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In this episode, host Anjua Maximo sits down with sexuality coach Lisa Welsh and talks about normalizing and demystifying masturbation and sex toys.

Lisa is a Sexual Empowerment and Pleasure Coach who helps people to overcome sexual shame and insecurities so that they can step into their true orgasmic nature.

Learn more about Lisa by visiting her website www.itslisawelsh.com
Explore The Pleasure Chest Course -  https://www.itslisawelsh.com/tpc
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In this episode, host Anjua Maximo sits down with Imani Vanzap. Imani is a speaker, writer, entrepreneur, and social media's number one Auntie! She created BECOME! to inspire and help people fix their shit.  If you know her, you know she always has her signature fan with her that she snaps open effortlessly whenever she is celebrating another person's achievements or just for sheer fierce energetic emphasis. While Imani's platform originally started as a parody of Iyanla Vanzant, she quickly realized she was truly helping others with their hardships. She feels the platform has allowed her to share her life experiences and in doing so has created a community of people who want to lift each other up and BECOME! She feels coaches that 'have it all together';  "flowers that have been plucked from the garden".

When asked about the divine feminine and divine masculine energies, Imani feels it takes someone very comfortable with themselves to be able to access either. Imani is actually capable of embodying multiple persona's. For instance, another primary persona is Erik Dillard, whom she refers to as nephew. When Erik is being embodied the energy he is in is his masculine energy. Early on though, Imani speaks to a time when there was a struggle where they didn't know which way to go. Erik was the creator and executor of the content but there was a part of him that wanted very much to lean into the more what some may call more traditionally feminine clothing.  After deciding to embrace the feminine fully, Imani was born and the response has been incredible. Especially from women who make up a majority of her following.

Imani thinks of herself as a champion of not just women, but of  Black women in particular.  She believes Black feminine energy has never been fully embraced or celebrated and she is determined to kick that door open. She believes the Black feminine energy has held America together. Her kicking the door in is inspired by her experience of having felt like the different one in the room. When it comes to resilience she feels that it does come down to a choice. Imani feels like lights are sent to light someone's way and that is her purpose. From her gathering the misfits and underdogs in middle school to create their own table to her making thousands of people feel seen and heard today, Imani has been a light.
Prepare to fall in love with the one and only Imani.

To learn more and to connect Imani Vanzapp you can:
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In this episode, host Anjua Maximo sits down with Tasha Brandt - an Embody Coach, creator of Queer Movement, and current Grad student working towards a Masters in Social Work to gain her license for Holistic Psychotherapy. (Embody is her sensual embodiment movement class for women and Queer Movement is her sensual embodiment class for Queer identifying people.)

From her early relationship to her body as an athlete and dancer, Tasha speaks about viewing her body as a commodity, a performative tool that was something that would advance her to her next goal. Growing up she recalls her family only speaking about sensuality and sex when something was wrong or trauma was experienced. Feelings were not always considered.
As a survivor, she learned to use sex as a way of feeling in control. That pleasure wasn't something she learned about until her 20s.

We discuss Tasha's personal experience with polyamory (meaning many loves) and what it is and isn't. Tasha lays out the boundaries and clarifies the often misconstrued ideas around polyamory. We discuss how we've been conditioned to only view monogamy as the only way to be in a relationship with others. Through her experience with polyamory, she feels she learned more about deep trust and mutual respect than she had in previous monogamous relationships.  How do you know you may be ready for a polyamorous relationship and how do you even speak about it with your partner? She goes on to say that contrary to what one may believe, depletion and scarcity in your current relationship aren't the healthy catalysts to begin exploring polyamory. Clear communication with your partner and knowing yourself are key to exploring polyamory from a place of expansion rather than to fill a void.

You can follow Tasha on IG @Tasha_Brandt_ for more information on her Embody and Queer Movement classes

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In this episode, host Anjua Maximo speaks with family physician, sexologist, and former co-host on The Doctor’s,  Dr. Rachael Ross. Dr. Rachael and I speak about the importance of opening up the dialogue around societies sometimes one-sided perceptions of important topics like consent, discussing bodies with children and the Me Too Movement ad sex workers to name just a few.

From her early beginnings growing up in a conservative Christian African- American household  to her passionate work with HIV/ AIDS positive patients in the Black community, Dr. Rachael has been questioning and challenging the constructs and perspectives many of us have grown up with.  We discuss how the way to changing the narrative around the shame we may feel around sex should begin with normalizing conversations from menstruation to sexual trauma. We go on to discuss how pornography is damaging our perceptions of how our body’s need to look during sex and how sex itself needs to look. Without candid discussions about understanding the difference between fantasy  and reality we will continue down the road of comparing ourselves to unrealistic expectations, both in how we look having sex and how sex itself needs to look like.

You can find Dr. Rachael Here: http://drrachaelinstitute.com/
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YouTube https://youtube.com/drrachael

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*Content Trigger warning: Sexual trauma is briefly discussed, Rape,  explicit language

In this episode, host Anjua Maximo speaks with men's intimacy initiatress, Allison Cruz. Allison speaks about her early childhood experience with sexual trauma and how it influenced unhealthy relationship habits as an adult including creating a distrust with the divine masculine energy within men. We discuss how this trauma created a pattern of cheating in her monogamous relationship but it was the unconditional love of one man who chose to love her despite her actions that opened her up to the possibility of healing from her past.

Through her healing journey of therapy and breathwork, she had a deep transformational experience at a retreat that took her back through her lineage where she discovered that her mother and grandmother had been raped as well. The message she ultimately received was to turn her pain into her mission. By using her divine feminine energy she would ultimately help men consciously connect to their dark masculine in order to create balance within them that would in turn allow them to connect positively to the divine feminine in women.

To find out more about Allison and her work follow her on IG
Allison Cruz IG: HERE

Allison mentions working with life coach Christine Hassler 

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 In this episode, host Anjua Maximo sits down with yoga teacher and life coach Diana Vitantonio about her personal journey to getting connected and comfortable with her body and how she has channeled her experiences into her passion, working with women.

Diana has dealt with the judgment of people attempting to warn her of how expressing her sensuality and sexuality so freely might affect her business.  Inspired by her experiences growing up, Diana created her two signature programs, Stronger and Stronger Girls - both designed to help women younger and older learn communication, develop emotional intelligence, set boundaries and be the strongest version of themselves.

Learn more about Diana and Stronger by visiting her website https://www.breathlessyoga.com/experience
Connect with Diana on Instagram HERE

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In this episode, host Anjua Maximo sits down with Rizpah Estelle Waytes, her co-producer of The Electric Feminine. 

It was during a planning meeting a few months ago when they both seemed to have realized there was an opportunity to really open up and clarify that The Electric Feminine is for anyone identifying as a woman. 

Anjua and Riz came to the easy conclusion that inviting voices from the LGBTQ+ community was the missing ingredient.  In addition to wanting to help us and our listeners expand our concept of embodying the divine feminine, this season the show will feature a men's sexuality coach. The concept of men needing sexuality coaching to create a healthy connection to their divine masculine and feminine was something we knew would be interesting.  

Season 3 is going to be juicy, so be sure to tune into all the episodes to not miss out!
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In this episode we meet with Dawn Rivers, former librarian turned yogi/entrepreneur/activist and owner of Day Break Yoga in Cleveland, Ohio. Dawn shares how tapping into her resilience and divine feminine energy led her through a divorce and into finding and walking her purpose.

You can find out more about Dawn HERE

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On this episode I speak with intuitive life coach and Pure Mvmnt sensual embodiment coach Jen Speed about motherhood and keeping your spark lit as you juggle the daily life ups and downs.