Episodes
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Ep 125: Birth Control Minefields, with Dallas Barnes from Reya Health
HELLO EVERYONE! I know it's been a hot sec but what can I say? Mama's on vacay! It's fair to say this one was SO WORTH going back to the keys for. Meet Dallas Barnes, CEO of Reya Health - a digital platform for personalized contraceptive counselling. Dallas created her company to help people with...
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Ep 123: Being Alone Together, with Kristine Cofsky
Hello lovers! Please meet the lovely Kristine. You might know her from @theportraitsessions or @persepective feminine on IG. She is here today to chat with me about definitions of intimacy, of community and of relationship models. Join us on this exploration of - well, our feelings, and - the...
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Ep 122: Representation Matters, with Janessa St. Pierre
Hello everyone! We are closing off September, also known as Alopecia Awareness Month, with this vulnerable and rage-filled episode with Janessa St Pierre! Join us for this tour of the marks as she has experienced them, working in the film industry as a Black woman in Vancouver. As usual, we go…
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Ep 121: Breakups and Backpacks, with Erin E. Davidson
Hi everyone! Meet Erin Davidson, sex and relationship therapist from Vancouver, BC, here today to talk about her new book Break Through the Breakup. Join me in discovery Erin's story of the "reformed good girl/people pleaser" as we discover which rules she decided to scrap and how she ended up...
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Ep 120: Trials and Tribulations of Mental Health, with Tony Ganton
Hello weirdos. Meet my good friend Tony. Tony and I went to university together and have managed to stay in each other's lives in various capacities for the last 8 years. Today, in line with men's health month, we are here to talk about mental health and in particular, how it's affected Tony and...
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Ep 119: Dissociating & Associating, with Ariel
Hi friends, lovers and strangers, meet Ariel. Ariel comes to us this week thanks to Mark, to tell her story of addiction and recovery. Trigger warnings for eating disorders, addiction, mental health and sexual trauma. Please listen at your own discretion. Ariel candidly recounts her childhood and...
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Ep 118: Good Grief, with Oona Krieg
Friends, lovers and strangers - meet my darling dear friend Oona. Oona runs and co-founded a tech co-op called BRAVE, that provides services to prevent overdose deaths. Today, she discusses with me the myriad rabbit holes that brought her to her calling, as well as her personal experiences with...
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Ep 117: Soft And Squishy, with Josh Banday
Hello lovers! Meet Josh! You might know him as Ivan in Amazon's comedy series Upload, but Josh is also a writer and hilarious human all around. He takes me down memory lane as we explore his childhood in Baldwin Hills, LA and going to multiple denominations of religious schools. We share our…
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Ep 115: Filmmaking Today, with Neil Fox
It's a warm welcome back to Neil Fox from episode 22!! Over two years later, the host of the Cinematologists podcast is back. The movie he'd just finished is now being distributed globally next month, and we catch up on the movie industry today and the hurdles film makers may (should?) face. If…
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Ep 113: Sustaining Happiness in Long-term Relationships, with Andreia Scotto
Hi everyone! Welcome back to Andreia from episode 105! She is a Marriage and Family Therapist, based in Denver, Colorado. Today, she wanted to discuss one of the most prevalent topics that she's heard this past year: "My partner doesn't make me happy anymore." We delve into codependency in...
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Ep 112: Let's Talk About Sex, with Tatyannah King
Hello lovers! Meet Taty. She's a sex blogger, speaker and educator, currently in grad school at Widener university. Join us on this fun journey of figuring out how to break it to your Southern family that you're moving North to study sex! We talk about how other people's reactions can turn a...
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Ep 111: Fighting Online Abuse, with Pheebs Jameson
Welcome back friends, lovers and strangers. Meet @fatpheebs! She's a superwoman, a kind soul, and a true sunshine. Today, she shares with us her harrowing story with online abuse and mental health. [TW: SI, SH, MH, SA, Violence] Pheebs is a well-rounded activist, covering body acceptance,...
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Ep 110: Fixing Ourselves, with Irving Chong
Hi Lovers! Meet Irving, the host of Asians in Space, the man behind The Asian Canadian, and one of the participants of @menwhotakebaths. He joins us today to talk the world over. We discuss growing up in Alberta and figuring out how to do this thing called life. We then delve into what led him to...
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Ep 109: Body And Soul: Dancing & Disorders, with Sommer from RaiseThatBarre
Hello Lovers! Meet Sommer! She's a dear friend and the bright and compassionate mind behind a new awareness IG account called @raisethatbarre. Her mission is to start a conversation, to shed light on the harsh realities of the dance world, as well as to come up with collaborative, community-based...
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Ep 107: Finding & Honouring Your Purpose, with Ericka Gail, M.S.Ed
Hello my lovers. Meet Ericka Gail, a non-binary, queer, Black femme [they/them, she/her] trauma therapist, known as @mentalhealthfemme! We start by catching up on the context we find ourselves in this year and the conflicting feelings that 2020 can bring up. They tell me about how their QTBIPOC...
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Ep 105: Finding Your Passion, with Andreia Scotto
Hi everyone! Meet Andreia! She is a Marriage and Family Therapy Candidate, based in Denver, Colorado. Andreia joyfully walks me through her Brazilian upbringing, including her progressive Catholic high school, and her journey into American society. We meander through the little life things that…
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Ep 104: White Supremacy vs. Anti-Oppressive Counselling, with Ji-Youn Kim
It's a warm welcome back to our dear Ji-Youn (jee-yan) Kim. If you haven't yet met her in ep 78, Ji-Youn is an anti-oppressive, trauma informed counsellor. She's an advocate for rage as liberation, and facilitates workshops called Processing Rage in collaboration with Cicely Blain. She reached…
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Ep 103: Radical Compassion and Vulnerability, with Eman Salem
My lovers you are in for a treat today! Meet Eman Salem, our fave badass life coach and CEO of Iron Self! We dive right in, without much intro, into the meat of it. Listen in if you've ever felt unable to be true to yourself, either due to your upbringing, your current setting or your imposter...
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Ep 102: Art Around the World, with Kriss Munsya
Welcome to our first guest of Season Three: photographer and visual artist Kriss Munsya. He came over to the podcast to talk about his current project The Eraser, as well as his life more broadly. We discuss his upbringing as an immigrant from the DRC in Belgium and his journey to today. We talk...
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Ep 99: Toxic Masculinity & Misconceptions of Pleasure, with Cam Fraser
Hello my lovers! Welcome to 90-fucking-9! Meet Cam Fraser! He is a men's Sex Coach, as well as a Certified Sexologist, Counselor, Registered Yoga Teacher, Tantric Practitioner, and Workshop Facilitator. Do you think there's enough there to get us started? We cover his Australian upbringing,...
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Ep 98: Sex Work is Work, with Danica Darling
Hello lovers! Meet Danica Darling, our guest and sex worker extraordinaire! Although she is primarily an exotic dancer and escort professionally, Danica also holds psychology and paralegal degrees, and guest lectures on sex work legality in Canada! We retrace her steps from childhood in a…
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Ep 97: Activism: from Grassroots to Corporate, with Cicely Belle Blain
Hello world! This week, I had the honour and pleasure to chat with incredible Cicely Belle Blain! They are a black, mixed raced, queer writer and entrepreneur, CEO of a diversity and inclusion consulting firm, and activist powerhouse. I'm excited for you all to hear this story of how they founded...
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Ep 96: Alternatives to Monogamy & Tales of Pleasure, with Devon
Hello lovers! Meet my dear friend IRL Devon. He did me the honour of spending an hour on the record talking about all things non-monogamy and political science. You folx are in for a treat! Listen in on how one might go from being a serial monogamist, to currently finding oneself in a polyamorous...
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Ep 95: Counselling For and By Queer, NB and Trans Folx, with Maverick
Welcome friends, meet Maverick. They are a counsellor who just finished their program and are now launching themselves into their career. We talk about their focus on queer, non-binary and trans clients and why trauma-informed counselling by and for their community is crucial. Topics: small town...
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Ep 94: Isolation and Feminization, with Adri Koc Spadaro
WELCOME LOVERS! How's everybody holding up? 'Cause we are... fine? Join us on this honest and candid whirlwind about covid feelings and feminism! Adriana defines herself as an artist, a woman, a spirituality and self-love seeker, and a total badass. Okay, that last one was my description, but…
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Ep 93: Is There a Gender Opt-out Button? with AJ Lowik
Hello lovers. This week, AJ Lowik (pronouns: they/them/theirs) came over to chat about their work and life! We talk about what it's like to walk in this world as a non-binary trans person, a queer liberationist, an unapologetic feminist, a PhD candidate, a researcher and instructor. Predictably,...
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Ep 92: Life, Movies, and Collective Trauma, with Odessa Young
MY LOVERS! Meet my new fave long-distance love, Odessa Young. Odessa is an Australian actor, whom you might have seen in Assassination Nation (2018), The Daughter (2015) and High Life (2017). She will also star as Frannie Goldsmith in the upcoming CBS mini-series The Stand. We were finally able…
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Ep 91: Isolate and Masturbate, with Airial Clatney from Intamo Pleasurables
Welcome MY LOVERS! Meet Airial, our sexual health educator of the week and our newest and only PARTNER of the podcast! She's the CEO of Intamo Pleasurables, a company aimed at facilitating sex that feels better, using plant-based ingredients and the soothing properties of hemp-seed oil. Join us...
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Ep 90: Recovering from Toxic Mothering, with Julia Gillis
Welcome my lovers!! 90 down WTF! Meet Julia, our single-mom and coach of the week! Today, we retrace Julia's steps throughout her life as a daughter to her mother, a mother to her daughter and a woman part of a larger story. She walks me through how many of her life decisions were influenced by…
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Ep 89: Why Stories Matter, with Charlotte Daniel
My lovers! Meet my dear friend Charlotte, our writer, director and locations manager of the today! She walks me through her Scottish childhood, big move to London and travel discoveries across Australia and Canada. We talk about the film industry and its less-known Locations department, balancing...
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Ep 86: Dating & Digressing, with Ash Belluz from Kilter&Mint
Welcome lovers to this crazy mashup crossover of Kilter&Mint vs. RWWC! Ash Belluz came over to the couch to introduce herself and talk smack! Kilter&Mint is a podcast on snapshot storytelling, a place to hear from the movers & shakers of Vancouver and also a gentle nudge to go to yoga. Ash…
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Ep 85: Virginity & Self-awareness, with Jaden
Hi my lovers! Meet my colleague Jaden! This aussie import was open enough to come chat with me about his relationship to his sexuality, his body image issues and his sex life (or lack thereof). We go through his early life, student years, and coming out journey together. We spend some time…
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Ep 84: Anxiety & Ego Death, with Mark
Well lovers... This episode comes to you three days late, because life happens. I had planned to come out with a special Valentine's day episode about Love, with Mark, to talk about progress, learning and relationships. I wanted to be joyful, talk about us and celebrate the successes of this...
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Ep 83: Rewilding the Feminine, with Fiona McCoss
Welcome my lovers. Let us delve into the wild woman archetype today. Meet Fiona. She is a women's empowerment educator and feminine embodiment facilitator. We go back to her worldly upbringing, boarding school stint and decade of confusion spent climbing the corporate ladder. We then dive into…
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Ep 80: Comedy & Audacity, with Claire Marie Pollock
Happy new year!!! Welcome back my lovers! What a treat we have prepared for you today! Meet Claire, our superstar comedian, dancer, actress and producer. She came over to the couch to talk about The Dirty Betty Show, Feminism, and small towns! Naturally, we kick off the episode by discussing…
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Ep 79: Queer Indigeneity, with jaye simpson
Welcome to the last episode of 2019!!! Thanks so much for sticking around for this very special episode with an indescribable human! (Let me attempt this anyway..) Meet jaye simpson, an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Non-Binary Two Spirit Queer Trans Woman (Sapotaweyak Cree Nation) poet, artist, performer…
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Ep 78: Processing Rage, with Ji-Youn Kim
Rage. How does it feel? Where do you feel it? Welcome to this week's awe inspiring episode with Ji-Youn (pronounce Jiyanne) Kim. I had the pleasure of welcoming her over to the couch to talk about social injustice and feelings. We do our usual walk about her Korean roots and Vancouverite…
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Ep 77: Trans Lives & Death Care, with Toni King-Rose
Meet Toni, our 20 year old advocate for gender inclusion and acceptance within death services for today! He is a transgender man, who identifies openly within the funeral and death care services profession. He is currently studying to become a funeral director and embalmer at the Canadian College...
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Ep 76: Three Braless Women on a Couch, with Joanne and Julia
Welcome to the much-anticipated follow-up episode to Joanne and Julia's Expressions of Self series on life after trauma. The women held three consecutive storytelling events, each one month apart, on the topics of Survival, Resilience, and Healing after trauma. They came over to my couch to…
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Ep 75: Is there more to life? with Megan Jane Soutar
Hello my lovers! Meet Megan. She is a self-healing guide, who focuses on intuitive healing, readings and Reiki. Follow us down the rabbit hole that is her life, to uncover how a high-school "failure" became an entrepreneur and now helps people get that extra spark that makes life feel real.…
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Ep 73: Sex ed & its all-encompassing implications, with Lindsay Michelle
Welcome to 73! Meet Lindsay, this week's sex educator! We talk about going from wanting and training to be a lawyer, to becoming a staunch advocate for comprehensive and inclusive sex education for all! We discuss everything: her immigrant Lebanese education, her life in DC as an ACLU intern,...
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Ep 72: Erotic Drawings to Fuck the Patriarchy, with Nikki Peck
Welcome my dear lovers and beloved strangers. 72 is about ART and FEMINISM! Oh and of course, sex. Nikki Peck is an artist, whom you most likely know from her Instagram page @bonercandy69 where you can find all sorts of glorious depictions of women in their realest sexual moments. In her work…
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Ep 71: Fat Black Femmes & Self-Pleasure
Fuck YES! In this episode, Kimbree from Vibin' tells us all about her upcoming sex-toy subscription business centred around fat femmes of colour and their self-pleasure. In her search for representation within the sex-toy industry , she found little but frustration and turned that energy into...
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Ep 70: On Non-monogamy, with Sam
Well my lovers, welcome to another intimate one. Sam is one of my all time favourite girl crushes IRL. We met on Tinder, and the rest, well, ... is now public. During this episode, you will hear us discussing our versions of non-monogamy, from the perspectives of bisexual women in committed, open...
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Ep 69: Rage & Conversations about Sex, with Javay da BAE
WELCOME TO EPISODE 69!!! Woot woot, wink wink. I can't think of a better person to feature than Javay da BAE! She's the millennial sexpert you need. If you haven't already come across her insta feed or her youtube channel, this is the perfect introduction to this badass. Today we get to know...
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Ep 68: Judaism & Self-Pleasuring, with Maureen Pollack
Hello lovers! Meet Maureen, founder and CEO of The Waterslyde, and new co-owner of Lovability Inc! Inventor and intimacy coach, mother, business woman and all-around POWERHOUSE, Maureen walks me through the creation of life as she knows it. From her sporadic and dispersed childhood, getting…
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Ep 67: Abuse & Small Town Blues, with Bryan E.
Ooof.. What to say! This one is so very near and dear to me. Bryan is my work husband. We have spent on average 14h/day together for most of 2019 and over the course of it, we have gotten to know each other quite well. It quickly became clear to me that he had a story to tell and so this day was…
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Ep 66: Sex Ed & Parenting, with Steph Auteri
It's been over a year since we checked in with "A Dirty Word" author Steph Auteri! She's back to tell us all about postpartum from publishing your first book and parenting as a sex writer. You may remember her from Episode 21, the sex writer who was bad at sex? If you didn't listen, I highly...
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Ep 65: This girl ain't never had a plan, with Sally Manners
60-EFFING-5! With my gal Sally from Mannerswear! I met Sally at her stall in Spitalfields Market, where she sells awesome bodycon clothing. She serendipitously asked ME to hang out a while as her stalker ex-boyfriend was lurking around and she didn't know what to do. After much giggling, I...
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Ep 64: From the Church to Sex Coaching, with Jess DeVries
Hello beautiful souls! Welcome back! Today, Jess DeVries brings us a FASCINATING life story! She grew up Evangelical Christian during the crux of the purity movement and is now a somatic sex & intimacy coach. Yes, so many questions, I know. We retrace the steps through her childhood and "loss of...
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Sex, Success and other Slippery Rabbit Holes.A sex-positive, intersectional & inclusive podcast about life. On indefinite hiatus!
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