LaidOPEN Podcast

Welcome back to LaidOPEN Podcast. Today, we're joined by Aline Ra M ., a remarkable spiritual guide sharing her unique journey of self-discovery and spiritual growth. At the age of 12, Aline found herself attuned to voices from the other side, an experience that led her to an enigmatic island school off the Brazilian coast, a sanctuary where she began unraveling the mysteries of her gift. In her l...

This week on LaidOpen Podcast I'm joined by renowned somatic expert Staci Haines . Together we delve into transformative methods to mend our fractured society, exploring the power of somatic practices in fostering unity and healing. Staci and I talk about the journey from individual healing to collective transformation, and unraveling the intersections between somatics and spirituality. We also ex...

Hey there! Have you ever thought about how we discover ourselves through the different voices we try on in life? I'm excited to share an amazing conversation in this episode where we explore exactly that. I sit down with Adrienne Shamszad , a talented musician I got introduced to through my friend Ned Buskirk from You're Going To Die. Adrienne's story is truly inspiring—she found her true voice wh...

Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou is a New York-based psychoanalyst and therapist with extensive experience with trauma, queerness, gender diversity, and the nuances of consent. In her latest book, " Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia ," Dr. Saketopoulou argues that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma and points to the ways traumatized people synthesize their pain. In her...

This season, we have been loosely exploring "cancelation" what it means for the canceled person if it works, and how we can integrate the canceled person back into society. This week's episode continues with that theme and is an extension of our last episode featuring canceled sexuality coach Charlie Glickman. This episode features Mischa Byruck , a sexual integrity coach who works to support peop...

As a society, we are struggling with how to hold people accountable. The trend of cancel culture is public shaming with the hope that those who are canceled will lose their power and position. Often, they regroup anyway and do the same thing again in a new place and a new community. This is the cycle of abuse at play. This week, I welcome Bay Area sex educator Charlie Glickman on the podcast to ta...

These days, lots of us are being forced to see how the ways we exist in the world both help and harm. Today's guest is queer, Bangledeshy author and artist, Fariha Róisín aka @fariha_roisin. Her latest book " Who Is Wellness For? " does a tremendous job of tackling this topic through the narration of her own life. She uses her story of surviving childhood sexual abuse and a mentally ill mother to...

It is such an honor to welcome this week's guest onto LaidOPEN Podcast. Dr. Lori Beth Bisbey (@drbisbey) is a clinical psychologist, acclaimed sex/intimacy coach, author, podcast host, and GSRD (gender, sexuality, relationship diversity) therapist with over 30 years of experience. She's also the Specialist Relationship Therapist on the UK show " Open House: The Great Sex Experiment, " (you have to...

This week we welcome Christina Carlson , an embodiment and energetic coach, speaker, teacher, and the host of the podcast, " Bitches, Witches & Queers ." Christina and I talk about her experience of being raised as an Evangelical Fundamentalist Christian, leaving the church, and how dance helped free not only her body but her mind.  Eventually, Christina discovers another church, and falls in love...

Welcome back to LaidOPEN Podcast! This week we welcome Catherine Drysdale , a pleasure activator and sex & relationship coach. She's also the host of Your Pleasure Path Podcast, which went viral on TikTok earning over 16 million monthly listens.  It's easy to see that helping bring joy and vibrancy into people's lives is Catherine's calling. We chat about life as a sex educator and all the roads t...

On today's episode, our guest is certified conscious executive and leadership and life coach Nick Palladino-King ( @nickpalladinoking ). In addition to coaching Nick's spent his career training and teaching movement, breathwork, meditation, and entrepreneurship to clients. He brings these tools to his podcast Conscious Conversations with Nick and Nintin . Together with his co-host, Nick focuses on...

Welcome back to LaidOPEN Podcast. This week we have renowned intimacy expert Susan Bratton , author and publisher of 34 books and programs, including "Relationship Magic," "Revive Her Drive," "The Steamy Sex Ed®️ Video Collection," and her Amazon #1 International Bestseller, "Sexual Soulmates: The Six Essentials for Connected Sex, as well as, FemiWave . Susan joins us this week to talk about her e...

Did you know that you can go in for any kind of surgery at a teaching hospital, and while under anesthesia receive pelvic exams, from multiple students, (yes this happens to men with anal or prostate exams) without your consent?  Most people are shocked to discover that they could go in for a knee surgery and be given an anal or pelvic exam they did not consent to. However, let's call it what it i...

On the season opener of LaidOPEN Podcast, we welcome LaidOPEN Podcast producer Sabrina Cognata as our guest. When Charna receives a message from a listener who wants to potentially work with her and then sends a sexually explicit message, Charna reaches out to producer Sabrina who says, "Make art, not war. In addition to being a producer of a variety of podcasts and projects, @sabrinasee is the cr...

This week we welcome, William Winters, Rebecca Ferrar, and Tyson Adams to talk about their various experiences with cults or cult-like communities with a special focus on the One Taste community. Tyson Adams is an integrated men's work practitioner and happens to have done a lot of searches around cults after having his own experiences in different communities. You may also remember @tysonadams_ a...

For our penultimate episode of Season 3, we welcome author, actress, comedian, and mental health advocate, Sara Benincasa. She's the author of four books, "Agorafabulous!: Dispatches From My Bedroom," which explores her journey with anxiety, depression, and agoraphobia. You may also have seen her on the hit drama "Law & Order: SVU." Sara and I sit down to talk about the importance of therapy and a...

Hello! Happy Valentine's Day. Today I am going to do something a little bit different. I'll be doing this episode all by myself where I answer the questions you've sent in looking for advice. I love being able to connect with my listeners, especially on a day like today, Valentine's Day, which can often put a lot of societally based pressure on people to feel like they should be coupled up, or sim...

Today's episode is a special one. I'm joined by my friend and birthday twin, Carrie Katz , on our birthday, February 7th. Carrie's a fellow somatic psychotherapist and as you've probably surmised, my birthday twin extraordinaire. Together we celebrate our birthday and discuss ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and answer listeners' questions about the ins and outs of determining whether you could ben...

Please welcome this week's guest, Dr. Walter Sipe. He's a beloved colleague and friend of mine, who started his career as a pediatric gastroenterologist, before switching gears and becoming a psychiatrist.  He has a private practice where he works with adolescents and adults. More importantly, he's inherited the unusual legacy of being an expert witness around cases of institutional abuse of power...

This week's guest wants to help men unlock their soul force. Tyson Adams is an integrated men's work practitioner. His leadership program for accelerated self-awareness is aimed at giving men the tools to lead better lives.  With over 2 years of celibacy, Tyson developed a self-practice to release himself from and heal himself from an addiction to porn. He uses this work to help men in this same w...

If you haven't heard of Annie Brook before, you should have. She has a Ph. D. in perinatal psychology and is a seasoned somatic psychotherapist who works with birth trauma and developmental trauma. Her work is key to discovering why you repeat the same behaviors, resulting in the same disappointing outcomes over and over again. If you are curious about why you keep repeating the same patterns, and...

This week we welcome Nathaniel Hodder-Shipp , a drug and alcohol counselor, breathwork practitioner, and founder of the American Breath Work Association and Breathwork For Recovery , an 800-hour breathwork clinician that provides more intense training for teachers and practitioners. We sit down and talk about Nathaniel's journey of becoming involved with breathwork, his decision to help create Bre...

This week we welcome Sarah Strong. She is a star seed coach, divine feminine activation coach, medium empath, telepath, and psychic. She also channels star beings, beings from other dimensions, and many other beings of the light, including the ascended masters angels, and fairies. Together we speak about how trauma can be a gateway to spiritual awakening, paranormal phenomenon, how trauma is assoc...

I was thrilled to have Lucy Wallace, the founder of Dance to be Free , as a guest. I strongly support her mission of bringing dance to incarcerated women to help heal trauma. I share a little about my own experience growing up with a father who was in prison and my own volunteer work teaching kids in an orphanage in Nepal so they could teach their peers. This coincides with Lucy's program, as she...

Our guest this week is a dear friend of mine. Ned Buskirk is the founder of You're Going to Die , which started as an open mic that offered a communal space to share stories about death, loss, and grieving. It progressed, as most things do, eventually becoming a nonprofit that brings music to the bedside of hospice patience, operates grief groups, delivers resources to help people in the prison sy...