The Madelyn Moon Show

Episode 308: It can be extremely challenging to let go of control (in a healthy way) and the need for everything to be according to a strict plan. It's even more challenging to let the future unfold in these uncertain and turbulent times. The feminine/masculine spheres of control and surrender are not as simple as "feminine yielding" and "masculine control" - there is feminine control and masculine control, just as there is masculine yielding and feminine yielding.

Show Notes:

• As an introvert, is finding it healthier to be in nature vs. in Brooklyn.
• It took trust to be led into a new living situation without a plan.
• If you struggle with being led, this is an invitation to notice how often you feel your heartspace tighten around a plan.
• What if you viewed your life as it time didn't exist? Let go of the idea of anything being final and live on a moment-to-moment basis.
• "When we start making promises about the future, we severely tighten the corset on life." What could be around the corner could be better.
• The masculine within you is the part that says, "I trust myself so deeply to get myself out of any mess, so I can say yes without diving deeper."
• Disempowered feminine: "I can't make plans. Plans are too hard for me. Can you make the plans for me?" or "I have to make all the plans. I can't trust anyone to do it."
• It's important to be both spiritual and relatable - balance of masculine-grounded/feminine-ethereal.
• Teachers who are both spiritual and relatable:
  • Kendra Cunov - maddymoon.com/kendra-cunov/
  • Marya Stark - maddymoon.com/marya-stark/
  • Krishna Das - https://amzn.to/30J3Y71
• Artists and creatives can be great teachers - ethereal from art, grounded if they can teach.
• You can practice with smaller things, like plans with friends, dates, etc.
• Eventually the practice will extend to bigger-picture events and decisions.
• A love that's truly meant for you and authentic will not need to come with white-knuckled promises to "Please stay."
• Every beginning comes with the promise of an ending.

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. 6 month and 12 month options available. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

SISU SOCIETY: Madelyn's *New* Monthly Membership Program includes two live teachings per month, a private Facebook community, resources and access to lessons on Devotional Love, Feminine Embodiment, Polarity, Relationships, Harnessing Higher Truths, Pleasure and so much more. If you'd like to be a part of the Society, learn more and join here: http://maddymoon.com/sisu-society

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Episode 307: Mary Magdalene, one of the most important individuals in Christianity, is also one of the most misunderstood. Her powerful femininity and significance in Jesus's stories and teachings have been undermined for over a thousand years. Join Madelyn as she explores the teachings of Mary Magdalene, the Apostle to the Apostles, not the prostitute, in the context of today's feminist reawakening and her own Christian upbringing.

Show notes:

•  Madelyn was named after Mary Magdalene.
• She had an oppressive/repressive patriarchal upbringing experience.
• Moving From Religion to Spirituality episode for a look at upbringing - https://maddymoon.com/religion-spirituality/
• The Sex Episode - discussing the confluence of her upbringing and her sexuality - https://maddymoon.com/sex/
• In 2015 denounced "Christian" title.
• Too much of Christianity didn't feel right.
• Traveled to Israel, experience spoke to her.
• Church should be a celebration, not a punishment.
• Recommended Reading:
  Mary Magdalene Revealed by Megan Watterson - https://amzn.to/2zR4gOn
  Gospel of Mary of Magdala by Karen King - https://amzn.to/2AvvObO
  The Meaning of Mary Magdalene by Cynthia Bourgeault - https://amzn.to/3gA2DoR
  The Magdalen Manuscript - Tom Kenyon - https://amzn.to/2Aufvfn
• Six key areas for context:
  Mary was not a prostitute
  Book of Mary omitted from Bible
  Six pages missing, four pages in the middle missing
  Seven powers she highlights - egoic parts of human nature
• We are inherently good.
• Jesus was both fully divine and fully human
• Not a prostitute - declaration that she was came from Pope Gregory to undermine her teaching, and undermined women's capacity to be leaders.
• In 1969 the Catholic Church apologized for the fabrication.
• The path that Mary carves for us is that every single human being has the voice of the angels, and the voice of God, the voice of the Divine within themselves.
• The books omitted from the Bible focus on a personal connection with God not requiring an intermediary.
• It's our journey to believe in our truths. It's not our job to force other people to believe in these truths.
• Allow others to disagree with you.
• Seven powers that must be attained to ascend: darkness, craving, ignorance, longing for death, compulsion of range, enslavement to physical body, and the false peace of the flesh.
• These powers are not meant to be destroyed or obliterated.
• The path of love is that we're devoted to having this ascension within ourselves, which is actually a descent into the heart.
• What made Jesus who he was, was the fact that he we fully human and fully divine.
• Jesus honored his sex as a potent life force.
• Peter doubts Mary, that she was given teachings they were not.

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. 6 month and 12 month options available. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

SISU SOCIETY: Madelyn's *New* Monthly Membership Program includes two live teachings per month, a private Facebook community, resources and access to lessons on Devotional Love, Feminine Embodiment, Polarity, Relationships, Harnessing Higher Truths, Pleasure and so much more. If you'd like to be a part of the Society, learn more and join here: http://maddymoon.com/sisu-society

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Episode 306: Relationships are complicated even when the partners are open and honest with each other - let alone if there is emotional abuse, manipulation, and secrets - like finding out your boyfriend had a wife and three kids.

This episode is an intimate and revealing conversation Madelyn had on Julie Day's podcast, I Woke Up Like This. Together they explore Madelyn's experience of discovering a former boyfriend had a wife and kids - while they were dating. Come for the dramatic story - leave with the insights on love, trust, communication, and the transformative power of trauma.

Show notes:

• Interview on I Woke Up Like This Podcast - Julie Day - thejulieday.com/i-woke-up-like-this.html
• The first Sisu Society call has happened - a big success! - maddymoon.com/sisu-society
• The Prerequisites to Ecstasy - amazon.com/Prerequisites-Ecstasy-No-Nonsense-Really-Create
• At the time this happened, Maddy wasn't questioning and second guessing quite as much.
• Was completely in masculine side, but disembodied, dissociated from feelings.
• Everything was a "checklist."
• Maddy and this person met on a dating app.
• Relationship was turbulent from the start.
• Coping with manipulative gaslighting behaviors with self-doubt and needs avoidance.
• Found out about wife and kids accidentally via Facebook.
• "If you had not found out the truth, you would have had the relationship you wanted."
• Marriage - wanting to feel safe and have needs met.
• Marriage is commoditized, particularly in America.
• "This is something for me to learn how to love."
• All knowledge of attachment styles was born in this relationship
• Book: "Attached" - https://amzn.to/2oyre0R
• When you break a bone, you can go to the doctor, but there aren't necessarily such tools easily apparent in traumatic breakups.
• We only learn to navigate attachment trauma with tenderness towards ourselves with experience.
• Any future similar situation can now be informed by this.
• Goal for all human beings, especially women, is this idea and lifestyle of sovereignty.
• When we say yes to love, we also say yes to heartbreak.
• From victimhood to empowerment.
• If you're always a victim every time darkness happens, you're not going to be able to get to that place of new life.
• The relationship wasn't love; it was addiction.
• The experience helped Maddy discover key components of her core self.
• Every single feeling is sacred. Every single emotion is a teacher.
• Be unconditionally friendly to even the parts of yourself that are uncomfortable.

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. 6 month and 12 month options available. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

SISU SOCIETY: Madelyn's *New* Monthly Membership Program includes two live teachings per month, a private Facebook community, resources and access to lessons on Devotional Love, Feminine Embodiment, Polarity, Relationships, Harnessing Higher Truths, Pleasure and so much more. If you'd like to be a part of the Society, learn more and join here: http://maddymoon.com/sisu-society

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Episode 305: Mike Johnson is from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada where he started a career at a young age as a recording and touring musician with his band Shyne Factory and later Shelter with Thieves. He worked in festival and stage management, video and music production and he owned and operated a music studio.

Mike suffered from severe depression starting in his early teens and his "rock-star" lifestyle easily led him to alcohol abuse and eventually a very serious drug addiction . In 2013 Mike hit a rock bottom and decided enough is enough. He admitted himself to a 1 year intake addiction treatment program in Edmonton Canada called “Our House” where he dedicated his life to healing and learning everything about addiction and concurrent diseases.

After losing his best friend to an overdose, Mike saw how insufficient the western treatments alone are, and became laser focused on finding more effective ways to help himself and other addicts truly heal. In his research, he came across Dr. Gabor Mates' work treating addiction patients with Ayahuasca. In 2015 Mike packed his bags and headed to Peru for 3 months to work with Ayahuasca and began dieting master plants in the Shipibo tradition. He continued working with Ayahuasca in Canada and Peru and in January 2017 his path led him to the Ayahuasca Foundation 10 week curandero initiation course where he found his place and his life purpose as a healer.

Today, Mike Johnson can be found facilitating plant medicine ceremonies, offering pre-ceremony intention sessions as well as post-ceremony integration. He continues to be a creative being by writing music, connecting with nature and helping people find their healing path.

Show notes:

• This is a special episode with Madelyn's partner Mike Johnson.
• Turn your pain into your passion. Turn your mess into your message.
• New monthly membership program - Sisu Society - maddymoon.com/sisu-society
• Two lessons per month exclusively on FB Live for members & access to community and connection.
• Feminine grit is required to be a feminine being.
• "Be a broken record for love."
• Mike's most consistent muse in life is music.
• Focused on recording and touring with a successful band, but a part of him was unhappy and lifestyle led into addiction.
• Mike finally sought help and went to a treatment center.
• Mike needed more than medications prescribed as an easy "fix" to addiction.
• After his friend passed away in treatment, Mike discovered plant medicine and Dr. Gabor Mates's work bringing patients to Peru to work with Ayahuasca.
• Every plant has a spirit. Every plant has light, and every plant has dark. Plant diets establish a relationship with these plants.
• "No one is flawed. It's just part of your journey to figure out these things you need to get through."
• Ayahuasca is a diagnostic tool and requires guidance and participation - cleaning the body.
• Experiences are so different from person to person.
• Anything worthwhile in life that has light, comes with shadow.
• Madelyn's relationship with Ayahuasca wasn't able to develop until she had an experience of darkness with it.
• You can hear Madelyn further discuss her Ayahuasca experience with Will Siu: maddymoon.com/will-siu/
• Challenges and difficulties performing with bands on stage were like training for the ceremony space.
• When considering Ayahuasca ceremony, Madelyn discovered it was important to be heart-centered and have help in integration sessions to truly process the healing.
• Mike offers integration sessions for those interested (email below).
• Mike's book: The Untethered Soul: https://amzn.to/34QQLsR
  

Connect with Mike:

• Email: [email protected]

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. 6 month and 12 month options available. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

SISU SOCIETY: Madelyn's *New* Monthly Membership Program includes two live teachings per month, a private Facebook community, resources and access to lessons on Devotional Love, Feminine Embodiment, Polarity, Relationships, Harnessing Higher Truths, Pleasure and so much more. If you'd like to be a part of the Society, learn more and join here: http://maddymoon.com/sisu-society

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

Episode 304: The time feels right to do an embodiment practice on the podcast. Life has been unpredictable and chaotic, leaving many of us with all with potentially a lot of time with ourselves. But these circumstances aren't always enabling us to actually engage with ourselves in meaningful and healthy ways. This "Choose Your Own Pleasure Adventure" guides just enough to help you get back in touch with yourself via the Devotional Lover, Lioness, and Seductress Archetypes.

This practice aims to help connect to the sensual part of us that is purely devoted to love, opening to gentle, sweet pleasure. Can't we all do with more pleasure in our lives these days?

Show notes:

• Second meditation practice Madelyn has done - listen to the other one here: maddymoon.com/pleasure/
• Many people, particularly women, struggle with allowing the part of them that is sex, the feminine, creativity, to be a pathway to God.
• The practice of sex as an act of devotion to God.
• Madelyn's Spotify Playlist for this practice - open.spotify.com/playlist/7rvKhIdbrXc9t9XF8EnNTp?si=XNKkTTOmRuaJI8A0RhzLjg
• Coaching and one-on-one guided practices are available - maddymoon.com/coaching
• Create a sensation that feels good.
• First archetype: Devotional Lover
• If emotion starts to come up, let it.
• Second archetype: Lion
• Different archetypes require different movements and sounds.
• Third archetype: Seductress
• Tell yourself, "Thank you. I love you."

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. 6 month and 12 month options available. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

SISU SOCIETY: Madelyn's *New* Monthly Membership Program includes two live teachings per month, a private Facebook community, resources and access to lessons on Devotional Love, Feminine Embodiment, Polarity, Relationships, Harnessing Higher Truths, Pleasure and so much more. If you'd like to be a part of the Society, learn more and join here: http://maddymoon.com/sisu-society

Episode 303: Best known for his portrayal of Walter "Flynn" White for five riveting seasons of AMC'S Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winning dramatic thriller "Breaking Bad," RJ Mitte is an actor, advocate and philanthropist who has carved out his niche in Hollywood by breaking down stereotypes and changing people's mindsets with his easy going demeanor and positive outlook on life while coping with cerebral palsy. He will be seen next starring alongside Terrence Howard as a high school wrestler overcoming all odds to be seen as "normal," in TRIUMPH; premiering in mid 2020.

Show notes:

• Allowing space for change arriving as a result of the coronavirus COVID-19 crisis.
• We can now make an impact in a small area, that affects a large group of people, in a way we haven't been able to before.
• RJ moved to Texas to focus on his foundation - www.mittefoundation.org/
• Sign up for background acting if you're trying to break into the industry.
• RJ's pre-Breaking Bad background/extra work included appearances on Hannah Montana, Weeds, 7th Heaven.
• Acting as creating entities or alter egos as a form of therapy.
• Recently completed Inclusion Films' Carol of the Bells with Inclusion Films - inclusionfilms.com/carol-of-the-bells/
• 70% disabled cast and crew, goal to be a platform for encouraging hiring of people with disabilities.
• "Our job as actors is not to be us; it's to be a completely different person that we create for that world."
• People with the right skill-sets don't always get the jobs, while people without the skill-sets might get the jobs for various reasons.
• On combating discrimination: thinking in terms of tearing down walls, but using walls as leverage. Find where you belong and where you want to be.
• "Right now there's a lot of people at home that don't want to be at home, but they don't know where they want to be. They know they want to be somewhere, but they don't know where. They don't know how they're going to get there, but they know when this is done, they're going to go do that."
• Using this time to hone who you are and hone what you want to do.
• "Find the target you want to hit now - when everyone is so wound up, everyone's going to fly. Just make sure you're pointing in the right direction."
• What exactly are we in a rush to "get back" to?
• Creating healthy habits - isolation is a struggle.
• Right now people aren't doing things that have been keeping them sane.
• Cooking, swimming, video games, working - but maintaining positive settings - are some of RJ's healthy habits.
• Everyone is born a leader - but you're taught to not follow internal instincts.

Connect with RJ:

• Twitter: twitter.com/RjMitte

COACHING: receive personalized, 1:1 coaching from Maddy Moon to create your own feminine and masculine embodiment. Heal your heart, build confidence, create an online business (if that’s a goal!) or simply feel happier. Apply here: http://maddymoon.com/coaching

FEMININE SPIRIT SCHOOL: this school is the one-stop-shop for all things feminine energy! If you’ve been wanting to embody the feminine but feel stuck on the how, this program will take you through the entire realm from start to (well…we’re never really finished, are we?). Learn about the feminine/masculine, shadow sides, ancestral healing, boundary setting, empowerment, sensuality and sexuality, sovereignty and so much more. Sign up here: http://maddymoon.com/feminine-spirit

EMBODIED ARCHETYPE RETREAT: unlock parts of yourself that you've been shaming, blaming or hiding for too long. Learn how to integrate your "shadow sides" so that they not only feel welcomed in your life but they also create more love, peace and feminine/masculine harmony. Apply: http://maddymoon.com/events

Episode 302: Diana Magick is a mentor, dream worker, facilitator and modern day mystic. Using a blend of ancient and modern practices, Diana helps to bring to life the forgotten gift of divine power that resides within every human. Through her courses, retreats and personal mentorship, Diana aims to assist in reconnecting you with your inner power, intuitive wisdom and magick essence to manifest what you truly desire and deserve.

Working within the dream realm and the waking world, Diana takes you on powerful journey inwards and teaches you how to stand in your true power and awaken from within as you explore and experience life to your full capacity as a human being. Teaching breath-work, dream symbology, meditation, ceremonial practices and ancient wisdom, her desire is to bring light into the shadows. Giving you access to the true gifts of living a heart centered life as you become an empowered empath and intuitive human.

Show notes:

• The Quarantine Cocoon - a stay-at-home resource guide: maddymoon.com/cocoon
• To inquire about private coaching sessions: [email protected] or maddymoon.com/coaching
• Where do our dreams come from?
• Why do we have dreams?
• The true reasons why we dream.
• If we don’t deal with our past, we’re going to keep dreaming certain things. 
• Why we inherit what our ancestors dreamt about. 
• How we can manifest what we want in our life by dreaming?
• "In order to change your life, you have to change your dreams."
• What it means when animals bite us in our dreams. 
• Why Diana believes you can heal instantly overnight with your dreams. 
• How to master your lucid dreaming and have control over your dreams. 
• The simple rituals to do before you go to bed that will impact your dreams.
• Why you aren’t remembering your dreams.
• How the music that you listen to before bed affects your dreams.
• A lot of the dreams that we classify as “bad” are actually very healing and not bad at all.
• Why she suggests dream journaling for 20 days.
• What the more common dreams mean - flying, houses, animals, dying, nightmares.
• "Life is actually created in your dreams."
• Is daydreaming as important?
• Must-read book: The Big Leap https://amzn.to/3bG1hpN
• If you don’t use your mind, it will use you. 
• Diana's dream course: https://www.moonandmagick.com/courses-workshops
• How to cancel the dreams that you don’t want
• Must-read book: The Toltech Secret https://amzn.to/2zvWkkZ

Connect with Diana:

• Website: https://www.moonandmagick.com/
• Instagram: www.Instagram.com/diana_magick
• YouTube: www.youtube.com/lifeasdiana

Episode 301: In this episode, Madelyn talks about an amazing book, The Missing Element, that she just received from a previous podcast guest, Astrologer - Debra Silverman. This book discusses the four elements — air, earth, water, and fire and how they affect your inner world. Many of us are on a quest to learn more about ourselves and others, and perhaps now more than ever — when we're deep into the Coronavirus quarantine, it's a great time to go within and learn more about how you function as an individual.

The Missing Element was written for all of us who have ever felt that something was “wrong” with us, that we are odd and outside the norm. This book helps you to see beyond your perceived flaws to find your 'true' self, your gifts and your place in this world. You don't have to have an extensive Astrology background to understand these profound teachings. This is a fun playground to explore so you can learn more about yourself and others.

Show notes:

• Madelyn's Instagram post: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-w4gLHHkYF/
• How can you nurture yourself while you don’t have your current “medicine”?
• Do you need more nurturing or discipline?
• Debra Silverman podcast episode https://maddymoon.com/debra-silverman/
• Debra's book: The Missing Element https://amzn.to/2RSGLtZ
• The four elements: water, fire, earth, air
• How to determine your natural element.
• The observer vs the ego.
• The ego’s main mission is to separate and it does this because it wants to keep you safe. 
• Must-read book: The New Earth by Eckhart Tolle https://amzn.to/2wShl8x
• Must-read book: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer https://amzn.to/34QQLsR
• Harnessing the power of the observer.
• Shame would not exist without society. Ego would not lead to shame without society. 
• Water: the first state that we’re born into. Emotional, very intuitive, more empath, love the spiritual side of life, want to numb out because your feelings are so strong, personal space is very important, great healer, overly guarded sometimes, very important to get to know your moods/periods/moon cycles, take showers/baths.
• Fire: can be very destructive, very transformative energy, the life of the party, likes to figure it out as they go along - not a lot of structure, judged a lot, helpful to find forms of movement that create heat in your body, impulsive, it’s okay to slow down, they love to love and to be adored, learn how to listen if you’re a fire sign, very competitive, impatient, enjoys traveling.
• Earth: loves stability, rituals are very important, safety/security is a top priority, have a hard time investing in themselves, great with their hands - get the job done, plant the metaphorical seed, dependable, they can sometimes lack fire/spontaneity, never give themselves a pat on the back. 
• Air: more inclined to see us all as one, they love information and learning, very curious, auditory, co-dependent, flirtatious, must be balanced with earth, they talk super fast, do more earth grounding work, work on your voice, stimulating conversations, not great listeners - cut people off. 
• Embodying the elements Qigong practice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6Y8QSVyYhM
• The Quarantine Cocoon - a stay-at-home resource guide: maddymoon.com/cocoon

Connect with Maddy: 

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonfitness/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/madelynmoon/
• Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes: http://maddymoon.com/itunes
• Download my Four Favourite Feminine Embodiment Practices: https://maddymoon.com/freegift

Episode 300: For Madelyn's 300th podcast episode, she wanted to do something special for y'all, so enter "the sex episode" — her sexual memoir episode. We know that the episodes that always hit home the most for you are when Madelyn gives herself a permission slip to expose her rawest self. Well, here you go... this is her deepest, rawest, most vulnerable episode she's ever done. It's an intimate sexual timeline of 28 years. She takes you on her sexual journey over the years which touches on the sexual shame she's endured; the Christian household that was driven by emotional manipulation and abuse; her sexual toys and deepest sexual desires; and her relationship where she had the best sex of her life. Oooh, you're gonna love this one. 

Show notes:

• The Quarantine Cocoon - a stay-at-home resource guide: maddymoon.com/cocoon
• Human Design 101: https://maddymoon.com/human-design/
• Unpacking Sexual Shame: https://maddymoon.com/unpacking-sexual-shame/
• The relatable story that Madelyn shares from her childhood. 
• “Our womb space is intimately connected to our heart space.”
• Madelyn’s Christian upbringing was driven by tactics of emotional manipulation and abuse. 
• Madelyn gets emotional when she thinks about what her parents used to tell her about boys.
• Madelyn’s first kiss and first make-out session. 
• The traumatic car ride experience with her mom after her first kiss. 
• Her first juicy memory of ever being turned on.
• Madelyn’s love of boob hickeys and the meaning behind them for her.
• Why she likes combining pain with pleasure (when it’s done with love).
• Her sexual experiences in college. 
• Losing her virginity with her twin flame in college.
• Her first experience with a vibrator and pornography. 
• Her insecurities with her body and her journey into bodybuilding. 
• What to do when you feel stuck in your pleasure.
• Her 3 essential tools to get out of your mind space and into your body.
• Her favorite thing to experience during sex.
• Charles Muir and tantric sexual exploration
• Grieving “What Could Have Been” and Understanding Emotional Abuse https://maddymoon.com/emotional-abuse/
• Her perfectionism with her “lady landscape” and her painful journey with folliculitis
• Must-read books:
  • She Comes First https://amzn.to/3aWb7Dz
  • Pussy: A Reclamation https://amzn.to/2yIGVgJ
  • Come as You Are https://amzn.to/2yIGVgJ
  • The Red Tent https://amzn.to/2y5djtz
  • City of Girls https://amzn.to/2y7q3Qr
  • Dear Lover https://amzn.to/2xjjPNn
  • Sex at Dawn https://amzn.to/3b8t5CZ
• Guided Pleasure Practice for Women Episode: https://maddymoon.com/pleasure/
• Sex is the ultimate creator - it’s our connection with the Divine. 
• How she treats her sexuality as sacred. 

Connect with Maddy: 

• Facebook: https://facebook.com/moonfitness/
• Instagram: https://instagram.com/madelynmoon/
• Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes: http://maddymoon.com/itunes
• Download my Four Favourite Feminine Embodiment Practices: https://maddymoon.com/freegift

Episode 299: Joe Towne is an award-winning writer and director who got his degree in Acting from the University of Southern California. He’s been a coach for the past 19 years for both businesses and performers – some of whom are selling that product you just bought or starring in that movie you Netflixed last night. This work compelled him to write a book about how our inner reality affects our outer experience, which led him to be a guest on the Dr. Oz show.  As an actor, Joe Towne has worked with people like Jennifer Love Hewitt and Hillary Swank and you can see him opposite Rebel Wilson in Isn’t It Romantic, which premiered in February of 2019 and is now available on iTunes.

Joe Towne is also an acting coach at one of the top studios in Hollywood where he co-created their audition technique program. He works with professional actors and athletes, as they transition from their sport into the entertainment industry.  He also works with corporations bringing Mindset into practice in the workplace.  Last summer Joe helped coached up the top 24 high school quarterbacks in the country at the Elite 11 weekend in Los Angeles. The Actors Mindset program has been in Los Angeles (both independently and at The Aquila School), at USC, UCLA and most recently at the Vancouver Film School. To learn more about Mindset check out this interview on THAT ONE AUDITION podcast.

Show notes:

• Why artists need boredom.
• Why you are an artist.
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• Being an artist doesn't mean being in deprivation and scarcity.
• The alarming financial statistics with being an actor.
• Madelyn's struggles with feeling scarcity while exploring the artist's world.
• "The myth of the tortured artist"
• The old model that there isn't enough for me unless I suffer.
• "Nothing abundant comes from burnout. When you're not embodying abundance, you're not going to attract it."
• The reason why we can't speak generally about abundance.
• If you're wanting to be a full-time actor, how do you not get into burnout?
• The principle of sustainability.
• "Take your rest as seriously as your hustle."
• How Feng Shui and your environment ties into an abundant mindset.
• Your environment reflects you whether it's seen or in a drawer — everything creates this constellation of energy that affects what's coming up.
• "That is which is closest to you has the greatest impact on you."
• Our entire home is marketing to us all day long and our home is a vision board.
• The stages of a Feng Shui makeover.
• The pitfalls of Feng Shui.
• Every culture has their own version of Feng Shui.
• "Joy is the vehicle that you travel your life with."
• The "flow state" or "runners high" - the optimal state of being. 
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