Skirts Up!

Your host Samantha is reunited with everyone's favorite sex expert, research nerd, and incoming Master of Social Work, Lauren Goyette!

If you’ve been feeling like you're completely crazy because your mood, your libido, and your business energy shift from week to week—congratulations, you're not crazy. You’re just a woman. Lauren drops by to break down why trying to operate on a man's 24-hour testosterone cycle is a one-way ticket to burnout city, and how tuning into our natural 28-day Intrinsic Rhythms changes everything.

Plus, Sam shares her personal theory on how unhealthy attachment styles might make our bodies more susceptible to Functional Neurologic Disorders (FND)—and how we can start picking apart the data to heal.

• The "Swap-Swap" & Timer Method: How to negotiate desires in the bedroom when you want hot wax and your partner thinks it's boring (including a game-changing tip for neurodivergent folks who struggle to just sit still and receive).
• The 4 Seasons of Your Cycle: How to plan your life, your sex life, and your business launches around your biochemistry:
• Winter (Menstrual Phase): The ultimate rest, reset, and protective boundaries phase. No performing allowed.
• Spring (Follicular Phase): Spontaneity, flirting, ideation, and planting the creative seeds for your business.
• Summer (Ovulatory Phase): You are literally magnetic. The ultimate time for erotic expression, recording podcasts, and hitting "launch" on your projects.
• Fall (Luteal Phase): The land of Luteal Rage, self-doubt, and anxiety—but also the ultimate phase for discernment, refinement, and setting fierce boundaries.
• No Flow? No Problem! Lauren breaks down exactly how "non-bleeders" (whether you have an IUD or you're in a wiser phase of life) can biologically and mentally sync up with the four main phases of the moon.
• The Box of Chocolates: Why your partner needs to learn the vocabulary of your weekly "box" shifts—because one week you’re vanilla-filled, and the next week you’re fudge!

Turn the volume up, drop the shame, and let’s get into the meat and potatoes of your pleasure manual!

• Build Your Pleasure Manual: Join Lauren’s 12-month journey, The Pleasure Collective, or grab her online module course Intrinsic Rhythms with Lauren Goyette (or drop her an email with your wildest sex questions!).
• Upgrade Your Subconscious: Head over to Sweet Soul Wellness to claim your free personalized audio recording and test-drive your mental makeover before you commit!

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Sweet Soul Wellness- Gift to the SQUAD

What’s up, Skirts Up squad?! Welcome back to Season 5, Episode 2!

(With Video on YouTube!)

Grab your iced coffee (or your black coffee brewed straight from the Keurig next to your bed—shoutout to today's guest!) because today, your host Samantha is feeling a little starstruck.

Joining us on the mic is the ultimate Queen of Reinvention herself: Renee Carbone Fleming! Renee is a powerhouse entrepreneur of 13 years, host of the Unapologetically Badass podcast, and founder of the Badass Queen Personal Branding and Media Agency. She’s dropping by fresh off a major "pinch-me" milestone—winning Top Empowerment Coach of the Year and seeing her face plastered on a massive billboard in the middle of NASDAQ Times Square!

But because this is Skirts Up, we don't just talk about the shiny Instagram moments. We lift the skirt on the actual shit it takes to get there. Renee opens up about growing up with very little, surviving her biological father's suicide, living on a pull-out couch, and navigating a devastating bankruptcy and divorce that forced her to find her own identity.

• The Future Life Script: The exact morning manifestation routine Renee uses to wire her brain for abundance (and why your brain actually loves the sound of your own voice).
• Do You Have a PhD?: Why you don't need a college degree to build an empire—you just need a "PhD" in Passion, Heart, and Desire.
• The "WATCH ME" Manifesto: Renee breaks down the game-changing acronym she stuck on post-it notes all over her house when the doubters told her she couldn't make it alone:
• Withdraw from explanation
• Act before approval
• Take up space publicly
• Commit without consensus
• Hold the vision when no one else does
• The CASE Method: How to break out of analysis paralysis and "freeze mode" when building your business using Clarity, Action, Strategy, and Evaluation.
• Building the $100k "Fuck-It Fund": Why every single woman needs financial independence and a soul-aligned passion that is 100% hers.

If you've been sitting in your car or at your desk feeling stuck, frozen, or like you're "three feet from gold," this episode is the lightning bolt you've been waiting for.

Tune in, step into your authority, and get ready to say... WATCH ME!

• Unleash Your Inner Queen: Connect with Renee, explore her coaching programs, and grab her book Watch Me at Badass Queen Agency.
• Listen to Renee's Show: Tune in to the Unapologetically Badass Podcast on Apple & Spotify.
• Recommended Reading: Three Feet from Gold by the Napoleon Hill Foundation.
• Subscribe on to Skirts Up YouTube channel for the VIDEO version.
• Connect with Sam: Ready to build your own inner foundation? Head over to Sweet Soul Wellness to learn how to upgrade into your most peaceful, confident self or claim your FREE GIFT to the squad!

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Sweet Soul Wellness- Gift to the SQUAD

What’s up, Skirts Up squad?! Welcome back to Season 5!

(There's Video on YouTube!)

Yeah, things sound a little different around here. It is officially your girl Samantha riding solo this season! While the studio chairs might look a bit different, let’s get one thing straight: the energy, the unfiltered truth, and the absolute messiness of real life? That is staying exactly the same. Because "we" means me and you.

To say the hiatus between seasons was "a break" would be the biggest lie of the century. Your girl has been strapped into an absolute emotional rollercoaster, and today, we are lifting the skirt on every single bit of it.

• The Phone Call Every Wife Dreads: I break down the terrifying day my husband, Simon, was T-boned by a Jeep going 65 mph, the adrenaline survival mode that followed, and the unexpected panic attacks I’ve been working through since.
• Nora’s Diagnostic Journey: From meltdowns over sweaty backs in warm cars to lining up toys in a very specific order (and licking them... yeah, we talk about it!), I share the raw, honest process of navigating our four-year-old’s official Level 2 Autism and ADHD diagnosis.
• Getting Explicitly Ghosted & Kicked Out: I get real about the "mean girls" behavior I faced in clinical networking groups when sharing how Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT) helped heal my own non-epileptic seizures from Functional Neurologic Disorder (FND).
• The Shift to "Inner Foundation Coaching": Why shutting doors forced me to realize I’m not here to help everyday women just "cope" with burnout. I’m here for the women who would literally laugh out loud if you asked them when they last felt pure joy. We’re upgrading.
• A Juicy Teaser for Next Week: How a conversation with next week's absolute powerhouse guest—a literal empire-builder—gave me the three exact phrases that pulled me out of my dark night of the soul and solidified my new path.

If you are running a business, managing a household, or carrying the weight of the world while feeling like every single door is slamming in your face—this episode is your reminder that you do not have to do it perfectly. It's okay to feel lost. It's okay to want to quit. But you owe it to yourself to love who you see in the mirror.

Grab your iced coffee, tune in, and remember... Skirts up, but keep your panties on!

• Watch the Transformation: Head over to the Sweet Soul Wellness Homepage to watch the video of my beautiful client’s life-changing results with RTT.

• Claim your FREE Gift from Sweet Soul Wellness.

• Rate & Review: If this raw episode hit your heart, please leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. It helps other overwhelmed moms find our sisterhood!

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Sweet Soul Wellness- Gift to the SQUAD

This is the last flashback episode before Season 5 begins. Its only seemed appropriate to share the one where my mind expanded and introduced me to RTT.

Who would of thought that after this episode I would have enrolled in the program 4 months later. Not only that, but open my very own practice!

Ashley Melillo and her mission to find the truths to life led me to my own mission. What was most inspiring was how she wasn't afraid to follow her intuition and desires not once, not twice, but three times professionally!

Season five is only TWO weeks away!!

For now take a listen to this blast from the past with Lindsay Little as she drops all the helpful changes you can do right now for your gut to help with weight loss and discomfort especially pre-menopausal.

Domestic abuse and domestic violence it not a one size fits all and no one is immune to falling into this situation. It does not have to be physically harmful to be just as devastating to your mental health and wellbeing.

I'm eternally grateful that the DeKalb County District Attorney allowed one of their own to speak with us on Skirts Up about the warning signs, safety precautions, and tips on supporting a friend. I dare say, the most impactful part of this whole episode is when the investigator shares her own run with domestic violence despite her profession. Sharing that story literally saved a life in the most unexpected way and that is exactly why we continue to do what we do.

Every story matters.

As the weather gets warmer and all the plants continue to grow, I feel drawn to reshare this beauty.

When we had this conversation almost 2 years ago;

1. It was the first time I was asked to not plan the episode and let flow whatever flow.
2. It was the first time I was introduced to what it means to connect with nature.
3. . It was the first time that it clicked how important it is to be mindful of the energy we allow into our space.

I never would have thought that connect to tree could create so much feeling of love.

Be sure to follow us on social media to peep at the tree I love most.

How in the world is this episode and experience a year old!?

Flashback to this fan favorite, ranking #2 out of 90 episodes.

What a joy it was to be welcomed to GGA Dwarf Goat Yoga by Sabrina and GG for a live tour and recording. Not only do we have in-depth conversation about the way animals heal us, you can hear them agreeing in the background. It makes you feel like you are right there with us.

Goat yoga, cow cuddling, nature solace, whatever you need in your healing journey or selfcare needs you can find it by spending a day or evening on the farm at GGA Dwarf Goat Yoga.

There is not a single episode of Skirts Up that makes me laugh harder than this one!

Samantha's long time best friend, Courtney, takes the mic and together they share wild stories of the past that have them wondering how the hell they survived to be 30.

From midnight ambulance rides for *possibly* the wrong person to catching a hotel room on fire, this one hits home on all the feels.

In this day and age the majority of us can say that we have taken a DNA test of some sort. 23 & me and Ancestry being two of the most common. Imagine doing a DNA test for fun just to see learn more about your heritage and instead learn that you have not one, but TWO siblings you never knew existed.

This blast from the past is from season one where hosts Samantha and Melissa discuss their own personal findings with one of them resulting in family secrets being unraveled.

Do you have a story like this? Lets here it!