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A late-night knock and voices at Janine’s door send her dog barking — and leave her wondering whether anyone will believe what she heard. In this episode of the Nutty and Slutty podcast, Janine and Isadora explore how stigma can lead women to question their own experiences, even when their personal safety is at risk.

Janine opens up about living publicly with bipolar disorder and the fear that others will dismiss her as dramatic, unstable, or unreliable. She recalls being mugged at gunpoint, enduring two court hearings, and receiving victim-blaming responses that taught her to stay silent rather than risk not being believed.

Isadora connects Janine’s experience to her former life as an escort, when sex workers warned one another about dangerous clients because reporting rape or violence could lead to judgment, disbelief, or arrest. Together, they examine the damaging stereotypes surrounding mental illness and sex work — and what happens when marginalized women are treated as unreliable narrators of their own lives.

It’s a candid conversation about bipolar stigma, sex-worker safety, victim blaming, trauma, credibility, and learning to advocate for yourself.  Sometimes asking for a better lock, a security light, or someone’s help is more than a practical act — it’s a way of reclaiming the belief that your voice, your body, and your safety matter.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

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Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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What happens when a straight female escort steps outside the familiar world of male clients?  Isadora looks back on her first LGBTQ+ encounters in sex work — from an unexpected threesome to an appointment with a married businesswoman hoping to discover whether another woman could give her the pleasure she was missing at home.

As Isadora’s stories unfold, she admits just how unprepared she was.  How do you seduce a woman when everything you know has been learned from seducing men?  Her solution was to remain curious, stay present, and approach the experience by imagining what she herself might want — even when the reality proved more complicated than the fantasy.

That leads Janine to examine her own sexuality: her lifelong attraction to men, her fascination with androgyny, and her lingering curiosity about being with a woman.  Would dating provide an answer — or would a female escort offer a safer, simpler way to explore the question without pretending to want a relationship?

Along the way, we talk about sexual fluidity, the differences between stripping and escorting, and the practical realities of safer sex. Isadora also explains how escorting gave her something she hadn’t always had in her personal life: the authority to insist on protection, to say no without apology, and to make her own boundaries nonnegotiable.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

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Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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What happens to friendship when people discover a secret part of your life?  In this candid episode of the Nutty and Slutty Podcast, Isadora and Janine talk about losing friends because of stigma — Isadora as a former escort and Janine as a woman living with bipolar disorder.  Their experiences may be different, but the hurt is painfully similar: once a label enters the room, some people stop seeing the person standing in front of them.

Isadora recalls revealing her sex-work history to a potential new friend, only to be ghosted after what seemed like a warm, honest conversation.  She discusses the judgment surrounding escorting, the isolation of keeping her past secret, and the challenge of promoting books based on her own life.

Janine shares how bipolar disorder, hospitalization, mania, and psychosis affected some of her oldest friendships.  Friends once showed extraordinary compassion, even staying close during frightening psychotic episodes.  Over time, misunderstandings and miscommunications damaged those relationships, leaving Janine to wonder: Am I a credible friend, colleague, or teacher?

Together, Isadora and Janine explore friendship, disclosure, bipolar disorder, sex-work stigma, mental-health awareness, social isolation, and the fear of revealing your authentic self.  They also consider how memoir, creative writing, and honest conversation can turn private shame into connection. 

If you have ever hidden part of yourself to avoid judgment — or lost someone because they could not see beyond a label — this conversation is for you.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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A young woman works hard, stays loyal, and endures a five-hour daily commute — only to be humiliated when she asks her boss for a modest promotion.  Her experience leaves Isadora furious and raises a painful question: Have workplace dynamics really changed as much as we think?

In this episode of the Nutty & Slutty podcast, Isadora and Janine look back at the indignities they faced as young women in restaurants, theaters, and other workplaces without human resources or meaningful protections.  From unwanted touching and casual condescension to bosses who used their authority to make women feel small, behavior that once seemed “normal” left wounds that lasted for decades.

The conversation becomes deeply personal as Isadora recalls confronting a man who crudely harassed her friend on a New York street — and being physically threatened while other women rallied to protect her.  The memory reveals how humiliation, fear, anger, and powerlessness accumulate, waiting to resurface when someone we love is treated the same way.

But have all terms of endearment and traditional gestures become suspect?  Janine’s delight at being called “sweetie” on an airplane leads to a lighter discussion about the difference between condescension and kindness.  In this episode, they consider power, chivalry, changing expectations, and why respect depends less on the words themselves than on who says them — and how.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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A new dog has entered the house — and she’s snarky, mischievous, surprisingly strong and determined to hump anything in her path.  In “When Your Rescue Dog Rescues You,”  Janine tells Isadora about grieving the loss of her longtime companion and deciding she couldn’t wait any longer to bring another rescue dog into her life.

What follows is a crash course in new motherhood: sleeping in a makeshift dog bed, surviving a post-spay recovery cone and trying to stay one step ahead of a pint-sized menace who chews metal, bends forks and shreds steel wool.  Meanwhile, Isadora introduces us to her own compact, muscle-bound dog, whose tough exterior hides the lasting trauma of a near-fatal attack.

The conversation moves from the chaos of canine behavior to the deeper bond between people and the animals they rescue. Janine recognizes something of herself in dogs who have been wounded, rejected, or deemed “too much” — and makes the choice to love her new girl through whatever comes.  Sometimes the animals we save are the ones who understand us best.

This episode explores grief, trauma, trust, and the healing presence of dogs.  Surprisingly spiritual, Janine and Isadora wonder if some of us are here to serve as guardians of animals and how every dog may carry a little bit of God inside them.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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Janine’s trip to Kauai should have been paradise.  Instead, she woke up dizzy, disoriented, unable to walk straight, and struggling to form sentences.  She fell repeatedly, wandered dangerously close to a cliff, and spent the week wondering whether stress, illness, or something even more serious was taking over her body.

Back home, she learned that changes in estrogen and hormone replacement therapy may have affected her Lamictal level, contributing to severe brain fog, balance problems, and confusion.  Meanwhile, Isadora was still searching for answers after her own frightening health crisis, an unexpected UTI, emergency-room visits, and the lingering fear that her symptoms could return without warning.

Together, Janine and Isadora talk about women’s health, medication interactions, HRT, medical gaslighting, emergency-room anxiety, and what happens when no one seems to be in charge of your healthcare.  They also revisit Isadora’s year-long struggle to find a doctor who finally took her pain seriously — and the stylish surgeon who told her, “I know how to sew, girl.”

This episode is about lost time, unanswered questions, and the exhausting work of advocating for yourself when the healthcare system fails to connect the dots.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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What happens when you're told you might have had a stroke — or even a heart attack — and a doctor is out of reach?  In this episode of the Nutty & Slutty podcast, Isadora and Janine reveal two frightening health scares that occurred nearly simultaneously.  What begins as a conversation about mysterious symptoms quickly becomes a much bigger story about navigating the American healthcare system, which often leaves patients scared, confused, and completely on their own.

Isadora recounts a terrifying series of ER visits, alarming medical reports filled with indecipherable jargon, and the panic of trying to determine whether she was facing a stroke, a heart attack, or something else entirely.  A compassionate physician ultimately provides the five-minute explanation that no one else would — raising an important question: Why is getting clear medical information sometimes harder than getting the tests themselves?

Janine shares her own decades-long battle with chronic illness, insurance companies, expensive medications, and the exhausting reality of becoming your own healthcare advocate.  Together, they discuss crushing medical costs, delayed care, denied treatments, and the emotional toll of constantly fighting a system that seems designed to wear patients down instead of helping them heal.

If you've struggled with emergency room visits, confusing diagnoses, health insurance, or simply getting someone to listen — all while worried you might die — you are not alone.  Don’t be afraid to be persistent.  You are the best and sometimes only advocate for yourself.  Be that squeaky wheel!

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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Have you ever seen 11:11 on the clock and wondered if the universe was trying to tell you something?  In this episode, Janine and Isadora dive into the mysterious world of psychics, tarot readings, angel numbers, intuition, and spiritual signs — with stories that range from hilarious to downright unsettling.

Janine recounts an unforgettable encounter with a fake psychic in New York that ended with a cracked egg, a terrifying scam, and a very expensive lesson.  She also shares why, despite it all, she still believes some psychics possess extraordinary insight.

Isadora reveals the psychic prediction that haunted her acting career for years.  Together, they explore how a few carefully chosen words can shape our confidence, influence our decisions, and sometimes become self-fulfilling prophecies.

Whether you're a skeptic, a believer, or just here for the stories, get ready to think about fate, faith, free will, and what silly and significant signs life may throw your way.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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This week, Isadora shares one of the strangest and most unforgettable trips of her life.  What starts as a relaxing spa vacation in Mexico quickly turns into a naked mud ritual, a Mayan sweat lodge, giant bats, and a spiritual experience she still can't explain.

Along the way, she finds herself covered in mud, swept into the Pacific Ocean, and wondering if she accidentally checked into the wrong resort.  What follows is equal parts hilarious, terrifying, and surprisingly moving.

Janine and Isadora also explore what happens when we feel disconnected from our bodies and connected to something larger than ourselves.  They talk about spirituality, grief, near-out-of-body experiences, and the moments that make us question what exists beyond everyday life.

It's a funny, heartfelt conversation about mystery, healing, and the experiences that stay with us long after they're over.  Plus: bats, moths, Mexico, and one very unexpected spa treatment.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

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Is this a medical emergency?  Janine and Isadora talk about migraines, panic attacks, emergency room anxiety, and the complicated relationship many women have with the healthcare system.  Will their painful symptoms be judged or even believed?

But the conversation takes an unexpected turn toward something many of us are missing: simple human kindness.  From a doctor's diagnosis by massage to feeling the healing comfort of a hand on a shoulder, Janine and Isadora explore how profoundly we need tenderness, connection, and care — and how rarely we receive it without strings attached.

This episode is deeply relatable for anyone who's ever stayed awake wondering, "Am I okay?" or wished someone would simply tell them, "I've got you."

Take a deep breath, settle in, and join us for a warm, honest conversation about fear, resilience, and the comfort we all need a little more of.

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Welcome to NUTTY & SLUTTY
Where Mental Health, Sexuality and Unfiltered Truth Take Center Stage

NUTTY & SLUTTY is a bold, sex-positive podcast exploring the messy, complicated and often hilarious intersections of mental health, sexuality and real life — without shame, filters or pretense.

Hosted by Janine Noel (living with bipolar disorder) and Isadora O’Boto (ex-escort), this show brings together two radically honest perspectives for conversations that are as raw as they are insightful.  From navigating mood swings and medication to unpacking the realities of sex work and desire, nothing is off-limits.

_________________________________________________

Isadora O’Boto (co-host) is a Juilliard Drama grad.  Under the pen name Sephe Haven, she is the author of two award-winning memoirs: My Whorizontal Life and A Someday Courtesan, and playwright/performer of the solo show: “My Whorizontal Life: The Show!”  Isadora co-hosted the podcast My Index to Sex with Lynn Ferguson.  Find her at: isadoraoboto.com

Janine Noel (co-host) is creator and host of Bipolar She podcast, where guests sh...