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The Pleasure Priority
by Amber Taylor
This podcast is for the change makers. The healers. The spiritual adventurists. The over achievers.It's for the people that want to 10x the impact they make by BEING even more of themselves. By attracting and living into their deepest desires. By enjoying the pleasures of life vs. healing from the absence of them.This is for the people ready to travel the depths of their souls to recollect the fragments of themselves once lost. This is for you.The Pleasure Priority Podcast is where we go deep, we go big, and we have a great time doing it.It's my pleasure to have you
Episodes
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Closer to Your Dream Relationships: How to move on from the toxic dynamics keeping you stuck
Join Coach Amber and her Creative Director Damaly Shepherd for an interview on the evolution of Amber's coaching philosophies and practices through Amber's own personal experiences and her thousands of hours of coach time with hundreds of women inspiring the rebrand: Closer Closer is the...
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Ep. 121 - Why You Have to Do Hard Things: Building Real Resilience
Soft life doesn't mean no difficulties friend In this no-fluff, kick-in-the-pants episode of The Pleasure Priority Podcast, Amber breaks down the real reason you need to do hard things—and how resilience is a skill, not a personality trait. From the secret sexism of city trees to the…
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Ep. 120 - Imposter Syndrome Hack
In this episode, host Coach Amber shares a self-trust and embodiment hack that shatters imposter syndrome. She shares her own struggles with other methods including the future you exercises and how she edited them to resonate and actually be helpful for her now. She explains this process and…
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Ep. 119 - Lust, Lies, Losers : Temptation Island Unpacked
In this episode, Amber delves into the realities and implications of reality TV dating shows, specifically focusing on the latest season of 'Temptation Island.' She critiques the show for capitalizing on entertainment over everything by promoting harmful stereotypes and predatory tropes, such as...
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Ep. 118 - How You're Being an AHole to Yourself & Why You Need To Stop
In this episode, Amber explores the topic of self-judgment and how it hinders personal growth and goal attainment. Drawing from recent client conversations and psychological studies, Amber argues that self-judgment and self-criticism are learned behaviors that serves our oppressors more than they...
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Ep. 117 - Redefining Love: My Thoughts on Marriage
In this episode, Amber discusses her personal journey and evolving views on marriage, relationships, and monogamy as a happily divorced woman. She shares her early beliefs around love/relationships/marriage being equated to worthiness, wholeness, lovability, and the societal and systemic…
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Ep. 116 - Unshakable Confidence: The Permission You Never Needed
In this episode, Amber breaks down the life hack of approaching new or scary things with the confidence and audacity of a cis-het white man. She explores questions around how this way of thinking became their default mindset and our rallying cry. She explores how they created their own permission...
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Ep. 115 - Laying Down the Burden: The FAFO Movement and Intentional Rest for Black Women
In this episode of The Pleasure Priority Podcast, Amber discusses the current FAFO (Fuck Around and Find Out) movement, emphasizing its relevance to Black women resting and self-care. The conversation reflects on the critical role black women have played in pushing social movements forward and…
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Ep. 114 - Body Answers Exercise: Decoding Your Yes, No, and Resistance in Decisions
In this episode of the Pleasure Priority Podcast, Amber revisits the 'Body Answers' exercise to help listeners differentiate between 'yes,' 'no,' and 'resistance' responses through physical sensations. By grounding themselves and conducting control tests and creating decision statements…
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Ep. 113 - How to bring the fun back to your relationships
In this episode, Amber concludes the RISE Relationship Matrix series by focusing on the final letter E and the importance of Excitement in relationships. This series and this tool were created to help clients develop healthy supportive relationships fostered in authenticity and aligned…
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ep. 112 - How to build secure attachment in any relationship
In this episode, Amber discusses how we can create security even amid national and global instability. She focuses on creating that safety in ourselves and our relationships first because that’s what ripples out to society at large and what gives us the capacity to handle anything that life can...
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Ep. 111 - How To Make Smart Decisions in any Relationship
In this episode Amber talks about how to identify unintelligent relationships, how to foster your own emotional intelligence and determine if other’s have the level of emotional intelligence compatible with you, so that you create beneficial relationships and always move in your best interest....
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Ep. 110 - How To Build Relationships You Can Rely On
In this episode, Amber explains the signs of unreliable relationships that leave you unsupported and disconnected from yourself. She shows the path of how to shift your relationships to being Reliable so you know who you can trust and how to feel safe in trusting them. Amber introduces her tool,...
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Ep. 109 - The Crucial Component You're Missing from Goal Setting
In the first episode of 2025, Amber addresses the most common barriers to achieving goals despite the goal setting method used. Amber explains how unresolved feelings of shame, disappointment, anger, etc. hinder your ability to achieve your goals effectively. As goal setting season is in full...
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Ep. 108 - 2024 Retrospective: Honoring Achievements & Setting Sights
In the last episode of 2024, Amber invites you to reflect on your journey through life this year. A comprehensive inventory highlighting both the positive and challenging moments will guide how you evaluate progress and set intentions. This episode emphasizes the importance of celebrating...
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Ep. 107 - The Necessity of Rage
In this episode, Amber speaks to the recent events of the United Healthcare scandal and the collective response of the residents of the US. She explores how so many people can be so indifferent, even celebratory towards the violent loss of life for an ‘innocent’ man, which brings about a…
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Ep. 106 - Stop Avoiding Start Doing
In this episode, Amber delves into the topic of avoidance, distinguishing it from procrastination and identifying its three key drivers: fear-based, safety-based, and desire-based avoidance. Amber provides detailed explanations for each driver and offers actionable solutions to understand and...
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Ep. 105 - How to have a guilt free holiday season
In this episode Amber navigates the guilty/gross feelings you can get around your family during the holidays. She challenges the societal norms that mandate familial obligations, especially when they come at the cost of one's emotional and physical well-being. She emphasizes that visiting family...
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Ep. 103 - "But that's Family!" Complex Relationships: Growth or Let Go
In this episode, Amber emphasizes the importance of allowing yourself to break free from harmful relationships, regardless of familial ties. The discussion revolves around the detrimental effects of forgiving and maintaining connections with those who repeatedly cause harm. Highlighting a...
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Ep. 102 - Creating Joy Post Election
In this episode, Amber shares how to find joy again after the US Presidential election results. She explains how prioritizing your pleasure, especially for those of us that hold identities as Black, women/people socialized as women, and the LGBTQIA+ community, is a revolutionary act and the most...
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Ep. 101 - Reclaiming your time and energy from relationships
In this episode of the Pleasure Priority Podcast, Amber starts with an Ask Amber segment dealing with the aftermath of a romantic relationship breakup. She analyzes the situation, highlighting the importance of honest communication, the effects of power dynamics in relationships, and the strength...
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Ep. 100 - Celebrating 100 Episodes and Introducing Ask Amber!
In the milestone 100th episode of the Pleasure Priority Podcast, host Amber celebrates by introducing a new segment called 'Ask Amber,' where listeners can seek advice for their real-life dilemmas. This episode features discussions on maintaining familial boundaries during challenging times, the...
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Ep. 99 - Exploring the Ex-Professional Good Girl
In this episode of the Pleasure Priority Podcast, Amber delves into the 'Ex-Professional Good Girl' persona, the first of five relationship personas discussed on the show breaking down each of the results from the Relationship Personality Quiz. The episode explores the journey of ‘good girl’...
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Ep. 98 - Reclaiming Control: Navigating Executive Dysfunction and Burnout
In this episode, Amber discusses the challenges of executive dysfunction and burnout, particularly for Black and neurodivergent individuals. The episode offers insights on recognizing and addressing these issues, emphasizing the importance of reshaping one's relationship with executive…
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Ep. 97 - Unmasking: How to Embrace your Neurospicy Self in Relationships
In this episode, Amber delves into the concepts of masking and code switching, their differences, similarities, causes and the impact they have, especially on neurodivergent individuals. Masking is discussed as the act of hiding one's neurodivergent traits to appear neurotypical, often in…
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Ep. 96 - You Deserve More: Breaking the Cycle of Settling
In this episode, Amber dives deep into the detrimental effects of settling in life. She discusses what drives people to settle as well as the steps to stop settling. The episode introduces the RISE Relationship matrix, which stands for Reliability, Intelligence, Security, and Excitement, as a...
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Ep. 95 - Trad Wife vs. Non-Trad Life: Knowing When and How to Change your Relationships
This episode contrasts the growing 'trad life' movement online with non-traditional relationships and what's actually required to attain peace and fulfillment. Amber discusses the need to curate non-traditional relationships especially when your brain operates in non-traditional ways. Amber...
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Ep. 94 - Back & Better
In this comeback episode, Amber discusses her year-long hiatus from podcasting, reflecting on the challenges and growth experienced during the break. This episode covers the transformation of three key relationships: work ethic, business, and environment she had to work on before returning to the...
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Ep. 93 - Prioritizing Your Pleasure Prevents People Pleasing
In this episode, Amber recaps some of her vacation experience through the lens of life after prioritizing your pleasure. She talks about her own past experiences and things she learned from vacation friends as well as how she experiences life now without people pleasing and what it takes for you…
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Ep. 92 - Go Take a Vacation!
In this week's episode, Amber uses her upcoming vacation to discuss why vacations are important and transformational and how taking regular vacations is crucial to your overall health. She also gives the how to on how you can destress your vacation planning and prepping processes, how to get into...
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Ep. 91 - Claiming your Identities
In this episode, Amber addresses the discourse around 'finding' yourself 'creating' a new version of yourself and how she disagrees but instead believes that what we call finding or creating is actually just remembering and accepting who we've always been. This week Amber delves into identity…
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Ep. 90 - You Aren't at the Whim of your Emotions but you are Responsible
Some people think that they have total control over everything around them while others think they have no control over anything at all. Based on where you believe you have control of your life dictates nearly every aspect of your life. So building the skill of emotional responsibility is...
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Ep. 89 - Embodiment of a Goddess with Krystal The Goddess
In this week's episode, Amber has Krystal the Goddess as a guest and they explore a conversation around embodying a Goddess identity. We talk about our experiences in growing into ourselves and the lives that call to us, some of the difficulties we faced along the way, and how you can grow into...
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Ep. 88 - Rocky's 5 Laws of Expectation
In this episode, Amber uses her dog Rocky in her own take on the Law of Expectation. She highlights the lessons she's learned from him and how your own expectations of your life inform your experience of it.
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Ep. 87 - Creating the Life You Want (part 4)
In this episode, Amber wraps up this series by discussing the final two lines of this cognitive behavior framework. She discusses common mistakes she sees how to avoid them and actually use this tool to understand yourself better. Amber also takes some time to discuss how she has seen this tool...
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Ep. 86 - The Crucial Pit Stop of Change (part 3)
In this episode, Amber dives into part 3 of this series and arguably the most impactful part of this tool. She explains what it means to neutralize your experiences and the authority, freedom, and power it provides. THE PLEASURE PRIORITY TOOLKIT If you are ready to create and live into the…
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Ep. 85 - I'm Feeling Things, Now What? (part 2)
In this episode, Amber dives into part 2 of this series about the most impactful mindset tool she has come across this far. This week she talks about where feelings fit into the model and how to use the model to change your experience with and relationship to your emotions. THE PLEASURE PRIORITY...
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Ep. 84 - The Power of Your Mind (part 1)
In this episode, Amber kicks of a new series diving into some of the main tools and frameworks she uses in her coaching practice. In part 1 of this series, she explains some of the wonders of the human brain and how it works and how you can use the model to learn and understand more about…
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Ep. 83 - The Path to Purposeful Pleasure with Dr. Candice Nicole
In this week's episode, Amber hosts the amazing Dr. Candice Nicole Hargons in a conversation about how her strengths, interests, and obstacles led her down the path to purposeful pleasure. This conversation spans the gamut from sex, healing, racial trauma, the importance of slowing down, the...
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Ep. 82 - The Myth of the Missing Piece
This week Amber discusses the idea of the missing piece and how we have this idea that if this "one thing" would work out or be fixed then everything else will magically fall into place and we'd be happy. However, there is no quick fix to life. Even if that one thing is fixed, there will always…
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Ep. 81 - Intuition vs. Ego
This week, Amber discusses the difference between intuition and ego, why both are necessary, and how you can discern between the two. She discusses why it can be so hard to just listen to that inner voice or even be able to hear it, how ego is initially beneficial to our well being and…
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Ep. 80 - The Cycle of Trust
This week, the conversation is all about trust. Amber dives into how trust is initially formed in our first year of life and how our relationship to that initial cycle is how we form trust and attachment even today. She explains what the cycle is, how it works, why it's intended to work that way,...
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Ep. 79 - Story Time: How I Have my Own Back When Things Get WEIRD
It's story time! In this week's episode, Amber is sharing a story time about a situation where she was supposed to be celebrated and was instead undermined and disrespected, and explains how she was able to actively recover from the situation in real time. She explains how this work has taught…
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Ep. 78 - Creating Closure
This week Amber discusses the topic of closure and how we create it for ourselves. We don't need anyone to do or say anything for our closure, we hold the power to our own resolution. Amber explains what closure is, why we think we need to go outside ourselves to get it, and the four steps to...
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Ep. 77 - Transitioning to Joy with Saisha Lacon
In this weeks episode, Amber speaks with Saisha Lacon of Thick Thigh Yoga about transitioning to joy. Saisha describes her journey of leaving her teaching career of almost a decade to embrace her passions in places curated around the appreciation of her value. We discuss expanding into your…
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Ep. 76 - The Dangers of Pleasure
In this special 420 episode, Amber is sparking up and speaking her mind. Serendipitous as it may be, this 420 marks a solar eclipse and the beginning of Taurus season, the pleasure sign! Tune in as Amber rants on why pleasure has been deemed dangerous and why people are so resistant and...
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Ep. 75 - F*CK NO & F*CK YES
In this week's episode, Amber discusses the importance of knowing what you want and what you don't want, your f*ck no's and f*ck yeses. It can be easier to know what you don't want than what you do because in so many situations it feels safer to abstain than to partake. Amber talks about why that...
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Ep. 74 - Disappointing Others
In this episode, I'm pulling back the curtain and discussing what happened behind the scenes of an event I held. Spoiler alert, people were disappointed! This week I'm walking through what happened and the steps I took to try to remediate and conclude the situation. I'm talking boundaries and how…
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Ep. 73 - Work Ethic vs. Worth Ethic
This episode is inspired by some common tropes I've seen come up during the spring time and one of my favorite affirmation songs by Toni Jones, Worth Ethic. It can be so easy to fall into the trap of hard work is rewarded while idleness is sinful, so we spend our time on the work that makes us...
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Ep. 72 - Conceal, Don't Feel: Questions Answered
In this episode, Amber dives into some common questions from her viral Instagram reel. The reel was a reenactment of an audio about being the friend that's there fore everyone else but won't let anyone be there for them because they think they are a burden. And if you're a fan of this podcast…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
This podcast is for the change makers. The healers. The spiritual adventurists. The over achievers.It's for the people that want to 10x the impact they make by BEING even more of themselves. By attracting and living into their deepest desires. By enjoying the pleasures of life vs. healing from the absence of them.This is for the people ready to travel the depths of their souls to recollect the fragments of themselves once lost. This is for you.The Pleasure Priority Podcast is where we go deep, we go big, and we have a great time doing it.It's my pleasure to have you
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Amber Taylor
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