Katie Rex is a dj, promoter, and producer.  She has founded one of New York’s most awesome techno/fetish parties, has a powerful story around her own sexuality and journey within recovery.  Kate is a wise, funny badass and our conversation covers everything from finding empowerment and healing in kink spaces, normalization and celebration of sex work and what being intentional with her energy looks like today.  Find her on the web at @katierex.digital and bound at @bound_nyc or boundnyc.bandcamp.com.  Thrillingly, this is also the first episode that Lily co-hosts while Rose is on maternity leave.  Please ignore bizarre audio noise in the first 3 minutes (it passes!)

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Lily Noelle Rogers is an adventurer. A dear friend and amazing human, Lily has worked in realms as diverse and exciting as live music event production, sober companion, photographer, food writer, world traveler, drone pilot, red cross worker and costumer.  Thrillingly, she is going to be subbing in for Rose as co-host while Rose goes on maternity leave.  This conversation is a deep and healing one about the possibility of recovery and healing from deep wounds into a space of liberated love, in addition to our own story of friendship and adventures in sobriety together.  

TRIGGER WARNING: we discuss sexual abuse and rape, if these are sensitive issues for you, please skip this episode.  

Described by Klub Verboten founder Karl as ‘gatekeeper and mindful soul who always puts the world right and keeps us tied to our core values’, we are thrilled to welcome to the show Drew Beckett, an integral part of one of London’s most celebrated kink/fetish parties !

Joanna is an accomplished agent in the dance music industry, in addition to being a personal trainer. 

Hailing from the UK, now based in Berlin, she is the founder of the ‘six zero experiment’, which focuses on connecting dance music professionals with a community of like-minded individuals for sixty days of abstinence from drugs and alcohol. This is a holistic, peer-supported approach that is tailored to help those working in an industry that is high risk for drug and alcohol use-disorders, and involves looking at both physical, mental, spiritual and emotional aspects of our relationship with substances to help us grow towards health and freedom

Ducky is a San Francisco bred and based producer and DJ who has been playing clubs since they were 13 (via fake ID vibes). For years they have been quietly shaping their sound - a range of melodic pop tunes and heavy rave bangers that stretch from uplifting to headbanging to full-on hardcore. After moving back to the West Coast from New York on a whim, Ducky quickly bubbled up in both the Los Angeles scene as well as online, boasting releases on Twitch star Ninja’s collaborative compilation with Astralwerks, Zeds Dead’s Deadbeats, and Jauz’s Bite This, to name a few. They easily move through musical roles, premiering an Adult Swim select on Fader one day, throwing a sold out warehouse show in LA the next. Ducky’s sound is able to transcend any one scene, with their music’s raw emotionality and top-tier production earning cosigns ranging from Skrillex to NPR Music.

https://www.instagram.com/quackhouse/

Princess Superstar, aka Concetta Krishner, is an American rapper and DJ, having worked with everyone from Moby, Arthur Baker and friend of show Larry T to The Prodigy and Grandmaster Flash.  Concetta has long term recovery and is an evolving creative force with her new radio show ‘The Magical Adventures of Princess Superstar’ and her booming patreon, which offers fans connection, content and inspiration.  We are thrilled to welcome her to Sober Sex to talk and chat through her epic integrity, recovery, motherhood and being a badass warrior

https://www.instagram.com/princesssuperstar/?hl=en

https://www.patreon.com/princesssuperstar

Lou Lebentz is the founder and podcast host of “Trauma Thrivers”, alongside running a hugely successful Facebook Group which helps educate people about complex PTSD and how to thrive through trauma, rather than simply survive.  Lou has been a psychotherapist, trauma specialist and EMDR clinician for many years and a new focus for her is empowering women in connecting with and owning the value in their voice.  This is a powerful and loving conversation about recovering from trauma within sobriety, and different methodologies of healing.  

Trigger Warning: sexual Trauma, childhood sexual trauma

La Fraîcheur has been making a name for herself as a producer, DJ and live act for over a decade.  Hailing form Paris, now based in Barcelona (via Berlin), La Fraîcheur has toured the world and is a resident at some of the techno scenes most legendary parties, notably those in queer and kink spaces.  She is an intersectional feminist activist and has just a released an awesome EP on Lobster Theramin.  We are thrilled to welcome her to Sober Sex.

Khalil Rafati is an entrepreneur, smoothie mogul and author of 'I Forgot to Die', a gritty memoir about his journey in addiction and into recovery, and 'Remembering to Live,' a self help book about how he got to where he is today.  On this episode we discuss healing from trauma, the importance of gallows humor, the perils of success and the joys of intimacy.

Selome Samuel is a true polymath, with talents raging from photography and music curation to being a financial coach. 

We talk about money as a spiritual tool, how to navigate finances with integrity in relationships and the challenges of asking for one’s worth.  This was a nourishing, funny and joyful conversation, and we are delighted to share it!