Rat Girls

Comedy Writer and Survivor Runner-up, Hannah Shapiro, joins us to chat about Love Island! She's using her experience on Survivor to share what it's like to be on reality TV and offer us some insights into what the islanders might be going through, both inside and outside the villa. We chat about mental health, mob mentality, how social media changed reality TV, personal growth, and of course, all our Love Island thoughts. 

We also nibble on Buffy, Ariana Maddix, The Traitors, Survivor 50, reactive dogs, LGBTQ+ rights, and more! 

Hanna Anderson, co-host of the Dating Detectives Podcast, joins us to chat about trusting your intuition and dating safety. She's teaching us: what intuition is and how to hear it through all the noise, listening to your body and pattern recognition, steps to take before a first date to date safely, self-defense techniques to get out of a bad dating situation, and more. 

We also nibble on Kyle Cooke, Zach Noe Towers, Are we dating the same guy?, Cadet Kelley, Wicked, pepper spray, Yellow Jackets, Love Island, Harry Potter, ICE, All The Young Dudes, etc. 

Ya'll, I am freaking out because one of my biggest inspirations is on the pod! Dr. Laurie Mintz is the author of Becoming Cliterate and basically wrote the handbook on how to help women org*sm! If you want to org*sm or want to help your partner with a vulv@ org*sm, this episode is for you. 

We discuss the pleasure gap and its prevalence, as well as how to close it. She touches on penetration, s*x in mainstream media, body confidence, the patriarchy, stress impacting desire, pain from s*x, s*xual communication, unlearning shame, the cl!t, and anything you might need to know to come. 

We also nibble on Mizzou, Columbia, Missouri, big bush summer, romantasy, reboots, vibes, and d!ldos. 

Morgan Lorraine Gallo, host of "My Body, My Jokes," joins us to talk about eating disorder recovery and how to seek help if you are struggling! She teaches us how to listen to our bodies, the first steps we can take, how to continue our recovery, celebrate our wins, why decentering from men is helpful, and why community is so important. 

We also nibble on Burlesque, female friendship, the toxic comedy scene, reply guys, astrology, home ownership, and more. 

Hannah Johnson, the Libido Fairy, joins us to teach us how to increase our libido! She walks us through how to go from faking orgasms and pretending to be asleep to enjoying mind-blowing sex with your partner and finding pleasure in yourself! 

We walk through how to regulate the nervous system, enjoy pleasure, identify our turn-offs, make room for our turn-ons, discuss our preferences with our partner, and identify our desire type! 

We also nibble on romantasy, high faes, TV show binge drops, Secret Lives of Mormon Lives, reply guys, and hate comments on social media. 

Jessica Stahl, the creator of Vanilla Cooldance, joins us to chat about how to speak up about what you want in the bedroom! 

Lindsey Straube, author of 'Kiss of the Basilisk,' is on the pod this week, and we are GIGGLING! We are chatting about the book (duh!), falling in love with monsters, discovering our deepest fantasies, how the girlies can get everything they want, finding power in your org@sms, love triangles, living for pleasure instead of productivity, etc. 

We also nibble on book communities, being Team LEO or CAPSEN, vampires, Twilight, wellness culture, AI, the male loneliness epidemic, and more. 

This week, we are joined by Colette Pervette, a dominatrix, who teaches us all about embracing our power in and out of the bedroom. We learn all about fem domme, kink, negotiating rules, discovering fantasies, and finding a sub to bring out your domme. We also discuss how to find power within yourself and be true to yourself outside of the bedroom. 

We nibble on feeld, fetlife, people pleasing, Bravo, The Valley, meditation, and more. 

In this episode, we discuss how much and what you should share on a first date! I am an oversharer, so it was a hard pill to swallow that maybe I shouldn't share my entire life story and every trauma with everyone I meet. We talk about things that are 'safe' to talk about and how to find out if they are a good match for you without scaring them away. 

We also nibble on The Wedding Singer,  Jersey Shore, When the Moon Hatched, Love on the Spectrum, dating in LA, alt-right pipelines, feminine energy, diet culture, and more! 

In this week's episode, we are covering Friends with Benefits! We chat about whether it is possible to make it work and, if it is, how we make it work!! We also talk about the most likely outcome from FWB. And I share my past experiences to make you feel better about your own lol.  

We also nibble on Lorazepam, flying, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Vet costs, etc.