The Sensual Revolution

Layci Harris is a Sensual Self-Love Coach, empowering those that seek a deeper connection to sensuality. Her signature workshop, Sensual Selfie Session, gives you permission to see yourself as a sensual being and teaches how to capture your feel good.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Layci shares her journey to sensual empowerment
• Defining sensuality and embodiment
• Breaking through the myth that pleasure is selfish
• How to distinguish between performative pleasure (objectification) vs. Authentic pleasure (empowerment)
• Empowered sensual expression in environments where this is controversial and stigmatized
• The ripples of our reclamation and how self-neglect harms ourselves and others
• Toxic positivity vs. Authentic joy and pleasure
• The power of the sensual selfie to challenge objectification and reclaim erotic expression
• Layci’s top tips for taking a sensual selfie; prioritizing feeling > aesthetic 

Follow Layci on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laycilove/

Check out Marlee's Sensual Wholeness Academy & book a free 1-1 consult call: https://www.marleeliss.com/SWA

Join the F*ck Comphet Support Club 2SLGBTQIA+ community space: https://www.patreon.com/fckcomphetsupportclub

Isa and Nina are the amazing founders of @iamempwr (+160K IG community & organization). EMPWR started off with two survivors wanting a space to share the wisdom and information that has helped them along their healing journeys. Our mission at EMPWR. has always been to promote the healing and empowerment of all those impacted by sexual or relationship trauma by making healing more approachable and accessible. We believe that healing and empowerment is your right.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Isa & Nina share about healing trauma what led them to form EMPWR
• The importance of community & solidarity as survivors 
• Defining the word survivor and navigating ‘survivor imposter syndrome’ - not minimizing or comparing our stories
• The biggest myths around the survivor experience
• Role modelling our right to boundaries and choice in disclosing
• Navigating self-blame and compassion for our coping mechanisms 
• Shedding shame, destigmatizing and understanding hypersexuality as a survival mechanism after trauma
• The distinction between genuine sexual liberation and hypersexuality beyond appearance
• The EMPWR Healing Fund and how Isa x Nina are supporting survivors financially

Join us for our FREE Feb 10th Valentines Self-Love Workshop FOR and BY Survivors! Register here (space is limited): https://www.marleeliss.com/valentines

Follow @iamempwr and @marleeliss on IG and learn more: https://www.iamempwr.com/

EMPWR healing fund: https://www.gofundme.com/f/empwr-mutual-aid-fund

Learn more about the Sensual Wholeness Academy: https://www.marleeliss.com/SWA

Emily O’Brien is an entrepreneur and the founder of Comeback Snacks—a specialty popcorn company that challenges the status quo. After being sentenced to a four-year jail term stemming from her battle with addiction, Emily set out on the mission to get clean, transform herself, and make her time in jail as meaningful as possible. Aware of the hardships of being incarcerated, Emily is driven to help remove the stigma surrounding people with prior convictions, as well as give them opportunities for reintegration through training, empowerment and education. As a leading voice in this unique movement, Emily has been frequently called upon by various media outlets, including CBC, CTV, CHCH, VICE, Global, and more.

In this episode we discuss:

• Emily shares about her experience being incarcerated and starting her biz from prison
• Emily shares the mission of comeback snacks to re-empower those who have been through the system 
• We talk about the barriers and challenging of re-entering society after incarceration
• Taking accountability while practicing self-compassion
• Drug trafficking & acknowledging the coercion and lack of choice that interweaves with many people’s crimes, especially for women and marginalized communities
• Lived experience as fuel for mission balanced by burnout prevention
• The harm caused by labelling people and how stigma makes us all less safe
• The invasive nature of parole and how excessive surveillance & humiliation tactics violate boundaries

Resources/links:

Follow Emily on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comebacksnacks/?hl=en

Follow Comeback Snacks on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/comebacksnacks

Check out Marlee's offerings (both paid and free): https://www.marleeliss.com/workwithme

Get Marlee's EBook '22 Journal Practices for Sensual Self-Love': https://www.marleeliss.com/22

Sara Bruno is a budding psychologist, published author, professional go-go dancer, producer, and model. She is currently undertaking her Master’s in counseling psychology at City University and is on the path of becoming a sex therapist. Through her research, education, and community, Sara explores sexual reclamation, social justice, and advocacy. Her goal is to join a sex-positive practice that allows her the freedom to develop and lead workshops, help people unlearn societal expectations and explore pleasure, offer a space for healing, and explore the mind, body, and spirit connection through trauma-informed yoga and mindfulness.

In this episode we dive into:

• How Western culture shaped Sara's relationship to sexuality
• Breaking down the one size fits all narrative of what womanhood means
• How diet culture weaves into our experience of sexuality
• Challenging anti-porn feminism while also acknowledging the ways that mainstream porn negatively impacts us
• Why the abstinence model of sex education is harmful and ineffective and some powerful alternatives
• Navigating religiously enforced shame around masturbation and pleasure
• Moving beyond conformity, beyond rebellion and into well-being as priority
• Sexual harassment and the dance industry, Sara's work as a Burlesque dancer creating consent and policy protection for dancers

Links/Resources: Get Marlee's EBook "22 Practices for Sensual Self-Love" for just $12 at https://www.marleeliss.com/22

Claim your FREE 1-1 call with Marlee: https://itssessiontime.youcanbook.me/

Connect with Sara: https://www.instagram.com/with.love.from.layla/

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Contact (all references mentioned available): [email protected]

Yaz Harris is a non-binary sex-worker, Middle Eastern queer who loves making people feel welcome. They developed a self-intimacy practice called YINTIMATE which uses movement and other practices that calm the nervous system enough to make space for play and pleasure. Yaz is an in dungeon pro-dominant as well as a queer community organizer. Their program Wake The Fuck Up is a (mostly) queer virtual community space for making the mornings not just tolerable, but joyful, specifically in the winter months.

In this episode, we dive into:

• Yaz shares their own personal journey with claiming queerness and gender expression
• How the pandemic catalyzed more authentic expression vs. Performative living
• The role that fashion can play in empowering gender expression
• We talk sex work, Yaz work as a dom & why it’s harmful to fixate on the empowering perspectives
• Finding joy in the morning and why so many of us struggle with waking up
• Shifting out of spiritual bypassing and into social awareness (whole approaches to spirituality)
• The power of community > personal responsibility 
• Imposter syndrome and owning our nerves; letting go of perfectionism and the pressure to hide insecurity

Resources/Links:

• WTFU Club:  https://www.yazthehuman.com/workshops-series/wake-the-fuck-up-bookend-edition  
•  Follow Mx. Aerys, Yaz's dom persona https://www.instagram.com/nonbinarydom/
• Revolting Prostitutes Book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3039-revolting-prostitutes
• Marlee's Free Training for Sensual Self-Love & Embodied Safety: https://www.marleeliss.com/freetraining

Arielle Kaplan is a Brooklyn-based media personality, comedy writer, speaker, and Jewish jester. Known as @whoregasmic on Instagram, she co-hosted the top-charting sex/comedy podcasts Balls Deep and Seven Minutes in Heaven, as well as Oral History, a podcast on seductresses. The creator and host of "And God Was Like," a weekly raunchy Torah show, Arielle is currently working on her fourth comedy podcast, The Jewish Agenda. You can find her bylines on Jewcy, Alma, Kveller, The Nosher, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and Salty Magazine. 

In this episode, we dive into:

• Mental health & the pandemic
• Reclaiming Jewish identity and defining zionism
• Antisemitism on social media & Arielle's experience losing her IG account
• Sex positivity and Jewish identity and sluts in the Torah! (that's right!!)
• Seeing the ways that sex ed curriculum reflects Christian values, whereas Judaism is HERE for SEX
• Insecurity around breast size and how that catalyzed Arielle’s sex positivity journey 
• The harm caused by silencing certain aspects of our identities and deeming them controversial
• Perfectionism and exclusivity in the social justice space 

Follow Arielle on social media: https://www.instagram.com/whoregasmic/

Access Marlee's free training on "Sensual Self-Love & Embodied Safety": https://www.marleeliss.com/freetraining

Claim your free connect call with Marlee: https://itssessiontime.youcanbook.me/

In this solo episode with Marlee, we dive into:

• Marlee shares her 26 year coming out journey & experience with compulsory heterosexuality
• The importance of lesbian and queer femme representation
• The intersection of surviving sexual assault and discovering queerness
• Addressing the idea that: Sexual trauma can cause queerness
• Overcoming fear of being predatory towards other women and non-binary folk
• Claiming body trust instead of self-gaslighting
• The power of community in normalizing our identities and ending shame

Join the F*ck Comphet Support Club: 2SLGBTQIA+ Connection & Community Space here: https://www.patreon.com/FckComphetSupportClub

Get Marlee's Free Training on "Sensual Self-Love & Embodied Safety" here: https://www.marleeliss.com/freetraining

Follow Marlee on the gram: @MarleeLiss

Hen Mazzig is an Israeli writer, a columnist for the Jewish Journal, and a speaker who has inspired thousands around the world with his story. He was named as one of the Algemeiner’s top 100 people positively influencing Jewish life in 2018 and 2021, Top 50 online pro-Israel Influencers, and Top 50 LGBTQ+ Influencers. Hen holds a BA in Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies from Bar Ilan University and hs is an energetic advocate for his people.  Hen’s award-winning articles have been published in the LA Times, Newsweek, NBC News, Haaretz, The Forward, Jewish Chronicle, International Business Times, and more. 

In this episode, we dive into:

• Hen shares from his family story from his lens as an LGBTQ+ Jew of colour 
• What it means to be a secular Jew and the role that Hen played in my own journey of reclaiming Jewish identity
• Defining zionism and claiming capacity to love and stand for BOTH Jewish and Palestinian lives
• Recognizing antisemitism in progressive leftist narratives and ways to practice allyship
• The parallels between coming out as queer and embracing Jewish identity
• Unpacking the “Jewish American Princess” trope 
• Restorative approaches for addressing antisemitism and challenging cancel culture
• Why Judaism is more than religion and queerness is more than sexual preference

Follow Hen on Instagram at: @HenMazzig and learn more at HenMazzig.com

Access Marlee's Free Training on "Sensual Self-Love & Embodied Safety" here: https://www.marleeliss.com/freetraining

Follow Marlee on Instagram at: @marleeliss

Cameron Glover (she/her) is a Black femme, certified sex educator, and business coach for sex educators. As the founder of Successful Sex Ed, she works with sexuality professionals to help them simplify their business for success. In addition, she also hosts the Become a Six-Figure Sex Educator podcast, where she shares insights and strategies on how to create a successful online sexuality business.

In this episode we dive into:

• Reflecting on our relationship to capitalism, money and our right to prioritize our peace
• How Cameron became a coach for sex ed business owners & entrepreneurial empowerment
• Financial empowerment vs. capitalist conformity: bridging income with impact
• Empowering ourselves to take the leap and overcoming perfectionism & fear of failure
• Boring abundance: Reframing what it means to be boring as a source of empowerment, joy and rest

Cameron's Link to sign up for the "Simple Sexuality Business" private podcast: https://www.successfulsexed.com/simplepodcast 

Learn more about Cameron's Sex Ed Business Academy: https://www.successfulsexed.com/sexedbusinessacademy 

Follow Cameron on IG: @thecameronglover

Free training with Marlee Dec 8th: How to Cultivate Sensual Self-Love & A Sense of Embodied Safety - Join my FB Group today for access: https://www.facebook.com/groups/senempowerment

Join the F*ck Comp Het Support Club: 2SLGBTIA+ Community & Connection Space with Marlee & Eva Bloom: https://www.patreon.com/fckcomphetsupportclub

Watch this interview on youtube: https://youtu.be/EaY7LzPaeCg

Katherin Hervey is an award-winning filmmaker whose work focuses on those of us who live in the margins but refuse to be marginalized. THE PRISON WITHIN, her award-winning first feature film, sprung from her work as a Los Angeles Public Defender and volunteer prison college instructor, where she worked weekly with men who had committed serious acts of violence and had been sentenced to die in prison. THE PRISON WITHIN premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, winning Best Social Justice Documentary, the first of 7 awards, including The 2021 Media for a Just Society Award. Katherin is a thought leader in the field of criminal justice reform, featured in the Business Insider, The Guardian, Forbes, and other publications, tv and radio shows, and podcasts.

In this episode of The Sensual Revolution, we dive into:

• Restorative justice & challenging the binary of good people vs. bad people
• Katherin shares about her doc 'The Prison Within', following the transformative stories of ‘criminals’ and survivors
• Why the prison system is ineffective, perpetuating violence & lacking accountability
• Punitive approaches seeping into social justice spaces & the call for compassion
• Unapologetic Corniness: Reclaiming our right to hold expectations of love, hope & transformation

Check out the Prison Within doc here: https://theprisonwithin.org/

Follow Katherin's work here: https://www.katherinhervey.com/

Join Marlee for a FREE TRAINING on "How to cultivate sensual self-love and embodied safety" on Dec 8th by joining this group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/senempowerment

Join the waitlist for Marlee & Eva Bloom's "F*ck Comp Het Support Club: A 2SLGBTIA+ Connection & Community Space" here: https://forms.gle/dy5xzZhKeD6v3j7q7