the matter.  Connect with me below to learn more about the work that I do.

Website:
https://www.love-evolved.us/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/love.evolv.ed/

Connect with Leigh-Anne below:

• THE VISIONARIES: My Community
• The Wayshowers: Mentorship
• Leigh-Anne's Instagram
• Leigh-Anne's Website
• Leigh-Anne's Substack
• Book a Free 30 Min Call

I hope you enjoy this episode - please share it with anyone who might benefit!

And, please rate, review, and subscribe if you find this podcast useful. It really helps this free, supportive content get out to more people.

Thanks so much, I appreciate you all!

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