VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH

Cheryl Fidelman is the creator of The Conscious Codependence™ Process and The 3 Codes to Clear Codependency. For nearly 20 years, she has helped highly capable, accomplished people understand why they can be extraordinarily competent in their professional lives yet lose themselves in their intimate relationships. Through her work with The 3 Codes—rooted in Belonging, Safety, and Identity—Cheryl he...

Nilki is a Certified Life Coach specializing in sex, intimacy, and confidence coaching. With a background in massage therapy, her experience also draws on modern Western chiropractic theories and her extensive work in wellness and holistic Eastern practices. This background has shaped her coaching approach and helps clients live happy, healthy, connected lives. One foundational idea in her coachin...

Rissa Miller is a true Renaissance woman. As a folklorist, author, herbalist, diviner, speaker, and poet whose work explores the intersection of history and ritual tradition, Rissa brings dark culture and regional legend into thoughtful contemporary conversation. Her research and storytelling draw on esoteric history, including ghost tales, witchcraft, cryptids, and folklore, and invite audiences...

At 19 years old, Rhiannon survived a kidnapping and assault that would shape her life’s purpose. Now an attorney and public speaker, she uses her voice to empower others—especially survivors of trauma.   Rhiannon is the author of the upcoming memoir  My Beauty From Ashes , a deeply personal account of healing, identity and reclaiming one’s story. Her writing journey has evolved into a powerful pat...

Welcome back to the Virgin Beauty B!tch Podcast. Here, we challenge social stereotypes and encourage women to embrace their full selves—including parts of themselves that society would rather they disown. In this conversation, Christopher and Heather explore the powerful and complex relationship women have with the word "bitch," a controversial identity that can also inspire transformation. The "b...

Melinda Love is a women's empowerment and sexuality coach, consulting hypnotist, artist, and educator with 19 years in the healing arts and personal growth. Melinda has also worked consciously with the Bitch Archetype since 2018 and unconsciously, long before that. Her work offers an opportunity to hold space for other women as they embrace the unconscious parts of their psyche that manifest as ha...

This lively and enlightening conversation features Cassandra Pickett, a certified CliniCoach, licensed therapist, and host of the "Girl, You Good?" podcast. Cassandra joins us to discuss the complexities of identity that hinder ambitious women. Cassandra shares her own transformative journey and the challenges of living authentically in a world that often demands people-pleasing and perfection. To...

Carolyn Brouillard is an author, publisher, and teacher who asks tough questions, such as “What would it feel like to truly love your life?” These are questions she faced in her three-decade-long journey in exploring consciousness and the art of authentic living.   Her expertise is hard-earned, forged at the intersection of radical rebellion, corporate leadership, and the hard-won freedom of self-...

Naomi Kahn, June Carbone, and Nancy Levitt are three distinguished law professors and co-authors of the groundbreaking book Fair Shake: Women and the Fight to Build a Just Economy. Together, they explain why so many women feel that, no matter how educated they are, how ambitious and effective they prove themselves to be, or how hard they work, they can’t seem to get ahead or even level the playing...

Dr. Beth Hedva was our obvious first inviter for our Year of the BITCH series. Dr. Hedva is a renowned psychologist, author, and expert in transpersonal therapy, whose groundbreaking research on betrayal, trust, and forgiveness is recognized by governments and the United Nations, which call on her to help individuals heal from deep emotional wounds. Betrayal, we’ve all experienced it, sometimes as...

Sarah Tunstall is a Girl Named Storm. At 15, she became a victim of human trafficking and was indoctrinated into the sex trade. Her memoir, A Girl Named Storm, inspired this powerful, emotionally charged conversation that will both break your heart and inspire you. Storm, aka Sarah, bravely opens up about her journey from surviving sex trafficking as a teenager to reclaiming her life and helping o...

Dr. Kerry Kerr McAvoy is a retired psychologist and renowned expert on narcissistic abuse. In this intensely candid conversation, Kerry shares not only her professional expertise but also her hard-earned personal experiences on breaking free from the grip of a toxic, narcissistic relationship. How is it that intelligent, self-aware women end up partnered with deceitful, sometimes dangerous, narcis...

Jennifer Sack is known for her bold approach to self-love, which began with sobriety and evolved into a holistic healing and well-being practice. Jennifer unpacks the hidden traps of self-negotiation and challenges women to embrace change in their journey to rebuilding self-trust.  This conversation also explores the kind of addiction that goes beyond just substances; it’s about the importance of...

She is Jesse Susannah Karnatz, aka the Money Witch, a financial educator and coach who brings wisdom, realness, and a touch of magic to the conversation about women and wealth, and the deeply rooted systems that try to keep them mutually excluded. From shame to savvy, Jessie reminds women of the historical and systemic forces that have shaped their collective money wounds and what it takes for wom...

Dawn Thompson has been where so many women who want success and work for it find themselves: building a storybook-perfect life on the outside, only to realize something essential is missing within. For her, it took more than one near-death health scare or an embezzlement scandal in her business to alter her life path; it took a question from her three-year-old daughter, who wanted to know why her...

Lindsay Jacobi is a transformational mentor, speaker, and founder of Glow Up Collective, helping women who have lost themselves reconnect with their confidence, beauty, boundaries, pleasure, and power. Her work blends deep inner healing with real-life transformation, helping women become more sovereign, regulated, peaceful, and fully expressed in their lives and relationships. With her signature 9...

Ashley Jordan is a role model for Good Girl defectors. She shares her deeply personal journey from living as a high-achieving, approval-seeking “good girl” to reclaiming her authentic, badass, bitch-inspired self. Ashley calls it “unbecoming,” a rejection of trying to become what others expect or demand. She explores what it means to shed layers of societal conditioning and return to one’s true es...

Elizabeth Flock is an Emmy award-winning journalist with bylines in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and many other publications. She’s also an author who leads us through the dark, murky waters of women and vengeance. Her book, "The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice,” unravels what happens when women are betrayed by systems set up to protect them...

What does it mean to be chumped? It means the person you trusted most has a double life and has cheated on you. In this episode, we explore the meaning of betrayal, how it often shatters lives, and can strike so deeply that it feels like a living death. But it doesn’t need to be your epitaph. Our guest and guide is Tracy Schorn, a woman who’s been chumped but rose up to become an award-winning blo...

Edy Nathan is a licensed therapist, certified sex therapist, hypnotherapist, and certified EMDR practitioner, as well as the author of "It's Grief: The Dance of Self-Discovery Through Trauma and Loss." We also admire her for giving us an iconic quote, one that has become a guiding star for our mission of women’s empowerment, and words we believe every woman should hear and adopt as their mantra. H...

Alisa Gracheva is a licensed mental health counselor and holistic coach with a unique ability to blend ancient practices such as Reiki, meditation, and sacred sound healing with modern, cutting-edge trauma therapies. Informed by her own life trauma and a deep, compassionate perspective on what it truly means to heal, grow, and empower yourself — body, mind, and soul — this conversation is fueled b...

Tori Jenae is a trauma-informed coach, energy psychology expert, and spiritual powerhouse who admits flat out, “I've been through hell and back, and I have the map to get you out.” Through her story, we dive into the transformative process of reclaiming identity beyond societal labels, letting go of limiting roles that no longer serve us, and confronting the silent demons of self-betrayal. We expl...

Judith Houck is a professor of the history of science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a prominent voice in the study of women’s health movements. As the author of Speculum: Examining the Women's Health Movement, Judith offers extensive insight into how feminist activists, often labeled “bitches” by reputation, from the 1960s through the 1980s, not only challenged patriarchal medical i...

Rissa Miller is a folklorist, speaker, herbalist, public historian, diviner, and, as we learn in this episode, a passionate poet who brings wisdom, warmth, and a rebellious spirit that a Bitch will love. This raw, honest talk evolves from self-betrayal — the shrinking of ourselves to make others comfortable, the struggle between kindness toward others and loyalty to yourself, or wondering how to f...

For this transformative conversation, we invited Executive Coach, Author, and lover of a juicy life, Sasha Cagen. Who’s not afraid to confront controversy, like the words "bitch" or “pussy,” that are often used to embarrass or punish women. Two words, when examined, hold the keys to women’s empowerment. Whether it’s breaking free from people-pleasing, harnessing authentic anger, or deploying a sub...