VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH

"My family didn't discuss sex, leaving me in the dark and terrified of sex. During my first sexual encounter, my partner asked me, 'what do you like?' I responded, aren't you supposed to know that?" That terrified young woman was Carlyle Jansen. Today, she's a renowned Sex and Relationship Therapist with her Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology. An author of books based on sexual exploration a...

"I don't understand how socially we believe that women don't like sex, that sex is something women give to men, that liking sex makes a woman impure, and women who enjoy sex can't be good mothers or trusted wives." Veronica Kazoleas, a former healthcare executive and researcher of sexual fantasies with her Master's in Social Psychology, is the founder of The Nookie, a sensuality shop in Toronto sp...

We welcome Dr. Rachel Maines, Technology Historian, and scientist who, while researching the domestic pleasures of needlework, accidentally became the worlds' foremost expert on the mechanical vibrator and female sexual pleasure when her book "The Technology of Orgasm: 'Hysteria,' Vibrators, and Women's Sexual Satisfaction," became an international bestseller, inspired two movies, a stage play, a...

Bill Cosby is free on a technicality, and women cry injustice. Texas challenges Roe v. Wade, and women plead no justice. We ask J.D. (Juris Doctorate) - Dr. of Law, Dr. of Jurisprudence, and Legal Analyst Tracy A. Pearson if women are victims of implicit bias in law, and if so, what exactly is Justice?

When a sex offender like Bill Cosby gets a premature release from prison — on a technicality. When women’s abortion rights are still up for debate or are revoked by law, we must ask, what century are we living in, and does justice apply equally for women?

Money doesn’t care what sex you are, but money trauma has a gender story. Our conversation with the Founder of What The Finances & Co-founder of The Trauma of Money, Chantel Chapman, shares a chapter in her life that may sound like your own.

"I’m a 56 year old - I founded Gateway Women for all the childless women still out in the cold, feeling they are the only childless women in the world, I do it for the young women who would have been our daughters and those who don’t yet know that motherhood will not happen for them. I do it for the women who went before me with few choices and no support - and for the women yet to come.” Meet Jod...

Lauren Geertsen has helped millions of people heal their relationship with food and body image. Her book, The Invisible Corset: Break Free of Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self, helps women identify and escape limiting, culturally-inherited beliefs about their bodies. It’s endorsed by leading doctors, body image therapists, and eating disorder specialists.

It’s Deja Vu all over again! Throughout August, VIRGIN.BEAUTY.B!TCH will reboot four of our most impactful conversations from 2021. We begin with Jess Weiner; a social activist turned entrepreneur who helped change the image of Barbie and helped Dove — the soap company — see beauty in women of all shapes and sizes. Our time with Jess was full of energy, wise words, and wisecracks. Jess was pure Jo...

I’m a single woman. I also have a Ph. D. in rhetoric, so I understand how words work. I decided to put those things together in order to game online dating. Spoiler alert: It worked. I knew full well that this profile would deter 99% of men, and that was fine with me. I didn’t want the 99%; I wanted the 1% that would “get it. Meet Jennie Young, and Scott, the man who got it.

According to eharmony, heterosexual women, age 21, receive the lion's share of attention online. Women in their 20s consistently see the highest rates of incoming messages and likes. Women who are in their mid-20s received 14.4% more messages than did other users, while women who are 33, and older, received the fewest number of messages. We talk with two women on the more mature end of the age sca...

Single, divorced, or widowed, who doesn’t want LOVE in their LIFE? The real conversation is how to find it. April Davis set up her first successful married couple when she was 16 years old, and today, she’s Founder & President LUMA Luxury Matchmaking, an outsourcing resource for finding The One.

The first line on her website reads - Dating Apps Suck! That's even though she met her long-term partner through a dating app. What online date coach Perri Scheiner means is, dating apps suck if you don't know how which ones work or how to use them to your advantage. If you're on the dating carousel, listen in!

Part of changing unhealthy cycles is breaking old stigmas and misinformation with conversation. PRIDE MONTH: VBB #152 talked with a parent of a trans child who advocates for all trans children. VBB #153 a social justice champion whose work to change the Human Rights Acts and protect gender identity. VBB #154 a pioneer who pushed the envelope for same-sex marriages. VBB #155 a lesbian who writes ab...

Michelle Johns, entrepreneur, musician, worship leader, and author of God, A Lesbian and the Space in Between, speaks with passion of society's lack of fundamental empathy for female, black, male-identified lesbians, and the LGBTQIA community as a whole.

Award-winning writer, editor, and public speaker, Kirstin Ott Palladino can be found in the pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, and on CNN, and NPR. She is co-founder and editorial director of Equally Wed, the world’s leading LGBTQ+ wedding magazine; Author of “Equally Wed: The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your LGBTQ+ Wedding”; Founder and editor...

She's lived her career dedicated to campaigning for social justice and harm reduction for lesbian, gay, bisexual & trans people. Susan Gapka worked to help amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to include gender identity and gender expression. She also helped launch a national campaign to change the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code Hate Crimes to include protections for gender identity an...

Liz Declan is a self-identified queer single mom with a six-year-old daughter who does not identify with the traditional gender binary. Liz has a plea for parents of cis kids, for cis adults who are not parents, and for cis members of the LGBTQ community: what trans children need is for adults to get loud and to do the heavy lifting because trans kids should be allowed to be kids, and their gender...

What do these women have in common, Oprah Winfrey, Winona Ryder, Miley Cyrus, and Jody Day? All are childless or child-free women, but one has founded the global support group Gateway Women and is the author of “Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children.” Meet Jody Day.

Karen C. L. Anderson, Author of Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration, speaks to women who wish to use the difficult relationship they have with their mothers as a catalyst for personal growth and healing.

Joëlle Croteau-Willard became a first-time mother one month into the trauma of a Global Pandemic. Her journey is one of endurance, perseverance, reemergence, and surrender. It's the story of Motherhood.

Over 25+ years as a mother-daughter relationship therapist and coach, Rosjke Hasseldine has heard how generational families have treated women, and how it has lead to hurt, anger, guilt, jealousy, and blame between mothers and daughters. Rosjke also shares how beliefs, behavior patterns, and social themes need to change for mothers and daughters to enjoy strong, emotionally empowered, emotionally...

A conversation with a true renaissance woman - Licensed Master Social Worker / Sociologist / Cultural Therapist / 14 years Navy Veteran / Award-Winning Radio Host / Stand Up Comedian & Mother — La Tonya Davison

Lauren Geertsen's book, The Invisible Corset: Break Free of Beauty Culture and Embrace Your Radiant Self, is endorsed by leading doctors, body image therapists, and eating disorder specialists for helping women identify and escape limiting culturally-inherited beliefs about their bodies.

Chasing Cold War spies, foiling terrorist attacks, and tracking down cyber-criminals were all in a day's work for FBI Assistant Special Agent Gina L. Osborn. Having responded to catastrophic terrorist attacks and cyber hacks as an FBI Special Agent and chasing Cold War spies in the Army, Gina shares tools and techniques on controlling chaos, managing crisis, and embracing change as an Empowerment...