Jennifer Jade Merrihue joins me to talk about how our personal money story is also a story of self trust, worthiness, agency, and power.

She shares her story of growing up wanting to save the world, and then working seven days a week for $800 a month in the non-profit sector, chronically over-giving in work and relationships until her body burned out.

Jennifer Jade also talks about dating money, the tools she used to shift what she describes as abusive relationship dynamics with it, and the big financial risk she took. We cover women’s particular trajectory with money under the patriarchy, from a relatively recent history of being treated like property to our modern goals for financial freedom.

I acknowledge that privilege and systemic injustices play a significant role in people’s experiences with money, which is not the focus of this episode, but an important part of the wider conversation.

Jennifer Jade is a Sex, Relationship, and Money coach with a background in neuropsych, cognitive behavior therapy, trauma, attachment, kink, and more. She’s committed to helping people leave the lives they hate and create one that they can’t wait to wake up for with ease. You can find Jennifer Jade on her website www.merrihue.com for her writing and 1:1 coaching. You can also find her in her Facebook group “MONEY MAGIC” for her upcoming podcast, updates, programs, and a free mini series on all things money: facebook.com/groups/575511109762416/

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit carolanne.com.au/work-with-me and find me on Instagram instagram.com/carolannealive.

My sister witches Addy Cobcroft, Belinda Wiley, and Sara Deanne join me to talk about body image, and feeling critical of our bodies to feeling truly at home in them. We share our stories of bullying and taunts, receiving comments from men, crying while bra shopping, covering up and stripping down.

The four of us are white, able-bodied women of varied ages and we speak from our lived experience. There are so many layers to the conversation on body image, and we acknowledge that there are more layers for people with different identities, including different races, disabilities, genders, body sizes, and more.

Addy Cobcroft is a somatic Relationship therapist. She is passionate about supporting humans to move beyond survival into extraordinary thriving lives. Find her on her website at www.adrienecobcroft.com.

Sara Deanne is a Love, Sex, and Relationship coach based in Victoria, Canada that is especially passionate about women feeling radiantly sexy and alive inside the pleasure of their own bodies, and about supporting couples to experience the heights of love and connection that is possible in their relationship. Find her on Instagram at instagram.com/lovesaradeanne or email her directly [email protected].

Belinda Wiley is a Sex and Relationship Coach. She is passionate about supporting women who are feeling dull and deprived in their relationships, coaching them into feeling radiant and sexually alive. Find her on Facebook at facebook.com/BelindaWileyCoaching and in her Facebook group ‘Dull + Deprived to Radiant + Thriving’.

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit carolanne.com.au/work-with-me and find me on Instagram at instagram.com/carolannealive.

My partner Shanti and I talk about:

You’ll hear the new intro he created for me and my “deep talks”, playfulness between us, and lots of surfing analogies!

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit carolanne.com.au/work-with-me. Hear more from me on Instagram instagram.com/carolannealive.

Feel like there’s so much work you have to do to improve yourself? Have a list of a thousand things that need fixing?

This episode is a guided practice, intended for those times when you feel like the way you are right now is wrong and not good enough, and you’re frustrated at not being “there” yet.

You can do it sitting, lying down, walking, even while self pleasuring if you feel like it!

It’s soft and full of permission.

You’ll hear the waves of Shelly Beach in the background, which I recorded on a cool sunny day on the mid-north coast of New South Wales, Australia on a mini-holiday with my partner. You might also hear my backyard bird friends from the audio portion I recorded at home!

May this practice be like a sigh of relief and a comfort to your whole system. If it helps you, please share it!

This is part of what I do with clients. To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit carolanne.com.au/work-with-me. Hear more from me on Instagram instagram.com/carolannealive.

This episode, I’m joined by Ofa Fitzgibbons for a conversation on aliveness, and the gifts of experiencing both pleasure and grief in your body.

You’ll hear why Ofa calls herself a coach for misfit women, and her life experience in rebelling against the norms of her childhood after growing up in a traditional Christian household.

We have a rich conversation on pleasure, including making pleasure simple and accessible, and our personal journeys towards owning our sexual nature when pleasure wasn’t on the radar. As a new mum, Ofa shares her favourite pleasure hacks of life-affirming, juicy actions for everyday life.

Ofa shares her experiences with grief, including the impact of coronavirus on our lives, fertility challenges, changes in her identity since becoming a mum, and the sudden loss of her own mum earlier this year. She covers how community support was valuable during the thick of grief and how pleasure was harder to access during this time.

This is a life-affirming conversation, exploring saying yes to life through all of its cycles and seasons.

Ofa Fitzgibbons is a pleasure and social justice activist, mentor and coach for misfit women. She believes that we are all beings of love and that pleasure is our untapped resource. Her mission is to help guide women back to their bodies, their pleasure and their sensuality so they can reclaim their aliveness and space in the world. She’s a self-confessed geek who loves science and spirituality, she’s a foodie, wifey, mama to a little human and puppies, and absolutely loves to dance!

You can find Ofa on Instagram at www.instagram.com/ofafitzgibbons.

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit www.carolanne.com.au/work-with-me.

This episode, I’m joined by Period Coach Claire Baker for a conversation on menstrual cycles. We talk about the power of working intentionally with your cycle, what characterises each of the four seasons within it, and what pleasure can look like in each phase.

The conversation covers:

. surges of creativity

. the magic in Claire’s new book '50 Things You Need to Know About Periods'

. the superpowers and vulnerabilities of each part of the cycle

. tips for managing a challenging premenstrual phase

. experiencing pleasure in a multitude of ways

. relief in understanding that being different from day to day isn’t inconsistency or a failure, it’s the nature of having a cycle!

At the time of recording, we were both in our autumn premenstrual phases, and we spend a bit of extra time on this season, with its notorious challenges but also its truth-telling honesty and its gifts!

Not all women have menstrual cycles, and not all people who experience menstrual cycles are women. Whether you cycle yourself, or love someone who does, I hope you gain some benefit from this conversation in an embodied understanding of this natural phenomenon of personal weather that is the menstrual cycle.

Claire Baker is a sought-after period coach and author of '50 Things You Need to Know About Periods'. For nearly a decade Claire has taught thousands of women how to live in harmony with their menstrual cycle, rather than working against it. Claire believes menstrual cycle awareness is the missing key in women’s wellbeing, empowerment and creativity, and her immersive online courses and workshops inspire women to know their flow and become the authority in their own lives. Claire’s online program Adore Your Cycle has students in over 35 countries.

With a background in visual arts and creative business, Claire is a certified health and life coach, has studied Menstruality Leadership and is trained as a natural fertility teacher. Known for her authentic voice and ability to ‘make periods fun’, Claire is regularly featured in publications such as Red, Glamour, and Women’s Health magazine. Originally from Australia, Claire now lives in sunny East London and spends her days coaching, teaching, writing, dancing and being as close to trees as she possibly can.

You can find Claire at clairebaker.com, on Instagram at instagram.com/_clairebaker_, and on Facebook at facebook.com/thisislifeblood.

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit carolanne.com.au/work-with-me.

This episode is all about pussies for people who have them! Who the bloody hell is Pussy and why should I care? Why do you use *that* word?

I asked my fabulous friend, Sex and Relationship Coach Belinda Wiley, to join me for this one because of the way she embodies her own pleasure and her connection to her own pussy. We talk about pussy both in terms of relationship to the physical genitals, as well as the emotional, energetic, and spiritual experience of pussy.

We cover:

. Feeling repulsed by “that* word and uncomfortable saying it

. What happens in your life when you connect to pussy

. Relating to “down there” as being clinical and functional, and not being aware of our own anatomy

. Shame and secretiveness associated with self pleasure

. How our personal relationships to our own pussies have changed over time

. Feeling unhappy with the way your vulva looks

. Pussy as a source of wisdom, pleasure, nourishment, and aliveness

. A few simple ways to reconnect to this part of you

Belinda and I are both speaking from our experiences as cis-gendered, heterosexual, able-bodied, white women. Pussy might mean something completely different to you than it does to us, or this conversation might resonate and reawaken something inside you.

Belinda Wiley is a Sex and Relationship Coach. She is passionate about supporting women who are feeling dull and deprived in their relationships, coaching them into feeling radiant and sexually alive.

You can find Belinda on Facebook at www.facebook.com/BelindaWileyCoaching and join her Facebook group ‘Dull + Deprived to Radiant + Thriving’. You can also find her on her website  https://www.belindawiley.com/.

To book a free Clarity Call with me, visit https://www.carolanne.com.au/work-with-me.

This episode I’m talking about NATURE & SEX with Zahara Devi, who is a Somatic Sex Educator and Sensual Embodiment Coach.

We discuss the ways that sex and nature coincide together, ecosexuality, and how you can access states of sexual energy, sensuality, pleasure, liberation, and deeper connection to the world within and around you.

We talk about remembering that we *are* nature, and that erotic life force is part of our nature. We also describe how connecting to nature can be nourishing, revitalising, and a turn on!

Also, you will never look at moss the same way again.

Zahara Devi is a somatic sex educator and facilitates a wide range of sensual embodiment. One of her deepest passions is to help create spaces where you can release sexual shame into sexual sovereignty and into deeper alignment with your true nature.

Zahara Devi provides one on one coaching packages with a modern day approach of Tantric and Taoist philosophy, creating a unique blend to integrating the body into wholeness.

To connect with Zahara and her offerings, you can go to her website and check out more details at www.zaharaxdevi.com. And make sure to follow her on Instagram www.instagram.com/zaharaxdevi/ for updates and practices.

This is my first “Pussy Pulpit” episode, speaking straight from my heart, womb, and pussy to you.

Five years ago I was stuck by default in a life that felt dull and lifeless. I felt tamed! Imprisoned by a white-goods marriage, and stuck in a web of unworthiness. I remember aching for a higher libido (any libido), and I’d read endless articles about orgasms, spicing things up in the bedroom, and creating desire.

Now, I’ve set that life on fire...now I feel alive, and I know a few things about vanquishing the libido vampires!

In this episode we’re going to dive from the pulpit into desire and pleasure (my new favourite subjects) and I’m going to lean on my experience to help you create your own map to a turned on life.

Pleasure and living a turned on life are your birthright, and are a natural part of our design as human beings. Libido vampires are like the party guests we never invited. Let me share how to spot them and some of my personal experiences from when my desire has been lower. In particular, if you sense your experiences around sex have been influenced by religious or cultural conditioning, you will find this helpful. Here’s to your erotic life force and your sexual healing!

The book I mention is Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, which I highly recommend if you have a pussy or have been socialised as a girl and a woman.

Discover Vagina Bat and connect with me on Instagram here:

www.instagram.com/carolannealive

I work one on one with my clients to support them in reclaiming their sexuality and the pleasure which is their birthright. I offer a one hour Clarity Call to talk about what’s going on for you and if we are a fit to work together.

For more on what happens during a Clarity Call and to book one, visit my website:

https://www.carolanne.com.au/work-with-me