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Cool story about my friend Jenn…

15+ years ago Jenn’s friend (who was working in a hospital) started

The more Jenn answered her friend’s questions the more she realized

So Jenn started publishing her answers openly on her blog. Eventually

Because of this work, one of Jenn’s friends nicknamed her “the professional lesbian” and the title stuck.

The thing is that our community hasn’t always been treated ideally throughout history.

And a lot of queer people are easily triggered by being called the

That’s why Jenn’s work is so important. The more companies understand

Jenn sets a great example of how we can create so much value in the

Opportunities truly are everywhere, if we are open enough to notice and satisfy unmet needs.

Today Jenn runs a publishing company.

Because after writing 4 of her own books, her friends and colleagues

Once again, noticing that there was an unmet need, Jenn started first

In this episode of Women Wanting Women Jenn T. Grace shares her

Jenn T. Grace is a nationally recognized business strategist, speaker and author specializing in the LGBTQ market.

Guided by the mantra, “change happens in business,” Jenn believes social change happens first in the workplace before spilling over into mainstream society.

She is an Amazon Best Selling author and has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, The Hartford Courant and on CNBC. Passionate about helping people share their stories of adversity, Jenn is the Founder of Publish Your Purpose Press and the Author’s Academy.

She holds a M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communications from Golden Gate University and a B.S. in Communications from Salem State University. A marathon runner, animal lover and novice birder, she lives in Hartford, Connecticut with her family.

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“Self-love” is one of those terms that get thrown around a lot (especially in relationship advice blogs!)

But what does self-love actually mean, in practice?

Without self-love it’s harder for us to be as kind and good to ourselves as we’d be to the woman we love.

Love is about showing up consistently and working through conflicts and forgiving mistakes and imperfections…

All of that takes time and attention and care.

These are things we do for the women we love, when we want to build a partnership…

But when we make the choice to consistently show up for ourselves (the way we would for the woman of our dreams) that’s when self-love can start to grow, even if it wasn’t there before.

The problem is that most of us wouldn’t even know where to begin…

For most of us self-love isn’t automatic.

Most of us weren’t raised in environments where self-love was the

Self-love can feel impossible when we’ve never had it.

But it’s not impossible.

Self-love can be generated from nothing.

Well it turns out that generating self-love takes practice. It takes repetition of purposeful, ritualized practices…

And in this episode of Women Wanting Women I interview Coco McKenzi, who teaches exactly what some of those practices are.

Because, as Coco explains, we are our own greatest healers.

Coco McKenzi has been to hell and back. (*trigger warning*)

She was forced to learn what she knows about self-love after being

Coco set out on a mission to figure out how to actually heal from sexual trauma because she realized she would otherwise suffer the rest of her life in unyielding, unbearable pain.

In this podcast episode Coco shares her story and teaches specific

Coco McKenzi’s mission is to educate, empower, and create a positive

Coco’s work is to help people heal from confusion and suffering to radical joy and pure fulfillment.

You can learn more about her workshops, courses and coaching at The McKenzi Institute

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In this episode of Women Wanting Women I interview Merryn Johns, the editor-in-chief of Curve magazine.

Curve is a lifestyle brand.

But from their perspective, lifestyles are, by nature, political.

The goal is to point towards an ideal and help create a vision of what it means, as LGBTQ+ women, to live our best lives.

Their purpose is to be a window that shows us, as queer women, what

Curve’s role is to hold a space that gets continually filled

But from Curve’s perspective, lifestyles are, by nature, political.

The goal is to point towards an ideal and help create a vision of what it means, as LGBTQ+ women, to live our best lives.

Curve ’s purpose is to be a window that shows us, as queer

Curve’s role is to hold a space that gets continually filled

Readers of Curve magazine are mostly successful, ambitious

I invited Merryn Johns on the podcast because I wanted to learn more

Merryn Johns is the editor-in-chief of Curve magazine,

• curvemag.com
• Facebook
• Merryn on Instagram
• Merryn on Twitter

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It turns out that it’s not uncommon for closeted women to suffer from eating disorders before coming out…

In fact, people can subconsciously “use” eating disorders as a way to disconnect and dissociate from the body.

Perhaps.

I’m also lucky because my condition was minor compared to how severe eating disorders can get, when they’re extreme.

But even though my eating disorder wasn’t extreme, I still struggled

Obviously, I’m not an expert on eating disorders. So everything I say in this episode (even when I sound strong-minded and sure about things) is just my own personal opinion about what I believe worked for me.

Nothing I say in the interview should be taken as “advice” because

Dr. Cheryl Kornfeld is a clinical psychologist based in Denver, CO

We also talk about coming out and early experiences with girls and how she met her wife.

Cheryl is great, so despite the heavy subject matter it’s still a fun

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There are lots of podcasts about how we, as humans, can increase our

Some of the challenges we face in our lives, as queer women, are

That’s why I felt there needed to be a lesbian podcast that could

No, this isn’t the only lesbian podcast.

But Women Wanting Women is unique because it’s a lesbian podcast

The format for this lesbian podcast has been long interviews with

Ever since starting this podcast I’ve been contacted by women all over the world who are tuning in.

And all the women I’ve been hearing from (who have reached out to me

So if you’re reading this right now, that probably describes you,

For those of you who have reached out personally, the best part of my

If you ever have questions or ideas that you’d want to see covered,

So if you don’t already subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Facebook and Instagram, go and add me now so you don’t miss any valuable content that you won’t ever hear on this podcast.

I share tons of free tips and strategies there for attracting and dating women as a woman.

As much as I love this lesbian podcast and my YouTube channel, the best things I’ve created, by far, are my two online courses.

The first one I created is called Come Out Confidently,

The second online course I created is called Magnetic Attraction for Lesbians. Magnetic Attraction for Lesbians

Also, if you ever are want to talk to me personally about the

I’m here to help and I’d love to meet you, and you can learn more about that HERE.

All the prior episodes of Women Wanting Women have been me

• How this lesbian podcast got started…
• How to navigate falling in love with a straight girl?
• What to do when we’re a lesbian in a small town?
• How can we tell if our feelings are reciprocated?

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The discovery of a partner’s affair can be traumatic and heartbreaking and earth-shattering.

But unfortunately a lot of women have partners who cheat.

Melissa Davis, my guest on this episode of Women Wanting Women, thought she had the perfect life…

She married her college sweetheart and they had two baby girls (a 3-year old and a newborn infant) when she found out her husband was having an affair with her best friend.

What could be more maddening than that?

But Melissa emerged from the torment and heartbreak and shame with a purpose.

Melissa took everything she learned from her experience healing from her husband’s affair and joined forces with two other psychologists (one of whom also had a cheating husband) and together they created an online affair recovery program to help other women who find themselves in the same situation.

I really resonate with Melissa’s mission, because what she’s doing for women who have been cheated on is exactly what I’m doing for women in the queer female community. I created (Come Out Confidently and Magnetic Attraction For Lesbians) because having learned the powerful lessons that enabled me to end my own struggles, I became passionate about teaching what I learned to other women who are in similar situations.

Come Out Confidently is the class I created to help women use the experience of coming out as a massive opportunity for increasing your personal power. And Magnetic Attraction For Lesbians is the class I created to share all the secrets I learned about the inner and outer game of how to attract other women as a woman.

That’s why when Melissa contacted me to tell me about her story and the work that she’s doing, I felt like we were kindred spirits and I was excited to invite her onto the podcast to share her story and her wisdom.

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I was introduced to Devi Maisha by Kimra Luna (a former podcast guest and now friend.)

Kimra organized a ladies night for a few of her queer female entrepreneur friends downtown in New York City, and Maisha was one of the other guests there.

From the moment we started talking I could tell Maisha is wise and deep and super interesting to listen to, so I invited her on the podcast (on the spot) knowing she would have great ideas to share (even if I had no idea what those ideas would be).

As you’ll hear for yourself, Maisha is an engaging and thought-provoking guest and I had a great time the whole way through the interview.

I’m grateful to Kimra Luna for introducing me to Maisha. And, by the way, for anyone who hasn’t yet listened to Kimra’s episode on the podcast, be sure to check that out HERE after you finish this episode, because her story is amazing.

But before you do, I hope you enjoy this wide-ranging interview with Devi Maisha.

Devi Maisha is a Tantra and Sacred Sexuality teacher who specializes in showing people how to take their sex lives higher, release their trauma and shame around sex, create better relationships, and transform their lives into abundance and ecstasy through the use of Sacred Sexuality and Sex Magic.

She is a former certified personal trainer and nutrition coach who combines her knowledge and study in the areas of psychology, tantra, and sacred sexuality with her training in energy work to facilitate inner healing and better sex for her clients.

Maisha has studied Reiki, Chakra Healing and LifeForce Energy Healing, Active and Shamanic Tantra, and Tibetan Buddhist Tantra.

The tantra resource recommended in the podcast can be found HERE

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All couples are going to run into conflict during their relationship.

That’s just part of what it means to deeply connect with another person. All humans are different and navigating those differences means there will be conflict from time to time.

When we’re younger we’re not taught how to deal with conflict. As kids nobody shows us the best skills for overcoming conflict, so most of us don’t know how to handle issues when they arise with the people we love.

There are ways of getting better at navigating conflict.

There are scientifically proven strategies for dealing with conflict that have been mapped out by some of the smartest minds in psychology and sociology and human dynamics.

And in this episode of Women Wanting Women I interview the great teacher Dr. Julie Helmrich for a crash-course on conflict management.

Dr. Julie Helmrich is a psychologist with a PHD in clinical psychology, and she’s taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics, research methods, counseling, psychotherapy, psychology, and leadership.

Helmrich has a passion for teaching scientific psychology to the masses, which she has done both online and through free, open-to-the-public Q&A events that earned her the distinction of being named one of juliehelmrich.com.

Michaela Koelbl has been rehabilitating troubled horses and their stressed-out owners for 25 years.

Through her own journey of loss and redemption Michaela has developed a method for core transformation for horses and humans, healing anxieties, fears, doubt and overwhelm.

Michaela now focuses on coaching women to reclaim their strength, confidence and ability to speak up for themselves. Her mission is to help women connect with the wild horse inside of them and to follow its call.

Find Michaela online and on social media:

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How does your energy make women feel when you meet them?

Do you know?

Do you know how your energy subconsciously makes other people feel when you’re around them?

The energy we radiate is a big deal, whether we’re dating, working with clients, making new friends or trying to improve the relationships we have with family members.

Regardless of what we say and do on the outside, people around us can still feel our inner energy.

But the thing is that the people in our lives aren’t directly going to tell us if our energy is making them uncomfortable. First of all, oftentimes we don’t know, because we feel each other’s energy subconsciously (and sometimes we are so stuck in our heads that we don’t notice it outwardly.)

Second of all, we don’t want to make anyone feel bad, and it can be socially awkward to tell another person that their energy is “off” (or strange or misaligned or doesn’t feel good to be around.)

So even though the energy we radiate is vitally important, people in our lives often can’t and don’t tell us about how our energy feels.

But guess what… animals tell us.

Animals are extremely sensitive to people’s energy. And of all the domesticated animals, horses are said to be the most hyper-sensitive to people’s energy.

In fact, expert horse trainers don’t really just train horses. Horse trainers have to train the riders themselves, because that person’s energy is going to have the most impact on how the horse behaves.

We all know the saying “you can’t hide from the blind” – and it turns out you can’t fake it with a horse either.

That’s why, believe it or not, a good horse trainer is really an expert at teaching people how we can be more energetically aligned in our core.

Learning how to align our energy can help in all areas of life, from dating and love and romance to career success to family cohesion and to social popularity.

That’s why in this episode of Women Wanting Women I interview Michaela Koelbl, a badass lesbian horse whisperer who has 25 years of experience, not just training horses, but also training women horse owners to align the energy from their core with everything else they say and do.

Michaela Koelbl has been rehabilitating troubled horses and their stressed-out owners for 25 years.

Through her own journey of loss and redemption Michaela has developed a method for core transformation for horses and humans, healing anxieties, fears, doubt and overwhelm.

Michaela now focuses on coaching women to reclaim their strength, confidence and ability to speak up for themselves. Her mission is to help women connect with the wild horse inside of them and to follow its call.

Find Michaela online and on social media:

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